Bah!
Bad news for them of us with Pioneer 15R decks then. The auto arm lift will defeat this artsy-fartsy cleverness and 78 rpm cannot be achieved.
Also: Why does this "artist" hate the 16rpm enthusiast, and why is there no cylinder format version?
Posts by Stevie
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Vinyl-fetish hipsters might just have a point
Quick Q: How many FLOPPIES do I need for 16 MILLION image files?
Friday 9th May 2014 14:54 GMT
Bah!
Pfft! We had a clear out of one chaps equipment locker in '04 and unearthed a shrink-wrapped mint condition box of 8 inch single siders.
And he wanted to keep them "just in case".
They were used to back up a server in use in 1984 and long since gone to the big server room in the sky. I have no idea how he intended they should be put to use. Perhaps his desk was rocking.
Japanese cops arrest man with five 3D printed guns at home
Star Wars Episode VII: The Ancient Fear of, er, a cheese-tastic title?
Mozilla asks FCC to unleash the nuclear option on net neutrality
Speaking in Tech: 'I get told to wear makeup by other women'
Evidence-based Tweets will SAVE the WORLD - and your waistline
Did cosmic radiation nuke $25 satellite swarm? 100 snoozing Sprites face fiery death
You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers
Tuesday 6th May 2014 14:46 GMT
Bah!
Do they still allow people to make URLs that have a different domain at both ends of the string, so you look at the first bit and say "Aha! Chase Bank Online" but three miles down the string is the *real* URL - ChechnyanPhishscam.com?
Because if so, getting that moronic idea out of the HTTP spec would be favorite.
Super-heavy element 117 DOES exist – albeit briefly. Got any berkelium handy?
Stephen Hawking: The creation of true AI could be the 'greatest event in human history'
Monday 5th May 2014 14:50 GMT
Bah!
The real issue with AI is "why would we need one?"
Expert Systems would be much more useful and cost-effective. Why would I want an AI that could turn grumpy when I have a pocket Stephen Hawking, Hemmingway or Brunel to give me advice on my own inventions.
Besides, by the time anyone really gets close to a proper AI there won't be enough electricity in the world to keep it going. Bitcoin will be sucking it all away as fast as the fission nuke plants can make it (fusion will still be something we can look at with a telescope or throw at people we don't like, but not use for constructive stuff).
As for losing control over one and it becoming an Evil Master of the Universe, I'll just direct everyone to Max Bygraves' insightful comment on the issue: "You need hands". Sitting in a box by itself being smugly clever will prove to be, just as it does today, not really that clever in the long term.
Sony on the ropes after revising losses UP to $1.3 BEEELLION
French software developers are all beautiful women
Shocking 'new iPhone' is also - BZZZZT!! - a Taser-like stun gun
Actual spin doctors eye up alien world Beta Pictoris b: Young, hot ... and really fast
Microsoft: You know we said NO MORE XP PATCHES? Well ...
Friday 2nd May 2014 15:51 GMT
Bah!
One morning in a galaxy far, far away:
"Yes, let us abandon the most popular desktop OS we've ever sold in such a way as to leave us open to stories forevermore on how we walked away from a trainwreck in the interest of sales.
Wait, wouldn't that get us seen in a bad light by the only people who don't hate us now? I mean seriously, have you used windows 8? What a big pile of stinking OH HELLO BOSS. What's that? New policy? I'll get right on it!"
Script fools n00b hackers into hacking themselves
Target finally implements chip and PIN card protections
Wednesday 30th April 2014 16:04 GMT
Re: You miss the point.
"The point is that the fraud risk is transferred from the merchant, processor and bank, to you."
I would doubt that, at least here in New York. In order to do that the card issuer has to demonstrate that the cardholder has behaved irresponsibly - giving out the pin, lending out the card, losing the card and not reporting it lost in a timely manner etc.
Fraud is never initially the victims fault. Even in America.
Oracle accused of breaking US competition law over Solaris support
Tuesday 29th April 2014 13:44 GMT
Bah!
Well, if Oracle actually showed some sign of interest in Solaris other than its billability they might have something to gripe about, but if you want a good laugh ask to speak to their resident expert on configuring Oracle RAC on Solaris.
Once he/she's on site, see how long it is before they confess they are really Linux experts with no idea what to do on Solaris.
Oracle doesn't really have a strategy for SPARC or Solaris from where I'm sitting, and would be better off selling that part of the business back off again. All their effort seems to be in Linux-over-Intel these days.
If I didn't know better I'd think Oracle has locked itself in the same battle with Red Hat that Apple did with IBM in the Gaslight Years of Computing.
Oh wait, I *don't* know better.
Brit IT workers are so stressed that 'TWO-THIRDS' want to quit
All men are part of a PURE GENETIC ELITE, says geno-science bloke
Monday 28th April 2014 16:11 GMT
Re: going from zero to the 600 female genes
This is only because women never throw anything away. My missus has a room full of clothes she can't get into, handbags loaded with keys that don't fit anything, boxes of VCR tapes that are unplayable and the list goes on. 600 sounds about right as a count of her jeans too.
Monday 28th April 2014 16:06 GMT
Bah!
"...Y [chromosome] contains just 19 of the 600 genes it once shared with the X..."
Entirely expected result.
I have shed several hundred trivial but useful skills I had as a bachelor - mostly having to do with locating sneakers, keys, wallets and important letters from the government - because I found out that if I stand in the middle of the living room looking blank the missus will do whatever it is for me.
For once, "scientists" have proved something useful, if obvious.
