Posts by Suburban Inmate

Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars'

Blueberry Skunk of Derp?

Microsoft "Tokin' Ring Networking" schmoozathons?

For MS's MS patients... I wonder will this enabling technology be supplied with the OS? Give you something to do during installation and patching.

Overall I'm glad someone a little less evil (compared to monsanto, arms corporations, big pharma etc) is grabbing this. It was never going to be some dippy hippy utokia, but as long as people have the option to homegrow, then there's no harm in having a corporate option. People can weigh up the pros and cons themselves.

I fully expect old beardy Branson to follow suit, too, given his public support.

First bricks of Great Firewall of TAIWAN are being laid, netizens fear

"...But will it stop there?"

I realise that line was probably rhetorical, but with the analogy of Newton's first law in mind, has the answer to that question regarding such measures, be they realted to dead tree, broadcast signal or packet switched data, ever been yes?

Stand by for PURPLE KETCHUP as boffins breed SUPER TOMATOES

Healthy food good, profiteering bad.

I've no problem with these tomatoes, or GM that works as advertised. But there's always a but.

My problem is with the corporate ownership of the genes, with all the greed that goes with that. Megacorporations e.g. Monsanto can cover up adverse studies and dampen down the media coverage of opposition by threatening to pull advertising. Look at the rise of peasant farmer suicides, the corporate opposition to the labelling of GM food, underhand tactics used to bully farmers in the USA, massive political bribes, the list goes on.

Free (as in software) selectively bred crop varieties will do just fine, thankyouverymuch. If they are grown without paying protection money (purchasing chemicals) then so much the better.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637

Fibre boosters trip the light fantastic with 800G BPS LINKS

Re: Not just the kids

That'll be the IBM 62GV then.

Peak Facebook: British users lose their Liking for Zuck's ad empire

I'm not on Facebook!

But my sanitised, law-abiding, non-murderous and less offensive alter ego is.

A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking...

@ AC 12:27

Yeah, because there is no way that IRC traffic could be encrypted...

UK.gov blows a fuse at smart meter stall, sets new 2020 deadline

Energy cartels anyone?

So... Meter rental for the new supplier you say. People will be screwed whether they move supplier or not.

1. All suppliers charge each other high meter rental.

2. All suppliers pass on that charge to their newly acquired customers.

3. All suppliers hike charges to existing customers (including dumb meter users) because they will be shafted even more by 1 + 2 if they move.

Don't bake your Raspberry Pi - now you can WATER COOL it

Re: The real story here is that pump!

Your wonderings made me think of this: [url]http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00DCutkbUIIBzQ/Wood-Stove-Fan-SF-800N-SF-800G-.jpg[/url]

Facebook: Yeah, we'll ban chainsaw beheading vids - when journos call us

This article is also worth a mention

http://theinternetoffendsme.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/the-real-story-behind-facebook-moderation-and-your-petty-reports/

Remember that FarceBook is a business, and moderation costs money, and costs are bad mmmkay. Just enough moderation to look like they take things seriously is an investment.

I'm also reminded of the recent farce regarding Scriptonite Daily* allegedly due to some moron at a dole office, who then proudly boasted of getting it censored. I have a mental image of a middle aged spinster with two dozen feline companions...

* http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/facebook-censors-users-during-media-blackout-on-privatisation-of-the-nhs/

Huawei preps new mobes to overhaul Apple

Agreed Magnus

I am on my second G300 (first MIA after I was mowed down by a minicab) and once all the vodafone shitware is cleared off and Cyanogen slapped on, it should be alright.

Just waiting on a replacement screen after my butterfingers let it faceplant on some concrete. How much for a new screen? A mere £11 from China via fleabay!

How much will Google pay to bring fiber to Provo, Utah? Try $1

Re: Wow, screw Google

"It is unfair (And probably very illegal) for a Private company to make a profit when the public paid for almost all of it." What rock have you been living under for the past few decades?

As stated in the article, the whole sorry business was conceived as a public-private partnership, much like a lot of stuff in the UK. That means that the private companies buy up the local/state/national government puppets in charge, who then sell the idea (of handing control over to the private profit making sector) to the proletariat by promising a loving reach-around (hospital ward, school building, whatever).

It is later on, when bent over grabbing their ankles and hemorrhaging copious blood/funds, that people begin to realise that they are being rampantly fucked and that they should have kept control of the situation all along. Too late! Contracts signed, government balance sheet turds polished, politricksters long gone, private sector trollolololing all the way to the tax haven, next generation drowning in public debt, shit creek rapids approaching, paddle AWOL.

'Fastest storage in the WORLD' plugged into mighty boffinry Cray

3 ≠ 2

Currently third on the list, not second.

Dubai splurges on 700hp, 217mph Lamborghini police cruiser

Re: Cameras

Centralising crossed my mind, but there would be much more of a paper trail.

Re: Cameras

No. Cameras can't pocket bribes.

Oi, Microsoft, where's my effin' toolbar gone?

Just a simple menu.

