Posts by John Brown (no body)

Re: Sunlit side?

On the other hand, he may simply be referring to any part which gets sunlight because previously it was theorised that if there was water on the Moon it could only exist in places in permanent shade. The sunny parts is one "side" at a time, although of course what is the sunlit "side" is constantly move around the entire circumference.

Re: Sunlit side?

"There is no Dark Side."

Pink Floyd would like a word with you :-)

Re: Malware scanners...

And all was absolutely and correctly blamed on the AV suppliers. If you want to be in the business of AV, you CANNOT afford false positives in any part of the automated removal process. You MUST make the quarantining or removal something the user has to decide on if your automated system isn't 100% correct.

Re: jerry rig

I've seen jerri rig, jerry rig and jury rig, but never dury rig.

It seems to originate from the days of sail and has nothing to do with the Daily Heil or nazism, which it seems you are implying.

Re: Freedom of thought and freedom of speech...

"In any event, YouTube needs to list the licence terms associated with videos because you can upload under Creative Commons. With their help it would be trivial to add a licence check by default to make the RIAA piss right off."

And from the article "YouTube Standard license, which expressly restricts access to copyrighted works only for streaming on YouTube"

I don't recall ever seeing a clear and obvious link to any licencing terms on YT videos, either on YT itself and most certainly not on YT vids embedded on other site such this fine site.

In my case, it works as advertised, no idea why it doesn't for you. But yes, the underlying Goole/Apple API generates the warnings but at different trigger points to what the NHS has set, hence the sending of the relevant data to the NHS servers and response back to the phone indicating an actual exposure risk. The problem seems to be the inability of the "wrapper" app to suppress the API notices. Clearly the fix was too hard for the devs, so they changed the server app to send out a message telling us to ignore the first message.

"Compared to those, computers are straightforward."

Clearly you have never met the misbehaving computer that works perfectly when the expensive to call out nasty man with the screw driver and hammer turns up.

I had a college many years ago who's PC died and he got a new one and was soooo proud of the fact that it was one of those new fangled Pentium thingies that he used the flying text screensaver to brag to everyone within sight. The text was simple enough, "Pentium 60!!!".

Shortly after getting this new behemoth, he took a day off. He came back to a room full of displays, except his, showing "Pentium 75!!!" and was told he wasn't getting a new PC because his had only recently been replaced. There was two whole days of sulking before he found out the awful truth that screensavers can lie :-)

Re: Suicide rates and gun ownership

I wonder if ammunition rather than gun control might be palatable?

Maybe the powder charge could be restricted to 1% of current levels and the projectile part of the bullet might have materials restrictions, eg no lead, no metal, no rigid plastics allowed etc. Maybe form a new group to fight for this, the National Executive for Restricting Fun Guns, Or NERF Gun for short.

I'm sure the Russians could modify a Samovar. Or just wait for some Motie Watchmakers to come along and do it instead.

Re: Earl grey or english breakfast?

"Do you need a tea cosy in space?"

I haven't investigated,

Clearly you need to write that up as a proposal. You could try for the next tranche of ESA'nauts heading for the ISS, or if you can't afford to take a few months off work, try for a NASA "quickie" in SpaceShip2.

Re: Conspiracies you say?

Yes, keeping it free of contamination is pretty much the number one priority. Not because it might introduce an incurable plague to humanity (we already have one thanks, try next door!) but they need to make sure the sample is not contaminated by anything earthly which could ruin the science.

Re: El Reg becoming political now ?

"The MSM has simply become a propaganda machine for whoever pulls the strings."

Phrases like that tend to point you out as a Trump supporter. Or is Trumps constant badgering having an effect on you? Does this prove "advertising" works? Or is all just a Big Lie?

Re: El Reg becoming political now ?

"Just because an article points out stuff that you don't like doesn't mean the substance is untrue or biased."

Of course it is! That's the fundamental tenet of the cult of Trump. If you don't like it or disagree with it then it's fake news.

Re: Imagine the noise in here...

In some cases, I'd be shocked if they fixed it 17 years after it became a problem! (Yes, I'm cognisant of the open source bugs that lay hidden for decades in current software so not throwing stones hard enough to break glass)

Re: Alternate reality

Relatives in Canada complain about the deer getting into the garden. Apparently deer shit is not good for your roses.

Re: @Jake held accountable

"Biden legally lost the right to those emails when he forgot to pick up his laptop."

eh...what? So if I accidentality leave something somewhere, it's fair game to anyone who finds it? Dunnoi about in the USA, but here in the UK that would be theft. If it's not yours and you take it without permission with no intention to attempt to trace the owner and return it, no matter where you find it, that's theft. That includes leaving something at a repair shop.

Re: @Jake You miss the larger picture.

Twitter and Facebook just blocked a NY Post story which revealed allegations that Joe Biden knew about Hunter Biden's business and how he made money off his father's role as VP.

While I am not going to detail the story, or its veracity...

OMG!!!!! How are the NY Post [Times? which?] going to get that story out now? Surely there must be some sort of alternate news channel a newspaper could use instead being blocked by those dastardly multinational social media platforms!!!!

Re: Another billion vacuous Twitter sycophants

In living memory, at least here in the UK, you could post a letter, 1st class, and if it was addressed to the same town or at least handled by the same sorting office and before lunchtime, they'd receive it in the afternoon post, same day. Next day to the rest of the mainland UK except maybe some parts of the Highlands of Scotland.

Of course, now that people don't use the postal service so much it's been pared to the bone and is less of an alternative.

Re: I am disapoint

One (small) step at a time.

....onto a Lego brick. In bare feet!