Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Telegram

I use the great Telegram app to organise our monthly pub meets. Does that make us terrorists. No I think not.

Probably makes you suspect though (not 'a suspect', but suspect - you might be hiding something an attentive officer of the law might get a promotion out of).

Terrorists will use what ever they can find for their crazy keys blow shit up propaganda nonsense.

A truly great definition of 'Terrorist' - for a dope addled surfer-dude.

A terrorist is only a terrorist if you don't agree with their aims/idealogical position/demands - otherwise the label tends to be 'freedom fighter'.

Re: "spent sending men up ladders to fix dishes to walls"

Anyway, the name "Sky" is no longer a good one.... you'll get the signal in the basement, not on the roof <G>

Great, Sewer TV (Shit TV) is so much more apt on many more levels anyway.

Re: Child ???

. You don't think some jilted boyfriend putting the face of a 13 or 14 year old on porn with an 18-20 year old 'actress' and sharing the video with her classmates isn't going to cause a whole lot of trouble?

'causetrouble?

It'll probably cause a really fuss. Funnily enough the similar tactics have been around in schools as a form of harassment for decades, the old photo taped to a poorly drawn cow to demean girls (often perpetrated by other girls) along with other such behaviour has caused suicides in the past.

Why should one type of incident garner more publicity and cries of 'something must be done' when the other passes with only momentary regret for the most part???

Re: Don't call it Autopilot, for a start

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

At least Babbage had several long metal poles with cogs on to try to beat sense into them....

As usual I will context this figure with UK national Debt interest Payments: (ndips)

source: https://fullfact.org/economy/interest-payments-national-debt/

That's as maybe - does it excuse the waste 60 charities could have made an impact with that (provided they didn't decide an expensive carpet for their HQ was a better investment). Instead, it was snorted up one nostril for an ego trip and frittered away

Re: Bitcoin became an investment object...

Much like precious metals then, or paper money.

Paper money has it's own ethos, but precious metals always had the Oooh, shiney. Me want timeless classic from QVC to wear on head when out clubbing (other neanderthals) for kingship and be buried with it....

Re: Dear Mozilla, there's more to life than security

What Stability issues

Have to agree - pre 57, I was using Firefox less and less and Waterfox and Chromium more and more - since 57, waterfox has been uninstalled as unstable Chromium may well be next if it 'aw snap's me again.....

Loads fast and is light and nippier than it's been in years.

On Archlinux (even when also running Plasma).

Re: Matthew 27:3-5

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Err. no. He went and killed himself. Jesus was under arrest and sentance of death by that point.

Or so it is rumoured....For 'Gospel truth', it lacks rather a lot in backup evidence.

Re: COBOL

I think I have to agree with Boltar

The problem has nothing to do with COBOL or any other language new or old, designed to supposedly allow the average user to be more enabled.

But more to do with the ability to apply structured logic and have at least some grounding in data structures.

The existence of ready made cement and DIY stores did not presage the era of the average shopper then being able to build Cathedrals and road bridges nor were they expected to. Why should IT be any different.

Re: Easily.

Is this going too far? that amount of data density? do we really need it? really?

Of course it's necessary, how else are governments depts meant to compete with eachother on peoples personal data left in pubs/taxies/coffee shops conveniently ten years from now.

Tomorrow morning I'll register the names "ButtPlugchaku"

ButtPlugchaku

Sorry, not as catchy as Pikachu, I don't see your version selling....

Re: Liars

Politicians were either making up numbers or sexing up any given number exponentially in order to convince the public to buy into their view.

Quite sensibly commercial entities looked at the result and thought the public would buy anything at any price....

Re: Intel "shouldn't be selling CPUs?"

What's the world supposed to do for CPUs in the meantime?

Cue : Penny Farthing Logo.

Maybe it's a good opportunity to slow down and take stock of where the world is headed rather than continue the knees bent, running about advancing behaviour blindly, up up the ziggurat lickity split...

No takers? thought not.

Re: There is literally nothing decent in this story

And then you'll get an idea for how long this has been going on, behind the scenes. Looooooooong before the USA PATRIOT Act.

Not that long before, I was expecting Mr Washington or Mr Lincoln on the bottom for that length of 'Looooooong', that was only a 'Looong's worth.

Someone must have told Mr Clinton it was a signature was required for Executive relief, or a young lady was kneeling under the table giving him an executive and he's have signed anything at that point.

Re: I'm pretty good at things, but...

...for some reason I can never get WINE to work right.

No doubt it's just me, but the lack of good troubleshooting documentations doesn't help.

That's an endemic problem with most s/w...

Re: Car sharing

Ok, heres a problemo for you

Car sharing is fine in theory but for most of us real life gets in the way.

And how would you have achieved that if yourself and your mother were living before the invention of the car? Wouldn't have gotten all that done in a day by cart or carriage.

That's not real life, it's life today.

Maybe a lifestyle, long term, humanity can ill afford.

Our thoughtless selfishness of todays lifestyles could well mean our descendants have less.

Re: We've already got one

A full sized replica made in the 1880s, is on display in Reading museum (free entry).

He say's they've already got one

Big John : "I keep reading how this NN thing is about "freedom,"

I keep hearing about this 'freedom' thing too. It's a crock, turns out people have rules about all sorts of things you are not allowed to do while seeking personal advancement.

Or doesn't any of that bother you, up in the mountains with your gun collection and your still?

or breed unaided.

Sadly not true for Marketing people...

As to this IBM rebranding effort - the most that can be said is this had been known to work for Pubs, but only until the Novelty has worn off, then they are back to fixing the actual problem or do another rebranding.

Re: @AC:As she is 14 years old

Jay: After all, as you consider them to be adults, doncha now?

So the world is that binary too you?

Well done, you are a fully paid up member of the human race, welcome to the dullard species who can't formulate a social idea unless it's been done for more than a hundred years already.

No concept at all that people might be in different state 14 - 18 that might not fall into either adult or child?

Seriously, this planet......

Re: santa

surprised and outraged that those evil bastards at Google provide you with an accurate answer

Same question put on TV at christmas by the BBC would almost certainly pander to the magic and mystery in a good family friendly manner, if raise more than a few suspicions by the obvious condescending manner the announcer/reader puts on, which will add to the suspicions of thousands of children because they are not stupid, just lacking in life experience.

Re: What happened?

What happened was that "the good guys"

Nonsense. The 'good guys' won. But the adversaries had slipped in round the back and were sitting on the committees before we all knew it.

Take Microsoft (please, god), all those years calling Linux and OSS a cancer, then, all of a sudden, they turn up joining the Linux Foundation (or whatever) and running Linux in Windows 10 as a subsystem , no armistice, peace treaty or apology.

Reparations, you say - here, have Powershell....

Re: parallel parking

or do it so poorly that it looks like they have abandoned their car...

Possibly mostly an aversion from actually being taught it. Town I learnt, all the local Instructors took their pupils to the same estate which was a perfect to place to practice, apart from the twitchy curtains of twitchy residents concern some hamfisted newbie driver was going to damage their pride and joy out front.