Posts by Aaron Em

Re: Can we please...

The Reg has ads? When did that happen?

Nothing attracts downvotes

like whining about downvotes.

Re: What about insertion force?

Big handle on the back makes me think it takes a pretty good shove. (Fnar, fnar.)

I'm more wondering why the socket's the side with the conductors exposed. Seems a bit risky to me.

Re: Wil who?

Good on him for not ending up another Gary Coleman, tho.

The point of Pinterest is to make money for the people who built it.

Re: Client for win7

What, the unnecessary SMB weirdness isn't enough for you? You want to support another, even flakier, fileshare protocol too?

I think you've come in the wrong door, fellow -- the masochists' club is just around the corner. You'll know it when you see it, it's the one with broken glass set into the doorhandle.

Probably not many

The question is, how many are trying to hire an IT professional and either a) see 'hacker' and think 'what an idiot, this guy admits to committing crimes, next!', or b) see 'hacker' and think 'what a hairy-assed weirdo, this guy will be impossible to manage, next!'

"Nothing new" indeed

Bet you've never offered to let one of 'em keep it...

"This won't stand up in court."

Summary judgment for the defendant, plaintiff to pay court costs.

Re: Moisture sensors

They do -- iPhones also have them, inside the headphone jack, and they're used for the same reason.

Even without them, though, I think I'd rather claim for replacement than repair -- who wants to use a laptop that reeks of piss?

No kidding

It'd be easier to laugh at if it didn't give the impression of having been applied with a spade.

Re: Easy does it!

By the mass of the earth? You mean including all that interior mass which couldn't give a damn what happens to the climate or anything else on the surface?

Never get away with it

It'd be too obvious while you were setting it up; no one who knows about it is going to let it slide, for the same reason everybody agreed back in our parents' day that FOBS was taking it just that extra little bit too far for comfort. (Which is, for those who might be wondering, why Kim Jong-un's favorite new toy has everyone so worried.)

Honestly

I'd prefer a reference to Ms Stob's latest. Where's the fun when everyone's doing it, dear?

Re: And I for one

If it's works of art you want to create, precious, hie thee to a university CS department. Me, I'm just glad to know there's likely to be a little work out there for me when I'm old and gray and can't afford to retire.

What Raspberry Pi users?

I can't even find one person who's actually received one of the damn things...

A swat on the ass usually did the job for me

...oh wait, I forgot, that's child abuse now, as no doubt also is suggesting that anyone undertake such a criminal act.

Mine's the one with the Broad Arrow.

What makes you imagine

you're equipped to tell the difference?

"Attacked wherever it appears"

...unless it's Mike Daisey doing it, apparently...

"I'd forever be putting my thumb on the disk"

Yep -- part of the reason it didn't catch on, I think; whatever the merits or flaws of the format for its own sake, people already used to conventional 5 1/4" disks (i.e., most of them) weren't going to have good results.