Comment Douglas Adams foresaw this (Score 3, Informative) 75
When he talked about Disaster Area "the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet"
When he talked about Disaster Area "the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet"
I have some old bits of kit that I use, I do not want to have to chuck them out because they will not work with new access points, etc.
Could be useful on a ship in heavy seas - keep the displayed text horizontal as the ship rolls. Just need a
where people try this and it fails and deletes files. I can hear now users saying "I thought that it meant that I did not need to do a backup".
The split between
/bin and /sbin is not useful, and also unused. The original split was to have "important" binaries statically linked in /sbin which could then be used for emergency and rescue operations. Obviously, we don't do static linking anymore.
Back in the PDP-11 days I remember that there was a
Rain will wash the pollution from the air and so moves it to the ground & rivers; ie the pollution is just in a different place. The only real way of cutting pollution is to not generate so much in the first place.
users will be spied on by the Chinese government. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
a good data protection law. Something like the EU's GDPR.
One problem with fans is that they get clogged with dust which makes them not work as well. Once a year I use an air blaster to blow dust out of the inside of my PC; one problem with that is that it can push dust into fan bearings - which is not good. I assume that this will attract just as much dust but, not having rotating bearings, will not suffer when I use an air blaster.
Can anyone enlighten me ?
Who should be prosecuted: the Amazon execs who signed this off or the city mayor - or both ?
What we have today would have been the Stazi's wet dream. What they did is nothing to what we are all be subject to today. The Stazi was roundly criticised at the time, but I fear that the lessons are being forgotten.
The trouble is that it costs $$ to go to court. Warner Bros & Google have far more money than a small developer so the odds are stacked.
19 November is International Men's Day
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room. -- W. Bossert
