Comment Re:Foot shooting ... (Score 1) 224
Do like the Japanese, eat the rich, they taste like sushi.
I thought it was chicken.
Comment Re:Project Entrumpy (Score 1) 224
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump wasn't a plot by Putin and Xi to destroy the USA without a military attack.
Actually, there is some evidence that the Russians have been grooming Donald for years. However, nothing has been proved. Still, if that were true it would explain a lot of otherwise inexplicable things.
Comment Re:Companies need more electricity (Score 1) 224
Are you saying that starlight and moonlight aren't good enough?
Comment Re:I see both sides of this (Score 1) 224
Not to mention the nuclear power gets a massive subsidy, courtesy of Price-Waterhouse. They pay only a nominal fee for insurance. In case of a disaster at a nuclear power plant. guess who gets to pay for it? WE DO.
Comment Re:"The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!" (Score 5, Funny) 224
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
Submission + - Microsoft is TOO F---ing aggressive
J. L. Tympanum writes: I keep getting popups on my peecee saying "Microsoft phone link has stopped working."
1. What is this thing, and why do I care if it has stopped working?
2. After some surfing I find out it is some code (no doubt badly written and full of bugs and security holes) that connects the peecee to my phone.
3. I neither asked for this feature nor do I want it.
4. A little more surfing and I find out how to disable "phone link".
5. I still keep getting this damn popup. Obviously, whatever is detecting that "phone link" is not working doesn't bother to determine if the user (i.e., me) WANTS it to be not working.
6. After I lot more surfing I still don't know how to suppress this damn popup.
7. MS needs to be suppressed.
1. What is this thing, and why do I care if it has stopped working?
2. After some surfing I find out it is some code (no doubt badly written and full of bugs and security holes) that connects the peecee to my phone.
3. I neither asked for this feature nor do I want it.
4. A little more surfing and I find out how to disable "phone link".
5. I still keep getting this damn popup. Obviously, whatever is detecting that "phone link" is not working doesn't bother to determine if the user (i.e., me) WANTS it to be not working.
6. After I lot more surfing I still don't know how to suppress this damn popup.
7. MS needs to be suppressed.
Comment An opportunity? (Score 1) 276
The result of this forced "upgrade" will be that hundreds of millions of computers will be tossed. I suggest some enterprising young person collect these old computers, load Linux onto them, and give them away or sell them for a nominal price.
Use Microsoft's nastiness against itself!
Comment What about the ordinary user? (Score 1) 276
Many people (possibly most) have no technical expertise at all. All they know about hardware is the on/off switch; as for software they probably know a username, password, how to type and how to use a mouse. That's it.
Now consider what's involved in buying a new computer, just so it can run W11. First you have to buy the machine; that is already a problem if you know nothing more than "I need a new computer". Then comes the real surprise. How do you move all your stuff from the old computer to the new one? Let's see -- you need some kind of transfer program. How do determine which one is "right for you"? Never mind the additional expense. The you have to connect the machines together. "Plug one end of the CAT-5 cable into network port of the old machine, and the other end into the network port of the new machine
But MS doesn't care about these kinds of realities.
Comment The big guys always get away with it (Score 4, Insightful) 276
Didn't Microsoft make a big deal about how W10 was their "last" version of Windows? And then it wasn't. Doesn't that make them liable for false advertising?
Comment Nuclear reactor on the Moon? (Score 1) 163
This is just stupid. This is what you get when you put in as president a person ignorant of science and technology, who is also incapable of rational thought.
Comment Re:Nuclear reactor on the Moon? (Score 1) 44
Sorry, wrong thread.
Comment Nuclear reactor on the Moon? (Score 1) 44
This is just stupid. This is what you get when you put in as president a person ignorant of science and technology, who is also incapable of rational thought.
Submission + - Windows 11 = Windows 7 ? 1
J. L. Tympanum writes: It looks to me like Windows 7, 10 and 11 are all the same OS, just with a different-looking window manager slapped on top. Can someone with more knowledge of Windows internals verify this claim, or refute it?
Comment Fair is fair (Score 1) 94
This ruling sucks, but let's ask a question: have they been as strict with rules imposed by the current "administration"?
Comment The inconvenient truth (Score 1) 124
Science might say something we don't like. So let's take years of painstaking work and throw it away.
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