Posts by jake

Re: Typical of the anti-American extreme right-wing Republicans.

I have absolutely zero confidence in the current SCotUS. In fact, if push comes to shove you might say I am in complete and utter contempt of that Court.

HOWEVER, I really don't think even those hand-picked fuckwits would have the damn gall to proclaim Montana's latest tomfoolery Constitutional.

Re: Typical of the anti-American extreme right-wing Republicans.

Voter rolls are filled by physical place of abode, not where you are remoting into.

Unless you are a politician, of course.

Re: Anti-alcohol laws

"This is America, THC gummies are legal and available everywhere"

And because it's legal, the scofflaw side have stopped getting stoned. Now they are killing themselves off with fentanyl.

"but they don't light up very well"

Just exactly how stoned would you have to be to even try that? Remember, kiddies, don't smoke dope when you're already stoned. You don't get any higher, you just get lower on dope. (Apologies to Gallagher.)

Re: Seems strange

This is nonsensical. There is a reason the two concepts are called out in different line-items in The Constitution. It would seem the authors and signatories understood the difference, and why they shouldn't be conflated into a single whole, and indeed require their own completely separate conversations.

Re: Shoe, meet other foot....

Nobody ever backed over their little sister in a driveway with Tik Tok.

Fuck your cars.

_{Non-sequitur is as non-sequitur does ...}

Re: "BOTH groups of wingnuts are trying to dictate what I can and cannot do and say"

"The left-sided wingnuts (twist on / twist off!) have never passed legislation to ban books"

The left wing nuts are trying to ban specific WORDS, regardless of the context in which they are used.

What's worse, burning books or brainwashing the population with newspeak? Burning books inevitably leads to burning humans (read your history), but the idea of massive, wide-spread thought control by intentional language modification scares the ever loving shit out of me.

Re: more unsafe

"Instead you will have to download it from third party sites"

Nope. All you'll have to do is cross the state line and you'll be able download it to your heart's content without fear of the Montana Thought Police kicking in your door. Nothing in the law says anything about using the spyware, it just says you can't download it while in the state of Montana ... and in fact, it puts the onus on the "mobile application marketplaces" (whatever that is) to ensure it's not possible in Montana.

Similar to some anti-alcohol laws, and just as effective I'm sure.

Also, it doesn't take effect until January 1st next year. It'll be struck down long before then.

"there are some really good ones"

From what I've seen, only if you have the attention-span of a cocaine addicted weasel.

Re: Typical of the anti-American extreme right-wing Republicans.

"And no this is not a both-sides problem."

Yes, it absofuckinglutely is!

BOTH groups of wingnuts are trying to dictate what I can and cannot do and say.

Re: Nope

"Microsoft has done really well with RDP."

Sure, if you're a crook. See this ElReg article, posted this afternoon (Wed 17 May 2023 // 20:32 UTC).

"My MacBook air has no display output whatsoever just 2 USB-C."

Presumably you send a login prompt to one of those serial ports ... Man should not live on GUI alone, it's bad for the soul.

"An industry standard in Linux? Really?"

Linux[0] is an industry standard.

_{[0] If you are talking about a specific piece of a specific distro, it helps to specify. Hint: Be specific.}

Re: Nope

"it's not a use case for Wayland"

There are many reasons why Wayland hasn't taken over from X11 after 15 years of trying. This is just one of them.

Wayland might be an OK option for the "Oh, SHINY!" set, but for professionals not so much.

Re: Dystopian Future

Roughly 96.2% of a typical filthy meatbag's body weight is oxygen (65%), carbon (18.5), hydrogen (9.5) and nitrogen (3.2). The next 3.4% consists of calcium (1.5), phosphorus (1.0), potassium (0.4), sodium (0.2), chlorine (0.2) and magnesium (0.1). The final 0.4% consists of trace elements ("contaminants", if you will), all under 0.04% of total body weight.

As a mine for raw materials, a human is pretty low-grade ore.

