Posts by Hideki

Re: Minors should be different

The question is more why aren't kids and teens shown the appropriate level of respect for their privacy in the real world /and/ online.

Not all parents are good people, some are evil abusive bastards who are good at presenting the illusion of good parents when others are around. I speak from personal experience here. You cannot know if the request has the best interests of the young person at heart and it's a dangerous assumption to make, just because one is a position of power and the other has virtually no rights.

The safest way is to refuse the requests, this they have done and I hope they'd do the same with a living young person.

If parents want to know what their kids are doing on acebook, they might try talking to them like actual human beings instead of going behind their back and eroding any trust they might still have.

Re: I think you mean 30 years ago

Oh please, 30 years ago was 1986, the year the Spectrum 128 and BBC Master 128 were released, they were hardly long in the tooth then, 4 years old in the case of the Speccy, 5 in the case of the Beeb.

Still a great fan of both platforms, the Sinclairs for bringing computing to people who coudln't otherwise afford it and the BBC for creating an excellent machine with a structured basic, an understandable accessible OS and a proper assembler, in ROM.

Still have one of each set up here (although rather modifed/expanded to make use of modern storage solutions, CF and Ethernet in the case of the Speccy, SD in the case of the BBC (Bit banged SPI using the user VIA to do SD access)), if curious see: http://kupo.be/tpics/oldsystems20160307.jpg

Re: PLOS

This.

PLOS One will even waive the publishing fee if paying it would cause some hardship to the researcher.

Re: Nice to know..

Remember QNX

Got it on the front of a magazine

Was very popular with kids at a US school (whose name I forget) as you could boot from it and browse the web while bypassing the filtering they had in place.

Re: Such a choice.

Splitters!

Re: 300mm (= 1') fab

I think we call them shoes.

Re: one small problem : "both halves of the debate"

the ice fields are not growing, they've shrunk for years and grown a bit this year, these sorts of small variations from the trend are to be expected.

Also, there is no debate, anthropogenic global warming is a fact and given the massive latency any mitigation efforts will have to contend with it's not to early to start.

Short answer, the sky /is/ falling and if we don't do something about it now, we're stuffed.

Re: xmas in US

Plastic cheese is not limited to the USA. Unfortunately.

Look at the ingredients list on this stuff I bought from the co-op the other day while not paying attention... (it's 89% not cheese!)

http://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1480488_10153586397710507_1311025223_n.jpg

Re: Is this all done by deliberate DNS errors?

I believe they'll actually null route the sites at the router, although I have no evidence for that, it's just how I'd do it if I were a censorious arse.

If they just do it on a DNS level that's laughable, heh, although perhaps they'll block connections to alternative DNS servers, probably transparently proxy them to their own.

Re: Surely?

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

Re: Less is more @AC

HP weren't the only company to make good calculators...

My Casio FX730P pocket computer has been running for 25-30 years and will probably continue to do so for years to come. Simple design with a built in basic so what it doesn't do now it can be programmed to do, no idea why Casio stopped making those with the Z-1 GR...