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Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon
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Weight, what? The perfect kilogram is nearly in Planck's grasp
Boffin's easy remote hijack hack pops scores of router locks
A thousand mile Atom merci mission: Driving from Monaco to London in an open-topped motor
Monday 12th October 2015 11:30 GMT
Re: Not So Clever
I sometimes catch myself thinking about where all the 'wonder' of the world is disappearing to - and then I read these H&S arsehats and my questions are answered.
I'm all for not burning to death in a steel tube under the sea, but I'm pretty sure that self-preservation would have kicked in had there been any chance of fuel leaking from the system during the journey. I'm fairly sure people don't keep their engines running during the journey either do they?
Monday 12th October 2015 11:23 GMT
Re: The bloody flies (and other airborne thingies)
Amongst the weirdest things I ever got hit by on my bike was a square of polystyrene.
Was traveling on the M-Way behind a Range Rover, doing about 80mph. The RR went over this square (about 2cm thick) and it got sucked up into the vortex behind it. It was basically hovering at a constant height, spinning like mad as I just fixated on it in wonderment - until it hit me right in the forehead and nearly snapped my fucking neck that is.
F=ma - how my applied mathematics came rushing back to me on that day :)
Sore head icon ==>
Man goes to collect stolen-car court docs found in stolen car in stolen car
FBI boss: No encryption backdoor law (but give us backdoors anyway)
Saturday 10th October 2015 18:29 GMT
Sir
When there are reportedly 106,000 people in the US alone who die every year from legally prescribed drugs I think we can take our foot off the gas on this 'terrorist' thing for a while and focus on things that result in more loss of life than any terrorist action will ever create.
If they don't, then it's obvious to anyone (it should be) that preventing terrorism isn't their purpose with all this - the real question is why isn't anyone saying this to them in public? How the hell can they defend their 'boogeyman' defense when there are so many other things that are more important.
Besides, the simplest way to combat terrorism is not to bomb the shit out of these peoples' countries in the first place.
Playmobil cops broadside for 'racist' pirate slave
World's oldest person scoffs daily ration of bacon
4K catches fire with OTT streamers, while broadcasters burn
Thursday 8th October 2015 10:09 GMT
4k is tomorrows technology waiting for everything else to catch up to be able to use it properly.
Give it a few years though (maybe 5) and there will probably be nothing else. Personally I would like these tech companies to stop playing who's got the biggest willy competition and sort out their UI's which seem to have been created by inmates of a mental asylum in eastern europe before the fall of communism
Top telematics: Black box helps driver swerve speeding fine
Thursday 8th October 2015 09:09 GMT
Re: Cop Braked to Provoke Incident
" "overtaking on the left"
Is this still illegal in the UK today?"
I believe that if you are traveling on an inside lane when someone is going slowly in an outside lane and the road in front of you is clear then it isn't an undertake - you are simply making progress in your lane.
However, if you are behind the car in the outside lane, move to an inside lane to get past them and then return to the outside lane then that is in undertake.
Otherwise everyone stuck in a traffic jam would technically be undertaking when the inside lane starts to flow faster than the outer,
Safe harbour ruling: RELAX, Facebook and Google will be FINE!
Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse
Tuesday 6th October 2015 10:38 GMT
Re: @Sir Runcible Spoon (was: It's called "hospital humor")
I did volunteer, and it was probably fuckwitted of me too, but although both of my examples are abusive and 'ad homenem[sic]' I thought there was a difference.
[1] Aimed the abuse at the work the person was doing, it didn't call the other person names (although the bit about the dog grooming came close ;) )
[2] Clearly called the person names
I will admit to writing them quickly so may have blurred the lines a little bit, but I'm almost certain you were aware of the difference and just took the opportunity to try and put me down.
Well, it worked, I am off for a good cry and a hug followed by a large cup of hot chocolate. My day is ruined. I hope you feel happy now.
Tuesday 6th October 2015 09:20 GMT
Re: It's called "hospital humor"
There are two types of blowing off steam (abuse) here, see if you can spot the difference..
[1] "Fuck me, this code you wrote is a pile of shite. What were you doing when you wrote this, grooming your dog or something? Take this piece of crap, shove it up your arse and come back when you've done something useful we can use!"
[2]"You fucking tool, I can't think why I bothered to get a skinny-arsed fuckwit like you involved in writing code - a fucking monkey could code better than you. Get out of my sight you stupid twat and come back when you're not on the blob!"
Both are unpleasant, but I would see [1] as blowing off steam and [2] as personal abuse.
Tuesday 6th October 2015 09:13 GMT
Abusive Managers
I once suffered under an abusive manager - seemed to think that abusing his position of authority was effective at getting work done when all it actually achieved was raise the amount of perceived work done.
After one particularly vile diatribe in a meeting (not aimed at me personally but it seriously offended my fine, thin-skinned, sensibilities) I stopped the guy in mid flow and told him exactly what I thought of him using his own kind of language - things that I'd heard people say about him etc. - if anything it was probably worse than what he had been doing.
He was completely gob-smacked for about 10 seconds then just laughed. He never did it again to me or to anyone in my immediate vicinity, but he still did it.
Some people just like to provoke others because they see strength in different ways, and standing up to them shows you have strength (in their eyes) and this actually earns their respect in a twisted kind of way.
The hard part is responding in such a way as to avoid constant abuse, but not to devolve your own sense of self at the same time.
The bonus was that I earned a lot of respect from the other managers and ended up with the guys job in the end - it seems he went too far with the CEO one day because he couldn't help himself and got caught up with his own hype.
Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook 'n' pals' data slurp at risk
Tuesday 6th October 2015 09:33 GMT
Re: Am I the only one ...
IANAL, but I rather think this ruling, especially since these provisions were a stipulation of your contract, makes the contract null and void.
