Re: "The declining popularity of Eclipse is notable"
I really wish Poettering would implement an IDE within SystemD. That’d be great.
Especially if it had an Emacs implementation in there too.
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Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee
Hear, hear: The first to invent idiot-cancelling headphones gets my cash
Friday 7th February 2020 19:11 GMT 
Re: How to silence the idiots...
Just don't use the same cattle prod as Richie and Eddie..
Friday 7th February 2020 19:05 GMT
Re: Selective attention
I can't watch it because I'm at work, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's the scene from Father Ted s1e3 The Passion of Saint Tibulus with the candles... "He can hear well enough when he wants to. Watch this. Father Jack, would you like a glass of brandy?" "Yes."
Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
Friday 7th February 2020 18:53 GMT
Re: Impact
Considering that the latest statistics show that only a nugatory percentage of crimes actually get investigated, I'd say that a systems failure could lock every single GMP officer in their own cells for a week and still have minimal impact on their crime clear-up rates or public reputation.
That's what makes you hackable: Please, baby. Stop using 'onedirection' as a password
School's out as ransomware attack downs IT systems at Scotland's Dundee and Angus College
Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access
Vulture discovers talons are rubbish for building Lego's International Space Station
From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 17:42 GMT
Re: Where did it all go wrong?
To borrow a wonderful example from Saint Pterry, the behaviour of advertisers always reminds me of CMOT Dibbler's brainwave in Moving Pictures.
Upon (accidental) discovery of subliminal advertising, and how powerful a single frame (in this case, showing a plate of spare ribs) can be when inserted into a film reel, his reasoning is that ergo, a full 30 seconds' worth of the same shot of ribs must be... 24fps x 30... 700+ times more effective in making the viewer want to rush out and eat ribs!
And that's what the thought process of advertisers here on Roundworld seems to be. "Oh, a simple text advert inline with the content is effective - so a full-screen animated video that takes over the entire screen and harangues the user with blaringly loud audio whilst tracking their every activity must be a bajillion times more effective!1!1one!"
Of course, I am ascribing something as complex as "thought" to these parasites, so maybe my reasoning is faulty...
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 17:29 GMT
Re: Many of these ads can be disabled.
I haven't read The Chaos, but my favourite illustration of the inconsistencies/quirks of English pronunciation has always been "Ghoti". How does one pronounce that word?
Well...
- "GH" is pronounced as in "Cough", i.e. an F sound.
- 'o' is pronounced as in "Women", i.e. a short i sound.
- "ti" is pronounced as in "Station", ie. "sh".
Put it all together and "Ghoti", using perfectly standard English rules of pronunciation, is "Fish".
Caltech takes billion-dollar bite out of Apple, Broadcom for using its patented Wi-Fi tech without paying a penny
Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today
2015-member database floats off through breach in Royal Yachting Association's hull
Teenagers today. Can't take them anywhere, eh? 18-year-old kid accused of $50m SIM-swap cryptocurrency heist
Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google
Friday 24th January 2020 21:39 GMT
Re: I'm giving...
You might want to rethink that, if a comment by Recluse from a related story a couple of days ago is on the ball:
Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone
Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft
Thursday 23rd January 2020 20:41 GMT
Re: Antitrust
You're welcome. It's an oldie - circa 1998 I believe, which makes it prehistoric in Internet terms - but very funny. SatireWire.com, in it's prime, was a more cerebral and surreal version of The Onion.
The site's story about Afghanistan's "Sou'Wester Alliance" (riffing on the genuine "Northern Alliance" which was a faction during the first US Afghan war) is also hilarious.
"...Though the land's topographic deficiencies would discourage a lesser people, the tribes of the Alliance are, like their very poor fathers, and their very poor fathers before them, seafaring fishermen. Lacking an ocean, they ply the brackish, ankle-deep waters of the Gaud-i-Zirreh marshes in a valiant — some would say desperate, others would simply say 'odd' and let it go at that — search for the cod, the haddock, and the prized Atlantic swordfish..."
Thursday 23rd January 2020 01:01 GMT
Re: Antitrust
Ah, Ask Jeeves. Yes I remember it.
And you’ve given me an excuse to link to the classic Interview With A Search Engine.
Don't mention the seam! Microsoft releases Surface Duo Android SDK, more on Windows 10X
Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
Who honestly has a crown prince in their threat model? UN report officially fingers Saudi royal as Bezos hacker
Capita Education Services accidentally spaffs email addresses in Helpdesk snafu
Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans
New SAP co-CEO 'runs simple' to Davos in Mercedes hydrogen car
The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded
Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls
Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy as Chinese malware bundled on phones for hard-up Americans
Saturday 11th January 2020 21:05 GMT
Re: I feel fortunate
Yeah, I mis-spoke when I said "non-removeable" - I should have said, "unwanted". I deserve every one of those down-votes.
In mitigation, m'lud, my comment was typed whilst in the grip of a stinker of a cold... I was on a NyQuil (aka Night Nurse for you brits) bender and that can do terrible things to a man's cognitive powers!
The crapware on desktop Windows 10 can most definitely be removed, though to be fair, some of them ARE actually installed, rather than just being links on the start menu. Mea culpa. (QUICK HONEY, COME SEE! SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET HAS ADMITTED THAT HE WAS WRONG!11!!)
Friday 10th January 2020 02:21 GMT
Re: I feel fortunate
You may be right about Windows phone as it was, and yes, I accept that it's pointless to speculate about what might have been.
However, the proliferation of non-removeable crapware/shovelware on desktop Windows 10 ("Candy Crush Soda Saga", etc) shows that if Microsoft was against such stuff in the past, they've certainly overcome their moral scruples since then.
The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes
A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable
Monday 6th January 2020 20:43 GMT
Re: He'd lost several months of work
I believe the correct saying is
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these?
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
Dell slathers on factor XPS 13 to reveal new shiny with... ooh... a 0.1 inch bigger screen
Friday 3rd January 2020 17:36 GMT
Hang on...
[the power button] now sits embedded in the power key,
So, place your finger on the reader and inadvertently switch the machine off every time?
Ok, I’m sure I've either misunderstood the design, or else Dell have some cunning system for disabling the power button when the FP reader is active, but still, this seems like one of the worst places to put it.
Lynch lied about Autonomy's accounts, rages HPE to the High Court
Smart speaker maker Sonos takes heat for deliberately bricking older kit with 'Trade Up' plan
Microsoft: Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, my PowerShell has gone RC
HPE goes on the warpath, attacks AWS over vendor lock-in
'Tis the season to be wobbly: HSBC online and mobile banking services suffer not one but two major outages in 12 hours
Friday 20th December 2019 19:26 GMT
Re: Definitely annoying...
It's depressing how many mobile app vendors say "you have no Internet connection" when they actually mean to say, "I can't connect to my server". Because heaven forfend that the connection problem might be at the back end... much easier to blame it on the user, right?
British bloke accused of extorting victims for 'Dark Overlord' hacker crew finally gets his free trip* to America
Who's that padding down the chimney? It's Puma, with its weird £80 socks for gamers
Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired
Tuesday 17th December 2019 19:35 GMT
Re: As a Canadian
Fair point, except that - as others have pointed out above - it wasn't his computer. It was the company's. Which is a totally different kettle of fish.
I have no problem with people having the (to use a former colleague of mine's phrase) "kinky latex donkey buggery" stuff on their own, personal machines.
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