Re: You mean like Google Chrome did?

Eadon, my point is, at my last place of non-self employment, I got rid of Windows on my desktop, and accessed the ms mail system with a pop3 client.

I would have thought such an expert like you would have had similar control over your work environment! :-)

@AC 23:22 Re: I think you mean to say it can be debated if porn was the decisive factor.

."Mass debated you mean?"

Ooooh, we have a cunning linguist in our midst!

Re: shock

"'I'm a dinner jacket'"

"After dinner chat" surely..... Or is a relation I've not heard of running?

Re: You mean like Google Chrome did?

Eadon, you mean to say you use Windows at work?

Re: Jam Jars in the sea?

Damn. It's so obvious now you mention it!

Re: Embedded bloat

Eadon - you do realise that windows and Linux aren't the only things out there?

I'm sure there are many embedded systems you've never heard of - indeed, don't forget that the internet and it's associated routers etc. were around before linux or microsoft.

It seems you can never bash MS without pimping Linux. You are like a religious zealot - You aren't just saying "Your religion is rubbish" you are also saying "mine is the only true religion"

EADON AND HIS CAPS-FINISH FAIL!

@Eadon Re: And the "Standard Model" is?

I'm sorry, but where is the anti-MS angle?

I must be ill..

When reading the comments section of an MS related article, I find myself looking forward to seeing a ridiculous Eadon rant.

You can always tell an Eadon post without looking at the posters name!

Re: This is an outrage

> No Afterburner on the list? For shame, sir!

I managed to read this post 8 times, due to the fact the pages had the "top scored posts" at the bottom of every bloody page.

*why*? Even on single pages reading a "top reply" first may be senseless if you don't see what it's a reply to,

If it ain't broke, don't break it :(

REG FAIL

"Have they not learnt from the proliferation of Pirate Bay proxies that are out there?"

Well, it's been 10 hours since this article was posted, so I presume proxies for these three specific sites have already been set up!

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Barbra Streisand!

@contents may vary: Re: One question I have always asked myself

ooops, I see you answered my question before i asked it *blush*

"This is the reality of the socialist dream"

This is the what Americans think is the reality of the socialist dream

There. Fixed it for you.

The damn pinko commie/socialist propaganda in America.. Most Americans wouldn't recognise a true socialist or have a clue what socialism stands for. And the irony is that most Americans that fall into this bracket are the ones that benefit most from some of the American "socialist" laws,,,,,, Medicare, state aid etc,

Re: Entirely Typical

"How's that secular, gun-free utopia that is Britain working out for you?"

Also great for me too..

But here's another thing about many Americans. If you dare criticise anything to do with America, they automatically assume that we are saying that Britain is "best". It's that jingoistic attitude they are brought up with, such as their sickenly over-patriotic allegiance to the flag crap they do everyday in school.

I think life in Britain is much better than life in America for many different reasons (I have many close American friends). Do I think Britain is the best place to live?

No - I am ready to admit and confront our problems, and not bury my head in the sand,. Secondly, I'm not arrogant to make such a statement when I know very little about the vast majority of countries in the world.

Re: @Jamie Jones - UEFI

Anonymous coward wrote: "ALSA and udev problems does not entitle Microsoft to prevent every other OS from booting on a general purpose PC. What's your point here ?

I went off on a tangent a bit, about how some people who generally want openness really mean "so it will work with Linux", but I agree with your comment above. The point is, I'm sure that if the UEFI issue *didn't* affect Linux distros, there would hardly be a whimper from many of the Linux people about openness and the freedom to run *any* OS.

Altes Schlactross wrote: "Mr Jones is just a $hill."

I never normally reply to people who use "$" instead of "s". It smacks of immaturity. But thanks for helping prove my point - just because I dare criticise something to do with Linux, I'm automatically an MS groupie?

I use Linux, but it's not my primary system. Apart from fixing friends computers, I haven't used any MS products in over 10 years. (And no, this doesn't mean I'm an Apple shill either) - Thank-you for your response, though!

Re: UEFI

" All I ever want in a BIOS is hardware initialization and a boot menu that can load ELF images from ext2/3/4

..... and all MS supposedly want is hardware that can load MS images....

So how are you any different?

What about the people who want to boot ufs2 or something else for that matter...

