Posts by wolfetone

I'm in the same position, but I also recall there is now a charge levied by 123 Reg if you want to transfer your domain away from them.

Re: Surface phone's not going to surface

"What a waste of time, money, and jobs."

I'm sure Little Johnny had a good christmas though with all the money his Mom/Dad made from working on the project.

Re: May I just say...

From bean to cup, they fuck up.

"That doesn''t entitle him to smash the site up, or 'swat' its owners. Bernie Madoff had talent too, should he have been "given" a job in a bank instead of being jailed?"

Totally different situations. Frank Abagnale was committing fraud for years (even flew a plane, he can't fly a plane but he pretended he could). He was eventually caught, what happened to him? Given a job by the government to help them on fraud cases. The bloke hasn't done too badly for himself on the right side of the law since then.

This country has a fetish for punishing kids and young adults for crimes that the judge has absolutely no clue about and that the "victims" are embarrassed by the offender. In this case, the admins who swore blind they secured the site.

Prisons are seen by the public as places to be punished, when actually yes they are there to do time at Her Majesty's pleasure but they're also places to be rehabilitated and integrate the prisoner in to public life afterwards.

The problem though is that once the offender has came out of prison after doing their time, they try and integrate back in to society. They apply for jobs, but because you have to declare criminal convictions they won't get the job because the employer doesn't want an ex-con working for them. So what happens? The offender gets a really thankless job with no hope of improving their situation, or re-offend.

It's insane to ruin a kid or young adults life like this. There are plenty of things I did when I was 18 that 10 years on I would cringe at doing. And it's all well and good saying "Well when I was 18 I knew not to do X or what would happen if I do Y" - fair enough that's you. You aren't the rule.

Re: Bandwidth has diminishing returns

"Getting 99.9% of farmers up to 2Mbps would be money better spent than getting 50% up to 10Mbps or higher."

Surely the cheaper solution would be to reduce the size of the PDF so it's quicker for Farmer Giles to download? Or someone goes to one of their (regular) farmer meet ups with a laptop where I person downloads it and then distributes it to the people who need it?

The main reason why I'll be deleting my LinkedIn account is the daily emails I get from recruiters wanting to connect with me. Either that or chaps from India wanting to connect with me because they feel I may want to out source my work.

Re: In the light of recent revelations...

"I thought that the Conservatives had admitted the rules had been breached but it was all a big misunderstanding and all the fault of some junior unpaid volunteer. Criminal intent or honest mistake is for the courts to decide, but those seats were still "won" by breaking the rules and should be uncontested."

It's always a misunderstanding and the fault of some one else when someone is caught doing something they shouldn't. Like it was a complete misunderstanding that I filled my car up with £60 of petrol and drove off without paying, and that actually it was the cashiers fault for not telling me to pay in the first place. You can see how this goes?

And let us not begin to mention how a van with 10,000 votes was stolen on the night of the election. Coincidence? You could say that. Or it could be something else. Who knows? Probably just a misunderstanding and the drivers fault for not clamping the wheel of the vehicle.

"It is mildly amusing when they use different terms for things than we do in the US. "On ramp" or "off ramp" becomes "slip road". "Legal" U-turn becomes "authorized". "Highway" or "freeway" becomes "motorway". Kinda cool, really. Like a tiny glimpse into a different culture."

It's funny you find it amusing when you heard the British (or European) words for things in your own country. However, I have to say it's a mild irritant for me to have the sat nav on my phone say "traffic circle" when I come up to a "roundabout". It's a roundabout.

No one has ever heard of The Magic Traffic Circle have they?

Re: I love it when...

I like it more when someone suggests 123 Reg for hosting full stop. It means they think cheap hosting is better than reliable hosting.

I wouldn't say I'm poor, just financially challenged.

Re: Eh?

The reporting of Radiohead and ignoring 50 Cent, however I've just noticed the sarcasm/joke button is broken on my computer.

Re: "Trusted"

"That's a free system of checks and balances working. It's not ideal, but tell me a better system? And compare and contrast to Russia, where there are much worse checks and balances, a lot of journalists get murdered and the government frequently puts out propaganda unchallenged."

I didn't say at any point that the way Russia conduct themselves is any better. I initially said that you could hold the view point that all media lies and that it should all be ignored.

And while journalists etc may not be murdered in the West, they are often frozen out of roles due to their reporting. And are you sure about governments being challenged in regards to their propaganda? Jeremy Hunt has been banging on for months about more people dying at weekends in hospital because Doctors don't work weekends, and used a BMA Journal article as the basis for his "reforms". The head of the BMA however wrote to him telling him that the article wasn't peer reviewed and he should stop referring to it, but he hasn't.

My dear fellow, this doesn't apply to her. Because she isn't a Muslim or an Irish Catholic.

Plus she's a Tory. So whatever she says go unfortunately.

Re: Fat Tony says

"Yep. If you get chloroformed you will know about it from all the throwing up you do after you wake up. Horse's head optional at this point."

But there'll be that 10 seconds you wake up and think everything is good with the world, then look to your side and see Red Rum starring back at you.

Re: Call me old fashioned

"But I just feel a bit more confident with Cisco, or even Huawei, rather than a social media best known for visual regurgitation of ones dinner."

100% agree. I'd rather trust a company where by networking is it's main priority and reason for being rather than a company that profits from the collection and distribution of the information and data people give it.

Re: Meanwhile in Germany...

"Goddamn Golf Diesel I once rented was worse (only car they had, cough bullshit but hey lets fsck over the American). I thought for sure I was going to get rear ended in that god awful (and now even more polluting it turns out) slow POS. Only good thing I will say is yes being able to drive nearly anywhere in Europe on a single tank of fuel was nice until you actually had to do it that is. Also rented a four door sedan Peugeot (forget model) at one point and though I wouldn't buy one it was way better than that crappy Golf."

Yeah the Golf's have gone from being the stars of German engineering and efficiency to German PR bullshit and lies.

You can cancel a credit card, you can't exactly cancel your home address and move to another location as easily can you?

Re: Full Of What Makes The Grass Grow Green In Texas

"Why? Because BT slips them a bung.

There, fixed that for you."

Well at least you were quicker than OpenReach.

"How does someone accidentally enter 730 names in a To list ?

This should be solved by using mailing list software, not some Outlook bodge."

I worked for a youth charity and some clown of a woman emailed about 500/600 people by including everyone on a CC. I received complaints about it as I was the IT manager, and I spoke to the woman who was absolutely vile.

So, really, it's only an accident when someone gets pulled up about the matter and there's a fine involved. For everything else there's laziness.

Re: It's All Wrong

"When is the new airship to be commissioned? Farty McFartfarter... Hot air and all...

got it... on my way"

Before you go please name the air ship Boris Johnson.

I went there.

Re: Duh.

True actually, especially there's been initial studies done in to skin cancer and it's correlation with the sale of sun screen/sun block creams. Skin Cancer is on the rise, but so are the sales of the creams.

Re: Nutters

I haven't read the report, keeps being blocked on my work internet for some reason so I can only reference the article.

The pilot rejected the first take off because of air speed, and the systems were checked and were obviously found to be normal. On the second attempt they kept going. The article doesn't say whether or not the plane made it past V1. If it did this before the airspeed became an issue then the pilots did the right thing. You can't slam the brakes on a heavy plane going faster than V1. It'll crash. However, if the airspeed warnings occurred before V1, then the pilots really were playing Russian roulette.