Posts by jake

OK, it's time to talk mass spying again: America's Section 702 powers are up for renewal

Re: Hmmm.....

I'm glad I'm not THAT paranoid (despite the best classes money could buy ... ).

What's wrong with the word "sheeple"?

It describes what it describes better than any other single word in the English language. I rather suspect that the people who don't like it know it can be used to describe one aspect (or more!) of their own behavio(u)r.

Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds

Re: Never mind the code quality, feel the "innovation."

Well, to be perfectly honest, sometimes I think a coder has decided to throw code at the list, just to see what sticks. If I were Linus, I'd enjoy the odd rant at idiots like that, too ;-)

Re: Or, in the vernacular ...

I know what that word means, and how to use it. The big, fat, orange idiot-in-chief can kiss my pasty white butt if it thinks otherwise.

Re: Never mind the code quality, feel the "innovation."

Female seeking male? Absolutely not. The LKML ain't a meat market. <sfsf>

More seriously, the only person I can speak for is myself ... The only FSM I use is the one between my ears; no tool generated code here[0]. Reading through the source code, I suspect I'm not alone. The source is open, you can read along for yourself, if you like.

Disclaimer: I'm not a coder, per se, but I have been contributing for a long time.

[0] Yes, I know, I'm such a tool ... Feel better now?

Or, in the vernacular ...

... Running code trumps all.

This string is only temporary. If you see this in prod this is bad!

Re: This string is only temporary. If you see this in prod this is bad!

"lp0 on fire"

Ran across this about 6 months ago when trying to convince a very old bit of kit (IBM 1403) to cooperate with Linux. I jumped about a foot, it had been probably three decades since I last saw that error message.

Roses are red, violets are blue, fake-news-detecting AI is fake news, too

Ready for reality, kiddies?

ALL news is false!

No. Really. Please allow me to explain ... "the news" is entertainment, not education. It exists to sell razor blade, bog roll, tampon and beer commercials in order to profit the shareholders. It'll sell a bacon sarnie or a president in order to make a buck. IT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT "TRUTH"! All "the news" cares about is turning a profit, in order to keep the shareholders happy.

We now return you to your preconceived misconceptions. Have a nice day.

New project "Logan"

Re: New project "Logan"

Civilian frying of RFID bits & bobs might be frowned upon by the .gov of your choice. This is probably the wrong forum to solicit information on same.

University DDoS'd by its own seafood-curious malware-infected vending machines

Re: Ritchie and Kernighan again

ACM, not ASCM. Written by Thompson. No Kernighan or Richie.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210

I'm not certain it supports your thesis. Perhaps elaborate?

Tech Trailblazers Awards: Shortlist out - now it’s over to you

Re: Who?

Exactly. Ive never heard of any of the "trailblazers" either.

It gets better. I've heard of one of the Judges (Mr. Pott), one of the Industry Supporters (VMware), and one of the Media Partners (ElReg). I could make a case that I would never have heard of Mr. Pott if I wasn't a regular reader of ElReg.

What demographic are they looking for, anyway? Obviously it's not system/network/security consultants with over 40 years in the industry and a home base in Silly Con Valley ...

High tides: Boffins spy on dolphins baked on poisonous piscines

Re: Further study required!

Older-than-the-hills joke aside, you are quite correct, BAce. But then that's exactly what it is supposed to be. What else would you expect from a very light, low alcohol lager? It's not exactly brewed to look/feel/taste like Old Peculiar, now is it?

To those of you who claim it tastes like horse piss or whathaveyou, taste it again. Get a sample that is less than a month past it's "born on date" (it is aged at the brewery, and is built to be consumed young), and one that hasn't spent a lot of time fluctuating between hot & cold. I'm serious. A properly stored glass of BudLight has no phenolics, esters, sulphides, tannins, the afore mentioned "skunk", etc. It tastes of yeast (barely), malt (barely), and hops (kinda, if you squint), and little else. There is no after-taste to speak of, and no sticky mouth feel.

No, I don't work for A/B, nor do I own stock. Just trying to open a few closed minds. I'm probably tilting at windmills again. Whatever.

Re: Further study required!

The likes of "bud light", et alia, are really a tribute to modern manufacturing capability. They are preserved water, no more, and no less. When consumed young, and unmolested, they have no off-flavo(u)rs, and taste the same all over the world (assuming proper storage ... methal mercaptin isn't exactly tasty ...).

Trying to re-create such a thing at home is a serious test of a home-brewer's skill. Don't believe me? Try it. Water, barley, rice, yeast & hops ... how hard can it be? :-)

Re: Junkie dolphins?

The robins are getting plastered on pyracantha berries here in Sonoma at the moment.

Linus Torvalds decides world doesn't need a new Linux today

Re: I think I know why Linux never worked for me.

So what OS does work for you in your day-to-day life, oh great software engineer/guru? Inquiring minds & all that.

Re: Sarcasm

No. We don't need icons at all.

Re: Thanks, so-called Linus

You're not a Finn, are you Grommet? ;-)

Re: Thanks, so-called Linus

Nothing stopping you from downloading & compiling 4.10. Have fun!

Yes, Linus is foreign. He's Swedish.

Munich may dump Linux for Windows

Re: The company I work for went through this

Sounds to me like whoever is/was in charge of your inventory control system is incompetent. I've been specing un*x based inventory control for nearly 40 years with nary a hiccup. Granted, I started with proprietary $oftware, but for the last 15 years it's been FOSS all the way.

So Reiter's still trying to ...

... ensure a fat retirement with the help of Redmond, eh?

