Posts by Rich 11

Re: @Rob. D.Whats the issue?

this may actually be something negative about Brexit [and actually real]

I really don't think you've been paying attention.

Re: Are you sure they were servers?

Most servers have (at least) two power supplies

I'm going to guess that you were still in primary school back in 1992. Except for minicomputers I can't remember any standalone servers having more than one power socket, which is one of the reasons we switched to fully rack-mounted kit 15 years ago.

Re: what is wrong

But how to act on that belief... so far my favourite thing to do is called "hesitate"

Mine is called "procrastinate", simply because it takes longer to type.

Re: The Missing 5

Another triumph for the navigation system.

It wasn't the nav system's fault, not at all. The poor machines fell victim to the Barmouth Triangle, and are lost now to time and space.

I suppose there's a chance they'll be returned when the UFOs make contact, landing as scheduled at Aberystwyth Golf Club.

Re: Sly Zuckerfucker- What's been done about this???

Let's see Donald put that one to the test.

Re: Even in the extremely unlikely event that fully autonomous vehicles ever become viable

I'll still be walking. And watching my back.

Re: What we need to do to counter this threat is .......

Now where is my one time pad?

You left it in the pub. Again.

Re: Socialized Medicine

It's not anything particular to healthcare. The root problem is the willingness of a subset of politicians (usually those sufficiently ruthless and mendacious enough to have climbed the greasy pole) to abandon principle in favour of what they prefer to think of as pragmatism. You can find examples throughout history: the one which initially comes to mind for me is the way servicemen were deliberately exposed to above-ground nuclear tests in Australia in the 1950s.

Re: "On a more serious note, on a dos fs once you exceed 512 files in the root directory,

But surely that has been fixed in Windows 7/8/10 already?

Let me just test that.

(If you don't see a second comment from me here, you'll know it's not been fixed.)

Re: @.stu

fewer of them will be shared

Well, yes, in the purely physical sense...

Re: How does one get a slice of this pie?

Is there a secret club that one must be a member of, which allows access to this trough of cash that all these incompetent outsourced companies have their noses in?

Yes, a very secret -- absolutely Top Secret -- club: donors to a political party. Bunging money at the Tories usually pays off very well, but on occasion members have been known to hedge their bets by supporting their local Blairite. Promises of lucrative directorships being awarded to senior party members are also known to help.

Many members of this secret club bemoan the fact that donorship in the UK doesn't pay off half as well as donorship in the US. Some are working to change that.

Re: Round 1

and they are starting to fire up their old MySpace profiles

That will cheer up Rupert Murdoch no end.

Re: shortform/acronyms

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN

Re: Syria

Breaking News

Asda has withdrawn all Damascus Beef products from their shelves as a precaution.

Re: EU's metrification?

Two parrots sat on a perch.

An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walk into a bar.

"Ouch!," they say.

Re: On the flip side

If we ever encountered a solar mass or smaller black hole, we wouldn't know much about it

If a solar mass black hole drifted into our solar system we would know about it very quickly, because the planets would take up new orbits dependent upon its location and line of motion. All the probes out there would stop pointing their antennae at Earth since they would no longer be able to calculate correctly where Earth was.

The less massive the black hole the less likely it is that we'd find out about it before it came close enough to harm us. There could be a black hole of a hundred tonnes mass in the Earth's core right now, for all we know, but even then we'd probably be able to detect it if its orbit around the Earth's centre of mass was as much as a hundred kilometres or so.

Well, Budweiser is brewed from rice. Then again, Budweiser isn't beer.

Re: Sauce for the goose?.

Why would we want to inflict that on our tourist industries? Better to stick to the moral high ground, sit back, point and laugh.

Re: Irony

Irony is Trump making claims that others are not paying their fair share of income tax while he uses the excuse that his own taxes are still being audited by the IRS* as the lame reason for not releasing his income taxes.

It isn't irony, it's hypocrisy. Trump isn't sufficiently self-aware to know this, or he just doesn't care because he knows his target audience will cheer him to the rafters even when he states six contradictory things before breakfast.

Re: If history is any guide..

Or it needs someone asked to unlock their phone to say, "Have you got a search warrant? No? Then I decline" and for it to go through the courts to make case law.

Re: More "world class" IT

You don't get to compete unless you are top-class..

Or at the very least have access to the right drugs.

Re: WE HAVE CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS!

One of them looks to be drifting off into the Irish Sea.

Re: Huh?

Yeah. This was the giveaway:

subscribe to receive a batch of four cartridges a month

That's the first weekend of each month dealt with. What about the rest of the month?

Re: It was better before!

I'm amazed of the deep knowledge of French culture Mr. Dabbs has.

He always knew that hanging on to those French letters would serve him well.

@ledswinger

gobbled in the office

These days you can get arrested for doing that at work.

Re: given unrealistic expectations of the act

Unfortunately I can confirm that category d) doesn't work just by itself.

The vast majority of it viral particles.

Re: That's all we need

And driven by a bloke named Gene.

Re: @Tim Brown 1 - Microsoft points gun at own foot and pulls the trigger.

They've just moving on from the phalanges to the metatarsals.

Re: Glamping?

Our best effort was 'pabell posh' (Lit. posh tent). Anyone know what it is in German?

A better designed and engineered tent, I expect.