* Posts by Someone Else

3579 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2009

Trump in Spaaaaaaace: Washington DC battles over who gets to decide the rules of trillion-dollar new industry

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@StargateSg7 -- Re: StargateSg7?

I would NOT be surprised if Bombastic Bob and I were in fact related....OR....

I'd suggest more likely related to amanfromMars1, given your issues with English syntax.

Over the years, and with much practice and patience, I've managed to successfully parse most of amanfromMars1's posts. But I'm getting older, now, and life is too short to take the time to try and formulate a new parser for your posts. So sod off, and stop using old versions of Babelfish to translate whatever native language you purport to speak into English. I'd rather learn Python.

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Re: Commercial?

It's gotten SO BAD with Linux and C/C++ our company said screw this and went ahead and developed it's own Windows 10-like OS shell and remade the command line interface of Linux to PROPER ENGLISH! We remade LAMP into custom Windows 2016 server-like environment with a decent Active Directory WAN/ALN management system analogue!

We also REPROGRAMMED ALL OF LINUX using a customized version of EASY-TO-READ PASCAL SOURCE CODE that is FULLY COMMENTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whew!

I'll have some of what that guy is smokin'!

If at first or second you don't succeed, you may be Microsoft: Hold off installing re-released Windows Oct Update

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All I want for Christmas is...

...a way to disable (and I mean really disable) Windows updates.

And a way to disable (and I mean really and permanently disable) Windows Slurp. But that might be considered greedy, and this being Christmas.... Maybe for Valentine's day?

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@Ken Hagan -- Re: Technical debt

The difference is, that first round of development is now being done "live, on customer systems", because some moron decided that this was the modern way of working.

some moron == SatNad

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Re: Technical debt

Maybe...just maybe, Micros~1 will OSS it, and it will finally get fixed.

Bloke fined £460 after his drone screwed up police chopper search for missing woman

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At least...

...it won't tie up the motorway with rubbernecking fools ruining everyone else's commute

Google: Our DeepMind health slurp is completely kosher

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Re: Google & pesonal medical data

He's a lawyer. They're required to undergo a radical ethicsectomy before being admitted to the bar. The ability to say such things with a straight face is an indication of the success of the procedure.

Oi, Elon: You Musk sort out your Autopilot! Tesla loyalists tell of code crashes, near-misses

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Re: Say what you like about Teslas

e) A winter in Chicago.

For those of you from the Right side of the pond, consider a dry 20-25 mph wind which always seems to be blowing in your face, with an air temperature of roughly 20 degF, and full sun, not a cloud in the sky. Pretty, to be sure, but after a week of that, even the most strident CycleNazi will be clamoring for a trip to the store in a car.

Dell upping its margins again: Precision 5530 laptop will sting you for $13m. Yep, six zeroes

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Re: Strange price?

With VAT, it'll still be over £10

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WTF?

What...?

What? Did Pharma Bro just buy Dell?

DXC: Everything is going to plan, too well in fact... we've chopped so many staff, our IT projects are now behind

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DXC

Isn't that the outfit that makes real expensive golf clubs?

Oh...that's DXG?!?

Never mind....

UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

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Re: Lack of a secret ballot is a greater problem

They said it is done to tackle voter fraud and that I should just trust the government not to abuse it.

The mind boggles....

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Infection from abroad

I see our Left-Pondian Republicon bullshit has infected Merry Olde as well. On behalf of your former Colony, I apologize. I'd like to say it won't happen again, but I cannot make that promise. We're in the process of disinfecting our house, and I'd recommend you Right-Pondians get busy and do that same, lest the infection do the same level of damage as it as (and continues to do) here.

Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship

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@ Sir Spork -- Re: If 1984 had a Ministry of Free Speech

More like Brazil

What...the movie? Or the actual country after its last "election"?

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@Spazturtle -- Re: Slippery slope; And not the fun kind

Libertarianism (Classical Liberalism) is now considered right wing, how the hell did that happen?

Easy. The term got overloaded by the Right to mean "I'm OK, Jack".

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You won't have heard of the two media companies - HC2 Broadcasting and iHeartMedia

Well, that may be true in Merry Old(e), but many of us on this benighted side of the pond have heard of iHeartMedia...but maybe not by that name. iHeartMedia is the corporate shell for iHeartRadio...formerly known as ClearChannel. ClearChannel bought literally thousands of radio stations, both big and small, to try to monopolize and homogenize radio nation wide. They are the reason one can hear such intellectual luminaries as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and of course, Mr. Oxy himself, Rush Limburger Limbaugh, on anywhere from 2 to 6 radio stations per day in any of the top 100 radio markets nationwide.

iHeartMedia is the result of restructuring ClearChannel after their bankruptcy in 2016. Ironic, ain't it?

Mac users burned after Nuance drops Dragon speech to text software

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No...just no.

