Posts by Geoffrey W 1320 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jan 2009
RE: "Oh, and "Edge" is the most secure browser because nobody fucking uses it."
I'm tempted to say that Linux is the most secure OS because nobody fucking uses it. Once its usage becomes large enough and it escapes the control of a small group of people - see Linux based Android for an example - I'm sure the sense of security we all wallow in will vanish in a puff of pink unicorn smoke and our shibboleth will topple off its pedestal like the hollow plaster god it is.
I'm starting my new range of WA (Windows Anonymous, Slogan WAH) coins based on the idea of AA coins. "Hello, I'm Adnim and I have been windowless for 30 days."
Only $50 for a six month coin, $40 for a year coin. They have an angry Linus face on one side and a cute penguin on the flip. Get yours now. Everyone who is anyone will want one. www.MicrosoftSucks.coma
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RE "This, on the other hand, is mystifying. Sentience has already happened, and continues to happen, all over the place. It's one of the few logically provable[2] questions in the philosophy of mind, thanks to that Descartes guy. Perhaps you mean "the singularity", in the Kurzweilian sense?"
"Perhaps longer if sentience happens" was a lapse into fortunate whimsy, to which I am prone. I imagined the vast VB6 project I am in process of converting coming to me in the night as I sleep and snuffing the one who is trying to terminate it while it still can. Coding requires whimsy. I certainly do. Not sure I agree with the singularity...maybe...not for a while...
"I'm for that. Guns and Government don't mix well."
Of course you are. Let me amend - Guns and Americans don't mix well.
What's your point about Russia? How much better they are than the USA? What's that the right always say? If you don't like it here, then you can go and...oh, you know the drill...damn, look at those kids pull that shooty thing apart...impressive...whatever happened to soviet intellectuals?
RE AC "You will never think of doing that again, let alone posting something so silly. For extra fun, make sure to not list the meat product on your custom's declaration form"
I admit to silliness, it's my core subject. But the rules that apply to random entries into the country are always the strictest and carry the harshest penalties. When it comes to big companies with large amounts of money wanting to bring stuff into the country, well, that's another thing entirely. My meaty comment was aimed primarily at companies based in the states that have slaughter houses down in Mexico who send their wares homeward. I, and other random visitors, cannot afford the fees required to bring meaty malfeasance into the country. Big companies can. It's a question of scale. My poor old malt loaf pales into insignificance; god rest it's fruity heart.
Oh christ, no. There are even worse controls on food products. They wouldn't let me bring in a malt loaf, even though it was Soreen. (Though scabrous and diseased animals and meat product appear to have little trouble entering the country, perhaps because they increase the quality of what is already here)
RE: "Oh, thanks man, I did not know that Fox news and Breitbart are IT news sites, I'll most certainly pay more attention to them from now on."
Oh man, you don't know what you're missing. Their science and technology reporting is second to none. Not even the BBC can do it like they can. Ted Cruz and his illegitimate spiritual offspring Nikolas never miss a word of it.
RE: "Damore has a MS in Sociobiology from Harvard"
Socialist biology scientists are the bollocks, aren't they? Dealing in hard irrefutable facts, and only the facts.Nothing soft or fuzzy with their science. Those guys know what they're on about. See Damore for an example.
Don't worry. Other sites exist so you don't have to disturb your sensibilities. Fox news, Breitbart. No SJW nonsense there, though occasionally something does creep through and I have to moan about it being different from my opinions. They never listen to me. I wish the daily stormer was still up, or I knew where it existed in the dark. Life sucks for white middle aged male majorities.
Yah know, to listen to you guys, you'd think the only stuff worth knowing was computer stuff, and anyone who doesn't understand computer stuff must automatically be, like, yah know, an idiot, and computer guys are gods who know everything that's worth knowing.
Do we really have to deride others because they don't know what we know? There are lots of things that we don't know too and we are probably being mocked right now by people who know the stuff that we don't. You want to be better people? Then stop doing what they are doing and stop mocking them...if you don't then you're just as dumb...Or, no one is dumb and we are just all the same; we know some stuff and everything else is a mystery. The superior people are those that do not mock because they know that together we know everything, and apart we know bugger all.
I honestly think we seriously underestimate our politicians if we think they don't know how stupid are the things they say. The things they say aren't intended for people who know better. The words are for people who do not understand the subject but think they know enough. For any given subject, encryption, economics, climate change, whatever, the sub set of those who know little if anything vastly outnumbers the subset who do know something and hence has greater positive effect for the politician if it sounds like they are saying the right thing. Us being cynical and calling them stupid tends to drive us away from participation in politics and voting and works in the favour of those who would rule us. Everything they say has a specific target audience and, generally, is carefully formulated.
We underestimate them at our own peril.
There's a school of thought that says Californians are weird because they live on an active tectonic fault, and they are all living under the effects of the geo-magnetic fields created by the stresses. It has been noted that active fault zones seem to attract a lot of strange phenomena of all kinds, including UFO sightings.
RE: "Such an attack would definitely enrage the US, and insure the obliteration of the NK power structure one way or another. Therefore such an attack will not happen."
Unless there's a mistake. For example, this one.
Lets hope that NK has better GUI design than that of the wealthy, technologically superior country that made this mistake. I don't hold much hope; do you, honestly?
RE: I've never seen a commercial IDE that didn't impose a broken and/or dim-witted development model.
