Posts by Teiwaz

The same sort of mess as when you suddenly think that you need to scratch your arse.

The Military will have to set up a laser that can scratch your arse from space just in case...

- early Family Guy joke

Re: 1984 !

You are confusing a consensus leave movement with a single consciousness.

It's been following the normal pattern for Revolutions quite closely. Most revolutions are invariably followed by civil wars, where the victorious side in the first conflict splinter and turn on eachother while the losing side in the first conflict remains unified in their opposition to the revolution.

Leave was a unifying objective, but it's adherents all had differing notions of what that meant.

No plan, no strategy, just lies on the sides of buses.

Re: Google to host videos ...

Why go for a smartphone at all then? Save a bunch of cash and get a Nokia 105.

It's getting harder to do that and not being living in a cave as a hermit who gathers his food in the forest every morning.

Governments and other services have long since switched from the mindset that the smartphone is a convenience alternative to mainstream channels to viewing it as a excellent excuse to cut those other channels down to nothing and now the phone is the only channel.

Re: Well the lesson is simple

@Christian Berger: “Don't run foreign code on your CPU, abolish Javascript and AppStores. Always keep code and data separate. Code is something you only want to run from your trusted sources (e.g. Distribution) while Data can be exchanged freely.”

The trouble is that most/all current apps rely in someway on running someone elses code/scripts on your computer.

And 'exchanging' your data freely (whether you want it shared or not, seemingly).

Re: Nothing new...

W2K than it does to the defaults.

i3wm - and it's not the predominant desktop styling that bothers me, it's their limitations in important areas and excesses of the irrelevant (from my perspective).

i3wm isn't perfect either, but it fits better than most and is less work that XMonad (or at least less likely to waste an entire day griped by the impulse to tweak).

Monocultures are bad, predominculture are OK, and GitHub was that - there were alternatives, but most were happy with the Hub.

Re: Fascinating stuff

Do you really believe that America managed to perpetrate such an elaborate hoax against the rest of the world, and keep it a secret to the present day?

Almost wish they were able.

Then there might be the possibility they were pulling another hoax, and they had in fact Not really voted a complete nincompoop to run their country....

Re: I am the law!

I was under the impression that there was a certain amount of Catholic/Protestant disagreement which added to all of the above, was I misinformed?

There's a certain amount of war by proxy.

You'll often find Palestinian and Israeli flags flying in 'frontline' Housing Estates.

If Mongoose flags were erected, Snake would probably follow in the other area.

Re: Golfs not popular round here

Strangling animals is an acceptable alternative hobby to 'the all time no. one' (apparently)

Summarised Proust is possibly more productive.

Soon, Age verification will be needed in order to hear the driver 'stoke the boiler'

Re: Embrace....Extend...Extinguish....Except.....

It seems the target for this is individuals who have to use Linux to do their jobs, possibly working on cross-platform development but are stuck with employers who absolutely insist on Windows and nothing but Windows.

There must be some strategy intended to get more paying clients on Azure rather than just helping poor ignored employees who'd benefit from a 'Linux base to do things while forced to use Windows. There's little benefit in catering to this segment merely to make things easier as the corporate windows hegemony is not in jeopardy over it

Re: Same for NI

or the incomprehensible Strabane one

That's a really old clip you know (1950's?), accents change. BBC were only broadcasting clipped 'Queens English' speakers and few even had a telly.

I grew up close to there, you'd only hear an accent as bad as that from some oule' feller who only came into town from his tiny farm up in the Sperrins once in a while.

Contact with the wider world outside softens all accents.

There is no generic N.I accent but all regional accents will share al lot of tonal commonalities, and some soup mixes will appeal to some ears while grate in others .

Re: 51st state

On the contrary dear boy, they have proven quite talented at talking out of their gravitas,

Nothing contrary about it. Their presumed 'gravitas' has absolutely nothing to do with their behaviour, and all to do with the respectful space left around them from the previous generations view of Royalty (greater distance, more respect). The current lot don't benefit from that.

