Precisely. I can't imagine anyone who actually used cassettes is experiencing 'nostalgia'. It was a short lived format, which was quickly replaced by much better alternatives.
A more apt description might be 'retro fetishism'.
Odd. I find Pip's voice (and character) wildly irritating. The Australian question intonation, the inability to pronounce 'cattle' (cattoo), the insufferable smugness etc. - ghastly.
Its purpose is to tell the user when and where to buy a new battery. It might have warranty up-selling capabilities as well, I don't know - it didn't last long on my thinkpad.
Redstone or rs1 is the codename for the next rolling release of Windows 10.
Build 14332 was pushed out to the fast ring of the Windows Insider program 3 days ago.
It removes the ability to disable Cortana (you can still hobble the bastard by removing permissions) and removes the ability to turn off web search. Currently it performs web search with the users default web browser and search engine, but that is obviously going to change.
Google is the main threat to the privacy of email today. Like Bruce Schneier observed, they want you to have email privacy from everyone except them.
I have an ancient gmail account which dates back to the early, early beta days (back when we had to swap invites on Slashdot). Somehow, every few months somebody new is able to register with the same user name, and I get all their messages delivered to my inbox. Their sent mail doesn't appear in my account, but everything else does.
Every facebook status message, itunes and amazon purchase, online dating message, and porn site registration.
I have two of those toys on my desk right now, they are useful dev kits for the TI CC1110 microcontroller - an 8051 based core with 32K flash and 4K RAM.
You also get a CC1111 part inside the wireless dongle which comes with it.
If you look at the PCB in the device, it is a hardware hackers dream. The debug port is broken out onto pads inside the battery compartment, and there are test pads all over.
The SPI screen is bitmap addressable and the keyboard is sanely wired up. You even get a piezo buzzer and 2 LEDs under software control.
It also runs at 2.5V on 3 AA cells, via a pretty nice LDO regulator that cuts out at 2.9V, so a set of NiMH cells will run down to 1V per cell, squeezing out almost every last drop of juice.
One of my IM-MEs cost £1, I forget what I paid for the other one, but it wasn't over a fiver.
I worked with friends. Not best friends - male friendship allows for much shallower bonds. I don't exchange christmas cards with any of them, but I know that each and every one of them would buy me a pint tomorrow, if I bumped into them.
That pair of 27l V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines may have been difficult to detect on 1940s radar equipment, but I doubt that is the case today.
The great thing about the DeHaviland Mosquito, was that in the early years of the war, nothing else could keep up with it. It was quick, and could carry a useful bomb load.
Our two new aircraft carriers can't support anything other than helicopters and VTOL/STOL aircraft. This is thanks to the fuckwits in Whitehall, deciding that we wouldn't add the electric catapults, and thereby save a few million quid.
These catapults would have allowed us to use cheap F-18s, at least in the short term. We scrapped our Sea Harrier fleet a few years ago (they were well past retirement).
So, we've spent billions on two useless flat-tops, while we wait for the F-35 programme to go into a death-spiral.
I predict a +5B quid project in a few years time - adding catapults - the hard way.
Still, it's not like the 12B quid they pissed up the wall, on the useless NHS patient records system. At least we have some working mobile helicopter platforms to show for it.
However, the US (via its media outlets) is imposing this model of halloween via its channels worldwide. I think that's a perfect example of cultural imperialism.
It's bewildering from a cross-cultural point of view, I mean only that.
Halloween in England, at least, had its own traditions - apple bobbing etc, which have mostly died out. I guess we lost interest. Or the victorians became puritanical about celebrating evil, as they would have seen it.
What makes me angry is precisely the cynical way in which cheap plastic Chinese crap is being sold to us, when 10 years ago, it wasn't.
In the UK, It's only kids (and their parents) who watch too much American crap on TV, who do it.
Personally, I despise this ridiculous 'holiday'. The last thing we need are more shipping containers, full of Chinese plastic crap arriving at Felixstowe - being imported and sold by the supermarkets - who are desperate to encourage a new yearly orgy of consumerism.
