88mph is all you need
That and a flux capacitor.
Posts by LaeMing
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Kia POPs out see-through OLED dash readout
ACS:Law's mocking of 4chan could cost it £500k
Baby Boomers committing suicide at unprecedented rates
Wednesday 29th September 2010 08:25 GMT
I have every intention of choosing my own time
though I am not expecting to need to do so for quite a number of decades yet.
Compared to described above, being dead - which I am pretty sure feels just like not-having-been-born-yet (and I spent an awrful long time not noticing being in that state) is preferable!
Christian group declares jct 9 on M25 cursed
Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'
Keene USB FM Transmitter
CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones'
Samoan clerics finger homosexuals over global warming
Steve Jobs in iPhone bitchslap to creationists, Tea Party
Wednesday 22nd September 2010 00:09 GMT
they did
the "monkeys" we evolved from are not the monkeys you see in the zoo today. Common mis-understanding going all the way back to deliberate mis-quotation of darwin by creationists: he never claimed we evolved from monkeys, but that we and other apes evolved from a common ancestor. But claiming the "from monkeys" line is better propaganda, as any political manipulator could tell you.
Indiana judges dismiss girl's nipple exposure appeal
Police issue lettuce e-fit
Prosecutor won't resign over lewd texts to 'hot' crime victim
Bill would let feds block pirate websites worldwide
Steve Jobs chops student hack down to size
Intel Sandy Bridge many-core secret sauce
Naturist club objects to erection of five storey tower block
Tuesday 14th September 2010 00:31 GMT 
Like Lucas Heights, Australia.
Many decades ego, they built a medical-grade nuclear facility out in the bush away from Sydney. Then people built houses around it. And now you should hear them whining long and hard about how horrible it is to have a nuclear facility on their doorsteps.
I can guarentee the same will happen here.
Two-lane BRIDGE FOUND ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!
Google's Schmidt satirised as privacy pervert
Monday 6th September 2010 07:43 GMT 
Don't track me man!
All in favour of raising public awareness of the implications of all this tracking. Raising it to the point that it is enonomically unfeasable for browsers to not offer easy tools to block it and sites to not be able to refuse access without it.
But I honestly can't see how legislation or a list to track who doesn't want to be tracked can really help here.
Oz school in homosexual kookaburra rumpus
Monday 6th September 2010 07:42 GMT 
Learning to grow up a bit
is sorta what school is about. Plenty of words have a second ROFG-inducing meaning. It is the nature of human behaviour: we are sexualy oriented and highly social beings and like to talk a lot and talk about sex rather a lot.
It is a bit like when kids discover that dictionaries have 'rude' words in them:
"Miss, this dictionary has rude words." (said expecting some shocked reaction)
"Does it tell you what they mean and how to use them correctly?"
"Um... yes?"
"Well, that is what dictionaries are for."
I have more than once heard a kid use an obscenity in the playground and had to send them to the classroom to look up why their usage is ludicrously wrong! (Formal education - taking the fun out of childhood for millenia) :-P
Energy-saving LEDs 'will not save energy', say boffins
Thursday 26th August 2010 00:06 GMT
Don't forget the rest of the world!
In the "developed" world we may be near needs saturation regarding lighting, but there are still huge swathes of the populace who are nowhere near our levels of luxury, but determined to get there (and I certainly won't fault them for that, though will fault us for setting the bar so high to start with). If we can accomodate all these extra people coming in and just break even, we will be doing prety damed good.
ARM chips put on their server boots
Wednesday 25th August 2010 09:31 GMT 
Gak
Didn't we finally get all that address-obstuficating-workaround-hack clutter *out* of the x86 arch? I'd prefer something very ARM-like but with a re-structured instruction set around a 48-bit flat address space. Or an x86-64 with all legacy instruction/addressing modes stripped might be interesting.
Acer Liquid E Android smartphone
Prudish Google slammed for Aussie censorship
Intel snaps up McAfee in $7.68bn deal
Friday 20th August 2010 11:03 GMT
Very very lucky
"Intel struck very very very lucky when Windows and x86 (and MS top guys and Intel top guys) hit it off so well together."
Very very lucky considering the IBM engineers that designed the "PC" wanted to use the far superior 68000 but were over-ridden by management because the electric typewriter division already had a re-usable licence for 8086.
Cops cuff armed white supremacist in banana costume
America's top model fights off 'pervert' at Star Wars convention
Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies'
Tuesday 17th August 2010 23:30 GMT
Good idea
You could even let the sites you do want cookies from (for ,say, viewing prefs) set their cookies before locking down the folder. Or just manually unlock it breifly on the rare occasions you feel the site will give value to you from setting a cookie.
While I largely ignore flash, I have web-cookie approval set to manual and never cease to be amazed by how many sites want to set a cookie despite there being absolutely nothing user-preference related on them.
Free Android antivirus clocks up 2.5m downloads
Firefox 4 hits third beta stage, gets touchy-feely with Windows 7
Friday 13th August 2010 07:24 GMT
They have to do nothing of the sort
Unless they are being paid to work on a particular feature (and some OSS devs are, but many many more aren't) they don't have to do any damned thing they don't feel like. You are neither the boss of them OR their customer. Unless you are paying for a feature/fix, you are a hanger-on who they are happy to have along for the ride because the seats are going spare.
iTunes disses doctorates
Tuesday 10th August 2010 11:57 GMT
Occupational titles
I (where possible) use the title Tn. (for technician). Except when I am in a Teaching role (I have formal qualifications for both) when I insist on Tr. When I am not operating in any qualified role I eschew a title.
It is rather fun responding to women colleagues who go on as if it is really edgy and modern using Ms. to remove their marital status from their title (admittedly a good thing as far as it goes) by responding that you have abandoned the entire gender designation! I'm never one to do things by half measures. :-D
Biting the hand that feeds IT
