Posts by Mark 85

Re: Trusting trust

The human factor is the big one. Seems crims (and even non-crims) forget the old "under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me".

I don't believe that any insurance company at this point would offer coverage that includes a "space flight". Those companies do love their exclusions like "auto racing", "acts of war/terrorism", flying in "experimental aircraft". Maybe aircraft is close enough to "spacecraft"?

I take that back a bit... Lloyds of London would for a very heavy premium.

Re: Small guage chicken wire?

Screening or chicken wire is the answer. Window screening will also keep out flies. I guess I don't understand the entire problem as I would have put screening on all the windows and also a screen door.

Re: Bellowing Boss!

The kind that show up and bark a few ill thought out orders and storm off, only to return a few days with newer, better, ill thought out plan! Only to show up next week and call a meeting to come up with a better plan!!

Been there too. Lately though it seems like politicians have picked up on this. The wilder the proposal and the more shocked response they get seems to encourage them. I'm believing bosses and politicians should both spend 100% of their time on the golf course and never, ever even get close to the office.

Re: Came here ...

What are you, Mr. Cruz, some kind of Commie?

I think "commie" is the wrong word. Think political party in Germany in the late 30's to mid-40's. Cruz's party does seem to be following certain playbooks published by that German party.

As my wording.. I'm censoring myself. I have friends on other sites that have been blocked for using the real names of those I mentioned.

Re: Broke my little toe...

Does anyone win? I thought they just went on and on until everyone lost interest.

Usually whoever is the "banker" in my experience. My little brother used to win a lot of times and always as the banker. He turned that experience into a carrier. And now people wonder why I don't trust financial types.

Re: New variation on “my dog ate my homework”

Perhaps in say 10 years from now, there will be a "Who Me?" article that will explain what happened.

Re: What happened to "Don't Be Evil"?

Well, kill them but make sure that all the data they hold has been slurped. Or something like that.

When you see how inaccurate the popular media (Newspapers, movies, TV) are about topics you know something about, you have to wonder if they're just as sloppy about "dramatising" other areas, e.g police procedures.

I think you hit it. Current media, etc. doesn't seem to hire the best qualified but the cheapest which are usually the cheapest and consists of those fresh out of school (if they actually pursued a degree is questionable). It's getting worse do to "influencers" (hate that term) who just get followers of the same mindset. But the language is changing, for good or bad and usually "bad".

I am an old "hacker" and proud of it having spent many years hacking away at the IT coalface.

Re: Sounds good, I'll start

Duel of the Titans.... Boris Johnson vs. Donald Trump.

@bombastic bob -- Re: For the love of the wee man

Too many places would suddenly cause a major firestorm in IT since manglement would want easier access. Probably set all passwords to "password121".

You'll want to avoid any routes with sharp turns by the look of it

Also avoid potholes, high berms, ruts, and probably any road less than flat.

Re: Can he keep it?

Even if he keeps it, what good will it do him? Reports say his active vocabulary is about 100 words. I doubt he would even know how to turn the thing on.

In Trump's pardons, apparently it wasn't just political. There were news stories about pardons being sold for $2,000,000. And junior was running the pardon show not the official office for Pardons.

Read into that what you wish...

Re: Missing the point

I have to agree here. He's used the old maxim about "tell a lie often enough and it becomes truth". but the one that gets overlooked is "the first victim of war (or politics) is the truth". Reality is what one perceives as true and the last four years truth has been trampled.

The last several months, the truth has been kicked to curb with all the claims of fraud and no evidence. Trump seems to admire dictators and from watching, many of his attacks and lies tell us more about who or what he thinks he is than what the Constitution says the President should be and do.

Many of us fear for the Republic as the norms have changed, many broken and killed. Where we'll be in the coming years is hard to say. The US could recover and be restored or it could keep descending to the level of banana republic.

I hope it recovers but that remains to be seen.

I believe that someone, somewhere as a form of humor, took this book and re-titled it "Management Handbook" and everyone took it seriously.

Re: ACL

I do note that Kreb's was fired as head of cybersecuriy just before this all came out for saying that the election was secure. I would think that he was so busy fighting with the WH over "secure election" that his staff was distracted from the hack.

Trump is good at "distraction" like stage magicians use and with Russia involved, he really needed to distract everything away from them. The mere fact he owes big money them is enough for any prosecutor to start making a case. His many denials also seem to point to it.

Basically, Trump isn't known for honesty and is in things only for himself.. One just needs to look at what its benefiting him financially and follow the money.

Re: Infra-red

The best thing about line-of-sight remote controls is that they don't upload your button presses to a server in California.

Which is why they're considered "obsolete" by the industry.

