Posts by Mycho

Re: Saving democracy

You don't hear them in the city because 99% of them have left for the wilderness.

I am certain you could creep up and rob someone using the sound of crickets fucking to drown out your footsteps.

Re: Bad planning

Theresa May seems to take a lot of fertiliser from all sides.

Sure, give the establishment a list of companies it hasn't successfully corrupted yet. That could never go wrong.

Re: They won't apply to sites on which porn makes up a third or less of the content

I have wondered for a while why people aren't actively making properly educational porn videos. Not learn-about-sex educational, something like this could be made into porn with very little change needed.

Sexy cancer is the new fetish.

My guess would be they argued that the bad guys would assume he was a grass anyway when they got caught in the end, so he had nothing to lose by becoming a real one.

Re: idiots like this

Now that would be great research, an AI that can tell how interesting a dam is.

Beaver > Hoover

Re: Spiders: there is no "overkill"

Couple of years ago where I was living in the uk there was a (relatively for the area) massive invasion of bitey insects. I had a landlord inspection in the middle of it and apologised for the cobwebs explaining that I was trying to keep the flies under control by letting the spiders get established.

"Good idea!" said the landlord enthusiastically and the inspection proceeded without a hitch. I guess someone else had been bitten recently.

Re: We've got until November.

Wait, when does Windows 7 stop being supported?

Re: Someone else fixed my fix

One person's hideous kludge is another person's brexit agreement.

Re: Perhaps they should apply the same rules on PCs on the Parliamentary Estate

Is there such a thing as porn in Latin or Ancient Greek?

There is certainly an ancient greek word for it.

Re: Drone arrests

Now the news is buzzing with someone admitting that there may never have been a drone after all.

This is why I left that vaunted isle.

Edit: Hah! Jinx!

Re: Good article. Assuming TheRegister is clean with our data.

The best summary of Trump I heard was the he noticed that the other candidates were all lying a quarter of the time and decided to see if making it three quarters worked better. And it did.

Re: R2-D2 it is not!

If you don't want toast all day, every day, it is programmed to burn your house down. Sheer luck that this one was outside.

Re: re: A lamppost fell over

Long ago I inherited a car from a relative that had a dent from a student with headphones on running into it. No word on what he was listening to.

Re: "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitamin Water was a healthy beverage"

I always assumed it was healthy, but have only drunk it about twice so never mind.

Re: There appears to be an assumption

And yet as always the people who claim there is evidence of harm include no evidence and resort to personal attacks.

Re: A decade of poor configuration

I went to university around the time it became compulsory if you wanted to continue working in IT. So I got there in the early aughts.

It was Kazaa which forced my university to lock things down, since most of the IT labs were unusable when a couple of machines were running it 24/7.

Re: Children of the Resolution

My mother does this.

Re: "Sorry for...

The first ever trial for virus/worm writing included the phrase 'we do not thank terrorists for improving airport security'

Decades later it's still worth remembering.

Re: Popcorn anyone?

Trade you beer for popcorn. This is going to be good.

I'm pretty sure I had a mechanic (who had sold me one extra option and smelled blood) deliberately damage my sump plug in order to sell me an expensive repair.

The oil leak was slow enough that I took it to someone I trusted who re-threaded the sump to a larger size, fitted a larger sump plug and saved the oil into the bargain.

So yes, I'd say there are unethical everythings. Though I couldn't say that the service manager didn't lean on him to do it.

Re: Firefly?

Hang in there. We got Mad Max 4 eventually.

Re: Millenials?

I think we missed an opportunity to call them New Teenagers.

Re: Tonton Macoute

Which is why the UK has so many.

Re: ""Influencing" people is, I regret to say, all around us"

Whoah!

Downvoted 4 times for saying Jesus wasn't a bad person! What's going on here?