* Posts by jonnycando

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Ground control to Major Tim! Brit's spacewalk halted after NASA 'naut takes unexpected leak

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Hmmm

Two leaky suits. Makes a body wonder, yes indeed.

Boffins baffled by record-smashing supernova that shouldn't exist

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The past.....

It occurs to me, that as we look farther and farther out, we look farther and farther to the past....and we WILL see more things like this...ever more, ever more frequently. For at some point we will be looking at the the very first instance. The initial eruption of the big bang, if you will.

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Of course

This all happened in the past and now there is probably nothing or something very different in that precise location.

Nest thermostat owners out in the cold after software update cockup

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Why?

Does anyone at all, turn their hvac system over to a Internet connected doodad? That's something that must work, and anything software based is by nature persistently in beta. Honestly!

Obama: What will solve America's gun problem? What could it be? *snaps fingers* Technology!

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Exactly, and as has been oft said....they may have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead hands....and I am dead serious.

Got a Nexus? Google has five critical Android security fixes for you

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WTF?

I hope

Cyanogemod has already pushed out the fixes, but if not I do check out every nightly build that comes my way.

NZ unfurls proposed new flag

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Hmmm

Well if I have to pick one I reckon its the red white and blue fern..... But i am not a Kiwi so....

Sued for using HTTPS: Big brands told to cough up in crypto patent fight

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Re stu 18

Or just put all patent trolls before a firing squad.

Network problems? It's not just you. Level3 outages reported in the US

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Re Texas....

All you have to do now is cede Austin to California!

We're not killing Chrome OS ... not until 2020, anyway – says Google

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Re memo

Should be doable once you discover what little trick enables r/w on your device. And if it didnt come with seabios, that will have to flashed.

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Still gonna

Put seabios on my c710 followed by ohhhh....gentoo or arch, or maybe mint.

Star Trek to go boldly back onto telly, then beam down in streams

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None are reboots

All the trek shows and movies are canon. At least to some degree. Even the new movies are for both parallel and non parallel timelines are repeatedly demonstrated as commom throughout the franchise. As a subscription series however, cbs dooms this idea to failure.

Big mistake, Google. Big mistake: Chrome OS to be 'folded into Android'

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Might be time...

To put some linux distro on my chromebook.

FBI boss: No encryption backdoor law (but give us backdoors anyway)

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People know

Obama knows a dead horse when he sees one I guess. And the companies know that if we know there's holes in their encryption we will abandon them and they will go broke. I hope they got the bollocks to keep saying no!

Scary Trans-Pacific Partnership trade treaty signed off

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No lackey needed

If he did readit he made plenty sure it would cost the usa as many jobs as possible. Got to have everyone sucking the government teat after all. The only way it could be bad in his eyes is if Americans prosper. But he will pretend to be overjoyed.

Devious Davros, tricksy Missy and Dalek Clara delight in The Witch's Familiar

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I think Capaldi is gonna fire on all 8 cylinders this year, but I really am addicted to Moffat's story lines, and that's what I tune in to see. That dude is truly warped, and a genius!

Ashley Madison made dumb security mistakes, researcher says

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Devil

Re: deja vu all over again

This saga just gets sillier....sadder also, but sillier.

Oracle laying off its Java evangelists? Er, no comment, says Oracle

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About Time

Java is so over and done with, and Oracle are giving tacet acknowledgement.

Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them

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This is getting.....

Far and away too common.

Company in shambles, marriages ruined. My work here is done, says Ashley Madison CEO

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Sign of the times maybe

Well, I certainly don't approve of what the site was about, but they are a poster child for the carelessness and dishonesty web based companies approach security with. It could and well already has been any kind of ecommerce agent.... After every attack of this comes to light, one is forced to wonder.....weren't they reading the news? Did they really think..."it can't happen to us" ? Oh, but I do get it...it's just a business, it's there to make money...nothing more.

Google watchers react furiously to ad flinger’s competition case defence

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WTF?

What's all the hubbub?

I use Google all the time. I am not aware they that they sell much more than nexus gadgets. Sure if you search for a certain product google will present you with paid sponsors first, and perhaps those sellers that accept google wallet. Fact is, its not hard to find your favorite seller in any given set of search results

Take two mobes into the shower? I didn't before, but I do now

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Need something for cdma

Like a phone with two cdma radios, or the 4g sim unlocked by default so we can choose either or. Used to be there were dual nam phones in the analog days. Oh for the freedom of choice!

OpenOffice project 'all but dead upstream' argues prominent user

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Mushroom

Microsoft laughing?

They may well, but Libre Office is living large and ain't going anywhere! Microsoft for its part fades steadily into irrelevance right along maybe with OpenOffice. Keep calm and carry on, there is something right in the world after all!

Linux boss Torvalds: Don't talk to me about containers and other buzzwords

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Good talk.

Linus may be ever so terse and gruff sometimes, but darn it, he makes sense!

