Re: Grilled Cheese Blues
I thought Yves was playing the opening chords of Psycho Killer (cheese).
Posts by Florida1920
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Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban
CCleaner targeted top tech companies in attempt to lift IP
Inept bloke who tried to sell military sat secrets to Russia gets 5 years
Microsoft's AI is so good it steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league
Bloke fesses up: I forged judge's signature to strip stuff from Google search
Monday 18th September 2017 23:07 GMT
Re: If only abit of photoshop working in all cases...
Counterfeiting U.S. currency is allegedly working well for North Korea. The bills aren't used in the U.S., so less likelihood of discovery.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/28/north-korea-may-have-resumed-counterfeiting-operation/
There's a business model for you. Just don't spend the loot on nukes or ICBMs, okay?
Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware
Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV
Friday 15th September 2017 23:36 GMT 
the visuals themselves are quite unnecessary
I've been non-watching a lot of Brit and Scandinavian cop shows on Netflix lately. That means, I hear the audio but am off doing something else at the same time. I rarely have to go back to pick up a thread. Note to TV producers: if you can't make the visuals compelling, just give the actors distinctive voices so we can keep track.
Cramming a story into 42 minutes is tough. I get that, so all the blather is required. Ever notice that when two cops drive to a crime scene, one waits until they are out of the car at the scene to fill in the other cop about the people/place involved? On the way to the scene they must have been listening to old episodes of Gang Busters on MP3.
BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits
Friday 15th September 2017 22:57 GMT 
Full stop
"Brand Promise and Value, Recognisability and Position and finally the Company Story. Once we have that, we feed that into the design process to come up with a logo, banner, stationery elements and then at the very end we have the website restructure and rebranding."I would have ended the meeting right here and taken the "Expert" to the window without further delay.
HP users moaning over 10-minute login lag during 'Win 10 update'
Facebook let advertisers target 'Jew-haters'
Homeland Security drops the hammer on Kaspersky Lab with preemptive ban
Thursday 14th September 2017 20:32 GMT
Re: I wonder who the real oppressor is here...
It was pretty messed up. I enlisted in the USAF in 1965. As a youth I was a shortwave listener. Radio Moscow was easy to hear and I got a few QSLs from them. When they started sending me propaganda I wrote and asked them to stop. They did. (Now I'm sorry -- the stuff might be worth a lot!) When I got my ham license I managed to contact a few Russians, but our Morse Code conversations were very short: the Russians' names, cities, transmitter power and antenna.
I only needed a Secret clearance for my job, but there was a background check. When I went to start my first assignment, my clearance hadn't come through. Went to find out why. Turns out some neighbor had reported that I listened to R Moscow and talked to Russians (Mom must have blabbed) and my file was set aside and forgotten. After a few questions the officer laughed and my clearance went through. This was the state of paranoia in the 60s, and I've never forgotten it. Or the uptight neighbor I'm sure was the culprit. Probably getting even with me for interfering with their TV.
Seems to me the Kaspersky ban has little to do with national security. It's just another way to take a poke at the Russians, after the fact. The horses got out and the horse's ass is in the White House. But no one knows what to do about that, so they pick the low-hanging fruit.
El Reg is hiring an intern. Apply now before it closes
Crackas With Attitude troll gets five years in prison for harassment
Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas
Achievement unlocked: Tesla boosts batteries for Irma refugees
Monday 11th September 2017 21:44 GMT
A nice gesture, but
It's at least 350 miles from Miami to the Georgia border, on Interstate 95. To escape Irma you'd have had to go farther. So the limited mileage available in a Tesla before needing a recharge was no way good enough, even with the boost. If you need to run for the border, you still need gas.
Daily Stormer binned by yet another registrar, due to business risks
Monday 11th September 2017 08:57 GMT
Re: The Paradox of Tolerance summarizes my opinion:
@Mad Mike
There's plenty of gunsites that actively promote violence (maybe not against people, but other living creatures).
Are you seriously making an equivalence between hunting animals and Nazis?
Most gun deaths in the U.S. are not the work of an amped-up Nazi devotee. Every murder is remarkable. I doubt you've spent much time reading through DS when it was available, before Charlottesville. Or after. I have, and it made me sick. Freedom of speech comes with responsibilities. Justifying someone's murder because she disagreed with your sick, twisted love affair with you-know-who is too much. If DS's problems were only the beginning of a wave of censorship, some of you might have a point. That hasn't happened and won't. DS was/is evil and is getting what it deserves.
Monday 11th September 2017 05:12 GMT
Re: The Paradox of Tolerance summarizes my opinion:
I'll concede that behaviour (i.e. doing things) needs to be regulated, but the only test for speech should be where it is either calumny (calculated, lying libel) or uttered with reckless disregard as to whether or not it is true.
