It's not just those who are colourblind who have trouble telling colours apart. If you're playing a boardgame in a dimly lit pub then the colours of the pieces can sometimes be really hard to tell apart. Examples I've seen in games are Black vs Brown vs Dark Purple or Yellow vs Bare Wood. What might be easy to distinguish in an designer's office isn't always the case where you actually sit down to play the game.
Then there's the problem of the clumsy gamer, finding dark dice or meeples on a dark carpet in a pub isn't always so easy. There's a guy in my gaming group who I will lend glow-in-the-dark dice to because he is the most likely to drop things on the floor.

Ingenious is another good example game where there are icons for each colour.

Couldn't agree more.

At least this story brought us the caption "We can't fly on together with suspicious maths".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Unfortunately this is very close to "Shitface" and we don't want to go there.

But taking it one step further, "getting totally Attenboroughed" on a night out would be a comical euphemism for drunk.

The cards are just about translucent enough that a bright LED torch can show you just where the antenna loop goes so you can pinpoint exactly where to cut or drill. Make sure you have a NFC app on your smartphone to check that you could read the card details before you cut or drill the card and cannot do so afterwards. Probably best to avoid the mag stripe as well. I might suggest a 1 or 1.5 mm drill in the top right corner as you look at the front of the card, with the center point of the hole being about 2.5 to 3mm from the top and right edges.

Not advocating, you understand. Just talking possibilities.

Nope. The object in his hand looks just like the contactless payment (combined with chip and pin) devices that are all over the place (in the UK anyway). Granted it doesn't look like the telepower device on the right side of the picture but certainly DOES look like a contactless payment device.

This doesn't rule out the story being BS for all the other reasons you give like needing to be tied to a traceable account...

Or you might have to get your USB-Serial cable from the corporate approved list. This list being populated by beancounters rather than engineers.

Three. We had a referendum about an alternative voting system in 2011. The existing system was kept. Deal with it.

Did you notice it was delivered at twelve minutes to midnight? Ten minutes early.

Naw. For the fertilizer he just pulled it out of his ASStronaut

The people I've known who had the best technical skills had no certifications so on that basis I'd certainly say yes.
Another point is that I think any certification that is easy for me to get is a waste of time (a bit like clubs that would have Groucho Marx as a member). CISSP was trivial to pass but is a big deal at my place of work and that's the only reason I've got it.

Exactly. All the dwellings of the various demons should be fully enumerated by now. Similarly the standard of living of the Banshees should be compared and ranked against the leading countries today.
Are the tunes that the children dance to available on Spotify? Inquiring minds wish to know.

Yep. WSUS Offline for the windows boxes (although most of my offline windows installations are XP VMs so they are already as fully patched as they are ever going to be). Then we have an Umbongo server that serves all the Umbongo patches to the various offline workstations that host the VMs. A download script and a bit of rsyncing and the update server stays fresh.
The only issues are the rare times someone needs a MS patch that isn't covered by WSUS Offline, in which case they deal with it manually using MBSA.
Actually the hardest bit is getting the old-as-hills patches for various tools that we need to run. But running them offline doesn't make getting them in the first place any worse.

The Windows logo in the Flying Windows screensaver was from the Wingdings font. Using Wordpad you could edit the screensaver binary and change the character that gets displayed to another one from that font. So at various times in the Win3.1 era people around me were found to have flying smiley faces, flying skull and crossbones etc.

Or just have a story category dedicated to this so we can set our options to exclude these posts.

Please. Seriously. More so than mod points, being able to disable ads or filtering comments by mod score.

I posted the text below almost as-is for the 3.14 release, only later finding out that no, this bug is still present. So here goes again....
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It's mainly on the file manager (that I've found) but you can click OUTSIDE the window and still interact with the window. For example if you have two file-managers close to each other with another window below them both and visible in the gap then you can't click the lower window directly even though you can see it and put your mouse over the visible part of it. All you do is focus one or the other of the file manager windows.
You can also hold down the windows key and click outside the file manager window and drag it around the screen just as if you had clicked inside the window (I can't remember if I changed the default key from alt to windows in my settings but the point applies).

Generally I'm OK with Gnome3 (providing you get the right extensions) but these invisible borders are such a fundamental breakage of the basic concept of a graphical windowed user interface.