Posts by jake

Re: Tongue in cheek

A little late, don't you think?

I mean, Linux has been my desktop of choice for about 28 years.

Re: A cunning plan

"to the detriment of the standard of living of their citizens."

Oh, I dunno. Seems to me that side has more folks from other countries clamoring to get there than any other nation on Earth. Things aren't all that bad in that neck of the woods from what I've seen, despite the odd political speed-bump, most of which are ephemeral (by design, I might add ...).

"And the other collapsed"

The alternative doesn't bear thinking about. But don't forget there were more than two sides. And the collapsed one is struggling back to it's feet. We're not out of it yet, alas.

"Isn't there a medical term for that?"

Yes. Technically it's called "Military Budget Spent In My District", an 'orribly contagious affliction as can be seen in all the denizens of Capitol Hill who are afflicted by it.

Re: It’s not 15 years

Diesel is really, really hard to make go "BANG", unless it is mixed very, very thoroughly with an appropriate oxidizer in the correct proportions. Doing this is damn near impossible when it's kept in a big, closed tank or tanks under armed guard, doubly so when said tanks are floating around on a large body of water.

Re: Sharks

Nah. Crocodiles with cannon.

_{Watch yer head!}

Re: I have a button/badge from the '70s ...

Yeah. Black groups, like Abba and the Bee Gees no doubt.

Re: I have a button/badge from the '70s ...

No, I'm fairly certain it was a god damn rock & roll thing. The kind of stuff that don't save souls.

Re: Asking for a fiend

Well, seeing as "satan" and "hell" are made-up stories used to frighten children into compliance and well out of copyright, I would think it is OK for you to make up any story you like about them.

It's not an episode, it's a strip.

Re: Cheers

Interesting echo in here ...

Re: Typical slander

But what if the man IS the ball?

When you intentionally stick a "kick me" sign on your pasty white butt, and then bend over in a public place, Shirley the proverbial Thinking Man would expect to get kicked, no?

Re: It's the plot of 'The Producers'.

"Ooops. Sorry about that."

I seriously doubt it. It's a small world, after all.

Re: Not a bug

What else would you expect from purveyors of Snake Oil?

Re: I don't understand

A simpler way to brute force my way into your cell phone would be with a red-hot poker.

Or a $55 wrench.

Re: "without a lot of testing we'd neer know"

"Who after the seventeenth century would mis-spell it that way..."

Somebody with toast crumbs under the "v" key. (The "v" key, being little used in day-to-day typing, tends to attract crumbs shifted out from under adjacent keys by the act of typing.)

Rather childish troll attempt, or just unclear on the concept? Hard to say.

Re: not an IT company any more

"I can remember them writing the letters IBM out in individual atoms (Silicon I think) back in the 1980's."

It was 35 xenon atoms individually placed on a nickel substrate. Very late '80s. Done by Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Re: "IBM has one chance of salvation"

"get back to having competent people on board - especially if they're more than 40 years old."

FTFY

Re: Just a couple of quotes to get things kick started

amfM, you know the rule about feeding trolls.

Re: Font recommendations

Always is a long time, pardner.

-.. --- / -.-- --- ..- / ... .--. . .- -.- / -- --- .-. ... . ..--..

Re: Calling upon a higher power

As an agnostic Yank going to a CofE school in Yorkshire in the 1970s, I was excused from the morning assembly. I used the time to go over my homework, improving my mind instead of being brainwashed.

Still had to wear the school Uniform, though. My girlfriend, who went to the local Catholic school, and I were once seen sitting on a bench outside the public library together, each in Uniform. Both of us were threatened with expulsion if we were seen together again ... Seems that fraternization between the schools was heavily frowned upon, based purely on the xtian cults the schools espoused. The mind absolutely boggles.

Re: Calling upon a higher power

Nah. It's Shamanism.

Re: "In latex they are identical"

"my kink doesn't include latex covered letters."

Not even French ones, as, when and where applicable?

Re: Which one should fail?

Because Redmond is all sweetness and light and moons & stars and rainbows and my little pony?

Re: Hearken to Prophet McNealy

I very, very rarely shout. Takes too much energy and almost never provides any real benefit.

Re: Hearken to Prophet McNealy

Take it in context. I was pointing out that we knew well over 35 years ago that privacy concerns would become a major issue. To the point that we tried to make end-to-end encryption the default for TCP/IP back in 1979ish ... but Vint Cerf, complying with the wishes of his bosses in the NSA at DARPA put the kibosh on it. McNealy, hardly a prophet (and a business major, not a techie), was just parroting what he had heard around campus as a grad student at Stanford.

Re: observation

Yes, he did. But it doesn't mean what you think it means, because you are taking the line out of context.

For the sensible who prefer to copy & paste:

https://www.hoover.org/research/what-benjamin-franklin-really-said