Posts by jake

Re: A Yank perspective.

Me? Offended? About something that happened ~35 years ago? Hardly. The word you were looking for is "amused".

Incoherent? Are you sure that word means what you think it means? You seem to be having troubles with English words. Perhaps English is your second language? If so, stick around. We can use differing perspectives.

If you have better things to do with you time, why did you take the time to create an ElReg account just to make this post, and one other similar post?

That should be "Not sure what your problem is." The word your is a possessive case of you, used as an attributive adjective, while you're is a contraction meaning "you are".

Hope this helps your ongoing English studies, and that you're having a good day.

Re: Virtue-signalling wankery

rename is included in the Linux Kernel Organization's util-linux package. Might come in handy if you think that mucking about with perl is difficult for some reason.

"If by making these small changes we can make the whole industry even a little bit more inclusive and less hurtful that can only be a good thing."

Small changes? SMALL changes?

Are you going to pony up the cost or replacing textbooks world-wide, Rattus? And presumably, you are volunteering the rest of the time you have left on this dampish rock, re-writing technical documentation for ... well, for pretty much everything technical.

Thank you for volunteering! Most magnanimous of you.

Re: This PC subversion only idiotically makes things harder and more confusing for competent people

First of all, I agree that the rape simile is completely unwarranted. That kind of so-called "humo(u)r" has no place in this conversation. Knock it off, all y'all. We're better than that.

However ...

"some horrendous terminology."

That word "horrendous", I do not think it means what you think it means. Unless you were going for horrendous hyperbole, of course.

"Whether I am personally bothered by the current terms used, is beside the point. Some obviously are."

Translation: I personally don't give a fuck, but I can't help but put my tuppence worth in anyway, because I'm a natural-born busy body.

"And I doubt the ones that are offended, are going to come on this website just to say this."

Translation: The poor, downtrodden, persecuted people need MY super-human powers to correct this obviously horrible state of affairs that I already mentioned I don't really give a fuck about.

"Given, my guess is that the majority of the readership here is probably white and male."

Translation: All white men should be taken out behind the barn and shot.

One can be a part of the repair, or one can be a part of the problem. You, sir or madam, are a part of the problem.

Re: Give my greetings to the new brunette

Thank you, Karen.

Re: Last time I checked ...

Neither myself, nor VMware is throwing a tantrum.

I am merely voicing an opinion.

VMware, however, is responding to the tantrum throwers (who remain anonymous, imagine that!) by forcing the quite subjective, and some would say capricious, moral objections of the tantrum throwers on the rest of us.

In the words of many before me, Fuck That.

Re: Last time I checked ...

First they came for kill and Abort in VWware, and I did not speak out ...

... Because I was not using VMware.

A Yank perspective.

In the mid-late '80s I was a Yank working in a Yank company. Our software had an Abort command, and another Yank company asked us to change the name. We told them to fuck off.

No, really, our CEO called their CEO and asked if they were kidding about renaming abort. Their CEO indicated they were serious. Our CEO told him to fuck off. In those words. Their CEO sputtered and blustered. Our CEO asked him what part of "fuck off" did he misunderstand? Theirs sputtered and blustered some more. Our CEO laughed at him. Theirs finally hung up. Ours said "I was wondering how long I could keep the shithead on the line." Best conference call I ever sat in on :-)

Re: Last time I checked ...

END is shorter and saves a byte. Useful for those of us who still code in assembler :-)

Oh, SHIT! I said ASS! No doubt I'll get ostracized and banned from ever being hired by VMware. Fuck me. Whatever will I do.

It gets better ...

.... Presumably, their new rules force them to not translate their documentation into any language that mandates grammatical gender. That's roughly a quarter of all human languages. They will also no longer be doing business in any country that uses such languages. That would include most of Europe.

Or, more likely, none of the above will happen, because VMware is run by a bunch of hypocrites looking to score brownie points with North American hand-wringer and namby-pamby loudmouths, who seem to get off on being offended on the behalf of others and enjoy forcing everybody else to march in lock-step with their self-imposed offendedness.

Only English will be singled out for this mistreatment, and only English speakers will be harassed for using the language as she is spoke.. What do you call harassing someone based purely on the language he speaks?

