Posts by Graham Lockley

Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it

A feature nobody wants is added to an OS nobody wants ? Seems OK to me.

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

Re: Riff raff discouragement fee

You are going to the wrong pubs if £49 only gets a couple of rounds in :)

OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding

Re: Alright, boys and girls

>I'm sick of reading about crapola Dot Com startups that can't do anything useful being showered with billions by greedy, ignorant investors.

SSDD

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

Re: So many VR systems collect dust

+ for getting a mention for the Coupe Icare

-1 because my schoolboy French struggled with the vid

:)

New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level

Re: Grappa?

How unfortunate you are, I love Grappa :)

Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers

Re: I give the Reg five stars. The posts are informative and honest. Much better than mumsnet.

The one downvote suggests that you upset a BoJo/Brexit fan with your comment

That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US

Privacy ? We've heard of it. Old vulture joke from the days when El Reg wasn't a dot com.

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

Re: Musicians we'd like to continue hearing after their death?

How did you miss Miles Davies ?

How much would you pay me to develop a COVID tracking app that actually works? Ah, thought so: nothing

Re: Ursula Le Guin

I have a few early paperbacks (bought from new and my first exposure to the author) that have the K in the authors name. Not something I would start arguing about but because of this I always think 'K Le Guin' when she is mentioned.

Re: Ursula Le Guin

Why do people keep leaving out the K ?

In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web

Re: re: Pollute your Faecesbook account

Ahh, a fellow Natural News reader ! Brighteon is my main news source these days :)

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

Re: Whatever happened to

Careful, the Tea Party has its eyes everywhere on the lookout for pro-Marxista like yourself

Re: Why use a vernacula expression in instead of a well defined one?

Well they do some passable wines apparently (not to my taste though ) :)

Max Schrems is back... and he's challenging Apple's 'secret iPhone advertising tracking cookies' in Europe

Re: Just say no

So you've been vistiting NaturalNews as well then. Wonderful site, has the same effect on your brain as a pound of hash but its free!!

Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered

Ah the joys

I love these guys (and girls) and enjoy stringing them along (well, its a cheap and harmless hobby). Probably my favourite was getting one whilst sat at a desk in the middle of my local telephone exchange. After about 5 mins of dire warnings about my internet being cut off I said 'Hang on I will have a look at the DSLAM to see if there any problems'. I left him on hold for 5 mins but unfortunately he hung up, criminals today have no patience !

Howdy, er, neighbor – mind if we join you? Potential sign of life spotted in Venus's atmosphere

https://newsthump.com/2020/09/14/potential-life-on-venus-already-eyeing-up-soft-touch-uk-benefits-system-warns-nigel-farage/

Nuff said

iPhone soon to be Hecho en Mexico? Taiwan's Foxconn, Pegatron mulling going south of the US border – report

At last, Apple can truthfully say 'Made in America'

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Re: Why would anyone trust Microsoft to supply a phone?

Yeah I was one of those sad sacks who thought MS/Nokia had a good product that just needed a little more work/enthusiasm. Sadly it went the way of my other favourite phone (Palm Pre) and withered on the vine.I have a history of backing interesting losers (Siemans SL45 anyone ?) :)

What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible

Re: There's plenty the chap could do back if he was so inclined.

Reminds me of a meeting when I worked for OR. A particularly obnoxious/self important senior manager warned that genuine NTE's (telephone front plates) were being sold on Ebay at a price that was lower than what OR was paying for them. Obvious accusation was engineers selling 'surplus stock' . Much laughter when some wag at the back suggested they buy them from Ebay as they were clearly the cheapest supplier.

Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay

Re: Maze raged against victims who refused to play its game

I play the same game and wound up having their 'supervisor' teling me to f*ck off. Made my day :)

Bloke rolls up to KFC drive-thru riding horse-drawn cart only to be told: Neigh

Re: So...No Then To Disability Scooters, Not

Westlers ? Jeez I thought we were discussing food here ?

Re: So what's with the ban on horse-drawn conveyance in the drive-through?

>Basically, they think they are protecting us from ourselves, as usual.

Nope. that should read 'the Lawyers are trying to protect them from frivolous lawsuits'

Maccy D and 'hot coffee' spring to mind. No matter how sensible a company is, there is always someone who will file a claim. 'I got food poisoning and nearly died because there was horseshit outside my Macky Dees'.The B Ark isn't just for telephone sanitisers..........

Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages

Lets be honest, the bulk of Atari console games arent actually very interesting now, much less enjoyable. The only property that the current IP holders have that is of any real interest is the iconic logo.

