Posts by ItsNotMe

Re: Yup, that's why I won't use apps.

I use apps...but I have SMS messaging blocked on my phones...both outbound & inbound. No worries here.

Well...I'm not too busy at the moment.

Let me know if I can help out in any way.

Re: Looks more like...

Lindsay...have you started drinking again? You know how irrational you get when you do that. Please be a doll and stop...again.

Re: Psych(o) researchers

So if Tal Yarkoni has a family...would he mind if someone told him they had just all been killed in an auto accident...just to test his emotions? Even though they were all safe at home?

After all..."“The manipulation had a negligible real-world impact on users’ behaviour”, Yarkoni writes."

or in his case...

“The manipulation would have a negligible real-world impact on users’ behaviour”, Yarkoni writes."

Isn't that right Tal? No problem is there?

Re: If I may...

Pardon me...forgot one other definition for drone...and that would be what emanates from the mouths of every politician on the planet.

Re: How many users over the years...

One of my brothers, who recently passed away, went on step better than Post-it Notes on ALL of his computers...he took the time and trouble to use a label maker to neatly create labels with every username and password he used online...and then affixed them to his computers.

When my other brother, a Sys Admin like myself, found this and showed me what he had done, we both were speechless.

Re: Re: depressing lack of common sense/base scientific knowledge

"Just a couple of critical questions... what colour are the beans and what magic do they posses?"

Well @Rob...depends on what type of magic you need.

Red beans do one thing. Blue ones do something different. The white ones are "magic specific", meaning that each bean will only respond to one wish. Have two white beans? You get two different wishes.

Now the Pinto Beans are really special. Being that they are multi-coloured, each bean can grant more than one wish at a time...but the wishes must be similar.

As for the green beans? Ask Jack what they do. He's in control of those.

Hope this helps.

"If I could pick up my packages from the station when almost home that would be excellent."

As opposed to picking them up from your front doorstep? You know...the one attached to your house.

Re: The internet of fridges

There isn't a snowball's chance in Hell I would ever connect anything in my home, other than a computer, to the Internet.

"That said, electric cars will be the dominant car within the next 20 years."

Right...just like computers would bring about the "paperless office". Still waiting for that to happen.

That fantasy was first coined around 1975...slightly more that 20 years ago.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1975-06-30/the-office-of-the-futurebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice

Re: Hunting?

"The dear are shooting back now? More sporting I guess."

Don't know about whose dear you know that may be shooting back...those kind of women I try to avoid at all costs...but it would be very cumbersome for any deer to pull a trigger...what with having a cloven hoof and all.

Mine's the one with the Venison steaks in the pockets.

Re: Instead of flipping images upside-down, just tilt them by a few degrees

No...the "evilest thing I can imagine" would be to intercept and replace the image with a very bright, rapidly flashing, strobe light. Now that would be evil...and a whole lot of fun. :-)

Re: bring them to book!!

But Apple said they did nothing wrong. Doesn't anyone believe them? Why on earth would they lie about a thing like that?

"When, it's been around for years now, on the desktop and on the server .."

@cyberelf...Linux is still just a blip on the RADAR screen, as far as desktop OSes go.

With 1.58% of use...it's hardly a big target.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Re: "Google has also expanded into Sunnyvale ..."

"Has anyone figured out what will happen if Googlematter and Applematter meet and interact?"

Yep...more lawsuits.

@ 45RPM

"But, on the other hand, there've been a whole string of problems with Linux, Android, Windows and <insert name of any OS here>. Even VMS hasn't been immune - ..."

OK Mister...that will be just enough of your logical thinking. One more outburst like this, and I am afraid you will need to turn in your official ElReg Commentard membership card.

This is no place for sensible thought or comments.

Re: Anyway we can put Elon IN one of his rockets...

Oh I do so much enjoy pulling peoples' chains. Such great sport.

Kind of disappointed with only 13 downvotes, however.

Surely you all can do better than that.