Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 66
There's a semantic gap between "secular democracy" and "not quite as fucked as Turkey".
There's a semantic gap between "secular democracy" and "not quite as fucked as Turkey".
Mature technologies are proven. They've gone through their growing-pains. They may have limitations, but those limitations and workarounds are usually well known by seasoned professionals. There's a reason why COBOL, Fortran, and RPG are still in use in business applications almost sixty years after their initial development, because they reliably work.
I've tried to work with NodeJS projects for production. It's a nightmare. NodeJS itself is revised too often, the actual project is revised too often, and the dependencies became a nightmare. It's not mature enough and not worth it.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I thought you'd find it funny to know that IBM is now building products with NodeJS. (And other even more exotic bleeding edge stuff...)
She's a lawyer.
I can neither confirm nor deny, that I may, or may not have never won an argument.
It would be far more effective to carry thousands of boring landscape photos.
I'd like to see a high US official pass through customs and watch a random rent-a-cop get his password and copy all his files. Right, like this is gonna happen.
If it's international travel then they should be travelling on a diplomatic passport. (Which my ex-wife does all the time...)
I guess I need more coffee, I can't tell if you're joking, trolling or stupid.
If it was a joke you really need to work on that.
I'm shocked!
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.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
