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Comment Re:speed of light (Score 1) 65

The electrons themselves physically move at an embarrassingly slow speed, something on the order of a few meters per hour.

Which is why *all* the exectricity in your home belongs to you and is being constantly recycled. You just pay for "pumping" to move the same electrons back and forth a couple of inches on each cycle. A;; the electorns you will ever need come pre-loaded into everything you buy!

Comment More Years Behind than Ahead (Score 3, Insightful) 260

Those of us that have more years behind than ahead really do not give even one shit what the kiddie arseholes do.

These are the same sick children that removed the cache from the computers because it saved $5 per $2500 machine (it also rendered it slower than molasses running uphill in a Janualy in Edmonton) rendering the machines completely useless for any purpose.

Comment Piles of Shit (Score 1, Insightful) 126

This just goes to show that these smartphone things are just bags of shit that were designed by total absolute morons who should be put to death for their inability to design something that works properly.

It would also be helpful if turning the damn thing off actually did anything -- but it does not. The same shite is still running after the power cycle as was running before the power cycle, so this will do absolutely fucking nothing whatsoever. The only way to actually "power down" one of these stupid-ass devices is to remove the battery entirely and then discharge the entire thing with tinfoil.

Comment IBM (Score 1) 203

I worked at IBM for a time. Half the building was salesmen. The other half was a development lab. When I was hired I was told that the dress code was "casual". When I first showed up wearing nice jeans and a nice shirt. While waiting for the manager to come and sign me in the first time, there were all these fellows (salesmen) in the impecable IBM blue suits with white starched shirts (that looked as uncomfortable as all hell). I figured I was somewhat under-dressed.

Then the actual people who knew stuff started to arrive. Torn jeans. Brilliant mohawks. Pierced noses and ears and stuff.

In the end the only difference was that I was the only person in the building that did not have a university degree whereas everyone else did -- even the janitor.

Comment PDF is not what you think (Score 1) 53

PDF stands for Proprietart Document Format. Very shortly after it because a document format, it became a very specialized tool for the distrubution of malware. It is not a "Document" format, it is a Malware Distribution Format.

One may take action to turn off the Malware Distribution Features and return it to a Document format. but almost noboty can be bothered to do that -- hence PDF is one of the most dangerous file formats in existance, save that Flash crap.

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