Speaking as an elderly man...
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Posts by CAPS LOCK
1190 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2012
It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors
Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny
Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings
LibreOffice handlers defend suite's security after 'unfortunately partial' patch
Summer vacations put an end to rampant desktop crimewave
Friday 26th July 2019 16:10 GMT
"use a fountain pen" is the correct answer.
Since I was plagued by the ball-point problem myself, I bought a modestly priced fountain pen. That was twenty years ago. It's still here and still works perfectly. I got the sort that uses the little generic ink cartridges you can buy in Smiths, so no messing with bottles of Quink. Job done.
Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned
BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout
Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle
Experts: No need to worry about Europe's navigation sats going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!
Microsoft tells resellers: 'We listened to you, and we have acted' (PS: Plz keep making us money)
Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again
London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself
Blackburn ain't big enough for the both of us: Mr Creamy and Mr Whippy at the centre of new ice-cream war
ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer
Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?
In Rust we trust: Brave smashes speed limit after rewriting ad-block engine in super-lang
The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco
Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring
Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages
Microsoft Bing is 10: That thing you accidentally use to search for Chrome? Still alive and kicking
Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand
Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way
DigitalOcean drowned my startup! 'We lost everything, our servers, and one year of database backups' says biz boss
Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat
If the thing you were doing earlier is 'drop table' commands, ctrl-c, ctrl-v is not your friend
A day in the life of London seen through spam and weak Wi-Fi
There's NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic
Brit spy chief: We need trust or we won't have a 'licence to operate in cyberspace'
Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation
Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name
Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age
Easter is approaching – and British pr0n watchers still don't know how long before age-gates come into force
French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?
Rust never sleeps: C++-alike language tops Stack Overflow survey for fourth year in a row
Dutch director cops roar deal after selling off lion-based schlock to China
The curious case of a WordPress plugin, a rival site spammed with traffic, a war of words, and legal threats
What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They've all been found on resold USB sticks
Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby
What happens when security devices are insecure? Choose the nuclear option
In a galaxy far, far away, aliens may have eight-letter DNA – like the kind NASA-backed boffins just crafted
How do you solve a problem like Galileo? With a strap-on L-band payload, of course!
Password managers may leave your online crown jewels 'exposed in RAM' to malware – but hey, they're still better than the alternative
You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly
Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban
Saturday 16th February 2019 18:18 GMT
There's a lot more heat than light in this thread, mostly from gun owners of the USA of America...
... banging on about their Constitutional rights and 'The Right to Bear Arms'.
Firstly, lets just see what the Second Amendment actually says shall we?
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Can anyone see the problem here? As I understand it, the American state runs a military so large it can fight two wars at once. This means a MiIitia isn't needed and so there's no need for the Second Amendment.
None of that means that anything sensible can be done until such time as the Second Amendment is repealed. Don't hold your breath.
Secondly, let's look all this 'murders are done with guns bought on the black market' nonsense. Apart from a few home made guns ALL guns started life as legitimately held, from where they leaked into the illegal market in robberies and so on. If the pool of legal weapons disappeared the illegal weapons would eventually disappear.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
