* Posts by Chubbymoth

5 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2012

Boffins say hot air makes Antarctica colder

Chubbymoth

RE: there's a lot....

Ehm,.. Grikath,

Coming from the same place, I happen to have some insight into the cost of effort to keep those polders from flooding and the expected rise of those cost due to climate change. Now fortunately our fears of the speed of sea level rise seems to have been over estimated earlier, but we all know that if a Hurricane of type Katrina were to hit our area, some 60% of the country would get soaked and some sadly ignorant rants would drown in their polders.

Some seem to have forgotten why we build all those sea defenses in the first place and why we upped the ante after 1953. I would suggest you take a close look at the map of our country and start to wonder why all the big gaps are in it. We're far more worried about having more extreme weather patterns that are a result of climate change. Once in 10.000 years can be tomorrow as well, just like the chance of throwing a six on a dice is only once in 6.

Maybe you and all the deniers here should get their heads around the idea that science is increasingly convinced of climate change and is finding explanations for the counter intuitive effects global warming has on local weather patterns. Or you just eat your hot soup without blowing over it? See, science made easy to understand for you. Hot air transferred from you to the surrounding area to cool down something warm. Man made climate change in a nutshell.

"Beter te hard geblazen dan de bek gebrand." Is what I'll add to that for you.

The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be

Chubbymoth
FAIL

Nope,.. but maybe touchscreens just suck?

The whole fondle tablet format eludes me a bit. To me they all just seem like beefed up media players with a webbrowser. Oh and you can play games on them.. hacking fruit or something that keeps your hands busy.

However, using a pen you can shrink the clumsy keyboard and best of all use it to draw. Second gen OCR seems quite decent too, with fast enough processors to handle it at decent speed. If only the Samsung Note 10.1 would run a full fledged Linux so I could use my drawing apps on that, it would actually be useful. Yeah,.. you can jailbreak it and run Linux on Android, but I'm not sure how well that works.

But indeed, it's about the GUI and the input method. As long as none of the manufacturers get the bright idea to break out of the bloody smudge mode and finger paint methods and add a more flexible OS variant to that it will always be a bit of a toy. The technology is there,.. now all we'd need is someone to put it together.

El Reg man: Too bad, China - I was RIGHT about hoarding rare earths

Chubbymoth
Unhappy

And now you can add the title Being Banned in PRC China for being mildly critical!

Yup,.. you're off-line in China now. I have to VPN to the reg now to get my daily dose of nerdisms. BTW,.. they're cracking down on that too. Currently they haven't gotten to block OpenWeb yet, but I wonder how much effort they'll put into that. Sigh,.. I guess I'll have to try and find myself some satellite to hook up to shortly.

You know how it goes here.. big toes,.. small dicks...

Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows

Chubbymoth
Pint

A bit extreme maybe, but right in the core message

Stallman may have strange opinions and unpopular views, but that doesn't mean he's not right in this case. Canonical fucked up on this Amazon search logging mechanism. How about security for companies that would like to use Ubuntu. Oh,.. that's nice. Some joker can now read what the people in the business are searching for? So a lot of activity at Shell went to this area in (place in the world), gosh... where did they invest in lately? How is this data sent? SSH encryption? What is the overhead of all those queries? If you pay for the byte, it makes a difference. And when does the canonical EULA change? Have you ever read it? Hmm,..

The whole concept is insane. Had they asked nicely, some non paranoid people might have wanted to support them financially, but mandatory initially and then reluctantly opting out setting?

Persoanlly using XP, win7, android and backtrack linux. For Linux users I can strongly advise using BackTrack, Debian based, good support for Ubuntu packages, but you'll have to hack some to get them to work as root. And all the tools to get a better look at the other OS's in my list ;-)

FCC urges rethink of aircraft personal-electronics blackout

Chubbymoth
Mushroom

Crash and Burn

1995, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Guy walks into my office,.. his phone rings, he picks it up and every friggin computer in my office shuts down and reboots... Freaky ain't it. Mobes that time operated on the 90 Mhz bandwith I think.. so did my Pentiums.

I for one always ask anyone I see using a phone in an airplane to turn it off after that experience. Oh poopsy,.. you wanna play Angry Birds? Well,.. maybe once we're in flight? And there are plenty of examples of airplanes dropping from the sky without explanation to make someone edgy. Turn it off please,.. or I'll have to kill you.. Huh? Yes,.. quite mad.. and dangerous at the slightest provocation... Thank you miss...have a nice flight.

Granted,.. modern CPU's live on another frequency, but LTE is in the 2.4 Ghz range? How possible is it that some badly designed mobe emits an EM pulse through that?