* Posts by bombastic bob

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Cali Right-to-Repair law dropped, cracks screen, has to be taken to authorized repair shop

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Re: Lets see what happens when Ford, GM and VW try to enforce that type of shit onto their customers

John Deere already does...

NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

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I fart in your general direction for slamming capitalism because of a few bad actors...

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Re: Aluminum

and the worst of them all, GOVERNMENTIUM, whose mass increases continuously, usually in sudden increments (or would that be EXCREMENTS?), and without warning.

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Re: Aluminum

the Washington Monument (giant phallus in D.C.) is topped with an aluminum pyramid. It was a 'new fangled' metal at the time, and very very expensive.

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Re: Aluminum

maybe it's a latin thing

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Falsifying records is likely to get someone some iron bar hotel time.

Thing is, if there are MILITARY contracts involved with falsified records like that, it's very very likely things can go horribly wrong for those that are involved. Some programs in the military are set up so that vendors are tracked so you know literally where the ore was mined, where it was smelted, where it was turned into "the part", etc.. in particular with submarines, and no doubt, NASA.

This is no joking matter. If there are not actual jail sentences handed out I will be VERY, very surprised.

Back in the 60's two submarines were lost due to faulty safety systems. A program called "SUBSAFE" was created iwhich included the documentation of certain components as I mentioned above (which mine the ore was extracted in, for example) so that there was accountability and quality control all the way up the chain. The reason was simple, LIVES being on the line. The $50 part wasn't going to sink the $5 billion sub. Or crash the $1 billion rocket. That's the idea. Unfortunately it seems THESE guys got caught cheating. These programs DO require honest people to make them work.

The tests used to determine strength of a metal are standardized tests. It may be that NASA will have to correct its own policies by having random independent labs test things from now on...

(it saddens me greatly that people can be SO "not caring" about honesty and good business practices that they'll literally steal contracts from others by LYING about what they're actually delivering... these people need to be PROSECUTED to the full extent of the law and made an example of)

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

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Re: Jail time?

I just took a look at that page. not much on it, but the idea of a handful of rich people basically driving everything is like a feudal system. Lassaiz Faire capitalism, on the other hand, allows for more people joining the "the rich" club, and as such, effectively lowers the power of any one member of "the rich". No _WONDER_ the 'Plutonomists' don't want more people in "the rich boy" club, by getting gumminteers to legislate "tax the rich" which only taxes those trying to BECOME the rich... [but I digress, and any more goes way off topic]

Assuming Zuck is a 'new Plutonomist' he (and his company) is behaving exactly like you'd expect.

There are better ways to become wealthy, other than scamming and skirting (or outright violating) the laws, like providing an honest product or service that people want to pay for, and then doing that with as many happy customers as you can. Getting a fast billion THAT way is actually a good thing, ya know?

Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features

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Re: MSFT has experience

recently started a new contract, and they use slack. so I did it on an android device (follow invite link, install app), and it has its use but I need shared files on a desktop machine [not on a slab] and so it made more sense to use github to share files [that and set up a source repository].

Maybe if it were more like IRC, and less 1:1 personal messaging... then again I haven't used it enough to understand all of the features (yet).

We all love bonking to pay, but if you bonk with a Windows Phone then Microsoft has bad news

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"Easier to decide if it's a work or personal purchase."

different cards for business vs personal, yeah. not so easy with a phone, then?

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no I think the idea was just bad coming out of the box. What they did to Windows 8+10 because of it, just made it EVEN WORSE.

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Re: Lost me at the headline

"We all pay for that...... One way or another."

especially when l[aw]yers are involved.

Work out the 'price per bonk' in SOME cases, and the astronomical cost vs the actual benefit could be staggeringly different...

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Re: Arthur C. Clark Omitted This

or a chocolate cake [I'm thinking of a particular B sci-fi movie with Hulk Hogan in it]

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Re: I had always been skeptical

there's actually only one store in my area that still has a rewards card [the one I go to) and so I know they know that I buy meat, liquor, occasional canned veggies, fresh produce, and occasional 'other things' from them. But most of the stuff I get at Target or Walmart because they're about 25% lower prices [or similar].

