Posts by ITS Retired

What's their excuse with the breakage of their own stuff when they change or update something else?

Re: Internet Anonymity is a Hard Issue to resolve

It is gearing up to go full bore, here in the United States. Currently their main targets are pregnant women, or woman wanting to avoid pregnancy in the first place and anyone who helps them with any kind of birth control. Even going across state lines to drag both the woman and anyone helping them back to stand trial.

Some people still do not see women as autonomous human beings, with equal Rights, but somehow women need being told what and how they are supposed conduct themselves, especially in matters involving sex and reproduction. But not the men who have no knowledge of the lives of the women they are trying to control, of course.

This is the start of a very slippery slope, that get slipperier the farther it goes down. Rights? You have no Rights. You helped a woman living in this state violate the law! Crossing state lines, country borders to do so makes no difference. You living in another state does not protect you. You are now a felon under our state laws.

Re: The Windows 11 ISO has 'hard blocks' in place, even with a clean install.

That's because Microsoft believes it is their computer, not yours and they only want the latest and best hardware for their attempts at a working OS.

Re: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

Yeah, global thermonuclear war will stop a lot of future conflicts. The survivors, if any, will have to learn how to use rocks and clubs again.

Re: give the dog a iPhone!

Face recognition.

Re: Hot Garbage

On the bright side, this isn't Microsoft. So that's a plus.

Re: How did this law ever get drafted

"It sounds like the entire legislature are idiots, not just the govenor."

Never fear, they are. The know what the people need, even when 63% of the voters vote otherwise.

Re: Insecure code

That is basically what I was planning to post. I have both a MacBook Pro and a Linux machine for when windows become unusable. Unusable is when my Windows 7 machine becomes too hard to keep going.

I use both Linux and the laptop on a regular basis. They both have their own functions and I trust them both much more than Microsoft anything.

Microsoft really needs to clean up its own software act before forcing their third party hardware "security" on everyone else.

Re: I say it's plausible

Why were the switches not in enclosed metal enclosures, for safety and to keep birds and other small living thing out?

Doors on the front would make entry for humans easy. How did the birds get into the building in the first place?

Re: Who lived long enough to complain

Microsoft?

Re: Model M was a Robust Horse

My Model M is at least that old. The cable is still soft and pliable.

I'm starting to think Microsoft has a hidden Easter egg in Windows 11, to be released with a future update you can't refuse..

Re: Physical key

Physical keys have a proven track record for a thousand or two years. Radio for a little over a hundred years. The internet for a couple of decades. Guess which has the best track record for reliability.

For me a key fob, with a physical key in it that will open the door and start the vehicle.

There is such a thing as being too fancy and complicated to be reliable. The newer high end and not so high end vehicles, with all their computers and electronics for simple mechanical stuff, have crossed that line a few years ago. Centrally located touch screens in place of physical knobs and buttons border on safety hazards. Today's vehicles are a whole course work of Just Because It Can Be Done Doesn't Mean It Should. JBICBDDMIS.

Re: A reminder Apple is late to services

Who do you think is running Microsoft, Apple, ISP's, etc?

Re: Dare I admit to the govenor ...

Mike Parson is in a position of power and Missouri is suffering for it.

Isn't that the Republican way?

Re: Wish you luck

They Teach to the Test now. The do not teach comprehension of the subject. All they want are the "correct" answers on the scheduled tests. Correct, meaning currently politically correct answers.

The Powers That Be do not want thinkers, comprehension of the subject, or much real understanding of the subject. Only correct answers on the standardize tests.

The United States has gone from one of the world leaders in education, to approaching 3rd world status in many cases. Privatizing our public schools, i.e., corporate owned, Charter schools hasn't helped any either.

"You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street."

― George Carlin

Re: Human alternative

The iPhone is an Apple product, that's why. No other reason. An no, it wasn't me down voting.

Re: 1170 blocked exit points, any blocked entry points ?

When anyone posts something, that means someone, somewhere, seeing the post, is offended.

"The sky is blue." NO, IT'S NOT!!1!! It's grey where I am. How dare you to be so wrong!

Re: Commercial Space

The real problem here is NASA has been starved for funds for most of its life. The Powers That Be would rather fund military bases around the world and devices that kill lots of people, than fund research and space.

The F-35 comes to mind, as do new Navy ships designed for the last war. Along with paying Russia to ferry our astronauts back and forth to the ISS.

It's a wonder NASA still exists.

Re: Return to Office

Eyeball to eyeball intimidation. Hard to do over Zoom. When you are driving change, even change for change sake, you need person to person contact, to better get your way.

Re: So, how long…

Time lapse photography. A picture every hundred years.

Re: I predict excitement

I've never used a Belkin anything that worked up to the package description it came with. It is reassuring to know I'm not alone.

What makes you think Jeff Bezos has not changed the tax code? I'm sure not him personally, but the lobbyists he hires to bribe Congress sure have.