Posts by Captain DaFt

Re: Let us not forget

"Its good to know that MY future now doesn't rest in the hands these utter cretins."

Let me help you a bit here.

They should (check as applicable)

[]Do drugs, riot in the streets and chase 'Free Love'

[]Snort cocaine and dance in discos all night

[]Spend all their time on the couch watching telly

[]Hang out at shops harassing people and starting brawls

[]Play snooker/pool/darts and drink beer in pubs

[]Follow a cult

During their free time, like I did back in the day.

Made a Man out of me, it did! Youth these days, don't even know they're born.

Re: Golden Brick Capital

"Hey GBC, if you'd like to ring me on this premium rate number I'd like to have a long chat about a bridge I've got for sale ..."

Sorry. But they might not have much cash left after I've sold them exclusive rights to all the seafront property in Nebraska. :)

"I am not sure what possible use the Chinese could have of the details of the F-35."

"Gentlemen, study these stolen plans well and learn from them. They explain in detail the wrong way to build a world class fighter jet."

-I wish that we had a "None of the above."-

Amen to that!

Unfortunately, It's been "bad or worse" choices for President for decades now.

This campaign it's "laughably bad or frighteningly bad".

Re: Passive?

"Only participating nations on Earth have the plans for the International Docking Standard, so passing Aliens will be completely unable to connect to it."

But what if the aliens have an analogue for our universal adapter? IE: gaffer tape.

"You might be a green-neck from Sirius if..." :)

Re: "EU rules still apply until we've actually left."

Well, this just appalls and disgusts me no end!

"£179 towards a hemp farm"

Should've been at least three more digits on that amount!

Re: Tsk

-I was shocked when he said they still have a Tupperware "show"-

I believe the term was "Tupperware Party".

Back in my grandmother's day, if you had too many friends causing way too much of your time to be eaten up with social engagements, throwing a Tupperware party (which usually consisted of bad coffee, stale cake/doughnuts, and a non-stop marketing spiel) usually trimmed down your social contacts to the point you could enjoy life again.

As a young lad with no tastebuds, the leftover stale cake/doughnuts was a welcome treat.

Re: How the fec....?

"do you spend £50m on something like this and not deliver anything?"

It delivered... Cash to the right pockets, and promises of high paying positions later to politicians involved.

Whether or not an actual product that was promised is delivered is beside the point.

Re: Precoolers

"Or am I missing something?"

Just this.

Although turbojets are what most people think of when they hear "jet engine", technically, any engine that provides thrust by a jet of high energy exhaust is a "jet engine".

In fact, rockets are a type of jet engine. That's why These guys use it in their name.

Re: Patching Flash

"No, I'm sure these 52 patches will cover it. There can't be many more problems left with Flash by now?"

It's like treating leprosy by adding more bandages. The disease is within, covering the surface blemishes is futile.

Re: Recognition

"We have "recognition rocks," actual painted rocks that they give out to whoever they want to recognize. You get to keep it on your desk for two weeks, and then you have to give it to someone else."

Hmm, that might actually motivate me.

If I get to pick who gets it and how hard I can throw it. >:)

Re: Well there is a point to this

"In my experience, you read the comments and then realise that the comments have little or no bearing on the actual code..."

Oh, Oh! You mean this one?

/* I wrote this kludge because the boss said if the code wasn't ready to ship tomorrow my ass was fired. I'm starting a better job at a better company next month and I'd prefer to collect a paycheck until then. To whoever gets my job and has to maintain this --- May God have mercy on your soul! */

Re: Limited by the speed of light

"And by the time the data gets here, it's so weak and corrupt as to be indistinguishable from white noise."

Given today's, or any foreseeable, technology of the future, the only way to deliberately communicate with another solar system's intelligent life is the old standard "message in a bottle".

Sending out probes with the message, "This is Who and where we are.", like we did with the voyagers, and hoping that someday, somehow, someone else finds them.

In all probability whoever sent them will be long gone by the time we find any, but at least we'd know that they once existed.

Re: Single line?

"Let's see people produce a complete game or utility when restricted to, what, 40 characters."

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

Cut and paste that in your navigation bar. Boom! Text editor!