And who knows, maybe seeing my shopping habits is telling them that, and they'll start dropping the prices so I shop there more often...

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Re: that's about an hour a year saved.

in the USA it's still possible to use embossed credit cards for payment [debit cards usually have visa or mastercard numbers also, to be used as credit cards that way]. Then you just go old school, and produce a paper receipt from the thing, with one of those embossed card receipt thingies, put it in the register along with checks. yeah someone has to process it later, but when the service is down, no need to close the business, just keep on going...

[businesses that can't handle credit cards the old way as a backup should get at least one embossed-card machine and a stack of blank receipts for that purpose, just in case]

then again, having to use cash - there's a business in my area that makes money counting machines and store safes and so on. so they'll benefit if more people use cash.

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Re: NFC? No fucking chance.

I've just got a dumb phone. for those other things that require a payment card, I have a debit and a credit card, and they seem to work everywhere. Got chips in 'em, too, for secure transactions. Magnetic thingy still works at a fuel pump, that doesn't have the chip reader. All in all, who needs to use a phone for that?

the new/shiny coolness wore off a long time ago. might as well just have a smart-card [the ones with the chips built in]. And the bank just sends them to you...

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"The demise of Microsoft can't come soon enough.."

no, just the demise of windows phone. Micro-shaft should clean their act up and do things the way they USED to, putting customers (and developers) before self-interest, and do good business instead of EXPLOITING and CRAMMING THEIR CRAP UP OUR ASSES DOWN OUR THROATS until we stop hating it and accept what they're doing to us without question nor complaint.

Following THAT "assuming room temperature" (i.e. the death of the WinPhone), we should also pay our "last respects" (or in my case, last thumb-on-nose) to that whole "one windows, everywhere" interface, courtesy of Sinofsky and Larson-Greene, that 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE "tile thing" and UWP, formerly known as "The Metro".

For we all know that Micro-shaft DUMBED DOWN EVERYTHING _JUST_ so WinPhone wouldn't "feel inadequate" when compared to desktops. So, in right millenial fashion, EVERYTHING became "a phone" as far as the UI was concerned.

So we know how Micro-shaft COMPLETELY SCREWED THE POOCH with this PISS-POOR DECISION, right? So _WHY_ does Win-10-nic *STILL* have that 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE that was quite literally INVENTED FOR THE PHONE???

Good Riddance to WinPhone. I want to say Good Riddance to the "the Metro" aka UWP look/nausea too.

Shall I hold a "Mock Funeral" for it, as a stab at Micro-shaft's arrogance back in 2010???

yeah iPhone still alive. Android too. WinPhone, not so much,.

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

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a teacher who comes to class wearing Daisy Duke shorts. heh.

Even better: thigh high boots, leather bikini top, and a dominatrix whip

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Re: I'd ban North Face clothing. And here's why...

"every single bearded thirtysomething city IT drone"

funny I read that as 'single-bearded' for some reason. A man with 2 beards... like a man with 3 buttocks.

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Re: I'd ban North Face clothing.

polo shirts - that's all I ever wear for on-site gigs...

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Re: I'd ban North Face clothing.

trying not to be seen - reminds me of a Monty Python sketch.

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Re: What if you don't comply?

There's a talk radio guy who said he used to threaten his teenage daughters to ESCORT THEM TO EVERY CLASS while wearing a pink speedo, if they didn't get themselves to school on time, etc..

So i guess this method of ensuring your youngins actually get to class isn't going to work any more?

