Posts by GX5000

Fun fact of the day: Voice recognition tech is naturally sexist

Re: Bullshit and bollocks

Depends on the individuals doesn't it?

I listen to these kids speak nowadays and wonder if it's still right to call it English...

Microsoft floats feelers for fake worlds

The Future is Haptic

Oh god - No Glove no Love Incoming.....

Remember that amazing video of the whale leaping out the gym floor and splashing down? Yeah, it was BS

System Shock anyone?

These guys sound like Night dive...

Oh wait...

Those guys actually released two demos using Unity then Unreal4 engines themselves@!

Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired for opposing hiring caps on white, Asian male nerds

Re: Political correctness BS

They tried that in Australia remember?

More Men STILL got hired...a little more if I remember correctly than with names.

Neil Young slams Google, after you log in to read his rant with Google or Facebook

Re: Musicians Lynyrd Skynyrd have spent years having a go at Neil Young

Southern Man Syndrome.....

uTorrent file-swappers urged to upgrade after PC hijack flaws fixed

Just say no

Why would you let Java run when asked for uTorreent?

devious JavaScript code can only run if you allow it to.

Just say NO.

Astro-boffinry world rocked to its very core: Shock as Andromeda found to be not much bigger than Milky Way

We've merged at least once before remember?

Wow so much confusion for a Booty call we already had once....

Arrrgh! Put down the crisps! 'Ultra-processed' foods linked to cancer!

Nothing new

Didn't everyone know this already?!

Processed foods were known issues since the seventies...

Timeout everyone. Y'all know that Musk's $500 'flamethrower' is literally a Boring blowtorch?

Nothing more than a Hepped up Blowtorch.

The Cost of producing this would be under $150.00 but if you need the Elon Bling....

Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs

Re: Water movement?

A Cuppa?!

Oh god that explains the Tide Pod eaters!

I'm not brewing no plastique!

I ain't eating no DM12 or C4!

These people probably use DetCaps to pick their teeth!

If you've ever wondered whether the FCC boss is a Big Cable stooge – well, wonder no more

Re: Pardon?

You do realize he was put in there by Bama right?

Yes Trump made him Chairman, but the guy is beholden to $$ not the left or right.

Exploding alien bodies' space death-rays gave Earth its radiation cloak

Re: Radiation shields to maximum.....

Well we went there EP1 but got lost afterwards...

Maybe Chekov can get here in his gold lame suit and show us the way...

(Starlost https://scifihorrorfantasy.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/oro1.jpg)

Quentin Tarantino in talks to make Star Trek movie

Final Nail in the coffin as it were

You have to laugh as they take everything you grew up with and tear it to shreds...

Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools

Re: NoScript

Try same with Opera...much more stable and fast.

User dialled his PC into a permanent state of 'Brown Alert'

Windex FTW

On Call, On Road Tech in the late 90's...

Private Sector IT Corp Client...

Client: I need new Monitors, biggest ones you can get...

ME: You don't have the Deskspace for those, let me come over and check your new setup...

Client: See? Plenty of space...

ME: What's wrong with your Monitors they look fine...

Client: They've faded out...blurry as shit.

ME: OK, I'll tweak the psu and...hold up ...wipe...this must be three year's worth of cigarette smoke on here...

Client: Well whatdyaknow...ok we're good.

Dawn of The Planet of the Phablets in 2019 will see off smartphones

Same people, again..

Same people that said e-mail was dead.

I've been in IT for over thirty years, still have a clamshell (Rugby2), still happy with theway the Car connects up to it super fast.

You can keep your Landfill materials, I'm good and so are my Clients.

SurfaceBook 2 battery drains even when plugged in

Re: 'cause more damage to your brand'

Some of us on sites just like this worked for Microsoft formally as well, and digital, HP, Compaq etc, etc etc...

Amazon launches Secret Region – so secret it's endorsed by the CIA

Madness

The Cloud is you paying to have your Data Shared on someone else's Servers, PERIOD.

You are not the one who will benefit from this in the end.

Historically Secrecy is not served well by Centralization.

I will retire soon and will move to a vacant part of Vermont or Canada with no cell service, just Fiber.

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

Moved back to Modern Opera after last Firefox update trashed my speed dials and I haven't looked back.

It faster, supports most addons (yes those) and Speed dials folders are just awesome.

Facebook and pals to US Senate's Russia probe: Pleeease don't pass a law on political web ads

Re: That was brilliant

Is our children learning?

Julian Assange says Cambridge Analytica asked WikiLeaks for something

Re: Why the Assange hate on El Reg?

Because Internet and raisons?

C'mon now, for every sane adult technologist on here there are how many shitposters?

Have a great day dude!

Software update turned my display and mouse upside-down, says user

Re: Every day's a school day

Been thirty years this November...

At first I doubted that part but then a flood of "PC Coffee Tray" and the "Mouse is at the end of the carpet" memories came flooding back. I'd retire but then I'd have no reason to enjoy my time in here.

Twitter: Why we silenced Rose McGowan after she slammed alleged sex pest Harvey Weinstein

Sure, it's the end of the world.

There's nothing new about harlots chasing assholes.

We're just hearing more about it now since the Cell phone Victim culture is in high gear.

Let's just focus on abuse victims that need our help and forget about the catfishes ok kids?

