Posts by Swarthy

Re: linker3000@Googlemail.com

It's quite clear: 'Seagate does not maintain any information on device failure rates or failure rates that may exist due to the above related bulletin."

They track the failure rates (as a matter of course, as above) but they have no metrics relating to the Atom Failure, probably because Intel is using an NDA clause to make them feed the metrics to the shredder.

As has been said, this will hurt Intel; but it will severely impact the vendors' relationships with their clients/customers. Intel is more than willing for the vendors to take the brunt of the wrath.

I stand corrected

I had not caught up on the acquittal of aspartame. Thanks for letting me know.

Re: "which was supposedly a lot thicker"

Liquid water is not always entirely water.

I seem to recall that water heavily doped with perchlorates can remain liquid(-ish) even in martian-type environments, and a fair bit of perchlorate-type chemistry had been discovered on Mars.

I find myself wondering if there could have been some Chlorine-based gasses that could act as a warming blanket.

We could try to craft a word for that

There is the Moderatrix's beloved "ODFO", but that is perhaps a bit broad to use as the single word for the above sentiment.

Mayhap we could start with "LMGTFY", adding vowels and dropping contestants where necessary. It becomes "Lem-get-fy" which is perhaps a bit too heavy a word, "LEMgiffy" could work. EG: "That post was a lemgiffy; next time do some research and post facts"

Re: Look on the bright side

And they might actually work.

(Once you re-solder all of the joints, at least)

Re: Cause and Effect reversed

Vicious Cycle:

10 bad coding

20 goto 30

30 unhappy coders

40 goto 10

Retrophrenology? Seems to work - if you can avoid the GBH charges....

Re: Maybe they will get serious...

Call me cynical, but I dont expect anything to happen until a Russian government agency gets infected...

Re: The real black magic

Isn't that why it's called "re-booting" the machine?

Re: Numbers

I think you mean Keming.

Also: Obligitory XKCD

Re: The republican party is FAR more fascist

If WaPo is not up to your standard, how about Dictionary.com who define it thus:

(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

Re: Other theories are available

Yes, A Modest Proposal was satire. Now what, prey tell, do you think it was satirizing?

Re: "slash their funding"

Enjoyable, perhaps, for those watching from the outside. But spare a thought for those stuck inside the clown show, for whom the more appropriate adjective is "interesting" - as in times.

Icon: Also, spare a thought for those who are on the outside, but within the wind-drift areas for the fallout.

Re: Prudishness, or business?

Fair point. Thank you for pointing it out to me. I can only claim to have been duped by repeated exposure to the incorrect. I will do better next time.

At least it wasn't a lose/loose situation.

Re: When I first went online...

When was this semi-utopian time?! The no advertising I can believe, provided you were on ArpaNet, or maybe a University computer; but porn-free? I believe the second text file sent between users was an ASCII art nude. And as long as there has been gossip, rumors, or "What I did over the weekend" there has been "fake news".

Admitedly, The Eternal September has made all of the bullshit so much more, and so much worse. I also fear for the future of the human race.

Re: A new star in the sky (DAM)

I refer you to Alice's comment on The Jabberwock.

Re: With the name: "Catch"

I would have thought that "Pitch" would have been a better name choice. Because they're "pitching", and expect the users to be "catching".

Icon: How they see the users.

Re: You're not a hipster unless you're still mourning OS/2.

I do mourn OS/2 - But I am not a hipster: I hated what was cool long before it was popular.

Re: Lucy?

Lucy is going to Jupiter's Trojans. Psyche is going to the large metal asteroid (named Psyche 16). Two missions, one article.

The Trojans are made of the primordial stuff of the solar system, without much in the way of changing via pummeling, heating, irradiating, etc. Lucy is hoped to give us insight on the origins of the solar system, like Lucy the Preserved gave us great insight into the origins of modern humans. Lucy the Preserved was named after the Beatles' song, if I recall.

Psyche 16 is presumed to be the exposed core of a broken planet(-oid?) that may tell us a lot about the earth's core, which we can't get to owing to geology.

Re: Domain naming opportunity

Looking at the logo on the Zigbee site, it looks more like "12".

Re: What if they made it indoctrinate kids not to murder people

Upvoted - because Teddy told me to.

Re: consumer-focused digital candy bar phones

"Can we call the modern thin smartphones Diam Bar phones, please?"

I have had many comments from SWMBO about her "Diam phone!" ... or something that sounded like that...