* Posts by jake

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President Trump sits down with Twitter boss for crunch talks: Why am I losing followers?

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Re: Hellbanning

Not Wessex. Essex. The one in New Jersey.

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Re: Ha

"the dems running are the 1% who pay even less tax than him in some cases."

I assume you, codejunky, have access to both his and the dems in question's tax returns to make such a sweeping statement, and thus you can prove what you say. So please, do so. Post proof or retract.

Or are you simply bullshitting hopefully?

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Re: E-peen

"As a female, I don't measure my self-worth in any spelling of penis"

Neither do most men. Little boys, on the other hand ...

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Eh?

I'm not all that certain I'd consider Nancy to have even made the b-list ...

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Re: Boo

That's not hate, mate. That's pity and sorrow.

(C'mon, bob, you're far too smart to continue blindly backing Trump. You MUST be a troll, nothing else explains the caricature that you've drawn. When are you going to own up to it?)

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I do not now have ...

... never have had, and never will have a twitter account, much less a follower.

I guess that means something, if you squint at it hard enough. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time over it, though. Life's too short, find something important to do.

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Apropos, separate comment.

Twanting ... Twat ranting. Fits better.

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Reality sets in.

Trump, you're losing followers because even die-hard Republicans are sick and tired of your bullshit. It's really that simple.

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect's iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

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Re: You can pry my password from my cold, dead lips.

Easier answer: I simply don't use a so-called smart phone or any other thingie that requires an Internet connection to be useful. The cops can't access what I don't carry, not even "accidentally". Neither can anybody else. Problem solved.

And no, you do NOT "need" your so-called smart phone and access to all that stuff 24/7. You are not important enough in the great scheme of things. Neither am I. Very, very few of us are ... if anybody truly is.

Turn off, tune out, drop the electronic leash. You'll be a lot happier over all.

Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: 'Puters knackered by bad combo

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Out o'curiosity ...

... remind me again why, exactly, people still purchase anything from Redmond? Do they expect it to suddenly get better? Or are they gluttons for punishment? It's clearly not because MS offers a decent product that works as it says on the tin. Or maybe it's a faith thing; all hail the mighty Windows and death to the infidels!

At this point, what corporation in it's right mind would actually spec Windows for any desktop? It is obviously not fit for purpose. Unless all the companies saddled with it were formed partially to put money in Redmond's pocket, that is ... has anybody talked to their shareholders about that?

Remember Windows Media Center? Well, the SDK is now on GitHub to be poked at your leisure

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Re: Still running it...

On your Nuc? What did those poor bees ever do to you?

Rising sea levels? How about the rising risk of someone using a nuke?

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Re: @TheVogon ... How about both?: Rising sea levels and nuke use

Damit Gumby, when you post sense I can't argue with you! Where's the fun in that?

This round's on me.

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Re: How about both?: Rising sea levels and nuke use

You do understand what is meant by the term "the West" in this context, right?

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"in the small hours"?

Shouldn't that be "in the wee hours"? Especially if you're old, senile and have tiny little orange hands.

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

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Re: Inside my house ...

I'm sorry to hear that you and yours don't know how to properly train your dawgs. I assure you that mine only bark when they have something to report, and then quiet down when they have an adult's attention. Perhaps look into proper training for your critters? It's a lot easier than simply putting up with it for ten or more years!

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Re: Nice

But most don't have an IR filter installed. In fact, you can often make a standard video camera into a IR camera with a bit of over-exposed film in front of the lens.

(I wonder how many of the kiddies reading this know what over-exposed film is.)

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

"Which queen?"

Did you note my footnote?

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

And there is a reason for that. Accent and vernacular varies wildly just across the UK. The entire point of telephone support is to HELP the user, not force them to find a translator who speaks both Joisy and Yorkshire fluently.

This is why off-shoring tech support is so reviled ... contrary to popular belief it's not racism, rather it's a real, honest lack of being able to comprehend what the support staff are saying.

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Re: Nice

That would depend entirely on whose fantasy you are choosing to believe in.

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

Most of the coders that I know re-map their keybr0ads to suit themselves. It's not exactly rocket surgery.

