* Posts by Someone Else

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Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

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Re: Bass guitar amps

Yes, I hear "Ampeg" occasionally. but I hear "Acoustic 360/370" much more frequently, and much louder (both in my dreams, and live.)

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Re: It wasn't running Windows then

Guitar amps with valves never went out of fashion.

Bass guitar amps, on the other hand....

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Re: Well done.

It all comes down to: "will this let me score with chicks"?

Read the decrypted answer and see!

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Fabrot needs to run and hide!

The NSA, CIA, and any number of other TLAs will be after is already after his ass. That could be extra problematic, as he's a furriner to boot.

President Trump sits down with Twitter boss for crunch talks: Why am I losing followers?

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Re: Hellbanning

They could also arrange for only him to see his Tweets

No, No, a thousand times No! He needs to only see the tweets of those who tell him, in so many words, that he's full of shit and to bugger off.

One possible use of AI by Twatter

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@Palpy -- Re: My personal difficulty with Mr. Trump's statements --

Even statements of his policy, like shutting down the government until he gets money for his wall, or closing the Mexican border completely, even these usually end in flip-flops.

...with the emphasis on the last syllable.

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204,000 "followers"?!?

Indeed, the newswire's source, "who was briefed on the meeting that included Twitter's general counsel and public policy chief", claimed the prez "spent a significant time" questioning Dorsey about where 204,000 of his followers had disappeared in July 2018.

Well, it's clear why that would be important to him, if he expects Gucifer 2.2020 to steal another election for him.

California's politicians rush to gut internet privacy law with pro-tech giant amendments

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Re: Bought and Sold

It would seem to me that those donkeys and elephants create the muck of government....

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Re: I guess that means...

A downvote?!? bombastic bob, is that you?

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WTF?

DINOs

AB 25 – authored by committee chair Ed Chau (D-49th District) [...]

AB 846 – authored by Assemblymember Autumn Burke (D-62nd District) [...]

AB 873 – from Jacqui Irwin (D-4th District) [...]

AB 874 – also from Irwin [...]

AB 1564 – from Marc Berman (D-24th District) [...]

These people are Democrats?!? I know it's hard to be a card-carrying Republican in California, but really??? I wonder what real Democrats like Elizabeth, Eric, Pete, et al...even Bernie1 would think of these DINOs?

1OK, so Bernie isn't a real Democrat in the strictest sense...he's an independent caucusing with Democrats. Still, as he aspires to be the Democratic Party's flag-bearer, I'd be interested on hearing him weigh in on this.

I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

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Re: Stand your air

But then, you'd have to get a gun on the plane, and that's a Federal offense/offence.

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Re: Airline seats should be fixed-back

if there is not enough space to recline seats, it shouldn't be allowed.

No.

There should be enough room to recline seats. Period. (Yes, I know that is in stark contrast to the Air Travel Oligopoly's Flying-Sardine-Can business model.)

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Re: Here have a can of worms...

Increasingly the law of common sense seems to be missing in US law

The law of common sense was repealed officially when the Second Bush Regime was inaugurated. Never mind that idiocy of Security Theater that was put into play after 9/11, consider John Ashcroft's cover up of 2 statues he considered too revealing in the Justice Dept as Exhibit A.

Astronomer slams sexists trying to tear down black hole researcher's rep

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Trollface

Re: From His Twitter Thread

muhfugen, is that you?

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

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Bots excrete? Who knew?

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Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

How can you govern a country that counts:

Ten,

Twenty,

Thirty,

Forty,

Fifty,

Sixty,

Sixty-Ten,

Four-Twenties,

Four-Twenties-Ten,

One Hundred...

They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!

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Re: This is hardly a US speciality...

But New Zealander pollies can agree to ban assault weapons (pronounced "wee-puns" down there) in 3 weeks.

There is hope!

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Re: It would seem that 'we the people'

Zappa and Firesign Theater in the same forum! Either we commentards are very culturally attuned, or we're just getting old....

Now, git offa my lawn, dammit!

