Posts by gotes

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

Lies and misinformation are not free speech any more than the publication of child pornography

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but in my non-lawyer opinion lies and disinformation are free speech. You are free to tell lies, although depending on context you may violate other laws.

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

Yeah, it does look a bit drab. It should be The Most Beautiful Space Shuttle, you won't see a a more beautiful shuttle.

Re: Unless I'm hallucinating...

How many buildings have been transported 1400 miles across US highways? I mean proper buildings with bricks and foundations, not a wooden shack designed to be transported on a semi trailer.

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

Re: The dumbest thing about this whole affair

I worked in an IT department that had a pile of "new" boxed desktop PCs which where there when I started working there, and still there when I left four years later. They had Windows 8 on them so I guess they did the users a favour by leaving them in storage.

Glitchy taxi tech blew cover on steamy dispatch dalliance

Re: Not so much over a dispatch system, but....

I grew up on a farm, the hunt was a bigger pest than the foxes.

The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

Re: Cheap

This bicycle's no good, what if I want to haul 3 tons of gravel with it?

Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen

Re: Erm

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me?

Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield.

Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse

They check my name off a list when I go to vote, so I assume they do something with that data. I guess it's to make sure I only vote once.

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Re: Apparently affecting MS worldwide.

Probably cloned their parents' cards onto their smartphones.

Samsung Korea warns many apps won't run on its Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs

Re: 6 + 5 = 11

Why complain about downvotes so much? It just invites more.

Raspberry Pi unveils Hailo-powered AI Kit to make the model 5 smarter

Re: Losing the plot

You can still buy the relatively cheap and simple device. Many of the older RPi boards are still being manufactured.

And as the other commentard pointed out, the board featured in the article is optional.

Thanks for coming to help. No, we can't say why we called – it's classified

Re: "Or struggled to serve a classified client?"

I'm trying to resist the urge to continue with the electrical puns. There's so much potential!

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits

phillips, flat, hex, torx... any others needed?

Canadians might be upset that you didn't include Robertson.

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

It's a politically motivated witch hunt!

Paraphrasing Newag's statement.

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

Re: fingerprint works <25% of time

I recently picked up a friend's Samsung phone, planted my thumb on the sensor, and it unlocked more reliably than my own phone.

It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde

I could hear the boom in South Devon, although it was fairly muted. No broken windows.

BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription

Perhaps they are more convenient for EVs or vehicles with automatic transmission, but that certainly wasn't my experience with a manual transmission car.

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Re: Not impossible, just ludicrously unlikely

Don't forget this is a work of fiction, so these potential problems (which are speculative anyway) can be ignored.

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

Dodgy cabling

I think the most absurd long distance network cable I've been involved with went across a factory roof. It was well over 100m, so we added a small switch (PoE powered) somewhere near the middle, wrapped in a plastic bag to keep it dry.

Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings

Re: Agree but...

If he couldn't find a free socket, he should have asked someone. Maybe he was advised to just go ahead and unplug anything.

RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

RIP

I don't know a huge amount about the guy, but he was super famous in the 90s when teenage me got his first taste of internet and started hanging out with other teenage wannabe hacker dweebs. Free Kevin!

Also the mention of l0pht brings more 90s nostalgia. I used to frequently visit camneerg. It was pretty useless, but I thought it was cool.

Anyway, farewell, hackerman.

Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward

Re: Why are these people not in jail?

At the time of writing this comment the only reaction to your post was one downvote, which I've counter-voted, although not because I fully agree with your response.

Yeah, the OP's statement was a touch incorrect; many of the victims of Grenfell died in the fire or shortly after, but I think it was a poor comparison anyway.

Re: A sad story

And none of the actual criminals have gone to prison for it... Yet (here's hoping).

Considering the current state of "cost of living" and so on, that might put them in a worse position.

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

Re: "you have to wonder how they get home each night

Metro services usually run every few minutes, so it's not really necessary to use a timetable. Just turn up at the platform and wait.

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

What use is a cell phone at 4km below sea level? I guess they could take some bad photos or listen to some music. I would expect them to be left on the surface, they're a fire risk.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Biden wasn't president when he took the documents, as far as I'm aware, but he co-operated with the authorities and didn't play stupid games trying to hide them whilst bleating about a "witch hunt".

The most bizarre online replacement items in your delivered shopping?

Re: This is why I now go to the shops.

I was being a bit sarky. I love the reduced to clear section; It genuinely makes my day when I find 4 pints of milk for 30p.

Re: This is why I now go to the shops.

As a former supermarket shelf filler, I hate you.

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

We have a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists

:s/Artists/Shareholders

Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond

Re: We've been here before ...

And of course those lithium cells release completely harmless emissions when they burn.

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

Re: less than a BMW then.

Christ. Makes me glad I no longer own a car.

I've read several stories (probabably on this very site) about people driving off in someone else's identical vehicle, or at least opening the door because the keys have so few possible combinations.

I could get into my old Ford Escort by pulling the lock out with my fingers.

3CX thought supply chain attack was a false positive

Re: Being serious

As far as I'm aware, 3CX the comms company isn't selling excavators.

Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem

Re: Take aways

The thing about internet/phone orders is the kitchen has had plenty of time to prepare the food, whereas the people who just turn up and order the food will have to wait, unless there is some already made.

It would be quite inefficient if the delivery driver had to wait while the food was being prepared.

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

This is a better story than the actual article.

Titanic mass grave site to be pillaged for NFTs

Re: Why do they always use singular "The Blockchain"?

It's probably hosted in "The Cloud".

Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data

Re: 2 questions

Or just add the currency conversion in the article. The value of USD is generally known by more than just USians. Why it is so offensive to include a currency conversion?

McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs

Re: print car number plates on takeaway bags to discourage customers from littering

"Can't someone else do it?"

Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space'

Re: Our hero forgot....

I wouldn't be so sure of Milton's success. His stapler was likely destroyed in the fire.

UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself

Re: Snide, or am I missing something?

Welcome to The Register.

What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?

Re: HDD removed +

That reminds me of the replacement HDD rails I made from cardboard.

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: This reply so you can't moan about no reply for the downvote.

Why should anyone have to engage? I see the votes as an indication of reader sentiment, it doesn't need explaining.

Re: And to think that 30 years ago...

I downvoted your second post for complaining about downvotes.

Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

Re: Per home usage

They didn't specify whether the homes were inhabited or not.

finance people would have wondered why he wasn't putting receipts for diesel

If money is not being spent, everything's fine.

IT manager's 'think outside the box' edict was, for once, not (only) a revolting cliché

Why is it "cheap" to place machines on the floor? It's not ideal, what with the dust and exposure to impacts from feet and chair legs, but it was fairly common practice for tower cases in the 90s.

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

Re: So let me get this straight ...

It's hard work writing tweets and emails at 4am.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: The app doesn't make RPC calls?

Oh, I thought it was "Rugby Football Club".