Posts by katrinab

Azure consultant to sue Google for linking his cached pics to cloned site, breach of copyright

No. He can’t put a robots.txt on a website hosting pirated copies of his material.

Re: I don't understand all the ramifications, but...

Not a copyright, but a different type of right that you also need to use the photo in certain circumstances, eg advertising.

BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout

Re: FTTP?

Well I promise a full fibre roll-out by 1st November 2019, and it will be powered by unicorn droppings.

Re: FTTP?

Premises will mean residential because their targets are to cover a certain % of the population, and the number of people living in business property is very small.

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

Kenya are the world leaders in mobile payments with M-Pesa. If you look at the historical exchange rates for the Kenyan Shilling, it seems to be pretty stable. China’s WeChat payment system is the largest in terms of transaction volume, also based on their local currency.

Revolut can do both BACS and SEPA, which is what use. They also do ACH and various other systems which I haven’t tried.

Transferwise is another very similar option.

Re: Paradigm shift

I will bear that in mind should I ever need to send money into Space.

Not every new technology becomes successful. Cryptocurrencies aren’t that new, and blockchains are almost as old as I am. I’m not sure what advantages they have over bank transfers which take seconds and cost nothing, or my contactless Mastercard, unless you are an anarcho-capitalist who hates governments and banks.

Re: Why prepay?

Interest rates in Japan have been zero for about 30 years now.

God DRAM you! Prices to slide more than 40% in 2019 because chip makers can't forecast

Re: Can they switch production to GPUs?

That's what I suspected.

Re: Crystal ball

Manglement like precise numbers, even though saying "about 40%" is probably pushing it in terms of accuracy.

Can they switch production to GPUs?

Probably not, but it would be nice if they did.

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Re: Anonymous Mole here...

Consultants will tell you to do the opposite of whatever you are doing at the moment in order to justify their fees.

Re: Prehaps I've become overly cynical

"It is! because the rent comes from the monthly operating account instead of being a large liability and entered in the capital acquisitions ledger."

That is no longer the case since IFRS 16 came in.

If you sign a 25 year contract, you owe rent for the next 25 years, and you have to put that as a liability on the balance sheet.

In the return for signing up to that liability, you get the right to occupy the building, which is an asset that gets added to the capital acquisitions ledger.

Re: If only

The Cursus Publicus. BT doesn't appear to have advanced much since those days.

Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you

Re: Can I get one trained on homework assignments?

and a lot of it will be GPL licenced code, which means your entire magnum opus is GPL.

It looks like you are writing a computer program ...

would you like help with that?

Some things never change.

Autocompletion can be useful on occasion, for example if I type "for", it would be useful for it to prepopulate the correct syntax for a for loop in the language I am using, or if I type in a function name, it could show me the arguments for the function.

And of course, code libraries are a thing, and useful for standard things that lots of programs need to do.

Otherwise, how is it going to know what I want? Very probably the whole reason I'm writing it is because it hasn't been done before.

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

Re: In the real world

It gets round ISP content blocking. I don't use it for anything else. I am well aware of the issues related to using Opera VPN, and the same risks mostly apply to actual VPN providers.

Re: In the real world

I haven't. Was with Sky until last week (just internet, not their TV service). Browsing torrent sites via Opera VPN and copy/pasting the magnet links into Synology downloader without any sort of VPN set up on it.

Re: Follow the money

The sky didn't fall in when the music producers started selling mp3s and unencrypted aac rather than the drm infested stuff they previously offered.

I can now download a 4k video in about the same time that I could download a 128k mp3 back in the day, so sell me a mkv or mp4 and take my money.

BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change

Re: Company car is a company tax dodge

Car allowance is normal salary as far as Phillip Hammond is concerned.

You could claim 33-35p per mile as a tax deduction on it to make it up from the company car mileage rate to the own car mileage rate, but that only reduces your tax, not your NI.

Tax rules in this area change frequently, it may have been different when you received it.

Re: Hold on a second

They are not working for the company either, so why pay them a salary?

Your HP lender and insurance company still want paying when you ate pregnant.

Re: Hold on a second

Still lower than previous maternity pay + full car allowance

Operation Desert Sh!tstorm: Routine test shoots down military's top-secret internets

Re: don't wait 20 mins !

Turn the heating on full blast and open the windows? Does that still work to keep the engine cool?

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

Re: Katrinab's list

Presumbably my [vomit] husband [vomit] decides to start a farm and expects me to look after the cows.

It fails, so we "invest" in bitcoin scams [by scam I mean you don't actually receive any bitcoins in return for your money which is an entirely separate issue to the debate about whether or not bitcoin is itself a scam]

Then the ambulance chaser scams us out of yet more money on the pretext of getting back the money we lost on imaginary bitcoins.

