User: Bastard of Subhumani

Re:how to remember a secure password?

On: What Would You Demand From Your IT Department?

The strange thing about the word "mnemonic" is that it's so hard to remember how to spell it.

Logical fallacy: argument from popularity

On: Linux, to be (Like Microsoft) or Not to be?

Microsoft has made a lot of hay (and green) by flogging consistency

I'm sure those old-time travelling-show quacks made a fair wad of money selling snake oil & coloured water.

Re:Check it out first, dammit

On: Unpleasant Surprises for Online Real Estate Buyers

I've met lots of people from Thailand who have come to work in London.

And judging from all the cards in phone booths last time I was there, they're all prostitutes and most of them are ladyboys.

Re:The masses WILL innovate

On: Mass Innovation and Disruptive Change

Is it still innovation if your innovation never gets used by anybody?

I invented a device to warn people if trees were falling in forests. It never caught on, because nobody heard about it.

Re:troll

On: The Science of Secrecy

The only thing more irritating than a grammar nazi is an incorrect one.

Pot, kettle.

Following your logic:

"he" = "Fred"

Fred smells, because Fred has crapped in Fred's pants.

Fred smells, because Fred has crapped in he's pants.

Semms there's a bit more to grammar than string substitution.

Re:What if I lack discipline?

On: In Praise of Constant Connectivity

we complete projects in 3-4 weeks that others teams bid 6 months on

Yeah, it often takes me six times as long to fix something as it took some herbert to write it.

Re:perhaps not

On: Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down

The 9/11 commission was a whitewash, coverup, disinfo-psyop for the stooges.

There's no real evidence for that. Which of course is all the proof you need. [readjusts foil hat].

Re:Why don't they sell their headphones???

On: Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories?

in theory at least, they match the EQ curves to the stock earbuds.

But are the cables made of oxygen free copper? Are the magnets monopolymicrocrystalline unobtainium? Well?

Re:What if I lack discipline?

On: In Praise of Constant Connectivity

I think the general expectation would be that someone who could do all that you claim would be do far up himself he'd resemble a Klein bottle.

How refreshing it is to be be proved right.

Re:All we know is that we don't know.

On: Another Explanation for Multicellular Life

So let me get this right. Eukaryotes are like a microkernel, and there seem to be a lot of comments in the code?

Re:No, email *IS* unreliable

On: Toys 'R' Us Wins Suit Against Amazon

it's simple to spoof an email, I can send mail as jonathan@pcphi...com any time I want to.

This is also known as perjury, when presented as evidence in court. Oops, your civil case just became a criminal ...

If I were a lawyer[1] and the case against my client revolved around an email, the fact that someone could do that would look to me more like reasonable doubt.

[1] IANAL. I am however an argumentative gobshite who likes the sound of my own voice.

Re:As a microbiologist...

On: The Most Dangerous Bacteria

aspergillis?!? You generally do not die from it unless you are seriously immuncomprimised.

In normal people it just makes their piss stink.

Re:In practice

On: The Most Dangerous Bacteria

I'm having to dissuade fewer and fewer people from insisting on getting "something".

Give them calcium sulfate and carbonate. Apparently it's effective in many cases.

Re:cool

On: Unlock Your Doors With a Knock Code

In Soviet Russia, door knocks YOU!!!!

Re:Virii need cells

On: Viruses May be the Precursors of All Life

Some junior evolutionists get around this fact by redefining "fit" to mean, "what actually survives." Circular reasoning.

More like what actually reproduces. But either is better than the incorrect interpretation of fit to mean some subjective or aesthetic judgement.

Re:beleive what you want...

On: Viruses May be the Precursors of All Life

The existence of this behaviour on Earth does not in any way exclude the existence of a supreme being as a creator.

But then neither does ... well, anything, actually. But then the existence of supernatural beings is not a falsifiable claim, so it doesn't belong in science.

Re:Where did Bill go?

On: Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics

Might I add:

4) How the fuck do you pronounce "Urquhart"?

Re:Open-minded Enough?

On: Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics

I have not seen anyone design a better universe, and I have not seen one proposed.

I'm surprised. It strikes me as fairly obvious that one without nutters like you who believe in fairy stories would be a step in the right direction.

Re:Told you so

On: U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing

President Bush's "Hook 'em, 'horns" salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan.

In Italy it means something quite different again ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_cornuto#Infideli ty

Re:It's Obvious

On: U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing

The only thing you're inventive about is English grammar.

I beg to differ. He also has a style of writing which is all his own. Now that might be because, given the option, nobody else would choose it...

Re:Geographic Preferences Honored by Recruiters

On: What Do You Want in a Job Website?

the recruiters who troll the sites

WTF? They put adverts up seeking intelligent designers, or mention in the specs that you have to use vi, anyone using emacs will be fired?

I think the word you are seeking is 'trawl'. As in fishing.

Re:To be blunt...

On: What Do You Want in a Job Website?

repressing a rising anger "...It's 2001 right now - and Windows 2000 came out in...?"

Come on, that doesn't necessarily follow. Although it's pretty unlikely to have been released before it's name implies. That's released in the sense of shipped, not in the sense of "finished", "usable" or "stable. Well, vaguely - nearly".

Cretans. Or something.

On: What Do You Want in a Job Website?

Where, in computer technician/network technician training did I learn how to lie through my teeth?

You didn't. You just have to claim that you did. Er, wait...

Re:To be blunt...

On: What Do You Want in a Job Website?

Soviet Russia. Really. Just after it stopped being, well, Soviet.

Re:Best quote from the article

On: 10 Best S/F Films That Never Existed

Was it Pinochet that was described as "a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."?