While the software will continue to function, there will be no future updates or support, meaning Colin and others who have come to depend on Dragon for everyday activities will have to find another way to get things done.

I very strongly empathize with the Dragon-on-Mac folks, but the above statement is simply not true. Colin will "not have to find another way to get things done," as the current version of Dragon, which is installed on his machine, will continue to function. So he, and others in this boat, will continue to be able to avail themselves of the current functionality of Dragon for as long as the dipshits at Apple don't create a new, weekly version of OSX that explicitly disables this program. (Yes, it is possible, and yes, Apple is quite capable of doing just that.) Heck, I'm still successfully using Windows XP on one of my home machines...and guess what? Even though Micros~1 "no longer supports" XP, damned if it doesn't still work!

As a developer of both Windows and Mac software, I am fully aware of the problems inherent in creating cross-platform software. I believe the folks at Nuance when they say that Apple has locked them out of certain APIs that they feel are necessary for the full functionality of their product. Developing for the Mac is a hemorrhoid. Still many Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) from folks like Steinberg, Mark of the Unicorn, Cakewalk, Arturia, and many others seem to be able to make high-quality audio software that works on both Windows and Mac. Perhaps Nuance needs to hire (or at least, work with) some of these folks to manage their problem. The problem is admittedly difficult...but not unsolvable.

Microsoft to staff: We remain locked and loaded with US military – and will keep adding voice to AI ethics debate

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FAIL

Hubris, thy name is Micros~1

Also interesting to note that Micros~1's management listens to its own internal critics as closely as it listens to external critics -- er...users.

Erm... what did you say again, dear reader?

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@Jan 0 -- Re: @ICPurvis47 -- Pet hates.

Perhaps you should learn what the word "illiterate" means. Something defined in a standard dictionary cannot be illiterate, by definition. However, someone asserting that a thing defined in a dictionary is illiterate might be.

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@ICPurvis47 -- Re: Pet hates.

Are you Norman?

Perhaps you are simply simply projecting Norman's Saxon snobbery, but here in the Colonies at least, dī-ˈsekt is the preferred pronunciation of the word 'dissect' (See for yourself, you can actually push the button and hear it spoken with a perfectly loverly Midwest American accent.)

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@David Roberts, @jake -- Re: To erm is human ...

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

Stop it! Da bodayews!

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Re: So he's that incensed about the bastardization of his beloved language ?

The only language that doesn't change is Latin.

Well, there's always Aramaic...

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Re: Old English? Fair enough, I can do that:

That's knöbs, you heathen.

I always though that referred to someone that was relatively new and unsophisticated in the ways of the object under discussion...as in, "With regard to Python, he's just a knöb!"

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Dear Norman-

I see your post as a solicitation for a job at some National Language Purity Ministry somewhere. Good luck wid' dat! That last such place I heard of like that was in Nazi Germany, and we all know how well that turned out. Oh, I forgot...there's always L'Académie française...but then you'd have to learn French, an endeavor that probably wouldn't fit your proclivities. So I guess you're shit out of luck, then.

Xiaomi waggles Mi MIX 3, the first smartphone packing 10GB RAM

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And you thought...

Haven't read the article yet, but those of us of a certain age have got to love the sub-head. Thanks, Andrew.

Grumbling about wobbly Windows 10? Microsoft can't hear you over the clanging cash register

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Sad, really...

...that this is all that Micros~1 really cares about; quarterly numbers are important, customer satisfaction and support, not so much (if at all).

To paraphrase a former president: "Monopolies are nice, so long as you're the monopoly"

Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web

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Re: Windows 10

This is a gift?

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

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Hear that, Micros~1?

Andrew states, flatly:

Windows 10 is officially a shit show.

I am amazed by how much I agree with bombastic bob recently, but being in total agreement with Andrew is new territory, indeed. It is not bad territory, but it is unfamiliar....

PC version of Linux 4.19 lands with PC version of Linus Torvalds: Kernel handed back to creator

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Re: Systemd

Jeez, Jake! How many new metaphors can you stuff into a post anyway?

Morrisons supermarket: We're taking payroll leak liability fight to UK Supreme Court

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Re: I expect to be flamed

Trying to argue that a corporation has no responsibility for employee actions rogue or otherwise would create all sorts of bizarre anomalies.

Of course it would, one of which would be the "Libertarian Utopia" all 1-percenter corporatists cream their Brooks Bros. slacks over.

Zip it! 3 more reasons to be glad you didn't jump on Windows 10 1809

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SatNad: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"

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Oh, Zippy

Why in the world would anyone use the any Micros~1 zip utility? (Oh, yes, its from Micros~1...I forgot.)

7-Zip FTW!

SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...

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@Patched Out --

Had to be (an) iPad(s). They broke when Moses dropped them.