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Inside my house ...

... I use the dawgs. Outside the house it's mostly the broodmares, with help from some of the dawgs. Not even the meth-heads from the Springs district bother us here at chez jake. Reliability is 100%, and there are no false positives.

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Re: Hawaiian shirts

They make all kinds of Hawai‘ian print winter gear. As hard as it might be for the untraveled to believe, you can actually book a snow skiing/boarding holiday in Hawai‘i.

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Re: I fool those FR systems all the time...

And actually, Yolo is a good place to stop for fuel, a pee and a bite to eat :-)

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

Like it or not, American English is the lingua franca of TehIntraWebTubes. This isn't a good thing, nor is it a bad thing. All it is is an accident of history.

This will change over time. If there is one thing that's a dead cert, it's that language mutates. Much to the deep dismay of all those Internet "Queen's English"[0] nazis out there.

[0] Whatever that means ...

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

"my UK English accent and word usage completely lsot them"

If you speak the way you type, this Californian would be fairly "lsot", too.

(The fast-food people, even the ESL ones, are quite used to the way we speak English here in California. Did it not occur to you that YOU were a foreigner, and the dude with the funny, hard to understand accent? Or do you assume that every English speaker, world-wide, should automatically be able to understand all the variations of English as they are spoken in the British Isles? And you call us "Ugly" when we are abroad? Furrfu!)

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Re: security concerns

"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a highly trained GRU assassin."

Somehow that doesn't have the right ring to it.

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Re: Defense against the Darknet

Not in English as she is spoke.

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Re: theregister.CO.UK ??

These days, I'd say that the .co.uk doesn't mean it's UK based, but rather that it's registered in the UK. Subtle difference, perhaps, but a difference nonetheless.

Thanks to the NASA InSight probe (and British tools), you can now listen to the sound of a Martian earthquake

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Sounds like ...

... the soundtrack of any number of low budget scifi movies.

If they got THAT part right, we might be in all kinds of trouble ...

California's politicians rush to gut internet privacy law with pro-tech giant amendments

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Re: Bought and Sold

The whole fucking zoo is just as bad, near as I can tell.

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Hey, you blithering idiots on Capitol Hill[0] ...

Enough is enough! ... we voted you in, we WILL vote you out! This is OUR Internet, not yours, nor does it belong to the multi-billion dollar advertising companies. We know what it is for AND YOU IDIOTS CAN'T HAVE IT!

Want you cushy job in Sacramento to continue? Vote with us, not with the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. You work for US not THEM, and we will NOT forget this. Don't say I didn't warn you.

(Sorry for the yelling, but apparently the fuckheads are stone deaf ...)

[0] In Sacramento it's actually a flood plain, not a hill, but that's a story for another day.

Take your pick: 0/1/* ... but beware – your click could tank an entire edition of a century-old newspaper

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Who?

People who were brought up on having a spare gig or five of RAM available most of the time, that's who. And to think we used to run flight simulators in 64K ... What a waste. Of all kinds of things.

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Re: Talking of paper...

Amdahl had a largish printing facility just off Central Expressway in Sunnyvale (Cupertino?) in the 1980s ... Virtually every mainframe print-job generated within the company, world-wide, was printed at said facility, and then next-dayed to whatever office had requested the print job. They had several gawdawfulfast channel attached printers, and a fleet of trucks delivering & sending out paper. Was awesome to watch in full-swing, if you had adequate ear protection.

However ... it sounded daft then, and still sounds daft now :-)

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Re: Earth slide? Well, yes ...

Or worse, files whose purpose you THINK you know ...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." —Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Re: I'll drink to that

Automatically protect against? Nick, may I introduce you to dd?

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Re: destructive hdd check

For a start, you don't ask numptys without proper training to run potentially destructive software ... ESPECIALLY not on client computers.

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Re: Talking of paper...

My IBM 1403 can do about 23 pages (~1400 lines) of 11X14 (132 columns) per minute. Can crank up to over 6 feet of paper per second if the printout contains a lot of blank lines. It will keep up this pace as long as you can keep it in fan-fold paper. Ink optional, unless you plan on reading it. It was made in 1963 (I have another one from 1960 for spare parts).

