Posts by John Tserkezis 2242 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
N= IQ x BS^2 x IQ x bS^S
I used to think I was surrounded by idiots.
After I was a little older and a little wiser - I *knew* I was surrounded by idots.
Today I have an mathamatical equasion that explains it.
How this helps me in the future, I have no idea-
Other than knowing that I'll still be surrounded by idiots.
Boo bloody hoo.
I'm not a security expert either, and I'm quite happy to tell you that any WiFi connection should be considered insecure.
A couple of bloggers are complaining? Boo bloody hoo. They're at a security conference for F&%$s sake, where did they *think* they were going?
Sillier still, is the captive portal that OKs users to acknowledge they're on an insecure network. Much like "don't kick and shake the soda vending machine or it'll topple and fall on you", or the beloved "warning, contents of hot coffee cup may be hot".
The orgainisers should seed all these idiot users and prevent entry for the next year's exhibition. They're clearly too stupid to be blogging about things they know nothing about.
Naw, that can't work, that's never stopped bloggers before, and besides, misinformation is pretty much their only line of work.
We know they're not selling a "product", but they, well, *were* selling a "service".
Nothing wrong with that, except they misrepresented their service as being much more palatable than it actually was. There's the minor point that they outright lied about how the service was operating, coupled with disgruntled employees who let the end users know how wonderful employer/employee relations were going at the time, and you have yourself one company that's going down fast.
Of course, I'm quite sure there are other companies that do the same thing, but at least they can lie in a convincing manner, and more importantly, can keep the inner goings-on quiet enough that nobody cares.
So, it appears Spinvox management were a little less endowed in the brain department than most other management types...
Spelling lesson for today boys and girls: Australia is spelt C.H.I.N.A.
No, I can't say that anymore. Since China has canned their Green Dam rollout, they're showing an inkling of sanity - where, of course, Oz doesn't.
And to think of the good 'ole days were we began as a penal colony, kicking out the locals to make room, taking away their children because the government clearly knew more than the natives. Ahh, what a proud history we have...
Calculating the bill for a table of five?
It's called a calculator. All handheld organisers/PDAs had that feature since dot.
Heck, you can still even buy dedicated boxes to do that too, some portable enough to fit in a wristwatch. Wow.
Wobbly shelf?
Ok, I give this one to apple. Shove the iPhone under the wobbly bit and you've fixed it.
You wouldn't dare do this on anything else, as anything else is actually useful for other things too.
Even pocket calculators...
So far, the only thing the iPhone has done for my life is give me something to make fun of in my free time... Thank you Apple. :-)
Because if you make semi-regular trips and have trains turn up every hour, a timetable and trip planner would come in useful. At the very least, to save you waiting nearly an hour for a train you just missed.
But then again, if the timetables are such a random mess as they are here in Oz, you do the same thing you do every other time. Turn up, cross your fingers and hope for the best...
Ok, I've got it.
It grazed his hand, then mid-flight, changed direction, twice, sped up, then hit the ground with suitable force to create a one-foot crater. From the barrel marks on the meteorite, it appears it is actually the very same magic bullet that hit Kennedy.
It's like buying an electronic safe, with a keypad password interface.
To change the password, you need to press a button on the inside.
To get inside the first time, use the factory default password of 1234.
The users/admins, get inside, load it up with goodies and then promptly close it again.
The perp in question first tries the default factory passord, it works and gets away with the goodies.
CLEARLY this is the manufacturer's fault.
> Meaning if you don't warn Ingram, and you buy one of these boxes you're in big trouble.
> Warning Ingram would help in case the police wants to prosecute you....
So, your choice is to NOT tell them and you MAY be prosecuted, or,
you DO tell them and you WILL be prosecuted.
Hmm, which do I choose?
We're all just going to die anyway.
Notice? What notice? They're not going to tell us to prevent mass panic, rioting and looting.
And when they finally do, it's too late because they'll say that tractor beam they were working on doesn't actually do anything after all, and now it's too late and we're all going to die anyway.
But even that's no cause for concern, because we would have already been hit by a bus.
Channel four wishes to advise customers about the following program:
It contains strong language, consisting of:
The word "Fuck" 40 times
The word "Fucker" 30 times
The word "Fucked" 26 times
The word "Shit" 4 times
And numerous assorted other phrases which could be seen as offensive.
It contains mild violence (if the throwing of some pots and pans count)
It contains trace elements of people cooking something.
It contains no sexual themes, no nudity, nothing that could even vaguely be considered erotic, actually nothing even remotely attractive at all.
