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I love vintage British shows. Early 1900s. The way people dress, the overly formal way of speaking, etc.
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It certainly made it easier to understand what people were saying than some of the idioms and slang in common usage today. But then I am a GOM (grumpy old man).
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LOL! OMG: IIRC u r my age(ish) - it's totes dope - n we hd slang idioms as wL. ALA, SWALK, NORWICH ... we knew them all.
I'm a tries-not-to-be-GOM but I don't always succeed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Then this must be your cat: [Grumpy]
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Not a cat person myself. But my son would probably choose a pet like that.
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That's a grumpy remark, suits you
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Nothing grumpy about not being a cat lover. Now if that was a meerkat ...
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I love getting my father to watch things like this. He was born in the 30s and entered the police force after a stint in the RAF (late 1950s). It's good to get him ranting about the historical inaccuracies in it (ranks that didn't exist at the time, etc). Makes it much more entertaining.
This space for rent
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Yeah, that's another way to enjoy it I suppose. To find holes in the story line.
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Nah just getting his dad wound up, get the blood flowing and excercises the mind, the vocal cords, the arm (waving fist) and the lungs as he cracks up laughing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Spooks is still one of my favorites. I'm also into Humans right now.
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Me and Mrs. Wife were watching on Netflix Amazon Prime when it suddenly changed from Free to US$7.99/episode - even those we already saw. We found "other means" to finish watching the series.
(Edit: correction of blame, above).
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modified 30-Aug-17 12:06pm.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Me and Mrs. Wife were watching on Netflix when it suddenly changed from Free to US$7.99/episode
Huh? Netflix USA? I did not know that they have that sort of pricing model.
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Sorry - I jumped the gun (i.e., I made an error). It was Amazon Prime with the greedy palms, not Netflix. Netflix caused me some other problems (shows taken from Hulu+).
You are 100% correct.
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Ah, that makes sense. Netflix is removing it on September 1. So I had to hurry and finish out the series this month
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A part of the Foyle's War I found interesting were the back-themes. They didn't hide the normally unspoken events (anti-Italian riots, rampant antisemitism, defeatism, black-marketing). The part of the home front they'd rather be forgotten.
It adds to the main thread's context; sometimes even setting up context for episodes yet to come.
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Yeah, the secondary story lines were interesting.
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Just read about it on the German c't magazine web page (Hardware-Fuzzing: Hintertüren und Fehler in CPUs aufspüren | heise Security[^]):
The sandsifter audits x86 processors for hidden instructions and hardware bugs, by systematically generating machine code to search through a processor's instruction set, and monitoring execution for anomalies. Sandsifter has uncovered secret processor instructions from every major vendor; ubiquitous software bugs in disassemblers, assemblers, and emulators; flaws in enterprise hypervisors; and both benign and security-critical hardware bugs in x86 chips.
Also interesting how he reduces the possible number of instructions from 1.3x1036 to about 100,000,000 by storing them across page boundaries for execution where the second page is marked as not executable. He then shifts the max. 15 byte long instruction left until no fault is generated.
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ADD
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Then a million hidden instructions ?
Quote: Typically, several million undocumented instructions on your processor will be found
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Including the possible literal or register operands with different widths and displacements.
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xoreaxeaxeax wrote: Lastly, a so-called ‘halt and catch fire’ instruction was discovered on an as-yet unnamed x86 processor. This instruction, executed in ring 3 from an unprivileged process, appears to lock the processor entirely That could be bad..
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In deed. According to the choosen name it is even possible that the CPU is damaged.
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