Posts by Oninoshiko

Snake-fondling blonde nude punts Polish coffins

I don't know about the whole calander

but the only thing I find offensive about that image was apparently they used a mannequin rather then a women.

Seriously though, I don't think she could look more plastic (and no, that's not attractive).

We don’t talk any more... on the commute

Re: Nicely put

If everyone on the train is minding their own business and you are going up an making weird gestures and whispering at them then, by definition, you are weird.

Then again, a lot of us are weird. It makes life interesting.

Mexico to Apple: You WILL NOT use the name 'iPhone' here

Only would have been better if

the Judge had said "just change your name, no big deal"

African kids learn to read, hack Android on OLPC fondleslab

Little hackers

Don't tell the FBI....

British judge: Say you're sorry Apple... this time like you MEAN it

Re: There's always a loophole

I HOPE SO!!!

It will be soo much better for sending people too then a video of "Never gonna give you up"

AMD, Samsung must be ARMed to the teeth to oust Intel servers

WTF?

WTF is the second graph? Why is this a line graph? What does it MEAN if a bit of revenue is halfway between "other mobile" and "x86 mobile?"

I question the ability of anyone who came up with such a horrid graph to understand the data they are trying to present.

N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS

Re: Charm bar thing....

You SHOULDN'T be doing anything "interesting."

We perceive the OS to be boring, and that's a good thing. You may not have noticed, but computers are REALLY common. As in "as common as a toster." Because we all have to deal with these things, they should not ever surprise us. I don't want to be amazed by my OS, I want it to get the fuck out of the way and let me work. Don't surprise me, don't amaze me, DO WHAT I EXPECT.

Yahoo! will! ignore! 'Do! Not! Track!' from! IE10!

Re: Admen hypocrisy

No, MS should fire back another volley, and make a default-on setting that prevents most of the common tracking techniques.

Personally, I have decided that I like project wonderful's method of using a reverse auction for the space. The winning bid pays for the time it appears, and chooses sites that they think the viewers will find them relevant. No tracking, just "If you read Girl Genius, you might also like my steampunky jewelry."

Microsoft: Just swallow this tablet ... the rest will take care of itself

Re: No. I DO like the software.

your experience is better then mine. we got these mac minis at work. nothing but freezes and hangups for the past three months. Never mind that some of the applications we use don't work on a mac (or the port is so bad, it's unusable), so we are doing most of our work in windows in a VM anyway. I find it's UI behavior random, at best. I have done everything I can think of to try to get these things bearable, finally upgraded to 16G and the most responsive SSD I could find. It has helped a little, but still worse experience then my machine from 5 years ago.

Kick your computer... before it kicks you

Re: mechanical keyboard

Two words Das Keyboard. we convinced the management to get them... they ARE nice.

Better luck next time Blofeld! Five Bond plot myths busted

Re: Am I the only one that

ohh.. that is a good one too!

Am I the only one that

can't unsee a collapsable colander every time they see that satellite?

When I was a tyke my grandmother had one, and I used to play with it sometimes (as we were want to do, since this was before everyone had a supercomputer to play with). So it's been that to me since the first time I saw it.

Judge GIVES APPLE THE FINGER in multitouch iDevice patent case

Re: Obviously they lack buttons

This patent was NOT invalidated, the judge ruled the technique was sufficiently different to not be covered. This actually strengthens the patent a little, as it makes it hard to argue that it is over-broad.

I have mixed feelings over this, really. On the one hand, it's a really good ruling. This technique is not the same one APPL described, in fact, it's a bit more versatile.

On the other hand, supporting this ruling feels almost like betraying my anti-software-patent values.

Australian volcano starts to blow

why does this island have a web page

I mean if the last news item on said page is two decades old, does it really need one?

Although I do admit, I like .aq

Apple to live-stream Tuesday's 'a little more' event

First thought: Are any non-fanboys interested in watching anyway?

Second thought: Wasn't APPL the great messiah of the open internet, taking a stand against the awful oppressive regime of Flash and Java?

Hero police robot back on duty after 'unstable man' blasts it with shotgun

Re: Is the robot getting a medal?

I'm fairly sure it already was metal!

Man rummaging for lost laptop in skip gets tipped into garbage truck

Are you kidding?

There is nothing a true geek likes more then smugly pointing out inconsistant naming conventions (usually by intentionally mixing them).

Or is that a troll?

State of Minnesota bans free online education

Re: El Reg does it again!

So Mr. Pogemiller is encouraging Minnesotans to violate Coursera's TOS?

