Posts by Joseph Eoff

"Personally I would have notched another arrow."

That's nocked, damnit. Nocked. You don't want notches in your arrow, and the thing on the end of the arrow that goes over the string is called a nock.

Re: Guns don't kill people....

People kill people.

He could have just as easily blocked the exits and set the joint on fire.

Re: Aspartame

Aspartame can be as safe as it wants to be. I ain't drinking anything with it because it tastes effin nasty.

Re: Meanwhile in Germany...

I don't know what part of Germany you were in, but that description doesn't match anywhere around here.

I HATE driving on the autobahn here. Full of dipshits who think 200KPH is slow.

I much prefer the french toll roads. Limited to 130kph, and people drive like civilized human beings.

The contrast when returning home from a trip to France was shocking. The last hour home through Germany was more tiring than the entire trip up through France from Frejus (between St. Tropez and Cannes.)

Re: Bollocks

Sorry, but if you *like* the taste of black liquorice then you have no taste buds *at ALL* left which makes your opinion on the taste of *ANYTHING* absolutely invalid.

Re: Hmmm...

Sure, I can do that. Now explain that to everybody trying to find their way to my small town...

Ain't gonna happen.

Re: More likely higher flexibility...

Germany has a lot of laws protecting the workers that make it hard to hire and fire temporary workers. The point of those laws is to prevent employment fluctuation so that you don't have people continuosly switching from employed to drawing unemployment pay and back again and again.

Re: Not to defend the app-peddlars, but...

Can you really not get along for those few minutes without receiving calls or text messages?

Agreed. That goes along with fixing root causes, though. Those folks with mental health problems ought to be helped, then they wouldn't be out shooting people - and the other people wouldn't be buying guns in fear of the crazies.

Re: Does it still hate the user?

It never hated the user.

I have always used GIMP, and the few times I've had to use Photoshop I had the damnedest time getting anything done.

Re: I feel left out (@Tromos)

QUOTE J Bourne:

"But what you forget is this: those customer's without loyalty cards don't pay a lower price for the same goods that I buy. They just get the goods, I get the goods plus a percentage of my spend back to spend again. Effectively giving me a lower price (yes, I take the monetary value of my points once a year at the checkout) I effectively get a free large weekly shop once a year. All the non-card holders help to subsidise that."

Which pisses me off no end. I am penalized for keeping my private information private, and the penalty I pay goes to twats like you.

Re: Re:Atheism is no more rational and theism.

Certainly I could be wrong. The chances are MUCH higher, though, that all the believers are wrong.

Given the number of different belief systems that all claim to be the one and only absolute truth, nearly all of those systems have to be wrong. Given the impossibility of finding the only one that is the absolute truth, the only reasonable thing to do is to reject them all until undeniable, repeatable, irrefutable facts prove one to be correct.

I'm not holding my breath while I wait for that proof.

Re: Bild am Sonntag

I upvoted because in general that is true of the Bild - everything wrong but the jug sizes (and that only because inflation of the reported sizes would be kind of obvious.)

BUT there aren't usually any naked jugs in the Bild am Sonntag ( the Sunday edition of the Bild.)

Re: Nope, don't care

Certainly you can secure your home against unwanted entry, and the police have to have a warrent to search it.

The analogy to cryptography falls apart, though, because the police have to have a warrant and they still have to come in the door to get in your house.

In the case of cryptography, they are basically saying that every house has to have an additional entrance with a master key. The master key is only supposed to be in the hands of those with auhorization, but how long do you think the master key will stay there? I estimate the master keys will stay in authorized hands for approximately 0.01 milliseconds, thereafter every no-good sumbitch on the planet will have a copy and be making plans to make mose effective use of said keys.

So, no back doors in encrypted systems - EVER.

Re: "Under penalty of....

You do know that the "not to be removed warning" only applies to the seller and not the owner? Once you buy the item, you are free to remove all the tags you want.

Re: Strangely I just found this

Problem is clear:

The post is from august 2013 asking for help in resolving a problem with a versiob of GrSecurity from August 2012 - out of date software. The post is asking for help in porting a fix from the current version back to the older one. The post is from Wind River (subsidiary of Intel.)

That fits all the known facts. Using an old version of GRsecurity in an embedded Linux kernel and backporting changes from newer version, multi billion dollar company.

Whose laws?

US, UK, Germany, France, China....

Whose laws take precedence?

How's about we go with the Nork laws? Or did you want to force the Norks to follow the UK laws?

Re: CAN WE HAVE ADBLOCK FOR TELEVISION

One more reason to stick with SD televison. I can record anything I like and fast forward past the ads to my heart's content.

I mean, really. What does HD do for you? Nada. Shit in high definition is still shit.

Re: Ah, No.

Exceptions granted, though I will note that that kind of thing is funny and entertaining despite being an ad.

Sorry, Ad Block remains the only way to read The Reg without having the enormous, space wasting "Hero Pics" at the top of every article.

Too much waste of screen space.

One more of those things the world can do without

Or, at least, I can.

One of these days I've got to finally buckle down and build an AGC box to put at the input to the amplifier.

I do NOT appreciate having to crank up the volume to hear the dialog only to have the windows in the living room shatter when some clown on screen farts.

Re: More anonymity for criminals and terrorists

Yeah, 'cause they're doing such a bang up job of catching the terrorists now with the existing crypto. Can you point to a single incident where breaking an encrypted communication actually stopped an attack? No? Didn't think so.

The security agencies these days are damned for not doing their jobs. They spy on the innocent and let the evil continue because they're drown in the flood of useless data gleaned from the communications of the innocent.