Well, Starbucks' "coffee" is about 60% kool-aid....
Posts by Swarthy
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Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge
Irish Olympics' officials digital devices seized in Rio
My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back
Password strength meters promote piss-poor paswords
US Patent Office sued after it declared a power outage a 'national holiday'
Friday 19th August 2016 12:23 GMT 
Lemme see if I read this right
The patent troll filed a suit against three chip makers, the chip makers filed a Patent Review Request (on the last available day, sure). If the power had not gone out, the IPR would have been received in time. With the power out, it would not have been. So the PTO extends deadlines for filings to make up for the outage.
If they did not grant the extension, would the chip makers be suing the PTO for stuffing up their end of the patent suit via power outage?
Physicists believe they may have found fifth force of nature
Microsoft has open-sourced PowerShell for Linux, Macs. Repeat, Microsoft has open-sourced PowerShell
Viscous liquid oozing down the walls? You must have hives
Ancient radioactive tree rings could rip up the history books
Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell
More gums than Jaws: Greenland super-sharks live past 400 years old
Boffins' blur-busting face recognition can ID you with one bad photo
Microbes that laugh at antibiotics: UK sinks £4.5m into China-Brit kill team
Nobody expects... a surprise haemorrhoid operation
Toshiba flashes 100TB QLC flash drive, may go on sale within months. Really
Wednesday 10th August 2016 20:26 GMT
Re: "Quad Level Cell (QLC)"
Single-, Multi-, Three-, and now Quad-level Cell. I seriously doubt they will name the next one Quint. From the preceding chain, I can discern no consistent naming convention, so I would guess the name will be something "logical" like Quad Plus One Level Cell (Q+1LC). Or they may do a repeat and have "Five Level Cell (FLC)" and do the +1 bit on the six-banger, as otherwise it will have a collision with Single Level Cell.
Hilton hotels' email so much like phishing it fooled its own techies
Hitler ‘ransomware’ offers to sell you back access to your files – but just deletes them
#Censusfail Australia: Not an attack, data safe, no heads to roll
Thermostat ransomware
Your 'intimate personal massager' – cough – is spying on you
'Nigerian scammer' busted after he infected himself with malware
Monday 8th August 2016 14:53 GMT
Re: why are they not being treated as accessories?
Full analysis takes time, and you also need many "runs" so that you can trace the paths.
If they had blown the whistle PDQ, they could have gotten a fraction of the people running the scam, by letting it run for 2-3 months (and presumably logging the transactions, frauds, and scams) they nabbed the whole "company" and have records that could cause the victims to claim restitution.
Also, if watching, investigating, and gather evidence counted as accessory, then every LEO ever would also be guilty.
Very peed off: Ohio urologists stay zipped after embarrassing leak
California to put all your power-hungry PCs on a low carb(on) diet
Friday 5th August 2016 11:11 GMT
Re: Print something and get on with something else
Ah, but that becomes infeasible when you have a "Print & Hold" where you send the job and provide a PIN, then it won't start printing until you enter the PIN at the printer so that "sensitive documents" don't get left sitting on the printer while you are getting on with something else.
Also known as enforced wanking about.
Don't want to vote for Clinton or Trump? How about this woman who says Wi-Fi melts kids' brains?
Wednesday 3rd August 2016 15:45 GMT
Re: She's not wrong (a quick question)
I went Veg for a bout a year in my youth. I did not do it well; and did not get anywhere near the amount of protein needed for continued health. I learned that a lack of protein, say from living on microwaved potatoes for years, can seriously impact brain function. I quit being a vegetarian when an acquaintance asked why I had gone veggie, and I had no answer. I could not remember why I had made the decision to cut out all meat. I knew it was a big enough reason to justify a major life-style change, but I had no idea what it was.
So it is very possible that your house mate could not remember how long to nuke a potato, due to poor nutrition.
Samsung eyeballs new Note
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 20:06 GMT
Re: Fixed battery - disaster
I was looking to replace a Note 4, which has gotten waterlogged a few times (rice + time + battery removal = it's not dead yet) and sometimes acts weird. I liked the idea of the waterproofing on the 7, but the fixed battery means that it would be good for no more than 2 years, more likely a year and a half - even without spills.
I guess I'll just keep the rice handy.
'The box' Bones uses to fix any ailment on the Enterprise? Yup, it's real
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 15:41 GMT
Re: Pre-made vs the box
The difference is that yeast freezes well; Some drugs - not so much.
Rather than keeping, say, an anti-malarial around for a few years and having to toss it when it passes it's expiry date, you keep the yeast-beasties frozen/desiccated and they don't expire. just add water and chemical triggers, and you have fresh anti-malarial drugs. Also, shipping a gram of yest is a lot cheaper than shipping in 100Kg of serum.
It's time for a discussion about malvertising
All roads lead to Rome as Irish seminary gripped by Grindr scandal
Pokémon Go tragedy strikes
Juno turns around and heads off to graze Jupiter's clouds
What's ordered in Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas? $6.7m of printer ink 'stolen by office worker'
Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?
Monday 1st August 2016 16:45 GMT
Re: An upvote for...
Another upvote for Masala Chai. Although...
I did have "tea" that was even more of an abomination than anything on these hallowed pages. A tea that was so wrongfully prepared that it has scarred me for life - Spiced "Dirty" Chai using a jasmine tea as the base. Imagine the flavors of ginger, clove and cinnamon blended beautifully with a well-pulled espresso, and clashing brutally with a cloying, over-perfumed, sickly floral jasmine tea.
The return of (drone) robot wars: Beware of low-flying freezers
Zero-day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site
Did Donald Trump really just ask Russia to hack the US govt? Yes, he did
Thursday 28th July 2016 11:49 GMT
Re: I don't care ...
Let's just say she is the least worst option available.
Unless you research beyond the low-hanging fruit of"everyone knows". There are other options, including another option that is on the ballot of all 50 states. And the Libertarians, with all of their flaws, are much less bad than Kang and Kodos.
Thursday 28th July 2016 11:38 GMT
@ Joe User
Or you could join the growing minority of voters and "Throw your vote away" on a third party candidate.
I mean - Fuck! - Cthulhu would be a lesser evil than the two muppets that we are told are the only two options. This, in a country with over a dozen different varieties of corn flakes - and we only get two presidential candidates?!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