Modern Halloween is yet another bewildering American concept, borrowed from traditional European practices (mostly from Celtic Samhain, some early Pagan/Christian crossover, bits of Roman stuff), but distorted grotesquely by the lens of capitalistic greed.
Bonfire night is so much more fun - and I mean a proper bonfire. The fireworks are, and should be, a sideshow. A proper echo of Samhain etc. - the celebration of the end of harvest and the start of a risky, cold, non-productive season. There is something wonderful about a good bonfire on a crisp Autumn night.
I think Schneier wrote about this in 'Beyond Fear'. A book which I think should be required reading for all politicians and policy makers.
The security staff in Israeli airports are trained to look for people 'acting hinky' - they have years of experience in this and an excellent record.
The Taliban in particular are not above using innocent women or children as remotely detonated 'suicide' vest victims - sometimes willing, but often not.
There is nothing preventing a mixed approach. Randomise searches by all means (I agree with Schneier, it can't not improve security), but you need the human behavioral analysis to bolster this for better security - that analysis is best done by trained professionals, something which the TSA are currently, not.
Private Eye is the last bastion of decent satire and serious investigative journalism "In the Back".
I also read New Scientist, but that's been declining in quality for years. I think they should switch to a bi-monthly edition, and really concentrate on improving the content. I haven't bought it for years, but I do read it at the library from time to time.
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Precisely. I can't imagine anyone who actually used cassettes is experiencing 'nostalgia'. It was a short lived format, which was quickly replaced by much better alternatives.
A more apt description might be 'retro fetishism'.
Who can tell the difference?
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcG...
Titania McGrath can.
This story reeks of it.
Hello [UserName], my name is doctor Sbaitso.
I am here to help you.
Odd. I find Pip's voice (and character) wildly irritating. The Australian question intonation, the inability to pronounce 'cattle' (cattoo), the insufferable smugness etc. - ghastly.
Not as irriating as her mother though...
Its purpose is to tell the user when and where to buy a new battery. It might have warranty up-selling capabilities as well, I don't know - it didn't last long on my thinkpad.
Let's see if this makes it past the lameness filter:
I run this remove_crapps.ps1 script after every new Windows Insider build, to remove the stuff I don't want (including OneDrive).
For added nostalgia value, it also takes over an hour to install.
About the same as installing Solaris 2.5.1 from a single speed CD-ROM drive on my SPARCstationLX in 1996.
Redstone or rs1 is the codename for the next rolling release of Windows 10.
Build 14332 was pushed out to the fast ring of the Windows Insider program 3 days ago.
It removes the ability to disable Cortana (you can still hobble the bastard by removing permissions) and removes the ability to turn off web search. Currently it performs web search with the users default web browser and search engine, but that is obviously going to change.
They also made the Start menu even worse.
Guess what Windows Insiders just discovered you can't do in Windows 10 rs1_release 14332?
Google is the main threat to the privacy of email today. Like Bruce Schneier observed, they want you to have email privacy from everyone except them.
I have an ancient gmail account which dates back to the early, early beta days (back when we had to swap invites on Slashdot). Somehow, every few months somebody new is able to register with the same user name, and I get all their messages delivered to my inbox. Their sent mail doesn't appear in my account, but everything else does.
Every facebook status message, itunes and amazon purchase, online dating message, and porn site registration.
I have two of those toys on my desk right now, they are useful dev kits for the TI CC1110 microcontroller - an 8051 based core with 32K flash and 4K RAM.
You also get a CC1111 part inside the wireless dongle which comes with it.
If you look at the PCB in the device, it is a hardware hackers dream. The debug port is broken out onto pads inside the battery compartment, and there are test pads all over.
The SPI screen is bitmap addressable and the keyboard is sanely wired up. You even get a piezo buzzer and 2 LEDs under software control.
It also runs at 2.5V on 3 AA cells, via a pretty nice LDO regulator that cuts out at 2.9V, so a set of NiMH cells will run down to 1V per cell, squeezing out almost every last drop of juice.
One of my IM-MEs cost £1, I forget what I paid for the other one, but it wasn't over a fiver.
