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Does Easyjet fly to the US? Noted in DailyMail (British National Enquirer cracks me up, Kardashians instead of alien babies) that they had an issue...
'sides, doesn't matter to TSA - carry-on or checked in, they've managed to destroy two business laptops for me in their performance of security theatre. I've moved on to Toughbooks but haven't tried my luck recently.
The Native American Wor-Wic Tribe is very litigious and will most likely be sending a cease and desist letter shortly.... OR:
"Wor–Wic Community College is a 2-year institution located in Salisbury in the Eastern Shore region of Maryland, offering both credit and continuing education classes. The college's name is a portmanteau of Maryland's Worcester and Wicomico counties"
There ya go.
'I shitteth thee not - I saw a 20-something "homeless" kid a while back with a "Vietnam Vet - Please help" sign.'
If they self-identify as Civil War vets, you better respect that fact - don't want to go to jail for discrimination in the Land of Fruits & Nuts...
;)
... would have the FCC investigate how ISPs like Verizon, Exede, Comcast, Hughesnet, etc calculate data usage.
I know for a fact Exede can/will/is lying about data use - have logs, docs, screenshots, hardware to prove it etc - but who do you complain to? No one really gives a shit unless Trump is pissing them off for whatever today's reason is...
Can't even bitch at Darth Cheeto directly since the bastard banned my happy ass on the various social media apps.
'I'm also Luddite enough not to need charging sockets (ooh, that sounds a bit cyberpunk)'
Luddite or Boy Scout? Could just have proper kit with proper batteries... It's a rare case that I need to plug in for power (8-12 hours on Toughbook, if that runs out, 6-8 hours on tablet, then couple of days with my new Moto Z Force ((LG G5 only got about a day)) ).
Oh yeah Re: 'Fresh as a Daisy'. I get that - my routine requires 3 hours from bed to site. First hour: Coffee, catch up on what passes for news, no talk, determining if I want to live of not. Second hour: Three S+C - Shit, Shave, Shower, & Cheerleading (It's gonna be a good day, it's gonna be a good day...). Third hour: Travel time, with stop for daily Gatorade & sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit - arriving early with genuinely faked sunshine and a thinly disguised side of hate & discontent.
Good Morning! (ya bastard...)
Quid pro quo...
'USAians not liking the government hoarding data but not minding corporations hoarding it allows Microsoft to do what it does - take the government to court and at the same time produce an OS that hoards data.'
<rant>
^this^ is what drives me crazy as a USAian - <deleted>Silicon Valley has been practically living in the <deleted> White House for the last 8 years and the <deleted> gov types allow it to happen as long as they get access to the <deleted> data. This gives them that <deleted><deleted> legal crevice is which to say 'Oh No, We Don't Have The Data - They Do' and the <deleted> corporations playing the <deleted> martyr card protecting the <deleted> poor American from Big Gov', all the while sharing everything you hold dear WITH the <deleted> bastards 'perfecting their machine language/prediction/world domination'
My Ass! <deleted> <deleted>
</rant>
Ahem... 'scuse me...
Yeah, they don't like that.
Held my wife up so long punishing her for asking for a pat down instead of going through the machine, she almost missed her flight. Then TSA was eyeballing me looking at my watch, wondering when/if she was going to make it, since I could *see* her from where I was in the terminal, and TSA comes over to hassle me...
Security Theatre...
*the one with no pockets, cuz TSA doesn't like that either...
... I generally only see what my phone looks like until a proper case for it is found, usually Case-Mate, and shipped out. It's a three step process - buy phone, apply ballistics glass screen protector, insert into case - wait 2-3 years, repeat.
My latest phone, a Moto Z Force, is a good phone but slippery as hell without a case. Even with an allegedly shatterproof screen, I was afraid of throwing the damn thing across the room by accident, until the case was delivered.
It used to be that as long as the alternator/generator was good, your car would run with a bad battery. Ever since they started putting computer engine/transmission controls in vehicles, your battery has to be the correct size and properly operating, or electrical gremlins will begin to appear throughout the vehicle. Sucks but there you go.
Optima batteries (spiral wound/dry cell style) aren't as good as they used to be and are more expensive since they moved production to China fyi. A good marine deep cycle battery is now a better purchase.
The SSD Pro versions are fucking awesome - 10 year warranty with 300 TBW compared to it's nearest competitor Sandisk with also a 10 year warranty but only 80 TBW. My Toughbook CF-53 goes from cold boot to login on Windows 8.1 in 6 seconds ;)
Going to go back over the story, but how did the washing machine division do? I have one of their Spinning Washers of Death & note Samsung is paying Dish TV to apply the fix(es).
I wondered why Vista failed so hard at the time - was running Vista Pro with no issues whatsoever - what I found was it was the consumer editions of Vista that sucked ass. That, and putting Vista on XP-era-Microsoft-Vista-Certified-Compatible equipment.
That's what I saw at the time, anyway.
'At least a Samsung would just go boom. Problem solved!'
Funny you should mention that - A Dish Network van & overly awake tech showed up this morning and fixed our Samsung washer. Said of the three models affected, ours was the 'middle one' in ease to fix, added something called an 'S' bracket, and was on his way in 15 minutes. Also said the new sticker would be along shortly, they were behind on that.
Good thing too, thought that washer was going to come through the wall this weekend.
Thank you for that - can only upvote once but what the holy hell was this?
'When I’m in the country side I’m rustic, authentic. When I’m in the city I’m urban. You can change, can’t you?'
What did Lester do? Why would he say this? This is a guy who would/could rip you to shreds and then laugh, sing, dance, and fornicate in your entrails. As former entrails, I am suspicious.
Ya'll have my email - somebody hit me up.
There you go - my interactions with Lester in 2000 over a damn El Reg Vulture pin contest were venomous and it took John Lettice to smooth things over - but it IS a nice pin.
That being said, that was a nice obit - quite a bit of information about Lester's life. Seems he led a pretty interesting life and got around quite a bit - which is how it should be, I think. I wonder what made him essentially say 'Fuck it'? Had to have been huge - that's not the guy I had a flame war with.
In the end here though, I'm feeling my mortality - Cheers, Lester! You get to live forever in the Wayback Machine! You fuck!
Dennis 'Yeehaw' before the fuckup, now '404' Price
Why doesn't JD use an OBDII type system where you *could* buy a scanner to diagnose problems? You're still going to be buying parts from them.
I have a couple of scanners for my vehicles, one basic and one that will update from the internet, and they are invaluable for my maintenance/repair. Dealers cost an arm and a leg, can't afford to let them do the same thing I can do in the driveway myself.
... I mentally placed Windows 10 in the malware category. If the builtin spyware, forced updates, and dismantling the Pro editions of Windows wasn't bad enough - the Red X Betrayal was the final nail in the coffin.
I even bought a cheap $149 Dell laptop just to run Raspberry Pixel for shits and grins - wouldn't bother before, but now? Fsck 'em.
'Sadly every instantiation of a "socialist" government actually results in government-by-centralised-clique. I don't know what causes this, as socialism is wonderful in principle.'
Yep, socialism is great on paper - yet the one element everybody underestimates are the humans involved. People are people and they do all kinds of crazy shit 24/7.
Open source is a threat to the leadership of China, can't have people writing their own code and going anywhere they want on the web. They can't control open source because it is open source.
Edited to say: Favorite quote from one of the Avenger movies 'They are unruly and therefore cannot be ruled' - that's humanity in a nutshell right there.
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