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Re: Enough, Kieran...

I think a lot of them spend too many months basking in their accomplishment of getting elected and a sense of their own importance, and expect to be sitting at a desk fawned over while they sign things and end up dithering while they collect a huge salary (and gifts from contacts in business) and push paper around your desk (and usually off the desk into the bin when no ones looking) when it becomes apparent the work doesn't involve 'changing the world with a hand gesture and (what their PR person has settled on as) the best photogenic smile they are capable of.

i.e. Herr Drumpf.

Except, of course, for the smile thing. No one has successfully figured out how to make a cat's anus smile photogenically.

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Enough, Kieran...

Have you ever wondered how some issues become so entrenched in American society that they become impossible to resolve despite widespread frustration from both the public and the majority of lawmakers - topics like abortion and gun control? Well, this is how. Net neutrality is now officially an impossible topic.

Kieran, from this and the rest of your screed, one could easily assume you are a "I want it all, and I want it now" immediate-gratification Millennial. And possibly, one from the other side of the Pond, to boot. To quote the Firesign Theater, "You don't understand how radio works!" Yes, this is posturing, to a degree. but the Democrats have learned from the Republicons how to play a Long Game (or at least, a longer game). Democrats have now demonstrated to their base, each other, and to the Republicons, that they can win on this issue. Looking forward, you may well find this buried in, say, an appropriations bill, or maybe, a military authorization, that the Republicons (and Herr Drumpf) wouldn't dare veto. Plus, they have just given themselves yet another campaign issue they can beat the Republicons over the head with come 2020.

A chess game is not won on the first move. Patience, Grasshopper....

Make America Infringe Again: Trump campaign video pulled over Batman copyright

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Re: maybe Batman

No, it's only Donald Trump that thinks Donald Trump is Batman.

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And this surprises you how?

It is remarkable that the White House comms team didn't seek to license the music, perhaps because they were concerned it wouldn't be approved.

Well, given Herr Drumpf's absolute disdain for any of the laws of the country1, that his campaign staff ran this out in clear violation of said laws should surprise no one with a pulse, and most of those without one. Of course WB wouldn't grant this asshole rights. Just more lawlessness from the Law-Breaker in Chief.

1Except, of course, the Libel laws, which he wants strengthened to insure he can pop anybody who has the audacity to state that the Emperor has no clothes. That law he'll insure gets enforced.

Free online tax filing? Yeah, that'll soon be illegal thanks to rare US Congressional unity

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Holmes

What's in a name?

The move is one of the provisions in the ironically titled Taxpayer First Act, [...]

Those of you on the right side of the Pond might be surprised to learn that, here in the Colonies, our Government has refined the art of Titular Misdirection to a very fine point. (Or not....) So you can be assured that anything labeled the Taxpayer First Act will ensure that the Taxpayer so identified will find him/herself trailing the elephants in the parade.

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen

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@Ian Michael Gumby -- Re: @Mr Sceptical @VikiAi Don't travel to the US.

If they are seizing your equipment under color of law, then they have to follow the rules, don't they? ;-)

Short answer: No

Longer answer: Shirley, you jest. This is the USofA, Co, Inc. Fuck Yeah! We (and only We) decide what the rules are for this hour subject to change without notice and yer gonna like it whether you like it or not!

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@ Sir Spork -- Re: Don't travel to the US.

If I've done nothing wrong, why am I afraid?

Because you're not a brain-dead moron?

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'

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Coat

Re: Since FB had already reached the 9th level of WTF

Ask Herr Drumpf.

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Happy

@David45 -- Re: Naughty is not the right word.

Sounds just as ethical as Uber.

Ouch!

What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin

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Angel

Re: Microsoft dreams finally come true

The only thing devs need (other than the guts to just do it) to port windows applications to Linux is a decent toolkit and environment to do it with.

Qt, FTW!

UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?

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Megaphone

Re: It's almost like...

No, not most governments, but certainly the current Left-Pondian one...

Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator

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Re: Took your time over this

...or grampa...

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Coffee/keyboard

Look what you went and made me do! --->

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@diodesign WRT to Cyberdemon -- re: downvotes

What.

He.

Said.

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Headmaster

Dashboard

Problems at Facebook:

1) Management

2) Lack of effective governance

3) See 1) and 2)

Yelp-for-MAGAs app maker is warned there are holes in its code. Does it A. Just fix the problem, or B. Threaten to call the FBI, too?

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: @ Mark 85 -- Shooting the messenger again.

See what you went and made me do? ---->

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@ Mark 85 -- Re: Shooting the messenger again.

Consider the source....

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That would be a MAGAT (pronounced, aptly enough, "maggot") for Make America Great Again Trumper.

There was yet another net neutrality hearing today in America, and it was all straightened out amicably and smoothly

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Re: Typical

Just FYI, Wyden is a Democratic Senator from Oregon.

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WTF?

Typical

Not to be outdone, Greg Walden (R-OR) started his statement by pointing out that only one witness was a Republican and then – seemingly unaware of the obvious contradiction – complained that the Democrats on the committee weren't considering a bipartisan legislative approach.

Typical Republicon -- never let the facts get in the way of a good party-defined-and-dictated talking point.

Strewth! Apoplectic Aussies threaten to blast noisy Google delivery drones out of the sky

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Re: boycott the retailers

While guns are hard to come by in Oz, I wonder how hard it is to get one of those net-launcher thingies...?

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@ big-D -- Re: Users....

Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics....

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Re: redefining words

A flying vacuum cleaner Hoovering over your house?

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WTF?

Is that you, Yoda?

If not, then what are you on about?

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Holmes

Who's 'we', Kimosabe?

"Our choice is are we involved, are we trialling, are we engaging, are we finding ways to make this technology work in a way that benefits people, or are we just going to sit back and let it happen?" said the Canberra government's chief minister Andrew Barr in a recent interview to a national news outlet ABC.

And we are voting your dead asses out of office!

Liz Warren: I'll smash up Amazon, Google, and Facebook – if you elect me to the White House

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Sure is a good thing for MagaT-boy that he had that black man's shoulders to stand on.

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Re: Not Trump again, please

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is young and new, to hard to elect for that position, but is basically correct, imo.

If you read the Constitution, you'd know the real reason AOC is "unelectable" (and will remain so for the next 6 years).

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Terminator

Re: Not Trump again, please

It sounds like, in a different environment, you'd be all in for ethnic cleansing, as the infidels won't be pure enough in their thoughts and deeds for your tastes.

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@Adrian 4 -- Re: Good plan

One of the facets of a monopoly is erecting barriers to entry of a market. Facebook has done that repeatedly (you did read the article, didn't you?), by leveraging their dominant position in one market (so-called "social" communications --- much of which is not all that social) to erect barriers in others (ref. SnapChat). That is textbook monopoly.

Here's a little experiment for you: Go ahead and create a competitor to one of Facebook's niche, perhaps a little Instagram, and then observe first-hand what a monopoly can do.

I just had a little deja-vu. Don't know where it came from...oh, yes. I remember now...it came from posting many posts like this one back in the early-to-middle nineties when some uneducated sod would try to tell all and sundry that Micros~1 wasn't a monopoly, either.

Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

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@Andrew Commons -- Re: What's the problem....

Cue down votes.

Happy to oblige.

Skype for Web arrives to bring the world together. As long as the world is on Chrome and... Edge?

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Re: So that's Microsoft's attempt at WebRTC then?

Uranium?

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"Vanishingly small group"

A bit unfortunate for Linux fans, those not in the vanishingly small group of Edge users, or those simply giving Google's products a wide berth.

Since the vast majority of Linuxistas eschew both of those groups as if they were lepers, I can't imagine why they would even consider this; they would instead use the client.

For that matter, why in the world would anyone want to use a Web-based Skype, even if it did work on something other than the most notoriously leaky browsers on the face of the planet?