Posts by Spoonsinger

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Re:Indiana Jones is totally irrelevant to the movie

Haven't seen the film in a long time, but didn't Indy get the plane which was to take the Ark back to Germany blown up? In which case it would've probably been opened up by top men there who would have been melted/immolated. So Indy probably increased the length of the war from his actions. (Actually thinking about the film was set before WW2, so he probably could of stopped it if he hadn't blown up the plane).

Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO

Title says Average of 170K, but....

body of text says Median of 170K. They are different things. Then just to add confusion the next line says "Adobe said its calculation of CEO versus the average worker's pay equates to a “ratio of 185 to 1.”" which sort of suggests Adobe don't know what the difference between average and median is.

Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans

Re: Wasn't there a recent discussion about "culture" ?

Hacker: "The National Health Service, Humphrey, is an advanced case of galloping bureaucracy!"

Sir Humphrey: "Oh, certainly not galloping. A gentle canter at the most."

Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong

That's what happens when...

you don't allow your staff to perform the correct rituals and prays to the machine god.

Riding in Sidecar: How to get a Psion online in 2023

Re: Very interesting

Build your own. Fun and educational , (probably).

http://www.freetimeweb.nl/home/computer/cpc/web/Amstrad/fvempel/amstrad/metia/26.jpg

http://www.freetimeweb.nl/home/computer/cpc/web/Amstrad/fvempel/amstrad/metia/27.jpg

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It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary

Glad the big brained issues are finally being addressed.

(body) - full bodied, with a good head.

YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

Egg Slop Recipies - My Family Eats This Five Times A Week!

Personally can't determine if these recommendations are either left or right. Do get quite a few and not really an egg person.

Microsoft tightens Edge security for less visited websites

That's a nice little website you have there,

shame if we made it annoying to access via our software. Maybe if you use our new $$$ a month verification product you too can be a popular site and not an annoying site.

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW

With Folded Hands..

Wonder what the responses are is you prompt it with "The Guardian" as a phrase.

Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants

Read the title as chocolate...

On re-reading it made sense.

IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds

Re: £300bn annually to the economy?

I don't know? With inflation the pound isn't really worth as much anymore.

Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot

Are sea, pedestrian & red still OK?

(Asking for a friend - who may or may not be a very naughty boy)

Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to

Re: They've stopped doing the crispy volcanic fruit filled pies???

Good god, you'll be telling me next that Kentucky Fried Chicken establishments have stopped doing sweet and sour spare ribs.

Open-source RAW image editor Darktable releases major update to version 3.6 – and it's very accessible

Grey on slightly darker grey.

Lovely.

Oh SUSE Q2. Oh SUSE Q2. Pay IPO shares bread, it leaves you in the red, SUSE Q2

That last sentence seems a bit inelegant.

maybe,

SUSE reckoned future growth would continue with adjusted revenue for 2021 in the range of $550m-$570m.

or

With adjusted revenue for 2021 in the range of $550m-$570m, SUSE reckoned future growth would continue.

Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

Re: Online shopping.

Mind if people had to virtually fight to get the latest graphics card that might prevent a bit of the scalping, (or at least be entertaining).

Couldn't find the Dale Winton icon, so this should suffice for Bum Fight instead.

Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up

To be fair,

if they had those jet packs we were all promised the wouldn't need to stand up.

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

Re: LSW

Office 2003 works fine on Wine.

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

Re: The DuckDuckGo boast

It is their fault by implying that they are an independent search engine, protecting the user, bla bla, etc.

Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there

Re: "If you love a game, buy it at fucking full price."

So if a person, (say), buys games during a Steam sale, but never gets around to playing, (or even downloading them), is that good or bad?

China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet

Re: Plop?

Probably landed on Beagle droppings.

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

In 2022 people will be food.

Saw it in a documentary once featuring Charlton Heston.

Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source

That "One user"...

was a Twitter comment. Maybe if another user with a different view posted a twatter comment the articles author could update the piece to reflect the diverse and varied views available on the subject.

Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled

Re: Danger, Will Robinson!

Was kind of visualizing Dustin Hoffman after the third tooth drilling "Yes, it's safe!"

Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness

and how Woolworths went bankrupt becomes all too clear.

You fiend!

Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

Re: It's not Google

Don't Google pay Mozilla about $400 million a year to be the default search engine on Firefox?

Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early

Re: Forget the bugs for a second...

Its based on a 1980's pen and paper RPG. That's the aesthetic they were going for. Which they seemed to do quite well,

Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone

Re: Older ?

"The Chip Shop" with Barry Norman Radio 4 (1984).

http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2012/04/chip-shop.html

Currys PC World website crumples into unscheduled maintenance as shoppers chase latest gaming machines

Re: Customers prefer honesty.

They really don't.

"Madam, you are too ignorant and ugly to use this product", has never got a sale.

"This sir will make you more productive and attractive", has.

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

Re: 0F2w1kqF0nLi0BxJ0$I51bj30OlL0bnI1TZ$0UTd...etc....

If you really squint you can see a 3D picture of Richard Stallman eating an iced bun.

Top tip, everyone: Chinese hackers are hitting these 25 vulns, so make sure you patch them ASAP, says NSA

Re: =====>

"Man in stained underpants is blind to wasp in attic" - ancient saying.

Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-£30 2007 MacBook off eBay

'Mum, what the heck is Linux?'

"I don't know. A rebrand of Ajax maybe?.Ask your dad, he's in the shed"

A freshly formed English council waves £18m at UK tech industry, asks: Can somebody design and run pretty much everything for us?

Re: Privatise

Councils are municipal corporations. (Self governing entities under the laws of the state).

Burning down the house! Consumer champ Which? probes smart plugs to find a bunch of insecure fire-risk tat

Re: The stupid, the lazy and the first mover

"They are great for the perfect murder"

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

Can it play C...

Nope not going there.

Notepad++ website sent to China's naughty step after 'Stand with Hong Kong' software update

Re: Column editing

In the early nineties you could column edit in Word for Windows. Then "they" removed the feature never for it too return.

ZX Spectrum reboot promising – steady now – 28MHz of sizzling Speccy speed now boasts improved Wi-Fi

Re: Get an emulator

I love being told what to do with my money.

Facebook boffins bake robo-code converter to take the pain out of shifting between C++, Java, Python

I can just imagine the joys...

of maintaining a set of source which has been generated from a totally different language. Glad it's not going to be me,

Realme's X50m is a decently specced 5G phone – for the price of a 1995 Nissan Micra

The thing about a 1995 Nissan Micra is...

it's still usable after 25 years and is easily reparable.

Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address

Still use a .demon.co.uk address...

Well stuff gets sent to it and then it's forwarded out of Namesco host to my own host. But sad to see it go because I've had it a very long time, I'll send myself a message on the last day.

Pan-European group plans cross-border contact-tracing app – and promises GDPR compliance

Every bubble's passed its FIZZical...

I miss Corona Cream Soda.

Hello, support? What do I click if I want some cash?

Re: And us Welsh don't have "special relaionships" with sheep, either!

Rissoles!

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

Re: Wassup!

Hello my good man.

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

Stag DOS?

Is that the one which is not as good as marketed, falls over at the end of the night and leads to a life time servicing contract?

Tabletop battle-toys purveyor Games Workshop again warns of risks in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP project

Re: They're doomed. Death by clueless Project Manager.

Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

Re: Great news Warhammer.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

We're almost into the third decade of the 21st century and we're still grading security bugs out of 10 like kids. Why?

Marc Rogers is right.

The scale should go up to 11.

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Re: "normal servicing cadence"

The correct sound made during fellatio?

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Theres alot of grumpy people on this thread.

I blame Richard Stallman,