Posts by MJI

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Re: Time to hit ransomware criminals

Causing terror in hospitals, people dieing - terrorists in my book.

Re: Time to hit ransomware criminals

Funny but I did not think about gun happy US law "enforcement" but proper digging by the specialist spy organisations such as GCHQ and enforcement by competents like SAS.

Re: Time to hit ransomware criminals

Correct, I was thinking of proper tracing and stamping on.

Ransomware criminals are terrorists.

Also think I am thinking of competent people (eg from Hereford area) not gun happy yanks.

Time to hit ransomware criminals

If they got splatted by various special forces they would soon stop.

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Fixing

I have decided brand snob is valid on glasses.

My current pair are not a patch optically on my previous worn out pair.

I think I will splurge out on another pair with Nikons

Teeth, I really want 3 more crowns minimum, 1 cracked, 1 exploded, 1 tatty, OK I really want all 6 lower full molars done, one done.

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

All north of Birmingham

Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log

Valid Zip Code

Is YKK

Our licence software is slightly broken

So we relicence the Yanks to

10/10/2020 or 11/11/2020 and so on.

Needs to be 100% compatible with the proper software so we can use it in our office.

I did insist on YYYY-MM-DD for their acounts link.

But inches - aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They get stored by an algorythm converting to nearest mm and back again, IN THE FIELD EDIT.

The Battle of Britain couldn't have been won without UK's homegrown tech innovations

Remove maybe

Heard a funny last night.

David Jason visited the BOBMF.

One of the personel was commenting that some kit was like Trigger's Broom without realising the connection.

Finished with 1 Lancaster 3 Spitfires 1 Hurricane in formation.

Samsung shaves 0.1μm off pixels to make new ISOCELL sensor lineup 15% slimmer

I prefer Sony sensors anyway

They do seem to be good, and fitted to most things which take pictures.

Bad apples: US customs seize OnePlus earbuds thinking they're knock-off AirPods

Good job not electric toothbrush heads

Or they would get seized as well.

Tesco self-service separates innocent Reg reader from beer after collapsing into heap of Windows dialog boxes

Re: Self service check outs

Have you used one?

Too bossy!

Too slow.

Too annoying.

No I do not want to put this ONE item in a bag, I just want to pay.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Re: GOV.UK Leads the way in high tech initiatives

The Pendodildo is a lot less advanced than APT.

And this was from an APT engineer.

Re: Well it's kind of a good idea but...

>> Scargill poll dancer

No, but may be as a stripper.

Remember it was Maggie.

Angry 123-Reg customers in the UK wake up to another day where hosted mail doesn't get through to users on Microsoft email accounts

Re: My 123Reg hosted seems fine

To the downvoters I mentioned this to point out that emails were working otherwise and it as not a complete email failure.

One person realised that was why.

My 123Reg hosted seems fine

But I use Thunderbird and my own domain.

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

Lots of little inlets in Cornwall

Time to up the level of smuggling.

Could a ferry get up the Helford?

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

Re: Well the

Many Victorian businesses were ran on this basis, MOST chocolate manufacturers.

Railway companies usually looked after their staff.

However mills and mines were particularly bad.

This is more about US employment (lack of) rights

They are totally shocking.

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

Of course it would be like this

Smal country = easy to wire up.

Homeland Security demands a 911 for reporting security holes in federal networks: 'Vulns in internet systems cause real-world impacts'

911

Had a drive in one once.

Not an exciting car in the supercar sense, but so well made.

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

But Windows IS WIN32

Any other reasons to run Windows?

AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies

Re: Peanut Butter and Banana?

bananas work well with clotted cream vanilla ice cream* and with clotted cream, yum!

* over here normally called Clotted Cornish ice cream

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

Re: Crime doesn't pay?

I investigated crime proceeds and hours and was shocked by the results.

Much more money to be made by working than thieving.

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

Sideloaded still downdated

Uninstalled got a boy to sideload 68, fine for 2 days, then.

It effing downdated again.

Uninstalled again.

Returned to boy to fix.

How do I stop Android FF downdating?

Not usable now

My start screen was of course bookmarks, a sensible choice for people with a small number of sites they use frequently.

Now I can't get it to do it.

And the bookmark screen is missing the menus.

had it working right two weeks (replacement phone)

Re: An alternative?

Sorry no PaleMoon, I looked there first.

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

Re: Blocking Ads

But we used to have this then they started to make us block them.

Re: Desperate

I was FORCED to use adblockers by the advertisers. (pop up, animated etc)

I do allow site specific adverts on certain sites. (Hobbies with ads from known suppliers)

Most though blocked to oblivion.

This google blob method, great for virus transmission.

As to all the ITVs out there, PVR FTW.

Oh I prefer to fast forwards than skip to catch the entertaining adverts, there are some better than the programmes.

Be very afraid! British Army might scrap battle tanks for keyboard warriors – report

Re: Send in the Drones

Sounds like S1 of Amazon Jack Ryan

What are tank crew doing?

Drinking tea probably.

Re: The US buys tanks the Army doesn't want

Could we afford their over thirsty, under armoured, under gunned tanks?

And your 200 are really good.

I'd take 200 Challenger 2s over any other tank

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

Re: Interesting

Loads of Afons and Avons makes me laugh anyway.

I like the naming history, facinating.

I think it is someone asking a local the name of a river, they say river.

Re: International Recognition

That looks like a Mash clone.

Re: Send them to Scotland for a few years...

Been there done that don't bother and stop asking me for money when you keep pulling this crap!

Rule one of shittipedia.

Only use it for basic information of simple things like a TV series.

Re: Some languages are preserved, some aren't

Another close relative language then.

Interesting

Scots does seem to be partially ignored in favour of Gaelic.

Yet it is part of the same family as English.

It is interesting to see the similarity in words with English as well.

Written down some of it is quite readable to a native English speaker.

An example in Kirk (as in James T) this is Scots for Church, such similar words.

But then it shares ancestry with English via Middle English.

Isn't the history of languages fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Frisian_languages#Anglic_languages

Start Me Up: 25 years ago this week, Windows 95 launched and, for a brief moment, Microsoft was almost cool

Same day as REAL/32 launch

Now I did like that concurrent DOS done well.

Bletchley Park Trust can’t crack COVID-caused revenue slump without losing staff

Re: This is the theme park isn't it?

Interesting as I had read it was full of actors.

This is the theme park isn't it?

I have heard enough to put me off visiting the theme park side.

I only want to see the code breaking computers. TNMOC.

Unexpected Porthcawl in the borkage area: Riding an indoor Power Truck to nowhere

One main road in and out to M4.

My advice, keep going, then turn off for Gower or keep going for Pembrokeshire.

Have you actually been there?

Look on map, "ooh a seaside town", not too far away, day trip time.

It is basically a Welsh version of Bream.

I think we stayed about 2 hours before we headed elsewhere.

Appears to the a giant static caravan storage area.

Stuck to Pembrokeshire afterwards.

UK national debt hits 1.46 Apples – and weighs as much as 2 billion adult badgers

or in other units

Nearly 5726 lies on a bus

You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt

Re: I'm telling you, falconry is the way to go!!

No he can fly like this lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

'Get out of my office, you're being a pest!' Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets

Scottish Road Trip

I am planning one too.

Will take own car though.

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

Re: Starmer's doing his job

"Honest Tory"

There were many but BoJo didn't like them.

Samsung slows smartphone upgrade treadmill with promise to support three Android generations on Galaxies

Re: A good first start for Sammy

My recently died phone a few months ago started talking to my car radio and my TV.

Why was my pocket talking?