Posts by jake

@Dan 55(was: Re: @Eponymous Cowherd (was: Boring.))

There is a time and place for everything.

@AC(whenever[1]) (was:Re: Find a restraunt supply store open to the general public.)

If you think that the melting pot that is the US is insular on a human level, you have clearly never been here. Yes, there are puddles of gunk scattered about that are embarrassing ... but that's not really how most of us actually think. Our biggest problem is that not enough people get off their asses and vote.

[1] Would you PLEASE fix the b0rken time-stamp, ElReg?

@ d3rrial (was:Re: Strangely enough ...)

Strangely enough, six little flakes of gold.

Nowt virtual about metal in my change purse.

Re: Some of mine.

Sorry, robb. Two lines. Obviously, you are a twit. But thanks for pointing the obvious out in your final paragraph. Kinda made me ::giggle:: Almost.

Re: Comments' time indication

I typoed "even". I meant "ever".

Your answer answered my question. Background radiation ;-)

@AC (was: Re: Those who still use this service...)

"How can a company f**k up this bad and still keep customers?!"

I have an AOL account. I am not a customer. I haven't paid money since the QLink days. It's the only commercial account I have ever had that refuses to die.

@AC, whatever. (was: Re: whatever.)

No actual comantardery on my commentardery?

Whatever. You are a part of the problem.

This site needs more signal, less noise.

@ambiguous coward[1] (was: Re: Whatever.)

Home automation ain't exactly news, which was my point.

I know it's a red-top, but it's also supposedly a tech site. I am responding to ElReg, not the commantards of the world. Seems to me that I'm allowed. If I wasn't, ElReg would have booted me years ago. Don't like that concept? Pardon me while I giggle :-)

[1] Seriously, ElReg, fix the time-stamp. Which AC am I answering, exactly?

@Dan Paul (was: Re: I'm glad there are so many malware writers at El Reg....)

So basically, and in your mind, the officers of microsoft, apple, SAP, oracle, google, facebook, myspace, yahoo, twitter, youtube, et alia (waddimiss?) should be put to death?

I can go along with that. The fucking twats haven't contributed squat to humanity, and indeed are an anathema on our entire species.

@mahasamatman (was: Re: Only 382 ... ?)

According to http://forums.theregister.co.uk/user/66387/

"mahasamatman" has made a total of ten posts, starting with this post 7+ months ago:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1945049

It seems it misses Eadon. Poor thing.

How about actually contributing to the forum, "mahasamatman"? If you have anything to contribute, that is. However, so far I see nothing in evidence that suggests that you contribute anything other than noise. Prove me wrong; it'll do you a world of good. If you are incapable ... well, what can I say.

@Tom 3: (was: Re: Boston, Massachusetts: true to form)

Here on the Left Coast, we'll take all the water you can ship us ... To hell with a transatlantic tunnel, how about a transcontinental water pipe? One man's trash is another man's treasure & all that.

Think a project along the lines of the Interstate Highway system[1]. Or trans continental oil & gas pipelines. Or the Rail System. It [c|w]ould put a lot of people to work, and move a hazard (flooding) to where people actually grow the nation's food in the desert. Win-win.

[1] After we fix the b0rken Interstates, of course ... gotta move construction equipment somehow.

@ Andrew Fernie (was: Re: But ... but ... but ...)

My 3/470 "Pegasus" has been T1 connected since roughly 1988. Old and slow? Yes. But it works for my "friends & family" userbase quite nicely. Just as it did back in the day. (Runs email, ftp, Usenet, IRC, Gopher and the johnnycomelately WWW.)

I updated my last SLIP connection to something more modern when I stopped supporting UUCP in late 1999. Was (and is!) primarily a charity email link, with a proprietary Usenet messaging system.

I do, actually, listen to ballgames on a Philco tube (valve) radio when I'm up at my place in Fort Bragg. It's kinda nice, because it's the same radio that my grandfather introduced me to the SF Giants when I were a nipper in the late '50s/early '60s. Nowt wrong wi' nostalgia.

Why do people like you automatically assume that something that has been working nicely for decades is bad, simply because it isn't usable with your iFad/FanDroid, as configured by the factory?

Re: Yahoo and DMARC

Email. You want it all. You can have it. For free.

But you have to learn something first.

You can spend all the time on your cause that you wish to spend ... but if you don't understand how the tools that you are using actually work, you are going to start stripping bolts.

Take a course in using email, from both a server and client perspective. It'll do you a world of good.

Re: Underlying meanng of the data ...

After an hour ... 2 thumbs up. 10 thumbs down. QED :-)

(Yes, I know, correlation does not imply causation ... but I found it amusing nonetheless.)

@A. Coward (was: Re: Only 200 people? @Phil W, Andrew Fernie, AC)

I'm not 14. I wish ... but only if I could be 14 again with the 4 decades(ish) worth of life experience since I was actually that age.