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Recent content by Paco Smithereens

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    Signal Intrusions (Watching porn with my parents!)

    On Februrary 1, 2009, I watched a dude get blown...with my parents. We were watching the Super Bowl here in Tucson, Arizona, and the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers were playing. Quite unexpectedly, the signal flickered and what I instantly recognized as pornography (nothing graphic...
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    Comment by 'Paco Smithereens' in media 'The One Microsoft Windows Video to Rule Them All [Arnox]'

    Holy crow, that's a lot of research. Well, I watched the whole thing through. I was thinking the other day about Windows 2000. On the day it was released, I went down to CompUSA where there was no fanfare at all accompanying its arrival and the guy at the counter refused to sell it to me...
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    PSA: Your torrent client (even with a VPN) could be leaking your IP

    The problem is because they keep iterating versions they never complete the previous version. Windows 10 is a wildly unfinished project - settings dialogs are still all over the place (some of the dialogs still look like holdovers from Windows 95), the design language is inconsistent, and my...
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    Roe v Wade II: Electric Boogaloo

    Well, that refers to a specific context of being secure from search and seizures. Among things not covered (that affect me personally): If you own a house or land, at least in my state, that is a matter of public record. The government needs to know this to levy property taxes, and I'm not...
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    Never left; just really extraordinarily busy. My father passed away last year and I'm taking...

    Never left; just really extraordinarily busy. My father passed away last year and I'm taking care of two houses now, my mother's needs, etc. I know you'd like to kick up activity here and I can help with that; just need to find some free time.
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    Roe v Wade II: Electric Boogaloo

    It is more likely they won't walk it back because it would make the Supreme Court look like it is susceptible to bullying. I'd say, the opinion was more likely to be revised and revisited before the leak. It's not that I think the Supreme Court is courageous; it is that they are up their own...
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    PSA: Your torrent client (even with a VPN) could be leaking your IP

    Before I set up a dedicated Linux box (VPN always on) to do this, I used to do all of my torrenting from within a Linux VM running on Windows 10. Wonder if I would have had the same problem. At this point - not just for this reason but for about two dozen others - I'm thinking of just going...
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    The Confederate flag

    The problem with symbols is they don't work that way: the receiver is going to react to or interpret them however they're going to. You can fly whatever flag you like and insist it means one thing, but you don't get to dictate meaning to those receiving it. You hope the receiver will...
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    I Have to be the Bad Guy: On Shootings and Gun Control

    Yes. I want to do this because rather than spitball or theorize that it would do nothing, I want to put it to the test, because it is the least-invasive thing to do and mollifies people who find the fact that anyone can buy a gun in a private transaction an insane proposition. Either it does...
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    Why The US Is So Politically Polarized

    Right but, and so what is to be done? You can't get people to sit down for your monologue about common sense, and how to weigh evidence, why proceeding cautiously is probably wise, and what is or is not truth. While it is easy to understand things right in front of you, it is really hard to...
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    I Have to be the Bad Guy: On Shootings and Gun Control

    Universal background checks so that when someone does a personal sale, they can check the background of who they are selling it to. Ordinarily, advocacy for UBCs involves eliminating private sales entirely. That's not what I am advocating. If I want to sell my pistol to you. * You go online...
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    The time I stepped in it.

    I only ever knew &totse; as a BBS, contemporaneous as it was with my own board, because a lot of the g-files I would carry on my old board would have ads at the end, or the BBS would be mentioned in the FILE_ID.DIZ file. I knew they had a web presence after but I don't know that I ever...
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    The time I stepped in it.

    tl;dr: No Soap, Radio! Aside from the bizarre undertakings of a secret society I belong to, I don't have many truly interesting tales of my sojourns among the profane. Several years ago at a northeastern university of middling repute, a student organization was occupying an administration...
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    On Freedom of Information: How Much is Too Much?

    I thought of being a complete wise-ass and responding in 140 characters, but I was feeling sentimental.
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