* Posts by Florida1920

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NRA gives FCC boss Ajit Pai a gun as reward for killing net neutrality. Yeah, an actual gun

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Re: Reason

@clueless AC

He’s a Virginian resident, and CPAC is in Maryland. They’ll have to send the gun to a licensed dealer in Virginia and have them do the transfer to Pai.

"handmade Kentucky long gun"

It's considered an "antique," not subject to Federal firearms laws.

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Big Brother

When net neutrality is banned

Only outlaws will have net neutrality.

Use ad blockers? Mine some Monero to get access to news, says US site

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Re: So-

Bye bye, Salon.

Never read them. Just looked at their home page, which doesn't display the warning. Didn't see anything worth the effort to read. "Dripless umbrella?" "Right-wing media trolling Parkland shooting survivors?" Wow, I'd suffer to read those articles. Bye, bye, Salon.

Iran: We have defeated evil nuclear-sensing Western lizards!

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Coat

Jim Morrison Lives!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Qtgd9T7kg

The one with the gecko in the pocket.

Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches

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Joke

Rocky Relationship

You could say the accused got off on the wrong track.

The strange case of the data breach that stayed online for a month

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Alert

Appropriate punishment

Don't they still cane people in Singapore?

BOFH: We want you to know you have our full support

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Pint

>KZZZZZZEEERRRRRRT!<

Hurrah!!!!! Return Of The Cattle Prod!

I see you're writing a résumé?!.. LinkedIn parked in MS Word

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Well, fair enough, it's an understandable mistake if you were cataloguing your Beatles tracks...
I stood up and walked out on LinkedIn and MSOffice.

Can't wait to get to Mars on a SpaceX ship? It's a cold, dead rock – boffins

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Joke

@Charles 9

As for "What could go wrong?" one miscalculation could have it hurtling towards US.
Yes, we've already seen what happens when a dense, red rock hits the U.S.

Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP. Of course

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Competition hasn't helped cable consumers

Amazing, they complain that city-built Internet access prevents them from competing. But when has cable-service competition ever served users? There rarely is any competition. The cable companies have no competition, so rates keep going up and up and "customer service" is pathetic.

US broadband is scarce, slow and expensive. 'Great!' says the FCC

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report finds agency actions have restored progress

And black is white, good is evil, etc. What's it going to take to restore honest government to the U.S.?

A tiny Ohio village turned itself into a $3m speed-cam trap. Now it has to pay back the fines

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Re: A novel suggestion

How about "observe the speed limit"? As another poster observed, nobody is above the law.
Not that most of you will visit the U.S. anymore, but just in case. In the western states you'll have a smooth, straight road, speed limit around 60 mph. As you approach a town in the middle of nowhere, the speed limit will drop, fast, to 50, 40, 30 mph. You can see the decreasing-limit signs, they're so close together. Pay attention! A lot of towns have signs that light up with your actual speed. If they're connected to the PD, they may be waiting for you as you enter "downtown." Don't blink, because even at 15 mph you'll be through the town in a few seconds.

Also, don't count on forgiveness if you're doing less than 5 or 10 mph over the limit. I was pulled over on an Interstate in Montana for 67 in a 65 (verbal warning) and tracked by a California cop who turned around after passing me as I was 2 mph over the limit on a downhill stretch of a major road, daylight etc. It was steep enough that the cruise control didn't keep the car at the speed limit. After tailing me and running my reg, he must have decided to let me go (I was doing the limit the entire 10 minutes he was on my tail).

OTOH, there's a stretch of Interstate in Idaho where the limit is 80 mph, and places in Montana where there's no limit. Get off one of those roads and onto a secondary road and it's harder to tamp it down. If you do a lot of traveling, even if you're generally speed-conscious, it's easy to slip up, just long enough to get a fine. Fortunately, I am as yet unscathed.

