Posts by ElReg!comments!Pierre

Re: Foolproof gun!

if you really want to kill the enemy best to just hold a pineapple and walk towards them

Then there's the rumour that pretends officer pistols are not designed to be shot at the enemy...

Step back you fool!

Never get in the way of a lynching

Re: The child

It's done to avoid sociopathic fuckers like you.

Bullshit. In the present case it's done so that you can profer stupidities without having to own up. It's done so that you can be part of the faceless mob, the "spot a black / communist / Japanese / paedo / muslim / "domestic extremist/ sociopath" mob (by approximate chronological order). It is in essence in the present case the functional equivalent of the KKK's pointy white mask/hat.

And you dare to suggest that "ElReg!comments!Pierre" is anything other than anonymous.

Yes I dare. You may want to have a look at a dictionnary sometime; try "P" as in Pseudonymous.

Re: The child

Take some time out this weekend and learn how to recognise a sociopath - it could be the most valuable thing you do.

And then what?

Also, I know how to recognise a sociopath: the fuckers post anonymously on internet forums. Now if you would be so kind and turn yourself in at the local plodshop...

Re: Facebook and Tor

I can't help stupid people. What did those people think would happen. I'm not stupid enough to joke about something that could be serious in the same way I won't walk into a bank with a plastic gun. I'm not a numpty!

Never ever received or made a joke, never used figurative language? Never used the expressions "make a killing", "bombshell", "smoking gun", "hammered", "trashed", "blown out of the water", even "pants on fire" etc? Sorry, I don't mean to imply that you are lying, but you are lying.

See, one nice feature of El Reg is that you can search posts by authors, à la GCHQ. Let's look at that fine Joe 48 chap's history shall we. In chronologic order (in bold, your comments):

America is at civil war Domestic terrorist probably.

Any idiot can run a script. I expect you'd have to be in the building to gain access to half of GCHQ's top level networks. making plans to break in National Security building and compromising the highly sensitive networks.

Also lost the will to live OMG suicide bomber.

I'd suggest going into hiding for a while. I know a nice place in Russia... ties with the Russian organized crime. Conspirating to help a fellow criminal escape justice.

My Dad will beat up all your Dad's threats of physical violence

My Dad is fine with that. After 20 years in Prison for beating dads he's used to it. son of a convicted felon and proud of it. Probably has ties with the organized crime (as it happens when you know ex-convicts).

the final nail in the coffin Death threats...

only going one way, and thats to the grave? and again

I'll have a little dig around later myself OMG he did kill the poor sod and now he's going to burry him. Search his luggage for a shovel.

Some of these comments could have put you in exactly the same situation as the "stupid people" and "numpties" who were unlucky enough to be picked (at random?) and subsequently made the news.

Re: Facebook and Tor

Are people really this paranoid about this happening?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Bunting-Leigh-Van-Bryan-UK-tourists-arrested-destroy-America-Twitter-jokes.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176874/Man-strip-searched-held-24-hours-friends-joke-text-sabotaging-train.html

So, erm... what was your point again?

Re: Facebook and Tor

As for the Err-Head comment, nothing constructive to add, so time for the personal insults. Bravo.

Oh, c'mon. t'was but a wee friendly poke so that you could see the air-rors of your ways.

Re: Facebook and Tor

I'd rather they air on the side of caution

err-head!

Re: Undedicated follower of fashion

@Pierre, that should be a trademark? No wonder it was rejected!

I'm not saying it should. I'm just showing what is discussed.

Re: Undedicated follower of fashion

The one I'm picturing (and just confirmed with a Google image search) is the word Vans with the trailing top of the V extending over the ans

Nooope. Try this instead:

http://cdn2.sarenza.net/static/_img/productsV4/0000004313/HD_0000004313_150354_09.jpg?201309121844

Re: "Squigly line logo"

Yes there is.

They are trying to trademark the white strip in the picture below:

http://cdn2.sarenza.net/static/_img/productsV4/0000004313/HD_0000004313_150354_09.jpg?201309121844

Re: Re:The simple fact is

PS

It may strike the overpondians as a surprise BUT (and I'm not making a political statement here, just stating common historical knowledge) the USSR went from what was middle-ages-level developpment stage to spaceships whithin 50 years. That takes some extremeley serious science and engineering developpment both in math and physics. I know a bit about academic physics researchers, I've worked with some, in Northern America no less. First thing you notice, half of them have been trained in the former "eastern Block" (that's USSR and it's allies of yesteryears). Second thing, when asked about a Russian physicist or mathematician, in most cases everyone will bow.

Thirdly, I know quite a few people at the NIH. There is a unofficial "appreciation chart" there, by country you were trained in. French people top the Life Sciences chart, Chinese people feature in the top 5 for all science fields, Russians (and close neighbours) top both the Physics and Mathematics charts. If you consider subcategories Brits are apparenty liked in physiology. Interestingly enough US-trained people never appear on the NIH chart, but that's a story for another time perhaps (research vs developpment etc).

In a nutshell: wherever physics and mathematics are involved, blaming the Russians is a stupid move. They are usually well-trained in both.

Re: Re:The simple fact is

The engines, albeit 50+ years old, are solid. They have good engineering, a reasonable pedigree and just as important, there is an available supply."

Apparently not what? Not 50+ years old? Think again. Not solid? (for a few different meaning of the term, including "dense", which is a term I trust you are familiar with) Think again. Twice. Available supply? Think again.