The problem is, a website is not only a place to speak; it may also serve as a means of instigating violence. DS has shown a predilection to do that. Of course, they're subtle, to avoid clearly breaking the law. But there are plenty of ways to drive the easily manipulated to violence. I think the nutjob who killed the protester in Charlottesville was one of the easily manipulated. The DS's response to the murder does nothing to change my mind. We should keep the situation of DS in its context.
Monday 11th September 2017 01:26 GMT
Re: It beings.
This is the beginning of the slippery slope,
I think Neo-Nazis are the end of a slippery slope. Hello, these people think the Holocaust either didn't happen or was a Good Thing. These people think lynching black people is cool. Somehow, interdicting them doesn't seem like a bad idea. We're not talking censoring PETA or the Sierra Club here. And I won't be convinced that corporations -- not governments -- refusing service to supremacist sites poses any threat to free speech. Where do we as moral actors draw the line and say, No, this shall not stand?
Red panic: Best Buy yanks Kaspersky antivirus from shelves
Stand up who HASN'T been hit in the Equifax mega-hack – whoa, whoa, sit down everyone
Friday 8th September 2017 22:09 GMT
Re: Equifax credit score
@ Jim Mitchell
I doubt it. Equifax's customers are not consumers, they are businesses that want to know something about somebody before they extend an offer of credit. That Equifax had a breach isn't their problem at all.
Wall Street isn't particularly thrilled with Equifax either. As of mid-day Friday, the company's stock was down nearly 14 per cent.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/lawyers_line_up_to_sue_equifax/
As Hurricane Irma grows, Earth now lashed by SOLAR storms
A furious think-tank boss, Google, and an academic 'fired' for criticizing ads giant
Wednesday 6th September 2017 21:54 GMT
Google's arrogance exceeds its common sense
Schmidt erred by complaining to Slaughter. If you're going to bankroll a think tank while allowing it to have the appearance of independence, you don't call the CEO to whine when it disagrees with your profit-making ideology. At most, you write or have written a propaganda piece paper that refutes the original claims, then walk away. See "Streisand Effect." The credibility of Slaughter and her tank have tanked. Nice shot, Schmidt!
Google, propaganda, and the new New Man
Tuesday 5th September 2017 20:04 GMT
Re: Rhetorical headline, I know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQIf anyone can stop any more nonsense like that from being perpetrated, it's all for the good, if you ask me.
But the solution in the video is the solution: Pull.the.plug. Probably the script writer ran out of Bolivian marching powder and had a rare flash of insight.
Tuesday 5th September 2017 18:32 GMT
Re: Lying is always bad propaganda, because it deceives and misleads the people
The advertising business is built on lying. Anyone gullible enough to believe the fairy tales of television sitcoms (which are merely bookends to advertisements) is doomed to a life of junk food, overpriced, over-sized cars -- and lousy government. Of course Google is trying to make money using the tools at their command. In other Big News, the sun came up this morning.
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth, brings two moons along for the ride
Well, whad'ya know? 'No evidence' that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones
DreamHost smashed in DDoS attack: Who's to blame? Take a guess...
Friday 25th August 2017 14:02 GMT
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete to the Alt-Right
The whooshing sound is the point going over your head.
I'm not the one missing the point. Did I advocate for censorship? I said seeing the Daily Stormer go away would be a good thing. I also said it was unfortunate it took DDoS to get them. But if you're going to hate on people, you should expect some people to hate back on you. Tolerance is nice around the dinner table. Nazis have drawn their own line, and crossed it: Get rid of Jews, blacks, whatever else THEY HATE; it isn't the antifa who are drawing the line.
If you seriously think a comedian would have stopped the NSDAP in the 1930s, I want some of what you're smoking. Charlie Chaplin tried that. But I think the RAF, Eighth Airforce and the Allied infantry played a slightly greater role in toppling the Nazis. There are, perhaps, other ways of which you might approve:
https://twitter.com/MarkIrvine89/status/900335202962112513/photo/1
Or maybe not. Many American corporations exercised their freedom to do business with Germany right up to 11 December 1941, when a Nazi regime declared war on the United States.
Friday 25th August 2017 12:45 GMT
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete to the Alt-Right
Perhaps some context is needed for you less-informed IT folks. You are opposed to censorship, and I appreciate that. What I said was, I'd like to see the Stormer gone. "A shame to do it this way," but gone.
