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Comment Re: Australia started and is ending as a penal co (Score 3, Insightful) 180

I didnâ(TM)t relate to the context of my reply well, my point was that all the US driven drivel about this being a police / army state with people being crushed is in no way correct. No one was oppressed, even the worst areas were just told to stay within 5km of home.

Comment Re: Australia started and is ending as a penal col (Score 1) 180

I presume others will post the same, but do you realise that NONE of what you saw reported on the news (oppression related) in the US actually happened? I like in the most populous city here and have had a very comfortable 18 months. I had to work at home for 4 months but still went to shops when I wanted, still played golf, office when I wanted. We wound our necks in, no more. Only morons trying to make misguided protests had any issue.

Comment Re: Christ on a cracker (Score 1) 143

Again, a majority of posters here havenâ(TM)t got any context of what this is about. In environments where using a phone to take a photo is an issue, you canâ(TM)t take phones into the office. This is common in regular outsources, and no, not in anyway liked to government or defence. Why is everyone here so hell bent on making a issue where there isnâ(TM)t one?

Comment Re: COVID has been a godsend to Big Data (Score 1) 143

Iâ(TM)ve read a few dozen replies here and all I see is that pretty much all of you are so hell bent on being MS and âoebossâ haters that youâ(TM)ve no idea what you are even railing about. Insider Threats have long been a problem. Itâ(TM)s real. The tools from MS are not new, they are just evolving. MS are on catch-up too - the pure play vendors have offered these, and they are used by most organisations, for a decade.

Comment Re: fuck vigilante coders (Score 1) 133

While I believe you that all your workplaces have had low standards of developing, I can equally say that itâ(TM)s not like that everywhere. Iâ(TM)m not a developer as such, but my role exposes me to plenty of them and I am responsible for solutions getting delivered. For the last 15 years or so I have seen strong practices around secure design. The good old OWASP Top-.10, peer review, inline/automatic code scanning then vulnerability scanning, pen tests. And then it needs to be deployed in a fit for purpose way with appropriate defences, monitoring, response. This holds for companies big and small and isnâ(TM)t onerous in reality. If youâ(TM)re really saying the developers you work with are just hacking it up âoeone pay check to the nextâ then thatâ(TM)s possibly saying something about your approach to development and where you get work. Itâ(TM)s not âoemostâ places.

Comment Re: Same reason we do a lot of stupid shit (Score 1) 252

While I donâ(TM)t like DST, the main âoestupidâ here is your pretty ignorant comment. There is more to it than âoesomeone thinking it was a good ideaâ. It has been enabled, cancelled and tweaked on multiple occasions in most parts of the world. It needs more tweaking or cancelling, but itâ(TM)s certainly not just âoetraditionâ.

Comment Re: Snipping Tool? (Score 1) 109

If thatâ(TM)s a genuine question, I wish I could say that youâ(TM)re on the wrong forumâ¦. Unsigned exes are not welcome in many enterprise environments. In my case, departments legitimately trying to introduce app versions that have been incorrectly signed set off flags for the ops and cyber teams and we help them (usually remind them) to remediate.

Comment Re:They're higher off the ground (Score 1) 188

Most people here are quoting from ignorance, or thinking that all SUVs are identical to some notion they got 15 years ago in a poor example of the shape.

That's in part because they aren't really SUVs. My wife has a station wagon tricked out to look like an SUV. She says it is a "crossover". It is just an ugly car.

Oh. I assumed you meant like a GLC/GLE, X3/X5 or Macan. Assuming you avoid the absolute entry level engines, they do fit the description.

Comment Re:Diesel (Score 1) 188

Something I have wondered - the real world experience with turbo gasoline engines is that they deliver considerably worse fuel economy than their official ratings, given that all (?) diesel engines are turbocharged is their better fuel economy only on paper?

As someone with two 18 month old vehicles, one a 2Ltr turbo petrol wagon and the other a 3ltr turbo diesel SUV (ie the petrol is lighter and lower drag) I have seen very clearly that I need perfect conditions and a very light foot to get the petrol to somewhere match the advertised efficiency, whereas the diesel matches it easily and if I try, I can beat it. Most of my driving is VERY unforgiving - congested city.

In short: The heavier 3.0 turbo diesel advertises lower fuel usage and it is achievable. The lighter 2.0 turbo petrol advertises slightly higher but real use is higher still.

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