Posts by wayward4now

Space podule outfit inks Arizona launch deal

Re: Alternatively...

Arizona?? Did someone mention fruits and nuts? They have very little water and should only be a truck stop or two there to service the folks heading east from California before it slides into the Pacific.

Ubuntu's Amazon 'adware' feature to be made opt in

Re: Either that or...

It would have made GREAT SENSE to allow users to click on a desktop icon to turn on the shopping feature so that Ubuntu would have gotten s little bit of pass-through revenue. That wouldn't have cost a user anything, and they would have gotten a warm fuzzy to contribute knowingly. Maybe there wasn't enough swastikas and goose-stepping to consider that idea. I do know I got kicked off the Ubuntu User List for proposing that, NOW they want to change?? Fuck 'em, they can kiss my royal ass.

Re: Either that or...

I'm not holding my breath waiting for an apology from Ubuntu for tossing some of their best users off the mailing list for complaining about this issue. Getting rid of their "List Nazis" would be a good second step.

Ubuntu built my hotrod

Shuttleworth:

"I wanna luv yah!"

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Star Wars Special Editions

Re: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Taste of a Shit Sandwich

Lucas certainly knows "Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat"

I hate Jar Jar so much

That I have to quote Star Trek at him:

"...to the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

'Shut down the parts of internet used by Islamic State masterminds'

I thought Ted was spot-on

" it is not on a par with the famous "series of tubes" misunderstanding from "Techno" Ted Stevens back in 2006."

Seagate serves up three layer ClusterStor sandwich

It is highly likely I will not be buying anymore Seagate drives. Mine fail way too soon.

Ouch! Microsoft sues recycling firm over 70K stolen Office licenses

Re: good ole Arizona

Not to mention all of the California used car salesmen that roosted in Phoenix.

Drones are dropping drugs into prisons and the US govt just doesn't know what to do

Re: alternatively

Legalize ALL drugs. Evolution in action.

Donald Trump dumps on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Use existing laws stupid people

It's easy, arrest anyone hiring an undocumented/illegal worker. The fact that no one mentions this means the fix is in. But, they sure as hell won't risk illegally entering the US if there are no jobs. I mean damn!, this is so obvious.

Speaking in Tech: LastPass hack was a total HASH, amirite?

OK, quick edit. Have Sarah AND Ashley headline the show. You guys wouldn't be able to count all the money that would roll in.

A podcast without Sarah is like a day without sunshine. Like Anonymous says, we don't forget.

Swordfish fatally stabs man after man stabs, fatally, swordfish

Re: Hmmm...

"Maybe that's why they called the fire department and not an ambulance?" I bet it was called to have a water cannon salute to the Sword Fish, followed by several minutes of quiet meditation with doffed hats. I wonder if someone is going to take the deceased fish "fallen hero" to a Taxidermist for proper mounting and display in some local pub? Fish and Chips fund-raiser anyone?

Re: @TonyJ

"Isn't it every American's right to arm bears?"

I thought it was "Isn't it every American's right to bear arms?", but what would the bears do without their arms??

Chlorine gas horror leak at Apple data center puts five in hospital

t's likely it was a relatively concentrated store as the it only takes a very little to be effective."

At the water treatment plant that I worked at, we received concentrated chlorine solution, pumped into holding tanks stored outside within a chainlink area, where is was diluted to 5% in order not to be considered a hazardous material. It was effective and relatively safe then. Plus, when properly diluted, it tends to gas less.

Watch: China has made an internet censorship THEME SONG

The rebuttal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2L4X6b6ZM

Software freedom by Richard Stallman. I don't know which is scarier.

Shuttleworth delivers death blow in Umbongoland dispute

"Linux is the kernel, GNU is the OS." No, it's not.

"The operating system interacts directly with the hardware, providing common services to programs and insulating them from hardware idiosyncrasies. Viewing the system as a set of layers, the operating system is commonly called the system kernel, or just the kernel, emphasizing its isolation from user programs. Because programs are independent of the underlying hardware, it is easy to move them between UNIX systems running on different hardware if the programs do not make assumptions about the underlying hardware. "

"The design of the unix operating system", Maurice J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4:

Please don't spread that f'ing LIE.

