Posts by quxinot

Re: Woke, Blame.....

It seems like I've been living that life for years, Bob.

Re: Tell you what...

If I wanted my car to take me whereever it wanted rather than where I wanted to go?

I'd let the wife drive.

(Jury's out on which the more expensive option is, mind you!)

Re: Mock tech-knocking as much as you like ...

>I bury all my victims in disused salt caverns

Doubles as a trophy room once they mummify, too.

Remind me not to look at your Instagram.

Re: Detecting track breaks

That is one underrated piece, joking aside.

I wish more people listened to it.

And I wish even more people sang it. Constantly.

Re: when to use the word "fewer" instead of the word "less"

The English have always added extra vowels to words. They were stolen from the Welsh in the 1400's. Honest! Look at a Welsh sign! Sixty consonants, no vowels. Vowels are displayed by the English as a sign of dominance!

(Maybe not, but it's always made sense to me.)

Please don't say that. There's already one nasty disease that the world is trying to handle.

Close your eyes and mentally replace each instance of "Openreach" with "IBM".

Not only does it all still fit very nicely, it paints the path ahead pretty clearly as well.

Re: LOL

Has a company, once attacked, ever stated "Wow, this is really bad! Our junk got spread to the four corners of the world!" instead of "No production stuff, customer stuff, or anything that we can be made to look bad or get sued over got stolen"?

I mean really. It's like expecting a politician to not lie. We know better, we just don't know when the full extent will be published (probably 6-12 months from now).

Doubly damning from a security firm, of course. First getting pwned, and second either lying or being unaware of the scope.

Re: I mostly use Slackware / But I have mint

This. All the upvotes for this.

Re: One benefit of the reduced number of smokers...

I once performed maintenance on a computer owned by a heavy smoker. And worse than dogs, she kept.... ferrets.

Dog hair and tar is not pleasant. Ferrets are apparently ungodly smelly critters (I assume all of the mustelids are, really), and it does not improve when their dander and fur is glued to every @#$%# surface within the machine.

Now that I own a reasonably sized ultrasonic cleaner, not ONCE have I needed to clean shmutz out of a heatsink. Go figure.

Re: Presumably each SSD has a unique hardware ID

It'd be a shame if there was a piracy tool that would solve that sort of issue.

Huh.

Re: Fire

I was going to point fingers at MSI, myself.

But yes, it was absolutely commonplace to see bulging caps (at best!) for several years afterwards. That said, I think I only saw one video card with such issues, and for the life of me cannot guess as to what brand it was (I'm guessing EVGA, but that could be incorrect).

Re: "a smartphone today is more powerful than a typical PC back in the '90s"

More importantly, smartphones today are rather pathetically slow for having as much computing power as they do.

The software is craaaaaap. Sadly, that's where the industry has been going.... and going... and..

And periodically we get the story that reminds us that apparently 'deactivated' apps are still funnelling your information to sources that you didn't outright agree to, right? Nevermind that it's still not unheard of to have Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, whatever apps that are non-removable.

Maybe your information isn't important to you.

Mine is important to me.

Re: And after 30 days...

An unpaid fine should be considered theft from the government, and treated as such.

Re: Unsure whether

Dunno, i thought it was an excuse for that title, really.

Re: Just cancel them on mass

Honestly, it'd be nice if they took the concept of executive order and hacked the balls off it. It's been used for very little that it's intended for in the past couple decades.

Seems to me that the US government's system of checks and balances was originally installed with a good rationale, and all of the folks bypassing them need a good swat. Wouldn't hurt to see a good deal more 'balance' than 'power' in the old phrase.

This article is worthless without pics!

Re: How much ?

Sometimes you learn and still cannot solve the problem because it's not an option.

For example, when you are voting against someone instead of for someone, as both choices are bad--you default to voting against the worse rather than for the better.

Re: Have WhatsApp halted the "privacy" change?

Ahem.

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Thank you for sharing that.

Re: Facebook Times Up

Well, can we all just agree that the entire system is pretty well screwed up?