Mozilla: NoScript is quick and nimble even on a mangy old dog of a computer.

Chrome: NotScripts is a stodgy turd of a thing, with the same functionality save for the fact that it draws its own menu. After a little while paging goodness-knows-what. Testament to what a diseased shit-smearing chromosomal clusterfuck Java/Javascript is that that I sigh and put up with it.

Or is all this stuff an excuse to get people to buy new computers?

Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff

Re: Re: @ Don Jefe

Hold on, wasn't it manually targeted and blasted to smitherenes by a bored Klingon?

HGST: Nano-tech will double hard disk capacity in 10 years

Admit it...

You saw the pic and looked for the autostereogram.

Four firms pitch hi-def DRM for Flash cards

Yet another damp squib of fail.

Two examples of films I bought: Ink, indie fantasy, on signed Blu-Ray even though it had been released by the makers as a torrent. Four Horsemen, economic documentary, DRM-free download for less than £4. I also refuse to purchase any game that roots my machine in an effort to have me farting about for physical media. Both of those films are highly recommended by the way!

Moral of the story: don't dick us buying public about, an we'll happily drop a few coins in your guitar case.

Higgs data shows alternate reality will SWALLOW UNIVERSE

Seeing it coming and going.

Is it worth me booking my table yet?

Android: paranoid.

Love in the time of the internet: A personal memoir

Re: Match.com & eHarmony.com are a SCAM!

Throw zoosk in that pile too.

I'm currently having fantastic success on a free site, they're really pretty girls and they message me first, which is kind of nice. All seem to be travelling or working around Africa, which is an odd coincidence, but stranger things have happened.

Seriously though, it was in an IRC based free chat site (initially with a horrific java front end*) that I met my current lovely lady. I was a regular chatter, not looking for anything more than timewasting on the net, then when she joined up we noticed each other's twisted humour. I messaged her, apparently. It's not something I'd normally do, but a hearty imbibement of ale that night doubtless had something to do with it, hence the icon.

My point is love happens just as easily when you're not even looking for it. She'd had nothing but fail with the dating-oriented sites. I fancied her before I even saw a pic, and yes it was a bloody big relief when I saw that she's quite pretty. I even have a pic of her bum as the wallpaper on my phone with pattern unlocking: I have to fondle it right to gain access!

*/me chokes a bit of vomit back down.

Dish boss on ad-skipping service: 'I don’t want to kill ads'

Re: The Real Target.

And same here. I checked out the feedback of a buyer on ebay, and was then subject to a fortnight or so of women's fashion offers.

For most adverts I have AdBlock and thebox.bz... For everything else, I'm "ad blind".

Gimp: Strangely, ebay didn't seem to offer up deals on BDSM gear that I remember.

Firefox for Android now runs on EVEN OLDER, slower kit

Define "runs"

Deus Ex "runs" on a pentium 100. (inb4 scatological humour)

Twin brothers nabbed for scrap over sex with 'shared' girlfriend

45 minutes each way, oranges at half time.

No, wait, it's 'murika: 20 time-outs and all-u-can-eat hot dogs!

Ten technology FAILS

Sega Saturn

It was a dual 25MHz CPU job, with the second reportedly shoehorned in after Sega got wind of the 33MHz CPU in the PlayStation. The result was a console that was an awkward steaming turd to code for.

Developers coded the simpler and quicker PS versions first, then porting to the Saturn some time later or never at all (sometimes a fat wad of Sony readies aided the decision making), with the product quality suffering along the way.

Texas woman sues cops over burst Bulgarian airbag

Sheeeeit!

"The Pantego powers that be expressed "complete faith" in their officers, and insisted they always behave in "the most professional manner""

The Pantego moonshine racket is alive an well, I see.

Brighton marathon munchers banned from all-you-can-eat diner

I'm actually with the owner on this one. His restaurant, he is SysGod. Not SysAdmin. SysGod. As in way back before my cyber existence in the dialup BBS age. When the SysGod could be a bastard and introduce noise to the line wasting someone's valuable line time, for example.

Service charge? OK it's serve yourself, and probably boil-in-bag stuff, so yeah that's a piss-take. Tap water? I still hurt from having to pay £5 for a mineral water at my middle class cousin's leaving do in a London Bar! Stop taking the piss and we'll start buying. (I do not know the charges for the restaurant in question)

At the end of the day one single restaurant is not as essential to life as your internet connection, gas/water/electricity/sewerage. Learn to cook like I did, it is very rewarding.

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

This bloke has nothing on the lady in the vid I saw a few years ago. Way too many to count, but safe to say seceral dosen, with the help of a metal funnel and some bloke.

No, I will not eelaborate further.

Re: Genki Porn

Seems to slither past "Safe Search (moderate)" on google without much trouble.

Still, learned some new Japanese today :)

Myspace mutates Windows 8 with new look

Did anyone else think "Myspace? Who the f... Oh yeah." ?

German court turkey-slaps Motorola in patent case

Just silly.

Is two finger zoom next? Or some other insignificant piece of UI frill?

