* Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

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The open internet repels its most insidious attackers. They’ll return

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Re: Or Maybe

Wow! I didn't know acknowledging the existence of gender diversity within the human species makes me a mass-murdering Communist. Someone should have told me sooner.

I had better refuse to acknowledge something that exists, so that it will go away, and my latent temptation to murder millions and invade and oppress nearby countries because they disagree with me will just go away.

Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson

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They're monitoring the situation.

OK, Google: Why are you still pointing women at fake abortion clinics?

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Re: re: some US States...

Matthew 19:12 contraception for Republicans? Anyone?

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Re: Strange

You're reading it wrong...

Clearly, it's referring to Humulus lupulus (see icon).

Nelson Sauvin for me.

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Re: re: sufficient reason to kill someone

I was when I went to medical school.

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So AC was not party to a confidential medical consultation between a woman (his wife) and her medical specialist. In retrospect both he and his wife have regrets, but on the face of AC's history, he would seem to have more regrets about it than she does.

All such medical decisions are predicated on consent, otherwise they are assault. Reproductive ones particularly so. Consent must be informed, comprehensive, specific, competent and free, otherwise it's not actually consent.

Informed means the risks and benefits are explained and the understanding of both is confirmed.

Comprehensive means other possibilities are discussed and information about the risks and benefits of these is also made available.

Specific means tailored to the individual and the medical particularities of that person's situation.

Competent means that the person being offered treatment (or refusal thereof) has the ability to understand and make the decision.

Free means, among other things, not coerced. It also means that second opinions are made available if sought.

Reproductive consent gets complicated especially because two people have to live with the consequences. But AC might reflect on all of the aspects of consent and how they might have related to the decision before reducing it to someone being pressured to do something.

Why someone says they made a choice and why they actually did aren't always the same thing.

As to his rights: what are they, exactly?

As to God-bothering: Jesus never said anything about abortion or contraception. So why is there presumed to be a monolithic Christian view on the subjects?

Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic

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Re: "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

And here I was thinking it was C. J. Dennis:

"Wot's in a name?" she sez… An' then she sighs,

An' clasps 'er little 'ands, an' rolls 'er eyes.⁠

"A rose," she sez, "be any other name

Would smell the same.

Oh, w'erefore art you Romeo, young sir?

Chuck yer ole pot, an' change yer moniker!"

(Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, ch. 5)

...

A tug named Tyball (cousin to the skirt)

Sprags 'em an' makes a start to sling off dirt.

Nex' minnit there's a reel ole ding-dong go—

'Arf round or so.

Mick Curio, 'e gits it in the neck,

"Ar rats!" 'e sez, an' passes in 'is check.

Quite natchril, Romeo gits wet as 'ell.

"It's me or you!" 'e 'owls, an' wiv a yell,

Plunks Tyball through the gizzard wiv 'is sword,

'Ow I ongcored!

"Put in the boot!" I sez. "Put in the boot!"

"'Ush!" sez Doreen… "Shame!" sez some silly coot.

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Re: Carpets are nothing compared to tobacco smoke.

The sort of greener pastures that grow granite signboards?

Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show

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Re: Translation

No, it weighs 3/10 of a tonne.

It weighs 3 1/64 of a ton.

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Re: "hooverbike"

Sucks pigeons, seagulls, sparrows, fruitbats... I'd pay to watch it process any of those.

Using the datacenter as a dining room destroyed the platters that matter

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Re: Smaller buddies

Divide by cucumber error. Install new universe and reboot.

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

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Re: an account number was accidentally entered into the payment amount field

Well, all their banking apps were available on a tablet...

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Re: ..and the interest?

I find it interesting that the remedy they sought was confiscation of the assets she bought with the sale of the crypto tokens, not the tokens themselves.

She could probably buy them back for a lot less than she sold them for.

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Ironically enough, Craigieburn is where a division of the Reserve Bank of Australia prints all its currency (and more than a dozen other countries' as well).

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

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First system to implement threads?

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

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Re: Apathy is the problem

You just wrote a premeditated rant on how people should be free to engage in an action that could trouble others and show no consideration for it?

People should be free to engage in an action that could trouble others and show no consideration for it.

Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers

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Google is broken

Google got to where it is today because it used to be the best search engine. You could type in a query, it would apply its algorithms, and give you a best fit. If you didn't like what you got the first time, you could refine your search and in no more than a few generations your sought information would be there.

