Posts by jake 26710 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." —Albert Einstein (supposedly)
"Apart from hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity." —Harlan Ellison
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." —Frank Zappa
"I lost my lock pick set"
You remember what they look like, right? Make your own. Cast-off street-sweeper tines are free and just about the perfect raw material. A Dremel will shape them easily. They don't have to be perfect to work nicely. Smoothish usually helps, though. And keep them lightly oiled or they will rust (very lightly oiled ... I "season" mine just like a cast iron skillet, and wick off the excess by covering in paper towels overnight).
It wasn't missed. The locks are intended to be sold to clueless idiots, not intelligent people. There is a vast market of clueless idiots, but not quite so many intelligent people. Who would the proverbial thinking man choose to market at? Especially if you can build a product down to a price, and then mark it up several thousand percent? It might be a short-term market, but the near-term profit should be magnificent! And the best thing is, that with a simple re-design and a slightly different buzzword filled marketing campaign you can sell it again and again! And it's perfectly legal. Cool, eh?
See IoT, iFads and various other scams marketing triumphs.
I don't destroy them, I have them scrapped out of inventory and marked accordingly, then keep them locked up where the proles can't access them. One never knows when one might need to fabricobble something non-standard ... and it's always easier to grab a scrapped cable or six than it is to request stuff from stores.
Manny moons ago, I witnessed a field engineer open the back of a piece of equipment, pull the diagnostic floppy (8", just to date myself) off the inside of the door where it was affixed with a magnet ... and the fucking thing still worked! Observing my surprise, he just shrugged and said "I know. I don't get it either. They did it this way for years before I got here. I don't ask questions, I just go by their playbook and collect my pay." He claimed to have seen several tens of these things, and the disk was only dead once.
"I don't mind them keeping inches, Fahrenheit, the confusing pounds alone for body weight or their spelling. Or their own names for things."
That is ever so magnanimous of you. Thank you for your permission. In return, I'll allow you to keep spelling things in the French manner, instead of in proper English like wot we do.
As for other bits & bobs ... How many stone do you weigh, exactly? And what are the dimensions of your favorite cricket pitch? How many miles between York and Leeds? Lovely thing, that metrical system, eh?
"In this case the US is not at fault for protecting it's citizen, it's us, Britain, which must hang it's head in shame at this utter betrayal of the most basic duty of government."
Then why on Earth are you (and many other Brits in this forum) spending so much time berating the US, which will have no effect on anything whatsoever, as you are not US voters (not that it would matter if you were, I doubt US politicians even know ElReg exists, much less care a whit about the opinions of us conmmentards) .... Shirley you should be spending your time and effort doing something meaningful about your own government if you are honestly all that passionate about it?
What stinks? In a civilized country, if a single parent is incarcerated his (or her) children become wards of the court. The alternative is to throw them out on the streets, to fend for themselves. Are you seriously advocating that? Or are you suggesting that having kids should make you immune from incarceration?
I didn't realize this was a black/white issue. However, might I point out to you and your pre-conceived misconceptions about race in America that we had a black man in the Oval Office for not one, but two terms just prior to the current idiot-in-chief's term. Note that he won not just the electoral college vote, but also the popular vote. Twice. If allowed, I suspect he would have won a third term.
Staying the hell away from the place has obviously taught you absolutely nothing about it. I strongly suggest closing your mouth and being thought a fool than opening it and removing all doubt. Or perhaps open your mind, come visit, and see for yourself.
"Use of authorized credentials to access a system is not misused, that's the function of the credentials."
Incorrect. As a computer and networking consultant, I have credentials to access anything I need to do my job. That means root access to the entire system. It also means I have the ability to access all of the data at any of the companies that I consult for. That doesn't make it legal for me to access all that data, much less pass it along to any third party I deem fit.
" only brown people are terrorists in the US."
Stop it with this line of bullshit, already. You make yourself look silly. Are you old enough to remember the Oklahoma City bombing? The perp was a good Roman Catholic, Republican, US Army decorated, Gulf War veteran. There have been many more. Unabomber, Son of Sam, Zodiac, "Army of God", "Christian Identity", "Creativity", "Aryan Nations", etc. etc.
One person is not "people". Inflating the issue doesn't make your argument better, it merely makes you look smaller.
For the record, I think the cowardly drunk needs to be returned to Blighty for trial ... but I also think it's a completely different case than the one we are supposedly discussing in this comments section. Trying to talk about the two together, as if they somehow have anything to do with each other, dilutes both issues.
So-called "smallpox blankets" came about during the siege of Fort Pitt, during Pontiac's War in 1763. The United States didn't exist yet. It was Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst attempting germ warfare. As he wrote in a footnote of a letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet on July 16th, 1663 P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execreble Race.
In other words, he was knowingly attempting genocide under the athority of the Crown. Nice group of folks, you Brits. Have you hugged your Golly today?
On this case it's the extradition hearing.
The US/UK relationship is ... complicated. Having lived ~20% of my life in the UK, and most of the rest here in California, and having payed attention to this kind thing these last ~50 years, I couldn't come close to guessing which way things will go in any given situation of this nature. IMO, it has been made to be convoluted intentionally, and thus it's a crap-shoot that depends entirely on who is politically grandstanding at the moment.
"I would say no, but I would also say it would be a factor in mitigation of the sentence."
I would say no, and that the evidence gained wouldn't be admissible in court ... Neither in the mitigation of the sentence of the housebreaker, nor in the prosecution of the fraudster.
"Kinda overblown hysterics to compare the things alleged against Assange to mass murderers..."
Regardless, the effect is the same. Get incarcerated for any length of time, and your kids are going to be raised by someone else until they reach the age of majority. This is true regardless of the crime committed by the parental unit(s).
Suggestion: Don't do anything to get incarcerated if this matters to you.
Who gives a flying fuck about uptime on any single given personal machine? Keeping it up forever pales in comparison to overall system stability and security. If a box needs a reboot, then reboot the fucking thing already!
Honestly, I thought THAT particular DSW was over a couple decades ago.
"You used the word 'you' referring to me and then made a remark"
The remark was modified by the phrase "coming off as". Don't be disingenuous.
"I can only think you have come here to troll, and this discussion has certainly declined into ranting."
Projection is an ugly thing.
I'm still not Jake. Jake is one of at least two other entities here on ElReg.
A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked: “Is there really a paradise and a hell?”
“Who are you?” inquired Hakuin. “I am a samurai,” the warrior replied.
“You, a soldier!” exclaimed Hakuin. “What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar.” Nobushige became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued: “So you have a sword! Your weapon is probably much too dull to cut off my head.”
As Nobushige drew his sword Hakuin remarked: “Here open the gates of hell!” At these words the samurai, perceiving the master’s discipline, sheathed his sword and bowed.
“Here open the gates of paradise,” said Hakuin.
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