Posts by elaar

Re: Despite the rabid hatred of SM on here...

"The % of adverts on TV and radio is more of a problem."

Those are largely regulated, Facebook is like a Reform misinformation bot paradise, and let's not forget Cambridge Analytica, both of those alone are reasons why it should be avoided by decent, intelligent beings. Of course people look at the adverts, not all, but enough, look how rife health product scamming is on there.

Finding old school/Uni friends on Facebook was fun 20 years ago, where people amassed hundreds of friends, and you harmlessly threw sheep at each other, then it became such a cesspit that you realised you didn't need to keep a social media link to 99% of those people (unless you're nosey and bored alot).

We have some local groups on Facebook, local village, daughter's school group etc.. And they just tend to descend into older white guys moaning about everything.

"but the speed of the memory and peripheral chips"

Specifically DRAM or SRAM back then, allowances being made for DRAM There's also the higher 5v bus, with the bus often woven around the whole PCB, with higher gate charges, inductance etc making them hard to manage at higher frequencies.

Re: Gotta hand it to Trump

Exactly this.

If you continually use reliance on American technology/goods as a blackmailing weapon, then it may work at first, but will ultimately (in the medium to long term) cause large scale migrations away from that reliance. I would guess that the vast majority of Countries now wish to distance themselves from the US, and get their goods from elsewhere.

Doesn't that prove that some of their products aren't "built to last" then?

"They seem to be too busy with cutting off their own citizens rights though."

Thankfully, we haven't reached the point where we have armed (ICE) agents walking about acting like the Stasi, that's reserved for Fascist states.

Re: Terrible conclusion

"you're being forced into it because we've run out of v4 and v6 has been successful"

However you try to spin it, if something isn't fully adopted after 30 years, then it's a failure of design.

China, with the CNGI has widely adopted IPv6, but has spent an absolute fortune doing it, and this has been put in place by a Government, where as in the rest of the world it's very much up to individual companies to do it when/if they feel like it, with no immediate benefits, just hassle, especially if they have an MPLS with just a few public breakouts.

Of course v6 is a mess, it should have been obvious from the beginning that if they expected widescale adoption, then it should have worked alongside IPv4 somewhat better to begin with.

"much easier than lugging the UK passport around"

Do you carry yours within a suitcase or rolled up rug?? A UK Passport is about the same size as most phones, but much thinner. I don't know how we manage to lug those cumbersome phones around with us.

When it becomes a standard card, people will put them in their folding-wallet type phone cases (mostly women due to not having wallets and proper pockets to put them in), and lose them on a yearly basis.

Re: This

" So, instead of trying to ban a technology"

There's a big difference between banning a technology, and not letting minors having easy access to it.

How easy do you think it is for children to access thousands of photo-quality nude paintings? Great comparison that one....

It would have been nice if my 8 year old daughter could have got a few photos of Taylor Swift from google search (with the safety filter on) a few weeks back, without encoutering a photo of 2 men banging her from behind. With all of this technology, it would be great if we could make it slightly less difficult for young children to see that sort of thing....

Re: You weren't there, man

Not to mention that if you grew up coding with say just 2K of ROM, then you would think that inherently you would continue to think about efficiency and better coding practices throughout life.

Re: The worlds most powerful

What if someone you know sees you though?

"Honestly, its not AI that is holding these guys back. It is a crippling fear of learning something that isn't considered "modern"

Isn't that just a massive generalisation though, and equivalent to GenZ saying boomers are scared of anything new and insist on using their 20 year old version of Putty? Not true of course, but it's the same type of baseless, pointless negative stereotype.

But you've based it on your thorough observation though, so it must definitely apply to 2.5 billion people though.....

Re: Just turn the little shits over to the affected parents...

Ahh the good old days, when the previous generations hadn't filled the entire earth with endocrine disrupting chemicals that messes up hormonal systems, they're also now getting things like colon cancer (previously only really seen in older age) because of all of the dodgy chemicals we lace food with, and a year on year rise in auto-immune diseases. Damn them for having ADHD and Anxiety!!

"So if such an individual is sat perfectly safe on a beach in France, why would they "risk their lives on a dangerous sea crossing, often after giving everything they own up in order to pay criminal gangs", if it wasn't because they know there's a far better payday waiting for them on the UK side of the channel? Why does even Macron say that the UK is a "soft touch" and that they keep coming for exactly that reason?"

Firstly, bear in mind that more claim Asylum in France than the UK, and also that currently France has bettered the UK in standard of living and disposable income in recent years, so your arguments of the UK being a soft-touch or a better payday compared to France is demonstrably false.

"If you think the UK should bankrupt itself trying to save the entire world from poverty,"

This is the real problem, many people in the UK have become so obsessed with the idea that illegal migration is our number one problem, which is consistently leading to idiotic voting patterns, based on slogans rather than logic, and obviously the problem just gets worse.

We're doing very well at bankrupting ourselves without factoring in illegal migration. Most councils are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy, Government Debt continued to rise despite years of "Austerity", with public services scrapped/reduced, a massively increasing Social cost and Welfare bill (and no, not to due immigration). But most people don't seem to notice or care about these critical issues, it's the boats that gets them worked up, even though their lives have never been impacted in any way by it.

Re: merrit

You don't need to turn of the whole internet for that, just the WWW, at least then critical interconnected infrastructure can still function.

Re: Smelly?

My ASA5525-X is 11 years old. I stopped using it about 3 years ago.

