Posts by onefang

Re: Piss the scammers off at your own peril

That could back fire if the scammer decides to do the "right" thing, and anonymously inform the authorities about the bodies buried under your porch. Sure there may not be any bodies, but they'll have to dig up your porch to find out. Or even worse, there are bodies, you had nothing to do with them, but the scammer handed over a recording of you confessing.

Re: I have an algorithm for this

"Yes, the blacklist is getting quite fat, thanks for asking."

I'm gonna need a new phone, I filled up my blacklist.

"My ringtone for real people is the sound of the phone ringing from the ZX Spectrum game Software House."

My ring tone is the sound of an office full of different old style phones ringing.

Re: "If the AI detects that a machine is calling you and you don't want to speak to the machine ..."

"when the fuck are we ever going to regain the satisfaction of slamming a receiver down ?"

My current phone uses a variety of "gestures" to do certain things. Shake it sideways twice to turn the torch on or off, twist it a certain way to activate the camera app. I'm sure you could add one to hangup when you slam it down on a desk.

Re: Outrageous!

Looking at your icon, I'm wondering why we don't have a B-cup Paris unit? American airhead? Useful for smaller quantities. Probably should be an A-cup unit to, just for the sake of completeness.

Re: Only cracking I have done is

In the security business it's always a compromise between security and convenience. It's much more convenient of you don't have to lock your door, and make sure you have your key on you when you try to get back in. Your locksmith was telling you the other end of that compromise, if you do manage to lose your key, then it's very inconvenient for the locksmith to get through it. Which may mean more expense for you as you'll now have to replace the lock that was drilled out. It may mean more inconvenience for you if there are multiple copies of the key that may need to be replaced now, coz others have the key. It is however more secure, coz thieves can't pick the lock.

Only you can decide where in the spectrum between security and convenience annoys you the least. You makes your choices and you takes your chances.

Re: I was once called in to the bosses PC

"OK I know some one will come up with a version of linux you can self compile to do the same trick, so I expect a few downvotes."

No downvote, but an upvote instead, coz in general I agree.

Aboriginal Linux might be a start for that sort of thing. http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html Development for it finished last year, but it's still usable. I've used it to build an OS for an embedded device.

Re: About 10 minutes later I was "cracking" some of the locks and interchanging them around.

"The times I've heard that one it was a Mini or a VW Beetle."

It's been done many times. I've seen a Mini somehow attached to the side of a building, like it was just casually driving up the wall.

Re: Common trick

Computer Games by Mi-Sex?

Re: proceed with phase 2

"Then what do you propose in its place? A benevolent dictatorship?"

Yes, so long as it stays benevolent.

Re: Hard to Hear

But When the Levee Breaks, you might end up with The Battle of Evermore. People hate it when you ignore them like that.

"Migrants through the ages often carried their originating place name with them to found a new settlement."

Which is why Australia has New South Wales (to differentiate from South Wales), Newcastle, Texas, Paris, etc.

'.. why are they only "native to North America.."'

Likely coz the environmental conditions in North America are better for them, including an abundance of what ever it is that they eat. They might be able to cross oceans, their favourite prey not so much.

Like migrating birds that cross oceans, then fly back. There's reasons they do that.

Upvoted for The Doors lyrics.

Re: The 8 does prove a point

You could try putting it in a shirt / jacket pocket, where it will fall out half the time when you bend over, especially bending over to pull your pants up in the dunny. We need a phone flap over shirt pockets.

There's also the option to strap it to your arm.

Re: The 8 does prove a point

"Phone in the pocket at the wrong angle and/or the trousers too tight and crack... across the screen."

I could never understand why people choose to sit on their phones. Just asking for trouble.

'Just need a powerful GPU to go with it called "leg"'

I don't think that would stand up.

Re: There's a story of a TV host...

Reminds me of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Aussie government media) and a fun incident in their Darwin studio. They had some construction workers in one part of the studio doing something or other. During the evening news, which was broadcast live, the lights went dark, but the cameras, microphones, and transmission equipment kept working. The entire city clearly heard one of these workers yelling out "Argh, the lights are fucked now!".

Re: Kim or Ken?

"If the operators didn't know this, then soviet operating procedures were incredibly bad,"

I've worked with Russian scientists. "Safety" is a word that they haven't even heard of. Truck load of science equipment arrives, how to get it off the truck, get the driver to drive back and forth jerkily until it falls off the back. Need to move a 6 tonne telescope, everyone grab a bit of the frame and lift.

I come in after crashing my bike, coz a big lump of wood fell off the truck in front of me, I'm dripping blood all over their carpet, only one of them is there, slowly eating his sandwich. I ask where the first aid kit is, he slowly finishes chewing his current mouthful, swallows, then looks up at me and says "I'm still eating lunch.", then takes another bite and ignores me.