Comment Re:1984 (Score 1) 160
It was a warning about 1948, the original title.
It was a warning about 1948, the original title.
Yeah I did... but the very idea that the LAPD is trying to suppress the people simply by flying helicopters near "hot-spots" immediately brought to mind the oppressive surveillance culture of 1984.
People seem to forget that 1984 was a warning, not a how-to manual.
In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.
-- 1984, George Orwell
I think from now on my opening salvo will be: "Does your mother know what you do for a living?"
Do you toy with down-and-out street people, too?
I would if they were trying to rip me off.
Recently discussing this with friends we came to the conclusion that the best approach would be:
State that your girlfriend/wife is the main user of that computer.
Get increasingly angry that "she" has broken it
Say she's just come home and you'll be back in 2 minutes - you need to talk to her
Go into another room, shout, make some loud banging noises then go silent.
On the phone say "oh god what have I done" repeatedly. Maybe cry.
Once they hang up, carry on as normal.
But they're in India... so yeah...
A valid point, but in terms of cost/benefit, the "musical hold" wins. It's satisfying to know you're wasting the scammers time and it costs you no time or effort other than tying up the phone line.
... and depending on my mood I have several strategies;
1. Just tell them you only have Linux, they'll hang up immediately.
2. Musical hold, put the phone next to a speaker and go on with your life.
3. Tell them you have several computers running various Windows versions, which one did you mean... do you have a hostname or IP address so I can narrow it down? You don't? So how do you know it was my machine again? Really?
4. Pretend to follow along with their instructions, honestly the most time consuming and least satisfying.
But the problem is not with us, it's with Joe User who for some reason is unaware that Microsoft isn't phoning everybody. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
This is precisely my point, the bullshit that this gun lobby is pulling will undermine the advantages of C&C and 3D printing for the rest of us.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Don't forget Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I'm still trying to forget that.
Yep, that was a stinker. I managed to avoid it. Learned my lesson from Last Crusade.
Crystal Skull made Last Crusade look good. At least it had a damned Zeppelin in it.
i.e. traitors
Do you want to have puns? Because this is how you get puns!
No hacker, no cry.
I remember when we used to sit
In the IRC channel in Trenchtown, yeah...
... or possibly flamebait.
Are the Bitcoin skeptics like me allowed to be smug yet?
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