Windows and OS X are malware, claims Richard Stallman

An f'ing embarrassment.

Google patents DEVIL TOY which will BRAINWASH KIDS

Re: Oh... how original...

You beat me to it, a responsive Google Love Doll would be the ultimate product to rake in the bazillions. Just don't let MicroSoft screw it up. Please, keep it Open Source so it can be "dinked with" and modded.

Stripped to the core and full of Xfce: Xubuntu Linux loses it

"Now CPM was a nice and lightweight system..."

You betcha, and it basically filled my needs. GeoWorks was another. It ran fast on an i386.

IN YOUR FACE, Linux and Apple fans! Oculus is Windows-only for now

Re: What's the problem?

And I would never install Linux on the desktop. Why kill yourself for nothing? The only thing you ever want to work is WINE. And if I need Linux, why hello Virtual Machine..."

I haven't used Windows since Win95. I use only nvidia hardware and nvidia drivers. I only play games that support Linux. No wine here. I haven't looked back.

Re: And you're all missing the loody obvious...

"What exactly is a get-go ?" It's old fart talk. Nothing to see here, you young'ins please move around the old geeze until he gets moving again. :)

DEEPENING MYSTERY of BRIGHT LIGHTS on dwarf world Ceres

Re: Ceres bright spots iluminate without sun light

It's the Flash Light vines. They are blooming this time of year. They have been trying to attract Earthlings to come and visit them for years. They get really hungry during this stage of their reproductive stage.

Harvest time on Mars

I'm quite in agreement with Ceres. Here, on Mars, my Ham Bushes and Blanket trees are ready to harvest. I plan to plant Nubile Space Maiden seeds between the rows and that will be my "bumper" crop. They will keep me busy during the Martian winter. So, you all just stay the hell away. I used to be an Earthling, and know just how you people really are.

Speaking in Tech: 'We're angry about the things most important to us'

Sarah for President!

Sarah Vela could keep this country straight, and I consider her a "tech leader"

Inside the guts of Nano Server, Microsoft's tiny new Cloud OS

Thieves

They stole the name of my favorite Linux commandline editor. Bastards.

Comcast: Google, we'll see your 1Gbps fiber and DOUBLE IT

Re: sarcastic comment...

Suppose the government quit stealing bandwidth in their surveillance activities, how much bandwidth would we get then?

Bulging booty bird Kim Kardashian date game biz adds Britney Spears to bottom line

The social vampires

have drained us dry and now are moving to to their next victims. Good riddance.

Apple Watch RIPPED APART, its GUTS EXPOSED to hungry Vultures

"From what I can see, other than people who'd buy the latest apple release even if it were dog shit with the logo printed on it,"

I smell a money making opportunity here. Would you claim prior art if I patented "dog shit" with a logo on it??

If hypervisor is commodity, why is VMware still on top?

Trevor, just where does OpenVZ fit in this scheme of things?? I use Proxmox, which uses openVZ (and KVM which I haven't had reason to use) and it's been a cake walk to use for a small personal Linux cluster, while I have heard of Proxmox clusters running into thousands of nodes. So, in the middle of this discussion, should it be mentioned?? Keep it up, Ric

Re: Why Hyper-V is a non-starter in all situations

Trevor, you certainly seem to attract your share of the Windows 50-centers. If one third of what they write is true, then the market share of Windows as server would be much much more.

Re: Why Hyper-V is a non-starter in all situations

"10 minutes is a long time" WTF? This 10 minute example includes updating security patches via RPM. It's far far better than waiting months for patches when the Linux community can get updates within hours of a noted breach. I happen to use apt, but that is just another horse of course. Same same, I can get updates daily instead of bi-monthly. And I don't have to pay for stinkin' licenses to make the world's richest white guy richer.

Apple will cut down 36,000 acres of forest in 'conservation scheme'

Re: Trees are a crop

What ever happened to hemp? Leave the trees alone. Legalize hemp production again. This country was founded on hemp production.

Radio 4 and Dr K on programming languages: Full of Java Kool-Aid

What are the names of the tunes played in the background?

