Posts by Shadow Systems 1702 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jul 2007
My entire body is bioluminescent & glows faintly in the dark. Parts of me are brighter illumination levels than others.
I control the light levels coming out of my various holes by clenching/relaxing the muscles to make it brighter/darker as desired. Yes I have muscles in my bellybutton, don't we all?
As for my "disco hawtness" I'll let the music speak (sing) for itself. ;-)P
A bright, goofy, neon !PINK! cap with the fake dreds sewn in along the brim.
An eye-searingly bright plaid disco shirt with butterfly lapels, fake chest hair sewn in the v-neck panel, illuminated nipple spinners, & a blinking fake bellybutton light that strobes in time to the music.
Neon rainbow suspenders with pink flamingos, purple dinosaurs, gold lizards, blue Smurfs, green Leprechauns in Hawaiian gear, & dogs with sunglasses embroidered all over them.
Extra large cargo shorts with lime green camouflage, irridescent zebra stripes, infrared ("BlackLight") polka dots, & embroidered masturbating monkies all over the place.
Knee high rainbow toe socks with garters to show off my gloriously knobby knees & spider webby varicose veins.
A pair of open-toed sandals with animal head motifs so I look like I've got a pair of bunnies, ducks, elephants, or wat-have-you impaled on my feet; bonus points if they make squeaky animal noises with each step.
The more garish, outlandish, & screams of "My EYES! My EYES! They're BURNING!" I can cause the better.
Why?
Because I'm insane & love it.
*Blows a feisty raspberry & steals all the MindBleach*
<Sarcasm> I tried unplugging once... It was the worst thirty seconds of my life!</Sarcasm> =-)P
I do unplug from my computer every now & then, mostly to listen to audio books or music on my mp3 player.
Everything else I might get up to (mostly trouble) requires that I have a thing called a "L.iiii.ife". I've heard of them but never had one. Do they sell them at the store? Can I get them in bulk? On sale? Do I need a coupon? Are there different kinds? Social, private, sex, etc? As you can tell I am unfamiliar with them & would appreciate some advice on acquiring some. Thanks!
*Cough*
Officially the only uses to which I put my FlipPhone is making & taking calls or SMS text messages. That's because it's a feature phone that *can't* run apps.
Unofficially I've added a targeting laser & an industrial strength taser dart system so I can have fun with random passers by.
"Hey! Look over there!" *Points & waits* *Pulls the trigger* *Buzzy crackling noises & screams of surprise* "That makes six!"
*Cough*
Why yes, I have far too much time on my hands, why do you ask? =-D
This is why I don't use fingerprints, voice print, facial recognition, or any *physical only* means of securing things.
It needs to be a combo of something physical (like a UbiKey) & something I know (a password) to gain access.
Cops want to search my stuff? Let my lawyer read your warrant & maybe then I'll *think* of giving up the password, otherwise have fun trying to brute force something expressly set to wipe itself if you flub the password too many times in too short a time.
An even more delightful trick is to set a specific passphrase that causes the auto wipe if entered. Cops want access? Give them the "wrong" password & laugh when they realize they're now holding an expensive paperweight.
"What part of the 4th & 5th Amendments did you fail to understand? Have fun with that empty shiny!"
Yes I loathe my government. It keeps giving me reason after reason to wish it to get repeatedly violated by Satan in a bad mood.
Exactly. I'd want to see about a decade of driving results that are substantially better than the typical Human before I accepted any claim out of his gob.
Fully autonomous? Until I, a totally blind person without a drivers license, can climb into the passenger seat, tell it where to go, & not have to take control for *any* reason then you don't get to make that claim. If I have to be in the driver seat, have a license, & be able to take control in an emergency, then it's not a *fully* autonomous ride at all.
You want to offer a robo taxi? Fine. I'll believe it when I hear that insurance companies will insure your cars. If they won't insure them then you won't be able to offer them & nobody will get to ride in them.
Mr. Barnum would marvel at the audacity the MuskRat shows every time he opens his muzzle, amazed at the suckers that believe the BS that comes out of it, & turn green with envy over the amounts of cash the bastard rakes in for having done it.
