maybe slashdot ought to fucking run my submission from ~2011 about how wasteful technology consumption has gotten - from 95% carrier subsidised cellphones to thirty Dollar printers which use ink that's more expensive than premium champagne to entirely user-hostile aftermarket parts services and utterly obstructive methods to getting information, even from a technician's point of view, about how to take apart a fucking fax machine to swap out a worn pinion. My newest computer is three years old, I expect to still be working in another ten with the only replacement parts being the keyboard and the hard drive (not fussed about the optical drive, I've actually never used that, couldn't even tell you if it works!). My oldest computer still in regular use is a PENTIUM III (Dell CPx H500GT) from 1999. That's about thirteen years beyond extended warranty period, for those counting. That was also the single most expensive computer I ever bought. Thing cost me shy of three grand for the bit with the keyboard. EW was another £400 on top of that. Spare battery (two of) was another £160. Money's worth? I'd say, even considering how ridiculously cheap computers are these days (I can buy a tablet with faster processor than that Dell, more memory and storage and longer battery life, for the price of a fucking Dell PPX module battery TODAY!) but might I be a bit "old" if I say that I don't believe in fixing what ain't broke and that Dell still works?
the fool with the youtube account is ostensibly trying to get footage of cops misbehaving.
I make video documentaries. You never see me in those documentaries. You rarely even hear me. My style is getting other people to conduct the narrative, I'm holding the fucking camera.
I have a gun cam. It's the size of a tactical flashlight and records full HD. While it might be a bit awkward as an addon piece to a pistol (it is possible to use for example a forestock mould to prevent snagging, which would necessitate a new holster - see the examples used on Battlestar Galactica (2003) which are FN Five-seveN among other models with custom barrel moulds), it's easy to add a scope ring to an MP5 (or if it already has a dot sight, slap one on the Weaver rail on the sight itself!). I also have a Crosman Nightstalker which uses the exact same composite shell as the Beretta CX4 Storm - the cam slots in next to the barrel through an open pocket set into the nose of the forestock. As pistol mounting goes, I only have one pistol with a rail that I actually use - that would be my.177 Webley Nemesis which I use for 20m target, that has a Tasco 3-7 x20.
there is the public interest test, for GP's information. If the release of a document is deemed (even by a separate hearing) to be in the public insterest, then it is released for dissemination to any interested party. The test can be and is abused, for example in public family law, where EVERYTHING is engaged by public interest immunity and is thus compartmented "eyes only". I would be risking contempt of court if I disclosed for example, that my own children made disclosures against public servants which was subsequently suppressed. You know what? I think it is in the public interest to know that certain elements in the public sector are FILTHY FUCKING KIDDIE FIDDLING BASTARDS.
no I got the FDIV joke, I just didn't consider it relevant. By the way, you missed the 20 year anniversary of that particular bug's discovery by just a fortnight.
A police bodycam doesn't record what the police officer is doing, it records what he sees - members of the public. It would be more sensible to ask around for CCTV footage of police officers as they go about their public duty. Ian Tomlinson's killer (PC SIMON HARWOOD) wouldn't have been convicted if he'd been wearing a bodycam for the simple reason that at the point where the data is seized it cannot be proved who was wearing the camera since it would have been the police own data officer who had first dibs at that data*. It was fortunate for the sake of justice that a member of the public recorded the assault which caused Tomlinson's death; unfortunate that that evidence, although damning, was not allowed to stand.
* I should also point out that the killing was investigated by the Police and prosecuted by the CPS rather than a private criminal prosecution - too late to do that now, Double Jeopardy is well and truly engaged, all the Tomlinson family had left was a civil suit for wrongful death which was pissed all over when they publicly and fairly comprehensively accepted the offer of settlement.
** I hereby revoke any implied consent to my visage being used, parodied or referred to in any video, news report or any other media known or unknown without my express prior written informed consent.
*** The right to bring private prosecutions is preserved by section 6(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 which is still in force. This right has been codified since 1197.
water has a ridiculous thermal capacity. 4.186 joule/gram C and if it does actually reach boiling point, 2.3MJ/kg for total conversion to steam at 100C.
my phone is 11 years old, still fully functional and still gets ten days standby on the same battery it originally came with, how do you go through so many phones??
follow the argument: as common traits, Gnome the X client and Gnome the POS appliance, to the average user, are the same thing - particularly if, as in examples dotted around, they do the same thing (facilitate electronic transactions). Ergo, and to the Lay observer (which is essentially what a Court acting for the State represents even if they're not a party to proceedings in which case they are merely adjudicators), they are the same thing.
