Posts by onefang

Re: Old joke!

"We don't even use pens in the voting booth because somebody might swap them out for one containing disappearing ink. So it's short stubby pencils only."

Pencil marks are easy to erase as well. I always bring my own pen.

"If Reg HQ did have a micro USB OTG cable ( micro usb male > USB A female cable) kicking around, they could probably run a better Spectrum emulator experience than the Vega by connecting a gamepad to an Android phone."

I have a plastic clip that binds an Android phone to a PS3 SixAxis controller, and an app for mapping said controller to screen touches. It works via USB or Bluetooth. Works well for all sorts of games, but never tried a Spectrum emulator.

"My guess is an outdated database. (I'm actually in far northern Illinois.)"

Generally the only people that know your IP address and your physical address is your ISP, since they supply the first, and need to supply your Internet service to the second. So we can blame them for GeoIP not being accurate a lot of the time, the source info comes from ISPs.

My last home ISP just GeoIP placed my static IPs in their NOC in Sydney, which was good for privacy at least (I was no where near Sydney). I've only just moved home, and due to reasons had to switch ISPs, dunno yet where they put us, but I think they use CG-NAT, I may be living in a NOC again. For some odd reason, I haven't asked them why yet, my Amsterdam server has recently "moved" to Ukraine, it's GeoIP used to be accurate.

OK, I just checked, my Amsterdam server is back in Netherlands, and my home is two suburbs away, instead of the capital city of some other state. Not sure what is out there, but likely a Telstra exchange, I know it's not the main Telstra NOC for this city, that's in the same suburb as my home.

Re: Hyperlinking OK though

"Quite possibly the intent,"

For that you get an upvote.

"but the early creators of the web were not photographers or others who earn their living by the creation of copyrighted works."

Um, the early creators of the web where computer programmers, who earn their living by the creation of copyright works, called computer software.

Re: There is so much to be wary of here . . .

'Mind you, they also promoted an elder assist program that helped with "lighthouse keeping" instead of "light housekeeping"'

My grandfather used to run a lighthouse, don't think he needed any assistance though, no matter how elderly he was at the time.

Re: Old fashioned

"If you want a really secure voting system look at the vaticans system for papal elections"

Would that include the careful inspection of candidates testicles, to ensure they don't accidentally elect a female pope again? Sure I'm friends with the local city councilor, and I'd vote for him again, but we aren't THAT close.

Re: pot / kettle

"You don't want to read this if you have solar panels..."

Oh good, I don't have to read it then.

Re: Easy source.

"person quit his job and becomes ticher than the world"

Person became tighter than the world? Titchier (as in "titchy" meaning very small)? I'd click on that just to find out what they meant.

Re: I think I can define ClickBait as

"Outbrain and tombola - sites I completely block in my firewall."

Until now I have never heard of those two sites. By the sound of it, hopefully I'll never hear about them again.

Re: "Dazed and confused", surely?

"Well more likely having found a toker willing to share than any dementia,"

With the cops chasing them, Shirley they where Paranoid?

"A TB here, a TB there, and pretty soon you're talking about real disk space."

Now we have TB "sneeze and you lose it" micro SD cards. How many TB does it take to fill a matchbox?

Re: Ah, but

"Bah. Some of us remember storing all our data on C15 cassettes."

Cassettes? Shear luxury. Try punch cards.

Re: No story here

"it will be many years before hard drives are as dead as tape."

Tape is dead?

Re: Long long time ago. in an Age of Conflict and Rapid State Change ....

"Have you noticed practically nobody has any problem with pleasures?"

I often get downvoted by prudes that have problems with my pleasures.

Re: Long ago.

"I had a classmate once who could whistle the dialtone so perfect that he did get the modem at the other end to star negotiating speed, so yeah, it's possible."

I've done that myself, many moons ago. Can't actually send any data that way, but it gets a response out of the thing at least.

Re: Make life easier = tied in to google

"The problem I have with this, is that instead of letting me live my life, these technologies risk tying me into google's partners for services and interfering with my life, instead of letting me live it."

You can always ignore it, or feed it bogus info and laugh at it's silly results.

'As a Brit (from Yorkshire, specifically) the word "Pie" evokes thoughts of savoury dishes like pork pies, chicken pie, etc.'

I believe that in USA "pie" is another word for pizza. Though they also have apple pie. In Australia, we agree with the Brits, especially the good old Aussie meat pie, AKA mystery fun bag. We also have apple pies and fruit pies. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, would feed a family.

Re: Survey...

OpenStreetMaps, with all of the countries maps downloaded onto my phone, works fine for me. One of these days I may actually need a GPS fix, which also works with those maps. Then again I'm a "glance at the map before heading out" kinda guy.

Re: Survey...

A few years ago, in a home not so far away...

The time taken to walk to the bus stop from home, wait for the bus, travel via bus to the CBD (Central Business District, "downtown" I think it is called in USA), get off the bus, walk to the next bus stop, wait for the next bus, travel to somewhere near my office, get off the bus, walk the rest of the way, was about an hour. The time taken to walk to my office from home, was about an hour. I usually walked, unless the weather was lousy.