Once a company gets to a given size, make the directors responsible not just financially, but criminally as well. Let's talk jail time for blatant abuses, instead of providing them bills that they'll pay with other people's money?

While we're wishing, how about providing the lawyers a stake in it as well? Frivolous lawsuits would drop dramatically if the lawyer was also personally responsible.

Then let's have real fun, and treat a government in the same fashion, and actually hold elected officals to the same set of standards for corruption. Let's see their financials exposed so we can see just how big the payouts (alt: bribes, alt: contributions--depending on your views, but I know what words I'd use....)

Won't happen. Lawyers become politicians to protect lawyers.

But it's long on information about battery life when 'lightly used', which is not remotely definable.

Hell, my phone's battery is smaller than that and lasts an age if it's off. Not a useful metric. Here's a better list of the specs without the storytelling involved:

https://www.gsmarena.com/realme_7_5g-10590.php

Re: Spartan indeed

Read that as "spaying" and immediately thought that while I've worked in some bad jobs, it hasn't been that bad yet!

Re: Bork bork pork

It's very typical. The payout isn't remotely the largest part of the bill.

The lawmakers are more interested in their personal projects and view the voting taxpaying public as a nuisance. So use the bill to fund their own agendas while trying to provide exactly enough stimulus to prevent rioting.

Same thing happened with the prior bill for relief funding, but much of the pork sloughed off. Government in action.

Re: Note for prospective farmers:

Why are you shooting cows for meat? If they're producing milk, you don't shoot them!

Steers for meat, sure.

Re: Irrelevant

IBM is still around, after ceasing to be useful how many years ago?

Re: Driving a Pagani

Sure, but he's also known for crumpling a number of cars himself. So maybe it is apt?

Re: The First Law Of Computing

Computers are naught but dumb machines.

Well, relatively dumb, that is. Positively brililant next to the users....

Re: Who NEEDS a desktop?

I wonder if it also has anything to do with the fact that a desktop with a fault is fixable. A laptop with a fault is frequently garbage....

Re: Unnecessary design

So use carbon fiber with a pretty weave or fancy color.

"The new iPhone's iFiber case is a marvel of space-age technology, engineering, and beauty! The composite materials use a rugged matrix of fibers encapsulated in a multipart...." Etc. "And a bargain at twice the price! Optional to customize your phone to your busy, exciting lifestyle for a moderate extra cost...."

Re: Uh-huh

Don't be silly.

Instead there will be a Tesla owner's loyalty rebate of nearly four (!) percent on the new model!

(Fixing problems is for automobiles. These are phones with wheels, you throw them out when they go bad.)

Re: Satknaves

What I'd give for a 'mute' setting for mine.

Re: Brilliant. Keep it up.

I want a bit of both.

A gas cylinder tied to a broomstick with a cattleprod affixed, and the whole lot controlled by computer. I think with the correct modifications to said cylinder to allow separation, you could have a cattle-harpoon setup, and that's really the most appropriate way to not only provide social distancing for yourself but even spare yourself the risk of getting up out of your chair to use it on appropriate targets (assuming open-plan officespace--with enough power, it would work through walls as well, I'd imagine.... hrm....)

Re: Somebody please tell me....

Strong sense of right and wrong, but only to one's own belief system.

Which may differ quite greatly from the society around said person.

Well obviously!

Though the US watchdog says more security, and the US also says no effective encryption. Huh.

To be fair, it's nearly impossible to find anyone qualified to teach critical thinking. Of the myriad teachers I've had, those who actually said the words 'critical thinking' were frequently those least qualified to discuss it.

It's quite a shame that so much education is so narrowly focused. Having a broad base to start from, even if it isn't in-depth to any serious degree, makes application of what you're specifically studying that much better. Including little things like troubleshooting a computer that appears completely dead, per the article.

Re: Been there, done that!

The Mafia is effective and has a sense of honor.

Politicians on either side? Not relevant. The highest bidder will be, per usual, dictating the government's actions. The government office holders have the simple job of generating controversy to take the limelight off these machinations.

It's surprisingly effective, and not new at all.