Posts by Teiwaz

Re: (Don't mention) Moonbase Alpha

Andersons ex got all the rights to the much longer running Space 1999

Personally, having seen both, I prefer UFO.

Re: I'd bet my monies on...

My money is on the Atreides...

Well, the David Lynch version anyway - just a more easily quantifiable 'secret weapon' than the nebulous political one in the book, which, however made a lot more sense.

Re: 10 Years? Fck!

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I gave my word (which matters to me more than a signature on a piece of paper).

You are about several centuries old fashioned - your government no longer values the word of it's citizens.

They like hard evidence; a signature, a DNA sample, your first molar for the bureau of identification....

bear necessities

At this point in life, I've come to accept that any time a company touts something as 'an essential' - I know I don't need it...

Except that of the billions of people in the world, the ones who look most like me are the ones likely to visit the same houses as me at Christmas time...

So are you Santa then? Or are you saying you just look like Santa?

Wobbly table?

Nerf that - my insomnia's been playing up something rotten these last few weeks, this sounds like a cure!

What? Are you intending to bludgeon yourself unconscious with it?

For gods sake just don't attempt to actually read it......

Re: Did we award our Directors lots of Money?

Did we award our Directors lots of Money?

So... What the fuck is your problem?

The Directors probably awarded themselves lots of Money?

"This direction is necessary to ensure that those charged with keeping families and communities safe have access to relevant and accurate information when they need it and when they have the appropriate authorisations in order to do their job."

So people who are single and live in the middle of nowhere are on their own then?

Correction, such people are the classic 'lone wolf' types are probably a danger anyway.

Re: Good old Microsoft

Microsoft had pioneered the concept of 'vaporware'. After all these years nothing has changed.

They've outdone themselves this time quantum vaporware

Between talking up software that don't exist to talking up software everyone else wishes didn't exist.

Re: Full of it?

Some of that is true, but not the part about the media being on the right. That's a laughable

This would be the mythical 'liberal media league'?

I find it hard to reconcile that with the likes of the newspaper industry in the UK which, during the 80's thrived on scandal and getting the 'freshest' page 3 models because 'that's what sold papers', and a couple of decades later fed the pedo paranoia (and any other ) because 'that's what sells papers'.

Nothing left (or really right) abut that lot, just (self)centre...

Re: Although, in the final analysis ...

With the various data breaches, outages, and numpty security cockups it's arguable that "the West" is doing a better job of hurting itself than ISIS or whoever could dream of.

What's that now? They've bought shares in Talk Talk?

Re: Really?

The only thing such would-be witty comments show is the depth of the commentards' ignorance.

To be fair... Those of us not yet lucky enough to have survived into our 70's (many won't) are probably still thinking of 'our' grandparents.......

Re: Result

Glad to see that commonsense has won out here.

Commonsense? They are running scared - If every other project stops using stuff they 'own', they don't get others working on their stuff for free.

They can eat the cake, but they can't 'have' the cake. Too many groups worried they'll turn around and 'have' them too.

Re: Cmon, have guts

Worse than China? Saudi Arabia? North Korea? Really?

Worse, because those in government in the 'Free World' should know better - and they hold their citizens to a higher standard (supposedly) so they should reciprocate.

As long as it isn't saddled with systemd

if it's Gnome of course it be Systemd.

Re: Why not fuck off and sort out Brexit instead

Prime Sinister*

Quite good - only really gets childish if it's overused, otherwise it's a humorous.

I am reminded of Colin Baker as Doctor Who on trial on Galifrey, when he intentionally fudges the prosecutors title (Valyard) (barnyard, scrapyard...).

I'd vary it, (Prime Misery, Prime Monkey...)

Re: Shower

Accountability is dead and buried 50 feet under these days.

I'd hardly expect the western powers to be concern with it's citizens private data, breached data likely hoovered up to add to the 'haystack'.

got away with lying to a Parliamentary Committee about it.

No need for them to punish someone who unwittingly aided the data fetish, committees and hearings are just pointless acts to be carried out in order to look like something is being done, and the government wasn't in enough danger for a scapegoating to be necessary.

Re: Why oh why

Can't it look like a proper DALEK!

