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Comment WoW? Wow! (Score 1) 55

I never thought to look it up before, since I've been running World of Warcraft on my trusty old Win10 for decades now. But this got me curious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

Well, look like no problems. I'm sure there's a decent web browser available, and if I could get all my saved Outlook email transferred over ... interesting, very interesting.

Comment Re:Time to spend some karma (Score 1) 160

Yeah, there may have been some nutjobbery as you say ... but I still miss all the Chuck Norris references in World of Warcraft's "Crossroads Chat", which had a certain fame of its own back in the early days. So long, Chuck: maybe on the other side.

Comment Re: Unexpected Surprises? (Score 2) 32

I had no idea they were recycling fiber optic cables like that! I remember seeing an underseas cable dragged up into the jungle down in Panama when I was working in the Army Jungle School at Fort Sherman. It was at Devil's Beach, where our student companies would regularly take a break, and the big black cable (I can't remember, maybe 3 or 4 inches in diameter?) was just lying there in the jungle. You could see its construction on the end visible there. I always have regretted not bringing a hacksaw there one day and hacking off a foot or two just as one hell of a souvenir!

Comment Re:I dont know how its legal (Score 1) 42

Ditto on the several purported Rachel Maddow channels I've been viewing lately. And the channels on that out-of-system "comet" over the past several months. Tipoffs: lip synching may be good, random head movements, etc. But the hand and arm movements are identical, repetitive. And the way they spell out millions of dollars as "digit dollarsign millions".

Very disappointing.

Comment Actually that's a good idea! (Score 1) 84

The farther away they can get from the DC swamp, the better off they'll be.

Besides, there should be plenty of room left at Fort Meade. I got to visit the big bronze mirrored cube one time (long long ago) to explain to the crippies my source code for an encryption file/communication program they were somehow interested in. Very intimidating, to say the least (since I wasn't really a crippie myself, and they had to explain the questions they asked as much as I had to explain the code (8086 assembly language and Pascal). It was kind of fun, once I realized these were actually real humans ... and one of them was kind enough to mention "Wow, this is a real Cray-buster!" What an honor!

Comment Why? (Score 1) 42

One might wonder why she signed that non-disparagement agreement in the first place? She could've just walked away, right? Of course that might've affected the publishing and/or distribution.

I've never signed a non-disclosure agreement in my life (not quite the same as a non-disparagement agreement, true) that I didn't carefully and suspiciously rewrite, ensuring I wasn't giving away the entire farm. Curiously, I never had an employer who disagreed with my rewrite ... to include the US Army! I guess my work didn't matter so much after all. Or those greedy, crippling conditions they always seemed to have were just boilerplate after all.

Comment TV Youtube is my favorite channel (Score 1) 62

Youtube on my TV is the vast majority of things I watch on that TV. The vast scope of topics, the effective use of however they do it (algorithms? whatever that means): it all adds up to very interesting, educational, and even current topics. Of course I watch a LOT of history and old programs (dearly loving snips from "West Wing" and the like). But I could do without almost every other choice of "channels" that are available on my TV (although I'm subscribed to almost none of them). Cheers for Youtube (although I find accessing program comments awkward, and I hardly ever view them).

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