Posts by Teiwaz

Re: AI

The AIs will be first against the wall come the revolution!

I expect they'll just be clubbed underfoot in order to get to the small % (or at least at the buffet table).

Re: What is difficult about setting a registry key ?

the mid-80s requirement

I think mid-80's is a little late - pretty sure they were all earlier than that - yup, Godzilla was 1978-1980, the droids added to the Westernised Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman). Scrappy Doo was 1979.

By the time we got to the 90's there was a return to form with the 'Steven Speilberg' produced series.

I doubt some brain dead TV exec will commission some dross again, or some 'concerned mothers' pogrom will kick up a fuss again somewhere down the line.

Re: Leaving EU != leaving Customs Union (or Single Market, for that matter)

Because the EU's opening in negotiations was a bunch of non-negotiables we either agree (aka remain) or we must leave the single market.

Strangely nothing much to do with also leaving ECJ - we were told that wasn't on the agenda either....

What was concerning is the misunderstanding of the 'Irish problem'. The EU wants a hard border, the Irish (both sides) dont.

Well, that's a touchy subject, for the Irish - no one wants a border, partly 'cause one side doesn't believe in partition and memories of the troubles and the hold up of passing through military enplacements complete with observations towers - a lot of these bisected local farmers routes to fields.

Before the enplacements went up, there were a couple of portacabins on each side of the border, hardly an inconvenience of note, but the memory of the military style remains, and judging by the tax paranoia over cigs and french alcohol even when in the EU at English ports, I'd not be surprised of more heavy-handedness over a little contraband than ever was over politics...

Of course leave is blamed - they've rocked the rather fragile status quo - The Good Friday agreement was hammered out by the moderate parties, it'd be few decades or wrangling for the current lot to come to something amicable.

Could be interesting though - cross border nightlife thrived in the 50's & 60's as alcohol was cheap and licencing laws more liberal south of the border (still can see the ruins of dead pubs and nightlife joints at the border), and fuel prices were cheaper south during the 1990's (most tiny towns just inside the republic have more fuel places than seems reasonable).

Re: It's not complicated

Apart from that, I dan't know what else they could charge him with, except possibly wasting police time?

Wasting Police time?

They didn't have to hang around en masse on a London Street for five years - blew the community policing budget probably - and we wonder why there are no 'bobbies on the beat' anymore?

They are all hanging around an embassy..

Police wasting their own time - it's not as if he [Julian] isn't recognisable by at least half the country by now - even if most just think he looks vaguely familiar cause he is not on strictly dancing every week....

I don't want much, just the UK to get it's nose out the US butt, brown nosing, grow some principles England used to be famous for, and a backbone. Very good at thumbing it to Europe, but a voice comes on the phone from Washington and they can't get obsequious quick enough...

Hmm, I've always thought of Tomorrow People as trippy with mushroom influence, while Manimal & Automan were clearly done under the influence of white powder....

Northstar freaked me right out though, argghhh his pulsating brain is going to blow....

Re: How do you know if someone uses Arch Linux?

Don't worry, they'll tell you.

9 out of 10 Arch users will tell you to Read the Manual first, though.

That's why gestalt doesn't apply in my opinion.

That was probably the wrong word to use - suggests a mind more than the sum of it's parts, and humanity generally produces a lower IQ with an en masse consciousness [see: Mobs, apple users*]

* just kidding....

Re: So for Intel is always bad but the sweet AMD is fine? PLEASE!

How comes no one is telling that the AMD PSP is against privacy and having and embedded OS is spying on people?

Get Intel to back down over the stupid idea, and AMD will follow....

Nobody goes after the underdog...

Of course were they to see sense and offer a non-secret computer version of their chips unbidden, hint hint, they might shake up the status quo and end up on top rather than chasing Intels coat tails...

Re: The Pence Rule

" the 20th Century is coming to a place near you, "

Poster of this statement is righter than they know.

But not for the reasons they think. If we could all only take our eyes off the trivialities that will have no meaning in a decade or too.

Re: "reputational damage to the government"

I was thinking much along the same lines....

What reputation? They are a bunch of [redacted] who I wouldn't trust to run a small community centre no one ever visited.

Re: Thank God for Homeland Security

Insecurity, more like.

Plenty paranoid, but just not paranoid enough when it comes to the dull day to day info-sec.

Just not exciting enough for the gizzards and danglies of the everyday employee of the institution to be safely kept out of the bite of sharks then?

Re: How to be English in Three Easy Steps

Step 3: Wonder why Scottish people don't like you.

On this article? I doubt it.

The reg readership, like a lot of Scots I know like a good laugh, and a good moan and a grumble, and this article has both.

Re: What's all the fuss about?

Mint does seem to have less of the bullshit that some of the more militant OS's (or rather their users) have though.

Used to see a lot of trolling of Ubuntu forums by Mint Mate* afficionados, unhappy with the then decision by Ubuntu to drop Gnome 2 and move to Unity instead.

* Not necessarily Mint users, but that was the flag they flew under...

The religion thing?

