Posts by Howard Hanek

Another Theory

....or they're jealous of HPs cartridge expiration business model and found another method to dip into the customer's pockets.

Right

So MS is going to take Office365 offline for a few more days and HP is going to accelerate the expiration date of their printer cartridges IF you vote for Brexit? I see. The world is terrified of their retribution......or something.

I suspect those things will happen no matter what the outcome of the referendum.

The Corporate Pointy Head Sharpner Requires Maintenance

Antonyms for (adjective) Strategic

Main entry: strategic

Definition: highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war

Usage: a strategic chess move; strategic withdrawal; strategic bombing missions

Antonyms: unimportant

Definition: not important

Usage: a relatively unimportant feature of the system; the question seems unimportant

Crony Capital Fat Cats Are Spoiled Too

What's the use of having a Monopoly when no one wants your product anymore? They want their users attached to them like they're attached to the government by giant blood sucking tentacles.

By the way, I have an idea for a new hit reality show. Kim Kardasian undergoing liposuction for a month.

Interest will guarantee to fade or your money back.

Oh Yea, Right

....and impact global warming, income inequality, the share price of APL and the Summer Olympics in Brazil. I think they OWN Brazil now as a matter of fact.

Improve Natural Language?

I remember thirty (30) years ago working on a natural language interface for a database system and all the 'problems', 'nuances', and general garbage that made it unsatisfactory. Garbage in, garbage out.

Baltimore - Chicago

Oh, that's why crime is up especially in those places. It's not because they really, really WANT to crucify a few to 'encourage' the others.

....and in other news

I have a feeling this has more to do with hiding existing and future voter fraud than bringing a hacker to 'justice'.

A Big Mistake

The penguins, reading the name, will hold it captive until the BBC agrees to air an eighteen hour, seven day special on the eradication of Killer Whales.

Fiscal Responsibility

.....seems to be totally absent. WHAT is the cost per annum for incarceration compared to the money damages copyright holders suffer? It seems to be so out of proportion that Draconian hardly describes the penalty.

Plan B

Oh wait? There IS no Plan B! Back to the tin cans with the strings but the design department have made the cans so attractive. Sky Blue with a great hologram logo.

Stoopid?

No. That whole slavish devotion to Samuel Johnson/Dictionary thing is stoopid.....

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Intel since 2010 has been granted 41K H1B visas and just announced they're laying off 40K, the vast majority of which are Americans.

Clean Install

I performed a clean install on an old laptop with only one (1) minor glitch with Geary email. I switched to the default Thunderbird email client. I noticed the performance and stability improvement over Ubuntu 14 pretty quickly. So far so good and while I understand the security concerns about the new file system, in a mixed environment that developers run it makes things easier.

Oh My!

So no transgender superheroes for the Chinese? No series about murderous American Presidents throwing beautiful reporters onto the subway tracks? No incestuous brother sister fantasy epics?

HOW will they survive?

A Reprieve

I'm pushing back my projected date for the creation of the first Cylons ten years.......

Zombies

Zombie shows and movies are NOT popular with IBM'ers. It's too close to reality for them.

Alternative Viewpoint

The campaign to eliminate child pornography may be partly responsible. Once the first batch of convicted felons are released in ten years or so we should see PC sales recover.

Companies Don't Think Only About 'Faster'

Users should not expect that the equipment their employer recently purchased will be replaced any faster no matter how much 'better' ANY new technology is. All the frenetic marketing will accomplish little over the short term and will probably just bring Intel's results down.

The solution

....is an invasion by alien illiterates. Oh wait! Now I see WHY immigration policies have been so lax.

Quick! We're Running Out of Other People's Money!

“Round up the usual suspects.”

The thirst for 'lost' revenue resembles a school of sharks scenting blood not far away.

Curious

I hope the intelligence people were able to plant all those bugs in time.

Incapable

I don't think there's a government in the world today capable of creating anything 'Smart'. And those that THINK they can will witness the mayhem and chaos that thousands of 'Driverless' vehicles suddenly out of control because the system was hacked can create.

Also a Waste of Humanity

Someone should ask themselves why, in the history of the world, no other generation looked upon excrement as art or left us their 'works' because they believed them to be the best of themselves.

Hyper

In the world of IT 'Hyper' anything is synonymous with budget busting. I often wonder how many outsourced jobs were the result of buying 'Hyper' technology and the sudden need to pay those mounting costs.

Just a Coincidence

....and the creation of the 'Obama Foundation' ala the 'Clinton Foundation'.

No impropriety there I ASSure you.

I Was Looking Elsewhere....

.....and here I thought that giant Google Cloud about to envelope the Earth was the real threat......

Not a Horn

.....a magic wand developed by the scientists at Hogwarts.

It's THEIR Service Not YOURS

The philosophy of MS owns your machine not you came home in explicit terms when Windows 10 kept resetting assigned defaults to their products no matter what YOU want.

Deja Vu

Didn't I see almost the exact same article in like? 1995? And didn't the default security settings for Office disable macros? And weren't there all kinds of problems with sharing documents containing macros? That must have been that other universe I crossed over from about that same time. The one where OS2 was the choice of business and Windows was for home use.

The Lords of Cobol

Guiding those humans of the Twelve Colonies to a mythical place called Earth.....or something. The Cylons probably called their programming language Cobol which may account for why they never succeeded in destroying mankind.

Mild Analogy

I'd replace 'glove' with 'condom'....

Proper Research Required

.....scientists have yet to determine the effects of 24/7 exposure to pepperoni for any system......

Right

My Japanese car built with electronics made in China? Shipped by an Indonesian flagged vessel? Harden THAT car?

Civil Rights Denial by Proxy

Why pass laws then? What is the purpose of the government? A vehicle to oppress their people legally? Motivated by a desire to establish 'legally' the power to do so?

Is anyone else seeing what establishing a 'precedent' REALLY means?

The FBI is a law enforcement organization. Enforcement. Not part of the legislative branch.

I Have a Mind Like a Steel Trap

.......that always snaps closed just when I need something in there.......

I try to compose my passwords similar to something I'd like to say just before I die.........with a number and an upper case letter.....

When Will Apple Drop the Other Shoe?

......and make public the contents of HRC 'Private' email server?

Now They've Done IT

Usually you threaten someone when you say ".....now you've gone too far..."

Is it POSSIBLE that the FBI is threatening a judge? Does the FBI require a "Safe Space" and doesn't it sound like they're guilty of a micro aggression? I shudder to think that such an ENLIGHTENED Administration would be guilty of that.

A New Perspective

If you rotate the IBM logo 90 degrees left or right it's just a vertical line unrecognizable as anything, let alone a global IT behemoth. Most companies don't want to have there logos displayed that way but IBM seems intent on IT.

A Nest of True Radicals

Reading the bizarre comments against Trump my first thought was that Josef Stalin would have purged you all in 1937.

Thank Goodness

I thought ESET had been acquired by a consortium of Nigerian scammers......