Posts by Harry the Bastard

paywall on linked article

presumably it's this one on arxiv...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.07411.pdf

bees with frickin' LASERs!!!

would be so much better

sad sad news

condolences to his family and friends

loved the sample tweets

especially...

"@virginmedia Getting dangerously close to 24hrs with no service. Also dangerously close to me contacting Ofcom about lack of info/updates."

vm doesn't even put scheduled outages on its status pages/ivr system or make the front line helpdesk agents aware, the last one of those i experienced was announced as a few hours but actually lasted three days

vm broadband - great when it works; but when it doesn't, vm's lack of coordination, communication and basic care for its customers is clear to see

checklist

21st century - yep

case sensitive file system - nope

os x - wtf?

when i installed the very first version of os x on my tibook, it baffled me how apple could do something so stupid

they perpetuated the stupid for over a decade

that's either commit-mnt, or stupid

ok, i'm a stick the mud

but the idea of sticking all my cards/id/tickets on a phone, of whatever brand, seems pointless

cards weigh c. 12g, fault tolerant, unaffected by impact/environmental conditions that'd damage/destroy most phones, don't need charging; lose one/all and you use your phone to report it, oh. and don't need a wallet, they work fine carried naked

phones weigh a lot more, need charging, easier to damage, clumsier to handle, tend to need protection against impact/extreme environment; forget to charge it, break it, or lose it and with no cards or you it's much more likely that you're screwed

i'm waiting for the playmonaut version

where our intrepid hero makes an emergency landing near a small village

the locals seem friendly, at first...

solar masses?

i make it about 1768 billion yottacats

though it is quite early, so i may be mistaken

but either way it suggests the need for a few prefixes beyond yotta, perhaps an opportunity for el reg to lead the way?

"any kite weighing not more than two kilograms"

ahhh, so over two kilograms is ok then

/assembles kilocat-equivalent kite

facts

fact: he's not been found guilty, a court has to decide that, not internet experts, even el reg ones

fact: he's not even been charged with a crime in sweden, it's accusation, you'd think if there was evidence they'd have managed to charge him by now, funny that

fact: he's repeatedly offered to be questioned, which is all the swedes claim they want to do, but for some reason they decline, funny that

fact: he deeply pissed off the usa, uk and others when wikileaks spluffed snowden's blagged info to the world, after which the accusations were brought out to justify extradition, funny that

fact: whether these assange groupies, who by their own admissions chose to get into bed with him and in one case agreed they had consensual sex with him, were then assaulted as they claim, i do not know, but he's not accused of abducting, torturing or imprisoning them

fact: the usa, at the highest levels of government, approved the abduction, torture and detention without trial of many people, including british nationals, some of whom have after many years been released without production of any evidence that they were guilty of any crime

fact: cameron has been accused of porcine necrophilia and he's not sued for libel, funny that, but it doesn't make him guilty, personally i think it's nonsensical, but on the published information, the accusations against assange have exactly the same degree of corroboration, except, unlike cameron, assange claims innocence

the law needs to be consistent, everyone who is advocating extraditing assange without charge, when he has a plausible fear of then being handed over to another country with a proven track record of government approved abduction, torture and false imprisonment, needs to take a deep breath and think about the facts not the bullshit, and wonder why there is one law for assange and another for the rest

if he did assault these women, fine, nail him, but the way things are it does seem funny that the swedes haven't charged him, have proven to be uninterested in questioning him, and seek only to get him onto their territory from where he quite reasonably fears he may suddenly find himself usa bound and alone in the hands of proven torturers

yep

haven't worked for cisco, but worked with them 25+ years, always found the culture very open

how about badger bacon?

is it better than the ham?

cruz...

...bears a striking resemblance to oswald danes

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

that can't be a good sign

whiny hipsters plead for special treatment

strange how their desire to 'share', doesn't involve sharing the legitimate regulation, oversight and taxation of the old-fashioned businesses they compete with

whilst they're not perfect, i've never experienced surprise bum-rape or imprisonment by the people of slh, hilton, ihg, marriott, sheraton etc., not sure the same can be said of some airbnb customers

poll theft?

/required body

with apologies to douglas adams

‘it’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ saidzaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'every time you try and operate these weird white controls that are labeled in white on a white background, a little white light lights up in white to let you know you’ve done it.’

avast, lubbers ahoy!

arrr!

duh

a) if you remove the humans who were scaring/neutering/killing it, the wild stuff does better

b) typically short lived (wrt humans) animals die of other causes before the effects of lower level radiation get to them

c) bears shit in woods

always amuses me...

...when companies brag about how they use aerospace or military specification/standard parts or materials

if an aerospace/military standard specifies appalling crap, because that's all that's required, then it's appalling crap

no option for provocatively moist aliens?

...bearing a striking resemblance to anne francis* in forbidden planet, on a mission to teach us their advanced techniques of interspecies lurve and general happiness

*leslie nielsens and other alternate moist aliens are also available as required etc.

in ye olde days

i remember people in the repair centre putting any dirty keyboard assembly under the tap and giving it a good scrub, the operators couldn't be bothered to clean them so they would put in a fault call to get a clean one

another sight that remains with me was a processor board that according to the ticket had somehow been inundated in cream, by the time it reached repair it had become a new blue cheese

i was so happy to move to r&d where the biohazard risk was lower

let me be the first to say that

i, for one, welcome our new martian overlords

what's facebook?

obligatory body text

seems clear

kill the golfers

/with apologies to philip k dick

"...lightweight parts of the industry gets into spats about rounded corners and hysteresis on scrolling, the serious radio guys seem to be good at accommodating optimal solutions"

one of the many differences between hipster fashionistas and hardcore engineers

The Register has contacted Apple, but a representative has so far refused to talk to us

that's because their representatives are busy gorging on aligator burger sprinkled with shaved shark and a side serving of ostrich mini-kievs