Posts by DropBear

Same here - I fail to see a difference between interrupting the thing I'm actually trying to watch every ten to fifteen minutes with "oh look tat I don't care to buy " (either an energy drink, a new car or a can of "washable" paint - neither of which I have any use for) and "oh look retards I don't care to watch" (as it invariably turns out to be ads for eleven different reality shows or sitcoms - which is almost the same thing: retards goofing off in an attempt at a dull slice-of-life reenactment. Yes, I'm great fun at parties too!).

Re: Strong? Stable?

On the other hand, "we need to stand united" is never a good enough argument against never, ever challenging established orthodoxy.

Re: OED definition of bigot: A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.

"If that makes me a bigot, I will wear the label with pride."

Same here - I don't feel the need to personally conduct an endless and laborious debate all over again with every single supporter of a known discredited topic (see anti-vaxxers for an example if you really must have one - my list is much, much longer) before I'm allowed to consider them an idiot. Call me whatever you feel like for it, it won't make me feel ashamed. I might still be up for a debate if I'm in a good mood and you seem courteous and showing signs of critical thinking, but I make no promises...

Re: asshe but

Bullshit. As soon as companies are allowed to selectively employ only "my kind of people" who think appropriately "positive thoughts", they become exactly the discriminative assholes they are allegedly trying to get rid of. What "white male" people are usually accused of is selectively congregating in certain spaces with the active exclusion of everybody else - this is exactly the same thing, corporately sanctioned, with a different criteria. If his work is poor, if he's discourteous or explicitly hostile to others and you fire him, that's one thing. If you do that because some people didn't like the way he thinks - and that includes the company itself - or because other people have a problem with him instead of the other way around then the asshole is YOU.

Re: GNU TERRY PRATCHETT

Lucrative rackets aside, I see a tiny problem with that description - namely, the assumption that the firefighters would have any interest in the protection of the object of their efforts; what they're there to do is hopefully protect the neighbouring buildings while utterly and completely destroying and levelling the one that happens to be on fire.

Re: I Love Science!

Nah, mankind's prime directive is still to control and dominate other people (including their own) just as much as it has always been. This is just what happens the few people who never got that memo are left to their own devices for long enough to make a difference...

Re: The other big lesson

"that will be sure to generate an automated email to the owner which will alert them to the compromise"

I don't know about that - my phone pings me (and it even has a bloody persistent notification status icon all just for this, without me having installed anything FFS!) before I even raised my hands from typing the password logging in from a PC Google thinks it doesn't like; even having entered the correct (long!) password at the first try, even from the same geographic area as usual, with an IP that hasn't changed for literally decades, from which it saw me log in numerous times - my browser just don't have its latest and greatest cookie since I purge them at the end of session on this machine...

Somewhat ludicrously, I also get alerted by email, which I'm (as a suspected fraud) free to delete for a "real owner" never to see assuming "he" doesn't have a push-email receiving device and checks his mail the old fashioned way, periodically. So yeah, I'm not sure what if anything more doing stuff like changing a password would trigger, given I see the whole nuclear spectacle for simply logging in from anywhere but home, from the one browser I allow to keep cookies persistently...

Actually it's rather like Google rubber-stamping me on each login (the way some parties/clubs do once you enter) then slamming me against the wall and yelling "who are you and what did you do with the real DropBear?!?" each time I take a shower...

Re: 15 months?

What you're missing is punishment not being meant to be proportional with the gravity of the crime these days (as perceived by your Average Joe with some common sense) but with it's mass-appeal and potential to be easily and repeatedly perpetrated. The odd murder? Hardly anyone's going to imitate that, you get a few years or so and that's that. Sexting? Letting people concern themselves with sex openly has the potential to destroy Traditional Values and unravel the Very Fabric of Society Itself if everyone starts doing it! Twenty years for you! Watching a few torrented movies? Oh, now it's personal! You're stealing actual _money_ from the only class of citizens that modern justice cares about - rich people! Fifty consecutive life sentences without parole and a trillion billion million dollars in damages you filthy, filthy scum!

Re: El Reg

" £10 buys an automatic gold badge on the forums"

I don't think that's what those are for. Maybe you could try buying a Merc or a backyard pool instead...

" I also block the top of story and middle of index page pictures"

Oh, a kindred spirit! Hello there! Although I do block _all_ images wholesale, along with any articles tagged with "DevOps", "Storage", "Docker" (is it even still a thing?) and a bunch of other keywords from a list...

Same here. The hardware is too old for W7 (heck, it's really too old even for XP) but hey Facebook works, Youtube works, photos are backed up, and at this point any attempt to "relocate" to another machine would do more damage than anything out there possibly could, even if expenses wouldn't be an issue (they are)...

Re: This is why you want anonymous payments

"The issue today..."

Translation: "we don't give a fuck how it used to work before, we are going to make it illegal to use any money we can't track"

Re: We know what happened

That still doesn't explain why there was no auto-renewal, as allegedly configured, especially if it wasn't a credit card problem.

You mean all that "SIR yes SIR!" bullshit...? Thanks but no thanks, they can keep it...