This is going to take a while to understand the scale of the impact here.
I'm guessing that a very fast re-negotiation will take place, and this move has strengthened the European position quite a bit.
Nuts in a vice.
US tries one last time to sway EU court on data-slurping deal
Woman makes app that lets people rate and review you, Yelp-style. Now SHE'S upset people are 'reviewing' her
FATTIES have most SUCCESS with opposite SEX! Have some pies and SCORE
Thursday 1st October 2015 13:17 GMT
Re: "And for our female readers"
"it tends to settle on the more interesting parts of ones anatomy."
So you like having big eyebags??
Oh..you were assuming we would all assume you meant your tits or something yes? :)
Personally speaking, my favourite 'bit' of my wife is that little curve between the shoulder and neck...nibbleicious!
Thursday 1st October 2015 09:13 GMT
Agreed, I read the info and immediately thought that the survey was measuring the inability to *keep* a partner (i.e. the more partners you have the less you are able to maintain a steady relationship).
This assumption also assumes some kind of moral strength (i.e. one partner at a time etc.) for generalisation purposes :)
FBI: We unmasked and collared child porn creep on Tor with spy tool
AF-FIR-MAT-IVE: Second suspension for robot-voice helldesker
Thursday 1st October 2015 09:19 GMT
I once left a 'Christmas' message on the support helpline just before signing off on Dec 24th - it didn't go down too well with the workaholics as the message was along the lines of "What are doing working on Christmas Eve, go home and spend time with your family".
My manager had to give me a telling off, but the effect was blunted since he was laughing so much...thems were the days :)
Marijuana from heaven: Bundle of blow bombs bow-wow's boudoir
Tuesday 29th September 2015 11:47 GMT
Re: Just think -
I'm pretty sure a coroner would enter a cause of death along the lines of impact trauma for the example I gave.
The point is that weed has never been a cause of death (unlike alcohol) - although you could argue that if you smoke weed (and also use tobacco) then lung cancer is a fair accusation to make, but that's only down to the delivery mechanism.
If you cook with dope, you won't get lung cancer - therefore dope cannot be a cause of death from lung cancer (once you remove the smoking element)
Tuesday 29th September 2015 09:45 GMT
Re: Just think -
By that rationale, nsld, anyone who drink drives and dies in a crash died of alcohol?
I really don't think it works that way. Just because your judgement is impaired to the point where you could die from doing something stupid, does not make the source of that impairment the cause of death.
A contributory factor, yes, but not the cause.
What if I didn't sleep well last night and felt a bit zombified on my drive to work this morning, crashed and died. Would you argue that I died from sleep deprivation?
NSA? Illegal spying? EU top lawyer is talking out of his Bot – US gov
Tuesday 29th September 2015 09:31 GMT
Re: Re - US law
The US is being deliberately disingenuous here, since Safe Harbour is about more than just safeguarding Joe Blogg's emails, it's also about commercially sensitive information.
Now, if the NSA came out with a statement to the effect that they never have , and never will, pass on any slurped data from European companies to their US competitors then that would be different.
Even if they did you'd have to run away fast - the speed of their nose stretching out to the horizon would probably break the light barrier, let alone the sound barrier.
Trust is like virginity - once it's gone - it's gone. Perhaps they should have listened to the security experts who have been warning them of this very consequence for the last 10-20 years. They thought they were 'all that', and it turns out they aren't. A harsh lesson in reality cometh their way methinks.
'We can handle politicos, OUR ISSUE IS JUDGES', shout GCHQ docs
Astroboffins snap BREATHTAKING, WISPY Veil Nebula supernova debris
KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever
WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg
BOFH: I'm not doing this for the benefit of your health, you know
Boffins make brain-to-brain direct communication breakthrough
Friday 25th September 2015 08:31 GMT
Re: ADHD?
Whilst I had the same reaction when the author lumped ADHD into this list I have to object to your 'modern-excuse' dismissal.
ADHD is a combination of 'traits' that impair a persons ability to function in a normal* manner. All of the traits that ADHD suffers have are suffered by everyone on the planet to one degree or another. The difference is that ADHD sufferers do not get them 'sometimes' - they get them *all* the time - there is no escape.
There are a number of traits that are measured. In the UK there are some guidelines on identifying them - 9 traits in each category of 'Inattentive' or 'Hyperactive/Impulsive' so 18 in total.
If you exhibit 6 or more traits on a constant basis from either category you have ADHD. So you can be ADHD- Primarily Inattentive, ADHD- Primarily Hyperactive/Impulsive or ADHD - Combined (if you score 6 or more in both categories).
I can absolutely guarantee that this is not a made up thing. I suffered for 42 years without a diagnosis, repeating the same mistakes and having the same problems seemingly being unable to learn from my 'mistakes'. I was called lazy (even though when I'm focussed I can work anyone under a table) and all sorts of other things which didn't do me a lot of good.
Once I was diagnosed a huge number of problems in my life suddenly became understandable, and all the coping mechanisms I developed became obvious and allowed me to take some control of my life back.
Once I started medication for it, whilst not a complete cure-all, it improved so many things in my life that I couldn't even begin to list them.
Whilst ADHD is not a completely known thing yet, the exact cause and diagnosis is still a 'work in progress' - but to say it doesn't exist is insulting to everyone who suffers from this shit on a daily basis.
For the record I scored 9/9 in both categories. The only reason I can function at all is because I have a respectable IQ and a stubborn streak a mile wide. Most people with severe ADHD end up in prison (I nearly ended up going down that path when I was younger, despite all my advantages).
TL;DR : It exists, stop commenting on something until you know a bit more about it.
*Ok, this is hard to explain exactly but I think you know what I mean
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