Oh yeah and moms can do the 'mom thing' to their sons all day, same idea, making sure you give them a nice PDA mom-kiss in front of every classroom whenever possible. One day of THAT torture would have every school-age boy getting to class ON time IN the seat BEFORE the bell rings, for fear of having to ENDURE that kind of embarassment...

and I don't think a lot of moms could do justice to 'Daisy Duke' shorts. However it might be a fun fight if the parental dress code included women actually wearing DRESSES... (no pants, no shorts, no bathrobes, DRESSES ). It was sorta like the lady coach in high school requiring girl athletes to wear a dress to school on occasions. The boy athletes occasionally had to wear shirt+tie, so it was "a thing" there.

QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots... you get the idea

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Re: x86 Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) support has been dropped from all CPU modes.

none of my intel CPUs have that "feature", and it almost sounds like a reason to go with AMD

BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH

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bosses need to only mock things up with MS Paint, or better still, that extremely versatile "piece of paper" that, according to Simon, knows what to do with a back-end...

(I laughed for over a minute at that 'back-end' bit)

The difference between October and May? About 16GB, says Microsoft: Windows 10 1903 will need 32GB of space

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Re: 32 Gigs!

From the article: "Microsoft is tight-lipped as to the reasoning behind Windows 10's growing storage needs"

That is because it's plain obvious why "the bloat" always grows:

a) feature creep

b) poor quality design being heaped upon by WORSE quality design

c) "Everybody has the room, this is 2019, we can get away with it"

and so on.

That and maybe they don't want you ONLY running Win-10-nic in a VM on your Linux host... [so they keep bloating the "requirements" for running it, so you'll HAVE to dedicate an entire computer to their 'shrine goddess' OS]

In Windows 1.0 equivalents (for Win-10-nic is just Windows 1.0 without the '.') how many floppies would that be???

"Object Oriented" (but they really aren't) design concepts being mis-managed. I knew ".Not" was doing this DECADES ago and have been bitching about it for a LONG time. And now I think the ENTIRE PLANET should be able to see it. But watch, a good number of clueless "developers" will keep their blinders on and refuse to notice THE OBVIOUS, of how bass-ackwards design and excessive monkey motions "for the sake of the model" are driving the code size upwards.

recently, for a customer project, I needed a LInux box on site. Aside from the company firewall not being able to access popular linux package mirror sites [so I took the box home and set it up there] I was handed a Dell CPU box with Win-10-nic on it, to be replaced with some reasonable Linux distro (I chose Devuan with a Mate desktop). The 256Gb SSD made for a nice way to boot Devuan Linux, and the 1G spinny hard drive became a /home partition. Probably the best booting Linux box I've seen in a while. What's funny is that I was doing the necessary work for a few days with a laptop I brought in from home, a spare Toshiba laptop from 2004 with 256Mb of RAM on it, running a slightly older Linux variant. Only problems it had were loading Firefox which is so bloaty it might as well be a micro-shaft product...

So to say I was *MORE* *PRODUCTIVE* with a 15 year old laptop running Linux, as compared to a "modern" win-10-nic machine, is a gross understatement.... and Micro-shaft "getting bloaty with it" ain't helping.

[on a related note, with my piss-poor but unfiltered home connection, I had the Devuan box running in a few hours of wall time, or about an hour of billable "me" time, interspersed between video gaming and watching DVDs - and now that it's running, probably won't need to do much more with the updating/installing thing for a while at least]

Got Linux?

[ok I admit the lexmark printer in the front part of the office spat out a box of paper when I tried to configure the driver for it and print a test page, but that's another issue entirely... the only problem I saw with the process]

Bitcoin drops 7 per cent on New York Attorney General's allegations of $850m fraud by Bitfinex

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International Bank of Villainy

suggestion for new name for a bitcoin exchange bank to do business under...

backing your virtual coinage with a line of credit balance is NOT the same thing as backing it with "real money". That's like saying "debt is an asset".

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

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no, the world is NOT unstable.

unstable system: balancing a broom on your nose

stable system: balancing a chair on the floor (all 4 corners on the floor, that is).

What makes the chair stable is that if you tilt it in any direction, up to a point it will always revert back to the stable state.