That's easy:

Heterosexual dating sites

Pregnancy related stuff

Nursery schools

Vetinary equipment for cows

Blockchains

Ambulance chasers

UK government buys off Serco lawsuit with £10m bung. Whew. Now Capita can start running fire and rescue

Re: Ewww

Give Serco a contract to sue Capita and Atos for contract failings; payment based entirely on results.

Give Capita a contract to sue Serco and Atos for contract failings; payment based entirely on results.

Give Atos a contract to sue Serco and Capita for contract failings; payment based entirely on results.

Give Waitrose a contract to supply a large quantity of popcorn, retire to a safe distance away while they self-destruct.

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Re: I've bought my last one

That probably cost about the same as the equivalent iPhone + released at the same time.

Re: 5G around the corner and nothing very compelling to upgrade to.

There’s loads of repair shops around where you can get your battery replaced if you are not technically minded enough to do it yourself. At about £50 or so, it is a lot cheaper than buying a new phe.

Re: 5G around the corner and nothing very compelling to upgrade to.

4G wasn’t that much better than 3G, when it first came out. It is now. Same with 3G.

I’ll move to 5G when there is a decent roll-out and we’ve had a couple of revisions/ improvements to the standard.

At home, where I have a perfect 4G signal in a fairly low-density suburb, it is really fast. At work, in the city centre, it is not so good.

Re: I've bought my last one

That’s where Apple makes sense. The up-front cost may be higher, but they last longer, so if you look at the cost per year, they actually end up being cheaper.

Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?

Re: WTTW

My cell tower is attached to the same green cabinet as my landline.

I actually get faster speeds on 4G than on fibre - 50 down / 20 up on 4G vs 40 down / 12 up on fibre.

Before my cabinet was fibre enabled, I was getting the same speed on both - 10 down / 1.5 up.

Re: Hm...

Aren't you better off given the driver an iPad / Surface / Android equivalent with its own mobile connection? Would be cheaper than having a separate MiFi, and probably give you better performance.

Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit

Re: WTF?

Same way that Cancer Research is a cancer charity.

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

Re: Password required

Warning: This is a weak password as it

o Contains a dictionary word

o Does not contain numbers or symbol characters

o Only the first letter of the word is capitalised

Nevermind that the only people capable of spelling this correctly are people who copy / paste, and residents of the aforementioned village.

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

Re: What's the point of a pilot phase

My phone, and most smartphones since about the Galaxy Note 1 era (c 8 years ago), take readings from both the American GPS and Russian GLONASS satellites.

Re: Huzzah!

And it will cost the same as Galileo, but we don't get to split the bill with 27 other countries.

Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you

Re: Can someone clarify something please?

If you are writing phone apps for lots of different companies, you are not going to have a problem. If you work for a company that writes phone apps for lots of different companies, then you will have a problem.

Re: Brexit angle

In terms of the tax rules, yes.

In terms of the employment rights, or lack of them; maybe not.

Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro

With iPadOS 13 and MacOS Catalina, you will be able to use an iPad as a second screen and use its touch and stylus support on MacOS programs.

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

And back then, the racist teachers called them “blackboards”.

Train maker's coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly

Re: Nice Picture

Those trains are *a lot* faster than the ones that run in the US. Pacers are the same speed as the fastest trains in the US, and everyone thinks they are rubbish.

Re: Fat Controller

And I don't think they are using particularly advanced technology to do this.

Running one train per day doesn't require particularly advanced signalling technology, even if the train is about 5 miles long and travels about 5,000 miles across the country.

If I was looking for advanced railway technology, I would go to Japan, or maybe France. Even Russia has more advanced technology than the USA.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean Google isn't listening to everything you say

Re: Not Okay Google

Caio Google

Bonjourno Google

Egregio Google

Pronto Google

Spettabile Google

Buona Sera Google

and I could go on.

And that is just one language.

It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

Re: "This measure is expected to impact 170,000 individuals" . . .

They will pull people off the street and put them on a two week training course.

Oh no, Twitter's gone down. How can we get the word out? Ah yeah, that's right. We have a website that works

Re: And when it comes back...

Still down for me as of a few seconds ago.

RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6

On real-life tests, I get about 75MB/s over ethernet and 20MB/s over USB3.

Remember Stuxnet? You'll endure its hated-by-critics sequel if you don't patch your holey Siemens industrial kit

Re: Attacker could execute arbitrary commands through websockets

Have you ever met a director who is in their right mind?

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

Alexa, send me an Ambulance

Your ambulance will arrive tomorrow shipped by Prime Delivery

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00VLV48V4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aOUjDbJ7BJ5XZ

Take the bus... to get some new cables: Raspberry Pi 4s are a bit picky about USB-Cs

Re: At least the error in the USB-C circuitry results in no current rather than an over-current...

Raspberry pie.

Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal

My Ivy Bridge i7 3700 can handle windows updates just fine. I think it is about 7 years old now. I am finding that the maximum 32GB RAM supported is more of a limitation for me than the CPU speed.