Quote:If we lived on the moon, do you think we could be werewolves all the time?

-- Tom McNair

Are you on TalkTalk?

They've been broken all week - and if you follow traceroute, it's in their data centre so it affects all customers - , and Chrome is quietly fixing it for you. As a work around, login to your neighbours Virgin Media and hope they don't notice.

I do wonder though, why do we have meat alternatives? The only time I ever use them is when somebody else is cooking so they don't have to think about doing anything special for me - just stick the sausages in the grill on a different shelf. The rest of the time, who wants pretend sausage when you can have honey roasted peanuts?

Is anybody actually reading this, because you're arguing with things I haven't said. Let's try some bigger letters this time.

I am not in favour of animal testing. You're just wrong that killing them, skinning them, and eating them is somehow okay.

Quote:ok for what primary reasons are animals put under torture for testing?

In vivo medical research, which brought the world the cancer drugs that account for 50% of the increased survival rates since the 70s, heart disease drugs, like statins, and Cystic Fibrosis research that means sufferers now mostly live to their mid-30s.

Quote:make-up is no good reason for an animal to be tested on

And, in fact, is already illegal in the EU, Norway, Israel and India. The rest of you have some catching up to do, yes.

Quote:i suggest to clone human organs or bits of samples that can be experimented

Which, in fact, is already happening - but wouldn't be possible without animal research!


But again, I don't support animal testing, I just think you're being worse than hypocritical if you oppose animal testing while happily munching on their guts.

A better point to make would be that the conditionals are backwards.

What Charez is saying is that it's fine to kill animals when there are plenty of alternatives, but it's wrong to kill them when there are none.

There are quite literally millions of alternative food sources, and no alternative to animal testing. If you don't understand why there isn't an alternative to in vivo testing, try fixing a leaking pipe by looking at one of it's molecules.

That's not to say I come out in favour of animal testing - I don't - just that the very premise is faulty.

A friend of mine (I've never been very good at having friends my own age) was still hill running when she died - aged 89.

It's easy - they're the ones with songs about them.

Some good reasons for not testing on criminals include, just off the top of my head, Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Johnny Walker, Billy Power, Dick McIlkenny, Tim Evans, James Richardson, Kirk Bloodsworth, Patrick Dils, Hermine Rupp, Pietro Valpreda, Dolores Vasquez, Sally Clark, and Stephen Downing,

Quote:As in my case, i was pleased with my Win XP, but my bank began to complain about at my XP started to become a security risk, because Microsoft no longer upgrade it and i was then forced to upgrade to Win 8.1

And this will happen with Win 7 also sooner or later.

What killed it wasn't really end of support - it was Heartbleed. There is no longer any safe SSL configuration for Windows XP. It's true that with support XP would still exist, but it would also have continued to exist without support if it wasn't for Heartbleed - which is, depending on your point of view, either the most, or the second most devastating vulnerability of all time.

Windows 7 has security updates until 2020, and after that, it's going to take a massive problem like Heartbleed to finish it off. Even something like ImageTragick wouldn't kill it - because that was all server side.

So yeah, you'll eventually have to update, but you've five to ten years - and by that time, Valve should have made other OSs viable, even if you're a gamer. Don't think it can't happen - most of you are already using Linux on your phones and in your TVs.

Punctuated equillibrium.

Sometimes selection pressures are very weak, and not much changes. I don't agree that humans have stopped evolving (and I don't think Attenborough does either - he's just simplifying things; that's his job), but it is very clear that this is a time of low selection pressure.

Then something happens, a selection pressure is very strong, and everything changes. In the fossil record it appears new species spring up overnight, but it's more likely the intermediaries die overnight.

In our case, selection pressures are low because we can fix them with technology. And when, and if it finally fails, suddenly selection pressures will be very high. Future paleontologists will bicker among themselves about whether fragments of bone denoted distinct species or mere varieties of the same species. They will speak of us as we speak of Lucy and Karabo. Our true names forgotten, our history unremembered, our hopes and dreams mere dust.