Re: Dystopian Future

"to be turned into biomass to power the AIs."

This will never happen. We contain too much water, and thus would be an energy sink. If it made sense thermodynamically, we'd be using rabbits or hogs as an energy source right now, today.

Re: AI, AI, AI!

You're deluded, you are.

Fortunately some of use actually know how the equipment works, and understand the manuals are not works of fiction.

Re: AI, AI, AI!

Even assuming a machine can somehow achieve consciousness, which I very much doubt, a machine, and the running thereof, is entropy poor. They break. Constantly. And are not self-healing. They can not, and will not, "take over" until they are capable of running their entire supply chain, and the care and feeding of all that, without Human help. The very concept is laughable. When was the last time you tried to make a simple steam powered traction engine, from scratch, starting with raw ore? Now try it with a modern machine, for example a late '70s era pocket calculator or Casio wrist watch. You really think an intelligent machine could somehow marshal the necessary forces to reproduce, even one random part at a time?

To say nothing of electricity ... as long as there is one Human in the chain, the power can be cut/pulled/blasted.

_{Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer ...}

Re: AI, AI, AI!

"Do not ingest, feed, pet, touch or be anywhere near Shoggoth's."

Near Shoggoth's ... what, exactly?

Shoggoth's feet? Melty eyes? Luggage?

Don't keep us hanging, we're on tenterhooks!

Re: yet more boiler plate email replies

"wonder how long it is before some bright spark has two AIs responding to each other !"

Just over half a century ago. RFC-439 shows what happens when you have a chatbot talking to itself. Ostensibly it was "The Doctor" talking to "PARRY", but both were merely instances of ELIZA.

_{Of course back in 1972 we weren't stupid enough to take and act on their advice ...}

Re: “Everyone gets a bot”

You don't want a boat. All they are is a hole in the water into which you pour money.

However, if you insist, the intelligent owner will minimize the size of the drain by keeping the boat away from the four things guaranteed to ruin it: Sunlight, oxygen, water, and salt. People in the know add humans consuming alcohol to that list.

Re: We need our clear skies

"the Hawaii installation: it does what it days on the tin!"

So does the Zwicky Transient Facility.

The left side was probably assembled with cheap chinesium diodes, the right used the more expensive Zeners, allowing some pressure relief.

Re: "hanging processes"

"another meaning"

I went out and tried to hang ten this morning ... recommended :-)

Re: "hanging processes"

"AFAIK as early as first chapter of the bible it refers to black people being the descendants of someone who had been marked as evil by god"

Have you ever even bothered to read the fucking book for yourself? Or are you like most adherents of the Abrahamic religions, and just parrot what you have been told?

D-, must try harder.

Re: Let's all be more inclusive

That would be most of the British, then.

Re: People with Reynaud's disease will shiver just hearing the term

According to my gay neighbors, that's pronounced LGB+57.

_{If THEY find it funny, Shirley I'm allowed to.}

Re: Funny how the expert...

Not surprising at all. Certain classes of meteorites (of which this was one) are known to have originated at specific times in the past. All you need is a photo, or a description supplied by an expert, to take more than a reasonable guess at the age.

If anything, I'd be very surprised if the expert was wrong.

No, not Russian. Civil War era American.

Re: To be fair...

Came here to say pretty much the same thing ... The cleaners are nearly done, just dusting out the odd corner.

_{One wonders when Dyson will start selling a "NEW GRAVITY POWERED CLEANER!" to the rubes ...}

Re: Farcelink

ElReg didn't put those pictures on facebook, rather the completely clueless idiots in charge of Hopewell Township, NJ did. Direct your ire in the right direction ... or perhaps bid on putting up a proper WWW page for them and make a few bucks out of it.

Re: It Came out of the Sky

That's because we ARE old ... Still, it sure beats the alternative.

Re: Manna from Heaven

Are NFTs still a thing? I haven't heard the acronym in a month or two, I figured all the suckers were tapped out.

I have a couple unexploded cannon, should I be worried?