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HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:04 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... y_boffins/ -- didn't we try this with Von Neuman,
and thinking that if you had a computer that could handle alot of variables simultaneously, we could predict anything?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/on_call/ -- "“Young man,” the user said, “the ONLY thing I do with this machine is connect to the network. So it's a network problem!”
Been There, Done That, Achievement Unlocked.... Will have to remember these precious gems, though :

LUBE: Lacks Understanding of Basic English

BIOS: Basic Intelligence Operator Subnormal

EULA: End User Lacks Ability

RAM: Read Ability Missing

SCSI: "Can someone please Solve/Complete this Stupid Idiot's ticket?" - see RAM above

CAMEO: CAse Made for Extermination of Operator

PENCIL: Patient Exists, Not Considered Intelligent Life

FOCUS: F**K Off C**t Unsupported Software

MAC : man's a i used a bad word!

CIE : cerebral interface error

F**KED: Field Unit Checked Known Error Detected

PRATFO : Patient Reassured And Told to F**k Off

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Nov 18, 2017 3:15 pm

...anyone catch the news about US Navy pilot drawing a piece of the male anatomy in the sky? Ignoring the optics of such a juvenile stunt, Wow... just... wow...!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... _lives_on/ -- iconic observatory indeed... IIRC, the design / visuals featured in Xfiles and Goldeneye

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:47 am

Caught the new Justice League movie with Noir today : : TL;DR going for another viewing! I liked it that much!

The Good : Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. THANK YOU for not regressing with her since her origin film came out earlier
this year. She's still as lovely and kickass as she was in this film! She also has the best line in the movie of
"Children! I'm working with children!"

Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta. Honestly wish her and the Amazons action scenes were shown during the WW woman
movie originally, but seeing them here doesn't disappoint.

Midcredits scene of Flash and Superman race. Be Still My Geek Heart!

World going to hell in a handbasket since Superman's death, how Superman was a beacon of hope, and Bruce's own
reflection of what and how Superman was. THAT is my Superman there!

Amber Heard's Mera. Doesn't have that much screentime, but her portrayal interests me enough to want to see more
of her in the future!

Jason Momoa. Best summed up as "I'm Big, I'm Bad, DILLIGAF about your war? But alittle Lasso treatment and everyone
finds out secretly I'm a big teddybear."

Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher's interpretations of The Flash and Cyborg respectively. "Class clown in a candy store"
and "Booyah!" Nuff Seid!

Flashback to 1st war with Steppenwolf -- 6 kinds of ways of EPIC! Like a living panel from a comic book! Also
had a brief moment of two Green Lanterns.

Pacing of the movie : MUCH better, and less on the repetitive flashback of BvS.

Clark / Bruce "I bought the bank" broscene at the end

The Bad : Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor's back... and I want to keep hitting him with the baseball bat. Also does
nothing to keep building the DC Movie Universe, which I thought was the point of it.

Amy Adam / Lois Lane portrayed of as a woman lost since Superman's death. Irked me a bit that her line was "I've
been doing fluff pieces since..."

The Unsure : I keep getting a sinking feeling that Clark / Superman may turn into a sleeper agent for Darkseid in
the future, given the way he was brought back.

Steppenwolf himself. Admittedly, the flashback indicates it was the united forces of the Gods, the Amazons, Atlantis,
Man, and Green Lanterns that kicked him off Earth. And admittedly seeing Wonder Woman and Aquaman give as good as they
get was great, but Superman honestly was the Tank in the battle. Also exactly HOW he was defeated in the end was a bit rushed.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:48 pm

https://gizmodo.com/uh-this-flat-earthe ... 1820627193 -- this guy wants to waste his time and money, who am I to argue... and yeah, hoping he earns himself a Darwin Award with his blatent dismissal of "science (fiction)" as he puts it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... matically/ -- HAHAHAHAHA, who says IT types don't have a sense of humor...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:22 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... _exercise/ -- interesting writeup, and pretty useful from a
"if you think training is expensive, try ignorance" perspective.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... ve_saints/ -- "WHOOOOPS!!"

