Posts by J__M__M

Re: Just one problem with this article...

Americans like Trump can't read. duh.

Re: Shameless RIP OFF!!! 32x price hike

And who says that the $49 subscription fee is cast in stone for the next 10 years...

The only question is, will It go up before they start charging us monthly rent to use Windows, or at the same time.

Re: Subsidised & free MS Licenses?

You say that like there's no pain involved.

Re: Power to the people

The bad caps thing has been over for a long time, but that doesn't mean the caps still aren't the first to go.

Re: Windows 7 to the rescue!

I hate to discourage the positive thinking, but that ain't gonna just work

He then pretended to be the hero that saved the day by "discovering" the kill switch?

Stop being a jerk. First, he tried to remain anonymous until somebody outed him. Second, if you're going to set yourself to be the nerd hero, you don't code a kill switch that any jerk with a godaddy account and a hex editor can activate. He fully admits he stumbled into it.

But hey, if you need to dump on him to make you feel better about yourself, I guess that's what you're gonna do.

Re: FEMA? Why FEMA?

There was a FIRE at the site, too. Fires are an emergency. That's why FEMA was involved (the E in FEMA).

Uh, no. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurs must declare a state of emergency and ask the president for help before FEMA gets involved.

House fire, no. Volcano eruption, yes.

Re: Would love to see the look...

Note the YOU must lock the doors (it's actually emphasised in the policy document)...

So claim denied if your mechanic locks the door? Or the valet? Or the car wash attendant?

Stupid.

Re: Release the game on Russian servers

Q: anybody know if Putin likes Halo Online ?

A: yes, as long as the mod lets you play without a shirt.

This is flat out illegal

So is pot, yet here we are.

Re: 20% drop going to manual

Beancounter: 'How much are we spending on IT?'

IT spending is what pays my bills, and that number has me asking the exact same thing.

Re: we have spirit yes we do we have spirit how about you

"Complaining that there are too many laws is rather like complaining that there are too many lines of code in a program when all that's really needed is a "Do What I Meant" button."

Not exactly. Complaining that there are too many laws is rather like complaining that there are too many lines of code when the same thing can be accomplished using fewer lines of code. The user interface has nothing to do with it.

Unless you and your 14 downvoting friends are federal prosecutors, I'm pretty sure you missed the point (if you are, then you probably got it but don't care since you're more likely to be promoted than held accountable). If federal law is going to span 96 bazillion pages, another bazillion isn't exactly going to cross over that blurry line of human comprehension. We passed that one a long time ago. So basically either define the law or fack off. You can't have it both ways. The word "can't" rather than "shouldn't" is just wishful thinking to those of you still not getting it. Or denial. Whatever.

If ignorance of the law is no defense, maybe there should be an alternative. Defense, I mean. Or you know, like, fair.

The spirit of the law is a euphemism for ambiguity. Ambiguity is step one in the prosecutorial overreach handbook. Go read Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silverglate (or some other helpful amazon suggestion) and get back to me.

I am not unreasonable.

Re: Don't care about how their applications do what they do?

All those people who used to write crap Lotus Notes applications are now 20 years older and in more senior positions....

You'd rather they were still coding?

Re: Did He Have An Option ???

Until you go to court how do you know it's illegal?

You don't, which is exactly and precisely the point. People plead out instead of going to court for a reason, and this is it. Call it creative prosecution, prosecutorial overreach, or whatever... it shouldn't be ok for the so called good guys to pay informants and witnesses, threaten friends and family, "make examples" of people, and most importantly be free of any accountability or responsibility after the fact.

Hit them with what they deserve, but do it without being worse human beings than they are (too much to ask).

Re: A venerable workhorse

Of course there were cases of 4-engined aircraft losing all 4 engines - the most famous being the BA 747 being flown by Capt Ron Moody through a cloud of volcanic ash - but there are very few.

Eric Moody, not Ron. And he made the best in flight emergency announcement in the history of aviation, by the way.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress"

Personally

I would never get in any submarine. Ever. Screw that.

Re: Not again...

Could you please step outside for a moment? If you live in a quiet neighborhood, don't mind the very faint buzzing noise overhead.

Re: 'Smart guns' - an inherent failure

Why is it everyone outside the USA can see what the problem and solution is, but is seems no one inside the USA can?

One possibility might be that you aren't as smart as you think. Do you know how to unring a bell? How about 400+ million of them? Japan has restricted gun ownership since the 16th century and banned them flat out since WWII. In other words there weren't any guns there in the first place, so shut the hell up about Japan already.

And please let us know when you smart guys decide to come down off your high horse and invent a time machine. We'd like to book a seat on the first available flight back to when the 2nd amendment was still relevant to the discussion (about 399,999,999 guns ago).

P.S. Rather than a show of hands, please just click the downvote icon to indicate your lack perspective. Thank you.

Seriously, whoseyourdaddy? Better glue next time?

No glue next time, I'm sure you meant to say (repairability and whatnot)...

Re: Sales pitch

"but it really sucks hard that now you have a box that is actually capable of much faster speeds with no features enabled, that sits idle under max rated throughput because it is now crippled by a license."

Host/user count licensing is better? I'd rather go slow than not at all.

Re: Stats Error!

And 100% of those false positives deserve it. Why? Because they picked a shitty domain name.

Re: Dear Microsoft.

Signed, a pissed off MS customer whom has a lawyer who, sorry whom, would laugh at working on a contingency basis so I'd be looking at $200 an hour billed in 15 min increments for every email, fax, and phone call he can dream up.

Good luck with that.

No, you were premature (that's what she said).

"Always avoided using Keychain with any Apple branded stuff. Was I right?"

"Keydnap isn't exploiting OS X-level bugs, and default Macs are protected by security settings"

Re: @Gray ... Military aggression

They have always had control.... everything but the OFF button, anyway.

Re: You cannot install another OS on the Surface Pro

One more time: his problem is with Secure Boot, not UEFI...

No, his problem is with Microsoft. Downvote away, you pussies.

Re: My opinion on this?

The problem is, your opinion does not matter anymore. MS flat out sucks it.

Re: Security?

If you hire a contractor that isn't worried, both you and the contractor should be fired.

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They clearly aren't very confident about how well they wrote their software then, if they're worried that it's vulnerable to terrorists. Someone ought to push for an independent review of it all, just in case, before they're allowed to deploy the network.

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Re: Oh, look!

Cisco has been claiming they are a software and not a hardware company since the stone age (if I remember correctly). Wrong then, wrong now.

Re: bovine fecal matter!

this points to exactly a failed backup and recovery methodology...

Maybe, not exactly. Unless a lot more than one user clicked the wrong thing at the same time, the principal of least privilege failure comes first, then the disaster recovery failure.

But there were probably a few more before either one.