Posts by Doctor Syntax 42414 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
I'll believe they've got this right if they can produce a deep-fake of my grandmother (d1960) which can explain the family story of her being sent to New York to try to break up her courtship with my grandfather: what ship she sailed on and who she stayed with. I won't be holding my breath.
More likely the other 2,000 people in the queue before you are there because they have also found the website to be useless for their query. The only people who don't know this are managing customer disservice. They think their website does everything the customer should need. They think the reason the telephone queues are so long is that people don't know about the website. If they actually cared they might analyse the queries coming in through the phone to find out whether they could be answered by the site as it stands, what needs to be done to improve in and how to then staff their phones at a level which doesn't result in them claiming they're dealing with the same unusual level of enquires they've had for the last several years.
The purpose of NATO was to deter war by providing a sufficiently strong defence as to make invading a member counter-productive. Putin has demonstrated very effectively what can happen to a country that does not have that protection. He seems to be prompting Finland to seek it.
They own Github so why wouldn't they treat it as their publishing arm? It probably has the effect of drawing its existence to the attention of some managerial types who wouldn't otherwise have heard of it. You can just imagine some CFO telling his IT bods "I've just come across this Github thing. Maybe you should look into it."
"Of these aspects, the lack of leadership is the most pressing. That's not the sector's fault: effective embargoes need coherent and unambiguous governmental and regulatory guidance, neither of which are visible."
Formally that second sentence might be true. In reality, however, the industry could, and arguabley should, be telling the government and regulatory bodies of what's needed. The lack of leadership isn't as implied, all on the governmental side.
True up to a point but you would realise it if you tried to make an online purchase from outside the EU. At the moment, however, the average Russian might not be making onlne purchases from outside Russia.
The effect of all these impositions which are being decried on the grounds that they only affect ordinary Russians is to contradict the Russian government's efforts to pretend to its people that nothing out of the way is happening.
people who think the actual purpose of their car is to provide noise for the mile diameter circle their car is the center of
If I could work out how to switch to it instantly I'd have the climax of The Great Gate of Kiev (orch Ravel) on the car sound system to deal with such occasions.
And to demonstrate that just loud isn't necessarily impressive.
Ouch. You just brought back the days when part of my job was to assist she who at that stage had not yet become SWMBO on field work. As it was in winter it involved driving back after dark on the tractor infested and hence mud covered roads of north Antrim in the Botany Dept Mini whose headlights, even when clean, looked as if they were powered by a couple of candles.
Then it's not easy to fix because 'backwards compatibility'
Backwards compatibility is being dealt with by messages saying "Your browser is too old for this site". It isn't necessarily old, it's just one that the designer couldn't be arsed to support because they want to produce the flashiest, least secure thing possible so that means concentrating on just one engine - and quite possibly dropping functionality.
"How is it that people that can't see that will be a problem keep getting the job of implementing account security."
It's not their problem so it's invisible to them.
It's an instance of a wider problem with fragile development. The happy path's coded so there's nothing else to do, or at least nothing that can't wait for a few sprints. And a few more...
"Everything that is currently using a password needs to start supporting some kind of common interface for a password manager."
It's called copy and paste. I have encountered a few instances of web sites that block pasting passwords but they're rare.
"He will, obviously, have warned his ultra-rich friends, and the word will have spread because the rich have ways of finding things out when it comes to money."
If they converted their dsllars, pounds and Euros to roubles they're not going to be happy.
They have non-monetary assets which they will find difficult to shelter. A very effective threat might be to put in motion arrangements to sequester them and use the proceeds for post-conflict reconstruction in the Ukraine. It's surprising how quickly you can find you don't have any friends when the choice between friendship and being ultra-rich.
"Once you hold the levers of power and can corrupt the election processes then you don't need the consent of the people."
Until it's too late. I remember the images of Ceaușescu and his wife on a balcony, looking panic stricken and trying to pacify the crowd. He was on the end of a rope shortly afterwards.
