Posts by kend1

a rose by any other name ... is not a pink wine

$Deity your god of choice, $Diety god of weightloss, $Dodgy demigod

Re: Missed A Trick

"didn’t they pick up the secret message beamed in graviton waves from the UFO I sent them?"

Vogons: Checking ship records... Yes, the message was beamed [1.21 Gigawatts laser] to the NASA Ingenuity mobile receiver.

Immigrant Song

Will be playing that song [with amps turned up to 11] when the hammer of the gods hits. And the levee breaks.

Re: So my theory is...

I went to update my password after reading this news. And discovered that Xfinity bills are rising in 2024.

"We value our customers [less]", hence the exchange rate adjustment.

You missed it

It was [mostly] marketing-free in the early 1990s, before the greedy people showed up.

Good Old Games

Good Old Games [gog dot com/en/games?systems=osx] still has 2706 games on macOS.

Re: Sure, take $10B from customer accounts without their knowledge or consent

"Burning at the stake is too good for this asshole."

May I suggest the electric chair, so the el Reg headline would read -- "Sam Bankman-Fried!"

Re: WTF?

Its a fake. A real letter of apology would have included a cc: list of twenty one thousand names and email addresses. And it would be signed by Jen Barber.

Re: Rusty1

Thanks for the using the appropriate icon WTF?

Why [are the] Temperatures [in] Fahrenheit?

it was deliberately left to be somewhat fuzzy

RE: Anonymous Coward

"Tom Peters in one of his "Excellence" books in the 1980s gives an example of a complex missile project that was split between three companies. Instead of a rigid interface specification for the three components - it was deliberately left to be somewhat fuzzy. The result was the components were flexible enough to fit together without too much adjustment."

How fuzzy?

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

Re: Same everywhere

Re: Lysenko

Something in your text reminded me of reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Skip down to section "Conditions before the accident".

Re: The end

Re: Kubla Cant

In less time than it took you to enter your ridicule, you could have Google the answer.

French: campagne English: campaign

cam·paign kam'pan/ noun

noun: campaign; plural noun: campaigns

1. a series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective, confined to a particular area, or involving a specified type of fighting.

Au Revoir

Carriage return and ....

Re: BebopWeBop

Ahh the line feed

- the other great innovation.

Re: I realise it's simplistic but....

Re:ProperDave

"the Indian dog handlers are breading in genetic defects into my stock"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dog

Samsung updates

@Trevor_Pott

Samsung does produce monthly updates. http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-OCT-2016

"Samsung Mobile is releasing a maintenance release for major flagship models as part of monthly Security Maintenance Release (SMR) process."

I have the S5-mini and 6 months between updates sounds spot on. Daughter's Verizon S6 was just updated on Sept 27 2016.

Re: Gary Bickford

@Matt Brynat

"Google is selling a Porsche in a market where the majority are settling for a Ford Focus,"

Actually Google is Ford priced in a market that is Porsche priced.

Current Google Fiber Broadband pricing:

Broadband plan features

$15 per month *

25 Mbps upload and download speeds - that's fast enough to make video calls and stream HD content

No data caps

No application process or contracts

No equipment rental or installation fees

* $15 per month plus applicable taxes. If you cancel your service, you'll need to return your equipment to a Fiber Space within 25 days of cancelling to avoid a replacement fee (including any applicable taxes).

However, Boston area Verizon FIOS 15Mbps plan is roughly $75.00 month.

Re: "...letter by snail mail..."

Poor form. They missed a perfect opportunity to email everyone with cc:<list_all>

Re: That's nothing

Losing their top coders, might explain the drop in quality. "US Government Promises To Retire All Research Chimpanzees"

http://www.newsy.com/videos/us-government-promises-to-retire-all-research-chimpanzees/

Re: Other considerations

Used the IIS GUI to add a https web site with self-signed cert. First time using IIS, fumbled a bit but eventually completed the task. Trying to do that task by learning/writing PowerShell scripts from scratch would have been an adventure. Thanks GUI, a choice is nice for the noobs such as me.

Re: having a larf?

For the past 2yrs FIOS basic internet access, with no cable TV, was $65.99 month. Now its bumped to $69.99 bundled with basic TV, which I can't see (no cable box). There is no copper in the apartment complex, so the only choices are Verizon or Comcast.

Used to have Verizon DSL for $30.00 month. Was cheap and sufficient for my needs.

Re: "...government depts, ...two speeds, slow and stop!"

> 3) Full Speed Ahead, in the wrong direction.

Ha ha, good one! The lads in the office had a chuckle over that one. Please re-submit your complete tax records for the period between 2004-2009, using the enclosed directions.

Re: oh joy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol, addenum -- 2014/11/18: and no face melting