Posts by RJG

Re: FFS

Correct. They are an associate member, exactly the same as the UK now is.

They are not a core member with access to all the secure encrypted protocols.

that is the UK's complant.

please try and keep up.

Re: Maxwell

The next time you see a picture of Einstein in his office, look at the wall behind him.

The portrait of the man with the beard you see there is J C Maxwell.

Re: "the monolith is a representation of a wideframe cinema screen rotated 90°."

If you want to be really pedantic about it, one of the books continues the 1:4:9 sequence with 64:125:216

In higher dimensions, noting that it was unclear how many dimensions the monolith had.

Re: Rubbish disposal?

On the moon, throwing rubbish away miss just stupid. It is the best source of raw materials within quarter of a million miles. Any materials from the moon are very poor quality in comparison.

Re: Jack the ripper was the lock ness monster. Fact.

It is the lock on the caledonian canal leading to loch Ness.

The English seem to think a monster lives in the lock.

Re: Our missing productivity was shifted to China

> And yet, the whole world over, Capitalism has time and again prove throughout all of human history to be the only system that increases living standards for all; while Socialism & Communism have impoverished all their nations and sent millions to an early death.

Ah. the old capitalism is the only way that works argument.

Which relies heavilly on defning "all" to exclude the brown people the East India Company exploited, all the Africans who were the product being sold, all the Irish who conveniently starved to death, all the native Americans who were not using their land properly....... and so on.

Is that the system you are promoting?

missing the problem

You're not quite seeing the problem.

In the given example the "AI" sees the answer "the Mexico-US border" as correct

The answer "The US-Mexico border" it would see as wrong.

It doesn't understand the meaning of the words, it just does basic pattern matching..

Re: binary pipelines

One of the most reliable signs of a novice user on a linux system is that they use ls to generate lists of files and then use awk to parse out the bits of the output they actually want.

And then complain about having to do that.

in the above example, it is much easier to just get the information you want

i.e.

stat --format="%U" *

Re: Maybe time for the mainstream broadcasters to pay attention

I take it that you don't know about "The Great Britsh Bonk off", available from the gentleman's specialst video retailers?

I eat my peas with honey,

I've done it all my life.

It makes the peas taste funny,

But it keeps them on my knife.

For the umpteenth tme.

This is the European Court of Human Rights.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the EU.

Re: Time flies like an arrow.

"To be fair, fruit does fly like a banana."

The real question here is do fruit stags fly in the same way?

Re: The Greats have gone

I'll just recommend "Watching Trees Grow" by Hamilton as an example of what he can do when he cuts out the excessive padding.

Just one problem with that.

Unfortunatly, in this case a tinfoil hat would just reflect the signal better and make imaging you easier.

You need some of this special WiFi absorbing paint I'm selling at quite reasonable prices.

Re: Sir Humphrey would never have been caught out

"I dunno, I think there may've been some things even he would choke on! Even pond scum has standards (though orange pond scum may be the exception)"

Which is why Sir Humphrey would have pledged loyalty to the presideny, Not to the particular bit of orange pond scum currently holding the post.

Re: If you cannot patch it quarantine it

Yes, Incompetent.

In every security audit I have done in the last 15 years I always included a reccomendaton that windows administrators should disable the use of SMBv1.0 beause it is extremely insecure and hasn't been requred by any windows verson after windows 98.

most windows admins were surprised that there were different versions of SMB in use and refused to disable v1.0 in case something still needed it.

That one change would have stopped this infestation, even on unpatched XP systems.

Re: I don't like change

But then you can't have a readonly / partition, which was one of the stated requirements.

Re: Enterprising pub

One of the pubs around here has Grilled Pokemon* on their food menu.

* when avalable.