Posts by Doctor Syntax 42029 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"Basically we need to treat the US like a failed experiment"
It's odd that given the "no more Kings" attitude they ignored the fact that England had been evolving the separation head of government powers from head of state for a couple of generations. They stepped back to somewhere about Queen Anne's day and then froze it with a written constitution.
The photo contest could be the basis for a little harmless fun. Pseudonymously* submit some images from an outfit known to be particularly vigorous in pursuing their IP. If you could work out the stock image site they went to and tip off the copyright owner so much the better.
* You wouldn't be at risk of not being able to claim the $1,000 prize.
"To be fair, the Linux and open source world hasn't yet come up with a reliable or familiar way of centrally managing almost 100,000 machines in a vast global directory." It hasn't come up with anything like https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/microsoft_entra_id_bug/
"Meanwhile, in linux land, you need a parser to access ini files"
They're not usually called ini but I guess if you view things through a Window that's how you'll think of them. The Unix approach is to make file plain text so the only parser you need is between your ears and, as you point out, a standard text editor is all you need to change them.
But pets? Try work horses. Carefully tended and fed because they do heavy lifting.
"There are no ARM ATX motherboards or disk images you can boot from to boot such board. Now you know why ARM will never become a mainstream PC."
Why should an ARM processor use an ATX motherboard? It's perfectly feasible to start from scratch and establish new standards for H/W extensions and firmware. The fact that nobody has seen fit to do it doesn't mean that nobody will.
Some of us have long memories and remember the S-100 motherboards. There was no provision for 16-bit processors let alone 32 or 64. By your logic it follows that16, 32 o4 64 bit processors could never become mainstream.
No. It's telling customers to send their old PCs to landfill and buy an OEM Windows licence with a new PC attached. If it fails I wouldn't be surprised to see a new W11 special edition tat will install without the H/W requirement but it won't be a free upgrade or else some more paid W10 support deals.
There may well have been a bit more in the detecting side of it but as a story the mainstream media will understand buying pizza is the way to explain it.
Nevertheless, having blagged their way through the weakest link and amassed a lot of money they do tend to thnk they're an awful lot smarted than they really are. Basically they're just hi-tech versions of the teenage robber who threw his jacket away when he escaped with his library card in the pocket or the one who threw away his cap with his name written inside - both real cases from the old days in Belfast.
About 3 days into my IT career I was parachuted into a client site where one of the two company bods had just left to go freelance. They knew what rate we were being body-shopped at. Very shortly the other one left as well & I quickly became team leader on the site. It took a long time to rebuild* the finances after a long time as SSO in the Civil Service to be able to make a move like that.
" Build might be more accurate.
Will the stakeholders include those who have given personal data to the age verifiers and may have concerns abut security? As the likes of Kidron have this extended to more sources of information such as Wikipedia* it's likely to become an issue for all of us.
* If the kids are using it to research their English history homework they're likely to come across a lot of distressing material.
"Foxconn initially promised 30,000 jobs, then reduced that number to 13,000, and ultimately delivered just 281."
How many does it take to run a data centre?
"Foxconn abandoned the project ... Badger State locals wondering if they were going to get hosed again,"
And once the AI bubble bursts it may well happen again.