What makes the broom on the nose unstable is that any random motion will cause it to fall, and it's hard to maintain it in an upright position, lots of constant tweeking etc.

Climate and weather is NOT unstable.

Another unstable condition is known as 'thermal runaway', where heating or cooling causes even MORE heating or cooling. This happens with electronic components sometimes, which is why you have to avoid overheating silicon, and why the magic blue smoke sometimes comes out...

The world is NOT an unstable system. But climate change enthusiasts want you to believe it IS regardless of the facts.

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"we have too much fossil carbon in the atmosphere"

says WHO? It's at equilibrium with the oceans due to rain. CO2 has a high affinity for water and forming carbonates when it hits the ocean. Duh.,. [basic chemistry knowledge required to know this]

[the vast majority of the world's atmospheric CO2 ends up as carbonates in the ocean]

Also, as temperatures rise, CO2 levels INCREASE, because water holds onto dissolved gasses LESS [including CO2 by the way], just like the way an open can of soda GOES FLAT as it warms up.

If the carboniferous period had higher CO2 levels, it was due to WARMER TEMPERATURES, FYI. And _NOT_ the other way around! [otherwise the world's atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature would be UNSTABLE, and fall into thermal runaway]. Temperatures and weather vary for many reasons, but it's NOT an unstable system. if it were, it'd go into a 'runaway' condition like "ice age" or "venus", all the time.

you mentioned higher O2 levels and 'dumping' tons of CO2 [or whatever]. Plants need CO2 to grow and grow better when CO2 levels are higher. Without ANY CO2 in the atmosphere, carboniferous period would NOT have happened. So chicken:egg paradox maybe?

I'm so surprised that people (in general) who spout all of these "fake news" claims about man-made "climate change" are SO ignorant of basic science that they either refuse to question things, or just accept it like a religion, because REAL SCIENCE [like I mentioned] is SO opposed to this "climate change" nonsense, you'd have to be a TRUE "science denier" to buy into it!!!

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"knocking those pesky humans down to size"

you can deprecate yourself and feel smug about it all day long if you want (many religious folk do this all of the time, don't they?). just don't include ME in that...

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Russia has now stopped most of their (somewhat) frustrating activities around Ukraine, but I think the potential still exists for Putin to walk in and take over if he gets even a partial chance of success.

So ultimately the problem is this: there are STILL some 'bad actors' out there, and some of them ALSO have nukes. And _NOT_ standing up to the saber rattlers, i.e. effectively appeasing them or paying them to go away, thus enabling/encouraging the bad behavior (like N. Korea or Iran), only makes things WORSE.

So when you see a leader like Trump or Reagan saying the equivalent of "the bombs start falling in 5 minutes" (or calling the leader 'little Rocket Man'), it's NOT warmongering, it's standing up in the face of a bully and EDUCATING him.

It also means you might have to actually push the button.

A nice Musashi quote, if I remember correctly: "If you are not willing to cut, do not pick up a sword."

"Oh, PLEASE don't make me cut you, I'll pay you money or do what you want, just don't hurt me or make me use my weapon on you" - NOT an effective way of defending yourself, even if your weaponry is superior.

Better: "Prepare to defend or I'll beat you with the flat and shame you like a coward. Or would you rather talk peace?"

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

Bollocks indeed. I would expect renewables to be a very unreliable power source, and a figure like "50%" might be an occasional lucky occurrence [but not an every day thing]

Funny how "those things" are called 'renewable'. They're all based on random luck and Mr. Sun. And in a few billion years, Mr. Sun will run out of fuel, and THEN we'll be TOTALLY fsck'd!!

