Re: And its only Windows 10?
> "Real men use wget."
Look at you with your dandy tool. Engineers browse with curl.
Posts by Tom 64
393 posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?
Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud
Re: £1,149
> "a thousand quid on a phone"
this.
I could buy a car for that price. A fast car which would probably last 5 years if not 10.
I know where I'd rather spend the dosh.
Apple: Our stores are your 'town square' and a $1,000 iPhone is your 'future'
> "reads your face and works even if you grow a beard, wears glasses, or otherwise alter your appearance."
Or, unless they have fixed it, someone else holds a photo of you in front of the lens.
Linus Torvalds' lifestyle tips for hackers: Be like me, work in a bathrobe, no showers before noon
Re: One word springs to mind
Hmm, a shower you say? I think I lost one of those in my beard in the 1980's
Paris Hilton inflates crypto bubble some more, backs Initial Coin Offering
Re: Live Operational Virtual Environments Meets and Greets 50 Shades of Grey Zerodays
You know it's garbage when the whitepaper makes less sense than amanfrommars
15 'could it be aliens?' fast radio bursts observed in one night
Well if it is an alien communication beacon or propulsion system, they've fucked up. I imagine they have cooked themselves with it quite nicely, along with everything else in their galaxy.
That's the kind of engineering screw up that would make both captain Picard and his number one facepalm.
Boffins prove oil and water CAN mix – if you do it in a gas giant
Re: water has a 'dissolved gas' capacity
> "/me points out that this is why warm soda/beer goes flat, but cold soda/beer retains its fizz."
And I'd like to point out that proper beer is served at room temperature and never has any of that gassy crap in it in the first place.
Dell's flagship XPS13 – a 2-in-1 that may fatally frustrate your fingers
Re: Yeah...
I have the regular XPS13 (which cant flip over). Great laptop, but also has a very difficult-to-open hinge.
You'll have more luck prizing open clams and mussels. To be fair that is just about it's only fault.
Oldest flying 747 finally grounded, 47 years after first flight
Re: A venerable workhorse
Indeed. Always enjoy flying on 747s, it always feels like an occasion. I've yet to try the airbus A380, but the modern 777s flying now are a little dull by comparison.
Calm down, internet. Elon's Musk-see SpaceX spacesuit is a bit generic
Re: aesthetics
I don't get why it needs to be aesthetically pleasing at all. Marketing I suspect.
The instant a compromise is made for aesthetics over safety would make it a spacesuit I wouldn't want to touch with someone elses.
Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it
Re: Motorway median
Also I thought there was a reason for the gap between lanes. It's to stop moving metal objects from colliding with unpleasant consequences.
I can't imagine what will happen when you fill a gap between moving metal objects with more moving metal objects.
She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base
Re: well..
Kind of curious why it has ROB painted on it?
Is he the glaswegian graffiti artist who snuck on board or what?
US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries
'murica
The definition of 'collateral damage' in the american english dictionary is 'that stuff that needs sweeping under the carpet'
Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice
Re: Ocean ridges
> "I suspect most ..."
Given that your suspicion does not represent any measurable data at all, you wont mind if we feel free to roundly reject your hypotheses completely, will you? Possibly with added ridicule?
There's a good chap.
Windows Subsystem for Linux is coming to Windows Server
Been playing with it,
and it's decent. but the fact you can't push jobs into the background is a deal breaker and I still need to use a fedora virtual machine for some serious dev work.
To truly stay anonymous online, make sure your writing is as dull as the dullest conference call you can imagine
'Real' people want govts to spy on them, argues UK Home Secretary
Re: The idiocy of this runs even deeper.
>"Public Key encryption exists and will never cease to exist - but we have elected idiots who continually exhibit their stupidity."
I'm pretty sure at least one smart person advising the home office knows this, but they don't care and want the power anyway.
Petition calls for Adobe Flash to survive as open source zombie
>"And yet I still encounter websites that refuse to display anything unless I install Adobe Flash first!"
Suggest you stay away from those clown porn sites, no good can come of it.
It's doubtfull Adobe will want to open source this
.. and I can only begin to imagine the horrors lurking within.
Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law
Re: Never mind the dawgs!
<quote>I'm far more afraid of my government than I ever will be of supposed "terrorists".</quote>
I hate to be a pedant but your spelling needs to be corrected. You spelled misgovernment wrong.
AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m
Re: Has it been that long..
> "time for a revisit me thinks."
It absolutely is. I have a Ryzen and it is great. Better yet, I didn't have to give any money to intel (direcly anyway).
Re: Grats
Indeed. Intel have been optimising their business for maximum shareholder value recently, screwing their customers and stalling innovation and investment.
I can't imagine Intel's share price going anywhere but down from here.
Find your happy place: Fedora 26 has landed
Been a user for a while
Yes it has systemd and yes, it's corporate sponsored, but fedora just works, and works well, especially for developer boxes.
You really can churn it out and f*#k off early for a pint with fedora.
Electric driverless cars could make petrol and diesel motors 'socially unacceptable'
I already consider diesel socially unacceptable
It stinks, its dirty, the fumes are toxic and the dust carcinogenic. The sooner we get this shit out of our cities, the better.
