Posts by MJI

Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

They are getting some flak from the gamers.

A son has VR, in fact he has two.

Guess what neither is FaceBookRift.

One is HTC, the other PSVR.

Has no Faecesbook account.

Uses discord a lot.

WhatsApp!

When I saw that painfull line on the start screen I nearly deleted it, but need it for work.

Free Whatsapp now!

What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?

Re: "..David Hasselhoff from number 64 had parked one of his nine shit cars in front of mine"

Is KITT one of the cars?

Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told

Re: Borrris can sort it.

I don't trust him either.

Borrris can sort it.

His fault, he can fix it.

I wonder how much a specialist can get in overtime?

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

Re: This! So very much this!

I know the feeling as I unsubscribe them from newsletters and the like.

Gmail is messy

I have [e-mail]

I get emails set up as [e-mail]

Some Yank who keeps getting desubscribed from university and disentry news letter.

And to think over 20 years ago we considered the domain name

So I logged onto his email my password then tested lots of combinations, google sends anything similar.

A mess

Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97

At least he hit a good age

RIP

Salesforce's Dreamforce shindig hits new levels of nauseating online as... Oh god. Is that James Corden?

Re: James Corden

Gavins annoying mate. And a couple of Voice Overs

Not sure if he has done anything else apart from not very good hosting events.

If I pedal faster and feed it spinach, my robot barman might pull more pints

Re: I want to get something to help me walk

A step ladder failed while I was on it, fell 6 foot onto my bum.

Luckily it all hurt and I am not on wheels

I want to get something to help me walk

Damaged vertabra from a fall.

Want to try some walking poles but I don't want to look like a rambler.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a monastery-burning romp that would be way better if it was not an Assassin's Creed game

One of the AC2s

I remember that modern day bit, I failed it straight away as I got the controls wrong.

Why?

Voice actor and his most well known games, I dropped into Uncharted parkour mode and fell off!

Modern games

Explore, climb viewpoint, get map.

First few games was fun, first few AC games, like the tall tower in Acre.

Now everything is, Watchdogsd, Farcry, AC games, even a bit with Horizon : Zero Dawn.

FC4 was a change in that you could land auto gyros on them. And only 4 in HZD

Re: I enjoyed the first 4

Ezio and Altair were fun, my sons did the sea one, none of us went any newer.

That generation there were so many fun games to play we were spoilt.

Another unpopular opinion. I liked Farcry 2

2 was great, 3 I disliked the character, 4 was fun.

I enjoyed the first 4

But AC3 was dull to play.

But my favourite is still 1.

Arriving in 2021, the UK's Digital Markets Unit 'could' start to do something about the power of online ad giants

Please change the name, will ruin searches

As a railway modeller I like to research various vehicles.

Some of them underfloor engine fitted.

I already have a university messing up some of my searches.

Luckily the major search engines have dropped them down the rankings a bit.

Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?

Oi at least I get the case correct, not my fault I keep forgetting superscript HTML code

I would wonder what cum would mean for a measurement, but m3 is a SI standard.

Re: Cubic metres? cm^3? ?? What is its abbrev.??

m3 not capital M, always small m

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

You need to watch the BBC documentry about sheep.

Some are very clever, the farmer does not suspect.

Period

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51629880

Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about

Still remember deleting it

What's the point, waste of disk space.

Back to the dos prompt.

Little did we know what would happen.

Not sunshine, moonlight or good times – blame it on the buggy

Not Bill

He last worked on XP

Try Steve or whoever created eff Fluent

Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery

Re: Calvados?

I'd rather have a pallet of Gala.

I do like those.

Especially from local farms.

Watchdog signals Boeing 737 Max jets can return to US skies following software upgrade, pilot training

Re: Dating back to the 1096s

Now if I was in that situation I would be asking around to see if anyone could get the mothballed SST going.

May as well go in style.

Re: How to convince people to get aboard?

EasyJet use Airbus, fly them instead.

All they need to advertise is we fly Airbus not Boeing 737 Crashamatics.

Worn-out NAND flash blamed for Tesla vehicle gremlins, such as rearview cam failures and silenced audio alerts

Re: We'll get used to it @Steve

For Rover I think the BMW engines were actually a disadvantage.

Rover group had a post L series Diesel, better than the BMW, never got used by them.