I'ḿ sure you know someone who knows someone who died in a car crash. Do cars strike you as the most dangerous way to move around? (and yet to some regards they are, which kinda ruins my analogy but I don't afraid of anything, as they say, so there you go).

A rocket's job is to burn. One in a while one will burn in a slightly odd fashion for some reason (perhaps the range cleaner's wife left her handkerchief in the wrong place last time they had a "friendly meeting" with her hubby's boss, we may never know). It will then be detonated remotely by the range safety people, lest the Ruskies Japs Chinese Iranians think it's an ICBM or something.

It happens, rather rarely, but that's part of the job. It just happened. Why do you think it is required that the supplies on the ISS are sufficient to last for 2 sequential failure of resupply launches?

Re: Depressing

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

This being, of course, almost always wrong. It's surprising and quite a bit depressing to see how many poor sods cling to that common misconception despite being proven litterally everyday how wrong it is. Yesterday's example on El Reg was the class action about the MacBook, with the lawyers' blurb reading that people paid a lot of money so they expected more reliability than from a cheaper machine (Ha!). I'm sure you spotted other examples throughout the day; if you have a computer such examples are shoved in your face all day long: our corporate email/collab "solution" is a right pile of shite but did cost millions. The person seated next to me does her math and plotting in expensive Excel while I use free Veusz. LaTeX vs MSWord anyone? My bike cost me 1500 euros and is more reliable and faster than the equivalent from Honda which at the same "age" costs roughly 3x that price. Yesterday I bought 12 rolls of no-name toilet paper which seems to wipe my bum as acceptably as the branded equivalent that costs 2x the price. I could litterally fill pages with examples like these taken only from this week.

People just chose to ignore everything that doesn't fit their misconceptions it would seem.

Buck passing 101

The buck passing functions optimally only when the recipient is a well-established (or former well-established) Bad Guy (TM).

I'm a bit surprised that noone has blamed the poor battery life of the iWatch on North Korea or Iran yet.

Re: Non-MS platforms

Alternatively you could have them move to SIP...

Re: Is a broken watch is right twice a day? @Headley_Grange

Totally overthinking it dude. A mechanical watch doesn't really measure time, it's a mechanism that is designed to display a representation of the time. In other words, it doesn't internally store anything relevant to the time. It doesn't care if it's 3 PM, or 3 PM plus 0.264443 seconds; the only thing that matters is the position of the hand relative to the static display.

More precisely, the view that the owner has of the position of the hand relative to the static display. It's not always exactly the same thing especially on jewel-like watches with no marks, strangely-shaped displays and/or angled glass.

In short, a broken watch is right as long as you can't tell that it's wrong. Which is at the very least 2x 1 s per day, and 2x several minutes per day in the case of some "jewel" watches.

Re: Is a broken watch is right twice a day?

Some lady watches can actually be right for a good 5 minutes when broken. That's the kind which is not terribly useful to tell the time when they're not broken...

Re: A daily charge is fine IF...

> "hey siri what time is it"

That a sure hit* with the ladies I would imagine.

Assuming Siri can understand what surely sounds more like "hairy wedding zit?". Having to be articulate kinda ruins the point of knowing whether you can go back to sleep...

*As in "slap" perhaps?

Re: Bad old days.

> tended to drift significantly as the day passed.

Yes, back in the days you'd have to re-synch your watch once a day, using for example the 10h10 London Express. Nowadays watches don't drift anymore, which is probably a good thing, if you get my, er, drift.

Re: selling point

Switch SD cards? Noobs multi-boot will fix that, though still need to reboot

The advantage of this solution would be? I see a lot of reasons to keep the systems on separate SD cards, and none for the multi-boot solution.

Or just buy a Pi to dedicate to OpenELEC

Yeah, I totally see how this would make more sense than my solution of dedicating a SD card to OpenELEC. NOT.

For a small, low-power desktop take a look at the new Zotac Pico wotsit. Seems quite good, though Win8+Bing and about 5x the cost of a Pi.

Not even close to being as low-power, and it's about 10x the price, not 5x. For that price I can have a laptop complete with monitor, trackpad and keyboard. And it's Windows. EIGHT. The Pico wotsit strikes me as a (failed) replacement for my Asus 900, not for my Pi.

But definitely more usable as a full desktop

That's entirely debatable. My Pi running Raspbian does very well as a full desktop. It runs Veusz, iPython, claws-mail, xpdf, Pycocuma, Midori, GVim and lout -even LibreOffice. Everything I need for work. Of course for video (including Youtube and the like) I have to turn to OpenELEC; so what? Different use, different SD card, and that's how I like it.

The Zotac Pico on the other hand, I'm pretty sure installing the Scipy/numpy stack and lout on this would be nightmare-ish, and the beast of an OS it runs means that despite the rather enormously more powerful CPU and RAM it's probably not much more responsive -if at all.

I really like the idea of being able to deploy the Pi (or an HDMI TV stick) as a thin client which could fire up a VPN connection automatically and launch a remote desktop session.

It's a bit of a waste of resources if you ask me, but that wouldn't be very difficult. I can't be arsed to check the google but there is even probably a SD card image or five out there that do exactly that.

Re: selling point

Well, if it has hardware acceleration all round (as the competition with both Raspbian and the unnamed media players would suggest), then it's perhaps worthy of consideration. Right now I do some browsing and desktop work on raspbian but I have to switch SD cards to watch movies (which means waiting a full 15 seconds for the Pi to reboot, insufferable ain't it?).

No seriously, hardware accel. for the desktop would be nice. Having that nice GPU sitting iddly while the CPU struggles at full steam is a shame.