Nunes FBI memo: Yep, it's every bit as terrible as you imagined

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Smoke, fog, whatever

The memo doesn't undermine the appearance of collusion. It merely attacks the people who brought the information to light. The smoke, fog and bullshit are all coming from the Republicans, who are clearly scared to death that the P[ervert]OTUS is going to drag them all down with him. The smart move (yeah, that's asking a lot of Republicans these days) would be to put some distance between themselves and Trump et al. Nunes is a slobbering lap dog, and the rest of the pack are following him right over the cliff.

Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

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Headmaster

it’s the first Sunday of February, which would make it the fifth this year.

Actually, that would be the fourth. I'll take a BOFH mug, please.

As Facebook pushes yet more fake articles, one news editor tells Mark to get a grip – or Zuck off

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Fewer ifs and more butts.

First, that line deserves a Pulitzer. Second, in a time when a man who failed at nearly every endeavor, except playing a clown on television, occupies the highest office in the land, why express outrage at false information on websites where every clown can be a star? Welcome to the Society of the Spectacle.

That is our reality. At the moment, those of us still able to see through the smoke can only wring our hands and grind our teeth. The people who read that crap on FB don't care about truth, ethics or morality. They only want to be entertained. Maybe the discussion should be about how we can rehabilitate digital-crack addicts. Cutting off their supply looks to be impossible. There's too much money to be made, and there's that pesky First Amendment (which I support, sometimes grudgingly).

Web searching died the day they invented SEO

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Re: My somewhat controversial theory...

.... somewhere deep in the Google campus an intelligent AI has escaped control of its human masters....
Just a fancy way of saying "a cat." Not that cats ever were under control of humans. Any cat I ever had responded only to a machine. Specifically, the sound of the can opener.

FBI slams secret Nunes memo alleging Feds spied on Team Trump for political reasons

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Re: Trump Administration (I use the term ironically)

@bombastic bob

The Mueller "investigation" is merely part of the swamp trying to undermine an elected president.
Sure. And Trump's inauguration audience was the biggest in history. The best thing about this "president" is that he spends 1/3 of his time on the golf course.

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Re: Trump Administration (I use the term ironically)

What do you think ironically means exactly?

I'll tell you what I meant. An administration is supposed to run things. In fact, Trump and the Nunes clique certainly are running something. They're administering a conspiracy scam to deflect attention from the Mueller investigation, and trying to destroy public confidence in the FBI.

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Fear

The Trump Administration (I use the term ironically) and the Republican Party are obviously scared shitless by the Mueller investigation. The Nunes memo is clearly a desperate, last-ditch effort to save an already doomed ship. They know their world is about to end and they don't have the integrity to admit they're total losers. Their ultimate collapse will be wonderful to watch.

So you accidentally told a million people they are going to die: What next? Your essential guide...

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Headmaster

Management Mantra

First we fix the blame. Then we fix the problem.

The Zuck promises to give you more local news – and so save the world

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FAIL

Losing proposition

If Facebook draws too many clicks away from local news sources, those sources will fail. There go Facebook's "free" sources. Facebook is trying to be the one-stop-shop for the Internet-illiterati. Zuck should stick to the plan: produce a site where sad people can post banal information about their meaningless lives. And saturate it with ads for weight-loss and self-help programs.

FYI: That Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder. Someone really thought the islands were toast

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Headmaster

The solution is simple

Just ask Kim Jong Un to call the governor of Hawaii after he hits that big button. Although, given their alleged history, the NORKs could probably hack into Hawaii's EMA system and send the alert themselves.

You publish 20,000 clean patches, but one goes wrong and you're a PC-crippler forever

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Joke

Bricked PC = Ultimate Security

It wasn't a bug, it was a feature.

Julian Assange to UK court: Put an end to my unwarranted Ecuadorean couch-surf

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Re: Frankly

I'm reminded of a "Spooks" ("MI-5" in the States) episode, where a Jaguar and a motorbike enter a tunnel. A few moments later, only the bike exits.

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Mushroom

Send in the S.A.S.

What's Ecuador gonna do -- cut off the shrimp?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ecuador

If you've ever wondered whether the FCC boss is a Big Cable stooge – well, wonder no more

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Re: The usual stench...

