Posts by Tom 7

Re: WTF

A bad programmer always blames the language.

Goves daughter got a test cos she was coughing and she's a bit rastafarian by the sounds of it. Well the sound was twitter deleting all her posts but it sounded like someone ripping rizzlas from their packet.

Re: Hmmmm

The Hubble Constant is just not growing fast enough it would seem.

Not a valid comparison. A pint was about 30p in my local then so that's over £600 now, Remember inflation doesnt take into account things people really buy.

Re: Satelite designers missed a trick

De-orbiting satellites is something that could be orchestrated into a rather nice fireworks display. However if tomorrow night is anything to go by it would seem that in the UK all interesting night sky events will occur when cloud cover is 100%.

Re: It is incredible

There's a word for that - it just needs repeating 4 million times!

Re: Follow the money.

But money is designed to be unfollowable, It would be very easy for our government to legislate so that money cannot be moved to somewhere it can be untraceable but that would shut down the City overnight.

I find self-checkout a pain but that's generally because I always buy alcohol and you have to wait for a staff member to agree you're old enough to buy it.

The 68010 tightened up on a couple of things to make it Popek and Goldberg compliant to allow proper secure virtualisation. This involved tightening up access to the status register so anything that needed to check the carry bit would stop working. Fairly easy to fix though. Intel didnt get there till 2005!

Re: Lucky he didn't get seriously injured during ejection.

A friend was in the fleet air arm and something broke while flying one day and he ejected at 600kts and only survived because a local fishing boat managed to catch the top of his chute before it went completely under the Med. Quite a lot of him was broken in the incident.

Re: Lord Sumption

But they will have flowered and gone over by the time the lock-down is over. As anyone who has ever bought a beautiful flowering plant from a garden centre and put it in pride of place in the border and woken the next morning to find its the same colour as Percy's Purest.

Re: This the register...

Sarcasm? Pphhth!

Re: @Pascal Monett - So, one Linux myth bites the dust

I've done AV checks on many machines. Its only ever windows generated content that has ever tested positive.

Now this 'new' method has been highlighted I will test all my local machines when I can find a sure way of doing so but given Blackberrys reluctance to provide evidence of its spread in the field I'm not sure if its common enough not to be more of problem testing for it.

Re: The B Ark.

That may have been the case until recently - there are now a lot of youtube videos on how to sanitize your phone. Its post-imperial countries that have difficulty doing this stuff for themselves.

Re: Hobson's choice

Presumably they would have to provide the data/software for the time of the 'crime' - or have they deleted evidence?

Re: Why do so many businesses seem to need video?

Faces are of little use - I find video calling takes me seriously into Uncanny Valley - I think its the eye-contact thing just makes everyone seem extremely shifty. Video is useful for white boarding of some forms and video of some peoples gestures is very occasionally useful.

When I used to do long distance running in the days before fancy water bottles I used to run with nothing but a Yale key in my pocket. On getting a new pair of shorts I found they had a little net pocket in the middle of the belt region the looked key sized - unfortunately it allowed the key to swing* and after 15 miles it had bashed a serious hole in my flesh.

*yes I was built like a stick insect.

Re: Intestinal fortitude

Do you hang the bog roll end against or away from the wall?

Wall? Its only safe on the bloody roof!

Lies dead lies and statistics.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ seems to point to a death rate nearer 20%*. So not testing isnt really going to set peoples minds at rest is it?

*see Closed Cases!!!!!

Re: Whatever for?

Surely the average Pi could outsmart Alexa in the bootup process.

Re: Slip sliding away...

Has no-one had the wit to make a small BT keyboard with a hinge at the back that the phone slots into so you can use it like the Gemini?

Have I just given away another fortune? Probably not - because what you really need is a hinge that takes a small BT keyboard and a phone and that should be 3d printable!