I guess it depends on who handles it. Meanwhile, it's waiting in the kitchen.
ThermionicEmissions is saddened to hear Beth Chapman, Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife, passed away, most likely from cancer (1967-2019). Although an occasional target of the blog, we send our best to Dog and family.
- Japan is set to resume whale hunting. They say it's essential.
- Reached for comment, the whales say it's not essential.
- Funny mishap on the first day: someone harpooned Rob Reiner.
At the Glastonbury Festival (England's answer to Woodstock III), people observed...
Unfortunate songstress Neneh Cherry was warbling through her set when the veteran OS finally gave up the ghost. Alas, XP was dealing with the stage back projection, meaning that the audience lurched from being vaguely surprised to learn that Cherry was still around to the horrifying realisation that so was XP.
Yes, Windows XP, the long out of support, dead OS. Perfect example. The only safe, past term OS, is one that runs by itself and doesn't connect to any network. When Microsoft tells you to upgrade, they're not kidding. And you know how I feel about Microsoft.
- Mauritania (election controversy), Ethiopia (coup), Syria (2x, exams), have had large internet 'interruptions' with the past few hours. This shows you how important the net is, and how control of it is so important for tyranny. Remember this the next time you demand internet censorship and control.
Confused by all the news about Huawei?
Just discovered were 3 accounts on a big business router; all 3 were hard-coded (built in and not removable), one was root (access to everything) and 2 were system accounts. The passwords are the same, so if you know one, you know them all. I suspect the ability to 'phone home' will also be discovered.
So if you don't understand why many are calling for dumping their products, you're starting to. As a glance at the news will tell you, our government is not all that good at securing things. Nobody on the planet wants to fire up their networking gear and find out it's available to anyone with the password and it's sending data to China (where companies work even closer with their government).
This is why it's disheartening to see the president and others backtracking on the ban. [never hope politicians finally 'got it']
Along those lines, large cloud services provider PCM was hacked, as discovered in mid-May. Why do I say that if you can no longer touch your data, it's no longer yours? The moment you let things loose past your home or business, you are at the mercy of bright as well as bungling people/corporations. You've widened your attack surface (made yourself easier to hit with a foul ball). The hack was accomplished via phishing, as most are lately.
In reality, you're not going to avoid The Cloud, whether you know it or not. Just don't choose to. Sync your browser passwords? Get your info from anywhere there's a connection? Get login and password from anywhere you are? It's in The Cloud. Just don't put anything out that you don't have to, especially for the sake of convenience.
Dear lefty:
- Where can I get a tin foil hat like you? What's your size?
- Just pretend you have one and act accordingly. It will eventually materialize; faster if you're referred to as one by friends or online.
- My size varies, depending on how smug I feel that day. It's always large, though.
A lot of you are probably asking yourselves about the incidence of human feces incidents in San Francisco. Anticipating your question, I found the following...
I don't know which surprises me more: that there are so many or that there are stats. A San Francisco friend's comment was 'notice the color'.
- Several days after once again brandishing swords with the US, Iran said it's over the limit of plutonium it's supposed to have.
- They also announced they have very small penises.
There are people who have read ThermionicEmissions via online translation!
Nice to know I can frighten people in other countries. World domination is imminent.
- Sony is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Walkman (1979). Where were you when it came out? A twinkle in your parents' eye? The back seat of a brand new Oldsmobile Cutlass station wagon? Still post-traumatic over the conversion to unleaded gas?
Karl Rove (R-Hell) was bemoaning the shit show that was the Democratic debates. His main objection was federal abortion funding, which he said 'violates morals and people don't want their tax dollars funding abortion.' Hey Karl - I'm morally opposed to war. I don't want my tax dollars funding the military industrial complex. You're a smart fella - you know it doesn't work this way... it's just convenient for your religious agenda.
Say what you will about Kellyanne Conway, but that New Jersey accent makes you want to gouge your own eardrums out. The sad thing is that her accent isn't all that bad for New Jersey.
This week's best overheard:
When police dug up the yard, they found the body. But unless it had 3 legs, there was another body down there somewhere.
Ring ring...
Me: Yes?
Him: Hi, it's me. I wanted to get your idea on this project. I don't want to send the email first, then do the rest.
Me: I'm thinking we should wait on the email.
Him: Yes, but if we wait on the email, the boss will be upset.
Me: Why do you always call me to argue with yourself? Is your wife often upset with you and you can't figure out why?
- A baseball player died in a hotel at a young age. There is no cause of death but police don't believe foul play or suicide was involved.
- When a musician dies, the cause of death is announced immediately, without autopsy.
- When there is a particularly nasty explosion, it is automatically not terrorism, before any investigation.
- How do they know this stuff?
- our condolences to the pitcher's wife of 7 months.
SJW News
Nike co-opted the Betsy Ross flag as a sneaker decoration.
There was incredible howling from Colin Kaepernik, because 'it takes us back to slavery'.
Nike will not sell them in the US.
Demands to destroy the Betsy Ross House and Betsy Ross Bridge are pending.
Men have named women's body parts, which is sexist.
Oreo is giving away special Pronoun Packs and encouraging everyone to share their pronouns with pride today and every day.
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