I cannot find any sort of discography and would like to know the titles of the background tunes There are some great tracks there! Ric

Rand Paul puts Hillary Clinton's hard drive on sale

Re: Email servers - @Peter Gathercole

"Things changed when backups were archived of all the mail going through the system."

Things changed when a 10 meg harddrive cost less than $10,000. Until then, anything "old" got deleted. That was the price for the harddrive of a Lisa.

Trade body, universities row over US patent troll act proposals

Re: wait wat

"- No. When Universities own patents, that's because they did the bloody research. Big difference between them and patent trolls"

Except that taxpayers fund the Universities while they get to own the patents. Huh?? To put it into perspective, substitute "taxpayers" with the word "investors". As "investors" we are getting stiffed.

ZTE's stealthy Nubia: China-made Google-free Android mobe

"What matters most of all is the software.

[Yeah I knows Jobs said something like that, I don't like Apple at all, I doubt he was the first to say so, but he was right]"

Of course he said that, after The Woz built all the hardware.

Microsoft and Oracle are 'not your trusted friends', public sector bods

"Agree MS license tracking could do with much improvement. " Where's the economic incentive to do that when they can haul you into court and pick up another $50,000?? I doubt that the original cost of licenses came anywhere near to that bit of sheer profit. That was the point of this article. :)

Re: So, give them the boot - use open source.

"FOSS doesn't solve everything" It DOES solve the $50,000 license issue effectively. I haven't used Windows since Win95 came out and have never looked back. :) Ric

Re: So, give them the boot - use open source.

"While there are small problems everywhere, the most glaring weakness is in calendar visibility and the free/busy scheduling tools." I use Thunderbird, and added the calendar to it, then added the Google calendar extension. Piece O cake! Now I have a live calendar that updates our Google calendar which pops up directly on our website via linking html script. NEXT!

Bye bye, booth babes. IT security catwalk RSA nixes sexy outfits

Re: About friggin' time.

"Both you and I know that the women are there to give the nerds a stiffy and to get the technology buyers aroused enough to make rash buying decisions. There's nothing distinctly stylish about booth babes"

The Mullahs would be in full agreement with you.

Re: About friggin' time.

"I can't think of a bigger turn off at conferences than scantily clad meat draped around technology."

Are you serious?? I have a computer at home. I don't have a booth-babe at home. Nuff said.

And, do you really perceive those ladies as "scantily clad meat"? Isn't that objectifying? They are persons, like you and me, who happen to be physically endowed with very good looks and who are paid to draw attention to the sponsor who hires them to do so. It does happen to work as intended, since that is just human nature.

Winning a brand new BOFH T-Shirt is as simple as...

Re: Clean Desk Policy!

I see only one monitor. A decent BOFH would have at least several.

NYPD cop in court for allegedly hacking into the FBI

Re: point of order...

Nope, just plain ole stealing, like any other common criminal. Nothing new to see here folks, please move along.

Boffins bothered by EU prez's proposed science funding cut

Re: Ahhh

"So they want to get rid of a bunch of science to make way for some flatulent business analysts?

Yea, that sounds like a great idea!!!"

That was what rocket "B" was for. ;

) Ric

Google and Obama: You’re too close for comfort

Re: I Block Them

Re: I Block Them

"So basically, no one can find you."

Wow! That will certainly show them! I bet Google and the rest of the world are just crying buckets!

Sorry, I don't get the sentiments

I use gmail google search, google groups, google+, google calendar for our non-profit. Guess how much I pay? Not one penny. I DO remember the AOL days and hundreds a month to hang out. Hrmmmm... which would I prefer to do? So, I willingly allow Google to crib some notes of my forays on the Net and in exchange get all of those services. Since I am not a double-naught spy, person of interest or an A-Lister, no worries. I do get a cackle out of boring them to death in exchange for all those services. And I fail to see what this has to do with President Obama. He'd be a fool NOT to invite them to the White House, for all of the people they hire at good wages and for the technological innovations they produce.

Watchdog slaps American Apparel's youthful naked arse

"In my defense I was researching a book."

Duly noted, Sir. Duly noted.

I couldn't find the pic, did they take it down?? Damnit! I like evil ginger! :)