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

"disposing of nuclear waste from nuclear power plants is a nightmare"

not really, as long as you do a few things properly, first:

a) allow it to decay for a few years so all of the short-lived crap [the technical definition of crap] goes away, along with most of the decay heat and high energy gamma [current practices, as I understand]

b) process the waste for leftover uranium, plutonium, and other useful materials that have industrial use [currently NOT being done in any significant amount, for NIMBY reasons probably]

c) store the remainder in places that won't let it into the water table [the USA actually has a lot of places like this], ideally in a way that could utilize the remaining heat like some kind of geothermal energy

So "difficult", I'd agree with, but not "nightmare". it can be done. If it weren't for the "NIMBY-ites" basically preventing ANY place from storing radioactive material, though... THAT is "the nightmare" if any exists.

radiation exposure is all about time, distance, and shielding. Transporting properly marked and shielded containers shoudn't pose a problem, really, except for people doing the transport, and they can monitor exposure.

/me spent 4 years on a nuclear sub, and received LESS RADIATION underway than I would have standing on the surface of the earth [at sea level, even] over the same period of time, because of the iron hull of the boat, the depth of the water, and proper shielding around the constantly operating reactor.

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

" the US hasn't built a nuclear plant in years. Its abdication of fusion research to the EU... the list goes on..."

Sad, yeah.

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

actually in the northern hemisphere there's a 500 year long cycle that's responsible for warming periods and mini ice ages...

~1000 AD - warm [Eric the Red, Leif Ericson, Greenland called that because it was GREEN at the time]

~1500 AD - the peak of another warming period, particularly noted in Europe

~1750 AD - a 'mini ice age', Valley Forge during U.S. revolution and the Thames froze over

2000 AD - another peak of another warming period. See the cycle?

I'm not 100% sure whether 1250 was a mini ice age or not, but all indications I've seen before suggests that this ~500 year cycle had that kind of effect.

(cycles in southern hemisphere are different, but also exist)

So we're not going to flood, burn up in a man-made carbon-created disaster, or anything like that. besides, CO2 couldn't be causing it. NOT possible. Why? CO2 isn't the greenhouse gas you think it is, as it lacks any significant IR absorption for temperatures between -50F and ~140F [as I recall]. In other words, for temperatures actually on the planet, CO2 neither 'blankets', 'absorbs' nor 'reflects' IR energy in a way that would prevent normal black body radiation from cooling the planet at night [which is how greenhouse gasses would cause warming]. WATER, on the other hand, does that greenhouse effect VERY, well, effectively, like how cloudy nights are warmer than clear ones... and who's griping about man-made WATER pollution these days? On a flooded planet, complaining about water vapor released into the atmosphere... yeah that'd be a good one...!

As for nuke use think of it this way: now that the Genii is out of the bottle, how long before the only country on the planet willing to sneakily develop nukes USES them if there aren't a number of countries willing to NUKE THEM BACK if they even THINK about trying it?

We should all be happy that most members of the "nukular" club are unwilling to actually USE them, at least in a pre-emptive sense, with the exceptions of maybe Pakistan and of course N. Korea [because N. Korea's leaders, and maybe Pakistan's as well, are just bat-guano insane].

No stormy weather on Microsoft's horizon – as quarterly commercial cloud cash balloons 41%

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You dare to defy the market-droids?

(I agree - it most certainly is NOT)

Windows 10 is to productivity as 70's Disco is to Music (or Etch a Sketch is to Art)

Windows 10 is to security as a ripped condom is to birth control

It's an Easter Jesus miracle: MS Paint back from the dead (ish) and in Windows 10 'for now'

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Re: Open source

"so it loads 8x slower"

your assessment is far too kind

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Re: "34-year-old program"

maybe it just isn't "the Metro" or UWP-enough for the 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATSO arrogant fanbois...

after all, if it's not 2D FLATTY, it's not Win-10-nic enough either!

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I was angry that the Win 7 version had "the ribbon"

but at least it more or less worked the same as it had before...

for anything else I use Gimp. on Linux (or FreeBSD).

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

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Re: E-peen

"I measure mine in El Reg upvotes."

with all of the poo-slinging "howler monkeys" and "fan club" down-voting, it's an unreliable measuring stick.

