Re: I do wonder what coffee addict was desperate enough
"Bloody civets, pooping all over the place. Get off my lawn! ..."
Have a beer, it will help wash away the taste of that coffee.
Posts by onefang
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Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)
Saturday 10th February 2018 13:31 GMT
Re: Lame name options IMHO
'"Robusta" could have been nice: it is a variety of the coffee plant, and also associates with robustness, something one wants in an enterprise platform.'
I was under the impression that what people wanted in an enterprise platform was expensive bloat and job preserving complexity.
Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners
Boffins upload worm's brain into a computer, teach it tricks
Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it
UK ICO, USCourts.gov... Thousands of websites hijacked by hidden crypto-mining code after popular plugin pwned
It took us less than 30 seconds to find banned 'deepfake' AI smut on the internet
Monday 12th February 2018 10:44 GMT
Re: Pornhub is NSFW?
"Who'da thunk?!?"
Depends on what you do for a living. I used to be in charge of a popular web filter used by local schools. Sometimes I had to surf porn sites, purely for professional code maintenance reasons. I would warn the rest of the office (glass walled cubicles), most wouldn't care, some would stand behind me and watch.
Friday 9th February 2018 13:17 GMT
Re: Seeing the goods
"Maybe it is time for pr0nstars to have a unique bar code tattooed somewhere on their skin. It would have to be in a place that would be readily visible in a porno. Hmmmm, where, exactly????"
Considering that in a lot of porn you often don't get to see uninteresting things like the guys face, pornstars have a tendency to have unique tatts and body jewelry that makes it easier to identify them.
Welcome to Jamaica, and have a nice day.
No sh*t, Sherlock! Bloke suspected of swallowing drug stash keeps colon schtum for 22 DAYS
No yolking matter: Google Translate cock-up gives Norwegians more than un œuf eggs
Bzzzt! If you're in one of these four British cities, that was a drone
Corpse! of! Yahoo! drags! emails! of! the! dead! case! to! US! Supreme! Court!
MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)
Wednesday 7th February 2018 12:17 GMT
Re: GPS
"Fortunately, I hear there's a completely new SatNav application due to land Real Soon Now, and being an honourable company Tesla will roll it out to all their cars using the OTA update mechanism."
Hopefully the space Tesla will still be in range for the OTA update, or it might get lost.
Wednesday 7th February 2018 05:40 GMT
"So, Bertrand Russell. Never mind a teapot, it's a red electric car orbiting the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars."
I'm sure that person in the space suit is on the lookout for the teapot, and will grab it to hook up to the infinite improbability drive in the Tesla. If we suddenly lose contact with it, we'll know. Might be why the video feed from the sea platform landing cut out early, whale landed on it.
Home taping revisited: A mic in each hand, pointing at speakers
Friday 9th February 2018 16:36 GMT
Re: What I do actually miss is..
"....taking the specific ring pulls off of Coke/Pepsi cans and then flicking them."
At some point in the '70s they made soft drink cans with pop tops, two circular "buttons", one large, one small. Normally you pushed in the small one, which relieved the pressure enough so you could push in the large one, then guzzle it down with continuous air flow between the two.
Except I would shake them up, push the small button slightly open against my teeth, letting the extra pressure from the shaken soft drink squirt the liquid out , and completely empty them of liquid, but leaving them still sealed, coz the button sprang back when you did that. I ended up with a large collection of empty but still sealed soft drink cans.
US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'
I see you're writing a résumé?!.. LinkedIn parked in MS Word
Boffins crack smartphone location tracking – even if you've turned off the GPS
Thursday 8th February 2018 05:34 GMT
Re: Magnetic heading?
"By the gyroscope. Both it and the magnetometer are tri-axial and can measure in three dimensions. The gyro tells the phone which way is up for auto-rotation and the like (VERY old hat, that). Given that, it's easy to interpret the magnetometer to orient a 3-D compass."
