Posts by Someone Else

@ AC -- Re: Were the Met Police so 'highly accurate and well-informed' in the past?

From the song:

Business as usual in Police Room 619

Re: more than ignorance

That's not ignorance - that's something that someone at the very least should have lost their jobs over they learned from the folks in St. Petersburg.

There. FTFY. (Although you were not wrong in your initial posting.)

Re: Sigh.

I actually did see a State Trooper pull over a git who couldn't make the minimum of 40MPH in the inside lane on one of our glorious Chicago-area "express"-ways. The downside was that he also pulled me over for "illegal signalling"¹, as I was furiously flashing my hi-beans at said git, trying to get the dim-bulb to move the eff over.... <deep breath....> I managed to escape with just a warning.

_{¹You know, like they do in civilized countries in Europe to politely nudge someone who is going too slowly over to an outer lane...}

Re: Sigh.

I'm yet to encounter a road without hazards.

Including other drivers...

Re: Clueless he is.

I suspect senility.

Consider Adderall addiction (the pResident's drug of choice). Or perhaps, senility brought on by years of Adderall abuse.

Re: Let's hope West Midlands Police learns something useful

I started out doing machine code and assembly (it simply doesn't get lower level than that) [...]

Well, there's always micro-coding bit-slices....

Re: Aliens? Or something more prosaic? We're hoping for aliens

Don't think I've ever seen a Playmobil alien. Pictures, or it nev... oh, wait........

Re: 3/4 OT, or my brief encounter with chrome

Grand total: 3 days wasted spent, but pristine hard drive(s)

Re: Ad flinger makes browser, ad flinger needs to track you

[...] (b) make the law makers wake up and stomp on them.

Well, there is Liz Warren...

_{/me ducks and runs for cover....}

Here in the Chicago area, t_times are hard to come by when the courses are covered with snow....

Re: Can someone...

Perhaps a more relevant question is to ask why did Linux adopt the Unix convention and epoch start date..

Another perhaps more relevant question might be, why did Linux go with a signed number of seconds since "the beginning of the epoch"? (As noted in the article, this only pushes out the problem for somewhat less than a century, but what possible use is "negative time", anyway -- to the best of my knowledge, using a negative time_t to represent times earlier than the beginning of the epoch is not supported.)

Re: Can someone...

It will finally have a problem at 2:48:05.47am on July 31st 31086, and although it would be nice to think there might be a VAX still running then I think it's unlikely.

Oh, I dunno. There may be one stashed away in a museum somewhere, that knows how to create 120V/240V 50-60Hz AC power (what ever the heck that was...). If such a thing exists, that VAX will run.

Re: I can...

OK. But will they be "perfectly usable" on or after 2038?

@naive -- Re: Targeted ads are great and we need them to keep the internet great

Can tell if you're trolling or not, but your handle seems to fit nicely.

Re: They do work, as much as it pains me to admit it

[...] something of interest is being put in front of you, with zero effort from you having to find the information.

It that something is really "of interest", I would be actively seeking it out. If that "something of interest" were to be a good or service I was actively interested in, I'd be actively seeking it out, credit card in hand. Since neither of these are the case when some ad-slinger is spontaneously popping up photon pollution on my screen, that garbage is not, by definition, "something of interest. So bugger off!

Re: Why it's absolutely necessary...targeted to individuals?

The advertisers like it because they believe that this will mean only those who might be interested in buying a product or service will see an ad.

What that means, in the current state of maturity in the "industry", is that those that have already bought that product (or one effectively identical to it) will see that ad.

How well does that work?

Re: Oh-comma-goodie!

And then there's this:

"At EA our game developers are used to a Windows environment for development so we thought that forcing them to develop in a Linux environment directly would be a difficult ask, [...]

Yeah, I can see that; having to ask a team of hopelessly brain-addled, MS Kool-Aid drinking devs to actually learn the language they purport to be "experts" in might just be too much to ask....

@ Beridhren -- Re: Trump is great for Europe

I remember when Hillary said that Trump supporters were a basket of deplorables, as if no liberals were deplorable, [...]

This is the sort of false whataboutism that makes all you autocrat lickspittles sound so bloody stupid (and also confirms the original assertion in your post.

Maybe consider a different handle....

@LDS -- Re: He's threatening Italy as well

[...] and stop to buy US "goods" like the F-35.

Pray tell, what is "good" about an F-35?