Posts by junglesnot

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

I have an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10. Its search engine is Bing and there is no way to change it. How come that's allowed?

Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this

Re: A Double Edged Sword

A Dalek is not an AI - it's an organism housed in a shuttlecock-shaped exoskeleton.

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Re: I suspect that most didn't even know it was an option

I thought root -1 was imaginary anyway.

Developer goes rogue, shoots four colleagues at ERP code maker

Re: A gun is involved in every single mass shooting.

"What is it if a gun isn't involved in a mass shooting?"

A photograph.

Jupiter has the craziest storms seen yet, say boffins

Fake news

Everyone knows that Jupiter is flat.

Apple to Europe: It's our job to design Ireland's tax system, not yours

"... shafted by the likes of Dell"

And yet you probably didn't mind when Dell moved its assembly line from Bracknell to Dublin, huh?

GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'

I think I might be developing dyslexia: every time I see the word "Usenix", I read it as "Unisex".

Quantum comms succeed over metro-scale fibre networks

Re: I'm confused

I think it's because of the uncertainty principle. Now I'm going to lie down in a darkened Heisenberg box for a while ...

Oh, the things Vim could teach Silicon Valley's code slingers

Re: Emacs would be great, if it had a decent text editor...

VI was a major release for guitarists.