* Posts by razorfishsl

972 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2014

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

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sorry........

Why should i be forced to pander to a potentially mentally ill individual and reinforce their delusion?

This compelled speech garbage has to be stopped....

What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal

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Unfortunately, Signal doesn't allow group moderators to block individuals from taking screenshots, which would frustrate the process of leaking a conversation to the press.

Completely nonsense functionality.........

just use an external camera on the phone screen........ that is how useful that function is....

FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

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So he took opensource work, took control , then made it private ?

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

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Take a look at the BULL SHIT "APPLECARE"

"extend your coverage to three years from your AppleCare+ purchase date and add up to two incidents of accidental damage coverage, each subject to a service fee of $99 for external enclosure damage, or $299 for other repairable damage, plus applicable tax."

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

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Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT)

you can bet they tried another word arrangement but were unhappy with the results.

Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?

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Neutral is tied to earth at the local substation,

the actual voltage measured at a socket will see several volts imposed on the Neutral to earth measurement, this is due to the capacitance of the cabling.

Neutral & live can actually be transposed........

they do it all the time in 3rd world countries.. it's called a 2 pin plug.......

who knows which way round your gonna get that plug......., hence the 3 pin plug/socket in the UK & other civilized continues, it GUARANTEES which side the live is wired....

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

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It aint gonna work......

They have no wafer fabs, how they gonna make the non-US WIFI, CPU ,BTLE chips?

Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?

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Whats to betting at some stage the top ISOC staff move over to this company.........

High-resolution display output or Wi-Fi: It seems you can only choose one on Raspberry Pi 4

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Harmonics........

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

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They don't like it when others do it to them.....

Cloudy biz Datrix locks down phishing attack in 15 mins after fat thumb triggers email badness

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So why are they not scanning incoming emails from suppliers?

That's Microsoft price: Now you can enjoy a BSOD from the comfort of your driving seat

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Re: Why on earth...

you are kidding right........

BSOD in MacDonald & HSBC as well...

WTF are these companies not using linux... oh that's right... they buy off the shelf tat.. from companies who already get a kickback form MS

1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital

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1password used to be good..... now it's turned to shit even before the venture garbage..

I don't want ANY of my information or passwords stored in ANY cloud, nor do I want any shitty software that INSISTS it contacts offsite before launching correctly or tries to force me off my local setup.

Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

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20th Century Salem witch trial......

Imagine OLE reinvented for the web and that's 90% of Microsoft's Fluid Framework: We dig into O365 collaborative tech

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It turned into a great big turd sandwich the first time......

All those apps with OLE embedded , that are now broken due to de-support by M$,

there are still companies stuck on unsupported systems becasue of that mess.

Pro-Linux IP consortium Open Invention Network will 'pivot' to take on patent trolls

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Re: SCO

SCO was simply Microsoft attempting to steal the Linux kernel for their own use..

Since that failed it is now over to plan "B"

They will now ingrain M$ values so deeply into the Kernel that you won't be able to see the difference in a decade, basically it will become the slave M$ programming team, where M$ and others set the corporate agenda then the "free" programming team implement the business requirements.. what's not to like?

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

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Re: The problem with spreading "Freedom and Democracy"......

One thing that MANY of these commenters do not see or understand is the terrorist attacks in China..

China is also fighting an internal war against Muslim terrorist groups, just they don't publish it.

That's what may westerners don't understand when I say it is dangerous to go to china... they seem to think they are immune from buses being blown up, and don't understand why EVERY railway , MTR & buss station in China has multiple x-ray machines.........

Just go to Shenzhen & use the MTR.. .those machines are there for a very good reason.......

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Re: Respect

Because it is the quickest way to wind up the left wing & the socialists, is to point out when they use the word "nazi" against non-socialists, they are actually saying they are socialists which is rather ironic....

I use it all the time... and they really really don't like it...

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This idiot has no business using a 3rd party to make his political statements..

If he feels so strongly about making political statements , he should be using his OWN servers & OWN repository. NOT using a free service to mitigate the DOS attacks against his political stance.

Power to the users? Admins be warned: Microsoft set to introduce 'self-service purchase' in Office 365

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Quit whining......

you all empowered Microsoft to shove their tentacles inside you private network... what did you expect to happen?

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

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PFFFFFFFFF.

Biologists think they are good coders purely becasue they deal with DNA.....

Far too many so called "programmers" these days are loose cannons as regards to the code they write,

I have even seen people who are completely unskilled in data storage & computer programming instruct programmers on how to handle data manipulation:

becasue

1."computer code & programming is just like English"

2. we will never want to do that with the data, so just "strip the type" and store it as a string.....

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

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Re: Lemme just pop my tinfoil hat on and...

You are talking about a subject you know NOTHING about......

When you are in the thick of it and you see people you know being attacked by protesters, THEN and only then are you in a position to talk about it.

What really makes me laugh is all these so called "protestors" & their supporters would be wetting their pants if the police withdrew their support for the general public.

I have personally seen these protestors organize, distribute weapons and equipment in the back streets and i have personally seen "command" centers they have setup.... and i have pictures of some of their organizers without their masks and also of the private & public property they have smashed up.