Hooray! It's IT Day! Let's hear it for the lukewarm mugs of dirty water that everyone seems to like so much

To all those who laud tea I have but one word...

Gin (its not just for breakfast)

What does £55 get you in the noise-cancelling headphones world? Something like the Taotronics SoundSurge 85

Re: A+ would buy again

Eh? Whats that ? What did he say ? Something about Walking ? I also have the ears of a twenty year old, not going to tell the Police where I got em tho :)

Facebook's Libra Association tries again at this digi-cash game, with more modest ambitions after global flop

Any statement that includes leverage and innovation is by definition worthless fluff.

Where do you draw the line? Escobar Inc doubles down on cut-price gold phone buying demographic with second pholdable

'Comments are turned off'

Well what a suprise

Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky

Sooooooo

No one here is a BoJo fan ?

Well , snowflakes, live with it because our 'democracy' says that the 160k or so Blue Rinsers will choose our next PM.

As long as he doesn't like homosexuals/blacks/europeans and endorses the Torygraph/Dail Fail/Tory Excess current readership then he is home and dry for being our next leader.

Maybe the Russian and Chinese systems have some merit, at least they dont pretend you have a choice or that your vote matters.

Cynical moi ?

No just been around too long to have any faith in our political classes

You can blame laziness as much as greed for Apple's New Year shock

Re: Replay

There's a certain company that had a massive cash stockpile and market share, and had users locked into their ecosystem that managed to coin the middle management phrase 'nobody got fired for buying IBM'

Seen how well that company that was innovative and invested heavily in research is doing today ?

Facebook's new always-listening home appliance kit Portal doesn't do Facebook

Re: My Preferences Rarely Leap to Litigation...

....and the pic clearly shows she is making a CAKE

'Fibre broadband' should mean glass wires poking into your router, reckons Brit survey

We were posh, we had the postie deliver ours

Meet the woman with a supernatural affinity for stiff lovers

Music ?

Only one song that fits

Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead

Hipster disruptor? Never trust a well-groomed caveman with your clams

Re: Something I've always wondered ...

Kick him to death ?

Ofcom creates watchdog specifically to make sure Openreach is behaving

Re: If the government were serious ...

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784

So much for government intervention.

Try not to scream: Ads are coming to Amazon's Alexa – and VR goggles

The late great...

By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence.

Bill Hicks

Brits think broadband more important than mobes, cars or savings

Re: Saddos

You could always get yourself a Second Life (is it still going ?)

Apple guilty in iPhone ringtone patent rip-off battle with Sony, Nokia

Re: Patent madness

Same way you can patent a paper bag ?

Lethal 4-hour-erection-causing spiders spill out of bunch of ASDA bananas

Not once in all the above comments have I seen a mention of the most obvious elephant in the room.

'As reported in The Sun'

Nuff said.

Alleged buggy software wrongly flunks wannabe lawyers from bar exam. What happened next won't shock you

Re: The Bar Association and a contractor..... and things went pear-shaped.

Well fix it dear Henry

Viacom, Mattel and pals busted for stalking kids with creepy web ads

Pedophile stalks children = Jail sentence

Advertisers stalk children = mild rebuke

North Korea unveils its home-grown Netflix rival – Manbang

This discussion was going so well until you mentioned the F** word

Oh dear, Xiaomi: '$46bn' winner's phone shipments tumble 38%

>Who are Honor people? They try and wear a flower in their own hair. They are young people

Oh dear, better sell my Honor 7 then. Damn good phone but I'm clearly to old for it.

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

Star Trek: An unwatchable steaming pile of dung

That is all

Gaming apps, mugging and bad case of bruised Pokéballs

Re: What's wrong with cartoons?

>They don't rely on crude or vulgar humour to get a laugh

I take it you've never watched Duckman then

BMW web portal vulns pose car hack risk – researchers

Re: Might be useful

Case of mistaken brand I think, it's Audis that have the indicators turned off by default.

Lester Haines: RIP

So Long

and thanks for all the wit

Not going to be quite the same round here.

Condolences to his family.

'I am not a lizard' Zuckerberg proclaims in public Q&A

>But it's at least 50 years away, he said

If there is a God* then I offer thanks to him that the obsolescence he built in to me means I will never see this

* of course there isn't, silly

Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

Given the breadth of comments here and the background of the comenteers I am gobsmacked that there hasn't been a single 'underseas outsourcing' comment.

You Leica? P9 certainly is a Great Leap Forward in imaging... for Huawei

'it’s EMUI or bust'

I lost interest at this point, why buy an Android phone and wind up using a second rate IOS clone interface ?

Mumsnet founder 'swatted by misogynist griefers'

Whats an MRA ?