Posts by Uncle Slacky

Re: Will the last person on the internet

Meh, I'll wait for Netcraft to confirm it.

Re: Prior Art

Oh ghod, we used to be forced to watch that at least once a year throughout elementary school - along with a number of Grimm fairy tales faithful (in every gory detail) to the original text. Oh yes, the Disney version of Sleepy Hollow, too, which still gives me nightmares.

FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM WILL WIN!

Re: Should have bought the How To book off WH Smiths

Good thing he didn't buy the Anarchist Cookbook:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41802493

Re: Why must democracy be digitised?

This exchange from the Simpsons might explain the enthusiasm for voting machines:

Homer: Do you want the job done right or do you want it done fast?

Marge: Well, like all Americans... fast!

"...the destroyer of screens"

Re: Shirley...

Maybe they're trying to avoid the Hounds of Tindalos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounds_of_Tindalos

Re: "This frame reports only one byte remaining after it's fixed fields.\n"

> I'm just trying to come up with a suitable logo.

See icon.

Re: I wonder ...

There's a .onion site for it: scihub22266oqcxt.onion

Username checks out...

Smallish sticks make handy Live USBs

I've got a freebie 1Gb drive (shaped like a gold ingot for some reason) that's just right for live-booting Puppy, or antiX, or Q4OS, or heads (Tails used to fit, sadly no longer), or 4M, or even Lubuntu. Of course, it's USB 1, so a little slow, but still useful for recovery & maintenance if needed.

Re: I know it's apocryphal ...

The Russians use(d) grease pencils, not graphite ones.

Re: Thats a plan...

There's also:

"I'm sorry, I've never used Windows 8/8.1/10, I wouldn't know where to start..."

Re: "Hugh Durrant-Whyte"

Nah, I know Hugh, he's a good egg. No idea how he got mixed up in all this, though!

Re: You know....

More like Clarke's "Superiority":

http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html

Re: Unity, Unity, Unity......

There's still Yunit:

http://sourcedigit.com/22464-install-yunit-unity-8-fork-ubuntu/

State capitalism, not socialism

Socialism at its most fundamental level is about the (democratic) ownership/control of the means of production by the people. What China has, much like the USSR before it, is a form of "state capitalism", albeit in a more flexible form than in the old days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism#People.27s_Republic_of_China

Re: Awesome -

See also tail recursion: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/tail-recursion.html

Re: Galaxy Quest

Don't forget avenging, by Grabthar's hammer...

Re: x220... slow to boot

I've got the Dell equivalent (Latitude e6220) with SSD and Solus (distro optimized for fast boot and shutdown) and it boots in <10s.

Re: considerably biggest discount.

<Zoidberg>Once again the sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!</Zoidberg>

Alabama Pi bill = urban legend

However, Indiana (almost) passed something similar in 1897:

https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/indiana_pi_bill.htm

Re: Look in the loft

The CPC can manage (given its age) a pretty decent GUI-driven OS - SymbOS:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS

Re: 1984

Looks like Huxley got it right: https://sinteur.com/index.php/2010/08/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death/

Re: scaling up is the answer?

> It so happens that I live near leading boffins of ITER and they do not believe they can reach anywhere near a surplus of energy

ITER was never intended to produce a surplus, it's just another step on the road to working out the bugs in order that the next iteration will be more likely to do so.

Re: Object Oriented Computing

Am I the only one around here who remembers (and used) Publish & Subscribe on System 7? At least that *did* do live updating as well - and didn't do a bad job as I recall...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_and_Subscribe_(Mac_OS)

Re: Bothering the homeless...

IIRC the vast majority of the cost of crime (in money terms) is from financial/white collar crime (embezzling, insider trading, falsifying accounts etc.) so it would make sense to concentrate crime-fighting resources in the financial sector.