Posts by Robert Carnegie

I'm not their consumer but

Arguably Fox and Breitbart are amongst the best at selling stories with minimal truthful content. They have quite the audience, for one thing.

One "good" bad trick is to report opinion, what's been said by the President or the White House or the candidate running in Springfield. On the other side... well, the other side really, isn't hugely different, politically. Like homo sapiens and chimpanzees, they are 99% the same. What's really different is other countries. Therefore also what's really scary. I don't think I see a lot of partisan content from the other side, except for someone who keeps posting a list of Republican office holders who are child molesters. And I don't know which cases are accurately stated but I assume that those who are known to be child molesters are the ones that we don't have to worry about. Anyway, the point I was going for is that a "news" site whose actual business is transmitting partisan statements from partisan third parties is technically lying only in calling this stuff "news". Oh, and in the words "Fair and balanced." And "Most watched. Most trusted." Though... if you don't "trust" them, then why watch, so they must be at around 99%.

You have redundant parts when you expect some of them to break. So, some of them break Then, more break... You still eventually run out.

S'pose you could send another box up that only contains extra gyros, and that mates with the original. Or send up a new bird with a better camera.

Re: Somewhere, deep in space, three hundred years hence...

So, let's use Jeff Wayne's material instead. ...What?

Re: From bitter experience I must disagree

Wimbledon: presumably different games (or, same game, different matches).

If they pass coverage from BBC1 to BBC2 or back then it's liable to run in parallel on both until there's a pause.

It's how tennis is - when it's on, there's a lot of it. Five-a-side or more would let more people play at one time and on one TV channel.

Re: Look out

Vaping causes drooling dementia in 90 percent of users exactly 20 years after the first or only huff. Possibly. But since it isn't 20 years yet, it hasn't been detected. This is how medical research works: long term effects require long term research.

Oh, it's 30 years if you were just standing next to a vaper. But whichever comes first.

Re: Please forgive my ignorance, but isn't "undocumented API" an oxymoron?

I don't know the details, but I think perhaps it's that the Harmony Hub may include open source or other imported software that implements this API as well as other functions - but Logitech didn't plan to offer this API or advertise that it was there in their device - although not in its specification?

419 not 491

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam unless for some reason you did that on purpose.

"The number 419 refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud."

Re: why aren't we blaming millennials' parents

We are the parents...

Re: New icon design

The Fendahl in 1970s "Doctor Who" were a "gestalt" organism, and not one to get involved with. The Time Lords uninstalled the lot of them, but one escaped...

Re: Oh well.

If you're referring to the "Pension Protection Fund", I think that's paid for by taxing other pension funds. Which means basically that pensioners and pension fund members are paying for it. Now, ideally that's everybody.

Possibly inspired by the USB C connector - the other day I found on sale a patented Micro USB charging cable whose plug goes both ways - if you plug it "upside down" it still fits and works. For power, anyway.

Whereas most USB connectors don't work -until- you turn it upside down to insert the wrong way, then the right way.

Re: Isn't it just wonderful ?

Only the alpha or beta unfinished trial releases expire... for now. But each "finished" version eventually will be unsupported, and hacked to heck by hooligans from h-overseas. I suppose you know that Windows 7 will, too.

Re: I really don’t believe in the paranormal, but

Have we mentioned "Pepper's Ghost" already? Done with mirrors of course.

Re: Faulure is extremely valuable

If David Cameron had left the EU when the referendum told him to, then by now we could be already applying to get back in.

Re: re: stop me painting my own copy to hang in my living room.

So if Katy Perry doesn't like President Donald Trump playing "I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It" at his political rallies, it's just too bad for her? Even when he does the motions with it.

Some content has legitimate value arguably by its artificial scarcity, such as pay-per-view shows of "Some People Hitting Each Other".