Top tip, power users – upgrading Ubuntu may knacker your Linux PC
Reg hack hacked off by iPhone 5 repair notice
Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln
Teen girl arrested with 70-year-old man's four inch weapon inside her
Japan plans SEVEN satellite launches to supercharge GPS
Systems meltdown plunges US immigration courts into pen-and-paper stone age
Thursday 24th April 2014 20:55 GMT
I'll wager I'll drink another cup of coffee
Wait a minute ... I have just formulated a possible source of all those Keurig failures people whine about in the Amazon review pages.
I call it the Stevie Microflare Of Keurig Death Theory. In it I postulate that Keurig electronics get sizzled to death by solar flares to small to be detected by the human eye, or indeed by any of the other traditional flare detection methods.
In the appendix I touch briefly on the idea that this might be turned to good use by deploying arrays of Keurig Platinum coffee machines as a sophisticated microflare detection technology - much like huge underground lakes of cleaning fluid can be used by the Japanese to prove the sun is going out.
Where's my Nobel prize?
Thursday 24th April 2014 20:48 GMT
Re: How many satellites will be cooked by this?
So a few rich people who never learned to read road maps will find themselves unable to drive off cliffs or through building sites any more. Boo-hoo. Bet they'll wish they'd spent their money on a good A-Z instead of that center console "navigation system" when the sun sheds its benevolence upon us.
Shame about the explosion thing. I was looking forward to the oversized hideous SUVs that seem to have infested the neighborhood cooking off in an entertaining fashion. Oh well, I'll settle for their owners circling endlessly in their behemoths, trying to get up the nerve to ask directions while I laugh at them.
Flares don't fail me now!
Thursday 24th April 2014 20:39 GMT
Re: They must be using the US postal service
Cheap laugh but I must downvote and naysay.
Speaking as a Namazon Torrent Purchaser I would like to say here and now that the fastest and most reliable delivery of my Amatat has always been the USPS, and they are my carrier of choice. Fast & reliable.
AOL Mail locks down email servers to deal with spam tsunami
Thursday 24th April 2014 15:18 GMT
Re: Human intelligence still has some value
"So are you [Stevie] a spammer or spammer's sock puppet??"
You forgot to ask when I stopped beating my wife.
Sorry. I thought you were an actual systems engineering sort of person with actual ideas on how to get stuck in based on real world know-how and an in-depth understanding of how the internet works and why it works that way.
I don't have much time for "ideas men/women" or "big picture types". We have too many of them already, as a quick audit of the number of multi-million credit, multi-year aborted system rewrites in the news in the last five years can prove to anyone with the perspicacity to understand what that is saying to them.
Engineers do. Star Trek script writers talk about doing. Politicians and other idiots think Star Trek is real.
Wednesday 23rd April 2014 15:09 GMT
Bah!
With all this hate-on for AOL, the company that *really* got the US population en-masse interested in going on-line for fun and profit, I hope we can extend the same "old and therefore defunct and detestable" labeling convention to CompuServe and that jit who keeps trying to tell me how to pronounce "gif".
Wednesday 23rd April 2014 15:03 GMT
Re: Human intelligence still has some value
"It's really hard to take seriously anyone who defends the spammers. The best possible interpretation is that you're some kind of religious fanatic with "Live and let spam" as one of your commandments. I could answer each of your objections in some detail, except that it's obvious that if you actually read what I wrote (and I have to doubt that), then you certainly didn't think about it."
It's even harder to take seriously anyone who blithely tosses off an "easy fix" that demonstrably isn't going to be very easy at all to implement, then responds to adult point-by-point criticism of the idea with that paragraph of froth.
Actually, most of the points raised by that poster *on the subject of your "easy fix to short-links idea" were thoughts that crossed my mind too. I don't think that his/her bullet points have equal weight or equal threat (drawing a line in the sand as to what is and isn't spam is not so very hard), but having been the one who missed the staff meeting and therefore got volunteered to pull similar rabbits out of the hat a few times in my thirty plus years in IT, I think that you'd have a much harder time "answering in some detail" than you think.
But if you want to have a go for real, I'll read what you have to say.
RIP net neutrality? FCC mulls FAST LANES for info superhighway
Thursday 24th April 2014 15:04 GMT
Bah!
On the radio this morning the spokesdrone was claiming that business users like Netflix (a wildly popular movie-on-demand thingy) were taking up too much room on the "highway" which was unfair of them and so if they paid more the internet user experience would be improved.
Said drone did not pause so one might ask "but aren't these 'internet users' also the viewers of Netflix, who will now be charged more for their usage of same, and how exactly does this translate into an enhanced experience for them?"
To paraphrase Big Daddy: there's an almighty stink of mendacity in the air.
Japan airport staff dash to replace passcodes after security cock-up
Sat comms kit riddled with backdoors for hackers – researcher
Japanese boffin EYES up big bucks with strap-on digi-glasses
Och aye! It's the Loch Ness Monster – but only Apple fanbois can see it
Github cofounder resigns after clearance in sex-harass probe
Tuesday 22nd April 2014 15:16 GMT
The poetic beauty of this blacklist is
While I was solidly for the ousting from Mozilla of whats-his-name, you know, the one who gave the world the Betsest Cross Site Scripting Vector Ever, I find this list offensive, odious and indefensible.
Not the principle of identifying repeat offenders and system gamers, that I applaud. But if you can get on the list simply by pointing at it it falls into a very different bucket, one that ends up at the place everyone claims we'll be in for what happened during the Mozilla Affair but way, way faster.
And in secret too.
I think that the poetic irony of this "circulating troublemaker list" idea is in fact that the people doing it and applauding those who do it are probably the loudest complainers against NSA surveillance.
And, when you think bout it, it is the same kind of thinking that ends in "special rendition", or the overly-inclusive, on-it-for-life sex offenders lists.
'Maybe I'll go to Hell, but I think it's a good thing' says plastic Liberator gunsmith Cody Wilson
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