Posts by Gene Cash

Re: This is just fucking wrong!

> What happen to actual punishment of those with money?

See: Broadcom billionaire Henry Nicholas and pal on drugs rap cough up $1m to avoid the clink

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/03/henry_nicholas_broadcom_plea/

That should answer that question. :-(

Re: SpaceX, next Falcon 9 in a 1960's Saturn 5 Black and Red Paint Job, Red USA / Flag?

Sure, but it'd have to be a new booster. Those used ones are pretty charred, and you'll notice SpaceX doesn't waste time/money cleaning them up and painting them.

Re: Try a Lathe

> tie caught in a lathe

That'd be an instant health & safety lawsuit on this side of the pond. At least over here, a quiet word about the legal exposure is usually sufficient to get the rule lifted.

On the bad side, I've seen a helicopter transmission shaft with a full head of hair fanned out from it. I didn't see the original incident, but it didn't look fun. There didn't seem to be much blood, so I hoped they got out easy with just an application of scissors.

> They beat the estimates so it seems natural that they were rewarded

HA! I've seen plenty of company results where they beat estimates and the stock 10% dropped anyway.

Re: Entertainment is a problem

> I bought a blue ray once, but getting the Steve Irwin off it out me off

What? Do you need to call the stroke hotline?

Hm. I take exactly this suggestion to defend against the daily liquid sunshine here in Florida, and my Moto G6 and Nexus 6P had no problems with the touchscreen through a Ziploc sandwich bag. I don't have a Samsung for testing, but I don't think the tech is that different.

I do think a Ziploc sandwich bag is much different plastic than cellophane though.

Re: Changed the (IT) world

Shoot... I recall flying Sublogic's flight sim on my TRS-80. 128x48 resolution, IIRC?

I probably would have cried if you told me about Kerbal Space Program.

From usenet, ages ago, comp.risks:

"He was carrying the bombs on one pylon, and the refueling pack on the other. During the run in, there seem to have been some Stores Management Issues, and they nailed the boat with the refueling pod."

> we will choose a different state

They're probably ramping up to that... that's the implied threat, and the steel in the velvet glove.

Re: This has been going on for years

> Sony Keyboard App

By the same company that had no problem with installing rootkits on people's PCs... Are you really surprised?

> airbag can't be replaced because there is no stock

There's no stock because it's not just thousands of Hondas, but also thousands of Fords, thousands of Volkswagens, thousands of Audis, thousands of BMWs, etc... all competing for the same generic airbags. There's a reason why Takata instantly went bankrupt.

Re: Hmm..

Hm. My granny doesn't have root... Mom does, and takes care of all that.

Re: Firefox ?

Not really... Pale Moon has also done antisocial things like removing fine-grained cookie control (where you get a popup from each new domain asking if you want to block/accept/session-only)

Re: Password spraying

I think that's known as "try to baffle 'em with bullshit"

Re: Keys

> mmm, I think you need to read more history

In American school (at least 40 years ago) history stops at the Revolutionary war, and did a shit job of that. It's even worse now, AFAICT.

There's almost no mention of anything European. I found out Rome invaded Britain only from reading I did myself. And despite being personally interested in WW-II, I didn't find out the shocking amount of Soviet casualties until 5-6 years ago.

Re: me no understand

They don't actually ban coffee, they just frown on people drinking it, like we do to people smoking.

Ugh. I destroyed my TRS-80 Model I that way. It had a raw edge connector which was not electrically buffered or protected in any way. It went straight to the Z-80 I/O pins. Reaching around and feeling for the reset button next to it was a recipe for static electricity to play havoc.

Fortunately it was still in the 90 day Radio Shack warranty period.

Re: The security guy has one thing to do

Hopefully this passes:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/us/grand-rapids-racial-police-calls-trnd/index.html

And yes, it's appalling that it even has to be considered. I think the fine should be 10x the proposed amount.

Still better than places like NewEgg

> but professional pilots are still there in order to take control if anything goes wrong

The problem is usually that when the automation goes "YOUR PLANE!" then the pilot is usually too far out-of-the-loop and doesn't have enough situational awareness. By the time he comprehends the situation and determines the corrective action, then it's probably another NTSB report citing "controlled flight into terrain"

Re: Ah ...

> wearing his work clothes

Or as my dad would have said after I walked myself home, "you mean the clothes that pay for you to eat and go to school?"

Re: Oh FGS!!!*!*##

> At home I use Debian

I'm in the same boat. I updated my Windows 10 VM to the latest and now it says it's not genuine. I deleted the VM and went back to using my older version. It works "enough" which for me means "edge runs"

Re: Quakes on Mars?

That's probably some of the questions they're hoping to answer.

> the wheelie bins at the entrance to the park are usually pretty much full after a couple of weeks

Couple of WEEKS? Seriously? They're not changed at least weekly? I can imagine a week's worth of poo being rather objectionable.

"Nah, that's fer rentin' tha line... the calls are free on top of that"

Re: The Wretched Salt of the Earth

It's not illegal, it's just a different situation, so they are trying to differentiate it from that.