Posts by Ol'Peculier 684 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2009
I don't think he did write using a typewriter, certainly the monitor setup shows that! According to Wikipedia his first computer was a ZX81 - he outgeeked Douglas Adams if that really is true. It's worth a read, especially about the interview he did with Bill Gates.
Towards the end of his life he had to use dictation software too.
Also, after his death he had a bulldozer run over all his hard disks so they couldn't be read.
I'm currently running through the audiobooks in my car, currently on The Truth. Still/can't read The Shepherd's Crown though.
A few days ago I was walking to the pub when I saw an Amazon branded van pull up to a door, driver gets out, delivers parcel, gets back in and driver about 2 feet before getting back out and delivering to the door next to it.
It gets worse. I'd walked past it by now but heard it start up again, and stop, after about 2 seconds.
Madness...
Just leave it where it is!
There's a lot more people go on holiday to DC than Houston I'd bet. I've been three times myself.
It's a grubby old thing though, although if I'd been round the planet that many times, I'd probably look the same.
And apparently saying "OMD?" when a tour guide is asking where the name "Enola Gay" came from is not an accepted answer...
(on another note, I asked same guide if there was anything about Sir George Cayley in the museum (he was born in my home town hence the interest). The reply? "Never heard of him"
Jeeze...
Apprently crims are moving away from drug dealing into this because it's less risk and more profitable.
I wish I'd have known how much phones were going for in Hong Kong though, I'd have sold mine when there and got a new one when I got home!
More needs to be done by the manufacturers to block phones once notified of been stolen, but of course they have no reason to do that. Every stolen phone that gets activiated is another user in their ecosystem.
I've read this week, either on somewhere like here or Reddit, that someone got round the age verification by downloading a photo of a driving licence found after a quick search.
The people this is designed to block access to are the most technical literate people of their generation, ever. We should be hiring tehm to do pen testing.
Professor Malcolm Gaskill, a historian who specializes in witchcraft in early modern Britain, described today's technology in a 2016 op-ed as just a faster, more public outlet "for the worst behavior."
If you're going to quote a British scholar, at least quote him with the correct spelling.
When I had friends that worked at GCHQ the only access to the internet was via a sandboxed PC in a room all by itself.
They certainly had to leave their phone in the car as well.
Either things have changed a lot in the last few years, or somebody had their eyes off the ball.
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