Posts by Doctor Syntax 40471 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"Together, we can design for a future where AI training is not."
I think that's an even better solution.
And why does el Reg, of its own volition, add a Re: to a title string and then complain it's too long?
On the one hand I'd guess not many follow their local MP on X anyway so they wouldn't be influenced by a move to Bluesky themselves so the MP wouldn't be loosing anything by doing so. I suppose the real difficulties would be a fear that their local press wouldn't be able to find them and, for non-Conservative MPs, the name might send the wrong signals.
So this is a C compiler on a non-Unix OS; does this apply on a 32-bit Unix box? I haven't seen one of those in a long time - does anyone have one to test it on?
There seems no reason why the year should matter to a simple counter until it rolls over. It sounds more like a bug in the calculations converting the counters to date and time. ISTR there was a report of Sun's OS crashing at some particular year far from 2038 - 1986 or 1987 I think - due to such a bug.
I remember passing a military convoy which was driving down the slow lane of the M1, slower than normal slow lane traffic. I don't think there was anything like that bringing up the rear behind the Big Stuff. The escort was all at the front to clear the way...
"he said he worked for our company, but was not in the internal phone directory."
Although I worked in a different building I used to eat in the canteen of the tower block, half occupied by BT*, at the corner of Euston Rd & Hampstead Rd. There was rumoured to be an entire hidden floor floor that the lift bypassed.
* The company I worked for had BT and the other occupants of the building as clients. The price paid in the canteen depended on which client you were working for.
"You really need someone to be making money from businesses not individual users, or the lock in will come."
I'm not sure that that logic works out too well with Microsoft making the money. The real issue is that the back-end needs to be open so that no one vendor can own the market.
I'm not sure how this stacks up with your dislike of Linux. Yes, there seems to be agro in relation to distros - it comes from people who don't use Linux complaining about distros. As an OS it is wonderfully stable.
The obvious choice for the home storage box is Nextcloud but from a quick reading of the article it looks as if it's tied to a specific service. The ideal would be to be open-ended so that the service to be connected to is specified at log in. This could suit a traveller who could present a nosey border agent with an account on a server that doesn't contain any confidential working files.
I'm surprised one of the class action lawyers hasn't got involved, they don't usually mind taking on the deep pockets because as the bank robber said, that's where the money is. The victims might only get pocket change from the results but if it had the desired effect of putting on the brakes it would be a result.
I wonder - adopt the same mass tactics. Issue a lot of bills that get under whatever the small court equivalent level is. 1. They can't charge lawyer fees if they win, they'll spend a lot on lawyers if they try too defend, they let one or two slip through and bailiffs turning up to seize stuff can be very disruptive.
"The source IP addresses are either from a large range like AWS"
I suggested previously - detect the addresses quickly and block them for a random period of time. If this causes AWS's inoffensive customers problems it's up to AWS to introduce and enforce T&Cs so as to protect those customers.
Actually I meant "get right".
And plugging it all in fro automatic configuration is one thing. Logging onto the router to check if your connection has gone down is another. If your router can be addressed by name and the name set up in /etc/hosts, fine. My current router insists on being addressed by numbers, unfortunately.
"typically only releasing four software updates a year."
"Unsupported" distros such as Debian and its derivatives release patches as they become available. OTOH they don't provide a tick-box of "Does the software have a support contract" that meets certification requirements.
There are none so blind as those who will not see,
I would explain the rabbit/duck illusion this way:
Project the three dimensional objects as 2 dimensional images* and you throw away information that helps distinguish one object from another.
Reduce the image to monochrome which throws away more information.
Replace the images by a drawing which throws away a lot more whilst selectively retaining information common to both images.
* Yes, I know the human eye does this but we have two of them which provides the brain with informaton about the 3rd axis.
HMG needs to appoint a minister for the internet who actually knows what they're doing with power of veto over every stupid idea. Given that there's not likely to be a suitable candidate in the HoC they would need to take the HoL route and offer somebody a life peerage to take it on. When I say somebody who knows what they're doing I mean starting at the top. I'd suggest asking TB-L and if he's not interested work down in very small steps until they find somebody who will.
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