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Re: "Egotism is the anesthetic to deaden the pain of being a fool." - Dr Schofield

He's a twit, the definition is accurate and that's why I've always laughed at the concept of posting on twitter, but have never wasted any time looking at what twits are saying.

Re: No, no, no.

"Center for Policy Studies" is based on American spelling while "Centre for Policy Studies" is English, but based on French and Latin language spellings so is this a Brexit feature? After all lots of changes were promised but never fully documented, or even happened.

Re: "practically anyone can send a balloon into the air"

I was wondering what was happening after Amazon said that my book delivery was going to be delayed after Biden announced the shoot down, but now Amazon says "later next week" so I guess the balloon wasn't an Amazon attempt to deliver, in a climate friendly way.

Re: Racism

I think that 如果你想抽大麻，请投票给拜登 might be presented to support the Republicans, although it might result in a sudden change to the Democrats.

Re: Perspective (for our US readers)

Locally working with "cloud" in Louisiana and seeing "Hunter Biden's Laptop" we'd be wondering how long it would take to find it every week when we get only four to five inches of rain from the cloud. You can say "cloud" but talk locally and AI would see a little rain (only four inches).

Re: Makes me sick it does

Just think how happy everyone would be if there were healthcare discussions once a week at the local pub. The factor is that a discussion once a week to keep everyone aware of healthcare issues is much better than the pub but having the meeting at your local pub would pretty much guarantee that people with healthcare issues would attend. As a little kid I loved going to the pub with my parents for local village discussions. I don't see IBM as doing anything virtually different that every other wealthy corporations does - so many copy IBM.

Re: Web content automatically generated by AI will be ranked according to its quality

Is AI thinking that people are snorting Coke, or drinking Coke, but never trying Pepsi?

Re: I've seen those marks before

It will be fascinating when we finally visit Mars to discover more details like this, given that Mars is about as old as our planet it is likely that life existed in the water there, maybe about the same time that life existing on the Earth but was still fish in the water. To discover anything (or even nothing) on Mars will be very helpful in envisioning the creation of life on Earth - we need to visit Mars.

Re: Obviously

"As a result of our observations, the classical notion that dense rings survive only inside the Roche limit of a planetary body must be thoroughly revised," - Giovanni Bruno

This is a good illustration of the situation that when we see 'problems' then studying them hard can result in us getting a better view of events, not just astronomically but in virtually every situation. I have always found problems to be very helpful in educating me about things that I'd never thought about before.

Re: Who loves cryptocurrency?

That's great - 1980 had everyone worshiping David Bowie so some great memories of the days back then!

Money with excited criminals has been around for more than a thousand years now, but originally it was not as common as the events that we see these days. Highwaymen have not been seen since the late 19th century but now emailwaymen are back in the world.

Re: So

Each new Windows version makes the older versions look better. This is a Windows update, how many more of these types of issues will we see for the next few years before they are all built in as permanent "features" in Windows12?

Re: 1% failure rate

I've got a Windows XP system running with a 10Mb drive, it's still fine after about 24 years now, And there's another 10Mb drive that's still running fine after about 40 years but it hasn't been running full time, I only put the RL02 disks into the drive when I need to access data from back then.

And about 35 years ago I was working with a DEC customer of ours who was having problems with her system failing to boot up on a hard drive that I had installed many years earlier, yes it was "dead" - the disk wasn't spinning. But we talked about it and the next day she'd got it up and running to copy the data onto a new drive ... she solved the problem so quickly. She had unscrewed the top of the hard disk cover off and given her disk a little snip with her finger to get it running - it started spinning and they got everything fixed that day.

That's a good change - I stopped eating Lobsters after I learnt to scuba drive and saw the lobsters just acting like little kittens down under water, hiding in the reefs and then popping out to look at me and wave at me. I love crayfish and so do the Lobsters.

Re: The end of an era

I took a flight on a 747 to India in 1972 to attend the Hans Jayanti festival, a religious meeting in New Delhi and Dehradun - it was a wonderful flight in such a comfortable plane flying out there and then back to London after a month in India - that introduced me to Indian food in the countryside - I still love Indian food but these days I'm just eating in a restaurant, not walking down the street with a bunch of cows - LOL, that was so nice!

I was just a long haired, stoned and trippy, hippy in those days, I've flown professionally all around the world ever since and flights these days are not as quiet and pleasant as that 747 flight was!

Re: "a viable analysis tool, out-scaling the world’s largest super-computers"

Look at the history of the Universe since the Big Bang and the chance of intelligent ET existing is probably low. Our sun is about 4.6 billion years old and we're thinking that, based on observations of other stars, it will reach the end of its life in about another 10 billion years. This seems to be a common Universe event so the chances of seeing ET is low because this is probably happening everywhere. We're only here because sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had a bad day, if that had not happened then we probably would not exist to have this conversation.

Re: Down on your luck. It's tough.

That's about what Google was earning when it said "Don't be Evil" - originally just a few million initially. The statement "Don't be Evil" lead to it making hundred's of millions and then realizing that being evil was profitable these days. But to be fair, Google doesn't generate malware or any cryptocurrency crimes so it's still a slightly good company that seems to be starting to be acting profitably without worrying about being evil occasionally so it's just a normal company earning billions nowadays.

Re: Three states of catter

So basically cats are just like people, we see the same variants with dogs and many other animals too. If you read Neil Shubin's views on human evolution (which I think are extremely accurate) then you can see that we, as humans, may see ourselves as different from animals but in fact we all started the same originally. Yes, we've evolved but so has everything else too and we share a lot of the same history. We didn't evolve to like cats but I suspect cats have evolved to like us because we like cats.

Re: Start menu is suddenly unresponsive and some applications won't open or work

It's not an "operating system" any longer, it's a data collection and sales system with some operating system features that may work occasionally.

Boris, you are commenting in El Reg as an Anonymous poster?

Re: Janus.....The God Of Facing Both Ways At Once!!!

Look at the way the government works, we're going to "ban" all these cybersecurity attacks and we think it will help us?

But look at how things have gone with the government's "drug war" to fight everyone who used to just smoke and snort a little 40 years ago ... the drug war has vastly increased drug consumption and the dealers are now making vastly more money from drugs while making drugs far worse then they ever were. Are we seeing the same events now with cybersecurity - I'm seeing my daily malware detection's are going way up all the time ... will the cybersecurity way be as effective as the drug war?

Re: 500+ million PC's obsolete in 2025 unable to run Windows 11, 2026 might just be year of Linux

Windows 11 is making me very much appreciate Windows Vista! So what's going to happen by 2025, will I be getting updates for Windows 12 but worried that Windows 13 will be released?

Re: Just expell anyone caught

My immediate thought was "Let's ban politicians from using ChatGPT too!" but now I'm wondering if using ChatGPT might not improve a lot of the things we're seeing politicians say?

Re: What?

I've been seeing hacking efforts on my "T-Mobile account" for years now ... but they have never been a problem because I have not had a T-Mobile account since at least 25 years ago but I'm still getting emails notifying me that my account password has been updated with recommendations that I download the new account "app" ...

Re: "School"

It's the same language and a different culture, England has "bogs" and "loos" ... America has "restrooms" - ask an American if they have a fag and a rubber that you can use and you'll either get a kiss or a punch.