You haven't seen Fiats 'city' cars then....?

Re: This looks cool but...

...I can't try it out. I'm stuck in Vim and can't figure out how to quit.

...That's a joke right........?

handwriting is dying out...

The best of both worlds. I only got into computers because my handwriting is terrible...

Same here, (left handed for a start) - although, a couple of years at college with ex-industry lecturers who could talk off the top of their heads for 3 straight hours means my handwriting at least has character even if it's still illegible rather than like a relative coming up a few years later (when photocopies were cheaper) whose handwriting looks like an eight year olds.

Re: Time matters

Anyone who believes that the industries will stop with baked-in video encryption is sorely mistaken

Probably way past time we 'forked' the internet anyway - it's become increasingly a shopping /TV channel with filled with propaganda and looney mainstream fringe junk myths, lies and idiocy instead of useful information of benefit to humanity.

Oh, and bring back Technocracy.

Re: Or buy an Intel NUC.

why would I want to spend that much on an Intel NUC?

We all know 'Linux will pretty much run on any ancient old kit...

There's expensive pretty (i.e. HP's new shiney) , then there's moderately priced make-do for those who would like the tidy, but can't justify the price....

What you are suggesting is recycling yer' MA's drawers...

Will 2017 be the year of Linux on the desktop?

1999 was year of 'Linux on the Desktop for my desktop, I've been content since.

Re: Take a Stand...

That means all my games..Until then it's just a toy OS.

Oh, the irony....

Re: America is in decline! Go elsewhere

Problem is, it feels like everywhere is in decline.

It's partly what drives the paranoia behind the border intimidation - and of course governmental response to a changing world political climate naturally just exacerbates the situation.

I get the feeling we'll be getting nostalgic for the mostly stable 'high' civilisation of the cold war soon.

Re: "a design defect that causes the battery life to diminish"

Um, not defending Apple by any stretch, but I do believe that battery life tends to diminish with or without design defects.

Your average apple customer doesn't know that - I imagine $200 vs $50 and the advertising claims durability and long life (along with the usual unspoken apple lifestyle promises) - you expect the battery life to be three times longer.

It's the Samuel Vimes 'boot's issue - and someones noticed the expensive boots are cardboard, not hard wearing leather.

Apples over-hyped claims have come back to bite them.

Re: Seems a little confused

He seems to be confusing data protection with the protection of property rights or just merging them all together because they also use the word 'protection'.

So maybe we're going to have to issue some DMCA take-down equivalent to prevent the likes of Facebook, social media and quasi-governmental agencies from playing footsie with our personal information.

I'm betting this will end up just reinforcing the castle walls for those that already have them, and the villagers will be left with the usual shoddy lean-tos at the foot of the raised drawbridge, as usual.

Re: Hmm..

Have you DuckDuckGo'd anything recently?

I'm fairly certain anyone using that should rightfully expect law enforcement (sans anything better or less effort to add to crimefighting statistics) to pop round to investigate possible cruelty to domesticated fowl.

Or at the very least, drug use...

Sell sell sell.

Bitcoin holders, I strongly advise you to sell now because if NK is acquiring Bitcoins then there will be forces out there.....

How will people pay to get/not get their data released when the next wave of ransomware/locker attacks popular Os's/windows in a year/few months?

Re: Smaller - tougher? - display please

Why we can't see a return to flip & slider phones is beyond me.

Probably 'cause of some market research tells them the design won't sell, or won't sell in region or set of regions.

Problem is, you never really know for sure if the choice isn't 'on the ballot sheet' people 'can't vote for it' market sampling isn't proof.

However they may be right. I've certainly never heard the non-tech phone buying crowd I'm familiar with bemoaning the lack of old designs. They just accept what's available as the nature of the world around them.

3) An album by Jean Michell Jarre

That's 'Equinoxe' or 'Équinoxe'

Re: Quick note from easyDNS

In this case, they are clearly taking note of experiences of hosting company Z, whom X went around saying agreed with their views because they did business.

They gave effectively said that they stand behind everyone else they host

No, X, claimed their previous hosting company stood behind them - I'm not surprised any company that wants to be neutral declines them at this point.