Am I going to email Everest with my Windows support tickets? No, because I'm smart(er than the average bear) enough to know that what I'm using was put out by a company called Microsoft who subcontract to other companies, I've almost certainly got a support system in place for such an eventuality. For Grandma who bought what she considers to be a toaster oven, a ticket to Everest is the way to go because they do windows.
The Internet is bursting with examples of support calls from people with such weird issues as windows being stuck. To Microsoft. Who have probably no idea how to unstick a fifty year old hinge.
Cue XGnome UI ticket flood to Groupon's email service in 3, 2, 1...
a random thought coalesced and occurred to me: would they get away with saying instead that their Gnome POS is an embedded appliance rather than the currently implied full-blown OS which already causes confusion as can be demonstrated simply by reading down the thread?
Technically, Windows 7 is my desktop environment. The KERNEL is NT. I could conceivably run KDE on NT (though why I'd want to is anyone's guess) and to Average User, I'd be running Linux. YOU CAN'T TELL BY LOOKING AT THE UI, you have to query the kernel itself. GNU/Linux is your KERNEL. Gnome/KDE/XFCE/IceWM is your DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT.
you'd only be fucked if your fab facility was in Denmark. (part of the Coca Cola logo (specifically the right side of the "O" in "Cola") has been acknowledged by the company themselves, after the fact, to look like the Danish flag).
nope, AC is correct. They tried to file a patent on "586" and were denied by the courts, so they took P5 and added "-ium", claimed that to be a new word and trademarked it. Aaaand then they tried to sue AMD, VIA and Cyrix out of existence instead of actually productively competing.
I had a similar idea back when some bright spark decided a 40 foot container would make a great module for a closed server stack (2006?). The question was: "What to do with all that waste heat?" The answer: "pump it into a building which lets you park one of these crates in their parking lot."
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maybe slashdot ought to fucking run my submission from ~2011 about how wasteful technology consumption has gotten - from 95% carrier subsidised cellphones to thirty Dollar printers which use ink that's more expensive than premium champagne to entirely user-hostile aftermarket parts services and utterly obstructive methods to getting information, even from a technician's point of view, about how to take apart a fucking fax machine to swap out a worn pinion. My newest computer is three years old, I expect to still be working in another ten with the only replacement parts being the keyboard and the hard drive (not fussed about the optical drive, I've actually never used that, couldn't even tell you if it works!). My oldest computer still in regular use is a PENTIUM III (Dell CPx H500GT) from 1999. That's about thirteen years beyond extended warranty period, for those counting. That was also the single most expensive computer I ever bought. Thing cost me shy of three grand for the bit with the keyboard. EW was another £400 on top of that. Spare battery (two of) was another £160. Money's worth? I'd say, even considering how ridiculously cheap computers are these days (I can buy a tablet with faster processor than that Dell, more memory and storage and longer battery life, for the price of a fucking Dell PPX module battery TODAY!) but might I be a bit "old" if I say that I don't believe in fixing what ain't broke and that Dell still works?
a few comments on slashdot, certainly...
the fool with the youtube account is ostensibly trying to get footage of cops misbehaving.
I make video documentaries. You never see me in those documentaries. You rarely even hear me. My style is getting other people to conduct the narrative, I'm holding the fucking camera.
yes, of course neglecting to remind everybody that there is no such thing as privacy in a public space.
I have a gun cam. It's the size of a tactical flashlight and records full HD. While it might be a bit awkward as an addon piece to a pistol (it is possible to use for example a forestock mould to prevent snagging, which would necessitate a new holster - see the examples used on Battlestar Galactica (2003) which are FN Five-seveN among other models with custom barrel moulds), it's easy to add a scope ring to an MP5 (or if it already has a dot sight, slap one on the Weaver rail on the sight itself!). I also have a Crosman Nightstalker which uses the exact same composite shell as the Beretta CX4 Storm - the cam slots in next to the barrel through an open pocket set into the nose of the forestock. As pistol mounting goes, I only have one pistol with a rail that I actually use - that would be my .177 Webley Nemesis which I use for 20m target, that has a Tasco 3-7 x20.
there is the public interest test, for GP's information. If the release of a document is deemed (even by a separate hearing) to be in the public insterest, then it is released for dissemination to any interested party. The test can be and is abused, for example in public family law, where EVERYTHING is engaged by public interest immunity and is thus compartmented "eyes only". I would be risking contempt of court if I disclosed for example, that my own children made disclosures against public servants which was subsequently suppressed. You know what? I think it is in the public interest to know that certain elements in the public sector are FILTHY FUCKING KIDDIE FIDDLING BASTARDS.
yes, it's called my heel through the screen you cheap bastard.
no I got the FDIV joke, I just didn't consider it relevant. By the way, you missed the 20 year anniversary of that particular bug's discovery by just a fortnight.
