* Posts by onefang

1954 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2017

Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives

onefang

"Horses for courses I suppose."

If we are using all the bits of the horse, that's a fairly large meal.

Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger

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Coat

Re: This is a discussion about sausage rolls

"Didn't Jesus feed the masses with sausage rolls?

"or was it fish and loaves, I forget, it was probably changed for health reasons anyway."

So that'll be fish sausage rolls then.

onefang

Re: keep the kosher sausages right next to the halal bacon.

"Many sausages are not pig. Steak, Beef, Venison, Turkey and Vegan are available."

Not to mention Kanga Banga's, available in any nearby Aussie supermarket.

Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course

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Boffin

Re: My device was speaking to me in tongues

"The catholic concept of hell was COLD, with different levels for different sinners."

Reminds me of the lesson that my high school physics teacher taught one day, about the scientific proof that heaven is hotter than hell. Involved the existence of liquid sulfur in hell, and that heaven was lit by the light of a thousand suns. Calculations left as an exercise for the student.

onefang

Re: Need their contact info ...

I'd charge a lot of money to write the daemon that controls the SuckyBUS.

onefang

Re: Not necessary one hopes

The seniors place I volunteer at still has a working Windows Vista machine. It sits in one corner collecting dust, no one uses it, and it's not even needed, so we can't justify the cost and effort in tracking down a legal Windows 7 for it.

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IT Angle

Re: Interesting from 2014...

'“Daemonic” possession manifests itself in people babbling in computer languages foreign to them, shaking uncontrollably and vomiting APL, pieces of metal and shards of glass flying as they punch their monitors, according to those who believe in the phenomenon.'

FTFY

onefang

Re: Professional not required

Off course DIY isn't encouraged by any major religion, where's the profit in that?

onefang

"Because many of us would like to employ an in-house exorcist to rid our data centres of the evil within."

Just upgrade from Debian to Devuan to get rid of that systemd daemon. Holy water and shouting in Latin are optional.

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Re: Wow

" But personal belief is their own demon to carry"

We need more exorcists properly trained to deal with that sort of demon.

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Childcatcher

"The priests should practice "exercising" not exorcising."

Don't they get plenty of that chasing and abusing children?

onefang

Re: Exorcism?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Or, as I used to say in my mixed genre role playing game days, any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

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Re: Ghostbusters

"Holy crap. I never knew that Holy Water was homeopathic...."

I think you mean holy piss, not holy crap.

onefang

"But how do the seraphymes sing hallelujah if they have only head and a six wings?"

They flap their wings at audio frequencies.

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'"We touch on the most burning issues: '

So burning witches is coming back in style.

'Palilla blamed the rise in demand for exorcism on the growing number of people seeking the services of fortune tellers and Tarot readers.'

Sounds like an escalating war between snake oil sellers. We'll need popcorn, I wonder what that tastes like cooked in snake oil?

Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: Open-source the UPS

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Re: Who will compile my open source UPS?

There is this thing called open source hardware, look it up. The Olimex board mentioned above is one such bit of open source hardware kit.

onefang

Re: lead acid and gassing

"The gas is from the electrolysis of water, giving hydrogen and oxygen, "

Set fire to it, change it back to water, which tends to not go through glass.

Apple's new 'spaceship' HQ brings the pane for unobservant workers

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Coat

Re: Apple FAIL

"Where did this new land come from"

They probably dug it up somewhere.

onefang

Re: Been there done that

Think it was back in the '80s I was working in a place where the front office had all the office walls replaced with glass, and glass doors. One poor guy managed to bang his head rather harshly on a closed door he thought was open. Half hour later someone noticed he hadn't been seen for a while, so they sent me out on my motorbike to cruise the streets looking for him. He was still dazed and confused when I found him.

onefang

Re: What about the manifestations?

"And just to cap it off, not all doors have an indication that it's push or pull only so when you push and nothing happens, you pull, only to find still nothing happens. It's madness I tells ya, madness!"

