Posts by Little Mouse 1448 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Dec 2014
Slightly off-topic, but have you noticed in local news stories about really unlucky people who manage to suffer bizarre & unlikely combinations of being impaled/burned/blown up/run over etc, that they always say the same thing from their hospital beds?
"I'm the luckiest man alive."
BTW - If you need to quickly reduce the heat of a scorching machine room armed with nothing more than natural ventilation and all the desk fans you can lay your hands on, you get much quicker results if you set everything up to blow all the hot air out, rather than by trying to force lots of lovely cold air in.
I learned this the hard way, so you don't have to.
If the string isn't actually required, then shirley this would work over a stream of piss.
The duration of the connection would only be limited by bladder capacity, and/or how long you could endure having a crocodile clip attached to your unmentionables. The quality of your aim might also be a factor.
This could be the next YouTube challenge...
I try to cover myself against the typical scams, but still got caught out last year when I was billed me an extra 40 Euro on top of the quoted price because the car they issued me with was a diesel.
Apparently the helpful rental desk employee pointed this out to me in advance, and definitely offered me the chance to not throw money at them for no discernable benefit if I so wished. Anyway, I signed their contract, which clearly spelled out those particular terms, in Spanish, and No Further Correspondence Will Be Entered Into.
Screw you, Goldcar.
Agreed - A lot of apocryphal stories have a grounding in truth. "shared experiences" is a pretty good label for many of them.
I have personally dealt with a user who genuinely couldn't find the "any" key, seen multiplugs plugged into themselves, and removed all manner of foreign objects from assorted hardware. All true, even though you've heard them all before.
(Although I've never had to deal with the fabled "cup holder"...)
"...easily confused relatives"
Unfortunately, any & every mobile can be confusing for some. No matter how simple the interface, it's still a mobile phone, and therefore something to be feared.
Residents of care homes can sometimes find themselves cut-off from the outside world if they have no landline and yet are unable to use a mobile (smartphone or dumb).
A brilliant recent "invention" was a phone that looks and behaves exactly like an old tethered phone - one that in days gone by would have sat on a table in the hall or at the bottom of the stairs.
This baby contains a SIM instead of being wired to the phone network, but is instantly familiar to the older generation. Genius.
We have enhanced our privacy notice, increased app security, provided customers [with] more choice in the data they share, and we continue to work with leading privacy and security experts to enhance the app.
Umm - That doesn't sound to me like they have they actually stopped collecting the data. Just that they've done the minimum possible to "notify" the user (provided they know where to look) and given them the chance to opt-out somehow.
and this is presumably produced by the onion as a natural defense mechanism
Or, just maybe, our eye-watering discomfort is a defense mechanism of our own. From way back when vicious onions roamed in packs, and our caveman ancestors learned the hard way not to mess with them.
Probably.
"Have you had to perform sysadminnery in front of an ... erm ... appreciative audience?"
Not me - but in the early ninties an ex-colleague of mine was once the IT-guy on one of the City trading floors.
You can only imagine the amount of abuse he used to get from the self-obsessed, money-driven wankers every time he had to enter their demesne to replace their broken kit. And like all spoilt, tantrum-prone children, they used to break a lot of kit...
I lived in Oz some twenty-odd years ago, and Christ on a bike, the taxis then were hideous. To the extent that every night-out required someone to stay mostly sober to deal with the inarticulate, innumerate, and cartographically-challenged excuse for a taxi driver and ensure we all got home safely.
It was a work-visa thing to get family members into the country. I mean, hey, anyone can drive, right?
A step up maybe, but only just. It can hardly count as "VR" if the patient is unable to turn his/her head, and there's no audio. Plus, they're lying down but seeing an environment as if they're standing. Bleugh!
They might as well just have a TV attached to the ceiling. At least they could turn the sound on.
Personally I just shut my eyes and try to concentrate on not involuntarily tearing the seat-arms off the chair.
what it would take to keep two halves of a disk -intact- connected when spun up to 52x. speeds
A typical CD is only just able to hold itself together at those speeds IIRC. That's one of the reasons spin-speeds never exceeded that threshold. Some interesting clips did the rounds of people trying to spin them faster - They rarely ended well.
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