That's a pretty heavy burn.
Posts by Quinch
96 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2008
The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show
US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones
Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup
US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
Friday 9th July 2021 03:07 GMT
Pick your poison?
It makes me wonder what the difference would be, given how much the powers that be want him gone. He can commit suicide in a maximum security US prison while miraculously nobody watches {that, or an unfortunate incident involving another inmate}, or an unscheduled and mysterious visit from one of Australia's fascinating lifeforms.
Wouldn't be surprised, at least.
BOFH: Oh for Pete’s sake. Don’t make a spectacle of yourself
Chinese AI censors live-streamed Alpacas – beasts with a very NSFW and political back story
To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user
BOFH: Bullying? Not on my watch! (It's a Rolex)
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Cats: Not a fan favourite when the critters are draped around an office packed with tech
What price your home delivery? Amazon accused of hiding real injury rate in its overworked warehouses
Thursday 1st October 2020 22:03 GMT
Wouldn't work though - that just means that the shipping load gets moved forward a bit while everything else still churns at breakneck pace. I'd pay extra for shipping if it meant they'd hire more people to shift the load across, but I'm sure it would inevitably just mean it would get hoovered up by the management.
Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws
This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds
Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes
BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH
Shock revelation as massive American presidential election hack confirmed
I used to be a dull John Doe. Thanks to Huawei, I'm now James Bond!
Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?
Saturday 19th January 2019 20:49 GMT
Re: I can believe it!
Good advice - from about half a decade ago.
Inkjets have been steadily gaining over lasers over the past few years to the point where quite a few of them are actually cheaper to run. Hell, some of them have even taken a step backwards in the right direction and went with the dirt cheap refillable tanks in exchange for a costlier device at the outset {extra costly depending on features you need}. Likewise, pretty much all manufacturers swapped out water and alcohol-based ink in favor of oil and pigment, so the few days it took them to dry out if not used turned into a few months.
Overall, the only thing lasers still have going for them is speed of printing and overall capacity for abuse, which can be crucial for large offices, but less so on smaller scale.
Source: Former retail drone {as of yesterday! Hooray!}
Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag
Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
Samsung releases 49-inch desktop monitor with 32:9 aspect ratio
Fighter pilot shot down laptops with a flick of his copper-plated wrist
WikiLeaks emits CIA's Wi-Fi pwnage tool docs
Donald Trumped: Comey says Prez is a liar – and admits he's a leaker
Proposed PATCH Act forces US snoops to quit hoarding code exploits
US visitors must hand over Twitter, Facebook handles by law – newbie Rep starts ball rolling
Apple eats itself as iPhone fatigue spreads
BOFH: What's your point, caller?
Is there anything left to ask Bill Gates? (Other than gissus a million?)
Apple growth flatlines ... Tim Cook thinks, hey, $80bn is still $80bn
I'll build a Hyperloop railgun tube-way in Texas, Elon Musk vows
Firefox joins the insanity
Wednesday 19th November 2014 07:21 GMT
Nice to see a fellow Seamonkey user - originally I started using it because I wanted something that would behave like Netscape, now I'm holding on to it like grim death because it seems to be one of the few browsers remaining that aren't rapidly turning into bloatware.
Mine's the one with the "lighter, safer alternative to IE" nostalgia in the pocket.
Dummy-readable benchmarking tools
Monday 17th November 2014 04:50 GMT
Dummy-readable benchmarking tools
I've got a question, and I figure a bunch of fine, snarky, platform-agnostic* gents and ladies might offer some advice.
So, I work retail in a chain that flogs, among other things, electronics. The clientele can, by and large, be classified as either "newly weds" and "nearly deads" within the town itself, with a bunch of farmers in the surrounding areas.
I'm growing gradually tired of trying to explain the nuances of hyperthreading, multi-core architectures, and given the upcoming Christmas mobbings, I'm going to be increasingly short on time too, so I figured what I could do is use visual aids, rather than trying to explain to various hexo-and-octogenerians why computer A is going to be more responsive than the computer B, even though it has a higher number by the word CPU and they remember hearing that them pentiums are pretty fast. Something simple that doesn't clutter up the output with SHA1 hash times and JPG decompressions, just a dumbed-down score, or as close as possible, to represent how fast their computer will be able to pull up their Word documents and Facebook profiles that I can slap on as a wallpaper on the demo units.
Lay it on me.
* i.e. equally irreverent
Big browser builders scramble to fix cross-platform zero-day flaw
Chewbacca held up by TSA stormtroopers for having light sabre
Tuesday 11th June 2013 06:22 GMT 
I'm not seeing the problem
They spotted something that looked like a possible weapon, carried by someone who looked like he could use it with deadly efficiency. They pulled him aside - didn't steal anything, didn't land their Millenium Falcon in his exogorth - he was in and out in five minutes.
While I haven't had any firsthand experience with the TSA {and the horror stories I hear make me avoid transferring via US, damn the plane costs}, this looks like exactly the kind of thing they - and any airport security, for that matter - is obligated to do. Keep eyes open, identify possible threats, investigate quickly, politely and professionally and if no threat exists, thank the passenger for their time and send them on their way.
Authority abuse is apparently commonplace in the TSA, but the knee-jerk reaction to jump down their throats whenever they do anything is counterproductive, IMO.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