Reminds me of an ancient ditty from my high school days. "The sign says push to slow the speed, of those that pull before they read." Though perhaps it was the other way around, high school was a very long time ago.

Shock poll finds £999 X too expensive for happy iPhone owners

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Re: Headphone Jack.

Apple is just waiting for all the other phone makers to drop the headphone jack, so Apple can patent their "round headphone jack with square corners, On A Phone!!!".

Good news: Apple designs a notebook keyboard that doesn't suck

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Coffee/keyboard

Two pages of commentarding, and no one has used the obvious icon?

onefang

Re: It's just a simple laptop keyboard, right?

"My last (HP dv6) keyboard, from which I now type, cost under $9, including delivery that took about 4 days."

You can buy keyboards from supermarkets for $9, half hour delivery if I walk there and back.

onefang

Re: And the patentable new idea is ...

"Trump is a temporary blip that will be 'Corrected' in due course, and will be a footnote in History !!!

"But will be the 'Bestest' footnote there has ever been, as he will tell us. !!! :) ;)"

Trump will be the yuuugest footnote in history!!!

onefang

Re: Or just make a proper keyboard and stop making everything so thin...

"Typing? On a *computer*? How terribly 1990's, darlings!"

I've been typing on computers since the '70s. I'm sure someone here has been doing it for longer. There was even an Apple computer with a keyboard that long ago.

onefang

Re: Prior art

I used to call them keyboard condoms back in the '80s, transparent rubberish overlay that snugly fit the keyboard. Much simpler and likely works better.

Boffins discover chemistry that could have produced building blocks of life in space

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Boffin

To all those above worried about vacuums and the cold of space, I note this from the article -

"conditions to those found around a star"

Not that cold around a star, probably not that hard a vacuum either. Probably depends on your definition of "around", "star", "cold", and "vacuum" though. YMMV

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Coffee/keyboard

"Is this enough of a trigger? There has to be some self-organization and self-assembly involved to create life forms. The big question is whether this is something that, inherently, the laws of physics do allow," Ahmed concluded.

Somehow I doubt Ahmed concluded with a comma, there might have been more at the end of that sentence.

Also, I suspect that the laws of physics do indeed allow life, there seems to be plenty of examples around here. Look, found some on my keyboard -->

It's ALIIIIIVE: Boffins detect slow-moving zombie star

onefang

Dunno about coming back to life, sounds more like it's just dieing in spurts. Wait around a few more thousand years and we'll see a smaller burst.

New algorithm could help self-driving cars scout out hidden objects

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Coat

Re: Takes so long to image...

The seem to be multiplying ... like rabbits.

Mines the one with the pockets full of carrots.

onefang

Re: Vibrations

"Even better... have the drone fly on ahead, then you can see on ahead."

And carrying a red flag to warn others about the approaching self driving horseless carriage. Don't want to be scaring the self driving horses too much.

A ghoulish tale of pigs, devs and docs revived from the dead

onefang

Re: Allways Educational!

Doesn't seem to matter how hard I poke at them with the fork, my baked beans refuse to wrestle. Think I'll give up and just eat them.

Reg man wraps head in 49-inch curved monitor

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Paris Hilton

Re: Hmm ... no

"That's about as much abuse of my cervical spine as I feel ok with ..."

I was about to say something puerile about that sentence, until I double checked that in anatomy, "cervical" has two meanings.

Paris probably knows more about abusing cervical spines than I do.

Senate mulls offensive AI, new training tools and now Chinese faceswaps Trump

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“But I also think we have to have an approach to recruiting people that is dynamic, that tries different ideas and has unique partnerships - that is able to leverage ideas that may not be traditional within out military sphere. And I think that’s important because the space that we operate in is changing every single day and so why should our ideas change just as rapidly?"

Bribe them with free drugs and access to peoples private porn collections.

'Repeatable sanitization' is a feature of PCs now

onefang

Re: Call me when they produce a PC that works after autoclaving

I was gonna say that, but add "without being turned off" as HP is touting.

