Posts by Stevie

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"It also reminded the genteel Radio 4 audience that it allowed fanbois to trace their stolen phones using the Find My iPhone app and use a system called Activation Lock to keep thieves out of stolen iStuff by preventing access. ®"

To which I respond: and how is this relevant to the matter at hand? Are they suggesting that keeping the iPad's account locked will somehow provide proof of an Afterlife?

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Wizards of the Coast managed a sort of Osborne Maneuver (by Proxy) when they announced the new version of D&D years ahead of its release and killed the market for the extensive, heart-of-the-business-model publications for the current release, hanging out to dry their retailers. WoC are big enough to absorb the damage, but not so the retailers who have much tighter margins.

It's interesting to hear about the industry bullying that went on well before Windows/Office. The way some tell it you'd think BG invented the practice.

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*nods* The Dollar: the wages of sin.

Y' can't stuff a stripper's G-string with bitcoin.

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OMG! I'm in ur jpegs usin ur bandwidth profligately!

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"create jobs"

Important language that. There are only two types of American nowadays; Job creators and leeches.

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Once again one of these seemingly impregnable bastions of finance is proved to be made of gasoline-soaked tissue paper.

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I'm not seeing the crime here. Dell say "You want I should save you the trouble of installing Firefox and follow the usual practice when performing some service for a customer by charging a fee, which I will tell you about up front so you can figure out if you want to say 'no'?"

I wish my mechanic would not charge for adjusting the belts on my car, but if I want to do that myself (and spend days recovering from aches, pains and banged knuckles) I can save myself a few dollars. I do the math and decide yes or no.

Same with this Dell thing. No crime, no story. Just an annoyed tightwad with an elevated sense of outrage and too much time on his hands.

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Time to go long in teary endings I think.

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Why do these "committee members" hate America?

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I have the perfect defense: 'We aren't allowed to itemize your charges because they are a matter of national security. Indeed, we aren't allowed to acknowledge such charges exist. And you aren't allowed to ask about it all anyway, because if you do the terrorists win."

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Gotta tell you, if the ballasting issue could be figured out it would be a spiffy alternative to the Bloody Long Island Rail Road as a means to move people from their homes forty miles or so to NYC.

Advantages of dirigible over BLIRR:

Goes faster (even if not moving).

No mad rocking from side to side a-la Seaview in a sub vs monster scenario. Who bought these new trains anyway?

Not subject to stupid avoidable delays due to "the wrong sorts of leaves on tracks" or the thirty five plus year old "tunnels only signaled in one direction (and it's the wrong direction)" idiocies.

Don't have to listen to "famous" people who never ride the BLIRR telling me how to ride the BLIRR ("Don't fall on the tracks")

Don't have to listen to moronic list of stations that the next train would have stopped at if in fact the train in question had not been cancelled being read over the P.A. (instead of useful information like when the next train might actually put in an appearance).

Don't have to deal with sub-human levels of intelligence of BLIRR management bring to the table at every "challenge".

Finally: Would actually be able to use an alternative form of transport as suggested by spokesdrones every f***ing time the BLIRR breaks down marooning me in NYC - and as a bonus, never have to go back to the trains afterwards.

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Prediction: The cost difference between this and a chromebook will be about the same as the difference between a bottle of vodka and a bottle of duty free vodka at an airport shop.

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"The chain has since been forced to offer free fraud monitoring services to its customers, "

It has? Because my bank announced it was giving me a new card as I had been identified as one of those affected and I've not had anyone from Target or a credit monitoring service try and contact me.

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Prediction: Plaintiffs will be offered settlement in Magic: the Gathering booster packs.

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I declare this movie great!

Now can we *please* have the inexplicably overlooked Freecell movie everyone has been waiting for?

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"undesirable nudity"???

I resent that! It's bad enough getting that line from the wife without some git at MI5 chipping in (although it has to be said the last time I myself saw a bod like mine it was on top of the Empire State building swatting aeroplanes).

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So the real story is that there is no real difference when it comes to Windows or Macs longevity. They are both obsoleted for reasons that have little to do with the lifetime of the hardware.

Of course, Apple have a personally noted policy of obsoleting equipment out of their stores when they become unfashionable anyway - otherwise I'd have been able to replace my brother-in-law's G3 mouse without recourse to crapbay and I'd be able to buy a replacement for my 16g iPod nano without losing the screen (actually I can get ex-fanbois secondhand nanos from Game Stop but still...)

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What a shame this database doesn't have an API so that AV manufacturers could, you know, benefit from all that taxpayer-funded data.

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"looks like T-1000 after Arnie gave it both barrels "

It's funny because it's true.

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According to what I understood a knowledgeable commentator on NPR a couple of weeks ago to be saying, the President would simply have to change the duties of one person and have them assumed in toto by another to comply completely with his "new policy" without materially altering the process at all.

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Just Bah!

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Simply fit all space helmets with a drain tap in the same place the air regulator goes on a diving helmet.

Helmet fills, tap spills.

Also: improvised thruster application possible.

I see no downside.

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I came to the same conclusion two weeks ago when I wondered idly about the number and frequency of storms (during a particularly harsh winter one here in NY) and toodled over to The Wunderblog and cross referenced that with Wikipedia.

No expensive grants needed. The answers are all there for the reading.

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In 1984 you could buy (non digital I might add) compact cameras with a convex mirrored lens and a thing that looked for all the world like a socket set ratchet driver in a kit.

You fastened the camera on the round bit (where the socket would snap on the ratchet driver) pointing back down the handle, extended the telescopic shaft, posed yourself in the mirror and took your "selfie".

The box showed an elderly grandfather posed in a snowbank with his granddaughter after some skiing fun. No doubt such a device would be decried as a paedo enabler these days.

I guess do-overs is NOT just a Hollywood meme.

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I forget: What's the SAN loss for brewing Space Mead?

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It was only a matter of time before the Winklevoss twins stuck their oars in.

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All we need now is to find out that the real MtGox owner is Disembowel Self Honourably Dibbalah and the story is complete.