Posts by Mark 85

Re: solution

they did start getting strange headaches whenever the blinkenlights were on...

Did anyone tell them not watch the blinking lights? The ex- used to complain of headaches if she was in the room with the WIFI. I taped over the lights, she knew it was still "on" but suddenly, no headaches.

Re: "it is causing quite the furore"

... people who should pay for two seats ....

The airlines do that. And those folks don't get a seat by they emergency exits either.

Rejoice that he's an idiot.

He might (a big might) have talents but no common sense. Seems way too many of these (clowns seems a bit harsh so I'll use "folks") folks stay in one location like Mom's basement which allows law enforcement to track them easily. Which is good for us and bad for the crims.

Re: A singularity enters an event horizon

What is outside the black hole is real spacetime, what is inside a blackhole is imaginary spacetime (at right angles or hyperbolic to us).

Imaginary probably isn't the right word. "Different" spacetime perhaps, but still real.

Wish I could give you more upvotes just for the link alone.

Just wow... what a flustercluck.

Re: I would rather

Given what all MS has laid off in employees and other cost saving/income enhancing things, maybe they've let go of coders and have turned the font designers loose to make it seem better. It seems that an awful lot of tech companies are going for style over substance. Or maybe it's just "marketing rules"?

You never read or have been in combat then. Many people are blown up with very little left to identify them. Or because of the battlefield situation, it's impossible to get them all buried rather quickly. It is said there's still many bodies still unburied since WWI and WWII in places.

However, with the advent of DNA identification, that is changing for many militaries.

Re: NASA proposes; reality disposes

So it's a glorified Apollo judging from the shape and size. Who would want to be in that for weeks at a time?

Re: I this just a problem with Windows 10 or is it also present on Windows Hate

Apparently you aren't. Check your browser version. From the article:; The programming blunder is present in at least IE 9 to 11.

The 2.5x more could be accounted for by using a more expensive Intel CPU and buying RAM from Micron instead of Samsung or Elpida.

Or maybe tax breaks for Apple? Our guy in charge is either very shrewd or very uninformed on many things like the import tax he thinks is paid by China and not the end consumer.

Re: Caught by the auditors

Don't they usually end up in politics?

Re: Shameless repost...Allegedly genuine IBM memo from the 1980s...

It seems there was also another IBM memo that said the best way to clean the balls and keep the mouse "happy" was to remove it, put in your mouth for the saliva to clean it.

Re: Wrong switch.

Wire cutters work also but the sledgehammer is more satisfying.

Re: Overhead sewers

In the sub basements and sub-sub basements, they're well below the sewer lines leading to the street connection. Same for incoming fresh water. The pipe goes down and then the water is pumped up to the top floor. Pipes then coming down feed the building services.

Fresh out of the military and waiting for the new college sessions to start I worked as a maintenance man in a 15 story office building that was 50 years old. A feed pipe broke late one Friday night (more like was dissolved as it was cast iron) and flooded the building. It was impossible to get to the sub and sub-sub basements when I came in Monday morning. Queue up frantic phone calls to turn off the water (city) and electric power (it all came into the basement) and then finding pumps to get the water out. Building was closed for about 2 weeks while the water was pumped out and pipes replaced. Then there was the damage to offices that had been flooded. Good times... NOT.

is it really a good idea to give robots access to nuclear stockpiles?

Only until they become sentient and decide we humans are a problem.

Re: Data collection en masse

Not immune but well lawyered so any problem will be dealt with swiftly. Can let a little thing personal privacy get in the way of commercial profits.

As for the privacy problem... if the thing has a camera, it will be used to in some way the company doesn't approve.

Might as well. Hanging is both too good for them (maybe not on second thought) and no longer an option.

Re: The thick twat

maybe cash or jail time.

Re-read the article... he's getting up to 14 years jail time. Personally, I think things are bit lenient on the likes of them. Maybe go back few decades (ok.. more than a few) and hang 'em on the town square.

Re: What a scumbag

He seems typical of his class. They get there billions and workers who built their business get stuffed. I'm all for free-enterprise but worker bees should get paid equal to the value they give.

Re: Man writes something irresponsible, later judged offensive

There is a problem with that. If Einstein and more than few others were alive today, they'd be prosecuted in the court of public opinion for their doings, intentional or not. My late aunt was Einstein's driver during his time in Los Alamos during WWII. The stories she told, while everyone laughed, would be grounds for taking him out for a public thrashing such as walking out the car to be taken to work without him having his pants on.

Re: Not me!

Well.... yes. Seems way too many companies slurp all they can in order to boost the bottom line.

Re: That would really be ...

'Magic mushrooms" indeed. There's a side benefit to this. When you're done with the computer, you can sauté it in some butter and maybe garlic. Hopefully, it'll taste good also.

@Bruce Ordway -- Re: By the itching of my thumbs...

Just sit back and watch the fun when you do announce your retirement. If it's like the last place I worked, you'll train someone (part-timer or even a temp) and then they'll leave. Chances are, you'll get a phone call inviting you back to train a new person (at a very nice rate also). Oh... you'll get that phone call every 6 months or so. I finally wearied and changed my phone number after the last time.

Re: Is it really art?

Ah... so it was government funded then?

Re: If 36 people is...

Calling someone a Trump is rather harsh isn't it?

Re: 16 years using Windows 95!

I have a friend who's been using 95 for probably that long. Uses an IBM Lenovo and has had to replace components but that thing just keeps on trucking. I will add, before he retired he bought like 4 of them with the intent of 3 being there for "spare parts".