Posts by Dan 55

Re: Paper and Pencil

When it comes to voting nothing beyond the understanding of a lobotomized tape worm should be accepted.

Unfortunately given the way things are going it seems that includes the electorate.

It's been nice knowing y'all.

Re: Time to decide?

It's difficult for an exploit to get persistent root if your Android's running SELinux, which all Androids on or above 4.4 do.

Posting obligatory xkcd is a form of bloat.

Perhaps we could come up with a new lightweight caching protocol to fix that, like xkcd://927 ?

Re: They're on top of it

Ye gods. Incredible.

Wouldn't be a laugh if their forum got owned. Obviously impossible, of course.

Re: TTIP

Doesn't matter, when CETA gets in there are going to be so many Canadian subsidiaries suing the shit out of everything that so much dares to think about stopping the invisible hand.

He's probably campaigning for a points-based judicial system to take back control of our laws.

Just don't ask him what that actually means, he might turn out to be spouting a load of emotive made-up bollocks.

I really would love to have sentences as variables instead of the x, y, and z in uncommented 25-year-old code that I'm maintaining now.

Can't we all just leave our egos at the door and get along together? (And re-educate the people who use spaces, they know not what they do.)

Re: Why Safari?

Dave Hyatt left Netscape and joined Apple so probably decided that the compass could be used since it was only an easter egg in Netscape.

Re: Been there, done that, didn't work.

If your app is not touch bar aware the OS will give it a standard set of esc + function keys on the touch bar, or so I am lead to believe.

Re: Media and entertainment

And what insight has a media lawyer into constitutional law?

Perry Mason reruns?

Re: WTF do you mean "EVEN 5 a day"?!

Five pieces of fruit a day?

Re: There's one bit of good news though

Here's the link to recover your British nationality for the downvoter. That's if you renounced it with the Home Office renunciation form which is the only recognised way of renouncing it, e.g. a country taking your British passport off you is not good enough.

Re: Dreadful idea anyway...

Or...

Oh no!

A world where every inconsequential slip up years ago is recorded forever and made available for public viewing and comes back to haunt us in the present day instead of being put behind us and forgotten.

Re: Genuine curiosity...

Er, I am saying there aren't many things in W7 and they can be turned off, unlike W10 where there are too many to keep track of and slurping can be reduced but not turned off.

Re: Today in Linux

Customers would be better off with an installable driver they can use on any version of Linux and updates straight from the manufacturer instead of having to update the kernel to get a better version of a driver.

Re: Would this work over a simple telnet/ssh connection?

The way it's always been done, start painting the changes to the terminal window when the window contents are not being drawn on the monitor (i.e. the beam is just under the window contents). However most window managers are compositing these days.