Posts by PerlyKing

Re: red vehicles go faster

Legend had it that red Ducati 916s (and 748s) were faster than the yellow ones because every bike was initially painted red and the yellow was added on top, so the red bikes were lighter and therefore faster! ;-D

Re: I still can't help thinking

I still can't help thinking that a VTOL for Musk's tower of power is a lot riskier than some of the alternative proposed landers.

I'm intrigued. What proposals don't involve vertical landing and take-off from the airless surface of the Moon?

Re: Nextcloud works

It mainly works for me, but hasn't been entirely pain-free. There was a recent bug which manifested during an upgrade and meant that I had to re-upload all the photos from my phone, and there's a current bug which affects syncing with the Android Nextcloud Notes app.

There is also an active and communicative development team, which makes it miles / kilometres better than Microsoft :-)

Re: As per the OP's story

You didn't reply to the OP's story, but to a comment which made a general point about bills. That is the context in which I replied.

Theoretically I agree with you that if you owe money, for example to pay a bill, then you should consider it to belong to the creditor.

In practice, there are dishonest people in the world who will withhold payment until forced to pay up, sometimes in the hope that it won't be worth the creditor's time and possibly money to make that happen.

Re: Clearly being an MP is really only a part time job

According to former MP Nadine Dorries, being an MP is actually a "lifestyle choice".

I heard it as, "a kingdom is ruled by a king; a principality is ruled by a prince; the USA is a country..."

Re: disposable vapes have been banned from sale since June 1st this year

As I understand it, the reusable replacements are the same size, same shape and near enough the same price, so the kidz are still treating them as disposables.

Re: terminals for the new system would not emit radiation

Braille terminals?

Re: I am always temped to take "Wet Paint" as an instruction.

And I expect that you would take "PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT BEND" as a challenge? :-D

Re: "DEI" is about equality and fair treatment in the workplace

The E in DEI stands for equity, not equality. As it was explained to me, equality means treating everyone the same, while equity means treating people as individuals, which is not quite the same thing.

Re: "Green mode" with "on and off"

Solution: replace "on" and "off" with indecipherable hieroglyphs which can mean whatever you want.

Re: XEmacs? Really? Still?

I had the same question, but possibly from a different angle: why XEmacs instead of GNU Emacs? I used XEmacs for a while when GNU Emacs didn't work well on X, but these days GNU Emacs is fine on Linux, MS Windows (although they'd rather you didn't) and (for all I know) macOS as well.

For the wider question of "why Emacs?", personally it's because I've been using it since 1987 and my fingers know their way around it. I've picked up enough vi(m) to get by for simple tasks and these days I do my paid work in IntelliJ IDEA, but Emacs is where I'm most comfortable for general text-wrangling.

Re: last 10 passwords

The last 10 rule is annoying but sort of makes sense.

One place I worked disallowed passwords which were too similar (password1, password2, etc.). I'm not a security expert, but surely that means they were either storing passwords in plaintext (doh!) or reversibly encrypted (slightly smaller doh!).

Re: stuff that involves lots of other people being at work

Not everyone has to work the same four days.

But night shifts are not good for most people.

Re: Trumps admin cuts costs

This sounds more like cutting corners than cutting costs. TFA says that the "US authorities were turning off the online distribution of real time data while the satellite passes over the US stations". So they're selectively turning off the tap, which surely takes more effort than leaving it as it was.

And I fear that the workaround will be temporary until the clowns in command either encrypt the data all the time, or just make it a federal offence to use the data and deport any offenders for being un-American.

Re: Honor? What's that?

It's a cheap Chinese phone isn't it?

<rimshot/>

Re: Unique index constraint violated

And this is why you should never use real names as keys ;-)

Re: Didn't there used to be a link for corrections?

See icon. Thanks!

Re: The P is silent

> As in "bath"?

Rick: Hi, I'm Rick!

Vyvyan: With a silent "P".

Yet another reason to always set function keys to be function keys, as $deity intended :-D

Re: the next pauperback

Is that a typo, or a cry for help that you're buying too many books? ;-D

Re: Excellent news!

+1 for the Weird Al reference :-D

Re: straight theft

I'm afraid that you're making the classic mistake of trying to apply common sense to the law ;-(

As usual, when it gets into the nitty gritty it gets complicated. Laws have to be applied as written, or the whole system would descend (even further) into anarchy. If a car can be returned to its owner, then it isn't theft. If it's damaged, in theory you could get the joyrider to pay but it would probably be a pound a week for centuries. If it's set on fire then that might count as theft, but the physical evidence has probably been destroyed.

As for your comparisons to money and other items, unless they're left abandoned at the side of the road then it's probably easier to prove theft.