* Posts by Teiwaz

4133 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011

Oz opposition backs the 'regulatory hallucinogen' of anti-piracy laws

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Labor has been working to support sensible changes to our copyright laws to ensure that they remain fit for purpose in protecting our creative industries and our artists.”

I thought the main traffic on piracy was (illogically*) the popular material - which due to high demand generally carried much lower costs.

Or is Australian content more popular than I realise

* And not obscure material publishers don't think it's worth their while relicensing for distribution.

UK.gov should spend more on AI, bleat VCs and consultants. Oh? Why's that then?

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Modernised HOH.

Out-of-touch bunch of unelected, illbred, weak-willed cast-offs from an earlier government?

FTFY

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Kaminskiy famously appointed a robot to his company board, explaining that it could provide opinions "not immediately obvious to humans" and, er, automate due diligence

This is what 'care in the community' and underfunding mental health leads to.

Should a robo-car run over a kid or a grandad? Healthy or ill person? Let's get millions of folks to decide for AI...

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valued females over males, apart from Latin America

I just had a mental image of Consuela from Family Guy, going 'No.'

Excuse me, but have you heard the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Chr-AI-st?

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No, it couldn't. If a technical text isn't crap

Science technical, you are probably right.

But the 'legalese' sort of technical - the type of technical written to preserve the legal babble and extend the need for a paid 'expert' to interpret.

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Re: Accuracy

"... made burned offerings ..." vs "... burned incense ..."

Burned incense is incense, burned, Burnt offerings could be anything from a failed barbeque to young debutantes gutted and then charcoaled in the name of the unspeakable rites of the ancient ones.

Might make all the difference in that unholy ritual to gain wealth and political power you ran through the textual simplifier from the original obscure 12th century occult tract.

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Le's link the Neural Nets together.

Other researchers have already performed similar experiments with the latter. DeepTingle, a neural network developed by researchers from New York University, could spit out text in the style of Chuck Tingle, a gay erotica author.

Coming from Northern Ireland, I'm quite excited by the idea of plugging the bible one into the above mentioned one.

I'm quite sure I could cause many of the more self-righteous members of the local community to go into a frothing fit.

Want to roll like one of the biggest minds in physics? Prof Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is up for auction

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Re: Charitable Oddities

If porn makers can offer the sister of a royal parts in grumble flicks based on seeing her arse on TV at a wedding, there's no limit to the depth some people would sink to make a buck.

The Royal family are whored out to media like a bunch of cheap celebs 'lifestyles of the rich an famous' already.

I'm fed up with checking the news and seeing the latest non-item of Royal X has done Y in Z.

Grumbling about wobbly Windows 10? Microsoft can't hear you over the clanging cash register

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Re: Conditioning.

"Sadly, it'll probably take an update deleting almost everyone's files before people will listen."

Or an update that actually KILLS people...

A death here and there won't do it. People die everyday, can be written off as human error, act of God or divine will of Microsoft.

Only When it cause a company to go under will the corporate sponsors of this disasterfest to change tack away.

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Re: !!!!!

I beginning to think some contract with dark forces is at work regarding the seemingly incomprehensible continuing use of Windows in any business critical environment.

Personally I think it's indicative of humanities intransigence over major issues that aren't an easy fix by issuing a statement, press release or drafting and pushing through some hasty new legislation.

The World plus dog can use whatever POS privacy invading, buggy ad serving rubbish they like, be it Android, ChromeOS or Windows 10, as long as they don't expect me to.

Oh, wait, I still have to work for a living, and guess what....

Ex spy bosses: Cyber-warfare needs rules of engagement for nations to promptly ignore

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I wish they'd make up their minds

One minute it's 'let's make the internet a safe space for children, with zero tolerance treatment of infringers' and turn it into a nice safe puritan shopping mall.

The next, they're conceding to the necessity of declaring it a battlefield or conflict zone when it's convenient for whatever aims are on the table this week.

Who'd want they kids out in that, porn and creepy uncle free or not (apart from the kinds of parents who used to let the TV brings their kids up).

It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort

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£380,000?

Bargain.

