Posts by TRT

UK authorities probe 'drone hitting plane at Heathrow'

Re: Play "chicken"

Exactly It's rule something or other... will it blend? Chickens, yes. Drones?

A similar method for pulse encoding a serial number in a laser pen? Some arsehole was shining one into the eyes of car, bus and lorry drivers at the top of a steep hill near me a couple of weekends ago. Set my migraine off the wanker. Should be classed as an assault.

What's wrong with the Daily Mail Group buying Yahoo?

So long as it sends the internet into meltdown...

there will be a story in it.

US-CERT advice says kill Quicktime for Windows, quickly

It's actually not a bad little program. With the editing functionality as well in the premium version (I got a free serial number as an educator way way back which still works!) it was a quick and dirty transcoder and trimmer. Run it in a sand box?

Belgian boffins breed 'digital canaries' to test your random numbers

I won't even begin...

to try to understand this article. In terms of simplifying the aims and achievements of the researchers for the bears of small brain, this one's fallen off the twig.

Admin fishes dirty office chat from mistyped-email bin and then ...?

Re: How stunningly boring

attempted murder. TFTFY

Re: He couldn't look her in the eye?

Turned her back on him. Favourite position if what he read was true.

Re: OMG..

Morality ≠ staying married

Just another thing...

to add to the wank bank.

URL shorteners reveal your trip to strip club, dash to disease clinic – research

Re: Microsoft, whose OneDrive also has an embedded shortener

OneDrive? Good.

Czech Republic to rebrand

Just don't sneeze...

when calling an automated bot thingy.

BOFH: If you liked it then you should've put the internet in it

Re: Tracking

Not so secure any more.

Re: Tracking

At my place of work, you have to have a swipe card for almost everything. Main building is coded as a G swipe. Want to get into the other block? You need a B swipe. To get into the secure animal facility, you need an X swipe. For the lift lobby, you'll need an L swipe. And if you're going to the toilet, better make sure you have an R swipe.

I am sending pouting selfies to a robot. Its AI is well buff

Re: How dare they?

And my wife.

iOS 'date bug' can be exploited over Wi-Fi using NTP

Re: Isn't it ..

Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.

Re: Don't they measure time in "AJ" (After Jobs) and "BJ" (Before Jobs)?

The unit would be the Tempus Jobs Hooker. Or TJ Hooker for short.

Flying Spaghetti Monster is not God, rules mortal judge

And the question of morality...

as both a feature of religion and of rightful law occupies the time of countless philosophers, legal and otherwise. Now don't anger them or the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and other professional thinking persons will call a pan-galactic philosophers strike.

'Bring back xHamster', North Carolina smut watchers grumble

I expect...

that xHamster thinks it can talk directly to the North Carolina legislators by putting up a poll-wall. No longer will Judge Whoever or Senator Whatsisname be able to fap away in quiet anonymity without being forced to first consider their actions. Whether that will lead to a "downturn" in their ardour remains to be seen (or unseen preferably).

Graphene solar panels harvest energy from rain

The sun and the rain?

That's madness!

Aluminum-wrapped robbers fail to foil bank

Re: You could say that this case...

CSI

You could say that this case...

*remove sunglasses*

is all wrapped up.

*Freeeoooowwwww... (Prolonged A chord on electric guitar)*

Daily! Mail! eyes! up! Yahoo!'s news! arm!

It's been a few years now...

since I Yahoo!ed Yahoo!

Re: The Mail is making a reasonably healthy profit

It doesn't seem to pay amazing journalists either. Just reuses the 10 most popular articles from everywhere else, hastily littering it with the funniest spelling errors in the process, probably to avoid the hilarious copyright laws that has the internet in turmoil.

Re: The similarities...

I tried looking there and it wouldn't let me in with an ad-blocker. So win-win!

The similarities...

in the website design, i.e. a visual assault on the eye and ad content by the bucketload, would make this an obvious merger. Having said that, the DM is easier on the eye than the Guardian's redesign last year.

What's all this? Welcome to The Register's News Bytes

Hate it.

Kill it with Fire.

Hey -- what is that oddball box on the left?

Re: Hey -- what is that oddball box on the left?

Hate it.

Ultra-rare WWII Lorenz cipher machine goes on display at Bletchley Park

Re: I wonder how Silicon Roundabout would have gone about cracking Lorenz ?