It'll be death from media over-exposure within a decade of the old generations passing.

Either that or slipping into a lower key 'European' Royalty role. Which either they won't or won't be allowed to.

Re: Too much damned javascript ...

All very cogent, but Xorg is seriously creaking trying to support modern desktops.

This is a very interesting project, shame it's not likely to receive more attention

http://durden.arcan-fe.com/

Re: Wrong

Given the amount of data harvesting on the motion of your life as you carry this thing about for four or so years, it could probably be cheaper.

Re: It has to be said

the WINE team could never get a reliable Windows subsystem to run on Linux

Some Windows applications run rather reliably, others less so.

That Microsoft have had an easier time getting Linux running on Windows than the Wine team have had getting Windows programs to run on 'Linux is hardly a brain teaser.

Somewhat harder to implement a closed system than an open one.

I'll draw the model in the middle of the room, you draw the one behind the screen and we'll see whose is most accurate.

Re: Alistair Dabbs

Hey - my post is very disliked, awesome, lol. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.

It is Friday at the Reg forums though, any other day there'd probably also be half a dozen papers submitted to Nature proving* you're wrong by now...

* for a given value of 'proof' of course.

I ask her for the time and she tells me then says "have a nice day" FFS I only asked you for the time Alexa

Well, you did buy a corporate Parrot..

Possibly it's intentional. Next will be increasing less than subtle hints that if you make a suitably hefty order, Alexia will shut up for a bit.

After that, the service will be offered on 'subscription', miss a payment and Alexia starts talking, and the servers have been recording you all this time and know all embarrassing secrets.

Good thing for the GCHQ that he didn't read from the other internal memo, "We will work with ISPs to place internet-connected surveillance devices in every home".

Not required, Google are only too happy to collect everything in the room of one of their devices Facebook and the gullible public are only to happy to shell out for them in exchange for the ability to play music without pushing a button.

Re: Core Demographic

Their core demographic wants something newer, thinner, <insert something that looks good on a big screen presentation>, every couple of years

They're only targeting Marketing types now?

Can't see that as a a winner....unless Marketing types are taking over (much as it was thought lawyers would become the dominant species in the US a few years ago).

Re: Easy options

Ear shape MIGHT make a difference but most full frontal "face-on" recognition systems don't do anything with the ears afaik

If e's going for Vulcan, the eyebrows will also need some work.

Re: The Devil makes work for idle Civil Servants...

It almost feels like there are too many people involved in Government, and that they have nothing better to do with their time...

I'd guess it's a small group of very idle and overpaid 'troublemakers' near the top.

Also, given how many tits and arses seem to inhabit the place, I wonder if Parliamentary websites will be age-gated ...

You mean they haven't blatantly excused themselves from the system, for , ehm, research purposes...?

Re: Why?

I was suggesting that if we had really good sex education for adolescents, perhaps the porn industry might experience a degree of shrinkage.

Don't see why, a lot of STEM people love Sci-Fi, no matter how unrealistic....

There's a difference in knowing how things really work, and enjoying a fantasy.

(the people who like to complain and pick out the flaws will ennoy it too).

Re: 'Would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen...'

For example a deep fried Mars bar (it's not healthy, doncha know?).

There was at least one occasion on STNG when Deana tried to order a desert that the computer warned her that what she was trying to order had no nutritional value....

'as to DRM, there seems little impetus among manufacturers to produce anything lately that doesn't also generate additional revenue via data collection, some form of wasteful and expensive cartridge based design and or subscription based usage. With current corporate trends towards unashamedly milking the customer, I would expect an attempt to milk the customer per usage, which would defeat the point of the device in the first place.

Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

It's not the French citizens, it is one of the French government's many arms.

National character/inclination/mindset has got to have something to do with it.

It's very convenient to wash the mass public clean of all responsibility, but the roots proceed into the population at large, even if it's just allowing their government and it's many arms to behave that way.

The British public are no less responsible for the Brexit shambles.