I can easily imagine the UK gov would spend waste a lot more to eventually reach the same conclusion (which would be returned late and cost more than initially conceived).

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

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Re: The bit I don't get with all this...

They're probably trying to break WINE to ensure there's no viable migration path. That's one reason ReactOS is stuck where it is; Windows is a moving target, and simply by keeping things changing, they make the act of keeping up and staying relevant too difficult.

Not that I might not buy that reasoning.

Part of the traction of Windows is all the older software that people need to run, and need it to run.

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MS should realise that W10 is an OPERATING SYSTEM

There's the mistake a lot of people make.

It's not really, it's a platform for gathering information on you in order to sell.

Much like ChromeOS and Android, which like Win 10 are certainly not 'the end in itself' but merely the Trojan Horse you've happily wheeled in and been impressed with how nice it looks. Or at least in theory, if you've wheeled it in and gawked at it, mesmerised by it's clunky lack of any grace or elan, it's general uselessness or how often it breaks, you've at least still wheeled it in.

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Re: But will they listen?

Meanwhile, SatNad is doing his best to make come true that ever-receding Year of the Linux Desktop.

So he's doing his best to ensure 'Year of the Linux Desktop' remains something yet to be achieved???

Isn't that a good thing (from Microsofts perspective)???

Break out the jelly and ice cream! Microsoft's Small Basic turns 10

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Honey, I shrunk Tiny BASIC and someone stood on it.

I guess I'm not alone here, but I've never even heard of it - nice marketing MS !!

My thoughts exactly, never mind the jelly and ice cream, hand me a magnifying glass, it's BASICally unknown.

Euro eggheads call it: Facebook political ads do change voters' minds – and they worked rather well for Trump in 2016

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Re: Trump was elected...

because a lot of people thought he was going to shake up the political arena and 'drain the swamp'

..

What they got was merely a water-hazard at home and a 'danger to shipping' abroad...

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Re: Gosh

One of the more interesting aspects that isn't commented on much is why the generation that voted to stay in the last time largely voted to leave this time. One possibility is that it is because they do have long memories

Another possibility is too many years reading the same newspapers and buying into the 'EU wants to get rid of the british sausage/pint/banana' rhetoric.

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Re: Gosh

More likely it's a case of the one who lies the best gets the vote

It might help if the majority of voters didn't seem to have worse memories than the proverbial goldfish.

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Re: Gosh

Oh no it's because we're all easily influenced thickos isn't it.

I'm sorry, do I upvote you for admitting the influence of outrageous liars and charlatans or downvote you for being one.

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Hot Oven

Platforms that track you and your messages and try to match you up to advertising that may be more likely to appeal.

More than likely a post or a like one way or another, and the resulting heat of an active advertising campaign suddenly gets turned on you.

People get their own type of view focused back on them. From then on, the user is more likely to get ads in the direction of that even just slight leaning than any other perspective.

It's be almost perfect as an voluntary extremist brainwashing service.

Erm... what did you say again, dear reader?

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Spiny Norman

Dinsdale?

Science: Broke brats glued to the web while silk-stocking scions have better things to do

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Re: !My Generation

My main concern around the most recent generation(s) is that they don't seem to have any unifying identities around which to rally and rebel, like most previous generations did.

Maybe this is a sign of advanced spiritual maturity, perhaps not :)

I'm very much afraid it's a sign of a lack of imagination. Our entertainment is now very visual with little left to the imagination - the imaginations of the young may not be getting the exercise they once did.

If any society needs rebelled against, it's the one that's been shaping up the last 10 to 15 years.

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Re: Generation Z?

Is “generation Z” just the retarded hipster term for “any young people” now?

Generation Z/Millenials as commonly understood are at least in their 20s now.

Unlike the Age of civilisation (stone Age, new Stone age, iron age, atomic age), which have gotten shorter as we've advanced, the generation ages are getting longer as the rot of sophistication settles, probably undermining the very fabric of society (or something like that).

Remember Douglas Adams and the 3 stages : Survival, Enquiry, Sophistication.

Even when Enquiry is attempted these days, it trips over the rucked up carpet of sophistication.

