Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 3rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 4,251 I won't touch anything created by Google. It's all spyware.
Anyway, the first 2 security leaks have already been identified in it. Rather quick, only a few hours after release... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 55 Views: 4,841 their quality control is no better or worse than that of any other company.
It's just that their products are so much more complex than most, which means that it's impossible to find all problems... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 20th, 2008 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 3,086 and where is the worm going to come out?
Just so I can avoid that spot :) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 487 Views: 35,702 Ronald Reagan for president!
He's a better president dead than either of the current candidates will ever be alive. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 73 Views: 5,902 Medicare is a disaster, OSHA is meddling with the rights of people, postal services are far more effecient and cheaper when run as private enterprises.
The drug supply is pretty much guaranteed by... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 6th, 2008 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 633 nope, they're called lawyers. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 22nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 53 Views: 5,796 I've seen many islands, and even been to a few. Which island are you referring to? :) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 92 Views: 7,891 Not sure who it was, but I heard the notion years ago that evolution of a species stops when that species starts changing its environment to suit itself.
Then when that species starts caring for its... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 775 Or monster.com
All you're going to get here are a few homework kiddos who are too lazy to even do basic programming assignments at school let alone to work a fulltime job. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 201 Views: 11,979 It's a KFir CE, next time don't take pictures from Wikipedia :) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 46 Views: 4,023 Everyone knows the giraffe was created by Ford Prefect after he got bored during a trip to Africa during the stone age :) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 22nd, 2008 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 44 Views: 4,337 It's been tried in that small country they call the USSR...
In fact the situation was worse there, management got paid less there because physical labour was deemed more worthy and politically... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 5th, 2008 |
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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 123 Views: 9,470 The current breed of "environmentalists" are purely political creatures who don't care about the environment except as a means to an end, the end being absolute political power.
Personally I like... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 123 Views: 9,470 Diesel engines are by now as clean as petrol engines or cleaner. The cancer scare is just that, a scare created by greenies in order to pressure for higher taxes and more draconian anti-car... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 3rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 134 Views: 11,672 Once you start down the slippery slope of banning things because they're "bad for morals" or "improper for people to see" there's no end to what someone will end up banning.
Maybe we should ban... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 11th, 2007 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 5,696 because the vast majority of people who aren't spammers are entirely against spam, and don't want anything to do with it.
They certainly aren't going to spam forums (and email, usenet, etc.) with... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 10th, 2007 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 3,226 THE most influential game of all time must be the original Pong.
For RTS games, the most influential ever is Total Annihillation. It redefined the genre when it was released in 1997 (I believe it... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 7th, 2007 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 1,699 Kyoto will have NO effect on the "climate" whatsoever with or without the US.
US CO2 emissions (which is what Kyoto is all about and which are utterly pointless when it comes to "the climate") are... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 1st, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 3,300 hmm, why do you post a picture of a very small nuclear explosion when talking about a big one?
Now THIS is a BIG nuclear explosion (Ivy Mike, 12MT) ;) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 3,300 best way to fight mosquitoes is with a TLA: DDT |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 24th, 2007 |
| Replies: 58 Views: 5,385 correct. The only posts I've deleted here were 2 posts where bumsfeld and lardmeister were calling me a Nazi.
That's a clear violation of the rules, as well as being a blatant lie.
My grandfather... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 180 Views: 12,203 no, I'm too nice to resort to their kind of behaviour.
I'll just let them rank up some more infraction points towards the day they'll end up banned due to their own actions. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 101 Views: 9,289 one difference, Gory Al's movie was written, performed, and created by the greenies themselves rather than by people afraid of them.
It shows in the worse cinematics, worse plot, and worse acting... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 180 Views: 12,203 the Nazis didn't execute millions by firing squad, too cumbersome and slow (and too expensive in bullets).
Nor did Himler ever get sick of it. AFAIK he never personally took part in it anyway.
... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 9th, 2007 |
| Replies: 52 Views: 4,232 Evian is actually French, not US, and is sold worldwide.
Only a naive American wouldn't know that ;) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 4th, 2007 |
| Replies: 180 Views: 12,203 The perfect solution is summary execution of anyone helping them knowingly...
As it is nobody gets punished for helping or being an illegal immigrant, so lots of people give them all kinds of... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 64 Views: 5,669 I like puppies better than pussies... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 101 Views: 9,289 well said. The climate has been changing for billions of years. Compared to other interglacial periods the climate at the moment is actually rather stable, so taking the very long term view humans... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 1,720 A degree can certainly help (though it doesn't have to be a degree in computer related stuff, in fact the vast majority of people in the industry have degrees in other fields).
But the danger of a... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 3,292 he was manhandled and tazered for trying to ask a question Hanoi John didn't like.
Of course he resisted... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,190 Anything that can't be verified is suspect, anything coming from an anonymous source is doubly suspect.
I won't make arrangements with people that won't reveal whom I'm making arrangements... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 196 Views: 15,465 the use of the word "gay" for homosexuals is an abomination. They're no more gay than anyone having a good time...
Anyway, I've little against them in principle.
What I dead set against is their... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 4,989 interesting is it, how the left always has to resort to namecalling and fantastic overexagerration whenever they have to defend their ideology of total population control to thinking people.
Like... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 3,291 the Confederacy had every right under the constitution and their status as states in the union to cede from the union.
The Unionist invasion of the Confederacy was that, a foreign war of agression... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,164 A girl running a computer related website...
Hides in corner |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 5th, 2007 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 1,713 my computers never get turned off, the powersurge when booting them accounts for several hours of keeping them running, and the increased wear and tear on components due to booting and shutting down... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 5th, 2007 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 3,661 pointing out potential exploits to admins is fine. Doing so by writing and executing that exploit is definitely NOT fine. |