Posts by DJV 2682 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2009
I remember when this was all fields.
I remember when a quid could buy you a full tank of petrol.
I remember when the streets were swept clean at least once a week and litter wasn't a problem.
I remember when politicians at least pretended to be honest.
I remember when El Reg was a UK-based publication and fun to read...
...sigh...
Of course, if there is a "camera on" policy and you really don't want to show your face/house or be involved at all, then there are always ways and means to achieve this without it appearing to be your "fault"!
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-purposely-slow-down-the-Internet-connection-for-everyone-in-my-house-discreetly
The perpetrators of ransomware should be punished just like football hooligans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04clpd7h0b0
The company’s “algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved,” the spokesperson confidently predicted.
Hmmm, I bet the truth was probably closer to:
The company’s “algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has now been hastily written and implemented,” the spokesperson nervously stated.
P.S. == Bring Dabbsy back ! ==
Let's create one new system to replace all of them! What can possibly go wrong?
/s
I had one of those in the 1970s - it was a secondhand 1966 Ford Cortina automatic and the automatic gearing went wrong after I'd had it about 3 or 4 years. So, putting it in reverse made it go forwards. As I couldn't afford the cost of the repair at the time I just made sure I parked it in places where I could drive off forwards or was on a slope so that it would roll backwards without any problems!
Absolutely!
Lloyds bank insist upon sending me text messages informing me that "We have transferred £xxx from $ACCOUNT1 to $ACCOUNT2" usually a minimum of TWO FUCKING DAYS after the transfer has taken place (which I've already seen). And this is a transfer that I've usually initiated myself! AAAARRRRGGHHHH!
Yeah, but each will also have a notch.
Also, the driving computer will just need programming with your destination which, as it will use Apple Maps, means that you will arrive at the correct place only 97% of the time - those finding themselves in the remaining 3% will never be found again. Manual operation will occasionally throw up the error message: "You are driving it wrong" but won't elaborate any further on that. Internally, none of the USB connectors will be compatible with anything of non-Apple manufacture.
Regretfully, I have to agree with that. As a Vermin Media broadband customer here in the UK I've sometimes had to phone their customer abuse support. Mostly, it seems to be routed to somewhere on the Indian subcontinent and, while it's often hard to fully understand what they are saying, it has proved to be less hard than when the call is routed to one of their Scottish offices!
Some would probably argue that stability has always been missing from the Windows world. But W2000 was probably the peak of stability* after they'd mostly abandoned running on top of DOS (with only ME still to come).
* And with a FAR better and consistent user interface than the clusterfuck of badly nailed-together shit it has been since the Windows 8 disaster.
Oh god, yes! I used to work in IT support back in the 1990s - the number of times we had to remove all those damned "useful" (sic) toolbars from people's computers. We'd tell them NOT to reinstall them knowing we'd have to go back a week or two later to do exactly the same thing once again...
There's always been this thing about "not reinventing the wheel" but it's becoming obvious that inventing your own wheel does mean that you retain full control over how many spokes your wheel has and exactly what each of those spokes in your wheel does. Relying on randomly updated external sources for your wheels means that you are not likely to notice when that extra spoke goes very, very bad.