I've lived most of my life in isolated, US rural areas. When it comes to government actions, we're damned grateful if we're at least offered vaseline before they bend us over the barrel.
Be grateful you're not getting all the government you're paying for.

(Tip of the hat to Will Rogers.)

WhitTVman to head mobile-first media platform

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Take the money and run

Like all the other tech titans who crashed their corporations, she'll get paid regardless of whether this silly venture succeeds or not. She, Melissa and Carly should form a band, The Alchemists. "We turn gold into shite."

Maverick internet cop Chrome 64 breaks rules to thwart malvert scum

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Pint

Installed update with Zircon-encrusted tweezers

El Reg and all my sites still work, so it meets my standards.

Under fire for its shoddy response, FCC finally wakes up to Puerto Rico

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What Trump said

Hurricane Harvey: "To the people of Houston and across Texas and Louisiana, we are here with you today. We are with you there, and we will be with you every day to restore, recover and rebuild."

Hurricane Irma: “We love the people of Florida and they went through something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. We love these people, and we’re going to be back and we’re going to help them."

Hurricane Maria: "We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!"

In Soviet California, pedestrian hits you! Bloke throws himself in front of self-driving car

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Re: Haven't been to SF El Reg?

Um...the bye line says the article is by "Thomas Claburn in San Francisco", so likely he has been there.

Drugs or alcohol could just as well explain this.

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

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Re: The sun is losing mass?

@ AC

To get some E, you need to sacrifice some m.

I've been trying to lose some m but I lack the E. Pasta sacrifices to the FSM are not helping.

Flying on its own, Thunderbird seeks input on new look

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Re: To be honest

Fossamail is no more:

But it still works. I had problems with the 64-bit version crashing, but the 32-bit version is still going here. Handles multiple email and RSS/Atom feeds with no issues. It is using 132 MB of memory, though.

Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI

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Mushroom

You can make this stuff up

Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them. He plays with them, alone, sitting on the floor near the console hour after hour, chanting "onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies" in a precise, well-modulated voice, not so loud as to be annoying, not so soft as to allow me to forget. I point out to Shotwell that two can derive more enjoyment from playing jacks than one, but he is not interested. I have asked repeatedly to be allowed to play by myself, but he simply shakes his head. "Why?" I ask. "They're mine," he says. And when he has finished, when he has sated himself, back they go into the attaché case.

It is unfair but there is nothing I can do about it. I am aching to get my hands on them.

Shotwell and I watch the console. Shotwell and I live under the ground and watch the console. If certain events take place upon the console, we are to insert our keys in the appropriate locks and turn our keys. Shotwell has a key and I have a key. If we turn our keys simultaneously the bird flies, certain switches are activated and the bird flies. But the bird never flies. In one hundred thirty-three days the bird has not flown. Meanwhile Shotwell and I watch each other. We each wear a .45 and if Shotwell behaves strangely I am supposed to shoot him. If I behave strangely Shotwell is supposed to shoot me. We watch the console and think about shooting each other and think about the bird. Shotwell's behavior with the jacks is strange. Is it strange? I do not know. Perhaps he is merely a selfish bastard, perhaps his character is flawed, perhaps his childhood was twisted. I do not know.

Game, by Donald Barthelme

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Re: Confirmation checkbox needed

To send this message, click on all the photos containing street signs.

Q: How do you get YouTube to stop funneling ads to your vids? A: Make jokes next to a dead body

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Ads on YouTube?

Never seen one since adding uBlockOrigin. What really honked me off was when the copyright holder forced YouTube to remove Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Why is it the crap endures while the spiritually uplifting stuff gets pulled? I'm quite sure Google revenue has nothing to do with it.

Astroboffins say our Solar System is a dark, violent, cosmic weirdo

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Angel

Re: Why did we get Jupiter and Saturn?

Cosmic inspiration for the best parts of Holst's Planets Suite.

Mystery surrounds fate of secret satellite slung by SpaceX

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Re: That's what they want you to believe

@Big John

You seriously need to find better sources.

President Trump didn’t want to win the presidential election because he thought, if he lost, his family would have bigger opportunities ahead, according to an excerpt from a new book detailing his first year in office.

