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iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war

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Re: Not like you'd do it yourself

I suspect ElReg would point at you and laugh in these very pages.

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A switch with just 49 ns latency? What strange magic is this?

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But it's not a switch.

It's a multiplexer.

Comparing it to a switch is like comparing pears & apples.

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Chipotle may have banished E coli, but now it has a new infection

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Most taco joints in the US don't sell Mexican food. They sell Texican pseudo-food.

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FTP becoming Forgotten Transfer Protocol as Debian turns it off

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passwords

For values of password that include "anonymous" does it really matter?

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"hard to operate and maintain"???

What are they teaching kids in school these days if ftp is considered "hard"? Does this exemplify the abilities of the average Debian maintainer?

Come to think of it, it could partially explain the move to systemd ...

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TVs are now tablet computers without a touchscreen

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Re: Yay!!!!

Oh, c'mon, John ... don't I at least get an hono(u)rable mention?

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Re: Don't worry. dumb flatscreen.

Correct, Tom. It also doubles as a heater for one of the cats in the winter.

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Don't worry.

Marketing will still figure out how to make the Great Unwashed think they need a new telly every couple years. It's the only way to keep the market growing.

Me, I'll stick to my 32" Sony Trinitron from 1988. I only watch the news or baseball anyway ... and that rarely. Both are better on the radio.

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Amazon may be using disk drives with hot-swappable components

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Re: I did this once to recover lost data

Likewise, if you didn't immediately get the data off the drive, and then remove the drive from service again as untrustworthy, kindly exit stage right.

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Re: Amazing

Yeah, but ... Ever try to hop swap an ST-506?

Hint: Don't.

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I'd be very surprised...

... if this wasn't already covered somewhere in IBM's patent portfolio.

Failing that, Shugart^Seagate.

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'Grueling' record-breaking VR movie marathon triggers hallucinations

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Re: How can you tell if they fall asleep?

The question is, did you write down your version of the book, John? Lotsa money in "alternative" versions of any given story these days.

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Re: Does Guinness matter anymore?

I read that subject^W"Title", and was expecting a lynch mob screaming for blood.

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Re: How did they pee?

They were lead to the throne, and told to squat. Kinda like your average 2 year old.

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Thus neatly proving ...

... it doesn't matter how long you sit on your arse looking like a twat, you'll still just be sitting on your arse looking like a twat.

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Amazon: 'Alexa, how do you fix shoddy APIs that keep breaking apps? Asking, er, for a friend'

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Re: "unless they submit their skill to a full manual test run each day"

"Some of the projects I maintain use dozens of partner and third party API's"

I think I've found the problem ...

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So basically, the folks developing the skills kit ...

... are without skills themselves?

Physician, heal thyself.

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Ewe, get a womb! Docs grow baby lambs in shrink-wrap plastic bags

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Re: Is that photo a photoshop job?

You should feel right sheepish for that baatrocity.

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Re: Who need sharks anymore!

Ob xkcd:

https://www.xkcd.com/1013/

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That's some mighty expensive ...

... stew.

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What is your favourite cider?

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Re: With a name like "Cox" ...

Legally, I am allowed to get a biker gang drunk as a skunk & then send 'em on their way ... but I can't send me dear old mum home with an airline bottle of the stuff.

i don't make the rules, I just work within them.

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Re: With a name like "Cox" ...

Calvados/applejack experiment is coming along slowly. We have about a hundred gallons of 110 proof booze from four vintages aging in 2.5 gallon oak casks down in the wine cellar (43F/6C). Last year's is rocket fuel crossed with paint stripper at the moment, but the four year old is coming along quite nicely, if sipped over ice. We know the process works, the only question is will it age out to a marketable product.

Yes, it's all legal and above board. The process itself is easy, but the .gov insists on making life difficult. The paperwork is a bitch, and we have to pay all excise taxes. And we're not licensed to allow the end product off the premises yet. Onwards & upwards ...

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Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks

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Re: Since when did Interpol "unplug" ...

What would I like it to do for me? Get in the next round, of course!

Would the man from Mars like a pint?

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Re: Optional

Well, coffee & cats are nothing to sneeze at ...

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Since when did Interpol "unplug" ...

... or otherwise put their hands on anything? Interpol's just a clearing house. It's up to cops on the ground in the jurisdiction involved to actually finger the perp(s).

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systemd-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0

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Re: Someone should do a Devuan Linux Mint Cinnamon clone.

My dogs don't have fleas, thank you very much. Better living through chemistry.

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Re: Honest inquiry @myself

Peter, see my post from 25 days ago:

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3142526

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Re: What is systemd??

I, too, have been running Slackware for nearly 25 years. But that doesn't mean I'm unaware of FOSS projects that are outside of the Slackware sphere of reference ...

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Re: It is not that clearcut

I run Slackware. The vi clone is elvis. The arrow keys work ... if the keybr0ad has arrow keys, of course. I rarely find myself reaching for them, though, unless I'm in input mode ;-)

Seriously, try using vi as your shell. You'll be awfully surprised at how functional it is. For test purposes, create a user account with a vi shell. Pull up an xterm & log into that account. See what you can (and cannot) do with vi as your day-to-day CLI shell ... At the very least, you'll learn a lot more about vi than most folks. The concept was suggested to me in jest decades ago (1979ish) when a friend commented that "You seem to live in vi! When was the last time you saw a shell prompt?"