Short movie explaining what it's like to SysAdmin

Speaking of ...

... missing parts to a story. Who is "we", Kemosabe?

Re: Identify yourself...

I suspect a drive-by wannabe spammer forgot to post the relevant link.

Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list

Re: While I'm *absolutely* not a Prez.Tweeter.Trump fan

Cap'n, I suspect they were thinking more along the lines of "Olympics".

Re: Language?

I'm fairly sure there are more folks from the Azores than Ireland in Boston ... But the largest ethnic population in Boston is transplanted New York yuppies.

Re: What happens

AC, you realize you counted 104 characters? Most of my fanbois just hang my every word, hanging on to every character is just being silly.

Just to point out the obvious, I don't in general type several dozen words when a couple of handfuls will do. However, here at ElReg I can post several hundred words per post, should I feel the need. No need to break it into 140 characters or less, it seems most commentards here are quite capable of maintaining a coherent thought across multiple paragraphs. Unlike the featherbrained twits, apparently.

Re: Language?

Bog off, Truckle.

Signed: A Yank from the out of control State of California.

Re: What happens

I've never read ANY tweet. I lost interest in short text based communications back in the days of talk.

Re: Simple fix - don't visit the US

There IS an echo in here!

Re: What happens

Uh, just a second Grey. I live in Northern California. I do not know a single person who voted for or approves of the big, fat orange idiot-in-chief, nor what he is attempting to do to OUR, not HIS, country.

Eastern WA & OR ... well, the closer you get to Western Idaho (by land area), the sorrier I feel for you.

Bugat-wielding hacker: Yes, I tried to nick $3.2m from US schools, oil biz

Re: Why not just put him in a Moldovian prison for 15 years?

He's a skiddie. He can't teach anybody anything more technical than "Double click here. No, not there, you idiot, here."

Grumpy Trump trumped, now he's got the hump: Muslim ban beaten back by appeals court

Re: wind the bleating heart lefties up

Well, it IS lambing season ... Nearly over now, thankfully.

Re: Shame on you all

I'm still not 100% sure. One of my spleling check hers wants to change the name to Melanoma.

Re: Ahh, guys, any of you ever hear of the Constitution?

Not a joke. Rather an intentional heading off of Muphry's law ... I've used it before, I'll use it again. Old habit, leftover from mailing lists and USENET ... although I first started using it when bleeding on (proofreading and marking up with a red pencil) inter-office memos just before the mimeograph stage. A simple mispleling on the cover-sheet produced more dates with the departmental secretary ;-)

Re: Well, there's his problem!

Damn cat posted that for me before I could work in the obvious "and then he can build his own wall, seeing as nobody else is likely to do so" or words to that effect ...

Re: Trumped

John, you're turning into a caricature. Please continue. You're funny :-)

Re: Ahh, guys, any of you ever hear of the Constitution?

You could have worked in "and the 9th circuit is in the Out Of Control State of California". Spleling, punctuation. sentences and paragraphs are probably outside your ken, though.

Well, there's his problem!

He needs a SUPER HOD!

(c.f. British tabloids, mid 1970s, laborer supposedly making ~500 quid/week with a hod capable of handling over a hundredweight ... that's about all I remember, was long ago in a place far away.)

Re: Trumped

Yow! Are we having FUN yet?!

i saw this, and thought of el reg

Re: i saw this, and thought of el reg

If you watch the actual video of that song, you'll hear a couple-four words from what I suspect is John Cooper Clarke right at the beginning. Ah, memories of my misspent youth ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

So, the new font, then

And emsmallened again here.

But without bitching and griping about it.

The best of Reg readers' David Hockney-style logo redesigns

Re: Fake.Art?

Newxt time, post the drawing, phuzz. THAT is art.

The thing you posted was the equivalent of a Polaroid of the Mona Lisa.

Again, IMO of course. This round's on me.

Fake.Art?

It may be ASCII, but it's not Art, not if it's machine generated. IMO, anyway.

Revealed: 'Suicide bomber Barbie' and other TSA quack science that cost $1.5 billion

Re: Bah!

$ dig thereg.ah.fuck.it

; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P5 <<>> thereg.ah.fuck.it

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28625

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:

; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;thereg.ah.fuck.it. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

thereg.ah.fuck.it. 3600 IN A 46.252.31.30

;; Query time: 359 msec

;; SERVER: ::munged::

;; WHEN: Thu Feb 09 01:10:53 PST 2017

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 62

::heh::

Re: Women suicide bombers?

Who the hell wants a virgin, anyway? Sex, like most things, gets better with practice.

Re: Bah!

Does this mean I'm off the naughty step?

Re: TSA

Was a Brit selling dowsing rods to Iraq:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/dowsing_rod_bomb_detector_bust/

and

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/02/mccormick_jailed_decade_fake_bomb_detectors/

Sorry, no TSA, no DHS to point at and giggle. This time ;-)

To do DevOps right, beam down a UFO says Dynatrace

Do not want.

What else is there to say?

(Is there an echo in here?)

Vintage Space Shuttle fuel tank destroyed by New Orleans tornado

Build in a flood plain ...

... expect to get flooded out.

Park your kit in tornado ally ... I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

Big blues: IBM's remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers

So IBM has come to the same conclusion that I did about ten years ago.

That being that working "in the cloud", also known as "centralized computing", also known as "telecommuting" (as in teletype), is, like, totally 1950s technology.

So we can finally get off the cloud bandwagon, right? It's obviously a failed technology if even IBM can't make it work internally!

GitHubbers invited to hack Davis, the microservices chat bot

Do not want.

What else is there to say?