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I have three children so your assertion is incorrect. If it means that the world is a better place afterwards for them, some hardship for us all is not a bad thing. That includes m…

Civilian monitoring networks. We watch back?

Yes people are evil and these people manifest themselves in the form of corporations, governments and agencies. There is the second system effect as well where one of the mechanism…

I think a non-violent approach is unrealistic. History tells us that tables only turn when soldiers refuse to shoot citizens on order of the government and turn the guns back again…

This looks really cool. I haven't built my own PC for a number of years and probably wouldn't consider it any more to be honest (MacBook FTW). I will however recommend this to anyo…

Its shit at those things as well. Months of VSTO and Outlook forms will make you realise it's a pile of crap.

Outlook shortcuts are a complete bastard. You have Ctrl-F as discussed which is completely different to the rest of windows. You have alt-S for send as well which is used in some l…

> Sounds like the Master Programmer has never worked at a company that crunched you for 80 hour weeks, for weeks. Nor has the master programmer worked for a company populated by ut…

Sorry but that's just an idiotic assertion. Closed source proprietary crypto, you just don't know who wrote it, who audited it and who backdoored it and who knows of any flaws in i…

This. Ex IBS sufferer here. Fixed it myself after 3 years of hell from doctors who quite clearly were a) short of any realistic knowledge on the matter and b) quite clearly using m…

Or avoid the tool treadmill to start with... That is my philosophy. Managing licenses sometimes has a large overhead as well.

What is said and what is done rarely have any relation in politics.

105. We had to pay for the 500 tier for that. Fuck all extra value. 395 seats for nothing. Not only that, it's a pile of crap. It's slow, unreliable and requires so much configurat…

Pay pay pay pay pay pay pay. I have all of that and pay nothing. It builds up otherwise very rapidly. For example the company I work for currently churns out a mere $16k a year for…

That's not a proper C compiler though, as Microsoft like to point out regularly as a lame excuse...

It already runs RISCOS ;)

They're teaching my daughter python here in the UK at age 10. I got taught BASIC (BBC BASIC) and some ARM assembler [1] in 1992 at school in maths. [1] ARM assembler because our ma…

Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away. They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...

They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now... (No joke)

Slow, painful support, absolutely crazy latency, cocked up reverse DNS, bad peering.

As someone in the UK, I'm quite happy for amazon to provide me with low cost items on this basis. The tax is fixed rate VAT here in the UK so everything I buy from a tax dodge mean…

OVH is a bag of shit. Nothing but pain. If you want quality try bytemark/bigv or Colo with exonetric. Edit: I tried linode and was pretty happy but I don't trust something so far f…

Docx and Odt will live forever. 99% of the population will continue to use them. Hell I write hundreds of pages of documentation every year in Word 2010 and use LibreOffice at home…

I think they're all pretty poor. Sure they're a reasonable choice for conversion to HTML but they're only a subset of that and HTML is pretty easy to write and separate style and c…

a) markdown isn't expressive enough. In fact it's pretty horrendous to edit and separate content and layout IMHO. I'd go as far to say I prefer docbook over markdown. It's fine for…