Posts by nijam

Re: Chicken gun

> Ahaha you fell for the chicken gun story. One of the oldest urban legends on the internet.

Yes, we all expected to be the one where they forgot to thaw the chicken first.

Re: underscore illegal dns character

> Certainly used to be illegal when I learned about DNS, back in about the bronze age.

No, there were some user-level systems that didn't allow underscore, but DNS itself always did. I say always, but in fact I only ran DNS servers from the mid-1980s onward, so what it did before that may be different ...

Re: Good luck getting reliable support runing Linux on those obsolete silicons

> And, no, a bunch of "volunteers" living on the other side of earth is not considered a "reliable support".

And no, some megacorp's helpdesk on the other side of earth is not considered a "reliable support".

Re: All the same..

> All phones now look alike, no individuality, no stand out features,...

So?

Re: There seems to be room for some savings...

> Cutting top salaries by a factor of ten could leave room for more high-value productions and a lower licence cost.

Not so much as you might imagine. There are many very substantial costs to making a TV programme, including salaries for many other people, besides what laughingly call "talent".

> WHY does it seem "like pandering to political correctness/feminism"? Why don't you see it as just a simple choice that reflects the times that we are living in?

Same thing, perhaps?

Re: This is a good thing

> Using an electric clothes dryer can negate the need for softener, but at a cost.

The electricity involved costs less than the conditioner, I calculate. Obviously there's a capital cost for the drier itself to consider, but then there are other benefits to weigh against that.

Re: We are not numbers. I'm not a statistic

> John McAfee hasn't been involved with the shiteware that bears his name since 1994,

True, but irrelevant to the discussion.

Re: Socially Unacceptable, really?

> No one seems to consider where or how the raw materials for the batteries are mined; where is the power coming from to charge these millions of electric cars?

Somebody else's problem, mate.

Re: No such thing on a MS Windows phone

> none of the people I know with a WinPhone has had a malicious app requiring termination

... or indeed, any apps at all?

Re: Skill deterioration

> for one thing I'm sure they won't try to keep driving at the same speed

and for another, they won't straddle two lanes and drive at less than walking pace, which is what an even larger percentage of humans do.

> requirement for a well-functioning democracy

What does that have to do with Europe (whether or not it includes the UK)?

Re: MY Computer

> Cloud, IOT, and SAAS

Ahhh, "somebody else's computer", "Internet Of Tragedy", "Perpetual Rental Income Stream", you mean.

Re: Another ridiculous lawsuit

> obsessives with, it seems, nothing better to do than trash talk anyone

Surely that's no way to describe the realTrumpingDonald.

> The car knows the speed limit if it knows where it is.

This raises an interesting issue. Speed limits are typically imposed pretty much completely without objective justification. Hordes of self-driving cars might conceivably provide some sort of evidential support for what - if any - speed limit should be set. Of course, there's zero chance that would ever be used to raise the speed limit... perish the thought.

Re: <cough> bullshit </cough>

> If there are stats that justify the headline, the author should quote them.

It's very unlikely there are stats to support the author's opinion. I expect you can complete the chain of reasoning from there...

Re: Trump's Tantrum?

> The Register can be lumped in with rest of the liberal mainstream media

And that is a bad thing? How so?

Re: wave of the future malware

> The massive deception will also require having extensive insight on the victim...

...or to be talking to a helpdesk droid whose minimum (or lower) wage disinclines them from challenging you.

Re: Where are they?

> ...distinct lack of posts from angry systemd defenders

Why would they even bother to read an article about a systemd feature that's already been decreed - by the arch-potterer himself - to be "not a bug".

> ...if they want to sell phones in Newcastle

They have a phone service there?

Re: Systemd vulnerabilities?

> ...as we could read a few weeks back even systemd is not without flaws

as we could read a few weeks back especially systemd is not without flaws

> Are you listening, Climate Change?

No, they're not listening. Whatever the truth (or otherwise) of climate change (other than that it's been happening since before humans evolved), climate change models seem remarkably impervious to any alteration in the input parameters.

One wonders whether they are all just minor variants of "sleep 10000; print $MY_ANSWER"?

Re: Confused

> ...people are fundamentally lazy...

...and obstinate. Especially those who believe that metric units will never catch on.

Re: Elsewhere reported flight aborted one hour after launch...

> ...and dead corpses.

Errr?

Re: And people complain about Apple discouraging third-party repair shops

> ...a way to insure the provenance of the parts.

(a) you mean "ensure" rather than "insure", I believe.

(b) I deduce you're an optimist.

Re: Hurrah we can work forever

> ...expect the rest of us to pay for them...

Hmmm. As someone who may retire in the next few years, I might observe that I've been paying to fund national pension and healthcare for the whole of my working life, and (dare I say) at a not-inconsiderable rate, mandated by said government. Don't blame those of my generation if said government has frittered away that money...