Have an upvote, but no beer, those things are full of icky biologicals.

Maker of addictive tech (Google) criticized by chairman of addictive tech maker (Alphabet)

onefang

Reverse word censor filter.

What the world needs is a word filter that replaces things like "sh*t", "f*ck", and "c*nt" with the words that world+dog knows you are pretending you didn't really type. That shit's not fucking fooling any cunt.

A smartphone recession is coming and animated poo emojis can't stop it

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I bought a Moto Z, and have one of the battery packs on my to buy list. They charge the internal battery from the pack, but do have a mode where they only charge to 80% to extend the life of the internal battery. Which I have been doing for my smartphones for a while, though I tend to keep them between 40% and 95%.

onefang

"2. Retina displays - are these really neccessary?"

For those of us that are nearsighted, retina or slightly better than retina is good. For VR headsets like Google Daydream, more than retina is good, since the pixels get magnified a lot.

Violent, powerful wind that lasts 100s of years. Yes, it's Jupiter, not you after a Friday night curry

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"Didn't think chavs liked tomatoes..."

May have mistaken them for cannabis plants? Apparently they look similar, or so I've been told.

Jupiter has the craziest storms seen yet, say boffins

onefang

Re: So we've finally found..

"Next step is pope sponsers space exploration to find heaven.

"Then we can try to find this so called god/allah everyone claims exists ;-)"

Last time people built something to get to heaven didn't end well.

Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures

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Re: Why not just leave the satellites on the ground, where you can go and fix them in a van...

"Paper maps - for when the journey is part of the fun.

"SatNav - for when you just want to get somewhere without hassle."

Or having the data in a paper map on your phone, and using it without the GPS system like I do. Coz my phone is a lot smaller and lighter than a street directory. Best of both worlds.

Half the world warned 'Chinese space station will fall on you'

onefang

Re: I live in the northern US

"But caused me to grow a second head and develop x-ray vision."

Those are features, not bugs.

onefang

Re: Just an idea

"And everyone underneath the predicted path can stop building bunkers. Win-win!"

That's not a win for the bunker building industry.

Oculus Rift whiffed, VR fanbois miffed

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Re: vr still hype imho

"So far seems to be a game platform."

VR has been around for decades, it's only been the last few years that the price has come down far enough for ordinary folk to play with it. In all those decades, the very very expensive VR equipment was mostly not used for games. If there where not actual practical applications, then they would not have spent all that money.

Android P will hear no evil, see no evil, support evil notches

onefang

Re: When will apple follow suit?

I'm thinking that in about a decades time, it will be time for the Android Apple Crumble OS. Or maybe Android Apple Pi.

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Thumb Up

Re: Pris

Very yummy, I'd vote for that.

Bots don't spread fake news on Twitter, people do, say MIT eggheads

onefang

Re: Basically falshood is like candy and burgers. Designed to be very appealing

I was also going to point this out, and add that the truth is limited to the boring facts, but the fake can be embellished in a totally unlimited way, thus tends to be much more interesting.

Will the defendant please rise? Utah State Bar hunts for sender of topless email

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Joke

Re: Terribly American

"It's fun to follow the women's movement while watching from behind."

It's even more fun to watch women moving from in front, easier to see their tits.

onefang

Re: Full pictures or it didn't happen!

FTFY The article did contain a partial copy of the photo.

Fresh docs detail 10-year link between Geek Squad informers and Feds

onefang

Sometimes it is far too easy to stumble across Things That Should Not Be Seen.

I do some volunteer work at a seniors place, where I sometimes fix up computers for the seniors. The other day one of them brought in their laptop, complaining that their web browser wasn't working. Sure enough, it wouldn't start up. Simple fix, reinstall the browser. Then test the fix, start up the browser, also demonstrating to the senior who was sitting there watching me, that it was now working fine. Naturally the web browser had crashed the last time it had work, so decided to show the last page he had been viewing at the time. Luckily for me, that particular gay porn site page didn't include pictures.