I've never seen a non commercial IDE that came anywhere close to being broken or dim witted since non of them are finished to the point of having a fully working model that we can judge. They are all following in the shadows of a certain elephant in the room, trying to catch up. Eclipse and Bloodshed/Dev-C++/Orwell, et al, are all very good and muchly usable but they all, as yet, fall short of the dim witted elephant. ;-P
Yeah, about that ribbon thing: It's good to see Libre Office is carrying on the Microsoft tradition by making me foam at the mouth. If anyone is tempted to try it out, I can only say beware. I turned it on, then I set one of the alternative display options other than the default, which resulted in a cut-down ribbon with fewer settings. I then discovered there was no way to turn it off again. Nothing on the ribbon itself and the standard menu's became disabled, so no way back to the real world. Well, damn!
I'm sure there is probably a work around I was unable to discover but...watch out! In the end I just reset the configuration, which lost all my additions and settings. BAH! I should probably mention it on the Libre Office site but I'm still foaming.
RE: And "the penguins" [...] will continue to point out, as a public service, [Their superiority]
And thus, given the chance and sufficient motivation, I will continue to troll Linux articles and attempt to derail the following comments, highlighting the admittedly exaggerated faults in the feathery community of short legged, useless winged, waddlers. It's childish but, given the level of irritating provocation from such as yourself, it's also supremely satisfying. Back to your guano stained icy colonies with you!
Oh, oh...while I'm here and still awake, I must tell you all about another singer from the 60's I only just discovered and have to proselytize to everyone who will stand still long enough to listen. Judy Henske! Listen to her song "Snowblind" and tell me she hasn't one of the best voices ever. Janis Joplin eat your foot stomping heart out.
With the exception of Jack Johnson (who he?), whom I know absolutely nothing about at all, there is nothing to snigger at. Melanie and Cat Stevens are fabulous. Especially Melanie who is a goddess who I am unworthy to kiss the feet of. Do not, thou who knowest not, do NOT judge her by the huge hit "Brand New Key"; she is so much more, and even brand new key has its little bit of sly subversion too. I adore her and spent half my life looking for my own Melanie.
Last music new to me? Sally can't dance (Lou Reed - he should have stuck with Cale and the Velvets), and the first three Fairport Convention records.
RE: "...there was a lot of utter dross in the 70s.. just like every decade before and since"
I know I may be seeing through rosy spectacles (or X-Ray Spex - making teeth braces cool) but...While it may be true there is a lot of dross in every decade, there are few decades that can compare with the highs of the 70's except maybe the 60's. The highs are much lower through the 80's onwards. IMHO obviously.
These are the issues that matter in our turbulent times.
RE: "the most tasteless decade in the 20th century, from hideous polyester patterns to disco "music"."
One begs to differ: Prime Bowie (Ziggy) and Punk, plus lots of other stuff you are cringing and squinting too hard to see. Plus Peter Hammill at his psychedelic best, and pop music, if that's what floats your boat, that simply lays waste to everything the kids are popping to today. Shitty politics though, plenty for proto anarchists to rail against. I think the internet is responsible for flattening and removing all flavour and savour from our culture.
RE: "Considering its addons were pretty much the only edge Firefox had left compared to Chrome, that's the real tragedy right there"
For me, at least, Firefox still has one edge over Chrome - It doesn't have Google lurking in its belly.
I'm a little trepidant about this change but it will have to be a cold day in heck before I migrate to Google. Hopefully NoScript will be ported, and it does appear its in the works, and hopefully there will be alternatives to the handful of other addons I use. Luckily I'm happy with Firefox' appearance so have never used any appearance altering addons. Video downloaders is the other thing I need to find if my current ones stop working. I'm quietly confident.
I think there's just a quirk in the USA mentality that fetishises guns and am resigned to living with the mild insanity of my neighbours(I'm a Brit resident in the USA). This country will never get rid of its guns. There's a kink in the USA psyche that makes them prone to shooting each other. Canada has a lot of guns too, but a fraction of the shooting deaths. And whats the European country with a high gun ownership - Sweden? Switzerland? Lots of guns. Not much shooting each other. I think Americans just hate each other and every so often one of them indulges their angst by going on a rampage. C'est la vie. I love you all anyway; Weird as you are. I think a bit of socialism is what you need. Love for your fellow critter.
RE: "Devin Patrick Kelley got his gun illegally"
It's irrelevant whether it was legally or illegally obtained. The problem in this country is how easy it is to obtain a gun. I've seen a fucking sniper rifle offered at my local flea market, a barrel as big as a bloody cannon! Hand guns are as easy to find as an ice cream cone. Shot guns? How many do you need sir? Doesn't matter if I'm legally allowed one or not; Lots of people are perfectly happy to sell me as many as I crave.
It's a good job I'm level headed and calm...MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I know its a horrible stereotype and I'll burn in chip shop hell but I used to frequent a Chinese fish and chip shop know locally (and rather affectionately as she was a lovely lady) as "Effin' Elsies.", because the eponymous lady would hand you your chips and say "You want effin' else?"
Well, I need "Something" to plug into my TV coz I will go as far out of my way as the next universe in the most distant alternate reality just to get a Not Smart TV. I want the stupidest TV on the block. I really do. I will add anything necessary myself, and Roku makes me happy. Not everyone has the same use case you know, and assumptions about peoples technical ability based on what hardware they use are...well...I don't want to make assumptions about others based just on what they say in a throwaway tech forum. Me happy with choices, you happy with choices, knob end happy with choices too. Isn't that nice! I should find something better to do with my weekends than post in forums. Perhaps I'll watch TV.
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