Posts by jake

Re: Worst American president ever

That's OK ... there is a lot of proof missing in this entire discussion.

Re: the US military should open fire on people on American soil

Cederic, you seem to be either the most gullible person posting to ElReg, or a worse troll than our bob. Either way, what do you think you are going to accomplish here? Do you really think that you are going to change the mind of anybody reading your words? Or do you just find it fun to post garbage and potentially waste peoples time?

Re: Wow. What a whiny ass little b**ch.

Do you honestly think I don't know that?

Re: the US military should open fire on people on American soil

Excuse me? Are you hard of reading, Cederic? The section of the tweet referenced said "Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

How could you possibly interpret that as anything other than as ElReg reported it?

Re: Not so sure it will be ineffective...

Apparently your downvoter hasn't read the fine print in Twitter's Terms Of Service, Chris.

Re: I actually agree with Trump

"Because they control the entire conversation"

And they always have. That's why most of it isn't worth the electrons(photons) used for transmission. The sooner people realize this fact, the better off we'll all be.

Re: @IGotOut Simple Response.

He probably built a wall around the mines ... "out of sight, out of mind" & all that.

Re: Trumpetsters Trumpet Drumpfs Lumps

Not a steak. A roast.

_{::insert 13 year old boy's locker room joke about rump roasts farting here::}

Re: Give him the chop

"The whole world has had enough of Trumpy's meaningless rants and ramblings."

Be careful what you wish for ... If that's reason enough to nuke his so-called "social" media accounts, said "social" media would have to get rid of most of their more vocal subscribers. Even the ones whose rants and ramblings you personally agree with.

"May you live in interesting times." —NRAACS

Re: Thoughts and prayers

"What does it mean?"

It means that the speaker (typer) is pretending to be an intellectual.

Re: Lets be honest, he is having a blast

"This 73 year old wanker (not fact checked) has managed to lie and cheat through his life to get himself rich"

Actually, his initial wealth was his daddy's money. Which he lost. Trump is living proof of that old adage "The fastest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one". Hell, the idiot even managed to lose money owning a casino!

Re: Trumpetsters Trumpet Drumpfs Lumps

What is (was?) "veep"?

Re: Freedom of arrest

Contrary to popular opinion, here in the US "The Press" can indeed be arrested if they are doing something illegal.

Solution: Don't do anything illegal.

Re: Wow. What a whiny ass little b**ch.

"Given the astonishing reverence in which the Office of the President is held by Merkins"

That word "merkin", I'm not sure it means what you think it means.

Although, given the subject matter, maybe I'm wrong :-)

Re: Is it true

Lines one, two and three for Sanguma ... Line one are lawyers claiming to represent the fine citizens of Nebraska asking for a retraction. Line two is similar from the Piltdown area of East Sussex. Line three is a preemptive call from the Order of Florida Man who make absolutely no claim on the genetics of the idiot in chief, despite the fact that he shoots himself in the foot on a daily basis.

Re: Simple Response.

"This would improve Twitter considerably."

Roughly the same level of improvement as removing one turd from my septic system.

Re: Worst American president ever

They were. It's just that the current idiot in chief is well off the top of the old scale,

Re: Move on

"Even those not eligible to vote still can."

I'm astounded that anybody (even the most ignorant of Trump supporters!) could possibly believe that complete fabrication ... The mind absolutely boggles.

Re: Move on

If you have actual proof of such wide-spread fraud, please alert the authorities ... and the Press. Posting about it here does absolutely zero good.

If you don't have actual proof, please retract your statement.

"Everybody knows" is not proof, no matter how much you wish it were so.

(Note that I am no fan of the current Republican way of doing things, but lying about things that aren't happening doesn't help the situation. You are either a part of the solution, or you are a part of the problem.)

Not a dirty word.

A synonym.

Re: Just one nose-picking minute

I would pay to participate in that.

Re: Gee, what a surprise

Projection does indeed seem to be a prerequisite o't'brass in the GOP ... One wonders what would happen if the rank & file suddenly noticed.

Re: Microsoft jus' gonna be Microsoft

From the perspective of a nerd who lived and worked in Palo Alto in that era, and knew most of the players depicted, "Triumph of the Nerds" had so many errors it was ... err ... cringe worthy.

Re: unix

"To be clear: any (grownup) Unix app could be cross-compiled with only compiler-driven porting. AKA tweaking microscopies, no restructuring."

In theory. Reality, however ...

Re: Ctrl-Shift-Esc

It wasn't a secret. I learned about it in the early days of NT4.

Re: Why wasn't it in by design?

1) Xenix was just AT&T UNIX source rebranded by Microsoft and offered to other companies "as is" to port to their hardware of choice. Microsoft was essentially a reseller of AT&T source code licenses ... I seriously doubt AT&T would have allowed Redmond to ship it embedded in NT.

2) Cutler has hated UNIX since the year dot. Xenix was never going to get into NT as long as he had anything to do with it.

Remember, kiddies ...

... if you feed the troll, you get to keep it.

Re: The problem is called "UI"........

"Certainly typing ls or rm used to get me precisely nowhere on a VAX."

My vaxen always ran BSD ....even when I was at DEC. They still do (although I'll admit to having one that runs VMS ...)

"There's so many people who think "shell-script" and "bash-script" are the same..."

That's a wetware problem, not a UI problem.

The difference between the various versions of vi are not all that great when it comes to day-to-day light editing tasks ... which is probably all that you are going to use it for if you are at the keys of an unfamiliar terminal.

The choice of GUI is not all that important when about all you use it for is launching GUI applications, and popping up multiple terminal emulators. I've been pretty happy with the bone-stock KDE, as shipped with Slackware, these last 20 years or so. Try it, you might like it.

"Clearly the next step is to put Win32 in a big sandbox of its own."

The ultimate version of that would be Win2K in a VM.

Re: The obvious solution to the obvious problem

"There is little reason for majority of the medical devices to be on the world wide web."

Then I'm absolutely certain you'll be overjoyed to hear that very, very few medical devices are connected to the world wide web.

Unfortunately, however, many such devices are connected to The Internet, which turns out to be a bit of a problem.

Re: Fraud is a big issue for etailer

True, the farm raised version tastes like chicken ... but actually, the wild ones taste vaguely of fish. You can guess how I know this.