Comment One could expect this attempted runaway idea from (Score 1) 186
Seriously people, if one is trying to "civilize" the world, shouldn't one be civilized first?
Comment Re: I see this turning into virus scanners. (Score 1) 606
Ok Google, place an ad on ebay : Google Home device for sale, works perfectly, a real bargain. $0.99 or best offer...
Comment Unfortunately he is right... (Score 1) 656
People watch and listen to public figures, their opinions, actions, etc... Now if they would not be so easily influencable, certain political figures would have a hard time selling what they are selling. People would stay true to their own beliefs, they would not change, so bad messages would fall on deaf ears....
Comment Re:Perhaps a better method... (Score 2) 1001
As far as I can tell, this code is syntactically correct (if executed by a Perl interpreter).
Unless something goes terribly wrong with Perl, the code behavior is pretty well defined. It shall output the following 2 lines:
> This is the header of the output > where are the entries?
So the only sensible answer to the question"why doesn't this work" is "it works"
The program completes, it does not mean it works. If you put two engines on an airplane facing the opposite direction you can still start the engines and get the "all checks complete" lights - but you'll probably not get where you wanted to go.
Comment ...Or just do what we've been doing until now (Score 1) 249
and stop pesky auto-updates alltogether. Grown-ups are capable updating their windows regularly on their own, no need to "feed" the updates
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