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  1. Re:Lack of development? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    I don't see any lack of development in Thunderbird (38.4 came out not that long ago), and I don't see any indication of it going EOL either.

    Mozilla does. I think I put more stock in their view of their own future than yours.

  2. Re:Claws Mail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Second the recommendation for Claws Mail. If I leave my Thunderbird open and exercise it for several days it grows to 6 GB RAM use and beyond. There does not appear to be any way to set an upper bound. That is unacceptable, inexcusable, and an incompetent and moronic design. Watch your PC get driven into thrashing the page file and I guarantee you will know what rage is. For a while I thought I could run with no swap (I have 16 GB RAM), but behavior is even more pathological and irrecoverable when you run into the memory wall with no paging.

    I have seen Claws Mail grow to around 0.4 GB; no more - even if left open and exercised INDEFINITELY.

    There are some huge, commanding wins for Claws Mail over and above the RAM win clincher:
    1) Threaded view, easily/quickly toggled on/off.
    2) View shows headers in line; I happen to prefer that to a second scrolling pane.
    3) I found the accounts setup to be more rational and well organized than it is in TB. I have a LOT of accounts set up.

    There are a few negatives with Claws Mail:
    1) No HTML support beyond a hokey plugin. Idiots do send me HTML mail. You can't stop them; I've tried.
    2) No Unified Inbox.
    3) Seems really slow to sync hotmail and gmail.
    4) I found the PGP plugin harder to set up than Enigmail in TB.
    5) The accounts setup does not have the cool auto-detect you get in TB. Even if you fine tune the setup, the auto-detect is great for getting you going.

  3. Re:Home of the brave? on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could reveal the tortured logic behind that astounding statement?

  4. Re:Everything is bigger in Texarse on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    This could equally well have happened in any American town. Our masters have succeeded spectacularly, playing to and fanning the basest fears, in brainwashing the people and turning the bulk of them into mindless lowing cattle. This insanity is just a natural extension of the DHS and TSA mindset.

  5. Re:12 year old Sikh boy on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Islamophobia

    You need an elementary education in cultures of the world. Sikhism has nothing to do with Islam. It's not even an Abrahamic faith, any more than Hinduism or Buddhism or Shintoism are. Christianity and Juadaism have more commonality with Islam than any of them.

  6. Re:They already won. on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Get real. Nobody made a "fake bomb" and "called it a clock". Sheesh. You missed the entire lesson of that exercise in insanity.

  7. Re:There is more to this story on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, to rational people there will never be any "versions" of the event. People saw "waaaars and shit" in a kid's bag and freaked out like half-wits. When it escalated to the arrival of heavy law enforcement artillery, instead of glancing at the bag and boxing the ears of the stupid alarmist rumor mongers, they went into full derangement mode in persecuting the poor kid.

  8. Re: There is more to this story on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, yeah. And the result is, nobody can add 2 plus 2 in their head any more to make change, or spell, or know anything about city names in other states, or have any comprehension of literary allusions. The fair to middling kid from class in my day was 50 times as well equipped intellectually and as a citizen than the best kids in the wretched zoos that pass for classes today. We are training PETS for our masters.

    I remember learning long division and later even square roots with pencil and paper, how to ESTIMATE calculations in my head, the use of logarithm tables, and other skills that are just complete mysteries to today's kids. They just think people who can do these things are practicing magic.

  9. Re:Not sure how long this will last on Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber · · Score: 2

    if the Republican's take the Whitehouse.

    What the hell does the US Presidency have to say about the issue? It is certain states which have legislated against cities and towns exercising their natural right to provide broadband as a municipal service.

  10. Re:Woooo on Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber · · Score: 1

    So far it had only been small towns like Wilson NC or Chattanooga TN

    50,000 and 170,000 are not "small towns". Wilson was a town in 1849 - 50,000 might be a large town today - except it is an incorporated city. Chattanooga is a city by any measure - being an incorporated city makes it a slam dunk.

    The place I live - 2,000 - is a smallish town.

  11. Re:Anonymous "I don't think that means what you th on Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default · · Score: 1

    To quote Princess Bride "I don't think that means what you think that means"

    Or, if one is offended by misquotes: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

  12. Re:Not a safety hazard? My ass! on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 1

    The abbreviation for nautical miles is knot or kt, not nm.