Facebook won't pull unmarked police plates page

@ralph76

or just replace the number plate.

Samsung's Japanese iPhone block bid fails

Re: Perhaps.....

maybe because we have been using a filled battery to represent the fullness of a battery, oh since before the iphone existed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-m505.jpg (note the battery, and that this image was uploaded before the iphone was released. So, why did apple need to steal the appearance from palm?)

as to why green, it's indicated safety since atleast the 1800s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green#Safety_and_permission

Of course, Apple likes to steal symbols from railroads, dont they?

Hold my feet to the fire using open gov data, pleads minister

Re: A twist on the "Yes Minister" story

Yes! No better place to hide then right in the open!

Google releases 'Disavow links' tool to fix SEO spam

why would they just not revert to the "predsavowed" behavior?

Does google plan on telling people which links they need to disavow, or are they left to just guess?

Am I the only want finding recent changes to google (like silently changeing my search terms without a way for me to say "yes I really am looking for the variable for "Present Working Directory" in UNIX, rather then "password" in my search term")?

EFF warns of ACTA redux

wha?

"Europe asking Canada to implement protections beyond what the EU is able to implement."

Why is Europe asking Canada it implement things they themselves won't?

Intel CEO: PC market slogging along at half speed

Re: too long a title for it to put "re" before

I think you are overly optimistic.

The issue with touch computing hasn't been the technology for some time, it's that it really doesn't add anything to most tasks. It's useful for the fondle-slab form-factor for space reasons, but that form-factor is just not how we do most computing. I do not foresee any changes that will alter that.

Time will tell.

GIANT EYEBALL PANIC ends: Oceanic peeper identified

Awwww

I was voting for the new "retina display"

the IT angle, 'cause, well, eyes found it!

'Hypersensitive' Wi-Fi hater loses case against fiendish DEVICES

Re: Waiting For...

YES! I think he needs to sue the church!

Quite contrary Somerville: Behind the Ada Lovelace legend

Rear Admiral Hopper vs Countess Lovelace

Why compair? Both have highly respectable accomplishments, and should be honored. We should remember both, and stand them up as examples for young ladies who want to pursue math and science.

Now if we can just properly ostracize the bad apples who insist on using inaccurate gender stereotypes at conferences (I'm looking at you, RMS).

Übertroll firm bags DRM patent for 3D printing

Re: Jeez... Honestly....

You are correct there is nothing new here, but SHUT UP. As long as DRM is patented, it can be stupid-expensive to use in a 3D printer. Hell, I want to nominate these guys for some kinda award for making efforts to prevent the inclusion of DRM in 3D printers!

Why are people upset about this?

Second LulzSec member pleads guilty to Sony hack

Re: HideMyAss

You're probably not old enough to have gotten it. It's been a joking matter for quite some time.

Now if you wanted to open a discussion as to if that is a good thing, that's a completely different matter.

Jimmy Wales: It was Wikipedia that ended the evil of SOPA

Re: whatever next

I'm guessing the sun rising in the east. (is it a slow news day?)

Wanted! 4m-plus PC purchases to halt industry decline

Re: WANTED!

If you'll buy 4m of them, I'll be happy to provide all that, and a nice return policy.

TLC NAND could penetrate biz with flash-to-flash backup

data for movies

It might not REQUIRE TLC, but if the costs per meg are lower then MLC (why are "Triple Level Cells" not "Multi Level Cells?" Grr.) it would make sense to use it for that application. Although I'm not really sure why they would use flash as opposed to a write-once medium.

10 million iPad minis to 'outshine' their big brother this quarter

Thanks AC,

good to have that sorted!

will it come with sandpaper for your fingertips?

EU green-lights 'copyright land grab' law on orphan work

Re: This is important

There are many simpler solutions. Like setting a time limit on copyrights, requiring a "nuisance fee" to keep them registered (or have them fall in the public domain).

Having a company give an *nudge-nudge, wink-wink* effort to find the rightful copyright holders (who's best intrest to not be able to find them) is just not a good approach. So, no, I'm not going to ignore the horrific flaws when there are MUCH better options out there.

Hrm..

*looks in neighboring offices for Andrew O.*

nope, can't find him. These must be orphaned works then....

Ubuntu goes fishing for donations with new download page

Re: Happy Unity User here

Mark? Is that you?

I guess you and the other employees of Canonical will be happy, while the rest of us skip to other systems (to avoid having to rip it out our selves).