So, if you still want to watch this program, we would advise that you instead fuck off and do something more productive with your life.
This is all a moot point.
This will not acheive any widespread use. And not from backlash either.
Its use will be limited by the same crooks who are evangelising it in the first place.
Think about it:
If no-one was capable of going over the speed limit ever again, where would all the speed (sorry, saftey) camera revinue come from? Anyone who thinks is just being penalised for doing wrong is an idiot, Speed (sorry, saftey) cameras are structured as a revinue tool.
Crafty PR work can make *anything* look like *anything* else. It doesn't change what it actually is.
This is yet another example of them dishing out saftey propaganda, making it *look* like they're doing something, but in reality, they're just tossing as per usual.
> In order to verify this, you'd need to have some volunteers who are prepared to be kept awake
> by excessive noise (or something other than sunlight) for six months and then check chemical
> levels in the brain (and compare them to a control group and also against results from people
> who had been kept awake by light). It's called the scientific method.
Er, not it's not. For one thing, you're assuming that _measureable_ chemical changes in the brain are instrumental to whether or not the subject wants to kill themselves, and that the chemical changes are absolute rather than relative, and, you're assuming the subjects aren't going to kill themselves before the end of the test anyway.
I know I would, purely out of principal just to screw with your results. So there, I win.
Did you not get paid for monies on those 99c apps that peddle porn or kill babies, marketed to users that are too stupid to do their homework on better products?
Did the writers of the apps that are actually useful, not realise they're writing for the same market?
And now they're all suprised that Apple who was marketing all this crap to an idiot market can't handle all the payments because they didn't actually realise that that many people would be that stupid to buy into it in the first place?
I can't complain too loudly though, I bought an iPod, and am still kicking myself over it. Sheeze.
With the way patents are going, I should be able to get away with patenting water.
Everyone admires it, drinks it, cooks with it, bathes in it, swims in it, float their boats in it:
Nope, you can't get away, I rightly deserve royalties for you using it.
By the time the morons at the patent office realise something, I've made off to the Bahamas, where I can lay back and enjoy the fruits of my labour - more water.
This reminds me of the note we recently started seeing during logon at work, saying we must comply with the company's Internet code of conduct and such. Which is very nice, except that it isn't written yet.
Sorta like saying:
Corporation : Welcome to our company, condition of entry here says you must comply with our rules.
Employee: Sure, what are they?
Corporation: We're not going to tell you.
Can't see why he's complaining, I mean ABBA went out in the 70's (or perhaps the 80's for the weirdos), and no self-respecting pirate would be caught dead downloading ABBA now.
And "Mamma Mia"? Are you kidding? Nearly a dozen actors singing a bunch of ABBA tracks I didn't really want to listen to in the first place, and only two of them could sing well enough to not want me to puncture my eardrums. Box office hit my arse.
He should be suing the producers for making such a heap of crap. No wait, he was one of the producers right? And he still let it happen?
This began early on when Mr McMySpace said it started as an idea to make money by selling off details that users would otherwise not care about handing out. Run a "social networking" site for a while, then sell it off and make a bucketload of money.
Now that Mr McFaceBook wants some coin to justify the outlay of offering yet another "social networking" site, everyone cries foul?
If you want an social network site, then use the well-established newsgroup system. Don't worry, newsgroups are littered with port, spam and malware too.
If you're lonely, talk to your damn neighbour. They're less likely to tell the rest of the world too.
This justifies a 'poor baby, now shut up and get over it'. So there.
I'm sick of it.
No really, I'm sick of telling people not to buy into scams, and they're still too stupid to see it.
The Green CD pen was the last straw for me.
That's it, from now on, I'm going to whole-heartedly recommend crap, especially if it's a scam, simply because I can get a laugh at how stupid they are.
So there. This Green spot, is, really really good. Go out and buy it.
It's sold by a pharmaceutical company after all. That says it all.
"Senator Conroy compared the Labor government's filtering proposals to schemes in the UK and Sweden"
And China.
I have yet to meet a list that doesn't have some "innocent" entries in there, so I'll be calling to disable it when it's finally turned on - and I'll be encouraging others to do the same.
I'm a big boy now, I don't need some mindless politician who's trying to earn brownie points make up my mind for me.
Back in the early days of windows, the company I worked for wrote some windows software as an alternative to the DOS option.
As we know, if you try to run a windows exe under dos, it replies with 'this program must be run under windows' or words to that effect.
Except ours said 'you can't run this under dos you fucking moron' or words to that effect.
I told my supervisor, who I imagine told the right people, who would have suggested to the programmers to 'adjust the message'.
Or words to that effect.
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