Posts by John Hughes

Re: A Novel Voting Approach

Now you're claiming fourth largest economy in the world? When do you think you passed Germany?

If your claiming to be a man maybe you'd like to learn to add up first.

Re: Don't gloat yet awhile...

That's how they fixed the difference between 240V in the UK and 220 in Europe. They both moved to 230.

In fact nothing changed but the labels as 220V ~= 230 - 10% and 240V ~= 230 + 10%. Everyone is happy.

How do you prove malice?

in this clip he's generic transatlantic

Last man Standin'

Generic transatlantic?

Not only is the official team song for Euro 2016 in English, so is the French entry for the Eurovision song contest.

Well, the French entry (sung by an Israeli dentist) is actually in English and French.

Bizarrely the Austrian entry is in French, too.

Eurovision is great!

Re: "tcp6 0 0 :::9090 :::* LISTEN 1/systemd"

I've done a bit of network programming and one of the things I've learned is that you should never use your master process to talk to the network.M

Then you'll be happy with systemd -- the master process doesn't talk to the network, it only listens to it.

Re: Risk to who?

Both wrong and right.

Yes, it's a horrible idea.

But no, it doesn't need websites to verify your id with a central dabase -- the just check that your certificate has been signed by the Estonian government.

Re: open source people universally hate Miguel.

He single handedly destroyed the open source community's first and best hope of a unified desktop environment by creating the KDE/GNOME schism.

Whatever you think about Miguel this is just bollocks.

It was Trolltech that caused the "schism" by licensing Qt with a non GPL compatible license.

Re: Shaft them up the arse where it hurts..

Yes, but how many of those NC homophobes will turn out to have a "wide stance"?

Re: yeah yeah

The Russians got a whiff off the leak 2 weeks ago.

By which you mean the ICIJ called 'em up and asked for comments.

Re: ...an addendum to the above...

The main problem with the ECHR is that it is drafted from a completely different tradition of law at odds with our own.

No it isn't. It was largely drafted by the UK.

Re: Meh

Two countries in the world are obsessed with guns.

The US and the UK.

The rest of us just get on with life.

Re: No magic bullet

Apples idea.

Rip off from AEGIS on Nokia N9.

Boring.

HOSTS files are the way to go.

AKP, is that you?

Re: PS/2 Mice

I see no reason why an optical PS/2 mouse might not have a usable lifetime of 20 years or more,

In my experience they never live that long -- the wires break where the cable enters the mouse body. (It's fixable of course, but mice don't cost very much these days).

Re: People tracking? Leave it to the experts.

Google are entirely the wrong people to do it -- all their services are for unreliable delivery of partial results. If e-borders is to be any good it has to do reliable delivery of full results, a much harder job.

Someone who deals with real money, like Amazon or PayPal would be much better at it than Google.

Re: @Pascal

That is of course assuming that the study results were on the mark, and I have some doubts.

Yes, of course you do, dear.

Re: Who knows? Really?

At the moment, if I write to my MP about TTIP, he treats me like a green ink nutter.

Why are you writing to your MP? You should be writing to your MEP -- he's the person who's going to have to accept or reject TTIP.

Re: Maybe

Remember what happened to the crew of the "A Ark". They all died, for want of a skill possessed by the "parasitic drones" on the "B Ark".

(Also, remember that *you* are a descendant of the crew of the "B Ark").

Re: What goes up

The same (or less) energy that was expended to shoot it up.

Re: Moving on up!

And of course the headline is wrong, too.

All those Android phones? They all run Linux.

You could claim that glibc has failed to take the phone market, but claiming that Linux hasn't is just ignorant.

Re: The guns

And the Stormtrooper's guns actually fired blanks in the film

I don't see how -- none of them had any magazines.

It would need a new RFC to extend the protocol if you want end-to-end encryption.

S/MIME and PGP don't exist in your universe?