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Re: Too late

'Maybe no money can buy good laptops anymore, huh?'

Go look at the Panasonic Toughbook line.. - CF53 here, runs fine, lasts a long time...

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Re: Mythbusters

Nah, even the fucking wind tries to kill you in Australia...

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Re: 5 second fixes

^^^ found Sat Nad ^^^

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It could work. I wonder how it tastes....

Like chicken...

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Electrolux isn't that great... Had an overbearing mother who believed in biological remote controls, i.e kids. I have experience with Electrolux, Rainbow, Hoover, ShopVac, various commercial appliances, and Kirby machines. The Rainbow was best at dust control with it's water filter trap, ShopVac for vacuuming up water, but the Kirby hands-down wins on suction for everyday household cleaning. Own an Ultimate G Kirby now lol ($200 on craigslist)

I don't know why I wrote that, but it's true.

Re: Doesn't Windows still have an FTP client?

powershell script:

Import-Module BitsTransfer;

Start-BitsTransfer 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-stub&os=win&lang=en-US' 'firefox_installer.exe'

& ".\firefox_installer.exe"

Enjoy.

Re: I thought Igor was just the lab assistant

it's iGor...

'Whose brain is it?'

'Abby something, Abby Normal.. Yes, that's it.'

Re: Will they vet the ads any better than msn.com does?

That one cracks me up - had one recently that fired up the speakers with alarms & voice-over. Reminds me of an 'Archer' voice mail lol.

Points to the person who writes the malware that not only hits your machine, but also does your IoT appliances, causing alarms & strobing lights in your house... <cue IT Ghostbusters theme>

Re: Well, MSWin is pants...

GTFO ->

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Re: So much for the original intent of the ARPANET

This was a test and only a test...

shitdamnfuck

Re: Insanity

Yes.

Re: recompense?

"IME that counts as an unusually lavish reward."

Didn't even get that after our lead programmer, after 10k+ in performance bonuses, left the state three weeks for a new, more lucrative position before the launch of a new domain registrar he'd been working 6 months on. Customer specified a Windows server which had to deal with Netsol's Unix DNS registration system and the_fucking_programming_didn't_work_at_all and was dropped into my lap...

I'll spare you the details, but the customer launched two days late.

Only issue was I aged 127 years in that 16 days. I'm 181 years old now... all because of Chad and his love of Mazda Miatas in the late 90's...

Re: US voters get what they vote for

<looking at viasat modem> Currently receiving at -45.3 dBm , cloudy w/light rain. Heavy rain will kill it though..

Re: Manual override?

Hey Bob, remember 'Zeroth Law'... 'A robot may not allow humanity to come to harm'. Individuals are discounted.

Re: "the savvy user always had to fuss with anti-malware"

Patches? What patches? Didn't need no stinkin' patches - I had a Nokia...

Be happy you're alive because I never dropped it through the Earth's core ending all life...

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oh nonononono...

Beiberizing an unlocked computer is one thing - that's on you - but messing with a person's car? That's an escalation you will not recover from.

Your body will never be found.

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Re: Dear El Reg, as you are a British .co.uk site

'Digestives'...

This sounds like something that helps you shit - not a damn cookie...

Krispy Kremes are a Southern thing - really good until the diabetes kicks in. Get a craving every year or so, buy a bunch, then go 'Oh yeah, these things are too fucking sweet', until next year.

Edit: the chocolate covered Bavarian creme ones are my weakness... every year or so.

Re: The silver lining

> Hench 4 Life!!

Henchmen never get laid, just paid to be bullet magnets/early alarm systems - need to be a motivated evil lieutenant or better.

Just saying...

Re: But muh headphone jack!

Because Options, that's why... If my BT is connected to my car's OBDII sender, it's not connecting to the stereo system to run my AV, so that headphone jack becomes very important. When I take the 4G enabled tablet into the house, it's BT is free to connect to the home system, yada yada yada..

It's having OPTIONS, man!

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Cpt Blue Bear - <deleted>

Wrote up a nice bright cheerful description of murder, heads on pikes, etc, but decided that might be a bit much for a Sunday.

I would be quite cross with you had I discovered the stock shenanigans.

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Surely you can do better than 100kb/yr?

kk, snide remark... my main wifi router is 70' away, thus the AP 10' ft away, in the other direction.

<raises hand>

Who held the flask for the bear to urinate in? Trained fruit flies?

""Windows is licensed, not sold." - Windows EULA"

Here, hold my beer....

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What does Taylor Swift have to do with... nm

Re: Private Piracy, Arrr

'There's no incentive to do things for "free" anymore'

Spite and anger work well - the rest is details.

that shot messenger...

.. Yeah I don't do that any longer...

I know where a county sheriff's operations server is just hanging out there wide open - ah ain't a-sayin' shite... They don't like me anyways.

It's NOT worth the hassle.

Re: This is another easy win for Facebook

I wonder what kind of connection the graveyard users have? Getting dug up every few years would kinda suck for upgrades... No 5G for you if you died last year... depending on your will and contract with graveyard. Then you have to make sure you actually *get* the upgrades...

What a bitch. Easier not to die.

Re: Maybe, maybe not.

>But ultimately, I foresee some sort of ultra-high density write-once media being developed for long term archival storage.

Already has with MDISC - a bit pricey but worth it imo.

I do. At least once.

From the inside. Already started.

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