I just wear a HentaiDemon body suit with the extra wriggly tentacles.
You can tell the anime lovers in the crowd by those whom try to shake a tentacle, or those that think a giant walking mass of writhing penii is too much by the ones running away in terror.
I like waving random tentacles at the security cameras as I go past & laugh as the camera explodes in a total systems failure.
Rule 34 FTW! =-D
Thank you for that analogy.
Here's some filet mignon. It's made with 50% unidentifiable meat-like stuff, but since the other 50% is actual beef then it's the same thing, right?
No, and neither is FTTC vs FTTP. You pay for filet mignon / fibre to the home & would be righteously pissed if you found out after the fact that what you were given wasn't 100% filet mignon / fibre to the home.
"But people are smart enough to know the difference."
Could you tell the difference between fake & real filet mignon simply by looking at it? They're both advertised the same, the only difference is one is cheaper than the other (as far as the ads are concerned). Unless the cheaper ad expressly states "This shite isn't 100% beef" then the consumer will have no way of knowing that they weren't buying what they thought they were.
Every time I hear some corp say shite like that I wish a big red X would appear behind them & a very loud buzzer would go off in classic game show style of "EEEENG! Wrong Answer!".
Bonus points for a donkey to back in, rear up, & smash-kick them in the crotch so hard it sends them flying & flailing in pain.
I'm so fekkin' tired of buzzword bingo bullshite that it makes me want to start hurting the cockwombles that spew it..
Can you imagine the fun a script kiddie would have if they got control over the sign?
What kinds of messages would they enter to amuse, confuse, annoy, horrify, or otherwise attract attention?
"Yo noobz! U suxorz! LOL", "Santa = Satan", or a blinking animation of the Goat.cx Guy?
The problem with the blind using the self check out station is that we can't see to know where the bloody controls might be located.
Where is the part where you can keep the stuff you have yet to pay for? Where is the part to scan the stuff you want to pay for? Where do you put the stuff you've already paid for?
Where's the part where you feed in the bills? The coins? Where does your change come out from? Where does it spit out the reciept from?
And all that is *if* (and that's a very big if) we can even figure out the on screen controls in the first place.
If it doesn't allow the "touch to explore; lift your finger to select the choice you wanted; double tap to trigger" style of navigation then there's a damned good chance we'll never get to the point where we CAN pay for our stuff.
By the time I'm done trying to fight the self service station to do it, I could have stood in line at a (presumeably Sighted) checker, had it all scanned for me, rung up, payment given, change recieved, reciept crammed into a pocket, cart full of bagged stuff accepted, & headed for the door... Five Times Over.
My icecream will have melted, the eggs hatched, the beef come back to life, the vegetables sent root runners into the floor, my Poptarts expired, the Hot Pockets retired to someplace tropical, & the laundry liquid curdled from boredom.
=-j
Perhaps it's a braille thing. I can't read it (diabetes required finger pokes make reading it impossible through the callouses), but if there were a braille input method for those that can, that would probably help them help themselves.
Or just skip the damned thing, use a sighted helper to do your shopping with at hand, & let THEM do the check out crap. HA! Disability FTW! =-)P
First off, I guess I really needed the sarcasm tag. (And you Brits say us Yanks can't spot sarcasm? Plbplbplbplb!)
Second, it doesn't matter how you cook it, it's just lipstick on a pig, polishing a turd, claiming crystalized snot is diamond. It's still broccoli. *Cat gagging noises*
=-)P
(Inserts a big, blinking, scrolling marquis SARCASM icon for those that missed it in either of my posts.)
What heavenly ambrosia flows from their super heated until incandescent interiors to sear our lips & tongues as we juggle them in rapidly scorching fingertips.
No finer foods hath Man produced, nor will he taste them until the Halls of Valhalla are reached.
...
You can keep the broccoli, that stuff is the anal scrapings from Satan's stinky cheeks. Blegh!
=-)P
I agree with the sentiment that gamers tend to build their own machines, if for no other reason than they want to trick the things out with all the crap they can.