I note

A lack of an entry for me to offer my contribution for Unity to "Nuke it from orbit"

Top admen beg Microsoft to switch off 'Do Not Track' in IE 10

Re: Not really...

That's basicly what they do, except they do it the first time you load the OS. The exact wording of the box in question is:

"Settings

Express settings

You can customize the following settings or choose express settings. If you choose express settings, your PC will occasionally send info to Microsoft and will:

* Automatically install important and recommended updates.

* Help protect your PC from unsafe files and websites.

* Turn on Do Not Track in Internet Explorer.

* Help improve Microsoft software, services, and location services by sending us info.

* Check online for solutions to problems.

* Let apps give you personalized content based on your PC's location, name, and account picture.

* Turn on sharing and connect to devices on this network.

Learn more about express settings

Privacy statement

[Use express settings] [customize]"

Seems pretty obvious that if I hit "express' it's going to turn on DNT.

Oracle Linux honcho 'personally hurt' by Red Hat clone claims

Re: Car analogy

the guys at Lawrence Livermore Lab are running Lustre on ZFS on Linux now. while they only distribute source one of their reps said yesterday they do not see a license incompatibility. I don't think I believe him, but as long as it's sources and not binaries, both requirements can be met.

Mosley thrash'n'tickle vid case against Google opens in Hamburg

Re: Mosley's House of Ill Repute

Also if said individual is known for the "holier then thou" shtik. If you are supporting laws declaring similar acts to be "deviant sexual behavior" or some such, that does happen to be in the public interest.

(I'm not familiar with Mr Mosely's politics, so you would have to enlighten me if he falls into this category.)

Guardian's Robin Hood plan: Steal from everyone to give to us

Re: The Guardian?

You anger at... whatever... appears to be making you unable to form coherent thoughts.

There are a couple of problems such as:

1) Why shouldn't I be able to sneer at popular opinion if I want to? Popular opinion says Eastenders and X Factor is worth my time to watch. I disagree.

2) In the concept of reporting "things that happen" where does "things I wish had happened" come into it?

Please go away and sit quietly and have a little think about what you're actually trying to say and it might make some sort of sense."

You are free to sneer at whatever you want, and while I may (or may not) disagree with said sneering, I have no overt objection to it. So please, sneer away!

What I do vehemently object to, is being taxed to pay you to do said sneering. Either find someone who WANTs to pay you to sneer, or get a real job and fund your sneering yourself. In any event, I'd rather not have my options be "pay you for it" or "go to jail"

Tesla drops veil on top secret solar Superchargers

Re: Hmmm...

I don't know about California, but the power bills I have seen from other US states have a power charge and a delivery charge. Presumably the feed-in retail price is the power charge which does NOT pay for the distribution cost. It DOES pay for generation capacity, up-keep, and profit margin. Which, the home-owner should be just as entitled to as any other power vendor.

Distribution with Ameren is about .121 USD/kWh in IL (this may be different now, I last looked about 4 years ago). This is paid to them in any area they serve REGARDLESS of if they are providing power or not. Power itself can be purchased from a number of vendors (depending on region, some municipalities have power as a municipal service). If the power company in question's power is worth x/kWh WITHOUT delivery, then surely Bob's PV covered house's power is also worth the same amount. Anything else is just a scam.

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

Re: Someone's Been Watching Too Much Genki Porn

I'm pretty sure that last one wasn't an excuse, just the only one telling the truth!

Fans revolt over Amazon 'adware' in Ubuntu desktop search results

Re: CDE?!?

Hell, even us solarisers aren't that masochistic.

Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

no homework, just reading books

Well I'll be DAMNED. Reading books. Never do that in school. no way.

And they wonder why one child in four in the US grows up not knowing how to read?

Profs: Massive use of wind turbines won't destroy the environment

Re: We

Obviously, it's the queen posting anonymously.

There is life after the death of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Start button

Re: "in a couple of years we will look back and wonder why there was so much fuss ..."

As a vi user, I welcome you!

Wait, what? Oh, that was supposed to be some kind of put down huh... interesting.

besides, those shortcuts look a bit more like "Esc Meta Alt Ctrl Shift"... I always said it just needed a boot loader!

Airbus predicts catapult takeoffs and formation flying by 2050

Re: sauerkraut

I thought the traditional british solution was limes? Is this just an urban legend?

For the record, I can enjoy a good 'krout with my sausage.

Re: Dirigibles

I think I'll take you up on the recommendation too!

A good book recommendation is always nice.