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Southern biscuits and gravy

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Late to the party

But as a bonafide Southerner whose arteries are clogged with more than a little sausage gravy, let me say, that this is a po folks dish and it out to be kept simple. Our biscuits have no sugar because sugar was expensive in the old days, but we could grow our wheat for flour easy enough. So a biscuit really wanted to be a scone but through serendipity it ended up being a unique and lovely thing. Now for the gravy it needs nothing but flour and milk at most, the very most. A touch of baking soda will give some lift but that is really fru fru. The whole savoriness of the dish is the seasoning of the sausage which ends up flavoring the gravy and all. Some black pepper and maybe a dash of salt are all you will ever need further, if you even want those. When it comes to biscuits.....chill your dough before you cut out the biscuits, and promplty bake them, they will come out flaky this way. Also, the best biscuits are the ones which become stone within a few hours. They must be eaten quite fresh. Whoever mentioned browning the gravy........don't you dare. Not for this dish.

Wanna harvest a stranger's Facebook data? Get a mobile number and off you go

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Devil

Only put on Facebook....

...rather, put nothing in Facebook. Don't join if you haven't already. If you have, well.....I don't know.

HP insists 'we don't have a global dress code' – while deleting one from its website

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Re: Linen

Well, they do get wrinkly, but...........

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Linen

In the Southern states of USA you can easily buy linen suits suitable for warm weather. Look good, stay cool, buy linen!

Wait, STOP: Are you installing Windows 10 or RANSOMWARE?

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An idea

So if you fall for this. Remove hard drive, put new one in, and restore your backup. You did make backups didnt you?

CVS shutters photo website in credit-card hack attack scare

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Booze and sticky carpets

Not the ones in my state. For one thing state has monopoly on liquor and sells it in its own stores only. And CVS stores here are clean or at least not carpeted. They are run by vultures however. I had to take my 8000 dollar a month prescription to Walgreens

HP won't ship PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled until mid-August

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Linux

I wont have to worry.

Not a windows box anywhere in the house. And we sure aren't missing it.

GIGANTIC galaxy-chomping black hole rips boffins a new one

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Ancient History

11 billion light years away? That means you are seeing that far into the past. That whole galaxy may have been slurped up by that black hole by now.

Apple Music: First three months for free? We lasted less than 3 hours

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Meh is right.

Gotta mac, got Itunes, got iPod. Gonna get Apple Music? Not. When I want music its on my Ipod, when I want radio, I turn it on and listen to the Beeb! Yea, we have it in the States too!

Supreme Court ignores Google's whinging in Java copyright suit

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Ought to be mooted

Google probably are guilty as sin, but since Oracle raped and pillaged Sun well, they are no Saints either. And Java is so over and done.

Hackers exploit fresh PC hijack bug in Adobe Flash Player, the internet's screen door

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Adobe ought

......to just stop publishing Flash. It would be honorable. And in the long run cheaper than constant patching.

Uber app will soon maybe track you 24/7, cry privacy warriors

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I think

That I will just walk.....

Google endures wobbly Wednesday in the cloud

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And...

You want to do cloud storage? Why izzat?

Open-source Linux doesn't pay, said no one ever at Red Hat

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Even if it doesn't pay.

It puts windows to shame.

Auto-playing video ads? People love auto-playing video ads – Twitter

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Tweet me not

I only had twitter cause that was the only way to engage one of my nieces. When she was more accessible we both stopped using it. I for one dont miss it.

Disconnect app maker runs to EU to moan about Android

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had it

I actually had Disconnect. You can sideload it after all. And it does work. It works so well that some sites are broken to point that nothing will load.

Microsoft points PowerShell at Penguinistas

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really?

Why would I taint perfectly good linux kit with something from Microsoft? I am clueless.

'Just follow the damn Constitution!' FBI, DoJ skewered over demands for crypto backdoors

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Not Often

does Washington listen, but once in a while....

You know where Apple Pay is getting used a LOT? Yes - McDonalds

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If anyone wants to know why Android wallets haven't flown, let's consider Google Wallet. When it first came out, you could enter information for whatever accounts you wanted, and then go bonking. Later updates completely obfuscated access to the pay per bonk functions such that getting it up and ready took ten times longer than just whipping out a debit card. Google Wallet may well want to be many things. But the version that lives on my phone only needs one function. And that is to bonk!

As bankruptcy looms for RadioShack, we ask its chief financial officer... oh. He's quit

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The Radio Shack I knew disappeared ages ago. What withers on the vine now will not be missed. Nevertheless I have mixed feelings.

Doctor Who season eight scripts leak online

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Spoiled?

Even if I see a spoiler, I am gonna watch. Gotta watch. I must, and I cannot resist!

Judge rules Baidu political censorship was an editorial right

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confusion?

He's lawyer for the plaintiff. He's paid to look at it that way!

This changes everything: Microsoft slips WinXP holdouts $100 to buy new Windows 8 PCs

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vicariously reading

So glad I have Macintosh and Linux boxes!

Booze and bacon sarnies: A recipe for immortality?

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I'm game

Pint of Guineas and two rashers please!

'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users!

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Well, it's a disaster to be sure, but fortunately most of my members participate via email, except when they first sign up. At least the basic LISTSERV functionality remains...errr....functional.

Microsoft Xbox gaffe reveals cloudy arrogance

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Devil

Re: Tethering in USA...Yes, it costs a goodly fortune and then some. Unless you have rooted your phone and installed something less ornery, like Cyanogenmod that allows tethering without cost. I do believe one's carrier can tell when you are doing it, and may throttle you but you get what can get when you can get it.

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