Giving in to crybabys throwing a tantrum only reinforces the notion that tantrums work. It's basic animal training, innit. Well done, VMware, well done. Fucking idiots.

Re: What are they going to do with the heat?

Around here, good luck making space between the whippets & greyhounds ...

Re: Is dropping your phone common?

I'm pretty certain that most of us encounter industrial abrasives on a near daily basis, whether we know it or not.

Re: Is that what the marketing department were after? @AC

Have the hand-wringing, curtain-twitching namby-pambys caught wind of this yet? It's obvious from the use of this word "Victus" that Corning is pro-male and anti-female (and the subjugated).

Re: Almaz

"It also had a bitch of a recoil"

Yes and no. As a short recoil weapon, the perceived force transmitted to the platform wasn't as great as you might think. Try firing an automatic shotgun and then a pump shotgun of a similar mass and the same loads. The perceived recoil difference between the two is quite noticeable.

Yes, I know Newton. The spring(s) spread the force out over time. A punch hurts more than a shove, despite both supplying the same total force over the same area.

Re: Weapons in Space

I think you mean "Some high attitude baloney missions start with beers", but I can see where your confusion comes from.

Re: respectable clone of the B29

The US gave the Soviets a metric crap-tonne of B-25s under the LendLease agreement. The US refused to give 'em B-29s ... see the design & development of the Tu-4 on Wiki for more.

Re: Weapons in Space

We had a bear on the property this morning. I yelled at it. It ran away. No guns required.

(If needs be, we usually shoot the wild ones with a paintball gun instead of giving them lead poisoning. We didn't move here because we hate the wildlife ... the paintball gun teaches them that humans are bad ju-ju, and they learn to ignore/avoid human habitation entirely. Win-win.)

Re: Almaz

The Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 supposedly flown into space fires 23X115 shells at 720m/sec, or about 2400 km/h, somewhat faster than the reported 700km/h. The 23 is in mm.

Re: And there's another

Look closer. It's not the same code. Could be write/compile, run/debug and stdout/stderr/other messages. Or it could be just a mock up with no bearing on reality, like that hoodie.

The laptop probably has pr0n on it. (Mine has a browser open to ElReg, of course.)

Re: Lack of imagination

"Why are the conspiracy theories so limited?"

From simple minds come simple products.

Re: Wait what?

It's not banning a point of view. It is choosing what is or is not allowed on their service.

Do you allow all and sundry to paint graffiti on your living room walls and on your car at night, anonymously or otherwise? Do you consider yourself a censor?

This isn;t censorship.

The Qanan twats aren't being censored. They are still capable of babbling their incoherent message at anyone who chooses to listen to it. They just can't use my systems as a delivery medium. Nor can they use twitter's.

Re: Such Hypocrisy

Bad troll. No cookie.

Re: Why no Internet voting?

"So the idea of transferring money via online banking is a non-starter. Or online stockmarket trading. As is the idea of buying goods online."

Yes. I have never done any of the above, and I do not intend to start now. This kind of activity is going to bite a lot of people in the ass/arse. There is far too much money involved, the systems are not secure, and the crooks will eventually take advantage of it. Human nature, innit.

Never forget the immortal words of Willy Sutton, who, when asked why he robbed banks, replied "Because that's where the money is!"

Re: If he does lose

Projection is an ugly thing.

Re: Why no Internet voting?

"I can think of several ways to accomplish such a thing off the top of my head."

G'wan, then. Quit jawin' 'bout it & git 'er done. We'll wait.

Re: From rotter to squatter

"But doesn't the Supreme Court get to decide who won?"

No, the Electoral College does. Then Congress then certifies the results.

Re: why aren't postal votes considered a fraud risk in the US?

Please note that every single one of the voter fraud examples that bob has so helpfully pointed out to us were caught before they could do any damage to the integrity of an election.

Shirley you should be applauding the process, not denigrating a portion of it, bob.

Re: Non-malicious?

From what I can see, it wasn't really an attack.

It was, however, trespass and vandalism. Both of which are crimes in most jurisdictions. And both show obvious intent.

Re: This is worrying

"how will I know if my accounts are protected?"

Frankly, you don't know. Neither do I. And in fact, we can't know.

Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, no?