Comment My Apple mouse doesn't even HAVE a right button... (Score 1) 698
... you insensitive clod! I have to press the CTRL key when I click, to get a menu!
Can't say I use caps lock for anything but fouling up passwords, though.
Comment Re:Probably not useful (Score 1) 92
The "Workable" (as in bendable, malleable, etc) part is a big question... how in heck would you work this stuff? If the melting point is over 4000C, what does it take to make it mushy enough to work?
Comment Re:Unix Haters Handbook ? (Score 1) 484
TOPS-20 FTW! Now about 36-bit-word addressing on the x86....
Comment Re:Dump Cable (Score 1) 479
Hear, hear. Around here we have Sonic. Still subject to "AT&T" copper but the have lots of competent empowered folks handling support.
Comment Re:Manners please. (Score 1) 479
It's very easy to be curt and brusque in text, or at least be perceived that way. It's a learned skill to be able to do text chat support and not come off as being dismissive, put-off-ish, and/or plain rude.
Comment Re:"Excellent!" (Score 1) 214
"Le Show" is not on NPR. The host station (KCRW) syndicates it on their bird but it's not an NPR product.
So there.
Comment It's like academia... (Score 1) 177
The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small.
Comment Re:Yahoo is still a "tech" company? (Score 1) 194
yahoo.com? or yahoo-inc.com? There's a real difference...
Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video 370
mpicpp sends this news from CNET:
Reports are emerging that Samsung smart TVs have begun inserting short advertisements directly into video streaming apps, with no influence from the third-party app providers. The news comes just days after Samsung made headlines for another incursion into users' lounge rooms, when it was revealed that its TV voice recognition software is capable of capturing personal information and transmitting it to third parties. ... The issue has been reported on the Plex streaming service — a brand of media player that allows users to stream their own video from a personal library or hard drive and push it to a smart TV.
Samsung says this was not intentional, and that they've fixed it so the ads should no longer show up.
Comment Re:Linus being Linus (Score 1) 361
"Aspie"-ness itself is no license, I agree. These peeps bring other skills to the table that make it worth tolerating their downsides. By all reports, Jobs was a narcissistic a-hole most of the time, but his eye for design and usability made him worthwhile. I got tired of working for/with people like that so I no longer do. I might have made one kernel contribution long ago, but no occasionto do Linux kernel work since then.
Comment Re:Ideology of Nice* (Score 1) 361
Kind of rare in LA too, and parts of the SF Bay Area.
Comment Linus being Linus (Score 3, Interesting) 361
Linus is Linus, just as RMS is RMS; you have to take them on their own terms or leave them alone. Me, I leave them alone.
If you want to play in their sandboxes, you have to deal with their quirks. Kinda like with Apple.
Welcome to Earth, here's your pitchfork.
Comment Re:File A Fistful (Score 1) 349
The problem is the cost to defend it, for the 22-YO hacker.
Comment Re:I am disappointed in Orbitz (Score 1) 349
As covered in comments above, Orbitz is owned by a consortium of airlines. So they are just doing the bidding of their reptilian corporate overlords. Hi, Bob.
Comment Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... (Score 1) 542
What's Hebrew got to do with it? Wasn't the Revelation of St. John The Divine written in Greek, and used "Greek Numerals" (also a letter-based system)?
