Posts by bigmacbear

Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad redaction

Re: Claw Back the Criminals' Compensation

"Cast iron was fine for grandpa, and it's good enough for me!"

Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it

"Erwin, what have you done with the cat? ...

... It looks half-dead." -- Frau Schrödinger

Not on your Zoom, not on Teams, not Google Meet, not BlueJeans. WebEx, Skype and Houseparty make us itch. No, not FaceTime, not even Twitch

Zoom (like most of these tools) has a lot of switches and levers, some of which you control and some of which the meeting host controls. For instance, the host can turn on or off the ability for participants to share their screen, and it looks like your meeting host may have turned this off.

Also, there's a big difference between the browser-based and downloadable apps. Some systems (WebEx is one of them) will not allow you to host a meeting from the browser alone, as the hosting functionality is only in the app.

California backs Proposition 22: Great news for Uber, Lyft as their drivers can work as indie contractors

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords

Re: Maga2020 hindsight

Search YouTube for "Padded Cellblock Tango" if you're into that sort of thing.

Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line

Re: Grandfather Rights

"I think it's far more that, despite there being not a single common component with the original aircraft, they still have grandfather rights for certification."

Does that make these the Aircraft of Theseus?

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline

Re: We’ve had plenty of these Molly cover stories

According to the Jargon File at http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html, Molly was the name of the programmer's toddler daughter who inspired the creation of the Molly-guard by pushing the Big Red Switch on a mainframe.

Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree

Re: Working from Home

BOYD? As in "Bring Out Your Dead"? :)

Microsoft unshackles WSL2 Linux kernel from Windows 10 image for future fettling via Windows Update

Re: It's not an OS

My dev team back in the day used OS/2 to allow for multiple DOS windows running concurrently to manipulate specific hardware devices (nowadays those would be VMs with dedicated drivers for the physical devices). We jokingly pronounced OS/2 as "OS over 2" i.e. half an operating system.

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

And interestingly enough, the "oo" is pronounced like that in "book" rather than that in "boot". Hence when a town in Ohio decided to simplify the spelling and name themselves Wooster (same pronunciation), the tag line became "Wooster, where the cows go moo".

US piles yet more charges on Theranos CEO, COO. We could do with good blood testing now... and this wasn't it

Unfortunate connotations

It's just too easy to get Theranos and Thanos mixed up...

Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer

Re: Using this logic.

Fun fact: The "mechanical license" required to release a music recording was originally devised for the manufacturers of player-piano rolls to compensate composers.

Total Inability To Service User Pulls: GitHub wobbles with a good old Thursday TITSUP

Re: Now Windows based?

"Germans?"

"Forget it, he's rolling."

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/

(How 14 competing standards become 15.) Note "A/C Chargers" is the first thing mentioned.