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Re: contributing, a bit.

Assuming the question was serious:

https://devuan.org/os/donate

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Re: Honest inquiry

The SysV init started in System III, but I can't remember the details. I'll try to remember to dig through the archives later today.

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Re: It is not that clearcut

No, no, no! Use vi as your shell! :-)

From one of my passwd files:

write:x:1007:101:,,,:/home/write:/usr/bin/vi

Yes, that's really a user account that I use ... usually on a dumb terminal. I don't like distractions when I'm writing more than throw-away comments, like this one.

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A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country's true nature

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Re: there aren't any derogatory terms used by Canadians to describe their continental cousins

To be sure, Canadians are simply disarmed Americans with health care.

That said, most of my Canadian friends, when referring to us decoratively, use the term "Yanks", same as everyone else. Strangely enough, most of us Yanks don't find the term any more derogatory than most Canadians find the term Canuck derogatory.

Beer. Because if you share a border, life's much happier if you can also share a beer.

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Would you believe it? The Museum of Failure contains quite a few pieces of technology

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Re: mein Kampf mit Scheitern

Cancelling the CF-105 instantly put around 30,000 people out of work, Alister. And that was before AVRO closed permanently.

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Re: Zima anyone?

The microbrew revolution had already been well underway for over a decade when Zima was introduced. As an example, New Albion Brewing Company opened in 1976 v.s. Zima, which was introduced in 1993.

Beer (not that abomination Zima!), for what should be obvious reasons.

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Re: Harley perfume

Ah yes, the RDs. Stood for "rapid death". The only thing more squirrely on the street (in a similar bike class) were the Kawasaki two stroke triples ... And all with no brakes to speak of. It's a wonder I survived.the late '70s/early '80s ...

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::standing ovation::

My Wife just commented "Damn, I should have thought of that ... "

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Re: Several sorts of fail

DEC ... Totally squandered. Enough said.

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I received ...

... an xmas present of MoFoMoCo Soap-on-a-rope once. Smelled evil, and not in a good way. I have no idea what happened to it.

Not sure why they thought it was a good gift for me. I already smelled quite nicely of oil & grease & tyres & methanol & gas/petrol & welding ...

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Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?

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Re: People DO hate adverts

Why the fuck does this urban legend persist?

AC, do us all a favo(u)r. Go ahead and tape your business reply mail envelope to a brick. Hand it to your local postman. Report back. We'll be waiting.

::crickets::

That's what I thought.

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Teen charged with 'cyberstalking' in bomb hoax case

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Re: This:

My OED says you can't splel.

HTH, HAND.

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CompSci boffins find Reddit is ideal source for sarcasm database

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These researchers ...

... have found something useful ... reddit users need /s tags to understand sarcasm. That would explain the death of Usenet. Film at 11.

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Hard-pressed Juicero boss defends $400 IoT juicer after squeezing $120m from investors

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Re: Who actually thought this was a good idea?

"water molecules from fruit are not "indistinguishable' from water molecules from a tap"

Horseshit. H2O is H2O.

Contaminants in that water, on the other hand, vary from location to location. Measure the ratios of certain contaminants, and you might be able to tell how much water was added by the wine maker. Note the might, it's not a sure bet. How do I know? I make wine as part of my living.

Also note that most wine here in California has at least some water added to the must during fermentation. If you don't add the water, you'll wind up with a "stuck" fermentation due to the high sugar content of our local grapes. See this web page for some details:

https://www.winebusiness.com/tools/?go=winemaking.calc&cid=5

In the gripping hand, beer :-)

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Farewell Unity, you challenged desktop Linux. Oh well, here's Ubuntu 17.04

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Re: if you want a different init system

You can include Slackware in the "no systemd" ranks.

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BT Email (22.4.17)

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Re: BT Email sending (22.4.17)

Found in about 10 seconds:

https://www.product-reviews.net/down/bt-email-problems/

IOW, you're not alone.

Friends in low places report BT ain't talking. At all. As usual. Customer service? They've heard of it.

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IDF now stands for Intel Ditches Frisco: Chipzilla axes annual tech conf

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Re: Saying San Francisco is in ...

I actually posted the above 5 days ago. At the time, it was relevant to the article, which has since been re-written. Why ElReg chooses to allow it to be posted today, 5 days after it was nixxed (presumably for "correcting the author"), and after it made any coherent sense with respect to said article, is anybody's guess.

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Saying San Francisco is in ...

... Silicon Valley is roughly the same as saying Luton is in Shoreditch.

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(You can't) buy one now! The flying car makes its perennial return

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Re: Calories (or whatever measure of energy expenditure you prefer)

Ah. So "spin" in this case means "propaganda", yes? As in "one born every minute"?

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'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back

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Re: GEMSA, may I be the first to applaud you ...

The above post was resurrected a week after getting nixxed. Why is anybody's guess.

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GEMSA, may I be the first to applaud you ...

... for invoking the Streisand Effect?

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