I forsee an underground OS emerging that gives all the features a user wants, doesn't track users, has no fed backdoors and, maybe I'm just dreaming, just fucking works.

Sorry, rant over, it's been an allnighter.

Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky

Re: The last paragraph is the scariest

+1 for not having kids. Same thinking here plus I can't stand the things. Doug Stanhope had a few words about it too, on Newswipe.

Re: Tinfoil prices

In other news:

Mexico reports sombrero exports rising!

Swedish cops contain fermented herring menace

Re: Stinks a bit but is good eating

"opening tins of it inside building is for tourists and amateurs and teh lulz."

FTFY! (obvious icon)

Fanboi beats 'e-trespassing' rap after using GPS to find stolen iPad

Re: Basic misunderstanding

Maybe she did believe that, but microwave relays and sat dishes do so. Maybe Fanboi was _radiating_ a bluetooth signal that meant he could communicate with his fondledevice without pissing away mobi data allowance. My smarty can also act as a wifi hotspot.

The above is just speculation of course.

SHOCK: Poll shows Americans think TSA is highly effective

Uh huh. Remeber when the 100ml liquids malarkey came in? The moment I heard that I said "OK make a high explosive from liquids." which I already knew to be possible.

About 3 years later a program on telly wheeled out that whiskery old explosives bloke to explain so.

Rampant fake Facebook ad clicks riddle hits dead end

It's alright for me. I have Noscript and AdBlockPlus but FB is of course enabled in Noscript, and I don't need Javascript to hop on my bike to a warehouse open day of my favoured ethical clothing brand. Now if only flash wasn't such a bloated waster these days.

I can't deny that not catering for Java-disabled users used to be a bugbear of mine. If the site is trusted then it is probably already enabled, but random crap cropping up on FB etc gets no such privelige. LOLcats and news reports need no such tomfoolery.

PS I recommend Lazarus form recovery, with the two mentioned above that's my vital 3 addons.

Wikipedia collapses threatening the very fabric of civilisation

Same here a little while ago, but at least I now know wtf my preggers friend meant by Braxton Hicks. It'll be when Google goes down that the world will be proper shagged. The Almighty might even start the rapture at the google datacentres just to screw with our heads for teh lulz.

USB charges up to 100 watts

Re: I hope they up the voltage

I managed to lose a monitor PSU and got a bargain on a second monitor, so I run them off the internal PSU no problem. The cables are fairly thin, but 100w constantly at for example 12v would need a pretty decent cable so as not to get too warm if coiled away somewhere underneath dust/rug/cat. That rules PoundLand out. Upping the voltage beyond 12V would involve faffing around with PSU standards, a serious obstacle.

YouTube blurs faces to protect the innocent

Re: "corrects the apostrophes and grammar "

Moors' Lore <-- sorted!

Re: "corrects the apostrophes and grammar "

Doubt it. Processing 100 hours of Nyan Cat is one thing, but I reckon we're at least a decade of moores law from that sort of power...

Microsoft 'didn't notice' it had removed Browser Choice for 17 months

Re: Err... Inadequate.

I attribute based on balance of probability. In this case however, malice is beyond even reasonable doubt, IMHO (IANAL BTW)

I didn't notice either.

mozilla.org seemed to work just fine.

China's censors move to stamp out sex and violence online

@Bakunin Re: “scenes of bloody violence”

http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=theregister.co.uk

Test results for theregister.co.uk

Beijing fail

Shenzen fail

Inner Mongolia fail

Heilongjiang Province fail

Yunnan Province fail

Holy fudgecakes! Since when did the El Reg beancounters approve the use of scruples? Clearly I wasn't paying enough attention...

Minister of Fun bends Ofcom's ear on Freeview-4G knockout

TEN THOUSAND bloody quid?

If your home(s) need that much work done to keep your haunted fish tanks going, you can pay it your bloody self! Or download it. Or read a book.

Or stick it on parliamentary expenses.

Gaping 'open data' loophole could leave your privates on display

Re: Because... @James

I'm reminded of a Mark Thomas Radio 4 show The People's Manifesto.* I recall a suggestion, submitted by a lawyer, that all laws should be replaced by just one: "Play nicely with the other children."

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thomas_Presents_The_People%27s_Manifesto

Because... Just because.

Loopholes, bugs, administrative oversights, civilian deaths, etc. can never _ever_ possibly be at all intentional.

Have I made myself clear?

[/me is slowly slapping a Ministry of Truth baton in his palm with a fixed icy stare]

WTF is... WiGig

Why do I get the feeling the tinfoil headgear brigade are gonna have a(nother) feeding frenzy? Tumors... Mind control... Zombie apocalypse?

Personally, and you can call me old fashioned if you wish, I *like* cables, big fat masonry drills and knowing a mate with his or her laptop can just sit down, plug in and be sorted in mere seconds. Wireless certainly has its place, and WiGig will be a very handy tech to have in the networking arsenal, but I do not see it as preferable as far as my home is concerned.

/me braces for a volley of "-1 Luddite".