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  1. Re:Contact (1997) on Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    He did proper roles, obviously, but he was well known for doing cameos.

  2. Re: Yay, connectivity and IoT on Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What *are* you on about with the breaking glass bullshit? Next time you're in a hotel room close the door and put the card in your pocket. Then slowly turn the handle. At about 30 or so degrees you'll feel a bit of resistance. That's the mechanical override (I assume it's a lever or cam[1]) engaging. Turn it some more and hey presto, the door unlocks.

    [1] I'll take a set of screwdrivers on my next road trip.

  3. Re: Wrong on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll keep crossing them if you keep knocking them in...

  4. Re:If the publc and protectees weren't harmed... on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then there was the time someone said something incredibly ridiculous and I didn't have my sarcasm meter with me so I posted what I thought was a clever put-down, but it didn't matter because it turned out he wasn't being sarcastic.

  5. Re:Makes no sense on Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    A mechanical device is more likely to show a predictable pattern than a good simulation.

    Someone beat casino roulette wheels with this, IIRC.

    E.g. an uneven tooth on a cog will always show a change in speed at a particular position. With software you can choose a good source of randomness. You can choose several sources of randomness and switch between them - randomly.

  6. Locked *in*? on Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. I've never stayed in a hotel with key cards where the inside handle didn't override/bypass the lock.

  7. Re:Can it detect DWH* or DWM* violations? on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber · · Score: 1

    Given the history of schwit1's postings here, I'm surprised it didn't say something like that in TFS.

  8. Re:Budweiser on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thinks parroting the Reinheitsgebot makes them look like a beer connoisseur is proving the exact opposite.

  9. Re:I'll always remember him as... on Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    A pair of shoes that wore away to nothing. She gave them to me as a keepsake.

  10. Re:That's stupid. on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case you'll be able to name dozens of countries that call themselves republics which have monarchs.

    I reckon I can name more countries that have "republic" in the title and fail the "government of the people" criterion.

    P.S. Not an American (or a true Scotsman) for that matter.

  11. Re:That's stupid. on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the post I replied to, fucktard.

  12. Re:Wrong on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Neither linux or OS X / MacOS will force you to update.

    Don't go giving Lennart Poettering ideas about what to do when systemd's finished.

  13. Re: Do the right thing - stand against Trump's big on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    Thanks a bunch, you've got me whistling that tune now.

  14. How is linux supposed to know to ignore the ethernet driver and concentrate on running the steering wheel?

    It's easy with systemd. You just have to write it in the form of a Sanskrit poem.

  15. Re:It wasn't me. on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    It was Spartacus.

    Me? Fuck off. I'm Sarcastipiss. Easy mistake to make, I know.

  16. Re:If the publc and protectees weren't harmed... on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're 100% right. It's just like that day I didn't crash my car, so I don't need any of that faggoty insurance. Or when the live wire on my oven didn't come loose and touch the casing, so I didn't need all that commie earthing.

  17. Re:Change Ethernet to metered in W8/10 registry on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says PC Market Is Finally Stabilizing (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate registry tweaks. At least with a .conf file you just open it & edit it, and half the time there's a decent example line that you just have to uncomment.

  18. Re:That's stupid. on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you're such a fucking genius you can explain how constitutional monarchies exist, which are democracies but not republics.

  19. Re: Flamebait on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. If (purely hypothetical example) you redefine "terrorist" to the point where everybody is one, then what do you call an actual terrorist?

    BTW, is it normal for pvmove to take forever to shift 200G...

  20. That's not the same as depending on government procurement and/or subsidies though.

    Also, I don't thing roads & bridges disappear with a stroke of the president's pen.

  21. Life imitates art? on First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Bring broadband to all Americans... on Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a metaphor, not a euphemism, you map of Tasmania.

  23. Oh, come on.

    In the 1780s almost everything consumed in America was made in America. And people had iPods and SUVs and everything, because NUMBER ONE!

  24. It won't, but even if it does you're still an idiot.

  25. Wrong. Those would (if you wanted to be unambiguous) be "Positions in Eastern Europe".