Land Rover had a range of engines, 2 of them were killed before lauch, the surviving middle one is an excellent lump.

Imagine a 75 with a G series, a Freelander with a TD4, or a L322 with a TD6.

Re: We'll get used to it

I have a car with Rover in the name.

Failed parts on it are from Denso, VDO, and a few others.

That said, the supplied chassis rusts for England, tempted to put a galvanised one under it.

Bu the factory built parts are fine.

A visit to a crafted webpage would have been enough for a bad guy to munch all your Firefox for Android cookies

Re: I hated Firefox last time I let it update

When I start Android Firefix it has the Bookmarks tab displayed, so I then press the site I want.

Why is that so difficult to have?

I hated Firefox last time I let it update

It was totally horrid.

Ended up side loading the previous version and disabling updates.

EVERYTHING I used on FIrefox was removed and I found it painfull to use.

Is it back to how it used to be yet, starting in Bookmarks?

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

Re: You've only just noticed that TV isn't a substitute for education?

My TV does not try to sell me anything.

But then I mainly watch advertless TV.

After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords

Re: Forced changes

And I left before Fearless

Forced changes

Yes been there and inflicted with it.

Monthly changes.

So found a book and found lots of simple passwords.

Dreadnaught, Superb, Temeraire, StVincent were the first 4

We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox

Re: But

Sheep are not cool (except Shawn)

Re: Clear as mud

I know what you mean.

They have the, XBox Fridge, XBox speaker, Souped up 3, slim 3.

Biggest confusion will be between the two X models.

Re: Confusing

98 OSR2 AFAIR

I liked it, much better than ME.

I went WFW, 98OSR2, XP, XP, 7, 10

10 is quickest with worst UI

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

Re: Failing switches?

Those covers are dangerous, they knobble some safety features

Re: I have never had a socket switch fail

Or they have OCD about it.

I am afraid I do, I know I have it but it doesn't bother me, I just switch them off.

Re: Been there ... done that

Cleaners

We used to have a cleaner who never turned off the vacuum, she just unplugged and plugged it in.

Took out 3 sockets with arc damage and still did not think it was her fault.

I did asked how she turned off her car, did she pull the plug leads?

British electrics

And I think it is right.

Being probably the safest system.

I have never had a socket switch fail

In the over half century I have been around.

BS1363 FTW

NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

Re: How do you avoid US spy gear, it is everywhere.

i mention this because one coworker went to uni there and so did my daughter.

Another coworker does a posh boff then gets Bath shouted at him by two annoyed people.

Re: How do you avoid US spy gear, it is everywhere.

Bath in a west country accent please.

Barth depends if posh Barth (soft R) bad or west country Barth (rolled Rs) good, Both, as in toff is even worse.

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

Re: Not regretting...

My son with Vive and PSVR now wants one of these.

Spends ages in horror games and Beat Saber.

He could write upa lot of pros and cons of the two, one is comfy, other is better. One is n FOS beast the other nore accurate elsewhere.

Re: Easy ways round this.

Actually it was me being sarcastic. I don't mind games companies having the data I give them, they are not trying to take over my life.

Or are they but in nicer ways?

Re: How to piss off potential customers 101

Just remember HTC are still in the game (much better kit) and PSVR is similar cost IF you have a PS4.

I am going to borrow sons PSVR and play his motion controlled FPS game. As I am very good with MOVE and FPS* should be fun.

* Top 0.5% online with Killzone 3 and entirely with MOVE.

PSVR

Not the best system but it works and the games are good.

Ask Mark Cerny about PS5

Easy ways round this.

Very easy way of avoiding it luckily there are other good companies, one even works on a games console!

A son has the following VR platforms.

Firstly PSVR, it works really well and is a good entry level system. It may be tied to PSN but with a PS4 you tend to have to be.

Next Vive, very good setup not as comfy. I don't think it is tied but the games are from Steam.

Note NO OCULUS.

Also funny how gamers are happy to sign up to STEAM, PSN or XBL but Faecesbook no. What are they doing so wrong?

Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November

Re: Windows 7?

You are safe as it does not install and try to take over Firefox

The attitude annoys me

Find your PC rebooted and a new browser installed and pushed in your face.

Click on a link to open a web page, intercepts and moans at me for using FF, PDFs similar with I think it was cutePDF. Moan Moan Moan.

Get out of my way I have work to do.