Many art galleries prohibit photography, if you want a copy of Michelangelo's Little Willie to take home then you must proceed to the gallery's gift shop and try to get it over the counter. I think the days (several days) of lesser painters camping out in the gallery while cunningly producing a duplicate or near impression of the great piece also are mostly passed, but I haven't generally looked.

There is much to worry about in the present Australian legislation, but happily also a fair chance that the entire continent will be razed by fire in the near future, so that those of us who don't live on or anywhere near it can cease to worry about matters that don't directly affect us.

Re: As I have explained to the admin multiple times

Workaround: carve the password into your desk, cover it with a -blank- post-it to avoid suspicion and spying.

Re: Article unclear!

"Protected disclosure" means whistle-blowing, going public, on the company or colleagues misbehaving. Or laptops, possibly. "Demerits" means being punished for whistle-blowing. HTH

Re: ok?

So after we close down Microsoft.com with complaints, what do we do with the domain name? License it to a men's sexual problems clinic?

" I get people who don't know what I do to check my documentation."

Interesting. What do you do? Although I think you want to impress us with what you know. ;-)

If people don't know what you do, won't your documentation tell them what you do? Or is that what you're trying to confirm?

Re: The ISS is getting short of parking spots

I was thinking about what ports I need to look for on my next USB hub or, God forbid, memory card adapter. The one I have now for my laptop has to lie on the keyboard, which isn't practical - even though I'm only using that box as a video player.

"nothing like me at all"

It's exactly like you. You want to play with phishers. Don't. They do this for a living, they are better at it than you are, they will win.

Rocky Channel. Nothing but Rocky. Unless you tune over to Rocky 2.

One suggestion... I won't say a date but equipment existed, probably not legal to use but I may have, er, seen it, which would transmit a signal between your home video equipment for a short distance. The legal issue is that the distance might be outside the owner's actual home. So one theory is that your neighbour was watching Rocky on something like that. But presumably it didn't look like a VHS picture, which is lesser quality than most broadcasts. I suppose laser disc would be better, or was it?

I have technical skills.

I still send messages as punched cards through inter-office mail. :-)

No, of course I don't! Obviously I use paper tape! This is 1970 isn't it!

Re: Not that I would always jump to OpenReach's defence but...

Without a decision on costs, each side pays their own lawyers. Do you think that's OK? Or not?

Re: I have the list of winners!

Sirius is a name in the Harry Potter books... Sirius is a dog :-)

Re: Ajit Pai - Devil incarnate?

Devil-worship equivalent of "tramp stamp"? Uh, no, I'll wait till it's on ol' Satan's Instagram. (...or Pinterest?)(And then... I'm not checking there regularly.)

Re: "it may be possible to exploit the buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code in the kernel"

You certainly can and should update your computer or your phone so that this particular bug is no longer there.... unless you can't. Such as if you buy a phone older than iPhone 5s, and I think you still can from "Cash Converter" type second-hand shops.

Also there's the software update for Apple Watch that just got cancelled - how safe are Apple Watch owners at the moment?

Which option makes SIM swap fraud and two-factor authentication defeat easier or harder?

Not that I know for sure, but I'll guess that this is easier, because - maybe with a jailbroken phone and a bootleg criminal app - a villain can simply program the eSim to be an identical clone of my actual SIM, wait for me to use the underground car park at work with no service, then they are the owner of my phone number and my actual SIM is the clone. What stops them from doing this? Besides that I don't use the underground car park. But I could. If there was one.

Re: baffled now

I gather that The Sun newspaper on 8th February 2000 reported the result of a football game, where team Caledonian Thistle beat Celtic 3-1.

"Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious."

Since then, there has been much of the sincerest form of flattery.

I bet YOU could do one about the British government "Budget" of October 2018, and it doesn't start till about an hour from now. I'll give you "future growth endogenous" as an option. Endogenous economic growth, which is an actual thing, is the best kind of economic growth. [citation needed]

Re: "It's not beyond the wit of a young person to use a literal IP"

I suppose that a "Think of the children!" argument might finally bring about IPv6.