Posts by MrDamage 2039 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2011
Can confirm that it works for now. My old gaming laptop that I keep around to keep snotling relatives off my main rig, had it's old HDD die, so swapped it for an SSD and used the Win7 Pro key to download and install Win10.
MrsDamage's laptop started playing up last night, with suspected HDD issues as well, so I'll be trying a Win8 key over the next couple of days.
Seeing as the act scalping to which we refer means to add something on top of the item in question, rather than taking something off the top, then I suggest we add something to the top of the scalpers.
May I suggest we go with your icon as a theme, and make that addition a 24lb cannonball to the face.
Just because you could post a comment on this article, (and by the looks of it, you signed up specifically so you could), it doesn't mean you should. This is why a lot of people hate animal activists.
When they show they have no moral boundaries, common sense, or reason, it makes people sick of their madness and arrogance.
You do not aid your cause in any way.
I'll be honest. The first thing that went through my mind as I was reading the article, was the extra dimension this yeast would bring to my humble home brew operation.
Note: I do already have a recipe for a Gunja Beer, but seeing as it calls for 1kg of greenery for just a 20 litre batch, I'm hoping the cost if this yeast would be a far cheaper option.
> " Instead, it's about a 'communist' totalitarian nation, incapable of providing its citizens with creative incentive, that is dependent upon ripping off IP (intellectual property), company and government secrets as a method of growing its own economy and manipulating other countries."
Yes. How dare China steal from America's playbook on how to steal somebody else's playbook.
> "People in IT rarely seem to be interested in spending time watching what users actually do."
Respectfully, I call bullshit.
It's the Project Managers who have a brain fart on how something should be done, who poorly explains it to the IT manager, who poorly explains it to the IT staff, who then have to explain to the users that it was their PM's decision to do it this way without asking the end users how they should think the new application should look/run.
I've lost count on the amount of projects that were rolled out in companies that I have worked for, that haven't required major rework to make it meet the needs of users, rather than the needs of a PM who wants to generate reports with 1 click.
The Alexa option has an easy fix, as it could just be programmed to say "Ordering XXX product for $YYY per unit. Please confirm."
The button however, is different thing. Without feedback on the cost of the item ordered, as well as Amazon insisting they are allowed to ship a completely different product to that which is ordered, is where they are going wrong.
So correct me if I'm wrong, what you are saying is that federal employees must go to work even if they are not being paid for said work? Is that not a direct contravention of the 13th amendment?
I understand that this a moot point given that back-pay has been authorised, but given that they had to vote to authorise the back-pay, and 7 GOP cuntwaffles voted against it, surely any shutdown that demands workers still work before the back-pay is authorised, would be deemed unconstitutional.
Edit: I started posting, and got distracted for a bit. DougS beat me to the punch about the 13th.
Given that EULA's are presented to the purchaser after the point of sale, then EULA's are legally on shakey ground. In essence, they are trying to change the terms and conditions of the sale, after the sale has been made.
In countries that have decent consumer protection laws, EULA's are effectively just scare tactics which can be ignored.
According to a report I read yesterday, it's going to take at least 10k workers, 10 years, and at least 5 times the requested cost, to build his wall.
For all his talk on how great just building the wall will be for the economy, it turns out that once spread out over the term of the project, the benefits equate to 3/5's of fuck all.
The shutdown also apparently affects the Secret Service.
How quickly do you think the shutdown would end if the Secret Service agents protecting these muppets (on both sides of the spectrum), decided they would no longer work without pay, and that the people in question had to pay out of their own pockets for security services?
It could be theoretically possible. Physically possible, not sure.
An inbuilt thermocoupler could potentially provide enough power for such a small chip to do its work, depending on what exactly the "work" is.
El Reg has detailed before how its possible to snoop on CPU proceeses using the innate sounds the CPU makes, especially when dealing with RSA keys. El Reg have also detailed other hacking methods based on sound from other input devices as well.
So this chip could potentially be listening in for those sounds in order to get a hold of those keys to help facilitate hacking from an external source based on the RSA keys it "heard" .
The exfiltration of those keys is where it starts to get tricky, especially if it has no tracks to any comm ports of any style.
Could the chip then also use sound to broadcast those keys at a specific, seperate frequency that could be picked up by a mic placed somewhere in the data centre by a spy/bought agent, or even just a mobile phone connected to a powr source and secreted under a floor tile or roof panel? Maybe.
Theoretically, its possible, based on existing technology and methods, it's just whether all this stuffed into a ridiculously small package is technically possible at this stage of micro-electronics is the question.
After all, what better way to completely throw off suspicion than to include such a chip, but not have it connected to anything?
Funny how Scala's dissent based on the original wording of "persons, houses, papers, and effects", only seems to apply to the 4th ammendment.
The 2nd ammendment did not foresee the sheer firepower available in modern firearms, the same way the 4th did not foresee digital devices.
If they want to limit the 4th to the original wording, perhaps they should also rule the 2nd only applies to we'll organised militias as per original wording, instead of having assault weapons and flame throwers available to the general populace.
You obviously know nothing about the "freetards" you wail about.
What we want is for the websites, and advertising companies to take responsibility, and liability, for the virus-laden ads they have no problems slinging towards our computers. Until such time, we will keep our ad-blockers enabled.
Most of us would be happy to pay in the form of microtransactions to the websites we like, if they had a business model to support them.
Given that the PM himself has admitted to using end-to-end encryption services, then what right do they have to demand to see anyone else's messages?
Surely corrupt politicians are a greater threat to national security than your bog average bloke, they should start off sending all of their communications in clear text, before demanding ever more invasive measures into our personal lives.
If the sheep is in a vacuum, then it's sheared status becomes irrelevant.
If in doubt, refer to Commander David Scott's experiment on the moon when he dropped a feather and a hammer.
If you doubt the moon landings, refer yourself to the Bursar for some dried frog pills.
> "Win 10 is the last version of Windows, so Microsoft is constantly trying to 'reinvent the wheel' and cram in new features through updates (with fancy names e.g. Spring Creators Update) to make it seem 'fresh' and 'new'."
Maybe they got their hemispheres mixed up. Down south it's Autumn, so it's only fitting the update is slowly killing everything.
What could go wrong? After years of telling our users not to click on random links in emails, Google is now trying to convince us it's a good thing?
And even if they recipient does use Gmail, how do they plan to stop people from using snipping tool, or the printscreen key, or even a convoluted setup of a screen-reader having its output sent to a speech to text function?
> "But to be fair most men can't understand a thing women say either"
The other day, the missus said "You haven't been listening to a single word I said, have you?"
I thought that it was an odd way to start a conversation.
*badoom-tish*
I'll be here all week. Tip the steak, try the waitress.
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