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Re: Buzzwords...

I was walking the dog the other day past a retirement home, guess what music the staff were playing?

So Country is worse than death? Is death, easily confused with death?

As he got older, my Dad increasingly liked Country music (he did grow up liking Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, so maybe he wasn't far off in the first place).

It's generally got an easy to sway-to for old bones beat - I really can't see retirement places in twenty years blaring out heavy metal for the residents to headbang to...

Although the volume on Country does AC/DC so everyone can enjoy it might make you think it was.

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Re: Buzzwords...

No need.

After Generation Z, it's over.

Don't get my hopes up, that last Mayan Calendar thing was a huge disappointment.

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Re: Buzzwords...

So what's the next generation going to be called after Generation Z? This "Generation <letter>" thing started seemingly with Generation X. I'm aware of "The Greatest Generation" (WWII types), "The Lost Generation" and some others but this alphabet thing just seems puzzling.

Maybe they'll get confused and start following Ubuntu released...

Generation Ardent Aardvark and...etc....

SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...

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Welcome to 21st Century.

I just wanna say that people should eat more fruits and vegetables.

I think the best we can hope for is just less plastic.

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Re: I have a code of conduct

Whoever came up with these principles appears not to have heard of a fundamental notion

Seems to have a firm grasp of Fundamentalist Notions though.

Not to mention a firm grip on the knout, along with mortification of the flesh and hair shirts, shortly to follow in the second version of the code of conduct.

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Re: If that is what he wishes...

Don't you confuse that with the one from Oracle?

Nah, that's a pact with the Unspeakable Ancient Ones.

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Religion has no place in business. Unless your business is a church, and even then only when the employee affected shares your religion, and it doesn't break any other laws.

Or presumably, your employees also have shares in your business. Or your employees religion affected your shares...

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Re: Logical Conundrum.

What if your colleague's wife is called Chastity?

Well if she really is Chastity, you've discovered something in common with your colleague.

I ship you knot: 2,400-year-old Greek trading vessel found intact at bottom of Black Sea

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Re: Wood floats...

......I still cannot understand how a wooden ship can ever sink!

Ummm, because they're made of witches???

Sorry, couldn't resist reversing the Holy Grail witch trial sketch

F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs

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Re: The evolution of euphemism

I'll just leave this here for those who haven't seen it:

Oooh, very nasty. You didn't Warn that it was going to be Folk Music, or even a form of it.

And no one had their finger in their ear, the universal gesture to warn listeners a folk song was about to be committed...

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Re: A Place For Everything etc.

I have always believed that people who swear in public or in front of people they don't know either don't care a damn or are just piggin ignorant!

Or have Tourettes.....

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Re: Americans Don't Know...

Americans Don't Know...

...what "bollocks" means.

Come, on. They Must do.

Most the ones I've met are fluent in it, nothing but.

AI clinician trained to save humans from sepsis – and, er, let's just say you should stick to your human doctor

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Is treatment the Sharp point though.

From some of the stories I've read of some of those struck down by Sepsis, it's the initial diagnosis that is often the crucial point

Recognising it early enough in a patient who might be one of hundreds coming into A&E or a busy doctors surgery.

And not sent home with an aspirin and told to have an early night.

PC version of Linux 4.19 lands with PC version of Linus Torvalds: Kernel handed back to creator

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We're all maybe going the wrong way guys.

Just maybe a little less with the "SHUT THE F**K UP" "and WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?"

Take a look at todays newspaper headlines or BBC News and tell me, that the we don't need more of the above sentiment and not less....

Plastic Food, plastic people, plastic personalities...a return to the arms races and 95% May...

Pull request accepted: You want to buy GitHub, Microsoft? Go for it – EU

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Re: How about........

LinkdIn has become a bit Micro-shafty

Are you kidding? It's become much, much worse.

Granted, most of that is the creepy desperate wanna-look-like-a well-connected-businessperson-so-bad types running round trying to collect profiles 10 year olds with a terminal Top-Trumps card habit.

But I'm sure the service harassment itself is Microsfoots drive to 'maximise site traffic returns' (or some grabage).