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

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Well Apple needs to get off its self masturbating Vaseline covered horse...... or it will be going the way of IBM.

They might think they are clever by blocking Nvidia drivers over a spat going back a few years or shoving security chips into their kit to stop people running the OS on other hardware.. but let's face it, if they produced DECENT reasonable cost hardware and stopped SHITTING on their user base.... maybe their user base would not have to use other hardware to get the computing experience they think they are due in this day and age....

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

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He should be banned...

He was involved in a game playoff , not a political rally...

This kind of idiot is just enabling children to go out and smash up , publicly owned infrastructure....

They were all over the roads in our area smashing up traffic lights, leaving nails on the roads & tricking up posters..........

Please explain WTF has this to do with "freedom" from china?

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

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Problem is..... that 10.14~whatever ... TOTALLY DESTROYS support for your Nvidia GPU that you paid for,,,,,,,,,,,

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

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It's not virtual box , it is a plugin.......

And MANY users download shit from the internet that runs in virtualbox.......

Medic! Uncle Sam warns hospitals not to use outdated IPnet freely on their networks

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Ahhh.. .yes IPNET.......

Wait until they start looking into "netburner"

Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry

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Ahhh yes....... we all remember the program for commodore PET called "the last one"

The ONLY program you will EVER need to buy.

The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row

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Compelled speech..... that is all it is, but this is already started in many open-source projects.

They have decided to get their dirty left wing roots firmly into the technology sector becasue if you control technology you control the future.

Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!

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When that cable supports a banks network it is NOTHING, as regards price...... I can supply you cables for less than a pound....

That does not make them good or even reliable cables..........

hell they might not even be copper inside......

The plastics might be from recycled medical waste........

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3%.... how can you run a business on 3%?

For any business to be viable 30% is the norm........

Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse

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They got the money...... so they have to spend it......

Switch about to get real: Openreach bod on the challenge of shuttering UK's copper phone lines

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VOIP is GARBAGE........

for the simple reason that power has to be supplied at the consumer end.....

and the lines are most likely to go down when there is an emergency... no power....

or in my case every fucking time the major ISP decides to do maintenance.....

so to use it you need at least 3 pieces of equipment that needs to be mains powered at the consumer end....

Whereas phone supplied their own power over the line......

COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for many a greybeard coder

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Well that's a garbage statement.......

Have it on my CV and no one wants to know.......

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

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Took some of these apart.....

Basically they are "dog" trackers... with a default piss-poor firmware... full of zero-day exploits, that is loaded into a broadband decoder chip, usually 8051 based...

Even worse!!!.. they can be re-configured via SMS, some can even be re-programmed over the same protocol...

These guys have only scratched the surface...

Same kind of garbage in those bikes.... not even going to say what you can do with those as regards to SMS foreplay..........

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

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Now if they can just couple this with photo voltaic materials.... they can capture and use all the photons.....

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Re: Do the nanotubes wash off

No it is not.....

different forms of carbon have different lattice structures......

Alright! Ma time to meet that shag quota! Alibaba chairman steps down at 55 with $38.6bn fortune

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Re: Contradiction, much?

Combine working & sexual harrasment.......

It's not a problem in China...... well not for the guys it isn't

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He won't get to keep it......

now the company will be taken over and Pumped for every $ it has.....

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

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Yep... becasue as soon as someone says "black-list", I immediately think about water melon Fried chicken and wood piles....

Words only have the meaning we give them..., if we want them to be racist they will be racist...., this is just controlled speech via the back door...

This is the danger of allowing companies like m$ into opensource projects...... because they bring ALL their political baggage with them...

Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec, now supports popping it in the Linux kernel

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As long as they give up the patents and don't use it to try and strangle Linux at a later date , it's not a problem....

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

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More left wing garbage........

What is seriously worrying about all this , is that the Leftwing Takeover of software projects and the hidden agendas that then get injected into the projects., whilst all the time trying to "dilute" resources and jump on the bandwagon of a well established project.

Not least of which the requirement to include "lbq" thought processes from a minority group on the rest of society as a whole.

We're great, boasts Huawei in founder's Little Red Book – but isn't that a video game screenshot?

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yet another example of hwa wei stealing other peoples work & not giving credit.......

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

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More like he drove the price down to do a short & buy back

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

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It's all falling apart now......

Pokémon Red and Blue-era trading cards just made their owner a load of green: Complete set sells at auction for $107k

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Just made me want to watch the southpark episode again.....

Apple hits back at devs of axed kiddie screen-time apps

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MDM was for use on corporate systems,

some developers have subverted the abilities of a corporate package to track & gain access to private information that does not belong to them.

Apple is correct.

Huawei opens Brussels code-check office: Hey! EU've got our guide – love Huawei

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The issue is NOT what is in the Huawei kit.....

But WHAT will be in it once the kit is fully commissioned and the first Huawei signed software update is made.

Turn on, tune in, drop out: Apple's whizz-bang T2 security chips hit a bum note for Mac audio

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You know.... they just could not leave it alone, had a working sound subsystem, then did a "cookin" and now it's broken.