Not mine, But I thought it was a clever bit of html.

Re: Coming soon, the newest hacker sport;

"You think the kids of today have an attention span long enough"

There are conventions and play-offs devoted to playing Desert Bus, so I wouldn't dismiss the hardcore gamers playing with cargo ships so casually.

You can play Desert Bus online here, if you're feeling a bit masochistic.

Re: Poor Microsoft

What would you expect them to do?

Actually offer a fun work environment with great benefits and a chance to work on great projects that people actually want?

(He said with a perfectly straight face.)

Re: Interesting downplaying there

"So classified material was definitively found, but they're ignoring it because it's not as bad as it could have been?"

Well, be fair.

If she'd used an officially sanctioned server, that data'd be available for download on the web now. So yes, it could be worse. :/

Re: This explains Project Fear.

"And the aggressive panic spreading through the hipster population."

"Pheromones"

You may be on to something there.

I've noticed an unusual odor that becomes manifest over the stressful Holiday season every Winter wherever hipsters congregate, Eg: coffee shops. It smells like pumpkin spice.

Re: A final throw of the dice before

"But who knows... IF win10 goes subscription, maybe then m$ could be hammered with a class action"

Nah, nah, Win 10 is touted as "The lasted Windows you'll ever buy", buy MS's own marketeers.

As soon as the kerfuffle settles down, there'll be new popups on Win 10 and Win 7 machines;

"Sign up now for NEW Win Cloud*!"

"The perpetually up to date Windows!"

"Only $19.99 a month!"

"[]Yes, at once!"

"[]Ask me again in 10 seconds."

*Or whatever dorky name Windows Marketing comes up with.

"Anything can be verbed."

And it works rather well, too!

"Day off, nowhere to go, nothing on the telly, so I just anythinged around the house all day."

Really? I thought it was an Ubuntu release.

Re: Sheilds up Keptin!

Exactly what I was thinking.

That's no fireworks display, it's the Jovian's reaction:

"Incoming alien ship! Activate the lightning shields!"

Re: How deep?

The deeper you go, the deeper it gets.

Until you realise that no matter how deep you go, you'll never leave the rim.

Re: @ Ol'Peculier

"Marmite, peanut butter and plutonium."

"Two out of three ain't bad..."

Yeah... Peanut butter? EEEW!

Re: It's all relative

"Any relation to the large-handed Brother Lee Love?"

Didn't get the reference, but upvoted for the pun. :)

Re: Or paying £130 for a 1TB hard disk

"That's £30 for the disk and £100 for the pallet it will be delivered on."

Nah, the wooden pallet only costs about £4.

It's the labour and materials, anti-static bag the drive's in, the bubble wrap bag that's in, the box that's in, the Styrofoam peanuts around that in the box that's in, The final box filled with expanded foam that's in, the 60 metres of cling film that wraps that to the pallet, and the plastic straps around everything to secure it.

Then there's the packaging for the manual, warranty, and other paperwork when that arrives 6 months later. :/

"Maybe they're working on an upgrade?"

This. Now that Check Point has searched out the weaknesses and vulnerabilities and published them, it would be foolish for the miscreants not to revamp and harden their software.

"replacing management with "AI" is minimal."

With programs like this, the job's already half done.

All that needs to be added is an input method (text, audio and/or touch) that immediately dumps all input to dev/null, and it's good to go.

Re: Good for her

Bad publicity

you

say?

And that was just a two minute search of web comics.

Word on the street (internet),"Windows 10 will fuck you up!"

Re: What?

"Crooks are using FB? Who would have thought.....?"

For some reason, the phrase, "You'll never find a greater hive of scum and villainy.", springs to mind.

Re: All this jupiter info we'll be getting

"A late thought: why is it no one has sent something to probe Uranus?"

Because we're afraid of annoying Klingons?

Two thirds majority rule, aka Supermajority.

57 votes would have shy the minimum. Yes, it does sound wonky, but it gives them the chance to claim they were for the majority, but those >other party< managed to defeat it.

They're full of tricks like that. They used to vote themselves a payraise every year, until it became a hot topic with the public.

So they quietly passed a law that they get an automatic raise unless they vote against it, and never voted on payraises again.