How long should they provide support for? 20years? I can't think of any Manufacturer that supports devices that long.

Re: outlawing the purchase of Huawei networking kit to build 5G networks

I think you missed my point really, which was that if Huawei posed such a security risk, then why was this limited to 5G Networks?

Really this was down to protectionism, the US wanted to give companies like Qualcomm a leg up.

Re: I know I am a dying breed

Sure, things like Type Casting and Memory access could result in unsafe code, but it meant you understood the system and coded appropriately/efficiently, especially when RAM was very limited.

I think it's a shame that coders starting off today often have very limited knowledge of the way the code interacts with the system, and it's all left to the compiler/interpreter, bloated code, bloated libraries and the assumption that limitless resources can be used.

Re: Gross "inequality" is a symptom rather than the ill

Farage hasn't had an intelligent idea in his life.

He's simply playing the game that the Tories were doing 3+ years ago, by shouting slogans that the Daily Mail readership want to hear, mainly about stopping boats.

The only reason he has any position in UK politics is because he carefully chose to stand in the most uneducated, poor town in Essex, which has a very high ex-prison population. And even Clacton folk now generally regret their choice.

Re: AI?

It's no different to everyone calling everything-that-can-connect-to-the-internet and a few GPIO, "smart".

"If you ban VPNs the entire NHS will collapse."

To be fair, the article is asking for age verification to use VPNs to stop children using them, it doesn't mention banning all (including NHS) VPNs. Not sure where you got that bit from.

Re: Not much sympathy here I'm afraid

Maybe if Ebuyer got to pay no corporation tax for 4 years, and fiddle the other years with multiple divisions and the "super deduction" tax break, then maybe they'd be able to offer free delivery?

Obviously if you buy your goods from US International companies, that are masters at tax avoidance, you might save a few quid, but it will eventually destroy all domestic companies.

Re: Madness

"How about getting parents to take responsibility for their darling rug-rats?"

Yes, make parents (many of which are tech-illiterate) monitor every single thing all of their children do non-stop on every single digital device until they reach the age of 16+ (I can tell you have children...) Or, we could just make it so that graphic porn isn't accessible to children with just a few clicks.

Have they gone about it the right way? Of course not. Moaning about the Parents isn't going to solve it though.

Re: Contrast

"Yes it really has. Most of your PC, windows, god knows how many linux contributors, products etc. Plus Google as one of the best search engines to come about. Whatsapp and before that skype, msn messenger and god knows how many things you have used and do use. So yes."

Have you not realised that the reason US International companies do so well is that they've historically been experts at dodging both International and Domestic Taxes, enabling them to dominate International Markets.

Take a look at Apple, What's it up to now, about $150billion in offshore profit swerving domestic and International taxes? Any attempt at countries putting in Digital Service type taxes to counteract it, results in the US government muscling in like some sort of Mafia.

I've paid more Tax than Amazon has in the UK in certain years. How can any domestic company compete with that?

None of the software you mention is unique in any way, it becomes mainstream due to dominance and money.

Re: Collapse

"She went to prison for that. Is this the type country you want to live in?"

Yes, it is. What sort of excuse is "in the heat of the moment"? What other crimes should you be let off from if done in the heat of the moment? When you have a large number of people all "heated up", and on the rampage, then it's exactly this type of comment that will motivate them to do the act.

"with no means or actually intention to blow the mosque up herself." - Well you've completely missed the point there, she didn't say she was planning to do it, she was inciting other people to commit the act, and that's the basis for her sentencing.

Break it down.... She was suggesting people that were already angry and rioting, to go to a mosque and murder people of a specific faith. I don't want to live in a country that allows that sort of action. You have to think about your actions in life.

"what you do with it (for your own use) is no longer any business of the publisher or author."

In the case of an LLM though, it's no longer for your "own use". As soon as the LLM reproduces any of that work (possibly an unlimited number of times), you have participated in the mass redistribution of the material

Yes, it's generally agreed that it's the Windows 7 Menu that was preferred.

What was the search like? No bloody idea, no one needed it because they knew where everything was, how to access it, and the menu didn't change.

Re: Final

A bit like how "you'll never need to reboot after updates in the next Windows version", and yet I'm prompted to reboot almost every time I go to use my Win11 home PC.

Re: Just once...

You do realise that by saying that people don't understand how economics works, and that you do because you're an accountant, doesn't make it true just because you said it?

People with even a very basic level of intelligence should be able to realise that you don't create tariff rates based on trade surplus/deficit figures, right?

Have you got some decent examples of countries "dumping on your markets", or anything useful to add? We can give lots of examples of large US companies swerving taxes all around the world, including offshore accounting in their very own country, giving them unfair market advantages for many decades.

Do you mean what he's actually achieved, or what he claims to have "achieved"?

Claiming to be close to peace with Russia/Ukraine, whilst the Russians bomb Ukraine more now than before Trump got involved.

Claiming to fix Israel/Palestine with a bit of ethnic cleansing, displacing millions of Palestinians so he can build some hotels.

Creating an international trade war, worsening relations with lots of countries, where everyone will lose.

Re: Made me wonder at least...

"which would I imagine would also require MOSFETs for switching"

There's probably MOSFETs on every single PCB in the car. MOSFETs are usually reliable electronic components, so the question is, what dodgy Manufacturer did they buy there's from? Or is the real issue that there's a design fault and they're thermal stressing them.