Posts by Woza

Re: While, um, ...

A new leech field? You are Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart and I claim my $5.

Re: Easy to get to the office

No Cummings? No goings.

Re: Name?

When you trip over because the AR has obscured the pavement in front of you: iFell.

Re: Elon Musk Is An Ass

I think a smack with a fish would be a better option!

Are you sure that's not a Daddy?

Re: $9bn ?

"It could even lead to cats and dogs living together! oh the humanity."

Humanity is the only reason cats and dogs live together in the first place!

Re: Whole world gone to shit

Unfortunately sandpaper is in short supply, our cricket team has been panic buying.

Re: Peter Sellers Lives!

Do you have a licaunce for that minkey server?!

Re: it would be like a car hitting a shopping cart

"What's the speed limit for a shopping cart?"

African or European?

Icon: the one with coconuts in the pockets.

Re: Footie result...

Could be White Court vampires.

(The coat with Dresden Files in the pocket - another bloke with a pre-mortem grave)

Re: "Of course we... totally know what a butler pantry is..."

Extra butlers... aeeves, beeves, ceeves, deeves, eeves, feeves, geeves?

(Apologies to Eddie Izzard)

Re: Just when you think UK politics can't get any weirder or messier.

MRLP are all very well, but inquiring minds want to know: what about the Standing-At-The-Back-Dressed-Stupidly-And-Looking-Stupid Party?

(Icon: Closest I could find to Blackadder III)

Re: Gyms

It could be exercise, depends on how high you raise your hogs, and for how many reps!

Re: 'Outside the bubble' issues maybe?

I don't think the "lifelong Googler" applies in this case - from the article:

"In February 2019, a candidate [for the VP job] was chosen after just six months working for Google..."

Version 5: Perl

Version 6: Perm (language with a hairdo)

Version 7: Pern (with ready-made dragon logo)

Version 8: Pero (shiny fake blonde language)

Version 9: Perp ( language used to commit crimes*)

Etc

*Auto-correct wanted this to be "Congress"...)

Re: There is now a literal waitlist to join

US spelling - do they take the u out of waiting list?

Unfortunately not :(

Re: Security vs Out-Of-Order

Note: most of the recent security issues recently (Spectre, et al) are down to _speculative execution_, which is different to out-of-order execution. In OoO, the processor is free to re-order instructions which do not share a data dependency. If it needs to compute x = a + b and y = c + d, then it can do either one first. So if c and d are in registers, say, while b needs to wait for the result of a previous computation, the cpu can compute y first and x later, even if the code provided by the compiler has x first, then y.

For speculative execution, the cpu will execute instructions which may or may not actually be required. If the code it's running contains something like 'q = p * r; if ( q < 17 ){ w = *k + 2}' then speculative execution allows the cpu to guess that q will be less than 17 and push on with computing w. It might do this if the calculation of 'q' is taking a long time - perhaps 'r' is the result of a previous computation, or 'p' needs to be loaded from RAM (rather than cache). If, when 'q' is known, it turns out to be 19, then the computation results for w are thrown away. Part of the whole meltdown problem was that the memory access *k by the speculative execution logic was done without appropriate permissions checks, and even though the result of the access was not visible to the program, side-channels (like timing or cache population) _were_ visible and able to be exploited.

At least, that's how I remember it, but it's been years since I've studied computer architecture stuff.

Re: "Well, I keep my phone in my front pocket. And yes......"

So Trump is actually Maxwell Smart?

Re: But... But... But...

To complement the shin guards, how about a rule that says every trolley must be attached to the responsible adult with a 1m bungee cord. That would ensure the consequences end up where they belong!

Re: So nobody spotted it?

Sounds like a simple fix - we just need to improve the people using it, and the phone will work perfectly!

Either that, or this a cunning way for Samsung to create a market for an add-on device which does the folding (perfectly) for you.

(Perhaps I should patent that idea before Apple gets around to it - the iFolder).

Re: At first glance, the $1,980 phone...

Apple: Let's price the iPhone X at $999

Samsung to Apple: Hold my beer...

Re: Mountains.

Given the location, perhaps an inverted saying: making a canyon out of a pothole.

Re: Waste of a good pi.

2lb lump hammer? That explains why it was down in the garbage bin in 3,000 separate pieces.

No accident, just 1st degree toastercide.