I'd prefer not to worship at the MS or Apple temples, the hymns are weird, the tipple at the socials tastes funny, the services start and stop more often than American football and they expect waaay too much on the offertory plate, and it attracts all the lowlifes trying everything from a quick buck scams to outright thievery....

Re: Think of the who now?

You appear to have missed Mirage and Taboo from the list.

Either memory is failing or I never encountered them at the time, sorry....

I also left Buckfast off the list (popular in some areas with that demographic). And cheap-ass cider like white-lightning, was also popular cheap.

Re: +1,000,000

In the last 18 months, I haven't found a single hotel, museum, or train station in my Citroens "POI" database.

Isn't that fairly common.

Used to have a Tom Tom (eight or so years ago). According to it's point of interest. The nearest swimming pool was over the channel in France.

What many would think of as a 'swimming pool' were all under 'sports'

- maybe it's only a swimming pool if it's one of those (unpopular in blighty) outdoors (unheated) ones.

Re: Why would one want to use Nvidia?

Fair points, but my original post was about how, in my experience, the drivers for Nvidia were more stable than their AMD equivalent without any OC or mods considering how the OP was complaining about the Nvidia drivers.

I've actually had most the opposite experience then.

AMD drivers are much better than they were, and AMD (likely due to their underdog role currently) are being much more OSS friendly the last few years.

I've had great experiences with AMD GPUs for several years (not exactly top of the line in hardware*, but usable, no issues and works without headaches and necessity toward weird complicated workarounds), but recently switched back for a number of reasons only to find the same old situation.still prevailing with Nvidia on 'Linux while AMD drivers have become much more native to the ecosystem.

* Pretty much guarantee you are going to run into some issue, if you buy the newest release of hardware (on any platform) but OSS platforms specifically. The venders generally couldn't give a monkeys for any platform but the biggest and the OSS projects making up for that lack of monkeys, haven't had time to get up to speed with the new device.

Re: Few corrections Gareth

We'll know for sure if there's ever an HMS Tesco...

Heh, York, from Hyperspace 'bury your husbands, and come enjoy your new branch of Morrisons'

Re: @ lsatenstein

But the problem here is that Intel keep changing the socket design, so you just can't put new processors into old motherboards.

To be fair, AMd do that too, all that 'AM' number malarky so you're never 100% certain what you've bought is actually going to fit what you've got until they're both sitting in front of you and it's 'meccano time' Then there's all that fun with fans and coolers that make me sweat.

Re: Great

You might not be so happy when another machine comes along and tries to insert the bread!

Ah, the future,

where and added peril of being a anti-cyber activitst is a toasting muffin jammed somewhere uncomfortable.

Almost a harmless fetish, considering the tribes of roving lethally armed convenience devices with learning difficulties zipping about.

Re: 'I'm on my second Lenovo laptop at present and see no reason for using anything else'

its not practical when none of the hardware makers offer it officially pre-installed

I understand that, in some parts of the world, the only retail PCs to be had in reasonable market access is big name brands with windows, with no option.

In parts of the world where there is option, too many continue to financially support these big brands with their windows only options, complaining that either those companies that do, use cheaper clone cases, charge more (due to lack of the economies of scale) or that there is not much choice.

Use Linux instead is, however, almost stupidly easy, plenty of distros have excellently user-friendly and painless installers, that require little effort to run, and do so in 20 minutes in some cases with one reboot.

No one is without the option, merely without the ability to make the decision, even given enough information and a disk/usb stick with an installer on it.

All those people moaning about Windows and Microsoft, and continuing to use Win7,8 or 10. Nothing is going to change while they sill have healthy market share.

It's like politics. No point moaning about what government does, then go and vote the same clowns back in, next ballot day.

Re: Tax Laws

And it's about to flush all that down the toilet on March 29 next year.

Nonsense, it's just being redirected away from the nice quiet cul-de-sac the majority of voters want Britain to be.

Move all the hippies, east europeans, gypsies threatening the peas and quiet. Chalk another success like preventing air traffic going over the well-to-do neighbourhoods...

Re: Mince pies

The suet in the pastry is the reason that my steak and kidney puddings are not suitable for vegetarians.

So not much Steak or kidney in them then.....

Do you cook for High Street stores?

Re: Our Kung-Fu is powerful.

our own Security Services as possessing somewhat toytown capabilities in terms of Cyber.

Prolly not, no.

But unfortunately, largely directed by the 'town council of Trumpton*' located at Westminster.....now gone sadly quite mad in fear of it's own population...

Kind of a handicap...

* An old childrens TV reference, for those the other side of el atlantico, and not any reference to persons with a similar surname...

Re: "GDPR will happen irrespective of Brexit, this is essential to maintain the UK's Adequacy

A bit like what the medical profession consider is an "obese" person and what the general public think an "obese" person is. Usually very different definitions.

The Medical profession seem to keep widening, I think it's now whether you've had a large lunch within the last day or so....

Re: Alien UFO's are Real - True / False...

I disagree on principle. Reality is inexplicable. No way it got like that by accident. ;-/

Careful, that line of thought can only end with tragedy at a zebra crossing,.,