Except for the large amount of drift in those gyros. Gyros are used to track head rotation in VR headsets like Google Cardboard and Daydream, and drift a lot in a few minutes. Which is why Daydream has the built in "hold down the home button to line things up properly" function.
Thursday 8th February 2018 05:27 GMT
Re: So...
"While the typical firewall use is to keep things from getting in, in this case and as the other poster says, the purpose is to keep things from going out. Kind of sad, isn't it?"
Google apps totally ignore my "give fake GPS results to apps" app, I'm sure they'll totally ignore firewall apps to.
I need to root my new phone some day soonish. Only thing that has stopped me so far is that rooting involves asking permission from Motorola, who will then void your warranty. sigh
Thursday 8th February 2018 05:23 GMT
Re: Great!
"Slightly more worrying is the way Amazon etc calculate your street address via your IP address. And get it wrong. Careful when ordering or your neighbours may get your stuff."
Using my IP address to figure out where I am either results in the capital city of the Australian state to the south of me, or the data centre on the other side of the planet where my server lives, coz I proxy most web stuff through that server. IP to location data is only as accurate as your ISP tells the world, coz that's where the information comes from. If your ISP tells the world "all our customers IPs are located at our HQ in Sydney", tough luck. I wonder how many Amazon deliveries get sent there?
Thursday 8th February 2018 05:19 GMT
Re: Great!
"I keep location switched off because I know where I am. I have yet to find an app that tells me something useful about my location that is anything other than fucking irritating."
In all my years of owning a GPS capable smart phone, I've never once had to actually use it for figuring out where I am. I still turn on GPS regularly to use Google Daydream apps, coz Google insists, which wouldn't be so bad if they actually used that to figure out tho position of my head, instead of only using the rotation of my head. Google have no valid reason for needing GPS data in Daydream. Considering any VR app can drain my battery in a couple of hours, leaving the GPS turned off would be a good thing, the battery would last a little bit longer.
LISA Pathfinder sniffed out gravitational signals down to micro-Hertz
US broadband is scarce, slow and expensive. 'Great!' says the FCC
Wednesday 7th February 2018 06:55 GMT
Australia is about the same size as USA, waaaay less people, most living on the coast. By the looks of it USA is trying to reach the same level of crap Internet we have here. Usually it's the other way around, Australia importing all the worst ideas USA has. I'd laugh, but most of my Internet travels via USA to get to the rest of the world.
Can't wait to get to Mars on a SpaceX ship? It's a cold, dead rock – boffins
A Hughes failure: Flat Earther rocketeer can't get it up yet again
Tuesday 6th February 2018 16:31 GMT
Re: 1,800 feet
"I'm somewhat confuddled now.
"A friend of mine, at the actual pub and not facebook, last night said that he'd recently experienced the Rim of the World, nonTM, and yet i'm sure he's also said he's never been outside the UK, certainly not San Bernadino and certainly not by train.
"Surely there must be some other explanation?"
How much had your friend been drinking?
‘I crashed a rack full of servers with my butt’
Tuesday 6th February 2018 13:44 GMT
It pays to plan ahead.
A few years ago I was the sysadmin for a medium sized company. They had two racks in their server room, and had grown to the point where they needed a third. It was gonna be a bit of a tight squeeze, luckily they had the foresight to measure me up at the same time they where measuring up the room. So they could fit in their third rack, and still leave room for me to squeeze between them when I needed to. I joked at the time that if they had not done that, I would have had to swap jobs with one of the programmers, a tall skinny guy.
Much further back in time, when I was a programmer at some other company, I had noticed the hardware guy had a habit of powering up clients computers very quickly after powering them down when he needed to power cycle them. I warned him a few times that he should wait at least five seconds between off and on, which he ignored. Hey, I'm just the software guy, what do I know? Much to my amusement I had the joy of watching him do that to his own computer one day, with a loud bang and smoke just before my " told you so".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