As much RGB lighting as they can cram in the damned thing, liquid coolers with UV reactive coollant in see-through tubing, blinky lights on the *RAM*, SSD's with lights that strobe in time with I/O, HDD cooling fans that whir & blink in user configureable patterns, side panels with "frosted" logos in the plastic, etched & airbrushed case exteriors (and interiors) that include their favorite game character(s), and all the ornamentations they can afford.
Sure you can now get a prebuilt "gamer rig" that includes all that shite, but what self-respecting "Real Gamer" would stoop so low as to buy an off the shelf computer?
"Jeez dude. You may have paid $5K for that fucker, but it's still *off the shelf*. The only way you could GET any lamer is if- ... Oh fuck, you DID. You added a Pokemon sticker!"
*Cough*
=-)P
As I asked in a previous post, you have successfully given TheFinger to my government (spits) & proved yourselves to be better than them.
Volumes of evidence proving they have spied on their own citizens for years via secret back doors, versus a patronizing "patriotic" protectionism that screams you're up to no good that has yet to provide a single shred of evidence.
Please keep telling Trump to put up or shut the fuck up.
If you made an accessible device I could use I'd support you with a purchase.
Cheers & enjoy a pint on me!
I used to have a screen saver of the defrag. It was if it were trying to deal with a HDD of infinite capacity & would just go & go & go & go...
I figured out how to edit the config file & make it use random psycadelic colours for each block.
Talk about trippy! %-{p
"Everything's so... octarene, Man!"
If you used all seven of your letter tiles to create it then you get an extra fifty points for having done so.
My gramma was a fiend for the game & could create SevenLetterWords (SLWs) like normal folks could lay down "cat".
The day she linked down two SLWs across multiple 3x score boxes was the day I stopped playing Scrabble with her.
"Gramma, do you realize your score has a COMMA in it? I'm lucky when I break two hundred. You have over ONE THOUSAND. GAH!"
And some people wonder why I fear that game. =-Jp
Normally I don't feed the trolls, but I'll make an exception in your case.
I've read both the Win10 EULA/TOS/PrivacyStatement about what they do & (supposedly) do not collect.
I've read the GDPR summary to learn what it does & does not cover as far as what data can & can not be collected, under what circumstances it can (not) be collected, the disclosures that must be given for each transfer of PII data, and that consent must be granted for each such disclosure.
So, please, tell me how Win10's data collection on a bulk scale is NOT in violation of the GDPR & similar rules?
Everything I've heard thus far shows unambiguously that in a fight between Win10 & the GDPR, safe money is on the GDPR.
Even Reno, Nevada back room odds takers won't take bets on MS to win that fight.
Because even the blind guy can see the problems in their legal arguments to try & cover their asses.
*Raises tankard & clinks it to yours*
Cheers!
No offense taken about the "even the blind guy can see the problems in this" comment, I've used it myself often enough to point out the fekkin' bleedin' obvious.
*Slaps a Twenty on the bar & motions to the Publican for a refill of our tankards*
This round is on me, now pass the popcorn. =-D
Unless you are a corporation able to afford a Enterprise or VLK license from MS, Windows 10 may not be an option from a legal POV.
If you deal with protected classes of data such as patient health records, client-therapist/lawyer confidentiality, or anything your customers expect to go no further than your internal records, you may be setting yourself for a rocketing trip up shite creek without so much as a life jacket, paddle, snorkel, or rubber bath duck.
If the MS Win10 telemetry puts you afoul of various data protection laws like GDPR, imagine how screwed you'll become because MS is causing you to be in violation.
I live in California (spits at & gives TheFinger to Silly Cone Valley) and will laugh myself hoarse if/when my state government passes laws to mirror/surpass GDPR.
I will cheer & dance when Redmond gets turned into a smoking glassy crater where even the cockroaches can't survive.
I would die a gleeful death if all of MS' C-level execs wind up swinging from nooses on public gibbits(gibbets? sp?) for public display & As A Warning To Others.
*Deep breath*
Anyway, if you can't afford the class of license that allows you to clamp the telemetry to as near zero as possible, a small business using Win10 may be setting themselves up for a world of hurt.
