Posts by Captain DaFt

Re: Mixed feelings

Simples, First data breach, banned from commerce for one working week. Twice, One working month. Thrice, banned for three months, etc, etc.

There'd never be a second data breach.

Re: Like we "love" chlamydia?

"We had a chlamydia growing up our wall.

Lovely flowers."

Yes, they do best when planted with perineum.

Yeah, a better analogy would be a pond surrounded by a marsh.

Trying to pinpoint exactly where water gave way to firm dry land is impossible.

Best you can do is say, "Over there is dry land, over there is water, and in between is neither."

Right now Voyager is somewhere in between, probably closer to dry land than water.

Re: Beg pardon?

-Instead of which he seems to be arguing that the victims of such breaches should STOP their current efforts to try to make their personal data transfers as secure as possible. Which would, of course, help the criminals.

Does not compute.-

But if the Cyber*-criminals have to find honest work due to hardened security making honest work easier than criminal work, What's the use of Cyber*-Cops?

*GEEZ!

Re: Against the wind

"NASA seems unconcerned tho, so maybe it's not a significant issue."

Well, Cassini is near EOL, so NASA's ready to take liberties with it's final days. It's next mission will dive it between the innermost ring and the planet 22 times.

If it survives that, it's straight into the heart of Saturn so Cassini'll avoid colliding with Titan or Enceladus.

In case they may be harboring life, they don't want to contaminate them.

http://news.discovery.com/space/cassini-grand-finale-nasas-saturn-missions-daring-end-140707.htm

Re: Isn't oxygen a metabolite...

It's the giant space goat, I tell ya!

Round up the marketeers, lawyers, bankers, middle management, and politicians, get them on the B-ark, pronto!

(Uh, let's hang on to the telephone sanitizers this time.)

Remember kids, don't download yellow data!

"Would you be willing to go without if it's bio or bust (as in ALL the vendors do it, especially if required by law)?"

As far as non-essential uses go, comply fully.

As far as essential uses go, comply only if there wasn't a work-around.

Why? Because it would insure that within two years using biometrics for security would be banned as unsafe, since so many baddies would be spoofing it as to render it useless.

Re: Ohh nasty

you're way too kind.

I'd slip them one of these: http://www.xamuel.com/blank-mp3s/ for a ringtone, and watch the hilarity ensue as they miss calls.

Re: Say what you like about Hollywood Hackers

"I particularly love the ones who can stare at a screen of hex and infer something important for the plot from it (beyond 'oh look, a bunch of hex')"

Dead easy if you have one of those Hollywood "projection screens" that mirrors everything from the monitor to your face.

Feeds the data straight to your brain, don'cha know. :)

Re: Wouldn't be worth it...

"Speak for yourself. I'm on 40 rashers a day."

Hear, hear! Once there was a website that claimed that each slice of bacon took two minutes off your life, and had a handy test to help you determine how much life expectancy you'd lost due to bacon.

After taking the quiz, and subtracting the years they said I'd lost from my (then) current age, I discovered that I'd died back in 1986!

So keep the bacon coming, it can't hurt me now!

Re: SLA

"https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/657499167535800320"

Oh damn, that is priceless! I nearly choked laughing!

Re: America is now actively hostile to EU data residentsy

"There, FTFY"

Nah, just strike off everything after the word "hostile", and it's fixed.

Re: Warning! Incoming

-"Ordinary people" are aware of the telemetary in Windows 10 but aren't IT experts or work in IT...? Jog on. Most "IT experts" I come across don't even know about it, let alone the great unwashed!-

Are you trying to tell me that artists are more informed than "IT experts"? Because on most of the art sites I frequent, they are howling over that little thing called Win10!

-And most people you know "are moving towards Mac's because they need to run tools like Photoshop"... Really?-

Yes, really. Many are edging away from Photoshop to other software since the subscription model, but most depend on Photoshop.

-Linux has dozens of tools that can do the job too.-

True. But for people that've used Photoshop for years, and know nothing else, they're better equipped to climb the North face of Everest than tackle the steep learning curve of most free offerings.