Now you get

- Ads by corporates who pay for rank by keyword, regardless of relevance to the rest of the query

- "other people were looking for..."

- aggregators like Quora and Reddit that quickly degenerate into clickbait

- results that completely omit terms you do search for

Now they even have a little fine print link after results that says "must include <term from user's query>": what on earth are they thinking? Why would I have put a search term into my query if I thought it was okay for you to leave relevant results out in the first place?

It used to be "we help you find what you want". Now it's "we give you what we're paid to make you think you want". This is a symptom of a deep disease inside Google.

Doctor gave patients the wrong test results due to 'printer problems'

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Re: You do sort of have a point....

All those inhaled volatile substances have been suggested as the the cause of... neurodiversity (and, incidentally, an increased incidence of female children) in that particular specialty.

But then correlation, causation and all that.

BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons

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Re: Not Just A British Problem.

When did England get a functioning government?

Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban

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Re: Wind and solar

The only identified predisposing condition for Wind Turbine Syndrome is having heard about Wind Turbine Syndrome before a wind turbine is built near your house.

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Re: Wind and solar

Our reactor was just exposed to an earthquake 20% more energetic than its design tolerance.

No worries, just leave 'er running...

Leave her. Running.

NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years

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Re: Technology Perspective

You're confusing atheism with a religion.

I've yet to meet the atheist who defines themselves by their atheism the way that a $(deity)ist does by their religion.

Western civilisation abandoned established religion because it was killing too many people, witness the centuries of warfare surrounding the Reformation.

As soon as nations agree on secular humanism as a shared value system, it's remarkable how unlikely war between such nations becomes. (I disqualify Communism and National Socialism on the grounds that they are clearly religious in character).

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

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Re: 49 years

There are anti-abortion women, obviously.

The debate is not about whether abortion is right or wrong. The debate is about what right the state has to put itself in between the decision a woman makes about her body and its implementation.

Even if a majority of women were anti abortion, they still have to make a very compelling case to justify their moral outrage overriding the considered choice of a stranger who doesn't share their view of morality.

The will of a vocal minority compelling other people to live the way they like is usually called tyranny. The people of Kansas don't seem to like tyranny, for all that they're a "red", and "pro-life" state.

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Re: 49 years

Until you've actually had to sit with someone seeking an abortion, and sought to understand their situation, the circumstances that led to them making that decision, and the emotions that that decision make them feel, and then to help them decide whether it is in fact the right decision, and then make it happen, it's so easy to frame the decision as a political act. Especially if you're a man.

But if you've ever done those things, you never will judge the decision that way again.

These things are intense. They are emotional. They go to the very heart of someone's personal identity. They are private, something that Roe v. Wade was landmark in recognising and treating justly, if you've ever read it. What 5 privileged SC justices, who have the luxury of never actually being personally confronted with the reality did, was to say "This is a freedom we don't understand. We hate it, and we can erase it, so we will."

If that sounds like a victory, it's sad, and a bit sick.

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

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Re: Deliberate sabotage but necessary

The Dean went Bursar...?

The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system

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Re: Concurrent CP/M and ICL 80286 hardware

I remember having the rebuild the OS for changes in hardware and peripherals, go through an on-screen questionnaire for each item to set the parameters. Kids don't know how easy things are now!

$ cd /usr/src/linux-5.18.16

$ make config

One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas

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Re: This is because of how broken Texas' deregulated power grid is

IIRC, when demand spiked, it was perfectly legal for grid operators to shed load selectively, so that corporate customers on wholesale tariffs stayed connected, and ordinary domestic users had nothing.

Freeze your customers to death, for profit.

Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon

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Counter to standard practice

I thought the basic idea was

1. Identify the broken algorithm

2. Develop exploit

3. Wait til it gets implemented and widely adopted

4. Use it to exfiltrate lots of secrets

5. Someone else who can't keep their trap shut publishes (1.)

6. Repeat

They seem to have skipped a few steps.

Just because you failed doesn't mean you weren't right

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Re: A miss is pretty obvious, no matter the apparatus

Tape on the window (and a brilliant computer) was how Apollo LMs landed on the moon, too.

Disentangling the Debian derivatives: Which should you use?

