Re: Glassholes
If British, shouldn't it be "Glarsehole"?
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"WTF are 'paedophilic manuals'?"
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That sounds impressive - if it can block all commercially available laser wavelengths, without blocking an unacceptable level of the rest of the spectrum (it's still nice for pilots to be able to tell what colour of lights they're seeing outside the windows) then the problem is solved.
I'd even want glasses with this in; it scares me to think what a nutter with one of the higher powered pointers could do if they were to intentionally shine it in people's eyes, just walking down the street for instance.
“unsecured WordPress scripts which allowed [hackers] to install a UDP relay service on the customers [sic] virtual server. This UDP relay service then sent traffic between itself and other compromised servers on the network, the traffic proliferated until it hit its capacity.”
I seem to recall this from one of the BOFH's/PFY's excuse sheets.
"develop the Mk 2 that will be a lot more ... discrete."
Agreed, it's almost certain that that will happen; I can't imagine myself wearing something like that for long stretches (I know it's probably not that heavy, but it just looks horrendously asymmetric and irritating for the wearer).
Several things would have to happen for me to consider getting one:
- a reduced price; $1500 is a bad joke
- a reduced size; unless it can be squeezed into frames no larger than stereotypical NHS/hipster glasses, it's not going on my head - offload some of the work to a phone or some other wearable computer if necessary
- it's also got to look like glasses so as not to tip off potential muggers, although if the price does come down this would be less of a problem
- a HUD mode; information off to the side of my field of view will be useful in some situations, information overlaying reality makes sense in a lot more. An unglamorous example of a killer app for this would be something that constantly scans my field of view and highlights turds on the pavement with a flashing brown warning symbol. Something more justifiable might be Haynes manuals highlighting engine parts as you look at them. Also, you know someone is eventually going to write a version of adblock for real life,even if it's going to be an inevitable sideload.
It's a good idea, I learned the benefits of watching my money through (bad) experience.
It's the work of a few minutes to knock together a spreadsheet plotting regular in/out transactions for your account(s), add some estimates for the less regular expenses like food/transport and you can quickly see when/if you're going to end up in the red.
Another useful tip is to make sure you have a no-annual-fee credit card, that doesn't charge interest if you pay off the bills on time. Put as much of your spending as possible on it, and pay just before the due date - online banking makes this easy. Quite a lot of things you might not expect can be paid by credit card actually can be - things like council tax or small (<£1) transactions in larger shops, for example. The basic idea is keep as much balance earning interest in your current account (if it doesn't, change banks) as possible rather than getting spent on debit card or cash transactions.
Also occasionally helpful is buying something on the credit card and returning it, getting the refund on a debit card - I've done this, but only if I was going to be returning something anyway.
It's not that bad - it's (goon visit) only happened to me once in about 4 years; I just said I didn't need a licence and when he asked if I had a TV, I repeated myself, then shut the window (it didn't seem to be worth a trip to the door).
The letters go in the bin, only opened if I get curious about how shrill and overblown they've become.
(Non-live) iPlayer is perfectly legal without a licence, and I make good use of it. The current situation suits me perfectly.
If Google/Netflix don't get their way on this, it could get messy - I assume Google has quite a large number of IP addresses from which it can fling packets, as well as various other ways of obfuscating the content it's sending.
Imagine playing whack-a-mole where the number of holes is equal to the number of ipv6 addresses Google can control - youtube.com just becomes a portal, the actual video data comes from all over the place.
(Yes, I know the ISPs could just block youtube.com altogether, but that's probably a bit too blatant.)
"It's spoilt 14 year olds who've never had to pay for any of their kit and find the misfortune of others funny."
To be fair, finding "the misfortune of others funny" isn't unique to particular ages - briefly browsing the Reg forums on any tangentially political topic will demonstrate that.
"a lighting rod for people who are overly preoccupied with their posterior"
This brings to mind someone possessing buttocks so gargantuan that in order to observe the relevant area, they do not just require your normal everyday bathroom lights or torch - no: they require a lighting rod, presumably in conjunction with one of those mirrors on a stick you can check the underside of a chassis for suspicious, potentially explosive items (and also can be used to look for bombs under cars).
"So remind us, what was the point of Neelie Kroes again?"
If that isn't rhetoric, I don't think Neelie ever said anything about roaming outside the EU -- it's significant that 3 are actually doing this, but the EU's objective here is to get the mobile companies to treat it like the single market it (legally, if not yet actually) is.