"What's this extra wheel at the end for? It looks new. "

"Oh that... That's the GCHQ wheel. Government legislation dictates that we have to include that if we restore our encrypt/decrypt machines to operational condition."

Britain is sending a huge nuclear waste shipment to America. Why?

Re: Why not send it into space...

Obviously not a fan of Dr Who...

Re: Why not send it into space...

To reduce weight, they're using no protective shielding. Every load we carry exposes us to distronic toxaemia. After a few hours exposure, we'll all be dead.

Taking an artsy selfie in Stockholm? You might need to pay royalities

Plucks own eyes out...

for fear that is may cost a fortune if I ever open them again.

Re: Ingress

I was just about to say that.

Security bods disclose lock bypass bug in iOS

Hm... Thought I'd try that.

I can't get Siri when my phone's locked anyway. Am I doing something wrong? (or right?)

Truly crap exhibition dumped on Isle of Wight

Re: Where's Bono and Mr. Hanky?

I went camping on there last summer just because I'd never ridden a hovercraft before and it has the last hovercraft service in the UK. It is worth it.

Re: Where's Bono and Mr. Hanky?

@NotBob. No, you have to get the Hovercrapped there.

Re: Hmmm

It's in a zoo? Literally a shitzu.

Re: ".... why do people hang dog poos in trees?"

As Paul Calf would say "bag of shite".

Re: Ah

Alimentary my dear Dr Watson.

I love shite on the Isle of Wight.

I'm going.

Humans get 'aroused' fondling robots in their private areas – study

Well spin my nipple nuts

and call me Shirley...

Nest bricks Revolv home automation hubs, because evolution

Re: Are they legally allowed to do that?

'The USA and Canada are mostly "caveat emptor" and "screw you, we have your money" societies."

That's not how I was trained when I worked in a Toronto branch of Radio Shack in 1988.

Re: Are they legally allowed to do that?

But the goods themselves are perfectly fine, it's the service that's failed. And therein lies the problem. When you sign up for something like this, what agreement do you have with the service provider? I expect there's some small print that says they accept no responsibility to keep the service going.

Re: Are they legally allowed to do that?

EU has a minimum 2 year warranty. This can be longer in member states. In the UK we have the Sale of Goods Act 1979 which means that durability must be reasonable (aka the Outrageous! test) in order for it to be of satisfactory quality. This is very flexible - so an expensive (£50-£100) brass doorknob sold as suitable for outdoor use one might expect to last for at least 10-20 years given that there are doorknobs on London properties that have not been replaced in over a 100 years. If it tarnished, peeled and corroded after three years on a front door in Surrey, you would still be covered. If the same happened and you had used it on, say, a beach hut on the south coast where it's lashed by storms fora quarter of the year and not polished once a month, then you would probably not. If the same doorknob was only £10, you might not even expect it to last 10 years in Surrey, in fact you'd probably suspect it wasn't made of brass at all, but was brass coloured.

The act states:

2(2) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business, there is an implied term that the goods supplied under the contract are of satisfactory quality.

(2A)For the purposes of this Act, goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price (if relevant) and all the other relevant circumstances.

(2B)For the purposes of this Act, the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods—

(a)fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied,

(b)appearance and finish,

(c)freedom from minor defects,

(d)safety, and

(e)durability.

Re: Are they legally allowed to do that?

The OP said there were no consumer protection laws in the USA, which is wrong. There are both federal and state consumer protection laws, plus a consumer has contract law and tort law. I'll agree that they have a different level of consumer protection than the UK and EU, because there is no implied warranty or any other general principle of sale besides a safety implication, but they certainly do not have none at all.

Re: Are they legally allowed to do that?

Utter testicles. All the guy has to do is trip over in the dark and bark his shin as a result of this and whammy! Law suit city.

All that "This toaster over must not be used as protective headgear" crap. All from the US.

Re: except the juniper

Rooted.

Flying Finns arm octocopter with chainsaw

Re: Life with chainsaws

You can only catch hold of the wrong end of a chainsaw twice.

Did hacktivists really just expose half of Turkey's entire population to ID theft?

Bernard Matthews.

Seriously did El Reg miss...

referring to the breach as a data gobble?

Re: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

The intelligence of a crowd is the sum of the intelligence of the individuals that comprise that crowd.

The stupidity of a crowd, however, is the product of the stupidity of the individuals making up the crowd.