But hey, one of them might share a few genes with you, so that's something.

You ever had a kidney stone?

Now imagine your penis is a vagina, and the kidney stone is a baby. Now you understand why there's an optimal brain size that isn't necessarily larger.

Oh, I was so excited to find an Atari 800 on the market three or four years ago. They only wanted £10 too. "They have no idea it's a collectors item!" I thought smugly...until I got it home. I didn't expect it to work, but I didn't expect it to be - literally - burnt out inside either.

My first love, of course, was the Amtrad CPC 664. It's very collectible now, because it was only out for a few months. At the time, it was very frustrating - because the next model was about the same price, but had 128KB of RAM instead of the 64KB mine had.

I suppose it depends what you're doing.

I'm presently trying to write a client for 4OD and, logn story, basically I need to sniff the cryptography to see how the initial keypair is generated, and I can only do that somewhere it works, and the only place it works is Windows.

So, I booted into a Windows 10 VM, and tried to sniff the connection as it happened. I couldn't, because my sniffer needed dotnet. I tried to install dotnet, to discover I need some other update. I could update via the built in updates, but that wanted to throw several GB at me including updates for bizzare things like printers I don't own. All I wanted to do was look at a packet! In any other system, I can do that from the command line without even needing to boot to the desktop!

So I installed the update manually, and tried to install dotnet again, and it tells me that I can't anyway, because a different version is installed. I can't have two versions installed, which is odd - I can on Linux, and I could in previous versions of Windows - but I can't uninstall the new version either. It won't tell me why, it just won't let me.

So I try to go get another packet sniffer again, at which point it tells me my computer needs to be restarted because it's downloaded a tonne of the crap I didn't want mentioned above.

At this point, I gave up and figured it was less messing about to carry on reverse engineering a black box.

It's probably okay if you like a bit of handholding. If you want the machine to think for you, decide what's best for you and, in fairness, be right for 80% of users most of the time, then it's probably fine. It does spy on you, but so do FAcebook and Google, and you're probably using them, so that's not really relevant.

I don't think there is such a thing as a "power user" in Windows anymore though. The restraints have always been tighter than other platforms, but now they're positively claustrophobic. They've made it easy for the 80% of users who don't want to think at the expense of making it hard, and in many cases impossible, for the 20% who do. Assuming you're one of the 80%, though, that's not a bad thing.

If you like full control, and maximum freedom and security, choose BSD. But check your hardware first.

If you like to tinker, choose Linux.

If you like to tinker and play games released prior to 2005, use Linux,

If you like to tinker and play games, released after 2005, stick with Windows 7 or earlier.

If you want your computer to perhaps be a bit easier to use - but at the cost of any configurability, choice, or control, choose Windows 10. There's nothing wrong with it if that's your kind of thing. I don't hate Microsoft, it's products just offer the opposite thing that would be interesting to me personally.

It's fine now, but I was getting lots of connection reset by server this morning. Traceroute showed it getting stuck at cloudflare, as usual.

(Edit, nevermind, I double checked, and it's not cloudflare it was sticking at, it was my ISPs datacentre).

Firesheep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't reuse passwords. If you reuse passwords, and you've logged into ANY website, in the last six years over http, you should assume your password is public property.


Edit for clarity - checking for the padlock isn't enough, you need your cookies to be https too - they're often not.

Quote:NFL is real football

NFL is rugby for men so effeminate they need to wear armour before they can play a game.

He's already been, and explained how he's not needed anymore.

Being Human The Last Broadcast series 5 season 5 episode 6. The Media Is The Hand Of The Devil. - YouTube

Quote:
And the people of England let your Gov't ban the Flag.

As I pointed out in that particular thread by providing a list of St George's Day celebrations by the council that "banned" it, that's also not true.

You're just very credulous. I don't blame you, that's what happens when you're born and raised in a demagoguery.