We can never know if this is true or not, but I suspect 3 UK customers would still be paying extra for "roaming" onto 3 Österreich's network if she hadn't been making noises about this.
More like:
You want taxes? Hmm, can they be paid as a percentage of the minerals we're extracting?
Cool.
OK, we've put together the payment, it's in tungsten, 1m diameter, 100m length rods, we're not sure where exactly you wanted it, so we've just put it on a trajectory that should be right outside your tax office.
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I think the idea that it's possible to change/"cure" someone's sexuality isn't credible, except in the nuttier congregations in places like USA/Uganda.
You're probably looking at trying to help people channel their sexuality into exclusively legal activities, which I expect is bloody difficult when you're dealing with an attraction to children under the age of consent.
Imagine if a law was passed tomorrow criminalising any sort of sexual activity with adults, and possession of drawn/photographed/videoed pornography featuring adults. Also imagine that breaking those laws was regarded as worthy of a lynching by the majority of the population. I do not know what I would do in that situation, but it would probably depend on whether it was easier for me to drive to a very high bridge/cliff or get a shotgun license.
For most people, trying to help paedophiles live non-offending lives, surely falls in the "too difficult to even attempt" category.
Also, no politician is going to touch it with someone else's sterilised 10-foot pole.
This reminds me of a while back (in the UK) when the police raided a house and shot someone (non fatally) while under the mistaken belief the occupant(s) were involved in terrorism.
Cue an unsuccessful accusation that the injured man had child pornography in his possession.
It was perhaps a bit too blatant use of the "Well, he might not've been a terrorist, but he was one of them paedophiles, so it's all right." defence.
edit:
This is what I was thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_2006_Forest_Gate_raid
I half expect the next wheeze in domain names to be expanding the options available by allowing more forms of punctuation.
For example, it would be possible to register all of the examples below:
companyname,com
companyname;com
companyname:com
companyname'com
companyname"com
etc. etc.
It's what I would want if my salary was paid by ICANN.
After all, doesn't "comma com" just slip delightfully off the tongue?
This looks like Google taking a run up, with a view to planting a hefty kick in the (other) phone companies' collective testiclesmargins.
After all, it's probably to Google's benefit if its users can save money on phone replacements by having the option to upgrade only certain components (so as to leave more left over to buy apps, movies, music, and whatever Google advertises at them).
I (forlornly?) hope it works, I'd like to be able to build my phones the same way I build my desktops.
Also, you'll have a lot of people changing user agent strings to avoid being served the crappy mobile version of certain sites when viewing it in the browser, further screwing up the numbers.
The stupidity of "this content is not available on mobile devices" makes it even more likely. (Which is a shame, because some mobile sites actually work OK.)
"Lotteries are a tax on people who can't do math(s)."
There are some important exceptions to that assertion; in some cases (e.g. after several consecutive rolled-over jackpots, it's quite possible for the prize multiplied by the win probability to be greater than the price of a ticket.
It does get complicated when accounting for all the other factors (taxes, multiple winners with the same numbers, lesser prizes for matching less numbers, etc.), but there are situations it actually makes sense.
It's a bit more of a faff, but wouldn't getting another (no recurring fee, of course) credit card, and using it only for expenses, work just as well? So, every time the statement comes in, you claim the whole balance, and there wouldn't be anything private you don't want your employer to see?
(Assuming TfL ever get the card option working.)
Was it Morrisons? I get the same thing happening when I use theirs.
Other things I've noticed the 1p/2p-disposal machines doing:
Tesco have the amusing-the-first-time-it-happens quirk of the card readers being clamped left and right only, so when putting your card in they tend to slip out the top and clatter to the floor / basket area / behind the machine / any other inconvenient place the cable reaches.
The ones in Sainsburys tend to "just work", apart from the one time it gave me a £5 instead of a £10 note as change (quickly sorted after I told the guy on machine-duty).
"It would appear that no data appears to have been lost."
"The servers [are] now reloading, no data has been lost and 50 per cent of users now have access to the system with hopes the remainder would have access by evening."
Despite what the newer style guides might say, treating "data" as a singular noun still causes my brain to soft-reset every time I read/hear it.
Here's to the Friday-beer method of desensitisation.
I am guessing that when the histories are written, Silk Road will be comparable to Napster.
With all those dealers and customers left hanging, more Tor/Bitcoin drugs marketplaces will be springing up soon (if not already).
They'll probably try to avoid the mistakes of Silk Road; some of them might succeed.
Also, if this makes "street" dealing, with the associated violence, non viable, then we should all celebrate.