Amadeus booking software outages smack airports across world

Re: 'we experienced a network issue '

Seriously who down-voted this? lol

'Dear diversity hire...' Amazon's weapons-grade fail in recruitment email to woman techie

Re: If minorities are supposed to get positive discrimination...

Drones that follow orders are always more accommodate than workers that need to get things done (and question)

Re: What's the problem?

That's also the type to get your job after accusing you of such and such by the way dude...

Failures abound

Diversity Consultant - Someone who didn't take STEM to bitch about not enough X in STEM

No, just don't do it at all, let meritocracy rule.

Boffins sling around entangled photons at telco wavelengths

OMG you 2

Three years then got hauled into PolSci, the Military then ran away into Technologist roles for the Gov.

I want a redo in AstroPhys.

Helium's for balloons and squeaky voices, not this 10TB Toshiba beast

Re: Save the Helium, ban balloons

Not so https://www.wired.com/2016/06/dire-helium-shortage-vastly-inflated/

The sky is never really falling my young peers.

With or without nuts

Wow really?

External 2TB USB drives are under 100CDN here now.

Great for Media backup.

Japanese boffins try 'token passing' to scale quantum calculations

Re: Ugh.

Ah heck you sent me back.

We obviously should both be retiring!

Cheers!

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Re: Go Samsung!

Actually I have quite a few Clients with Sofa-LargeTV-PC combos and yes there are remotes you can get for AV players that can control sound output as well, mind you they have it on large stereos that have their own as well. I have an older 60" that is plugged into a Laptop at the back for the moment while my mother in law is in town so she can stream British TV shows from our main server. Wireless keyboard and mouse for that setup though/.

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

Re: Slippery slope?

After seeing someone go to Court for a "Nazi Dog Salute" nothing surprises me....

Get out of the EU, get your Politicians to Protest your Rights or the backlash will end you good times...wait......

Sailor Moon? More like sail to the Moon: Japan vows to set foot on lunar soil by 2030

Re: Does a dead astronaut count?

You forgot about the retinas detaching halfway there and your bone mass reaching breakpoint at that time as well. JPL has some great articles and research about how we'll have to be fully "Modified" before we ever hope to become a Space faring/Landing species. Humanity was meant for the gravity it was born on, until we can replicate it maybe....

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Speech Recog is Dystopic

Been on Dragon Dictate since WIN3.11 and I can tell you one thing, after talking to a PC for thirty minutes you realize that typing is a lot less effort.

A keyboard and mouse are silent and a better tactile experience.

Once they get us talking we'll neglect the ability to compose in a worthwhile manner and slowly lose the power of reading and words.

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

Should shoot people like this.... another entitled BMW owner couldn't wait for an ice cream. I didn't think thirteen year olds were allowed to drive.

Gov workers told their social posts are more believable than politicians' statements

Sounds like a good episode of Yes Prime Minister...

Bernard: But surely the citizens of a democracy have a right to know.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No. They have a right to be ignorant. Knowledge only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity.

Search results suddenly missing from Google? Well, BLAME CANADA!

Sorry

Not Sorry - Just mad the regressive left is still trying to ruin things for everyone.

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

Free not Dead

What a bunch of crap.

The Patent if off is all, MP3 is still King and APE shall accompany.

You really think because they can't cash-in on the patent anymore we're all going to roll over?

MP3 'died' and nobody noticed: Key patents expire on golden oldie tech

and not one word on APE files?

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

You can't patch away stupid

You can't patch away stupid, stop trying.

I'm still supporting hundred of Win7's that are only moderately patched, have malware and AV soft that will never get infected by a CLICK ME PLEASE "bug".

CERN staff conduct 'human sacrifice' at supercollider site

Re: Prroof! That Demons exist!

You say Cern, I think Black Mesa......EP3 is RL!

Canada asks citizens: How would you like us to spy on you?

Re: Evidently, Le French is not El Reg's Le Forte

Right, that's why we have the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world

I'll let you guess the name, criss dépais.

Think virtual reality is just about games? Think again, friend

True but alas

I agree VR will fail at Film for the next little while but then again we have a society that thinks the World revolves around them so all new movies of the future will star YOU so VR will work out, just need old togers like me to signoff.

Gullible Essex Police are now using junk science lie detectors

Helper tool

Used in Canada during investigation only to determine if subjects are trying to use subterfuge.

The Technician uses the poly to determine if you;re trying to obfuscate the truth.

Calling a Polygraph a Lie Detector just shows negative bias towards a system that does help out.

If you don't believe me ask a Politician to test it out just for fun......they'll run since they know they won't be able to fool the technician.

Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Philando Castile shooting vid: It was the police – sources

He'd just been forced to shoot a man who "reached" when told to keep still...as you

can hear him say in the video...You'd be panicked too.

GWN

When a PO says keep them up and you reach for "blank"......

When you're "secured" on the ground but still trying for that weapon in your pocket....

The less people gossip and research these stories the less sympathy and rage.

Peter Gabriel-backed music startup goes titsup, takes £500k of your money with it

Was sold but is still remembered as ?

The Monkey had nothing to do with this anymore, why bring him up ?

Radiohead vid prompts Trumpton rumpus

Re: Dull incomprehensible video...

DL'ed before buying, listened and deleted it.

They've made much better stuff than this drek,