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The sharp-eyed watcher of Toy Story 3 will spot the Debian logo amongst the kinder kids' artwork hanging from the ceiling in the day care centre. Nice little bit of reciprocal acknowledgment there.

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And Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings

And Peter Everitt for the Saints' 1997 Grand Final appearance

And Rupert Everett for My Best Friend's Wedding

And Rupert Murdoch for... bugger all, really.

Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined

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Re: On the edge of my seat

TL;DR: One maintainer changed the license and forked the project rather than listen to community consensus.

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Re: "This code makes my shoes sad."

Any more of this and I'll do a runner.

Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint

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Re: Buffer overflow DoS attack.

He never said it -- he just implemented it.

That emoji may not mean what you think it means

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Re: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The 17-year old student of Japanese in me can't help seeing katakana tsu in brackets, and the rest of me can't be bothered wasting the effort to interpret the weird lines.

SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

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Re: This data storage thing..

4. Invoke the doctrine of necessity

The law obliged me to choose between what is legal and what is essential for safety. I chose safety.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

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Kinetic energy is mv^2/2, so double the speed -> 4x the price.

How else are we going to pay for these expensive brake pads?

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Gimp

It's BMW drivers we're talking about here. Some of them would probably pay more than $18/month to have someone apply electrodes to their buttocks.

Elon Musk considering 'drastic action' as Twitter takeover in 'jeopardy'

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Re: Chilling effect ?

We've seen Musk's vehicles flung away beyond any hope of retrieval before.

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Re: Burn

The market cap difference between Twitter before and after the deal was announced, then un-announced, is a lot more than $1b.

Damages will be the little boy's promise, plus something to teach the little boy to keep his promises.

NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw

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Re: Inload? Outload??

That is correct... from a certain point of view.

Microsoft plans to dig through your Edge Collections to make suggestions

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Re: Can you block it?

- Settings and more > Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Tracking prevention. Set Tracking prevention to On

5th layer of cascading menus to find the right object, and then to enable an inhibitor (want to prevent a behaviour? Turn this on).

Disingenuous to suggest they don't want you to find it, and if you do, not understand it?

Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can

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Re: if you just want to run some DOS productivity app

Magna opera

You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too

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Re: Write Idiot Guides if you want to hire idiots

The perianaesthetic Time Out: bane of the operating theatre, but it has abolished operations being done on the wrong patient (or the wrong operation being done on patients, if that's your preference)!

First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?

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Re: 500 words about breaking her favorite coffee mug

The first year I worked for my current employer, the festive season rolled around and each employee found a Bluetooth speaker in their pigeon hole. How nice! None of my former employers had even taken the time to even acknowledge the most wonderful time of the year.

Next year, same time, there's a picnic basket / drinks cooler. Nice. Maybe not as nice as a speaker, but still, the thought is there.

Next year, same time: a coffee mug, thoughtfully advertising the employer. Hmm. Could always take it on a picnic and listen to a few tunes on my speaker... If only the cheap Middle Kingdom crapheap hadn't packed it in months ago

Last year, same time: a biscuit. Literally a single iced biscuit. Stamped with the corporate logo. To acknowledge a public facing health care workforce just enduring the peak of a pandemic.

If my coffee mug hadn't fallen off its shelf and smashed, I would have done on purpose what happened by accident.

NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

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Re: Are you stupid????

Better to just send 6 SC "justices".

One of them female.

One of them a person of colour.

NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data

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Send Ingenuity over for a dust-off.

Password recovery from beyond the grave

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Re: Ouija Board

It also has to spell out E-X-C-L-A-M-A-T-I-O-N M-A-R-K.

They haven't started shipping them with Shift yet.

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Re: Legal issues

Once attended a monthly M&M (morbidity and mortality) meeting for an Oncology unit where, for obvious reasons, mortality was most of the subject of discussion.

A nurse unit manager was a stickler for not using euphemisms for death. An unfortunate resident, whose job it was to describe, in detail, the mode of death of each cancer patient in turn, let "and Mr Kerfoops passed away on Thursday..." slip. He was duly called out on it.

For the rest of the meeting, a series of cancer patients variously popped their clogs, cashed in their cheque, croaked, underwent celestial discharge, snuffed it, were transferred to ward 10 south (this was a 9-storey building), were discharged to pathology outpatients, but not one of them died.

How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?

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Re: It's not dead.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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