Comment: Re:Counting on Surplus (Score 1) 380
The trick with good times is when they don't last.
The problem is that the good times usually last longer than the short-sightedness of 99% of the population.
Comment: Re:i interpret it to mean (Score 5, Funny) 497
A rare scientific law means it is settled. For most of them their are theories
The problem most people have is confusing Scientific Theory and pundit "theory" (mind the quotes). The two are not the same -- I even question Commander Data's overuse of the word theory in his many musings. I think he was sometimes a little slack in his application, but that's just a theory.
Comment: Re:So...? (Score 1) 84
Do they know what Quantum means?
Does it matter? Verizon doesn't. (eg: "FiOS Quantum")
Comment: Re:On The Bright Side (Score 1) 253
You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.
You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.
I considered that but, if it was sarcasm, it actually wasn't well executed and some people really don't know that some NICs support MAC cloning/changing, so I replied.
Conveying sarcasm in writing is hard to do well. Simply stating a contrary fact/opinion in a reply, like 'Because a MAC address cannot be cloned" hoping the reader knows the truth and assumes the writer does too doesn't cut it. There needs to be some clue that the writer actually knows the truth. When speaking, this is usually done through tone and inflection - which is hard to do on the page. In this case, a better attempt would have been, "Ya, well, it's not like a MAC address can be cloned with a few simple commands."
Comment: Re:On The Bright Side (Score 0) 253
Because a MAC address cannot be cloned
Sure it can, though not all NICs support that. Google it.
Comment: Re:So...? (Score 1) 84
All sharks know is that Alice, Bob and Eve are delicious. [Chomp, chomp, chompity chomp.]
Comment: So...? (Score 4, Funny) 84
Laser-Based Quantum Crypto is "Unbreakable"
Sharks: 1
NSA: 0
Comment: Re:Horrible coffee (Score 2, Funny) 768
Coffee from pods is an affront dignity anyway. Get a proper espresso machine, or use a press.
Besides, Dolphins and Orcas are horrible Baristas. Wait, what kind of "pods" are we talking about?
Comment: Re:Not a Nazi Plane (Score 1) 353
It looks like something out of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, except more curvaceous and birdlike.
So. Like Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Comment: Re:Almost as if (Score 4, Funny) 127
Jetpacks make sense if you can get them to work.
As would many, many other things, like Warp Drive and the G Spot.
Comment: How appropriate. (Score 1) 56
Geo Networks runs the cables along the roof of the sewers, avoiding any 'waste' issues
The Internet is a series of tubes sending digital crap to your home, that runs through a series of tubes sending physical crap away from your home.
Comment: Re:Directly contacting gov agencies. Good idea? (Score 5, Insightful) 137
The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.
On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...
Comment: Re:Still should be hands free (Score 1) 142
I had three cars totaled while they were parked by cell phone users
That's what you get for letting cell phone users park your cars.
Comment: In other words... (Score 4, Funny) 77
Wayland waylaid; now way late.
Comment: Re:Or not so misinformed (Score 1) 82
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language.
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure.