Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Meanwhile back in the real world

"Or you could have used a replica."

To be honest if I was in a position where I felt I needed to produce a gun to get me out of it, I surely would want the fucking thing to work, otherwise you'd be just as well off getting your willy out and waving it in their face.

To the OP: Glad you recognised your lack of experience with the weapon and sought training, but I don't think it's mandatory to have a psych test or even be competent to use a firearm to own one in the US. So whilst you may now have more skills and confidence (and thus are probably less likely to need to fire it in anger) there are going to be a million more tits out there without a clue packing a gun.

I have no problem with responsible people owning weapons. I don't even like my wife using my BSA Scorpio T-10 (.177 airgun for reference) ffs because she doesn't observe proper gun sense. She can't see why I go nuts when she starts pointing it at things (me, the dog) etc. even when I *know* it isn't loaded or charged etc.

Re: Meanwhile back in the real world

" I didn't have the safety off! (And I didn't even realize it!)"

"I now carry a larger caliber revolver which doesn't have a safety, and will fire with a trigger pull."

Well done for having the nuts to pull your gun, but the can you understand why the two above statements taken from your post is quite worrying?

I love to shoot guns, but I'm glad I live in a society where it isn't the norm.

Re: The wife's primary pistol of choice ...

"[1] I really feel sorry for you emasculated Brits."

No need. As long as we aren't involved in the criminal underground then the chances of us coming a cropper from being shot are a *lot* lower than 'masculated' Yanks.

However, we are more likely to be shot by our own police for carrying a white stick.

Re: Some hypocrisy?

I think I can stretch my grey matter to understand that these anons don't have the same kind of resources of say, a government - so keeping your identity a secret is their primary weapon.

After all, a secret that my government is keeping from me could have a large impact on me one way or the other, but the name of some hacker in his bedroom is of little relevance.

Re: @Sir

"I think that Anonymous brings that reputation upon themselves and no one else."

I agree, and I also agree that there are lots of teenagers out there running scripts with no idea of what's going on under the bonnet.

Remember that anonymous isn't an organisation. There is nothing to stop me performing some online action and claiming to be a member of anonymous - that's the point - anyone can do it.

The point I was trying to make (and supported by the comments about how accountants know what the spreadsheet is doing) is that there are SOME people who claim to be anonymous who DO know what's going on under the hood of the scripts they use. So just because they might employ a script, it does not necessarily follow that they are a 'skiddie' (sounds like brown underpants to me)

Re: Typo

"Members of hacker skiddie collective Anonymous ..."

I've often wondered about this type of derogitory statement. That some 'members' of anonymous are only capable of running scripts with little knowledge of what they do (or don't - LOIC I'm looking at you here) but that doesn't mean that just because you employ a script that you are a 'skiddie'.

If you think that's all anonymous is, then fair enough - I don't think that is the case however.

I mean, you don't imply accountants are useless because they don't write their own spreadsheets, or do you?

Sir

"I hope the guy wins an appeal"

Unlikely since he pleaded guilty and got a third of his sentence knocked off, otherwise it would have been 18 weeks in chokey rather than 12.

Re: I know I'm clutching at straws but..

" which means PRQ are actually really sh*t at hosting if one component took out their power."

Do you actually know anything about anything?

I know of several outages involving specialised power components that went bang that took out all the power in the DC AND prevented the Diesels from starting up.

One of them was right next door to a massive power sub-station and just happened to be the flagship DC for BT's 21CN network. It happens to everyone.

Re: Money

Money is just a tool. Like a hammer - it has uses both good and bad.

You should probably say that Greed is the root of all evil. That is a human trait that usually has negative outcomes for someone in the equation.

Re: Sir

"How are you supposed to save for a house deposit in this situation? Must be because they are twatty."

My comments were aimed at students (or anyone really) prepared to pay a premium for the latest shiny, but then complain that they can't afford to get on the housing ladder and live at home until they are 40.

Your comment referred to a group of people struggling becuase of high tuition fees.

Two different things.

Re: Sir

I think most people understand the issue, but to those who don't..

I used to live in a council house. My first priority was always the rent and then the bills. Then it was fags and food. Times change and the fags are gone, but mortgage is still #1. then bills.

Even though I now earn a decent rate as a contractor I wouldn't dream of blowing good money on a couple of glossy phones, like someone else said elsewhere I also drive a beaten up old car that is reliable, I don't go on expensive holidays, or if I do it's once every 5 years or so.

I see people with i-Pads, i-Phones, expensive cars/clothes etc. and when I find out what they do for a living I wonder how on Earth they can afford it when I can't. The answer is that they can't.

Re: Have I goit the right website?

"Ah, just when I couldn't see the IT Angle, a reference to requirements documentation."

Brilliant.

If you think you are becoming a bit radical, rtfm :D