Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
Google is Google, can they not just pay for it.
Or have android rewritten to not use Java (it's not as if it's an important unique language that IT can not do without).
Or did they just decide they had the better lawyers....?
If you gamble, you got to be prepared to lose......
.....or gamble again and sue your broker and anyone else you think might be able to convince a judge are at fault.
and then some idiot decided "curl … | /bin/bash" was a brilliant way to install software.
Well, that's an idiots last resort to installing s/w on 'Linux. So it's idiots all the way down that trouserleg of time.
1) your distros repo
2) compile it youself (inc. Arch AUR and similar)
3) deb repos (for debian), PPAs and other options for getting out of repo or fresher packages on release based distros.
3) (most recent, and gain popularity on some distros) snaps, flatpacks or Appimages.
The last thing anyone should do is run curl commands or bash scripts copy/pasted or sourced from the internet without proofreading, especially if it needs root access.
Never mind how powerful PS is or is not, or how secure Windows is or isn't the first gatekeeper to a system is how wary the human who is controlling, operating or managing
In the days when you could write in your own option, I would consistently enter "human" as my race.
Given the option, I'd have to write 'last' as that's were I usually came in races at school sports day.
Alternatively 'subscription expired' to acknowledge that myself, like many people was not a naturally paid up member of the human race.
as observed by Terry Pratchett in 'Men at Arms'
I am in the UK. And it is project fear unless your gonna tell me we have problems now with the volume of traffic
Don't we?
Isn't called congestion. And there's a charge for that in London (but then, spending a penny was over-inflated last I was there (but I remember in the early eighties it was 20p)).
I'm not so certain people are concerned traffic will fall so much that any tailbacks at the ports will stretch inland. When does traffic fall? When it's ostensibly parked in a queue.
Finally 1 minute to search a lorry????
Where is the impetus for pitstop tyre change efficiency (where's the impetus for any efficiency in Governemnt authority unless it's saving a penny today so it looks good).
You are leaving out the eager hard-boiled customs agents who dream of promotion on the back of nabbing some guy and being over-thorough in inspection and other human failings. They practically strip search UK citizens returning from a bus tour beer and fags to france and Belgium while in the Common Market. It'll be SS officer levels of interrogation when we leave (if it isn't already, I gave up the smokes years ago).
where the monsters from under their beds will come out and terrorise them.
Well, didn't that start (sort of) when Leave.EU were lining up the worlds biggest grinning idiots like the cast of a musical that turned out to be off-key and with bad lyrics but got Britains vote anyway from the hearing trumpet crowd for whom 'lies on the side of a bus' are big enough to read.
They really are being too cautious with branding since the whole 'don't own the rights to use Metro so we're referring to it as Tifkam Modern' affair.
I rather think there's some interesting applications/experimenting potential for Kinect, I do hope they don't decide on Enterprise level prices.
Oddly enough, with ye olde formatting, the BBC site shows how we're being treated as simpletons with sentence-length paragraphs.
Oh, I noticed that even with the flashy reliance on vidclips which say in 30 odd seconds of video less than a one sentence paragraph.
BBC news reads more like 'John Cravens' Newsround - actually that, back in the day would watch like indepth current affairs analysis today, by comparison.
Quite.
Any judgements on fake news should start with the main wielders, the politicians and (what at least has been known since the early eighties as) spin.
Colouring bad news to lessen the worst aspects has a certain fair enough, but what was ankle deep has now reached the hocks, and they wallow contentedly in it, oinking incessantly as they ingest it and crap it out on the public.
Facebook is a monster of a gossip mill, I was going to say totally without ethics, but knowing how it started, a touch more negative than positive. However it's the everyday humdrum citizen who buys into it, even feeds the monster.
Those most up in arms about it, traditonal purveyors of news, and politicians with a claim to the last word of authority (albeit laughably sometimes) are those feeling most threatened, and that's never a good arbiter of necessary action.
If a stronger ethical regulatory body is needed anywhere, it's in politics.
"I don't I miss how young I felt in 1995."
That depends on how young you were in 1995. It's a relative term.
Possibly, but from my experience '95 to now, if I were now age in 95, I think I'd still miss the energy and the lack of an increasingly crusted and jaded mindset from watching the world and politicians repeat obvious mistakes of the past and call it progress.
No it doesn't. That's just vintage lefty doublethink.
Not quite. Authorities have proved quite recently (not that this hasn't always gone on in diiferent labels, from traitor to heretic to blasphemer) with the lazy application of the term terrorist to new crimes or old that, even if an activist would avoid tactics that threaten life directly, they'd still be labelled terrorist in an attempt to colour public opinion in the favour of authority.
really? the Microsoft that is shipping Linux binaries now and has contributed hundreds of patches to the kernel is the same as the one that was saying that GPL is cancer and the that Linux is a "fad"?
I think it's a Microsoft that have admitted they can't just ignore it, badmouth it, or bury it in lame twisted lies and fearmongering. The Penguins have wandered into the park Microsoft saw as theirs and crowded close to their picnic, is close to running all the kiosks and threaten to invade their wine-bar.
Microsoft have chosen to invite them in instead, and ensure as many uses of the penguin as possible also fill their coffers.
All the patches most likely do no more than serve Windows/Linux interoperability, and do so to the benefit of Windows and MS. That's not love, that's exploitation.
