Posts by Swarthy

Re: I propose another use for 666.

There is no pound key on my phone - £

I think you mean the hash key - #

Re: Policy for Future American Leadership in Space

"indicative of a deeply rooted feeling of insecurity and paranoia in the American psyche."

Oh! _shit.

Dammit!

I just posted this in response to a post a bit further up.

Have an up-vote, and my curses.

Re: Cost a pretty penny

Ah, but the beancounter(s) who were in the server room when the BOFH workmen set off the halon fire extinguishers will need more than clean trousers. In fact, they will need: some old carpet, a bag of quicklime, and a couple of spades.

Vote Cthulhu!

If you vote for Cthulhu, He promises to eat you first!

Re: I thought I'd heard it all...

I can't be-weave you would make such a warped joke! Woof!

Re: It only needs to semi automate the process

Sure! Just come up with the criteria that all videos should be judged against. Make sure your criteria can be given to a 5-year-old with a decent chance that they'll pick the right content to hold for moderation.

Oh, and who's going to pay for the moderators?

To actually be serious (for a second)

That's the danger of these types of ordeal, the blood cannot flow back. (Closed-flow priapism)

Arteries are on the inside of appendages, to keep them more protected; while veins are on the outside. While blood can flow into the {arm/leg/finger/todger} in a restricted area, it may not be able to flow out.

Sedating the gent can help as less blood will be directed to the area in question, but the pressure keeps the blood from leaving.. had they tried manual manipulation, as you suggest, the blood pressure in his wedding tackle would have increased, still with no return option, rupturing quite a bit of tissue and would have prevented him from ever getting into this (or any other) situation ever again.

Re: "substituted for"

Use this icon for elf'n'safety

Or maybe the Big Brother...

Re: WASP-12b is about two times less reflective than the Moon

The one that really got me was the "44 times closer..."

I had to take the km distance and translate it to AU to get a meaningful comparison: about 0.02AU. I'm still not quite sure how 2% of the distance translates to "44 times closer".

Re: No opinion on the headsets

Nah, the $980,000 each is to cover the cost of the lawyers.

"I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?"

Re: Intel back doors (@Mark 85)

I hate to be pedantic (that's a lie, I quite enjoy it), but you used the wrong initialism for the Four Letter Agencies. the correct initialism is ETLA (Extended Three Letter Agency/Acronym) because it makes more sense that if TLAs have a three-letter acronym, then the ETLAs should have a four-letter acronym.

Re: @Lord E Puss @Strum ... Once is enough

And I'm not apologizing for Trump. He's the POTUS and you need to respect that.

See Also: Waving a confederate or Nazi flag while proclaiming "You lost, get over it!"

Re: Another one

Much akin to the one we're all reading?

Re: There are worse ways to sink a submarine

There's a reason submariners I've known call it the freckle locker.

Re: We don' need no ...

badger, badger, badger, badger

Musroom, Mushroom

Re: Obligatory prescient quote from Sir Pterry

That has to do with the reflected-sounds-of-underground-spirits, no?

Re: 99 green bottles hanging on the wall..

I've always preferred:

Infinity bottles of beer on the wall

Infinity bottles of beer

Take one down and pass it around

Infinity bottles of beer on the wall.

Repeat until dead.

Defense in depth

Roll your own VPS, and then use that VPN to connect to a commercial one.

If you are feeling paranoid, you can have that external VPN be in a foreign jurisdiction, and then use that to connect to a domestic VPN. Throw in a proxy for non-HTTPS traffic, and you may be able to avoid most tracking.