It's almost more creepy than Faecebook and far more dull.

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Re: New name?

My prediction is:

Microsoft Surface 10 .NET

I looked at that and thought.

Micorsoft Surface 10 .GIT

Is this cuttlefish really all that cosmic? Ubuntu 18.10 arrives with extra spit, polish, 4.18 kernel

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I used to be a big fan of Ubuntu - and I still think that it’s an excellent OS, but…

I used to be a big fan, until convergence was dropped.

Nothing to look forward to now, it's good, but it's just another Gnome desktop distro...

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Re: "the system has a more modern and no-reboot look"

With that said, anybody who maintains personal uptimes[0] just for the sake of bragging probably deserves what they get.

After 18 years of not using Windows, occasionally noticing my uptime is more than a week or two still gives me a little thrill.

I still find it a pain having to reboot everytime a kernel or Graphics driver update (get your shit togetther, Nvidia) forces me to. SystemD promised quicker reboots, but I'm not seeing them, every time, some errant process takes nearly 2 minutes to close, and UEFI insists on polling every single external drive looking for something to boot , despite boot order settings.

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Re: "the system has a more modern and 'flatter' look"

When it comes to Multi-monitors, workspace per screen is the only way to go IMO.

Few Desktops have Windowmanagers that do it.

Gnomes workspaces on only once screen default option isn't too bad - a little limited, but you can leave an app on another screen undisturbed while you flip workspaces on the main screen.

Openbox has a patched version that does workspace per screen (works ok with LXTQ, not tried with KDE/Openbox).

Enlightenment does it

But yes, the most functional are mostly the Tiling Window Managers.

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Go Gnome

What is the matter, you don't like searching each screen for a minute to find were the the buttons are?

Well, I suppose at least you might be less likely to commit any hasty mistakes.

You should be able to just hit Return for OK/Accept but that ability appears to not be working (at least last time I used Gnome based GTK3 applications.).

FYI: Faking court orders to take down Google reviews is super illegal

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Re: He should have simply faked his own reviews

After all that's what everyone else does and it's completely legal.

Yep, any modern internet savvy individual knows, best way to deal with bad press is to bury it in made up (just maybe best not to use fake judge references).

...Worked for the FCC in it's net neutrality consultation...

Silent running: Computer sounds are so '90s

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Umm.....

@Charles 9

Much as I like the Yoko Kanno reference, I actually keep a better-known piece of his as a potential ringtone: "Tank!", a jazz piece he made with a group called The Seatbelts. I actually use different ring and notification tones to tell me the nature of the incoming transmission.

See

Love Microsoft Teams? Love Linux? Then you won't love this

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Re: Linux client for Skype?

Meh, Skype for Linux is pretty much just a window wrapper around the web client version anyway.

It's improved a bit lately but it's still pants.

The previous slightly more capable version than the bloated (still electron based?) version was always several releases behind the Windows version.

Don't think an MS EEE strategy will fly with 'Linux, they're welcome to try though.

What Microsoft love, is the idea of people running 'Linux on top of Windows software. Quite happy to help OSS to run free software on a licensed Windows platform. Run windows programs on 'Linux, not likely....

Tickets please.....

Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own

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Re: What about the stuff that we really don't want...

You forgot all the telemetry stuff....

msknight bends the knee to the barons in redmond.

UK Home Office admits £200m Emergency Services Network savings 'delayed'

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Coat

Flaming???

Pigs in helicopters...

Surely we just need flaming ejaculator seats and we can shower the streets with bacon?

Is how I read that.

Well, it's one way to deal with crowd control in the inevitable riots after the 51.9% realise what they were promised isn't going to materialise.

Brace yourself, Britain: Health minister shares 'vision' for NHS 'tech revolution'

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Re: EPIC

Just follow Canada with their recent legalisation thing.

Then no one would be particularly bothered about brexit or anything for a couple of decades.

Granted, whoevers left will probably be cripply paranoid, but upcoming generation boring might disdain weed as they allegedly disdain alcohol, so maybe they can take over in a decade and a bit.