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

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Re: the worst of all worlds...

And then there are those people who call an octothorp or comment sign a hash or a sharp. Wrong 'uns, the lot of 'em, Shirley.

Bloke faces up to 20 years in the clink after gun held to dot-com owner's head in robbery

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Re: God what a twat

"it isn't that hard to change your name"

In concept, you are correct. But the devil is in the details. Try it, then report back.

(I legally changed my name from my given name to just "jake" many years ago. It was a pain in the ass, partially because of the singular name, but not entirely because of that. Changing it back to the name my parents gave me several years later was also a pain, even though I knew what to expect having been through it once before.)

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Frankly?

It's a textbook case of a tragedy of the commons.

I'm not considered one of the forefathers, but I was working with computers and networking at Berkeley and Stanford before there were two dozen nodes on the research network that became the monstrosity that we now call "The Internet".

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Re: Didn't do it the right way!

I had a similar .com from a long forgotten project ... I didn't know it at the time, but the matching .net was owned by a small family business several states away. When I found out about the .net, I gave them the now unused .com for xmas. That was around 20 years ago. Their family and my family are now really good friends :-)

I've had offers for most of my various addresses, I've turned them all down. My one mistake was when I gave up my personal "Class C" in late 1996 ... Seemed kinda pointless at the time; I had just sold my "portal" to idiots with more money than brains, and decided that I didn't need the address space anymore. Oops.

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Presumably ...

... your country only has sensible and logical robberies cum murders by extremely well organized people?

User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?

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Re: Well if the US ships want the Chinese to keep out of the way

No need for the arrow ... you can feel the lip of the curl. Open a ream of paper, split the ream in two and run your thumb over the edge of both halves, center of the sheet out. The "curl up" side will feel rough, the "curl down" side will feel smooth. This is kind of important to know when operating sheet-fed anything. Almost everything prefers to be fed curl down, but there are exceptions.

In a similar vein, I habitually check the grain of business cards ... If the card is printed grain wrong, the owner gets a tick on the "probably clueless" side of the balance sheet. Once a printer, always a printer.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

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Re: Big drinkers?

It's been done. Kind of. Story behind Lauganitas KronikCensored here. It's a fairly decent copper ale, well worth sampling if you can find it.

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Re: Have you tasted American and Aussi beer?

"it would take you a decade to try them all"

Challenge accepted :-)

"You try the ones you've heard about from friends, have had really good reviews or (I confess I'm guilty) the ones with the really interesting names."

Actually, as a brewer, I try anything new that I run across. Gotta keep tabs on the competition, dontchaknow. For the record, I've found that interesting names and fancy labels are mostly used to market mediocre (at best!) beer. Better to put your money in producing awesome brews than into the pockets of the marketing department. Good beer pretty much sells itself.

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Re: My intake has gone up...

Bad troll, Ian Emery. No cookie.

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Re: Have you tasted American and Aussi beer?

If all you've found is too acidic, you haven't sampled enough yet. In my estimation, fewer than 15% of craft/micro/homebrews could be classified as sour or acidic (assuming proper care and feeding of the yeasties, and more than just a little nod to sanitation, of course).

"Ruby ale" is just another name for Bitter (kinda). I have a nice Yorkshire Bitter clone on tap as I type. Good stuff. Expand your horizons?

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Re: Drinking at an international level

Even the usually chemically deluded Freak Brothers knew that smoking grass and drinking alcohol together is like pissing into the wind.

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Re: Have you tasted American and Aussi beer?

The biggest problem in taking a microbrewery from local to national is volume. It's kind of difficult to split a mere 15,000 barrels of hand crafted beer between the hundred million or so beer drinkers in the US. For one thing, each person would get about half an ounce per brewery (not per brew!), which would be sad.

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Re: I find it amusing ...

That's not purely British. From experience, I'd say it's a normal part of the human condition to get blotto. I've seen it on 6 continents, in places untouched by so-called "British Rule", and have it on good authority that most of it (sans beating and getting robbed) happens in Antarctica, too.

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