Re: Roof
On the Spectrum one you could fly backwards by doing a loop-the-loop (IIRC).
Posts by Uncle Slacky
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We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all
Where there's a .mil, there's Huawei: Pentagon allowed to keep using Chinese tech deemed too dangerous for everyone else – report
Made in China? Not for much longer, reckons Foxconn boss
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?
How Bude: Google's sole-financed private undersea pipe to make a landing in Cornwall
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline
Microsoft pulls dust covers off Dataverse*: Low-code data access from Teams
Twitter Qracks down on QAnon and its Qooky Qonspiracies
960 LinkedIn employees will be let go... If only there was some kind of 'social network for suits' to assist job hunts
Tuesday 21st July 2020 14:59 GMT 
There *should* always be valid accounts at abuse@linkedin.com and postmaster@linkedin.com, but whether anyone reads them is anyone's guess. I did this myself when someone used my address to sign up to Pinterest, and I actually got a reply and apology (from one of the founders, I think - it was in their *very* early days).
Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software
Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing
Tuesday 7th July 2020 09:27 GMT 
Does it smell?
Apparently a lot of iBooks smell like sweat, something to do with the glue used in the keyboard: https://lowendmac.com/2006/a-stinky-old-ibook-that-smells-like-sweat/
I've got a 2007 BlackBook (MacBook 2,1) which is about the easiest machine to install Libreboot on (all done in software), now running Trisquel Lite.
Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds
Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release
Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions
US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant
Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time
The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references
Friday 19th June 2020 14:38 GMT
Re: I didn't know of the triangle badges in the prison camps
> (government takeover of businesses is one of the characteristics that defines socialism)
"Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does the socialister it is" - Carl Marks
No, the only common characteristic of *actual* socialism is the social ownership of the means of production. It's useless to argue about this with Americans as they can't even properly define the things they object to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Friday 19th June 2020 10:38 GMT
Re: I didn't know of the triangle badges in the prison camps
There's a good collection of links and info on the subject here if you're interested:
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe#wiki_how_socialist_was_national_socialism.3F
From there:
"First of all, here's Hitler's understanding of socialism from his 22.07.1922 speech "Freistaat oder Sklaventum" (translation from Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich):
Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of the nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, “Deutschland ueber Alles,” to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land - that man is a Socialist.
That is simply not how socialism is defined, therefore appealing to the mere use of the term is not an argument."
In short, no, they weren't. What Hitler meant by "national socialism" bore no relation to the actual definition of socialism.
Frenchman scores €50k compensation for suffering 'bore-out' at work after bosses gave him 'menial' tasks
Thursday 11th June 2020 09:25 GMT
Re: That is insane
You can thank President Ford's "Project Bootstrap" for that!
Mr. Burns: Where is the meltdown originating?
Smithers: Sector 7-G, sir.
Mr. Burns: Who is responsible for that sector?
Smithers: Homer Simpson.
Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, dependable? When did he begin work?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap.
Mr. Burns: [sarcastically] Thank you, President Ford...
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