He must have been holding them wrong.

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To be fair the fifteen...er...ten commandments were written on a tablet.

(Ob. Mel brooks reference....)

GitHub.com freezes up as techies race to fix dead data storage gear

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FAIL

Just practicing for when Micros~1 takes over.

You have been warned!

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

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Big Brother

"Why are we building this?" wails the letter's author. "We all have the right to go about our lives without being constantly monitored by the government."

Or by mega-corporations like...ahem...Amazon. /me wonders how much said employee was willing to work on corporo-surveillance (oh, excuse me, I forgot to use the sanitized and politically correct term, "analytics").

Pull request accepted: You want to buy GitHub, Microsoft? Go for it – EU

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Re: New name?

I like the one proffered in the article: MicroGit.

Irony can be so ironic....

Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own

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@Dagg -- Re: Higher Power?

Interesting - There is one down vote on most of these replies. MS Troll perhaps...

There, FTFY

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@Sebastian A -- Re: Deinstall parts of W10?

Just hold on and hope no further massive holes are found?

First thing you do is ignore the FUD. Then you simply practice safe computing. I've been running an XP installation for over a decade, without problems, or "security updates". NoScript is your friend....

What about new hardware?

Well, if you put new hardware on your machine, even Win7 will bitch at you. If you put on really new hardware, even Win10 will choke without appropriate drivers that may or may not work. What new hardware are you talking about? A newer bigger disk. More RAM? A new scanner? ...

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Big Brother

Yawn!

Call me when they allow one to "uninstall" Slurp, and Forced Updates. Oh, and Cortana, too!

Google now minus Google Plus: Social mini-network faces axe in data leak bug drama

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What a great way to open an article!

Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by vowing to shutter the service over the next ten months in the wake of a potential data leak.

That's why I read The Register. Facts, ensconced in an appropriate amount of snark.

Nicely done!

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

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Re: HP keyboards are special?

Maybe so their keyboards don't need AHCI/XHCI USB ports to run on?

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Re: Windows 7

But not on newer HP machines...see this....

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So who you gonna believe?

"This is why auto-installed updates are so dangerous," observed Steve Bellovin, a professor in the computer science department at Columbia University, via Twitter.

But Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman defended auto-updates, arguing they do more good than harm.

So lessee here...on the one hand, you have a CompSci professor (who fully understands the Second Law of Computer Science: "You can't change anything without fucking something else up") who thinks cramming updates down one's throat is a bad idea. On the other hand, a newspaper hack (who likely can't tell the difference between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer) saying its great.

Hmmm...I wonder who I should believe...

Microsoft deletes deleterious file deletion bug from Windows 10 October 2018 Update

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Re: Why?

Only the last decade?!? N00b!

;-)

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Re: Windows 7

One of the problems I've run into trying to do this is that the USB2 ports on some of these newer machines don't have support for XHCI and/or AHCI, which apparently Win7 expects. I got my (legal) OEM Win7 disk to boot, but as soon as it presents the first screen (where you try select the language and keyboard type), the USB2 ports die...no mouse, no keyboard (which really makes it tough to select the language and keyboard type...of do much of anything else, for that matter). HP support (this is an HP Envy 795 desktop) wants very badly for you not to downgrade, coming up with all manner of excuses as to why this is a Really Bad Ideatm going even so far as to removing the availability to select AHCI/XHCI capabilities from the BIOS.

Haven't tried to hook the kbd and mouse to the USB3 ports yet. Maybe that, and downloading the Win7 driver, might fool the system. Worth a try, 'cuz as we all know, Win10 sux0rz!

Pentagon's JEDI mind tricks at odds with our 'values' says Google: Ad giant evaporates from $10bn cloud contract bid

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@Marketing Hack -- Re: The bad news...

"Beltway Bandit". Love it! Can I use that?

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@HolySchmoley -- Re: Wait! What? Never, Never, Never. :-)

You are clearly new here, grasshopper. When you can successfully parse a post from amanfrommars1, it will be time to leave....

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Re: Wait! What?

Or Google realises it relies on talented engineers to do what it does and that they may have indicated that they are less than happy with the idea of government snooping.

Let's assume for the moment that that is indeed true. Still, those same talented engineers don't seem to have any problems with corporate snooping, especially when that corporate is named Alphabet.

This is the Age of Hypocrisy, after all.

On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others

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@veti -- Re: Classic Reg, keeping it classy

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

If you insist on knocking people down just because they're popular, you risk lowering everyone to the same level. You miss the salient fact that some people really are a whole heap worse or better than others.

"The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones." I would rather have a world in which Trump had died and McCain and Jobs lived.

This is a tough post to rate. The first two paragraphs, taken together, rate a solid downvote, while the 3rd rates at least an equally solid upvote.

I'll solve the problem by rating it 1 pint.