Posts by tiggity 3161 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Oct 2015
So is this the type of belief system where you ignore all the teachings about helping the needy, camels passing through needle eyes before rich enter heaven, throwing money lenders out of temples, promoting peace, loving thy neighbour etc.
A sort of pick and mix religion, where you just choose a few nastier bits of old testament text and say, yes Conservatives are the ones for me.
"The crimes of Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith did not get publicity until after their respective deaths"
There were accusations about them, just not much ever done about it & people covering for them e.g. David Steel admitted he knew Cyril Smith was an abuser back in the late 70's but did nothing about it
I'd really love for the police to just say one day "Okay, sure.. We'll stop" - and not patrol or do any of their duties for a whole 72 hours, allowing criminals to do their thing with no punishment from police during or after the event. Perhaps this would show people how much protection they have.
.. that's already the case for a lot of "minor crime" in the UK - i.e. "no punishment from police during or after the event."
A classic is shed / garage break ins & theft, chance of getting this investigated is very low, and thus chance of crims getting caught even lower still.
Another "easy ride" for crims is cycle theft, investigation / clear up rate on that is again very, very low.
But obviously, plenty of police resources for statue protection *
* Apols to non UK readers, that sentence only makes sense to (some) UK readers
A complex SQL stored proc (SP) can be nice and readable, using lots of other SPs or functions.
This fits with the idea of "small, understandable, reusable pieces of logic that can be tested, given names"
And obviously the use of parameters / named variables.
However there's nothing to stop someone writing a 1000+ line monster SP
Unless logica in some magic way stops that, readability will still depend on the authors coding style
I do not use FB (obviously!)
But its my understanding these style of social media try to get a user to import their contacts e.g. phone contacts
I would be happy if this is not the case any more with GDPR, I know it used to be.
e.g. many family members have my contact details & visa versa (as obviously may want to contact each other for reasons from catchup chat through to family emergency depending)
I'm obviously happy with family members having those details but I'm MASSIVELY not happy about that data subsequently getting slurped by FB, Twitter, etc. as no way have I consented to that. Especially as numpty relative may well have added my birthday to phone contact details (as they obviously know my birthday & then get reminders) and so FB could get that and other stuff they may have recklessly added about me.
So, even though I never use my real birthday anywhere (bar legally required e.g. bank, doctor) there's a chance FB could get my real birthday (useful for impersonation attacks) & even more horrendous details (some phone contact apps store relationships, so via numpty family members FB could potentially get standard security questions such as mothers maiden name (stupid question anyway, lots of kids of unmarried mothers where maiden name = current name)
The twitter images totally pass me by as need JS enabled for Twitter to see them & that's not going to happen on my PC.
Would have to use partners computer to see it- partner cannot deal with using my computer as so much disabled by default so has their own machine (& no internal network access between the 2 machines as partner machine just a big risk IMHO)
losttapesofthe27club may be interesting or may not
When I visit t (with my usual cautions settings of most JS disabled) I see nothing but a black page
Ironically there an attempt to give a message about enable JavaScript to run this app. - but only way to see it was to click on page and select text (or view source)
Quick hint - if there's no content with JS off, I'm not going to drop my anti JS shields just on the off chance.
Its just music, how hard is it to have a few fall-back basic html pages of artists the music is based on and link to an MP3 (or format of choice)
JS should be for extra (non essential) "bells & whistles" - it should not be needed for basic content access.
FrogFind did not like it either (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/12/retro_frogfind/)
I think 6 years is way too short.
e.g. I have an old iMac, and due to hardware limitations it could not be upgraded to newer version of OSX so it was stuck on Snow Leopard and Apple, in their typical style, did not bother keeping it security patched for long.
So rather than bin a perfectly good machine (or use it without internet access) I installed Linux on it, and its is still running happily. Low spec but it does the job for undemanding usage such as a bit of email, web browsing, video / music playing, word processing etc.
I'm obviously way out of date on my drug slang as back in the day blow as a slang term meant (in the UK) cannabis. *
Has the US blow = coke taken over everywhere now, or is it just a matter of a US writer authoring this article?
* No surprise given my age as its many years since I had los of friends who did drugs (AFAIK, who knows maybe plenty of my friends do decades later but I'm just unaware of it!)
Though in some (NOT all) US states its OK for person of 14 (or even younger) to have sex with someone of similar age (though quite tight constraints on how close in age they are) i.e. means teens of similar age unlikely to get legal hassle even if below the nominal age of consent. Note this is not a licence for a much older person to do anything as that's still massively illegal, its just a protection for teens fooling around with other teens really - essentially acknowledging possibility of teens wanting sex at age below age of consent.
Shows the need to consider any age / power imbalances - lots of teens have sex with other teens (both similar age & below "official" age of consent) but that is totally different from someone considerably older going with a 14 year old.
Context is everything
"There was initially huge public resistance to the formation of "special branch", but the public got used to it, and even started to admire it, very quickly. [ibid.]"
Remember getting filmed by SB at an anti South Africa protest (back when SA was apartheid state & Thatcher was calling ANC a terrorist organisation).
