Hickfang
Re:Patricia Highsmith was an enduring writer
on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:28PM (#25876570)
> She was gay, an alcoholic, suffered from lifelong clinical depression and had a tough upbringing, not really a combination that will produce an easy person given her times. But she gave us Tom Ripley and, incredibly, made us root for him somehow. That's a rare talent.
Isn't how that how most works of art are inspired?
Re:The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:36PM (#25841529)
Lately, I've come to suspect these terror scares are home grown plots by the state security apparatus, designed to justify their existence.
Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First ...
on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:16PM (#25795777)
> .. That's precisely the point of a union. It's an organization to protect its members ..
That's just it, the union is there to represent the interests of the senior officers and no one else.
Re:Mass Account Suspensions over on Reddit
on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:59AM (#25727785)
No explanation, no second chance, no appeal.
Re:JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:09PM (#25664005)
I call cyber BS on that story!
Re:PE Anatomist – Explore data structures in portable executable files
on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:57AM (#25646820)
> What are some cool things that are possible? - extract resources I guess. Is this Russian program trust worthy.
Yes, it's guaranteed to have been backdoored by the NSA.
Re:The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)
on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:25AM (#25603082)
@scpedicini: "This had to have been one of the most boring articles I've ever read. Flowery, overly prosaic and not a single interesting take away about actual safe cracking - and yes yes we get it insider information trade secrets blah blah blah."
I agree entirely, reads suspiciously like a New Yorker article, they should read such, out loud to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, they'll soon crack.
Re:Simone de Beauvoir's 'remarkable' letters to Violette Leduc sold at...
on Monday December 21, 2020 @05:37PM (#25500521)
Is there a non fascist source for the same material?
Re:Simone de Beauvoir's 'remarkable' letters to Violette Leduc sold at...
on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:36PM (#25450260)
“Simone de Beauvoir, Pervert”
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/08/simone-de-beauvoir-perv...
Re:Xenu, Leader of the Galactic Federation
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:11PM (#25349152)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqN4ivQ_TM
Hear elRon in his own words. As he once put it, he was “drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys” at the time.
Re:An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M
on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:44PM (#25341510)
Dispensing with all the folksy prose, buy enough lottery tickets and you'll win on the lower draws.
Re:EU criticises 'hasty' UK approval of Covid-19 vaccine
on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:47PM (#25283410)
Dear EU, you don't get to tell us what to do anymore!
Re:Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of MIT sheltering abu...
on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:41PM (#24634361)
I find it hard to believe Anonymous actually met his advisor. Bret Weinstein has fully called out the tactics.
Re:The future of .NET Standard
on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:56PM (#24546394)
The future of the .NET “Standard” .. it'll be a continously moving target, making it near impossible to clone ;]
Of course that'll mean developers are for ever playing catch-up, rewriting code at more expence.
Re:How UFO culture took over America
on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:19AM (#24493488)
> Why would I assume they want their presence to remain hidden?
Why don't they land in time Square or go on a reality television program?
Re:How UFO culture took over America
on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:58PM (#24455609)
Assuming these UFOs are vessels from off-earth and want their presence to remain hidden then why do the space aliens persist in buzzing US air bases.
Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gates deposition
on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:34PM (#24455395)
Watching the video is even more revealing. Future historians will be amazed as to how a border-line aspergers case got away with engineering a virtual monopoly on computing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2m1qdqieE
Groklaw has some interesting Microsoft Files:
Re:Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:04AM (#23269091)
@ccmcarey: “Chrome accounts for ~70% of browser use”
That would be Microsoft Chrome :]
Re:Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:03AM (#23269087)
> One is MauiKit stylized MAUi and another is .NET MAUI. The acronyms for both are generic enough that this complaint feels like a reach.
Yea, like the Microsoft Palm PC isn't a rip-off of the Palm Pilot :]
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-introduces-p...
Re:Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD
on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:47AM (#23269012)
https://adhd-institute.com/burden-of-adhd/epidemiology/gende...
“Evidence suggests that the prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or hyperkinetic disorder (HKD), is greater in males than females.”
A more plausible explanation is that those doing the diagnosing are female teachers who perceive the more naturally boisterous play of young males as symptomatic of a mental disorder.
Re:McLibel Case
on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:35AM (#23268957)
@grecy: “Put a hard limit on the amount of money that is allowed to be spent, and that limit is based on how much the less wealthy can spend.”
“If the more wealthy wants to spend more, they can give money to the other side so they can spend equally huge amounts.”
What was wrong with this comment?
Re:What Was TON And Why It Is Over
on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:09PM (#23162680)
Considering that conventional currencies represent real goods, what thing of value is represented by these crypto currencies.