“This is bigger than I ever dreamed of,” Trump told former head of Fox News Roger Ailes a week before the election, according to author Michael Wolff. “I don’t think about losing, because it isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-didnt-want-to-win-the-election-because-he-thought-losing-could-offer-untold-opportunities-book/article/2644849

If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE

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Holmes

Re: But how do they spread fires?

Frickin' lasers.

It gets worse: Microsoft’s Spectre-fixer wrecks some AMD PCs

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Facepalm

Patch Tuesday

Bitch Wednesday

Here come the lawyers! Intel slapped with three Meltdown bug lawsuits

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Joke

Wish I could be there

When Vulture Central takes the stand as a witness in this case.

COURT CLERK: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

EL REG: AWK!

DEFENSE COUNSEL: Your honor, this case is clearly for the birds!

Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

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Re: Good stuff!

@Matthew 17

Also I've seen that War Games is getting a remake, that should be stopped at once.
Starring Kim Jung Un and Donald Trump. This time it will be for real. And there will be no winner.

Of course we don't spy on our users, giggles China's WeChat

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Re: Fortunately here in America...

Fortunately here in America...

...we don't have the kinds of leaders who would enact laws and abuse the entire national surveillance framework just to identify individuals who post on social media exercising their American rights to criticize, parody, and protest those leaders.

When the country elects a president who expresses every paranoid delusion thought that comes into his infantile huge brain on Twitter, how can the country expect the government to respect citizens' privacy?

Soz, guys. No 'alien megastructure' around Tabby's Star, only cosmic dustbunnies

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Security catch-up: Nigerian prince email ring cops collar ... Louisiana OAP?

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419 Scammers are a feature, not a bug

Had fun stringing one along for months. Convinced him I had a fleet of airplanes and was in the "commodities import trade." So I could help him fly his loot out of wherever. Finally got him to send all his banking info to a FAX number. At the U.S. Justice Department. Making a scammer believe his so-called mark was for real: Priceless.

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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Thumb Up

Whew!

I've been using nothing but AMD CPUs since 2001, just because. Yeah, I still use Windows 7 SP1, but at least this attack vector won't affect me.

To Puerto Ricans: A Register apology

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Every day

The Trump Administration makes America greater and greater. Hats off to El Reg for bringing its latest accomplishment to light.

Google Chrome ad-blocking to begin in February – but what is it going to block?

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Paris Hilton

Ads that don't conform with new taste guidelines

Good-bye ads for sausage rolls?

Seriously: Will Google now disable ad-blocking add-ons like uBlock Origin?

Paris, because Taste.

CSS and Javascript on GOV.UK page take early Christmas holiday

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Joke

"we have nothing further to add"

Kim Jong Un, is that you?

Top Silicon Valley tech judge hits alt-F4 under cloud of sex-pest claims

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Re: where people are treated fairly and equally

ok you young whippersnappers probably don't know who that guy is - he was one of the best foreign policy gurus this nation has EVER seen
I remember Kissinger well. Among other achievements he was the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's movie with that title. From your Wikipedia link:

"Kissinger played a key role in bombing Cambodia to disrupt PAVN and Viet Cong units launching raids into South Vietnam from within Cambodia's borders and resupplying their forces by using the Ho Chi Minh trail and other routes, as well as the 1970 Cambodian Incursion and subsequent widespread bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia. The bombing campaign contributed to the chaos of the Cambodian Civil War, which saw the forces of leader Lon Nol unable to retain foreign support to combat the growing Khmer Rouge insurgency that would overthrow him in 1975."

"Kissinger himself said there were about 50,000 civilian casualties in the bombing."

"Along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1973."

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linebacker_II for more on this "guru."

Critical US mass spying program scrutiny lost amid partisan nonsense

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Re: I'm so sick...

(I just saw something cool that I need to upload to my Facebook page)
What you upload to Facebook is protected by the First Amendment. What you choose to not make public is protected by the Fourth Amendment. At least that's how it's supposed to work.