For a decade we HAD to use IE to get Windows Patches (don't say update).
I was startled to see that in Win10, updates are a different program (Settings??), and that 10 minutes of hacking killed 98% of MS's calls to the new MS browser. However Windows Help is liable to run an EDGE search on BING and turn-up scuzzy websites before MS's own helpless help pages. (Rarely this works in my favor.)
I was startled to see that in Win10, updates are a different program (Settings??), and that 10 minutes of hacking killed 98% of MS's calls to the new MS browser. However Windows Help is liable to run an EDGE search on BING and turn-up scuzzy websites before MS's own helpless help pages. (Rarely this works in my favor.)
So the boss calls us all together over coffee and says, I have a great job for the laziest guy here. Who wants it? All the other guys put up their hand. Boss looks at me and says "Hey Weldon, why didn't you put up your hand?"
"Couldn't be bothered", I said.
He was right, it was a great job for a lazy guy like me.
"Couldn't be bothered", I said.
He was right, it was a great job for a lazy guy like me.
A bald man proud of his hairless head told me that "god made only two perfect head types, the rest he covered with hair".
My glass is not only half empty, it's cracked and leaking.
By always anticipating the worst, I am seldom disappointed.
Yes, I am a miserable old geezer!
By always anticipating the worst, I am seldom disappointed.
Yes, I am a miserable old geezer!
The doc has forbidden me from eating cheese or drinking alcohol - no wonder I am miserable! 🙁
Well, you can still have fun with math, in moderation of course, or you may end up like Webster.
The fifth type is the engineer - because he knows the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Youth of today don't know what they missed:
Theft of cable service was estimated as $4.7Billion/year. Background:
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story...mblers-work-anyway-and-can-you-still-use-them
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-03-28-1994087071-story.html
https://greensboro.com/electronic-b...cle_f5d81eed-26d4-59c0-b46c-4bc3c33e2dc9.html
Cable TV Company Goes After Pirates, in One Zap | By George James April 25, 1991 | Credit...The New York Times Archives
One evening last month, hundreds of television screens in Queens went blank. The local cable company says that this time it was not an accident. It was a giant electronic trap.
The cable company, American Cablevision of Queens, was trying to catch subscribers who had illegally installed a handful of fancy electronic chips in the boxes on top of their television sets. The company says the chips let them get HBO, Showtime, Sportschannel, Cinemax, Bravo, the Disney Channel, the Greek Channel and the Chinese Channel -- premium channels for which there is a surcharge -- without paying anything more than the basic cable rate of about $20 a month.
American Cablevision says it snared 317 such customers, primarily in western Queens, out of its 90,000 subscribers. Accusing them of "electronic shoplifting," the company is suing them in Federal District Court in Brooklyn under a seven-year-old Federal law. The law, cable companies say, lets them crack down on cable piracy, a nationwide problem, they say.
The Queens company tracked down the 317 with the kind of techno-sleuthing that would have brought a smile to James Bond's face, even on a noncable channel. American Cablevision fired an electronic bullet from its headquarters in Flushing. The signal whizzed through the ganglia of the company's cable system, disabling only chips that had been installed illegally.
All that American Cablevision had to do was wait to find out who had the illegal chips. Soon its switchboard was flooded with calls from subscribers complaining that their screens had mysteriously gone dark.
The company says the signal from headquarters that detected and destroyed the illegal chips did not interrupt service to customers who were paying for premium channels.
So when American Cablevision told the angry subscribers to bring in the boxes on top of their sets, company officials were confident that they were rounding up only those who, from its perspective, had broken the law. The company kept the boxes and says it will introduce them as evidence in court.
Barry Rosenblum, the president of the Queens-Brooklyn division of Time Warner, which is American Cablevision's parent company, said the case involved the largest number of suits for cable theft ever brought at one time. He said the action was the first step in a crackdown on theft of services.
Theft of cable service was estimated as $4.7Billion/year. Background:
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story...mblers-work-anyway-and-can-you-still-use-them
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-03-28-1994087071-story.html
https://greensboro.com/electronic-b...cle_f5d81eed-26d4-59c0-b46c-4bc3c33e2dc9.html
Cable TV Company Goes After Pirates, in One Zap | By George James April 25, 1991 | Credit...The New York Times Archives
One evening last month, hundreds of television screens in Queens went blank. The local cable company says that this time it was not an accident. It was a giant electronic trap.
The cable company, American Cablevision of Queens, was trying to catch subscribers who had illegally installed a handful of fancy electronic chips in the boxes on top of their television sets. The company says the chips let them get HBO, Showtime, Sportschannel, Cinemax, Bravo, the Disney Channel, the Greek Channel and the Chinese Channel -- premium channels for which there is a surcharge -- without paying anything more than the basic cable rate of about $20 a month.
American Cablevision says it snared 317 such customers, primarily in western Queens, out of its 90,000 subscribers. Accusing them of "electronic shoplifting," the company is suing them in Federal District Court in Brooklyn under a seven-year-old Federal law. The law, cable companies say, lets them crack down on cable piracy, a nationwide problem, they say.
The Queens company tracked down the 317 with the kind of techno-sleuthing that would have brought a smile to James Bond's face, even on a noncable channel. American Cablevision fired an electronic bullet from its headquarters in Flushing. The signal whizzed through the ganglia of the company's cable system, disabling only chips that had been installed illegally.
All that American Cablevision had to do was wait to find out who had the illegal chips. Soon its switchboard was flooded with calls from subscribers complaining that their screens had mysteriously gone dark.
The company says the signal from headquarters that detected and destroyed the illegal chips did not interrupt service to customers who were paying for premium channels.
So when American Cablevision told the angry subscribers to bring in the boxes on top of their sets, company officials were confident that they were rounding up only those who, from its perspective, had broken the law. The company kept the boxes and says it will introduce them as evidence in court.
Barry Rosenblum, the president of the Queens-Brooklyn division of Time Warner, which is American Cablevision's parent company, said the case involved the largest number of suits for cable theft ever brought at one time. He said the action was the first step in a crackdown on theft of services.
