Re: Remember when yo-yo's came back into fashion ?
Would that be the first time they came back into fashion, or the second time, or...
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So let me get this straight, the only messages "leaked" are "strangers' private messages", but they are all "promotional and mass-mailed messages from Twitch's marketing partners". Riiiight. Something not quite adding up here, that story is leaving my spider sense all twitchy.
"notify all users who had their messages accidentally shared, and give them a full copy of the messages at issue." Ah, the marketing partners will get a bucket load of their own adverts thrown back in their faces. So it's not all bad.
"This makes their lengths at any instant in time indeterminate which leads to the knowledge that should one measure half of its length, the other half will have changed in all but the most unlikely points of the probability spaces."
I think you have the wrong end of the problem.
I'll get my coat, it's the one made of string.
"I don't mind opening the box as long as there isn't a cat involved."
If it's a networked quantum computer, there may be some cat6 involved. So that's six cats, one alive, one dead, one half alive, one half dead, one that doesn't give a fuck, and one that is very pissed off.
"Just why do scientists always think that elements for life on other planets has to consist of what we know about earth?"
They don't think that, it's just easier to peer at tiny dots in the sky and infer the things we know work than try to scratch our heads over things we don't know about, on these tiny bits of evidence.
Once we have studied how liquid sulfur works as the basis of life on Mercury, or whatever, then it'll be a lot easier to point telescopes at distant suns and figure out which of the planets we can't actually see could possibly support sulfur based life forms, based on flickering spectra of that sun.
Give the astroboffins their due, it's hard enough doing the science they are doing, without asking them to search for purely theoretical forms of life. The low hanging fruit is all we can reach for now.
"I read them as saying that if the building blocks are common around white dwarves, they are probably common around other stars, and it's these other stars that might have life. They are not looking for or predicting life around white dwarves."
Yes, my impression is that they where using white dwarfs coz they are easier places to find the specific things they where looking for.
"Earth appears to be unique and inhabited by living creatures, but the building blocks required for life to bloom are actually quite common, according to new research."
My mother appears to be unique and has breasts, says the monk that has spent his entire life in a monastery. His mother is the only woman he has ever seen. The only reason Earth appears to be unique is coz we have a sample size of precisely one potential life bearing planet. So it's no surprise that we have seen only one life bearing planet. We are coming closer to figuring out if Mars and our Moon are / where potentially life bearing, so that'll triple our sample size. We may find others in our solar system, and eventually we might find others in other solar systems. The odds are looking better each time we have a look. Once we actually know more, we may find out that planets inhabited by living creatures are common. We are still in the monastery, peeking out the window, wondering if those oddly shaped people out there have breasts like our mother.
"You say to a chatbot, a Hubot, 'I want a new application,' and Moda just bootstraps a repository, puts all the Kubernetes config in there...and you can just start developing really, really quickly."
Oooor, just push the "New Application" button, and be developing really, really, really quickly.
'It's actually "arm" if you look at the most recent company logo.'
Dammit, arm and nbn and internet and ...
I went with uncapitalized "onefang" long ago as a protest against MarketDroids Influencing The World To Capitalize Every Single Fucking Word. now marketdroids are uncapitalizing everything, including acronyms, i just can't win. maybe i'm a trend setter now, and i can sue someone?
The printers heard about the paperless office concept, and have been waging an existential war with us ever since. That's why we now have lots of multifunction printers, they are trying to remain useful.
On Monday I installed one of them on someones desk, a multifunction scanner/inkjet printer. One that had been sitting unused in another office. It's ink cartridges are dried out already, and are likely to remain that way, coz the user only wanted the scanner. I think they recently threw away the fax/printer, coz they no longer need faxes.
The big photocopier/printer in a room by itself was recently hooked up to the network so they could use it as a printer as well. The printer forces won that battle at least. So that's Printer Liberation Front 1 v Humans 2. It'll be a long and costly war, but I think we can win it.
"You can guarantee this won't be reciprocal. No chance that MS will want PCs running Chrome OS."
Microsoft don't have much say in the matter. Yes, I know that for some PCs you need to have your bootloader / OS signed by Microsoft, but you can turn that off for a lot of them. Or run Chrome OS an a locked down PC under a VM.
"I've watched Netflix in Linux many times using Waterfox."
When Netflix first came to Australia, Chrome was the only browser that it worked on under Linux. I've just tested Firefox ESR, and Netflix works fine once you turn on DRM. I guess things have changed. It still doesn't work on my locked down Palemoon, which is my main browser. So now I got choices.
"you might believe that the rapture is about to happen but completely reject the idea of UFO abduction."
They might be the same thing. Unidentified Flying Angels suddenly appear, to abduct all the good worshipers of (insert favoured sky fairy here). After all, depending on your religion, they might be winged women wearing white, marinated meatballs with melted mozzarella, portly penguins parading proudly, or little green men from LGM-1 (AKA CP 1919 or PSR B1919+21).
BTW, I was one of your upvoters, you made a good point.
"I've not been in a plane crash, but if I were, I'm pretty sure that renting/buying a campervan would not be near the top of my priority list"
Well, if you survive, and you can't afford to stay in a hospital, you'll need somewhere to stay while you search the area around the crash site for what's left of your luggage. Parking a camper van somewhere nearby might be just what you need.
"can't someone come up with an app to spaff false location data back to Google to make their data sets useless ?"
There are a few of those, including Androids own hidden developer settings menu. Google's own software ignores them and gets the real location, all other apps get the fake location. You need root to be able to actually lie to Google's software.
Wrong song though. The first paragraph of the article was -
"In a week when NASA flung a spacecraft into space to touch the Sun, Microsoft has brought darkness to Windows 10, given Skype Classic a mission extension, and continued its efforts to send SMB1 screaming into the heart of our nearest star."
They should have used Pink Floyd's "Set the controls for the heart of the sun".
"You neglected to mention Android or iOS, one or both of which are required to use this. So it is not really a replacement for Skype after all."
I guess you are talking about Signal, which has a desktop client that runs under Linux at least. I think it runs under Mac OS and Windows to. Though it just seems to be a skin around Chrome. So no, you don't need Android or iOS to run Signal.
"I have left some things out, and don't know about others... nor do you."
One thing I keep seeing being left out of any discussion about burner phones in Australia, by law you need to provide identification to get mobile service. This makes things a bit more difficult for the burner phone consumer, and a bit more lucrative for the fake / stolen ID market.
What I kept seeing is the word "company", I'm not sure if any of these new laws apply outside of a company supplying goods or services.
"whats to say under this legislation a software developer doing something like Linux kernel driver or xorg development wouldn't get a tap on the shoulder"
So perhaps open source developers doing it for free are exempt? Shhh, don't let the gruberment know about this little loophole. I'm hoping the laws don't apply to my European server that doesn't sell anything.