    How about you stop talking out of your ass? Dimentional failure. A knot is a nautical mile PER HOUR. There are several abbreviations in use for nautical mile, but the most common one is NM (note uppercase).

  13. Which party to scorn here? on Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Farcebook for being a shit in general, racist people, or a country with a bug up its oh-so-righteous ass about expressing negative opinions/outlooks? All of the above? Everybody in the world?

    So hard to decide.

  14. and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous

    Populace, not populous. Words with completely different meanings.

  15. I'll tell you why on Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because. That's all. There doesn't have to be a reason. The mystery is the puzzlement.

  16. Re:3rd Party Clearing Houses on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not necessary that encrypted traffic be "pierceable". It's that the Govt will mandate that all traffic go through 3rd party (man in the middle) clearing houses. These companies will store the data encrypted and only decrypt it when issued a court order. So any point to point encrypted traffic will likely be illegal; and if possible blocked from occurring. Yuk..

    Um... and exactly how do these clueless morons propose to decrypt pgp/gpg? Using magic pixie dust?

  17. Re:Jumped the shark with this one... on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The 4th doesn't protect anyone's stuff when the government has probable cause to search that particular stuff, including communications.

    Yeah, the Gestapo said Joe is probably an enemy of the State, so they got Judge Fido to issue a warrant. Go over every site he has ever visited with a fine tooth comb.

    I admit corruption trumps process. But STUPIDITY is what makes this bill an abortion.

  18. "The barbecue is set for September 22. Tell Ahmed to bring the burgers and Moe the chips."

    Sir, it's some kind of code. Call up AT&T and find out what "burgers" stands for and what "chips" stand for. You'll need a warrant. Judge LeRoy is a dependable rubber stamp.

  19. Re:Here are your problems: on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    82 years old with no fucking clue what she's talking about.

    What toasts my keester is not that she is clueless about technology. It is that the stupid bitch obviously hasn't bothered to run her hare brained notions past competent technologists to test for ignorance. All ahead full, to hell with reality.

  20. Stick a fork in it on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    With the news from Mozilla lately all pathetically hopeless, stick a fork in the motherfuckers. The only thing they have mastered is sucking up as many gigabytes of memory as you throw at their garbage, while utterly fucking up their UI. To hell with the bastards.

  21. I lived in the heyday on The Death of Electronic Surplus (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    PolyPaks on Route 128, Eli Heffron in Cambridge, Atlantic Surplus Sales in Brooklyn, Fair Radio Sales, Grossmans in Braintree with the Sherman tanks visible from the expressway, Military Surplus stores with REAL US surplus, not junk like nowadays. It was a wonderland in the 1950s. I still have 2 pristine thick steel shiny new Navy 20 mm ammo boxes, about 14x14x18 inches, from those days. The tops have 4 perimeter clamps and easily lift right off when you unclamp them. Not the crappy stupid-size thin steel army ammo boxes with the hinged top that requires superhuman strength to open, like you usually see.

  22. Re:A good start on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    By your standards, the United States must be the Great Satan given the amount of people we have killed during the wars we have been directly and indirectly involved in over the last century

    No, that would be the USSR, with Hitler's Germany being the (distant) second.

    Admittedly, GP's question went off the rails by saying "we have been directly and indirectly involved in" instead of just "started". Properly worded so it makes actual sense - "started" - the USSR wouldn't be at the top of the list; it wouldn't even be on any list. Germany would get the booby prize for having started the most destructive war ever seen. The US would own the 21st century list, but before that how many wars did we START? Not Korea, not Vietnam, not Gulf War. I'll give you Grenada and Panama, which were both very small potatoes and never led to any significant repercussions.

  23. Re:inefficient on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    If you transform it to hex and leave all leading zeros in, you're darn tootin' you can remove the dots without losing any information.

  24. Looking forward to Hammer2 on DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Do we have any expected timeframe for when Hammer2 will become the default?

  25. Re:Have they moved to LLVM/Clang? on DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to see gcc 5.2.1 supported! Linux distros and BSDs relying on prehistoric gcc versions always bummed me out.