Posts by Alistair

BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer...

Volvo

Having owned a 245D at one time, I can only imagine adding concrete would possibly have it sinking through most road surfaces that currently exist. It was dense enough to start with. However it would make a rather solid stopping surface.

Spider-eyed Lite version of Huawei flagship flies out before actual P40 launch event

Re: Camera Envy

@macjules:

Kids bought me a good old fashioned safety razor for the last solstice fesitval gift giving chaos. No, no we don't need the $65 12 pack of 5blade cartridges. The $14 pack of 100 blades will do just fine thanks.

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

Re: "as your mum once told me"

upvoted for trackball use. Need more trackball users.

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

All three samsung phones in this household got that notification here in Canuckistan.

None of us have "samsung" accounts of any sort.

Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia

Re: point out the pun

...... This feeling inside......

<not sung by sam, but what the ell>

One man is standing up to Donald Trump's ban on US chip tech going to Huawei. That man... is Donald Trump

Re: Different != Better..

@CoC:

I'll agree that different != better. However, his perception of better is quite clearly enveloped by his fog of existance, which as far as I can tell is made up of steam from the fryer of golden potatoes, a haze of oil from the brothers K, gas from his own farts, and quite possibly Melania's bottle of Goop sourced vaginal egg perfume.

Now Internet Society told to halt controversial .org sale… by its own advisory council: 'You misread the community mindset around dot-org'

Re: "this board already works in a very transparent way”

@Hamish:

Both ICANNt and Icahn't.

Re: "this board already works in a very transparent way”

Pascal:

You have a thing for that chemical shed. I still suggest that the chemical shed could provide a much more appropriate termination, depending on what is in said shed.

What is it you keep in your shed Pascal?

Re: Corruption

@jason_derp:

I suspect those who enjoy a nice long low and slow smoke of tasty proteins might find that suggestion unpleasant. I would suggest that sulfur comes to mind instead.

Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations

Re: It was the end of history....

Martin:

Star Wars is a "Ronny Ray-gun" thing.

Crypto-upstart subpoenas Glassdoor to unmask ex-staff believed to be behind negative reviews. EFF joins the fray

Re: Sometimes the company ASKS you to take a package

But seriously, anyone who posts something even remotely critical on something like Glassdoor without a VPN and a throwaway email account is doing it wrong.

I'm inclined to Crypto agree with Kraken users of sites like Glassdoor requiring Crypto vpn facilities and relatively anonymous Kraken identities. Especially since the Kraken Barbara Streisand crypto effect can come into play in both directions of crypto.

Re: Kraken Crypto?

Actually Alister:

I honestly think that in Kraken this case Crypto, that the comment Crypto that you are referencing Kraken is purely a Google Crypto and Kraken reference, or perhaps Kraken a DuckDuckGo crypto reference, or possibly even a Bing Crypto Kraken reference.

<Waiting on AMfM's response>

Parks and recreation escalate efforts to take back control of field terrorised by thug geese

You should see the marina

Last I was there, despite the temperature being about -10C, and the bay at about 70% frozen, the number of geese in residence had to be close to 6 or 7 *thousand* birds. And damn do they get into some ugly arguments with one another. Loud. In January.

Crazy idea but hear us out... With robots taking people's jobs, can we rethink this whole working to survive thing?

Re: Economic Basics

@grimmriffer:

Libertarianism has been hammered to death. Many of us here on the boards have read the manifesto, looked at Wall Street, and puked our guts out in revulsion. Uber and AirBNB are *symptoms* of what you want. I'd suggest thinking logically for yourself, if not for your friends and associates.

Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler

Re: The Bridge documentary is an awesome piece of film

@YAAC:

Uuuuhm. It didn't get a crapton of airplay in I think the first week after the album was released, but certainly both CHUM and Q107 were playing the hell out of it later that month. I've no idea why you think it got banned.

Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen

Re: Won't anyone think of the Children?

Stand still MrDamage.