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Re: Boo

"blindly backing Trump" ? not at all. In fact, I wholeheartedly endorse what he's up to, and I'd say NOT FAR ENOUGH, in many cases!

It's what I'd be doing if I were President, except I'd also round up the illegals and mass deport them. Those who "failed to appear" after tying up our court systems with asylum requests would get maximized contempt of court jail time, followed by deportation.

And I'd insist on a FLAT TAX RATE, same rate for everyone regardless of how much you earn, or the nature of those earnings. With NO deductions! Because, THAT is FAIR!

However, Trump had a hard enough time getting Republicans to go along with "doing the right thing", because there are too many like (the late) John McCain or (the clueless?) Mitt Romney. So yeah something about getting enough votes in Con-Grab for legislation to pass is a part of the bag o' schtuff Trump has to deal with...

So there ya have it - no "blindly following" - I'm just happy someone's there to do at least a PART of what I want done!

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Trump hate, much?

Windows 10 May 2019 Update thwarted by obscure tech known as 'external storage'

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Re: Oh FGS!!!*!*##

I just figger it is a new hack to stop the updates from installing...

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

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Re: Contact your reps!

organizing a recall petition might be a nice message, too...

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Re: It's just more of the usual

"Get corporate money out of politics"

don't forget UNIONS, too. If you're gonna get corporations out, better get the unions out.

Real reform: any individual can contribute any amount to any candidat, and it is NOT tax deductible. No organizations, though. Just individuals.

yeah as if THAT would ever happen... george soros and Silly Valley corporate types and other rich libs ned their tax deductible non-profit (or even for profit) corporate "giving" to continue being partially funded by taxpayers, because, "charitable"... it's a loophole, yeah.

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Re: I guess that means...

"we'll have to put this to a referendum after all."

until the courts overturn it. again.

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Re: Meteor. Sacramento. Crater.

yeah, nothing good ever comes out of the Cali-Fornicate-You state legislature. It has been described as one of THE most corrupt organizations in the world, with lobbyists ON THE FLOOR during debates so that they can be consulted before a vote is cast...

And now that demo[n,c][R,r]ats have a >2/3 super-majority, they can legislate fee+tax increases right and left to their hearts content.. bless them!

All said does ANY of this surprise ANYone ?? I'm not surprised in the least. what would surprise ME is if the legislature actually did anything EFFECTIVE other than whine about 'no money' and try to squeeze even MORE out of us poor schlubs while simultaneously handing out as much as they can in 'social benefiits' to those they FEEL deserve it, which usually means "buying votes with other people's money".

Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo

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The worker's paradise

After all wasn't COMMUNISM supposed to FIX all this exploitation crap?

from article: "to call attention to the long work hours expected in the Chinese technology industry."

Sounds more like the conditions that SPAWNED the proletariat revolt, eh comrade?

Not another pro-Brexit demo... though easy to confuse: Each Union Jack marks a pile of poo

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Re: Dog poo vigilantes

years ago someone(s) were putting GW Bush flags in dog poo around certain cities.

I think someone should put Cali-fornicate-you flags in HUMAN poo in San Francisco...

or maybe Nancy Pelosi flags... or Jerry Brown flags... or Gavin "Nuisance" flags! Because, their policies CREATE the problem.

[if I were S.F. Mayor I'd hire a bulldozer + firehose crew to clean it up in under a week]

Old-school cruel: Dodgy PDF email attachments enjoying a renaissance

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Re: Pointless Document Format

" the alternative is handing around MS Office documents"

Agreed, it's a whole lot worse than PDF. PDF (in spite of the article's point) is (one of) the least likely non-plaintext document format(s) to have serious malware problems [so long as you aren't viewing it with Adobe's reader]

HTML content e-mail is worse than PDF. no, seriously. hiding actual the link as phishing clickbait, for starters...

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Re: Malware in the cyber landscape?

or maybe stop viewing PDFs embedded within a browser [which is probably where the vulns are]