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Comment Re:Good thing I used CmdrTaco's info (Score 1) 446

If the hackers get your data, all they have dirt on is a fictional character. This is 21st century, I thought every guy who knows how to use a bank account and a computer would know this shit?

For bonus points, get the credit card in your wife's name.

If she gets suspicious or finds out, start adding small amounts of LSD to her food.

Comment Re:I don't get it.. (Score 1) 446

Why would anyone using a cheaters' hookup site use their real name?

-jcr

First reason: people aren't that bright, especially people who cheat.

Second reason: people are lazy.

Third reason: its a pay site. You need a CC with a real name and address. There are easy ways around this but see reasons #1 and #2 as to why it's uncommon.

Comment Re:May be for troubleshooting, but alternatives ex (Score 1) 203

Hello,

It will be somewhat useful for troubleshooting, but Windows 7 has had the Problem Steps Recorder (filename: PSR.EXE) for years now, and Microsoft has offered a screen recording tool since at least 2009 for download via TechNet.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

The Problem Steps Recorder is a boon to anyone who hates doing doco. One of the best new features of Server 2008.

But the PSR doesn't take videos.

Comment Re:Apparently Toyota Units Fail Often... (Score 1) 56

But... Ford's system IS Toyota based... they licensed the HSD system from Toyota.

In other words, mechanics are biased.

Its the old Holden (GM) vs Ford mentality, no matter how bad a car is they'll never admit that their favoured brand is bad whilst using any excuse to deride the competition.

Toyota tends to issue a recall over anything that might in some once in a million years scenario cause something to go wrong. This is why it looks like they issue a lot of recalls but the recalls are for minor issues like a seat adjustment rail. This is overwhelmingly a good thing as it shows Toyota doesn't want to take risks and preserve the reputation of their cars.

This kind of conservatism is perversive amongst Japanese companies though, they'd rather read "Honda issues another recall" than "17 people died from an ignition problem in Honda vehicles" in the papers.

Comment Re:It isn't stable yet... (Score 1) 172

Vista had its own Service Pack 2. Actually wasn't too bad. Have you been out of touch for a while?

It was called Windows 7.

Vista is a fine example of if you fuck up the release and fix it later, people will never consider it fixed. if MS makes the same mistake with Win 10 then it'll suffer the same fate as Vista and having two consecutive OS versions universally despised and ignored will not be good for MS.

If anyone is going to suffer catastrophically from the "release now, fix later" mentality, its Microsoft.

Comment Re:Analog for the win. Again. (Score 1) 97

because of a bug that prevented the engine from shutting down even after the ignition key was put into the "off" position and removed.

I guess it's too difficult to leave the physical connections in place. They had to be replaced by shiny, just because.

Its a Land Rover, people buy them because they need the shiny to justify their inflated ego's. They aren't cars for people who want reliable, trouble free or sensible motoring.

Comment Re:Guns (Score 1) 337

I don't understand why guns always come up when non-Americans talk about America. I have lived here my entire 30 years, IN THE SOUTH, and have not seen a single gun in public except in the hands of a police officer. I own guns and most of my family do as well. But I've never seen them in public.

Mainly due to the number of gun-nuts that pop up on any discussion about Australia and prattle on about guns (and always using incorrect information). Their loudness and vitriol does give non-Americans a very negative view of the situation.

Comment Idiot OP knows nothing about Australia (Score 1) 337

I know my views are incomprehensible to many.

Thats because they're wrong.

You've got no idea how Australia is or works.

A "bill of rights" was described by your previous president, George W Bush as "just a piece of paper" and has been ignored without consequence many times before him.

Australia works on the premise that freedoms are not protected by paper, but people. We have our 5 fundamental freedoms (Speech, Association, Religion, Assembly and Movement) codified in the constitution but its still up to the High Court of Australia to rule on them and they do an overwhelmingly good job of it. If people stop defending freedom and rely on a piece of paper to do it for them, that piece of paper becomes as useful as those defending it.

Comment Re:Detroitland (Score 1) 337

No, seriously, libertarian types: why not Jamaica? There is no "Galt's Gulch" in the real world (we're sorry) but you could move to Jamaica. I can't figure out why they don't.

Apparently there really is a Galt's Gulch in the real world and its turning out exactly as we expected.

Seems its a giant scam for people who are silly enough to believe in libertarianism. Ironically, it's very free market of the scammers.

Now I've actually lived in places where you can almost literally get away with murder if you've got enough money. There are things that are accepted there that Libertarians will never be able to live with. I'm yet to find one that doesn't treat foreigners as second class citizens. In Thailand or the Philippines where I lived if you crossed the wrong local, you'd best get out of dodge before the day is out. Any argument between you and a local will result in the local winning. You get used to a two tier pricing system because "Farang (Thai: White/Western Foreigner) have more money". Sure I could ride a motorbike without a helmet if I wanted to, but the made up fines by the cops were a complete pain in the arse when they saw I wasn't Thai.

Libertarians wonder why I laugh uncontrollably when they talk about oppression and how it would be so much better if we didn't have these "nanny state" rules. I've lived in the opposite of a nanny state and their heads are in the clouds.

Point in short, in a land without rules, those with power make up their own. A libertarian paradise has the same probability of occurring as a real life Hogwarts.

Comment Re:Detroitland (Score 1) 337

That's great! As soon as alllllll the richie richers leave, the entiiiiiire USA can be like Detroit! It's gonna be fucking awesome!!

But what about the Aussies? Can their immigration infrastructure handle hundreds (if not thousands) of immigrants who list their names as "John Galt"?

The same way the US will handle issuing hundreds (if not thousands) of passport application listing their names as "John Galt".

And the dismantlement they'll get when they arrive here and find we have things like laws and expect people to conduct themselves within their bounds.

This is an invite system, which means if you become applicable the government already knows a lot about you.

Comment Re:And who is at the bottom? (Score 1) 432

Imagine a guy who gets off on driving for Uber Black in a Ferrari F40. They get crazy tips but what they're really doing it for is the awe of the passengers and to be treated like a freaky crazy rich dude for the people. What's that (or more luxurious angles: a Rolls-Royce guy) do to the job market?

A Ferrari F40 won't be permitted on Uber as it's a 2 door car. The same reason a Toyota 86 or Pug 208CC wont be permitted on Uber. Uber requires all cars to be 4 door minimum.

Comment Re:And who is at the bottom? (Score 1) 432

You have to look at the entire cycle

Yeah, right. This is something politicians never do when enacting new laws regarding economic conditions. See "Minimum Wage Laws" and the results of fewer jobs after increasing Min Wage.

Had a look, found your claims are complete bollocks.

All arguments claiming minimum wages increase unemployment are full of "might", "maybe" and "possibly" whilst the ones disputing this claim use more definitive language. The worst they can say is that any change "was not statistically significant".

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