Comment So Many Recent Stories– (Score 1) 71
can be commented on with the Nick Cage "You don't say!" meme image.
Comment Re: I have been occasionally asked (Score 4, Funny) 48
After working tech support for the VIP / VP floor, I decided that the less you read, the more money you made.
VP customer: "It won't let me log on."
[Admin scrambles IT support, flashing red lights down the hallway]
PFY: "It says your password has expired. You need to create a new one."
VP [cogitating]: "I have to create a new password?"
PFY: "Yes"
VP: "Sheila, I need you to get me a new password, STAT!"
Comment AP News Story On It (Score 2) 69
Different pictures, a bit more verbage.
Submission + - Secret Service Raids Malicious SIM Server Setup (apnews.com)
Gilmoure writes: The US Secret Service is in the process of taking down a massive network of SIM Server systems, designed to function "like banks of mock cellphones, able to generate mass calls and texts, overwhelm local networks and mask encrypted communications criminals. When agents entered the sites, they found rows of servers and shelves stacked with SIM cards. More than 100,000 were already active, investigators said, but there were also large numbers waiting to be deployed, evidence that operators were preparing to double or even triple the network’s capacity, McCool said. He described it as a well-funded, highly organized enterprise, one that cost millions of dollars in hardware and SIM cards alone."
Comment Couldn't Find The Fire? (Score 1) 20
A day late and a dollar short.
Comment Re:Can you proofread? (Score 1) 36
But, but, we already fired all the clerks and interns
(our quarterly profits are way up!)
Comment Um (Score 1) 56
Doesn't America hate Americans?
Comment I Really Hope (Score -1) 40
Billionares go all in on flying cars.
Comment PLEASE KEEP USING- (Score 1) 22
MS Office!
Don' switch to one of these open source things like the Nordics are doin.
Comment Re:This is new?? (Score 1) 23
Yeah, wasn't it in a James Blish or Kurt Vonnegut story?
Comment Re:I agree (Score 1, Interesting) 72
And the lunch boxes released durning the summer.
Where's all the Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones tin lunchboxes with major scenes impressed in steel and enamel?!!
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 72
I try to view it (for prestige shows) as 8-10 film quality shows (4-5 movies) but when they do the short seasons for basic comedies, yeah, that feels cheap.
And then there's the British weird season stuff; 4-6 episodic episodes and then a year or two later, another 4-6 episodes, going on for 2 decades or so. Thinking of Jonathon Creek and Poirot.
Comment Re:For me? Yes. (Score 3, Interesting) 72
Seems like 'Watercooler cooler' tv peaked with GoT and every other attempt (WestWorld, Rings of Power, Succession, etc) has generated some buzz but nothing near peak GOT S3-S4.
And now that it turns out there's no lasting economy of scale with subscription tv (wait for full season to drop, subscribe for a month to watch, cancel), I doubt there will be many more big-budget shows in the future, at least until business models change again. Apple, Amazon, and Netflix (to a lesser degree) subsidize their shows but I feel that's going to be ending in the next few years.
Comment Re:UBI? (Score 4, Funny) 52
I mean, in Star Trek, you never see more than a few hundred people at a time. That's the future, right? RIGHT?!!
Comment Re:Who's going to pay for it? (Score 1) 52
One Man sitting on a pile of 8 billion plus skulls, secure in the knowledge that he has WON.
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