Posts by PTW 239 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2012
Not sure where to start with your ravings, I'll give it a go, Republican voters tend to be older;
1. 90+% of Covid death are over 60 years old
2. COVID 19 is just "a case of the sniffles" if your under 60, with no comorbidity
3. Healthy children are unaffected
4. Children who tested positive have been proven not to pass it to members of the same household ergo school is safe.
Please go back to Twitter, or wherever.
The world leaders in AI!
Yes, Amazon I did purchase a 55" TV last month*, no, why would I ever want to buy another the next time I log in? If they're world leaders how can we expect self driving cars to ever be a thing? As AC mentioned in the post above, it's ML not AI, and not even very good ML.
If it was AI in the article, it would have responded to the developers and told them how stupid they were being.
*I didn't really, but anyone that's ever shopped there more than once know how idiotic the suggestions are.
should be shown on the developer's dashboard, there's zero excuse, and I don't buy the "it would allow bad guys to game the system", that's on par with "think of the children"
I can't be dismissed without reason, or issued a fine or even penalty notice, without clear reason, with a clear an documented appeal process. Not "you broke 'a' rule"
Apple and Google are obviously monopolies where their respective OSes are concerned and should be treated as such
I remember the tech being used in a four wheel chair that could then stand on only two wheels bringing the occupant up to eye level with surrounding people. Whilst not light, I imagine the psychology gains would be great. But as with all disability aids the manufacturers were greedy cnuts and wanted about £45k for it back in 2005
Contact tracing is a lag measure, so effectively useless. i.e. x was on the tube yesterday and was close to someone, y, that tested +ve for C19 today, how many people has person x come in contact with? What if y tests +ve 3 days later? Then x has also been in contact with what, 100, 1000, people? Do they all go into isolation?
By it's very definition it brings you back to complete lock down
2011 Dell XPS X502L thanks, chunky, but it just works, every day. With 12Gb RAM and Devuan it does everything I need, docker, WINE for when I need to fire up EA, etc., etc.. And I can replace anything hardware wise. And does this keyboard have the rest of the keys that are missing from Macs?
Many moons ago in tech support I incurred the wrath of my colleagues for some unremembered reason, probably leaving my pager on my desk and going out on site. I returned to my desk to find my mouse nonfunctional, ball still there, check, plugged in to the PS/2 socket, check, scratch my head, well it's Win 95, reboot it. Still nothing, trot off to the store room to get a new mouse to test, bingo, it works perfectly!
Whilst pulling the cable for the old mouse out of the cable management on the back of my desk, the PS/2 plug is not moving, then, pop, the plug appears, but there's still a PS/2 mouse plug waving about near my PC? Bastards had hidden my mouse in the cable management, and simply dropped the cable of another mouse into the management tray. Cheers fellas.
Doesn't really work for the rest of the population though, does it? My mother, aunt, grandfather, etc. should never need to either have a sys admin nor become one. We are the 1% in this case, and tbh I'm fucking tired of it, I should be able to buy a phone that doesn't track me, not go through all the shit of finding a phone that's supported by some alternate rom, and adding & updating the hosts file, etc, etc, etc. there's drinking to be done, I haven't time for this crap!
Hence the down vote.
As I've said before, it's the Phantom Down-voter of Olde London Town.
It looks like a bot, but it's not, you can follow so many threads on el reg and there'll be posts with 101 up votes and just a single down vote. On some threads it's a single down vote on every post. It's quite sad if you think about it, that someone's only joy in life is down voting people for no reason whatsoever.
Sending hugs and kisses to you PDoOLT, and a pint, cheer up lad/lass!
PS
If you're not the PDoOLT don't you dare down vote this post!
See title. Yes, I know it's still available, but I'm not paying $330 for something I use twice a year when Libre Office is available. TBH if it was $100 I'd probably pay it, it was so, so, much better than Word. Surely the patent must have expired on showing the single piece of formatting code that's actually screwing up your whole document?
The issue is FB [and subsidiaries], LinkedIn, etc. Hoover up peoples contact lists at will, with some absurd EULA/TaC line like "you agree that you have obtained consent of those in your contacts list to share their data" in 2pt text.
To my mind THAT is a far more serious issue, and needs to be reversed ASAP.
Wasn't in time to edit, but having just looked at a colleague's MacBook, I guess I'd forgotten, are Lenovo are trying to ape [or lure away users from] apple with the Fn/CTRL placement?
Apple keyboards did it for me, had a macbook for 3 months before throwing back at IT: no del key, Fn/CTRL switch, stupid half height up/down cursor keys, no pg up/down, end or home and the cmd key, oh, the horror!
Don't find the no tabbed terminal an issue either in windows or linux, I find it much easier and safer with alt-tab and separate windows
"'cos terrists"?
Jeez the Old Bill used to use the spectrum around 104-108MHz FM that you could pick up with any old radio by tuning to the end of the dial.
I think in a real emergency, "some comms" would be good enough!
Go Radio Hams keep this crap out of your spectrum.
EDIT
In fact make it all Morse only :D
"The median pay gap is calculated by arranging the hourly pay rates of all male full-pay staffers from highest to lowest, and taking the hourly pay of the middle-ranked man. The same is done for the women, and the two figures are compared."
What do the figure look like if you exclude all those doing less than 35 hours per week?
You need to compare people doing the same job and that have the same number of years in full time employment. Absolutely meaningless figures, what's the median of apples and oranges?
Google don't think so, they've enforced an A to Z on screen keyboard on the latest Android TV update, I'm sure in an effort to get people to use the voice search.
Sideloaded the ASOP keyboard and it wouldn't even display. Google can kiss my hairy arse!
Now a happy Pi 3b+ LibreElec/Kodi user, complete with Netflix.
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