Posts by S4qFBxkFFg

Re: Glassholes

If British, shouldn't it be "Glarsehole"?

Re: parallel evolution

I wouldn't worry; Miss Piggy is probably adequately serv(ic)ed by Kermit in other ways:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=frog+tongue&tbm=isch

@Will Godfrey Re: Shark Jumped!

"WTF are 'paedophilic manuals'?"

Re: A solution is at hand.

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.

Re: A great idea

Indeed, something will need to be found for that North Korean military to do when the country collapses.

Re: A bit like desktop then

If you can, try disabling hyperthreading and seeing if it has any benefit.

Re: Built out of modular components?

Yes, it's definitely playable though, and there're plenty of user contributed mods to enhance it, and fill in the gaps.

Topically, here's one example:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/54656-0-23-KDEX-Kerbal-Dust-Experiment-v1-01

Re: Violence?

Well, there is a tradition for naming girls after virtues, so in the opposite case, logically...

(Terry Pratchett thought of it before I did.)

Re: A small window

"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.

Exactly - this is all going to go away once Google Glass looks like a normal pair of glasses (which is probably not that many versions away).

Re: more lessons

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.

Re: You can fix that bug...

...or what happens when latin script meets cotton in Asia:

http://www.incrediblethings.com/web/t-shirts-lost-in-translation/

http://www.bootstrappin.com/2008/07/engrish-t-shirts-in-japan/

http://www.joshjacobson.net/pics/tshirts.php

Re: Fluctuations

Maybe this "BitPay" organisation accounts for that - they'll post prices in dollars and keep adjusting the actual amount of bitcoins/dollar more or less constantly.

More like:

You want taxes? Hmm, can they be paid as a percentage of the minerals we're extracting?

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Re: Does anyone else think that 'paedophile' is not strong enough to describe this guy?

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.

Especially when the "problem" is only due to the idiot web designer using an email validator written by an idiot developer who clearly did a tl;dr on the relevant RFC (assuming they even knew such things existed).

+ signs are valid in email addresses.

Morons.

Re: BAD idea

I'd hope/expect there's going to be some sort of locking mechanism in the design, at least several manufacturers have figured out how to stop battery covers popping off.

Re: What's Mobile?

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.)

Re: Evolutionary Dead End?

AFAIK, the justification for Mir is that it's more suitable for a greater range of devices compared to, for example, Wayland. From someone who only has a very vague idea of the relationships between things like X, Gnome, XFCE, QT, dms, etc., is this actually true?

Re: During the meanwhile ...

"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.

Re: Well at my age

Indeed, it tastes better than condoms as well.

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.)

I'd say Dragons' Teeth myself.

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.

Re: Mine cost about £100

It's probably one of the better ones that can pick up multiple time signals, I think as long as you're close enough to 48-state USA, England, Germany, China, or Japan you'll get a usable signal.

Re: Why maths is important

In a few years, it probably won't be a typo.

Expanding the range of punctuation usable in a domain could well be ICANN's next wheeze.

Re: In the case of the Boss Design Group - compact office furniture

It looks suspiciously like something that would close up before being speedily ejected from a futuristic spacecraft's hull in the event of an important component going boom.