A police bodycam doesn't record what the police officer is doing, it records what he sees - members of the public. It would be more sensible to ask around for CCTV footage of police officers as they go about their public duty. Ian Tomlinson's killer (PC SIMON HARWOOD) wouldn't have been convicted if he'd been wearing a bodycam for the simple reason that at the point where the data is seized it cannot be proved who was wearing the camera since it would have been the police own data officer who had first dibs at that data*. It was fortunate for the sake of justice that a member of the public recorded the assault which caused Tomlinson's death; unfortunate that that evidence, although damning, was not allowed to stand.
* I should also point out that the killing was investigated by the Police and prosecuted by the CPS rather than a private criminal prosecution - too late to do that now, Double Jeopardy is well and truly engaged, all the Tomlinson family had left was a civil suit for wrongful death which was pissed all over when they publicly and fairly comprehensively accepted the offer of settlement.
** I hereby revoke any implied consent to my visage being used, parodied or referred to in any video, news report or any other media known or unknown without my express prior written informed consent.
*** The right to bring private prosecutions is preserved by section 6(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 which is still in force. This right has been codified since 1197.
explains the current state of the NHS.
water has a ridiculous thermal capacity. 4.186 joule/gram C and if it does actually reach boiling point, 2.3MJ/kg for total conversion to steam at 100C.
my phone is 11 years old, still fully functional and still gets ten days standby on the same battery it originally came with, how do you go through so many phones??
follow the argument: as common traits, Gnome the X client and Gnome the POS appliance, to the average user, are the same thing - particularly if, as in examples dotted around, they do the same thing (facilitate electronic transactions). Ergo, and to the Lay observer (which is essentially what a Court acting for the State represents even if they're not a party to proceedings in which case they are merely adjudicators), they are the same thing.
Am I going to email Everest with my Windows support tickets? No, because I'm smart(er than the average bear) enough to know that what I'm using was put out by a company called Microsoft who subcontract to other companies, I've almost certainly got a support system in place for such an eventuality. For Grandma who bought what she considers to be a toaster oven, a ticket to Everest is the way to go because they do windows.
The Internet is bursting with examples of support calls from people with such weird issues as windows being stuck. To Microsoft. Who have probably no idea how to unstick a fifty year old hinge.
Cue XGnome UI ticket flood to Groupon's email service in 3, 2, 1...
I'd like to get Pamela Jones' input on this one...
a random thought coalesced and occurred to me: would they get away with saying instead that their Gnome POS is an embedded appliance rather than the currently implied full-blown OS which already causes confusion as can be demonstrated simply by reading down the thread?
rounded corners: Apple.
"Swipe" interface effects: Apple.
Platform scrolling: Apple.
I think Apple now holds more patents than Edison ever did.
to the average user, my OS is Windows 7.
Technically, Windows 7 is my desktop environment. The KERNEL is NT. I could conceivably run KDE on NT (though why I'd want to is anyone's guess) and to Average User, I'd be running Linux. YOU CAN'T TELL BY LOOKING AT THE UI, you have to query the kernel itself.
GNU/Linux is your KERNEL. Gnome/KDE/XFCE/IceWM is your DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT.
you'd only be fucked if your fab facility was in Denmark.
(part of the Coca Cola logo (specifically the right side of the "O" in "Cola") has been acknowledged by the company themselves, after the fact, to look like the Danish flag).
nope, AC is correct. They tried to file a patent on "586" and were denied by the courts, so they took P5 and added "-ium", claimed that to be a new word and trademarked it. Aaaand then they tried to sue AMD, VIA and Cyrix out of existence instead of actually productively competing.
I had a similar idea back when some bright spark decided a 40 foot container would make a great module for a closed server stack (2006?). The question was: "What to do with all that waste heat?" The answer: "pump it into a building which lets you park one of these crates in their parking lot."
1989 c.41 2(4). Your turn.
no, it did not abolish any prior law regarding the mother. Reading comprehension fail.
Also, learn the difference between legal guardianship and parental RESPONSIBILITY.
there is a difference between legal guardianship and parental responsibility.
I suggest you learn what that is.
AGAIN: Children Act 1989 section 2 paragraph 4.
there's no such thing as a victimless crime.
Read the citations. Just the first line. A lot of them say "STATE VERSUS..."
The STATE makes the claim. The STATE is the victim.