Posts by LaeMing

First rule of going where you shouldn't

Walk fast and carry a clipboard.

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Anti-virus software causes autism!

(Icon for me :-D )

Re: Safety Margin

5D porn, to be exact!

Re: I call bullshit on the entire story

Um... for a lot of people, the 'magical days of dialup' were not so long ago. Heck, for an unfortunate large minority those days are right now!

Re: If all the people engaged in ...

Use petrol - easier to light.

Isn't it the 11-eyes or something now?

Re: Paint Drying 2: Dry Hard

To be honest, I found the book to be a bit too dry.

Re: Who is the fuck is BoB?

And suddenly it all makes a strange kind of sense!

Re: And if he answered, "I don't. I'm a zombie."?

If being a detriment on others' lives is "the only way you can make a living" than possibly you shouldn't be (living, that is).

NB: this applies to Wall Street bankers et.al. just as much as to 3rd-world phone scammers.

Re: "without any pesky middle-men such as limbs"

The earliest Daleks could be defeated with a plastic sheet on the floor as they got their power from the metal floor of their base!

Re: Someone has to...

If a bot clicks an ad that the entire world has blocked, does it make a sound?

Re: Oh dear.

@Alistair - sounds like your server rack gave you the equivalent experience.

Re: blood and gore

That would be the BOFH DLC

Re: The kids are probably translating mobile/tablet skills to desktop...

That would explain the huge cluster of fingerprints I am always having to clean off the (definitely not touch) student-labs desktop screens each week!

Re: Keyboards

Apple mice do this to this day, but with generic-beige laminate surfaces. When the Graphic Design school insisted we switch from PCs to Macs in our student labs, I had to go buy 32 mouse mats.

No problem with $5 generic mice, whatever Dell issued last time my desk machine was refreshed or various other road-side rescue mice I use about the place.

Re: Novel

I, from time to time, dis-assemble old HDDs for artistic reasons. The often the glue under the labels floods the work area with a slightly acrid yet freshly minty aroma when they are peeled off.

(Smiley icon because it is a bit like sniffing marker pens, though more pleasant)

Re: What's coming...

I can't deny that. However, that doesn't really change anything about the reality of CorporateIT.

Re: Pre Show Ads

I went to see The Martian recently - first film in several years I thought worth supporting at the box office - and was pleasantly surprised at how good the audience was. The movie's demographic may have been a factor, however.

Re: The usual taxation sob story: IMMA HELPING POOR WIDOWS

I always thought it would be good if the Government only had direct control over 50%* of taxes collected. The other half... when you put in your tax forms, you fill out a list of broad expenditure areas allocating percentages to them as per your own priorities. It empowers the tax payer and gives good, immediate feedback to the government on popular priorities.

* Why only 50%? because while providing complete say in expenditure to the tax payer sounds good in principal, the average human is far too short-sighted to be able to do that effectively - eg, no-one wants to pay for 'welfare bludgers' until suddenly they find themselves sick or jobless.