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

Re: Not as disruptive as it sounds

@bobsmith2016:

Come on over to Ontario. Where lenovo and google basically paid the bill.

Latest battery bruiser Android from budget Moto G range appears ahead of MWC after an Amazon whoopsie

Re: Can't hear you!

Can I suggest a bone conduction headset?

At least for one of my associates, where the deafness is the result of a severely damaged eardrum, they provide a stereo experience. And often, they don't cut off one's ability to hear the environment. I'm coming to love my Aftershokz bluetooth.

Facebook mulls tagging pics with 'radioactive' markers to trace the origin of photos used to build image-recog AI

minor correction:

Sounds like Silicon Valley doesn't like having its pictures lifted for other people's models unless they get $$$ for the images they've seized from their product.

Your mobile network broke the law by selling location data and may be fined millions... or maybe not, shrugs FCC

Re: WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE IT ABOUT POLITICS!?

T.W.

Excellent work. I seriously though B.B. had shown up for a moment. Either him or his offspring == the one with 7 in the nick.

Re: Meteore, smoking glassy crater, pretty please...

@ShadowSystems:

You and me both. I've had moments recently where I actually wish I had not read some of the books, both factual and fictional, that I have read in my youth. It would grace me with sufficient ignorance to not recognise the demise that is running us down.

The show Musk go on: Elon asks Uncle Sam to let him fly his Starship over Texas, scores fat NASA contract

Well I remember

a Starship concert where most of the audience was already flying about the moon.......

(yeah, a whole lot of iterations there)

(yeah, old fart I am)

2015-member database floats off through breach in Royal Yachting Association's hull

The word you're looking for is swabbie, plural swabbies.

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Re: Alternatives

If you want to be *smart* about predropped runs, when you go to run that cable, also -- add another string to pull the *next* cable with.

@Novelys:

1) surprised it took that many posts for someone to splat that

2) was going to drop that in myself.

UpV!

Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

Re: Facepalm

My pet sarcastodon will be by to see you shortly. If that wasn't sarcastic, he'll eat you.

Re: Idea

@the other Alister:

Only if your nuke is big enough to dig through the surface, techtonic plates and a fair bit of the core. If we're gonna restart Mars' core, its gonna take a heck of a bore hole and all the nuclear waste we here on earth have generated already, and likely about another 500 years worth of FBR waste from the re-escalated arms race. And that depends on Mars actually having a nickle/iron core like Earth's. A long time ago in a small town far away I and about 4 other engineering hopefuls got very drunk and discussed this. It was rather weird.

A-high: Prototype drug squad bot to patrol Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc for dodgy ads for opioids

Cycle begins again

Its been used for the last 50 odd years in NA, and it seems that they might not get another 'war in a shithole' this year, so I suppose we should expect the 'war on drugs' to spin back up. Either that or one of the contenders in Libya will come up with six or seven million dollars worth of hardware and spin that one into the next delivery of democracy in the 'Far East'.

(/me rereads that. Holy crap I'm getting horribly cynical and crusty)

The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones

I suppose it may just be an indication that I'm not 17 any more

But far too many of my cool heros are leaving this coil.

Anyway:

It's just a scratch.

Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover

Curiosity is still going

We should see if it outlives things and call the next rover The Cat.

Problems at Oracle's DynDNS: Domain registration customers transferred at short notice, nameserver records changed

Re: Yet another reason Oracle sucks.

Ahhh HA!

I was wondering where the price jump for SARC came from that was lifting the S&P500 up 1000 points.

Okay guys, how is it that this juicy tidbit of IT security ended up on the Beeb

Okay guys, how is it that this juicy tidbit of IT security ended up on the Beeb

Before you guys let the commentariat have a go at the intimate details of the leak?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51119845

Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics

Over here:

Pull that on an ATC over here and you don't fly again. Entering a zone without either permission or an ACKed mayday any you loose your flight license.