-none of the platforms has some magical edge when it come to heavy photo editing.-

No, but people are familiar with Windows, and OSX isn't so different, plus most major commercial art software is supported on both, so it's easier for them to jump ship to OSX, than jump into Linux Distros, None of which support the software that they're familiar with.

Re: With any luck...

"Darwinian process will eliminate the clueless"

Sorry, it won't work that way. We're talking about tons of metal hurtling along at close proximity to each other.

So the clueless and careless are more likely to take out anyone around them, regardless of "fitness".

Re: Only way I see it....

I'd say it's more: The NSA broke the US Government's total access to the World's use of the internet.

Re: Phew

So we get informed on how often you cheat on your right hand then?

Re: Worrying part of this

"and will the moon, in it's 24 hour orbit of said Earth be anywhere near the place it will pass?"

From the article:

"but it will be close to the waning gibbous Moon and probably challenging to see with small telescopes"

So there's a chance, just a chance, mind you, POW!

Re: Bah!

"The living rock creatures in a cra**y horror sci-fi film"

This one? It wasn't so bad.

The remake sucked balls though.

Re: Mage Communications service providers have a critical role

"How about, rather than constantly banning this material, creating a single official website with the best valid counter arguments and supporting evidence to every bad/wrong/extreme idea that's presented?"

Sadly, that'd never work because the best valid counter argument to a bad idea is usually something else the ruling bodies consider "radical".

Of course, they could just use the counter-arguments they use now; it'd be a single page consisting of, "Because terrorists threaten our freedom! Think of the children! You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide! REPORT ALL SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR!"

Of course, you could only read it* after filling out a 12 page questionnaire detailing ever factor of your life, "to enhance services".

*Well, not it exactly, except on alternate Tuesdays that are even numbered, between the hours of 2am and 2:02am. Otherwise you'll either see a 404 error, or a note saying the page is currently being revamped, try again later.

Re: I have an "Internet" microwave

Was he making nachos?

Re: Maybe I'm too cynical ...

"In this day and age I'm not sure it's possible to be too cynical..."

And people that would have been called paranoid ten years ago now come off as a bit naive.

Re: Fridge on the Net

"A fridge that can tell you..."

"a toaster that emails you..."

"a washing machine that ....errrr randomly emails you..."

No, not you, them, the advertising agencies that want all that lurvly lurvly data about your daily routine, shopping habits, consumption levels of various goods, that sort of stuff so they can sell it to advertisers and marketeers to help them pinpoint target you with ads you don't want or need.

Also, sell it to your Government, your boss, the local plod looking to pad their arrest records, your ex-spouse, or anybody else that can pony up the cash. All while reassuring you about your "enhanced customer experience".

Welcome to the goldfish bowl.

The above comment is really excellent if read in Gilbert Gottfried's voice! :)

Re: I'll do them one better...

I'm with you. I'd rather visit a site where the owner is an enthusiast that pays $10 a month for a site with simple HTML, and has real content, with an IRC channel for fellow enthusiasts to chat on, than a site with elaborate java script and html5 complexity that's run for profit by someone with no interest in the subject other than profit, with a comment system that's run by a company that monitors every response to provide marketing feedback.

Re: Read the EULA, people

-Unless it's Microsoft's next extortion venture: "That's a nice business you got there, it'd be a shame if anything were to happen to it, wouldn't it? For a small fee, Guido here will see to it that no unfortunate ... upgrade ... befalls your business ...."-

"Next"? That's been SOP all along:

Wanna run your business on Windows? Super, it's fast, easy, efficient, and reliable... Just sign here, here, and here.

Good, you're all set! Of course, we'll need you to pay all these licenses, annually, and, oh yeah, you'll definitely need to buy Windows Support for quite a hefty sum for when things can go wrong, and they will!

What? Of course we said it's reliable... *Snerk, hmpphh, BWAA-HAHAHAHAHA!* Ahem. Just keep paying and hope we don't alter the deal further. *Spoiler* We will!