Posts by ChoHag 1550 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jul 2021
> it costs nothing to keep an old site alive
Famous last words. This sounds like a "just" as in "I just keep the old site running". The reaction was overboard and it sounds like the suits are lying to cover their ignorance but the old sites should have been made inaccessible.
If you hear yourself or anyone saying a job is "just" a thing, or that something "costs nothing", look for what they've failed to consider.
It's never just.
I think we reached that point many years ago but I've often said (not in here) that while there is a breaking point, we need to get far, far beyond it before anything actually breaks.
Nobody is going to bring out the guillotines because they've been slightly put out by a pompous official, however unjustly. People are *actually dead* from this scandal, and not only because of age, and yet fundamentally nothing has changed. The bread is very good (well OK this is England: let's just say there's a lot of bread) and the circus is great fun.
Things will appear to be fine on the surface, until one day they're suddenly not. Very, very not.
> No one, not the child, the family, society, benefits from them being dragged through criminal courts.
You're right! Maybe youth should have a special court for ...
> their cases will go to family court rather than the standard criminal courts that typically handle cases involving those aged around 17 and older.
Oh.
Well at least let's not just throw an excessive punishment at them them and instead give them a chance to improve their lives before it's thrown in a box to rot?
> authorities often focus on correction instead of punishment for those aged 13-17
Oh.
Maybe read the article next time.
If you don't want people to take stuff for free, don't give them free stuff.
It still isn't rocket science.
For the benefit of the slow of thinking who seem to dominate these discussion pages of late, restrictions do not have to involve a firewall or any form of technology, they can just as easily involve words written by a friendly lawyer.
For the even slower of thinking, yes they can. It works for my large corporate employer who go to great lengths to honour such restrictions even though nothing other than the words forces them to.
Nothing requires anyone to give leeches easy access to their work except the for fear that they might not take it.
Are you saying that people cannot make mistakes in their life which they later regret?
So everything you ever did was by design and we can hold you at fault for it centuries after your death regardless of how much "truth" you claim to spill?
I think I know why you're so familiar with the term "hypocrite".
Computer backups can go wrong. Human backups cannot go right.
Intelligence requires a lot more than just fear, not least of which is the adaptability to compensate for missing parts. We are a complex hodge-podge of many different phenomena which computers do not have and will not have for the forseeable future, despite the few that are somewhat similar.
Do try to keep up. Is your intelligence perhaps artificial?
It made sense to 12 people so far. Everybody understands washing machines and houses. Nobody cares about "freedom 0" or knows what "sideloading" is and if "device" was common parlance nobody would need to have this discussion. Everybody can be expected to understand what "installing" means in the context of white goods. Software not so much.
Comparing a device that's actually owned by yourself but practically owned by Google to a house that's lived in by you but built by someone who still claims rights over it is something we can all understand. The idea that Apple and Google still own people's devices is an alien concept to most people because most people don't understand computing devices and software but they do understand physical lumps of stuff they can hold in their hand.
An analogy is like using something people do understand to help explain something they don't so yes, there is a need for one. No wait that's exactly what an analogy is.
And the fact that software can be infinitely duplicated is irrelevant in this case, analogy or no. Stop trying to interject GNU into everything. It's like a vegan complaining in a steak bar.
Let's say I want to sell you a washing machine and you want to buy it off me and we've agreed a reasonable price we're both happy with. My old machine, your house. Simple, no?
Except now Google say that we need their permission because their contractors built your house. Oh and I also have to pay them.
Where is the part that's reasonable?
> The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency confirmed the charges on Monday, saying the pair carried out the attack while still in middle school.
So what you're telling me is that your system is so secure that it can be broken into by a pair of bored middle schoolers? And that you have so little shame that rather apologising for protecting your customers with wet tissue paper that you're going to throw a pair of kids under the bus to distract from your grossly negligent incompetence?
> There really isn't any way to make a electronic device these days without the majority of the components being manufactured in China.
Sure there is. Just tax all your citizens who buy their stuff from China so much that the manufacturers will rush over to your country to continue to sell their tat to your citizens who no longer have any spare cash because you just taxed it all away.
Oh wait...
This is a huge problem. It can be solved in one of two ways: secure the systems so that China et al are kicked out and can never get back in. This is easy, will take 3 to 4 years at most and requires only paying the people who can do it what they're worth, and that is why it will never happen. The other alternative is to never get into a fight with China.
It's MAD I tell you.
How about open sores steps up and provides the people and bloated corporations (but I repeat myself...) who are using the free software (which, you will recall, is provided "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED) with all the security guarantees and massively online mirrors they're paying for? It's only fair.
> O'Leary-Kitt: That'll be twenty-five Euros please.
I once got the better of their luggage charge. I was waiting with another person who also hadn't seen the "we charge for this thing no other airline does or has ever charged for" sign (yes it was a long time ago) that they they keep in the back of the leopard room. Then the payment computer broke down and they couldn't take payment but also couldn't deny us boarding and, natch!, nobody has those mechanical credit card readers any more!
That was the first, and last, time I ever used that airline.
It's called hyperbole, you're not supposed to take it literally. No I have never had Word convert everything to windings, yes I have had to learn some very arcane procedures and follow them precisely in order to get around the lack of WordPerfect's show codes feature and Word's consequently ¡Fun!, in the dwarven sense, approach to formatting.
Also I don't recall whether I first used Word in DOS or Windows 3.11 but either way my experience with it trumps yours by a handful of years. Because that matters. So nuhhh so my YES IT DOES beats your NEVER.
I think (not a biologist) that it's oestrous that determines the reproduction cycle rate and sperm is more ... opportunistic. Since it was the female swine driving this and they'd become used to the comfort and safety of domestication, mother nature was happy to take advantage of it if it meant more kids.
Wait aren't kids what goats make?
> The problem with FOSS is ...
Mostly ego and the idea that if a developer sucks (uninvited) on the corporate teat lavishly enough it might spew out some cash.
It won't, but it's also not going to stop any moron from suckling until it climaxes.
Your boos mean nothing I've seen what makes you cheer.
> your fown [sic] can remain free (as in speech) forever
I don't see anybody making the contents of my ~/src directory unfree any time soon.
Ballmer was right about one thing: The GPL is a cancer and that's both why clang/llvm exists and why it's 1000 times better than gcc (actually that's unfair, gcc is also terrible because it comes from GNU).
If people don't want others using the software they give away for free with no strings attached they should attach some strings. Open sores developers offering their work for free and then complaining (loudly!) when people take them up on their offer sound like petulant spoiled children.
> these days sudo is more often used to confer only a limited set of magic privileges, for example to gain admin privilege for a particular service.
That was the plan but the documentation for its configuration begins with the immortal phrase "The sudoers file grammar will be described below in Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF). Don't despair if you are unfamiliar with EBNF; it is fairly simple" and so its contents are only ever "root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL"* so that users can type in "sudo su".
* Quick quiz, from memory only: what does each of those ALLs do?
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2026