...As I would them. he hastily adds.
I worked with friends. Not best friends - male friendship allows for much shallower bonds. I don't exchange christmas cards with any of them, but I know that each and every one of them would buy me a pint tomorrow, if I bumped into them.
That pair of 27l V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines may have been difficult to detect on 1940s radar equipment, but I doubt that is the case today.
The great thing about the DeHaviland Mosquito, was that in the early years of the war, nothing else could keep up with it. It was quick, and could carry a useful bomb load.
We can't.
Our two new aircraft carriers can't support anything other than helicopters and VTOL/STOL aircraft. This is thanks to the fuckwits in Whitehall, deciding that we wouldn't add the electric catapults, and thereby save a few million quid.
These catapults would have allowed us to use cheap F-18s, at least in the short term. We scrapped our Sea Harrier fleet a few years ago (they were well past retirement).
So, we've spent billions on two useless flat-tops, while we wait for the F-35 programme to go into a death-spiral.
I predict a +5B quid project in a few years time - adding catapults - the hard way.
Still, it's not like the 12B quid they pissed up the wall, on the useless NHS patient records system. At least we have some working mobile helicopter platforms to show for it.
They should stick with Solaris.
'preap' is the command for killing zombie processes.
Nobody here cares about that crap. Nobody ever will - it's the reason why there are zero comments on *every* story, and your apache logs are so thin.
Slashdot beta is utterly broken, but there's a fundamental problem that won't be fixed by rolling it back. We need to start afresh with a new site.
Dice holdings clearly bought the wrong website and are wrecking it, so it's time to set it up again elsewhere. We are slashdot.
However, the US (via its media outlets) is imposing this model of halloween via its channels worldwide. I think that's a perfect example of cultural imperialism.
That's why I see it as harmful.
It's bewildering from a cross-cultural point of view, I mean only that.
Halloween in England, at least, had its own traditions - apple bobbing etc, which have mostly died out. I guess we lost interest. Or the victorians became puritanical about celebrating evil, as they would have seen it.
What makes me angry is precisely the cynical way in which cheap plastic Chinese crap is being sold to us, when 10 years ago, it wasn't.
I simply don't answer the door.
In the UK, It's only kids (and their parents) who watch too much American crap on TV, who do it.
Personally, I despise this ridiculous 'holiday'. The last thing we need are more shipping containers, full of Chinese plastic crap arriving at Felixstowe - being imported and sold by the supermarkets - who are desperate to encourage a new yearly orgy of consumerism.
Modern Halloween is yet another bewildering American concept, borrowed from traditional European practices (mostly from Celtic Samhain, some early Pagan/Christian crossover, bits of Roman stuff), but distorted grotesquely by the lens of capitalistic greed.
Bonfire night is so much more fun - and I mean a proper bonfire. The fireworks are, and should be, a sideshow. A proper echo of Samhain etc. - the celebration of the end of harvest and the start of a risky, cold, non-productive season. There is something wonderful about a good bonfire on a crisp Autumn night.
I think Schneier wrote about this in 'Beyond Fear'. A book which I think should be required reading for all politicians and policy makers.
The security staff in Israeli airports are trained to look for people 'acting hinky' - they have years of experience in this and an excellent record.
The Taliban in particular are not above using innocent women or children as remotely detonated 'suicide' vest victims - sometimes willing, but often not.
There is nothing preventing a mixed approach. Randomise searches by all means (I agree with Schneier, it can't not improve security), but you need the human behavioral analysis to bolster this for better security - that analysis is best done by trained professionals, something which the TSA are currently, not.
I forgot to mention the Private Eye cryptic crossword. I love it.
http://private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword
Set by Cyclops (Brummie in the Graun), it usually contains some absolutely hilarious clues, and is often extremely rude.
Private Eye is the last bastion of decent satire and serious investigative journalism "In the Back".
I also read New Scientist, but that's been declining in quality for years. I think they should switch to a bi-monthly edition, and really concentrate on improving the content. I haven't bought it for years, but I do read it at the library from time to time.