Russia, China vow to kill off VPNs, Tor browser
Intel bolts bonus gubbins onto Skylake cores, bungs dozens into Purley Xeon chips
The 'F' designated processors with a UPI socket on the processor package are particularly interesting.
Former GCHQ boss backs end-to-end encryption
Re: Identify the problem correctly first before embarking on any wrong course of solutions.
Amanfrommars, is that really you?
You're starting to make sense... Check those meds buddy.
Windows Insiders with SD cards turn into OneDrive outsiders
Re: Uninstall OneDrive
> "1. This is the most minor thing in the world, this only affects a very specific use-case and you can get around it by converting your drive to NTFS."
Making your SD card useless for anything other than Windows machines.
> "2. Some of us have 1Gbps bidirectional fibre."
Most people don't.
NASA: Bring on the asteroid, so we can chuck a fridge at it
Orbital changes
> "I don't believe that a scientist can make such a high school physics mistake"
Perhaps he's a Trump appointee?
Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty hyper-threading bug
Re: ugh
> "or it would have been identified a LONG time ago."
It may well have been found a long time ago. Trouble is, intel have a habit of sitting on information like this so as not to harm their channel partners (who would have to dump stock), and themselves who may have to issue a huge buyback.
Better to wait and bury the head in the sand while the engineers can figure out if it can be fixed in the field.
ugh
Anyone know how likely this is to occur?
My work system runs kaby lake, and I'd rather not disable SMT unless really necessary.
In the Epyc center: More Zen server CPU specs, prices sneak out of AMD
Re: Epyc 7351P @ $700
Yes it is, since the dies are the same. The difference will be the security co-processor, which I doubt will make it into the HEDT package.
Brazilian whacks Intel over 'exploding' Atom smartphone chips
Not the first time intel has put head in sand
Reminds me of what they did with the early death bug on the C2000 series.
'Nothing to see here, move along folks, oh and keep buying' was their response.
Two leading ladies of Europe warn that internet regulation is coming
And the difference between the two?
Merkel wants to crack down on the corporate balkanisation of the internet, and Theresa Palpatine just wants more power for her executive. Possibly so she can then sell it off to a corporate buddy later.
Boeing preps pilotless passenger flights – once it has solved the Sully problem, of course
British prime minister slams Facebook and pals for votes
"hateful propaganda"
Mrs. May probably defines this as anti-tory general election campaigning.
TRUMP SCANDAL! No, not that one. Or that one. Or that one. Or that one.
Dirt digging
There must be so much Trump dirt piling up in the Kremlin these days. I imagine the pile has an orange or yellowish hue.
Walkers' Crisps pulls backfiring Tweet campaign that paired Gary Lineker and a bunch of nasties
Re: And Yet Again
> "Such campaigns are concocted in a marketing department and never ever go anywhere near security and engineering."
Yup. This is the sort of marketing tosh that gets outsourced to the lowest bidder, who couldn't give a monkeys about how it could be abused. Been there, done that.
Britain's on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution
Re: Wasn't Fukushima a "fail-safe" design?
> "Insufficient attention was paid to evidence of large tsunamis inundating the region surrounding the plant about once every thousand years."
Correct but to defend against such a large tsunami, the protective barrier would have needed to be at least 50ft high.
The biggest issue was the loss of backup power generation to cool the reactors. Since the diesels were in the flooded basement, nothing could be done to prevent meltdown. Had the diesel backup generators been on the roof, the plant could have been saved.
Vigorous tiny vibrations help our universe swell, say particle boffins
Re: OK, i'll ask the obvious.
> "What is it expanding into?"
The concept of 'size' may not apply outside the universe. 'outside' may also not apply =)
Openreach hints at fibre network strategy rethink
Re: FTTP?
> "get rid of the last bit of copper."
That would require them to, you know... make investments in infrastructure rather than milk the old stuff for every penny, while wasting further time and money on 'consulting'.
HP Inc ships laptops with sinister key-logger
Re: WTF is this thing and why does it do what it does?
Indeed, I can think of ZERO reasons why a headphone driver needs to log keystrokes. Even for 'debugging' purposes, this makes no sense.
Taiwan government to block Google's public DNS in favor of HiNet's
Re: China (PRC) vs China (ROC)
ROC probably get hacked, spoofed, etc extremely frequently by PRC and this looks like a ROC.gov attempt to thwart a lot of that. Can't say I blame them. As far as I know PRC's China Telecom isn't allowed to operate in ROC.
Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors
overseen by a "judge appointed by the prime minister."
Does anyone else think this is a horrible idea?
Victory! The smell of skunkworks in your office in the morning
> "management actually does their job of, well, managing."
Great punchline, kept me chuckling for a while.
Dark times for OmniOS – an Oracle-free open-source Solaris project
Color me surprised
Its an obscure fork of a fork of an OS that never had much market share to begin with.
Hardware support probably isn't near to what Linux has even for servers.
Stanford Uni's intro to CompSci course adopts JavaScript, bins Java
Re: Introductory
> "most serious JavaScript stuff is now done using 3rd party frameworks as the language isn't up to scratch."
Wrong. Personally I avoid those 3rd party bloatware fests like the plague.
Its not the language that isn't up to scratch, its the quality of the developers.
Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?
nice reference
Will have to re-watch Idiocracy. If I remember rightly, it was somewhat prophetic.
