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  1. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What's America got to do with this story?

    To review:

    NK fired a missile over Japan and it landed in Japanese economic waters.

    North Korea

    Japan

    Watch the ball.

  2. I did all that on a Novell server (3.11).

  3. My Windows 10 desktop looks and feels just like my Windows 7.

  4. Re:What's Japan doing ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR

    NK violated Japan airspace.

    Notice the limited scope of "NK and Japan."

  5. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So what?

    If the US gets fired upon, it's other people's conflict by reciprocity.

    Are you suggesting the US is bound by your logic to defense by committee?

  6. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The US did not fire the missile.

  7. Re:Windows 10 ... on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Right.

    I got my first computer in Feb, 1978 -- TRS-80.

    Discuss.

  8. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    "ignorant?"

    Did NK violate Japanese airspace or not?

  9. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nukes are not the weapon of choice to knock down a missile.

  10. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your comment is as useless as tits on a boar.

  11. Re:Let Japan settle ... on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Has NK ever shot a missile across Peking?

  12. ... about sovereign airspace violation?

  13. ... with NK.

    It's Japan's jurisdiction.

  14. Windows 10 ... on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... does not have this problem and that's why I don't use Mac OS so the real solution is to configure systemd and get a Linux box and dance to distro duck while unixifying the baseline adoptive parameters of the dilbertized root account.

  15. Yes, and the volume on the recorder had to be JUST so or it was no-go.

  16. ... from Radio Shack to store/recall BASICA programs (using the Kansas City method of mod/demod) fot the TRS-80.

  17. Re:Except as a curiosity ... on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there, what with sweeping the spectrum from innocent to matters dark.

    Good points.

  18. Re:Time for another round? on India's Telecom Regulator Backs Net Neutrality (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So say the original post didn't say anything about a government grant ...

  19. Re:Future of Windows 10 is iOS and Android on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Home desktops for Farmville.

  20. Re:Except as a curiosity ... on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    {citation}

  21. Except as a curiosity ... on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... I don't give a shit about BTC.

    I do however, wonder if Lindsay Lohan is in rehab or if Pokemon Go is still a thing.

  22. Re:Time for another round? on India's Telecom Regulator Backs Net Neutrality (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    JUST QUIT IT

    If an ISP is unfairly treating someone, would this be considered a violation of free speech.

    Free speech addresses citizens speaking out about the government.

    You get a do-over.

  23. Saddest part ... on New NSA Leak Exposes Red Disk, the Army's Failed Intelligence System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...

    New NSA Leak ...

  24. Re:Future of Windows 10 is iOS and Android on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Dunno.

    I can jack with a Windows desktop.

    Smart devices are too sandboxed and walled garden except for Youtube and Facebook benging.

    I'm a retired IT guy and I do the things you'd expect.

    Gaming isn't one of them.

  25. Re:... the context an Edge tab provided ... on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah.

    My bad. I used Internet Explorer, found it was totally useless, so I went for Edge to slow-load Firefox (and Chrome as a backup).

    Point taken.