Re: Ringtones are cringworthy
The (now-ex) SWMBO gets "Sounds of Madness" by Shinedown.
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Silent running: Computer sounds are so '90s
Friday 19th October 2018 15:31 GMT 
Re: Unlike the French system of law...
It's not strictly correct. The French legal system, like the German, Dutch and other former colonies of these lands, operates a Civil Law system rather than the UK which operates under Common Law. I think the "misunderstanding" comes from a joke about the difference which goes, IIRC, "In England, practices which are not forbidden are permitted. In Germany, practices which are not permitted are forbidden, and in France, that which is forbidden is often practised."
Something like that anyway. But the idea is that under Civil Law there's a lot of prescriptive obligation in contractual law which forms an unwritten part of any contract. Under Common Law, if it's not in the contract, then it's not an obligation. The two systems have more or less converged now, but the practices associated with implementation of these two principles continue today, with Common Law countries generally operating an adversarial system where representatives of both sides argue their side before a knowledge judge who applies an existing body of law to find an outcome, whilst Civil Law countries operate an inquisitorial system, where the knowledgable judge asks the participants questions designed to elucidate their compliance with the existing body of law.
Friday 19th October 2018 15:15 GMT
Re: I still get wound up...
Am I the only one here who understands the definition of TRESPASS in this context to be "entering another person's land or property without permission"?
If you have permission, then you cannot be trespassing by definition. There is no condition which exists as the opposite, you can't wave to someone from the window and say "It's all right, you can trespass in the garden."
And this is why the sign annoys me. And why I'm getting wound up by this thread now! I wish I'd never shared that.
Friday 19th October 2018 12:06 GMT
Re: PC noises
People here tend to lock their mobiles in the metal lockers whilst working in the lab. They inevitably get a call which somehow gets through the metal of the locker (still not sure how that happens) and causes their phones to vibrate violently against the thin sheetmetal panel work, amplifying the buzz to a level akin to that of a swarm of angry spitfire-flying hornets invading a megaphone testing factory
Friday 19th October 2018 11:38 GMT
Re: I still get wound up...
Whilst you are correct in saying that, you still cannot trespass with permission, civil matter or not. It's logically not possible.
"Do you have permission to trespass on this land?" See? It's one of those questions where the English "Yes/No" response is severely lacking. The Japanese have a response though, Mu!
Mind you, answering a question like that in a manner that sounds like you are pretending to be a cow is likely to get you shot.
Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale
Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID
300,000 BT pensioners await Court of Appeal pension scheme ruling
Does Google make hardware just so nobody buys it?
Huge ice blades on Jupiter’s Europa will make it a right pain in the ASCII to land on
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea
Wednesday 10th October 2018 14:51 GMT
Re: Sprouts
There are two basic mutations regarding the asparagus piss smell. Type A is a mutation in the enzyme that breaks down the protein into the smelly, excretable molecules that end up in piss. Type B is a mutation in the smell receptor that reacts to the smelly molecules in the piss.
Type A mutants are not a problem. Type B, however, simply insist that their piss doesn't smell bad despite that fact that over half the population are retching at the foul stench of their micturate.
Hate to burst your Hubble: Science stops as boffins scramble to diagnose gyro problem
Indiegogo pulls handheld airport pervscanners off crowdfunding platform
The secret history of Apple's Stacks
Saturday 6th October 2018 08:17 GMT
There's one very good reason for keeping a clear desktop...
And that's simply the number of times that "always needing to be ready to come to the foreground" display redraws and recaches itself. Sucks CPU cycles away trying to achieve a pseudo-responsiveness. Leave the files in a folder that only goes through the whole thumbnail cache refresh business when you open the folder.
Size does matter, chaps: Oversized todgers an evolutionary handicap
Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff
Thursday 4th October 2018 10:46 GMT
Some under the hood changes...
have gone on too, I think. I had a serious problem with a MacBookPro that shipped with Sierra. After I installed Silverlight (Virgin Media's streamed "To Go" service needed it and I wanted to watch something when I was away from home, otherwise I'd never touch it with a bargepole), it suddenly started going into panic restart mode and a roast-your-fingers overheat every 5 minutes. It was running the APFS and had File Vault turned on. Whatever the problem was, restoring the OS didn't solve it, nor did going to High Sierra, nor creating a new user, nor wiping the disk completely and restoring because as soon as I reconnected it to my iTunes account it f***ed up again within an hour. Took me 3 months and two trips to the service centre who couldn't do anything with it. File Vault and APFS made it a nightmare to work with - more than half of my toolkit didn't work with those on it. Anyway, the Mojave beta fixed it instantly; it's happy as Larry and runs much cooler.
Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme
New Zealand border cops warn travelers that without handing over electronic passwords 'You shall not pass!'
Boffin: Dump hardware number generators for encryption and instead look within
Fortnite 'fesses up: New female character's jiggly bits 'unintended' and 'embarrassing'
NASA to celebrate 55th anniversary of first Moon landing by, er, deciding how to land humans on the Moon again
That scary old system with 'do not touch' on it? Your boss very much wants you to touch it. Now what do you do?
Thursday 27th September 2018 12:49 GMT
Re: Put it all together...
I think they got bad press... they gave us Hydragas suspension (yay!) and the Quartic wheel (boo!), and they had a reasonable 1.7L engine.
I mean, it couldn't have been that bad... they went on for three whole series.
Mind you... so did Derek.
Yeah... scratch that idea.
Awful car.
US JEDI military cloud network is so high-tech, bidders will have to submit their proposals by hand, on DVD
Thursday 27th September 2018 11:52 GMT
Re: So... how is this old fashioned? @Christian Berger
And, indeed, a suitable high security flight case used to protect the DVDs and handwritten manuscript submission can also port a sizeable bribe in used dollar denomination bills. Can't be leaving a digital footprint for those bribes, no-siree.
Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)
You're alone in a room with the Windows 10 out-of-the-box apps. What do you do?
UKIP flogs latex love gloves: Because Brexit means Brexit
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