Posts by Francis Boyle

Re: Ghostery

From my reading of the article they're using the data to get a sense of where their ads are been displayed as in they don't trust the outfits that are selling them the space. Can't say I blame them on that score.

Hold your horses

No one's saying the police shouldn't have investigated. The news is reported here because someone at El Reg thought it was interesting, a view apparently shared by the police themselves if the hashtag is anything to go on.

Re: "Two companies, both alike in dignity, in fair Milan"

It is the east and Steve Job's ars. . .

No thanks

I've heard about bush meat.

Re: Regularly spaced dark spots?

Hello Sweetie?

Re: What a difference...

"Psychological reports presented in the case claimed he suffered from severe narcissism, has emerging psychopathic traits, and is oversensitive."

And prison is sure to fix that. For the wellbeing of the community if nothing else the guy needs proper pschiatric help.

You forgot the important one

People to shovel all that horseshit away. And sadly that's not a joke.

I wrote my master's using Wordstar on an early PC and was quite happy with it. It's my experiences a few years later using Word that I don't wish to repeat. (Best part of a minute just to start the program, getting random reverts because I had foolishly turned on quick save, etc.)

Not according to

Clarke's (Third) Law

Yeah

Don't make me post pictures of my scars.

Rebirth

(IIRC) with its animated dangling patch cables. Believe me if you think this is skeumorphic you haven't seen much of the audio software that's out there.

When Ziggy was headhunted, I doubt "has vision" appeared anywhere on the list of requirements.

It was probably all over his CV though.

Good comedy

exaggerates Bad comedy misrepresents. Try adding Stepin Fetchit to your list and see how far you get.

Re: Rational decisions

"What they don't consider is that each sub-optimal buying decision reduces their disposable income until they can no longer avoid strict economic decisions."

Well the point of being rich is that you will never have to make those "strict economic decisions". Good old conspicuous consumption for ever and ever. Of course if you're merely well off and you don't recognise this then maybe you have a problem.

Heard of them

Too expensive.

Re: I like the look of that very much indeed!

Seconded. All those lovely knobs and sliders to twiddle and whatever you do with a slider.

Re: Cannot imagine wanting under any circumstances

I have an 8TB Seagate shingled drive sitting on my desk right now. Definitely a consumer drive (~AU300) and definitely useful. I shoot a lot of HD video and I have no intention of losing it to a crash. Speed is perfectly adequate in that I haven't noticed my backup jobs to be significantly longer.

Don't worry!

The giant Europan slugs are filter feeders like whales. On the other hand they are extremely sexually dimorphic and this thing looks suspiciously like the smaller male form (basically just a self-aware penis).

Re: I'm Resting!

It's certainly going on my list of bad band names.

That part of the article is very badly worded

I assume the photons start to regain the lost energy once they pass the centre of the void. But by then 0.9 billion years have elapsed and the universe is less dense so they'll never recover it all. Hence the very slight cooling.

Re: "Marquise" Marconi was a low level noble PATENT THIEF and FRAUD....

Faux Science Slayer thinks someone stole something from Edison. Now I know he really is crazy.

Re: 4pm == rain in Florida

Don't worry the rednecks guns don't have sufficient range to shoot down a rocket - not until someone builds a nice laser rifle at least.

You forgot the slot

Gotta have a slot!

Re: The Problem

"The problem isn't technology, it's people."

Exactly! That's one of our unofficial mottoes here at Cyberdyne Systems.

And here at Cybus Industries we have already fixed that problem.

Re: My vote ratio is approaching Pi

Sorry, I upvoted that because it amused me. If it helps I could downvote a few of your past posts.

I prefer .estmerde

Sometimes you just have to go with the elegance of French.

Re: Uncomfortable?

"Surely that's already covered under the common law."

You've never been on the internet, then.

Yes, I was really "annoyed"

last time I was killed by a distracted driver.

Even "rabid libertarians" understand the need for laws against potentially lethal activities.

Re: Bombing of Register HQ in 5.4.3.2.1.

Patience. They still have to finish the secret submarine base under Rockall.

Why do you think LOHAN been taking so long.

No Bono

is a bonus!

Re: Is Superfish really showing porn ads?

Always buy one from each party just to be sure.

Re: ATX is about 20 years old

"does anyone say 'upgrade' anymore?"

I do. 'Refresh' sounds like something involving lemon scented napkins.

Re: Maker community?

A horribly pretentious name but since it's now been appropriated to describe schoolchildren gluing pieces of macaroni onto paper I doubt it'll last long.

Re: Can we apply the word 'failure' to this?

A test is only a failure if you don't get the data.

Re: Gissa job

North Pole! Northern Hemisphere Chauvinist. South Pole's better. There's penguins and you'll have somewhere to stand when the ice melts.

Branson maybe

but Musk has real vision. Even when the project is a bit out there like the hyperloop it's not mere dick measuring. (And if Branson has any aspiration to be the British Musk he'd be better off funding SABRE.)

Forget olympic swimming pools or london buses

Bring on the Scoville scale.

Equally there have been (US) cases where they have been allowed. Since Google presumably have clean hands in the matter I'd say there chances are good.