Re: Hmm

Back in the mid-80's I was doing racing photography and occasionally some model work as a second job. I learned very quickly that photo processing places weren't to be trusted when I went in to pick up some work and found they'd printed some large photos to hang in the shop. I also learned from others that often, most photo shops had a "secret filing cabinet" in back for copies of the more.. shall we say "interesting" photos.

After the photos being displayed (with out credit to me), I bit the bullet and bought the equipment to develop and print the photos myself. A lot less stressful and actually pretty enjoyable.

Re: Auguste Kerckhoffs

Other articles say that the text was not written left to right but diagonally which probably stopped many who might have decoded it. Zodiac did some thinking outside the box.

Re: a "growing new interest in nude cleaning in British society"

Just go outside and hose down with a garden hose. The neighbors may go blind at what they see but then, they shouldn't be looking over the fence.

Flipping through Dilbert....

I did that also... and came across this: https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-20 It would seem the US is currently being run by Dogbert. https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-20

Re: Video is still on his Twitter feed

Many of these types have left Twitter for other sites that are more open to their madness. There's a rumor that the biggest one is actually an FBI site to track them, but who knows.

This whole last four years has been one of chaos, wild-ass accusations with basis no in fact, and over all stupidity and all stirred (not shaken) by the guy at the top.

A pretty sad state of affairs in these parts.

Re: Not aluminium?

Article: "The rectangle was said to be made of stainless steel..."

No further comment.

The new ones are obviously bad copies that blew it. The original was a triangle and thought to be stainless steel. I tend to agree that these "copies" are just pranks. Maybe the first one was also? The one mystery not solved is "who took the first one?".

My vote for Xi "Winnie" Jinping for dick of the year is in. Stolen from Mr. Trump at the last hurdle.

So it can't be awarded jointly with both sharing it? Or is the election rigged? LOL.

Re: Seems to me the real value of AI aircraft

Which leads me to ask... are passengers freight? Bombs obviously are though.

Re: Sums up the current state of things...

Much of this nonsense about the dangers of wearing a mask and "it's my choice" seem to be coming from here in the States and in particular a certain looney at the top. Certain memes seem to sum it up about "ignoring science, medicine, etc. and trust what some politician says."

Re: "Sorry about that"

I hear Maxwell Smart's voice every time I read that.

Re: Where's the money? @frankvw

While I tend to agree with you on all your points, there is the unknown factor here. We've only explored a tiny bit of Mars. And nothing very deep below the surface to learn what's there. Are there resources below the surface? Who knows.

Even here on Earth, there's vast so-called waste landds (desert, marshes, etc.) that haven't been fully explored below the surface.

So the real problem with Mars, etc. and even Earth is that too much we don't know about what is there.

Re: Exclusive club - huh?

Yes, but there's a difference. Those boosters were basically just a huge pipe without complicated parts like pumps, etc. Once on land, hose them down inside and out and job done.

Re: Inside Job, and not the sharpest whats it in the thingy

IT, a janitorial role in the eyes of the many “adults” upstairs

In many ways it is. IT cleans up other people's problems. "ON CALL" is proof of that.

Re: Better still

Do away with it completely. Off buttons are a HUGE first step for people but after you've been TV free for a few months and you see something, then you'll be amazed at how even 'quality' programmes are contrived.

No TV here and I haven't had one for 3 years. Ah.. peace and quiet. No ranting "news" types or politicians. I do keep up using a variety of sites and with diverse opinions. But then, I'm a non-aligned voter... an independent if you will.

I can go through my news sites over breakfast, and maybe if in the mood, again later in the evening.

Try it. It's enlightening and relaxing to read instead of the media screaming in your ears. And you'll get more of an article than in any sound bite that TV news has to offer.

Re: "bad-mouthing the system"

Seems many execs were unhappy about the typing pool disappearing. At one place i worked just about every exec had a sweet young thing "on the side". They solved this by moving them to "secretary" positions where previously none existed.

Re: That's interesting

Maybe it needs an "Are you sure you really want to fuck the network completely? (y/N)" prompt before running at that setting, followed by an "Ok, on your head be it! Commencing to fuck the network NOW!" response should the person enter Y and hit return.

There are admins who would think "how bad can it be?" and then "challenge accepted" while hitting "Y" and "Enter".

And will the Tesla brand be worth anything in 30 or 40 years? Who knows!

The auction and collectibles markets would say "yes". All sorts of things from the not so distant past are worth some serious change nowadays.

Re: Pretty reckless

Yes, until the only available antenna gets infested with dropbears and no can use it until they fought through all of XXXX malvolent fauna[1], flora and rocks to restore it into usable condition,

I would think that it would burn off the flora and fauna that might get on top of it. Sort of like a giant microwave oven.