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:31 am

HELLO PEOPLE!! Long time no post. Lots of things happened, some sad. I've been and continue to be overwhelmed.

I got a nice EMail from play-asia about an new PS4 FMP game coming out, and thought you all might be interested, so I'll post a link here:

https://sea.play-asia.com/full-metal-pa ... /13/70boil

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:49 pm

Hey Killer... keep seeing you pop up on my Steam account but I never take a moment to drop you a hello

Thanks for that link! Will have to look
at the promo video later, I'm taking a stab it's like the other P3 slasher games I've seen where you run around a big battlefield with literally
millions of minion enemies to hack up and kill till you hit the various bosses.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... lugged_in/ -- It's Microsoft, need anything else be said?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/24/on-call/ -- hahahah, "kept a cock-up sheet for everyone else's failures but the boss'." BRILLIANCE!!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... migration/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... years_old/ -- thankfully don't do much data manipulation in Excel in my dayjob, but yeah
there's one or two quirks about Excel that drive me batty!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... ambulance/ -- Hmm... hope this doesn't turn out like the brilliant
idea of Jessica Tisch that got the NYPD 36,000 MS smartphones it had to scrap for iphones.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:08 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... d_to_ipv6/ -- "The IPv6 network, first developed in the 1990s in China,
allows a much higher theoretical limit on the number of IP addresses than the current IPv4 system." Hmm, alittle like Al Gore claiming he invented the
internet, much?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... rsecurity/ -- 20meg pounds, but from the comments, and knowing the generally poor
state of IT in healthcare... is it worth my time and sanity?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:21 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/2 ... as_glitch/ -- more "brain off, let the computer do it" mentality much? BRILLIANCE!!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/3 ... ket_pitch/ -- MS campus has a cricket pitch?! REALLY?!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/3 ... fiscation/ -- reminded of a sardonic comment from my youth, "all for a lump of crushed coal
that has value, because we say it does."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:36 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... _internet/ -- will have to read more into this. Yeah, "own internet" not exactly a good idea.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... aday_cage/ -- can our resident Aussie confirm this "Twisties" bag is indeed
a good faraday cage? Now im interested!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:07 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... ince_1980/ -- impressive indeed!
Both on them getting that old code to work, and the fact the plumbing still works on the Voyager 1 after so long in space!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... ng_system/ -- I like one of the comments about "if DXC can't fix its own (outsourced)
IT, do you trust DXC to manage yours?" Otherwise, I've got a long string of 4letter explitives I want to scream at DXC... 3weeks of no pay?! WTF?!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:53 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... an_winter/ -- just like Voyager 1, Opportunity still ticking and takin' a lickin'. KUDOS!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... n_a_month/ -- when you involve the vendor, yeah it's never a good time. Hope whichever side of Cisco can figure it out... like any company, some are good, others....

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:15 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... clock_out/ -- talk about helicopter management LOL

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/0 ... e_brigade/ -- too bad can't put this yutz up for a Darwin Award... not even an honorable mention... spackling paste... REALLY?!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/08/on_call/ -- "connected the black and white wires from the accelerometer the wrong way round ... “It smashed the 10 heads through the spinning disk pack releasing these as frisbees of death across the room" WOOOOOOW!

Tall And Cold, how's everyone's weekend?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:05 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/1 ... _the_moon/ -- hasn't this been the promise, never the reality for the last couple years? To quote Jerry Mcguire, "Shoooooooow me the money!"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/1 ... uly_flyby/ -- Wow, just WOW!! And I mean that in a good way! Wonder what'd be like to windsurf in that storm in real life!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:12 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/1 ... _grounded/ -- eagles as drone catching assistants... where could this idea go wrong?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/1 ... et_string/ -- "soaking the string in fresh water didn't work, but using
salt water allowed it to carry a 3.5Mb/s signal along its length." From a "we've got some time, I wonder..." perspective this is BRILLIANT!!