Posts by DropBear

Re: This trend could be stopped instantly

"By naming the victims"

...says the Anonymous Coward. Oh, the irony...

Re: Mythbusters

"That not a single piece hit him: sheer luck."

Well, that, or the basic common sense reflex of never, ever standing directly in the plane of any speedily rotating object regardless of which power tool is spinning it. In some fields (such as ones involving lathes and chuck keys*) this is outright a baseline Darwin Award selector - or so I hear.

* One can always recognize a properly indoctrinated Pro from his springless chuck key - while it's meant to prevent exactly that sort of orbital shenanigans, people seem to find the presence of said spring bothersome for precision four-jaw centering...

Re: On the plus side, instant familiarity

Strange article indeed. Admittedly, most of those cars take more than inspiration from their "counterparts", lifting entire chunks of styling more or less verbatim - but I don't think any of those cars is an actual, old-fashioned, 1:1 copy of another, to be honest. At least, not any more than "Under Pressure" is identical to "Ice, Ice Baby"...

Re: Google needs to fix Google first ...

Not to mention there ought to be a checkbox to tell them not to return the first ten thousand results from different pages of the exact same website considering none of them are actually relevant to my search and one single hit per site would be quite sufficient for me to ascertain that...

Re: emperors new clothes

If you want to know who would invariably get the short end of any "punishable wastage" laws, you only need ask who the ones doing the judging would be, and who is it that they don't particularly like. Does that sound like a great idea to you...?

Re: Windows 7

I don't normally do advocating for the Devil - only when stuff rubs me the wrong way.

- You are also never "in control" of what kind of engine hums away in the bowels of a ship you aren't willing to rebuild yourself. Historically, that bothered an astonishingly low number of captains as long as they were able to steer said ship whichever way they wanted to go.

- So whenever I have an issue with something that almost (but not quite) works - which is basically 24/7 until I just give up - I can just copy-paste the rare and preciousssss magic incantations offered as solution by a fellow sufferer for any other Linux? No...? Sorry, but "X million different Linux" it is then.

- Is this a "have you stopped beating your wife" trick question...? When have they _ever_ listened to anybody over the sound of all that "kerching"?!?

Re: @big_D -- Windows Store, oh goody!

"But I want to do x. I don't want to know about y or z."

Stock reply: "have you ever wanted to live in a foundation? If not, does that make them optional in a house?"

Re: Reminder to self...

...preferably using someone else's swiped credentials.

Re: You could of course have the same advantages _much_ simpler...

"Well so far sandboxing has not worked"

Not that I'm disputing that, but AFAIK sandboxing is not supposed to be about isolating the sandbox from keyboard, mouse and display (or the allotted amount of storage) - it's supposed to be isolating it from all the other sandboxes in the system, and I see no inherent contradiction there as long as the sandboxed app doesn't specifically _require_ system-wide access to fulfil its purpose.

Re: the first rule of Rutherford

...you mean the only people able to positively identify members are... beancounters? When tabulating the membership fees?!? *gasp, shock, horror* I see monumental potential here for a brewing "class war" of epic proportions (poor beancounters... of course...)!

Re: Pick a name, any name

It gets worse - I was beginning to rejoice seeing a recent-ish version of Android popping up individual permission requests for various rights (my older phone is "all or nothing" at install time), only to come to realize that absolutely all apps asking for any right whatsoever work... still "all or nothing", because denying ANY permission, even the least important one, results in all apps simply immediately quitting. There was nothing I could refuse them that would still see them continue, and I tried several different ones, iterating on the permission trying to refuse at least one - NOPE. So yeah, yay, progress*...

* I would REALLY like to know why the permission system isn't doing what the xposed framework already did years ago - namely, it never actually refused an app anything, it just faked everything I told it to deny. Fake position for location, fake empty address book - the works... Why can't we still have this officially?!?

Re: How much more do we need to hear?

Granted, Uber is certainly an easy target to hate. That said, if you're looking for, uh, unbiased news on Uber you're definitely in the wrong place here - I'll just leave it at that, seeing as how even this much might get me censored.

Re: Why?

You may or may not have noticed that this is a clock-cycle-precise hardware emulation, which means that even "fancy" code that does things that are supposed to be impossible on the ZX Spectrum (which tend to fail with superficial emulation) runs fine; also, due to its hardware nature, it features a real expansion port that no software emulator offers - a chance to connect actual hardware peripherals to it should you want to. Actually, I'd be quite interested myself except for a) the keyboard layout which might indeed resemble earlier Spectrum models but NOT the classic ZX Spectrum and b) I can't really justify spending 200 quid on it - that's a month's wage for some people over here...

Re: Filtering Fake news

"So if a member of Hezbollah blow up a bus of Israeli soldiers a terrorist attack?"

And the answer is that it just doesn't matter. The important bit is knowing that yes, "Bomb going off on bus full of Israeli soldiers" did indeed happen. All the rest of qualifying can be done by each to his/her taste - it isn't that part that creates the "fake" in fake news.

Re: Nemo ... Files ... pah!

"I wonder how many people will return from Mint"

Fair question, especially considering that even though I prefer to be as "noob mainstream" as possible in Linux (helps a lot with the 24/7 search for "how do I fix/do <$issue>" apparently obligatory whenever I'm trying to use some Linux distro) and that kinda used to mean Ubuntu, I'm still going to take the Mint route instead, even after Unity going away. It's just that Mate was the only thing I could find that would get me a proper classic desktop experience, and last time I checked Mint's version of it was (after a fair amount of un-mintifying) significantly more polished and free of aggravating sticking points than Ubuntu's. This may have changed since but I have serious doubts...

Re: The advertisers need to fight back!

...the only problem being that a) I have never, ever seen anyone who would _actively be trying_ to watch an ad on the internet and b) obtaining some US visas is much less hassle than passing a CAPTCHA is these days - every single one I'm presented with lately keeps feeding me infinity number of "click on all [...]" tiles, ad nauseam, insisting it's _still_ not sure I'm not a filthy robot. It has gotten so bad that I immediately do a 180 and just close the tab as soon as I see one unless I _absolutely, definitely, positively_ must perform the "protected" action behind it.