Someone tried to imply equality between a Nazi site and the Daily Mail and BBC. Sorry pal, but this is ignorance of the highest order. If you call yourself a Nazi, name your site after a Nazi newspaper and espouse Nazi ideology, you ARE a Nazi. What is a Nazi? Is that the same as a Conservative Republican? Far from it. Even the Conservative Republican site RedState.com was sickened by Trump's tiny-handed response to Charlottesville, where people carried Nazi flags through the street. Free speech? Okay, fine. But they are identifying with a regime that resulted in millions of deaths, simply because the victims were Jews, "Gypsies," gay, or mentally handicapped. Did the Nazi regime Stormer is channeling believe in freedom of speech?
Anyone who wouldn't be happy to see all Nazi-advocating sites and newspapers disappear is not paying attention. You sure don't know history. Yeah, DDOSing Dreamhost is not the way, but making the alt-right, which is happy to lie down with and collaborate with Nazis ("unite the Right?" Bullshit. Unite the racists -- pay attention to what they say and with whom they associate) struggle to find platforms to espouse their inhuman crap is simply humane.
Hating what Nazis stood/stand for has nothing to do with being a bleeding-heart liberal. I've been a registered Republican and gun owner probably longer than most of you who downvoted me have been alive. Along the line it's been my misfortune to encounter a few neo-Nazis and have read their propaganda, going back to the 1960s. These people are a threat to the ideals of the American republic. In Europe, their fellow travelers have acted out on their angry impulses and innocent lives were lost. So, yes, seeing their means of propagating their hatred driven off the Web is a consummation devoutly to be wished. If you espouse Nazi ideology, you are squaring for a fight. Poor widdle Nazis, they got their fight, and they're losing. Hurrah!
US prosecutors drop demand for 1.3m IP addresses of folks who visited anti-Trump site
Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'
Wednesday 23rd August 2017 18:20 GMT
Re: neo-nazi's marching?
That's why it was called "unite the right".
Call it Unite The Flower People; that doesn't make it so. If "The Right" wants to march alongside people who carry Nazi flags, then it is fair to condemn The Right as Nazi sympathizers. That rally wasn't about uniting anything. It was about white supremacy. Get your head out.
Wednesday 23rd August 2017 14:52 GMT
Re: neo-nazi's marching?
@AC:
I didn't read the articles on that occurrence but who labeled them that?
The neo-Nazis labeled themselves, dipstick.
Wednesday 23rd August 2017 14:47 GMT
Transformers
If a global nuclear war occurred, taking out power transformers in countries where they are made -- how will we make replacements? I thought it was a risky time when the former heads of KGB (Andropov) and CIA (George H.W. Bush) were running the world. Now we've got a couple of armed and dangerous Peter Pans, stroking their ticking crocodiles. China is wise to sit this one out. They'll be the main beneficiary if the crocs belch.
Personally, I'd rather be at ground zero for the first wave and just get it over with.
Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won't patch
Monday 21st August 2017 17:52 GMT
Outfoxed
Yikes. I have the latest version available of Foxit for Windows. Looked at their site to see how to make sure it was in Safe Mode. Couldn't find a "Tools" tab/button. Clicked on "About" and some scrolling pop-up appeared, and kept going and going. Wouldn't go away, and then Foxit wouldn't close normally. Had to use Task Manager. Tried downloading User Manual, download crawled to a halt. While still waiting for manual to download, downloaded and installed SumatraPDF. Works, looks okay. Now my default for PDF.
Question: Has anyone audited SumatraPDF for vulnerabilities? Foxit, being popular, is an obvious target, but that doesn't mean the other options are immune to attack.
Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad
Tomorrow, DreamHost will square up to US DoJ to avoid handing over 1.3m IP addresses of anti-Trump site visitors
Friday 18th August 2017 03:38 GMT
Re: Trump brings out the best in people
If the Republicans acted this poorly to Obama, he would have played the race card.
FFS, they did everything in their power to inhibit Obama! McConnell declared that on the first day of Obama's first term. Turn off FNC and learn some truth. Trump himself continued to play the birther card all through. Now Trump plays the victim card. Oh, poor Donny. Born rich and so entitled. Why are people so mean and disloyal to him? Maybe because he's an asshole, getting just what he deserves.
UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots
Friday 18th August 2017 00:57 GMT 
Not that I don't trust government
But I can see so many ways this can go wrong, now and in future. The government you have today is not the government you may have in 5-10-25 years time. Whatever those governments are like, they will have all this data, and you can bet they'll use it. Sure, they'll say the innocent images are deleted. Nudge-nudge wink-wink. Terrorist attacks are bad, but they don't justify the level of intrusiveness so-called Western democracies are engaging in.
The one with a thumb drive containing "deleted" images in the pocket.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