People often moan that Americans think the world consists of "America" and "Not America"

Unfortunately, many Linux people think the OS world consists of "Linux" and "Not Linux"

Linux comes out with ALSA (with the L actually standing for 'Linux)' simply because they couldn't get right their version of OSS (mixing/latency problems which are non-existent in other OSs).

devfs doesn't work properly, but instead of fixing it, they come up with udev : http://linux.about.com/od/srl_howto/a/hwtsrl12t07.htm

Sigh. Linux may be open-source, but you have to laugh when the linux people say how 'free' and portable Linux stuff is when compared to MS windows, but "embrace and extend" can often be applied to Linux/GNU and apps too

Re: SSL Certs - the new single point of failure

"Like the fire that destroyed a company HQ taking all its data with it, and the offsite tapes turned out to be blank.."

I used to work for a company that was affected by the IRA Manchester bomb around 20ish years ago. Equipment was trashed, but the backups were in the firesafe, and were fine..... It just took over 2 weeks before police/forensics/health and safety would let anyone in to get them!

In the meantime, all the disaster recovery team could do was rebuild the server (as new) and create new accounts for the staff.....

Re: Stupid little boy

Sigh.... Talking about age, I remember a time where the comments section on El Reg wasn't like reading slashdot comments.....

"There are quite a few of us "more mature" readers out here and we don't take kindly to being tarred by this brush (well I don't anyway)."

Awww, you replied twice - did you forget your first reply? :-)

*runs away cowardly-like*

"(Note: schrodinger sections don't need closing tags seeing as they probably don't exist.)

...... or maybe they probably do?

Re: The laws of physics will be different in the encroaching bubble.

Have an upvote for a change, for... well, being a sport :-)

Re: OF COURSE they should've expected this.

"Remember to account for exaggeration and hyperbole when reading accounts of internet death threats!...."

:-)

Fair point, but a few people here have been saying 'they should expect things like that' rather than saying that maybe the story is exaggerated somewhat!

Re: OF COURSE they should've expected this.

"That did they expect, hugs and fairy cakes?"

Really? Death threats? They should have expected death threats?

Remember, we aren't talking about someone annoying some troll group, but supposed intelligent python programmers, but yeah, threatening phone calls, including death threats, Nice one.

Re: The laws of physics will be different in the encroaching bubble.

You mean there may be an alternate universe where Eadon is an MS fanboi?

Surely that's impossible!

Re: Or just....

> Or just....

>

> legislate against that which you want to restrict - looking into people's bedrooms.

>

> Of course, that's already illegal, so they'd have nothing to do.

Is it illegal if done from a public place, though?

On those UK 'fly on the wall' police shows, such as "road wars" / "street wars" / "cops with cameras" etc. you often get the case where the suspect shouts "get that camera off me", and the policemen always (correctly) respond with "He's in a public place, he can record what he wants" [ though of course, the police view on this seems to change when they are being recorded.

Re: Upvoted

> for the charming alliterative metaphor, "battling a byte of brats"

You missed: "battling a byte of brats burned off a bit as well."

:-)

Re: Ubuntu this, Ubuntu That

Silly AC. Didn't you remember - repeat after me...

WE MUST NEVER DOUBT LINUX.

Congratulations! You are now eligable to join Eadons Church of St. Linus !

@Fred Flintstone

Whilst most smtp traffic is sent unencrypted, how do you propose tapping into one of the backbone nets? Or rather, if someone did tap into one, they'd be looking for far greater things than mobile phone numbers.

Alternatively, an employee of a company could sniff a local lan (assuming the switch had been flooded enough to work as a hub), or an ISP employee could sniff their customers data. But in both these cases, said staff would probably have access to this information via the internal directory / customer database.

As for SMS, I guess you were referring to a way to disable all incoming SMS?

Even my cheapo "Tesco Mobo" (£20 including some credit) allows blacklisting of specific numbers for voice or sms or both.

@Valeyard - re "sites that display your mobile number without the need for authentication"

Do a "whois" on any of my domains, and you'll find my address and mobile number!

Re: Yes but

> Whatever way you look at it, electric cars will never take off until you can refill in five minutes or less

And wings. The car will need wings.

Re: Pay for my own device, and have them lock it down???

" I would agree with that. However I'd happily have BYOD if it meant I could bring a Linux box to work"

How does such a Linux genius work in a place where he isn't able to build his work computers as he wishes?