We’ve had enough of your beach-blocking shenanigans, California tells stubborn Sun co-founder: Kiss our lawsuit

Re: Developers

@PerlyKing:

If you're referring to Greenward Estates in North Pickering, The SOB got his way when Dougie moved the greenbelts, they've started building AFAIK in October. Bloody buggers are *backfilling* that wonderful creek.

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases – and guess who's going to pay for it?

Re: Misread the Title

(it's Icahn't BTW)

FTFY

Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn

Last Pass will be helping you to SAVE MONEY now

and charge by character entered by the application!

(okay, yeah, I shouldn't give the vulture capitalists ideas)

WhatsApp chaps rapped for crap app group chat zap: Infosec bods find a way to nuke messages, fix issued

Its almost christmas and I'm in that mood.

I'll leave this here:

UP=Nick Cage <> DOWN=Bill Shatner

Go!

Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail

well -- at least they have one good thing going for them

They weren't getting folks to invest in the product, and setup microtrading websites to recruit more investors to set up microtrading websites to recruit more investors......

Although, that might have made it completely legal.

(There needs to be a special form of perpetual torture for pyramid scheme marketroids.)

Re: Mercedes

That would be the winter tires. It sure as hell wasn't the car.

No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again

Re: No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again

The other workers will be for sale in the turks program shortly.

Likely a bootnotes worthy event

Likely a bootnotes worthy event

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50718626

The BBC has done the usual departure report. I'm wondering if someone at the Reg would like to take a swing at some of Volker's more colourful moments in congress. The mad did have a talent for lambasting the stupid.

Internet Society's Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A

ISOC stands to gain $1B.

....

Parking spaces in Detroit. Highway 407 in Toronto. Bridges all over the US.

Selling infrastructure in perpetuity to VC's is commonplace, and consistently the same scam. $$$ into pocket today, prices rise, profits for the VC rise, and the end users end up getting screwed sixteen ways to sunday.

Halfords invents radio signals that don't travel at the speed of light

Re: Speed of light

Its a Romanian sheep, and slightly damp.

Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

Re: 3 out of 10 for trying

Yes Jake, we here on the Reg are perfectly aware that a few americans have a serious case of Woo. Don't worry Jake, most of us don't hold it against you.

Copy that? We'll never join you on the Xerox side if you don't answer simple questions – HP

I think we need a new financial term:

Inventure Capitalist.

Lets invent some capital... Currently, Carl Icahn't is the leading practitioner of this school of crapitalism.

Half of Oracle E-Business customers open to months-old bank fraud flaw

Header photo issues

I'm somewhat concerned about the pipe smoking, VR monocle wearing Aston Kutcher lookalike. I suspect he's faking IT.

Magic Leap rattles money tin, assigns patents to a megabank, sues another ex-staffer... But fear not, all's fine

Re: They need a merger

Nah, its Ginni's next venture.

Icahn smell money! Corporate raider grabs $1.2bn of HP stock to push for Xerox merger

Financial market maven malice is afoot

There was a time when conducting business was based on doing something, and doing it well, periodically coming up with something new and different and getting it to market in a timely manner, and keeping one's customers happy with one's product.

Now, conducting business is much more interested in paying the C suite utterly riduculous salaries, lying tooth, nail, toe and balls to wallstreet left right and centre using the latest buzzword bingo bullshit in order to increase the valuation of corporate stock. It is almost like the product, or services, are an *afterthought* these days, and Carl Icahn't is the epitome of this version of capitalism.

Anyone have a sacrificial altar we could use? Preferably with fire?

(you'd think the weather here was making me even grumpier than normal today wouldn't you?)

Don't trust the Trusted Platform Module – it may leak your VPN server's private key (depending on your configuration)

I see irony here

TPM meets T_{iming and} L_atticeA_ttacks's.....

/walks off whistling Dixe.....

expected shortly ===>

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad

Re: In any case it was good enough to get the job done.

@MrFakedMoonLandings.

I have a 4" telescope in my sons bedroom that proves beyond a lick of a doubt that the moon landings happened. I can see with my own eyes through that telescope the remains of the landings. Give it the FUCK up.