How can a non enterprise/VLK license version be sure they're complying with the various data protection laws if the OS itself is sending all said data to MSHQ?
I'm considering upgrading to an old 8088 with 1Meg of RAM, a 10Meg hard drive, pumping monochrome amber video through a card with 512Kilobytes of VRAM, all running Windows 3.1.
How much do you want to bet MS will try to convince me to instal Win10 on it?
=-)P
/Sarcasm, lots & lots of sarcasm.
I'd really rather get a 9th gen Intel I9 running at 4GHz (up to 5GHz), 128Tb of RAM, a Tb M.2 NVMe SSD, about 100Tb of SAS connected HDD's, all pumping 4K to multiple monitors, running Linux as a base with multiple VM's of various OS' in the background just for shits & giggles.
Win3.11 in one that I use to connect to MS WSUS to pull down patches, just to fuck with their heads.
A VM of OS/2 to connect to sites like the NYT & WaPo so their online tracking algorithms get screwed.
Maybe a VM of Commodore 128D pretending to connect via dial up to make my old bank shit itself.
Perhaps a VM of a Raspberry Pi to try & play Crysis!
=-D
*Head explodes from the sarcasm*
How can anon educational, non enterprise, non VLK license holder get their hands on such a beast?
I'm currently on Win7Pro64 & don't have the kind of cash required to get the VLK that would enable suchLTSB functionality.
How would "Joe Average" off the street get their hands on the LTSB version?
Words that make me run screaming in the knowledge it will devour all your free time, energy, sanity, & migraine meds in the process.
Boss' that hand you a laptop last thing on Friday claiming it won't take long, except it ends up destroying your life as each fix triggers another fix because the previous one broke something.
Customers that walk in as you're trying to lock up & hand over their desktop with a cry of "Fix it p-p-p-PUHLEEEZE!"
You do all the hardware steps to make sure that's not the cause & then go to fire it up to check software.
Only to heave a huge sigh of relief that you didn't connect it to your network as you watch signs of every known virus, malware, scumware, & 128 different versions of AOL cascading through the damned thing as it powers up.
The boot to an anti virus scan CD & scrub of the bastard requires a day & a half after all the reboots.
You finally get it cleaned & now the fekkin thing won't boot because critical files have just been nuked.
Grab a copy of the OS disk, reboot to repair mode, & have that eat up another half a day or more just fixing all the broken/nuked files.
It finally boots on its own, you get to the desktop, only to find the arsehole is the kind that stores *everything* on the desktop & you can't find the mouse pointer through all the clutter.
You start creating folders into which you can group like items, clean off the desktop until you can find the mouse again, & *NOW* you can finally see the problem that might be the reason the fool brought it in for in the first place.
Namely someone had installed an RDP client, tried to "fix" their computer, & left a ransome note on the desktop with instructions on how to forward the demand money.
But why didn't the computer stay locked up & refuse to let you in at all?
You can thank all the crap on the system that made it impossible for the computer to have enough computational horsepower left over to complete the encryption process.
You delete the RDP client, restore to a previous good state, and jump through all the hoops to get the system working properly...
Only to have the customer ask in confusion "What have you done? All I wanted was for you to figure out why solitare wasn't working! Put it back! WAAAAAHHHH!"
*Deep breath, must. restrain. fists. of. death., relaaaax...*
And you can't refuse to do support for said person because it's your Mum and "I brought you into this world & I can take your ass back out."
*HeadDesk*
I was browsing NewEgg.com to drool over hardware I can't afford & one of the filters available was for Windows XP. I thought "WTF? That can't be right!" & applied the filter.
I couldn't believe my ears when my screen reader confirmed that they were indeed selling machines with Windows XP on them.
*Head explodes in disbelief*
Exactly. Either my government (spits in disgust) proves its stance on this or it shuts the fuck up about it. You don't *demand* folks do something based on your protectionist fears, you either provide hard, uncontrovertable proof or you Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Dear Germany, please give my government TheFinger with both hands, both feet, a troop of monkies, & every intelligent member of your citizenry that can see through this bullshit. When even the blind guy can see the holes in their logic you *know* the argument isn't worth the breath they wasted in uttering it.
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