To be honest though, I feel this sentence could be considered as standard boilerplate to be appended to any and all articles about UK government/politicians.
Should be carved over the doors to Parliament.....
Going out...
...and going in, amended from 'actions' to 'words' because these numpties always seem to be interviewed on the TV and need reminding....
Twenty - do you not remember Boney-M or Milli Vanilli??
Vocaloid is a good tool for a certain type of angsty teen with budding music talent they might not otherwise discover.
There's been quite a few that have gone on to real music careers (mostly Japanese though, Vocaloid never sounds quite the same in english).
Possibly what gets used more is MMD for music videos.
We haven't had a responsible government for years
The current government has got to be a new low. If the May deal were were a little plastic square for one of those 'shape fits hole' tests, the examiner would have given the examinee a slap round the back of the head by now for repeatedly trying to fit the square through the triangle hole.
You bring brexit into every forum!
Inevitable, it's settled into every pore in the country, clogging it up with the same greasy palmed ooze on the hands of most politicians and every cabinet hound.
As clogged as the roads up from the ports of the south will be within two months.
On the 'every cloud has a silver lining' front though, it'll make adventuresome wayward immigration by dinghy across more difficult, given the barricade of parked freight that'll be queued up round the coast waiting for processing by ledger, ink and quill 'cause certain systems aren't ready/broken/overbudget but'll be delivered anyday/awaiting sign-off.
Until the end of the year means they have time to organize everything
By organise everything, you must mean sign hastily and badly put together trade agreements with every Lion and minnow on the planet as possible whose only advantage to the UK is another 1++ on the count of trade agreements.
We live in momentous times with huge political changes implemented on the whims of a badly put together survey, unfortunately we have political Lilliputians attempting to implement it.
a grace period probably until the end of the year on border controls, so no empty market shelves for now
Well, that's a relief. We can worry about the empty shelves in time for christmas.
That's fine then, the government will already have plenty of armed troops on the streets by then, enforcing 'the will of the tory elite carpet baggers electorate'.
Nope, I think the various interested parties will all line up behind the party when pushed, especially when besieged by a rival party, and the good of the nation can be shored up afterwards with some belt tightening and another IT project that is sure to wave the magic wand this time.
Hell, all the PM has to do at this point is mollify a small group of loonies from a marginal part of non-mainland U.K. that probably won't be part of the country in forty to sixty years....
The only thing that's going to fix things is more cross-party cabinets, then they can spend their time bickering and only dealing with vitally important matters and stop hassling the country with trivia like brexit and mandated age verification.
Better off moving the government to the Isle of Wight, or better still Azkaban, (it doesn't? can't we build one?).
That this concern may well be empty fear-mongering.
We've had a .SA for some time, and there has never been a squeak of concern for it being co-opted due to the former existence of the Sturmabteilung
I have to admit, personally I think it's because it's so much harder a word to spell, never mind pronounce.
Could it dismantle the EU? They do say corporations have a lot of control these days, we know they do in America and America likes to change governments to their liking.
Good grief, don't know where to start on that one.
Let's just say, trying that will likely end with a couple hundred 'Gilet jaunes' bearing down on you, or Google.
Another way of running 'Linux on Windows......
It just seems to me to be another example as to how the world in general has everything ass-backwards.
OK, I don't use Windows an awful lot, but when I do, I seem to be put through at least a reboot or two before I can start, and one other during the course of the day, for one reason or another.
Well if they don't have a Windows PC, and they don't have an emulator, then they have to follow the Pope's advice:
The pope encouraged Catholics to turn to Our Lady when facing difficult situations, and to echo her words, “They have no wine.”
But, Wine Is Not an Emulator.
I know for a fact, that the Church I was emotionally blackmailed into attending as a child used Ribena*.
And I know a Born again in Ulster who claimed to beleive all references to wine in the bible actually referred to fruit juice!!!
So these would be copyleft lunatics then? The wording from the article sounds to me like he means copyleft extremists, not that all copylefters are lunatics.
Generally, the gimme gimme gimme 'Peanut Gallery' types never produce anything themselves (hence no empathy with the situation beyond their own wants), so calling them 'Copyleftists' looney or otherwise is a stretch of the largest magnitude.
I think the issue is, that while it'a a solution looking for a problem; it's a very convincing solution.
ergo, there must be a problem looking for it.
A desperate to be solved problem, a lucrative and very profitable problem.
It's not so much follow the money as chase it in this case.
Bloody Ferengi.....
This may be why no-one has voted on it yet. Whilst to me, a real English speaker the sarcasm is funny, I'm wary of up-voting it for fear of encouraging the Trumpites.
NB, Trump was once a bourgeois euphemism for Fart. Now it's literal.
And yet, not a one has suggested that the money could be used to build a wall instead?
I can't recall the UK government ever managing to string this many words together on any mildly technical subject.
On the Contrary, The UK government have indeed managed to string an awful lot of words together on technical subjects.
...The just haven't yet managed to make any coherent sense, since they can't tell the trendy marketing bollocks from the actually important technical keywords.
I think the universe can wait on fixing a telescope until we have PROPER BORDER SECURITY.
Are you saying those on the south side of the border can't use boats?
The UK has 20 miles of water isolating it (at least as much a hurdle as a wall) - yet there's still an illegal immigration problem.
Best option is to turn your country into a shithole no one could possibly want to live in - luckily, with Trump - your well on your way already.
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