Even though there followed lots of back tracking and a lot of friends of the old white SA pretend they loved the fall of apartheid and never thought being anti apartheid was being pro terrorist you can guarantee there's still dusty files on me (& plenty of other peaceful protestors) with "not a nice tory boy" style labelling (whatever it is,worded as it means I don't get security clearance, though TBF was not just SA protests, could be on the "not one of us" list for protests about US missiles / eavesdropping stations on UK soil, tough was not filmed by SB on those (AFAIK))
Nobody politically active and with a few views deemed to be anti establishment to some degree admired SB as they will have seen actions by SB (or moving on a bit
FIT operatives etc.)
Monday evening / night UK time was when I noticed it
Affected some third party apps (& some with quite a large userbase) some to such an extent that they would not even start, just crashed early in init process, others would fail and workaround was clearing all stored data for the app,
A big fail that a broken update like this got through to end users
I see lots of left wing twitter accounts getting short term "bans" - as far as I can tell, from orchestrated complaints by groups not sharing those left wing views, based on what owners of those accounts have said (IRL said, not said on social media as I don't do much social media)
So some Twitter "censorship" seems to work well for right wing groups
I do not know if similar efforts done against right wing accounts as don't (knowingly) have any friends who run right wing accounts But generally when there's a complaints / takedown system that's got minimal human involvement then you get people "gaming in" to suit their agendas - e.g. I know there have been campaigns by trans activists to get Graham Linehean (Father Ted creator) and others kicked off twitter... interestingly things like that seem to backfire as I know people who were not particularly bothered one way or the other about trans rights (might have plenty of lefty mates, but despite what preconceptions may exist, most are more bothered about poverty, unfair benefits system catching low wage earners in cliff edge situations, etc. than being "woke") but a fair few of them have gone towards disliking trans activists as they seem to be a group very active in targeting anyone who makes a single comment they disagree (even if most of their views are similar in other atreas) with rather than trying to be positive and engage with people they disagree with in a less confrontational way)., often a problem with single issue obsessions where you alienate people you actually have plenty in common with
"The total period during which the cyber-attacker(s) were able to access SITA’s systems was less than a month.
By global and industry standards, this cyber-attack was identified extremely quickly."
That seems a long time & slow detection to me, based on the "Between 21.1. and 11.2.2021" Lufthansa line
Not sure what industry standards they are referring to, maybe its the DGAF about security, industry
IMO
If I'm on a retail website looking at loudspeakers, then targeted ads, showing me loudspeakers on offer at some other site might be of interest.as it relates to what I am looking at
A "targeted" ad, showing me washing machines (because 2 weeks ago my ancient washing machine died so needed replacing) is utterly pointless because I got a new washing machine ASAP as its not a device I want to be without for long. A washing machine ad on day I was browsing for them would have been fine, 2 weeks later a total waste of time. Targeted ads just do not have the level of nuance required... whereas ads related to current content have a better hope of relevance.
.. as it needed JavaScript enabled, FFS
Surely a poll could be done via a nice simple submit, with no need for JS?
As JS on webpages is my main risk of malware attack (plain text emails for the safety win) I only enable JS if its really important (a poll vote is not something to risk my security for)
Not all, but a fair chunk, of people voted Brexit due to loving the whole xenophobia thing (being polite & resisting calling them racist scum).
A lot of "white" UK people have no real clue how racist so many Brits actually are (it was often subtle, but post brexit it seems far more overt & prevalent as the racists seem more empowered)
It needs enforcing in rural areas as not worth phone companies while to build masts in low population areas, so they don't..
Though the push to EE for emergency service network (with subsidised mast building) is gradually giving EE a defacto monopoly in many rural areas, but not good if someone wants choice of a different provider
Only use office at work, on work PC, with work licenced copy
All my home needs are met with LibreOffice. Only really need that at home due to peoples love of sending MS format files* (be that word, excel, PowerPoint) and so I need software that will open / edit MS format files.
*And mainly (for a reason I cannot fathom) people sending images INSIDE A WORD DOC. The doc has no text, just the image. Just WHY??? WTF is wrong with some people? Just send me a png, jpg like a normal person
Lets hope they have a good idea of flight issue, as dragonfly (to Titan) is a bit of a drone style craft (lots of rotors) and it will be great if that's a success (though its a long time away from launch, never mind arrival, one of those things you hope you live long enough to see when you're getting on a bit)
But they are extremely rare visitors to the UK - hence some people ignoring lockdown rules to get a "tick" as its potentially a once in a lifetime chance (last one in UK was over 30 years ago, so its a birding "mega")
So its a totally different rarity league to something like (earlier mentioned) waxwings, which visit from Scandinavia just abut every winter (though numbers vary, each year sometimes lots, often just a few) and so even though they are very attractive to see they are not a "mega" (but a drab US vagrant is)
.. the dodgy word list
e.g.
fecal but not faecal (i.e. US spelling centric), sadly lacking in clunge, minge, dogging, frigging, slags (fat or otherwise) etc.
With scat and tainted love on there, I feel a bit persecuted in some music web pages I have visited..
All a bit woefully incomplete, wouldn't even understand me if I called them onanists.
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