Re: recreated in Lego form
Upvoted if only for the Father Ted reference.
Mind you, I remember the glory days of this site when there would be proper Playmobil recreations in articles. It's gone to the dogs since the time of Lester (RIP), I tells ya.
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Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle
Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it
Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests
The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom
As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode
It started at Pixar. Now it's the Apple-backed 3D file format viewed as HTML of metaverse
Another 100 space tourists buy a ride from Virgin Galactic: $25k of that ticket deposit is 'non-refundable'
Wednesday 10th November 2021 08:03 GMT 
That waiting area, though.
For my $450,000 I'd expect a waiting area that looks a little less like the kind of booth an SME might book at the last minute at a Midlands industrial products expo.
"Hello, Taylor Group? Yeah, we've booked a 3m x 3m floorspace and want a meeting area and somewhere to store our product brochures, and we have a budget of £150 for the whole thing. Do you have some formica furniture left over from Surgical Appliance World 2019 that we could re-use?"
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens
Wednesday 10th November 2021 05:57 GMT
Re: BT Ambassador landline phone
BTW you could have mentioned British Leyland's windscreen replacement service* being the only option available to Allegro owners. (* 9-5 weekdays)
As I recall, replacing the rear glass on those was super easy - just jack the car up to change a tyre, and the rear screen would pop out of its channel as the body flexed.
Tuesday 9th November 2021 23:48 GMT 
Well done Apple!
This is excellent news. Once again Apple lead the way in the market, bringing unheard-of levels of repairability to the sector. We can only hope that other vendors follow their inspiring example, so that our long nightmare of unrepairable phones - going way back to my BT Ambassador landline phone in the 80s, which if I recall correctly was factory-sealed and would in fact detonate a small charge of C4 if you so much as attempted to remove the "warranty void" stickers from the case screws. It'll be great to march into a sunlit future where things like phones can be repaired easily - thank you Tim Cook!
Now if only the same could be done for other consumer goods. Lost count of how many cars I've had to scrap because the headlamp bulb burned out or the screenwash reservoir got empty.
(Is this the best icon to indicate "industrial grade sarcasm"?)
Rolls-Royce set for funding fillip to build nuclear power stations based on small modular reactor technology
Tuesday 9th November 2021 20:05 GMT
Re: Chernobyl - graphite fire
If that HBO drama series is in any way accurate on this topic (yeah, I know) the crucial factor was that the boron control rods were carbon-tipped; so when the panic-shutdown-the-reactor scram button was pressed, reinserting all the control rods, the first thing that re-entered the core was not nice cuddly moderating boron, but dangerously provocative carbon. Fun and kaboom immediately followed, as the “safe” Soviet RBMK reactor did what was conventionally believed to be impossible, and exploded.
Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms'
Tuesday 9th November 2021 22:50 GMT 
Lawmakers to the rescue!
Don't worry, a concerned group of US lawmakers are proposing to solve this problem by "banning algorithms"... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/11/09/1743255/new-bipartisan-bill-takes-aim-at-algorithms
Let us give thanks that this November, Microsoft has given us just 55 security fixes, two of which are for actively exploited flaws
New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022
Expired cert breaks Windows 11 snipping tool, emoji panel, S Mode features, other stuff
There, that wasn't so hard, was it? South Korea makes Google allow rival payment systems in Play store apps
Saturday 6th November 2021 00:14 GMT
Re: how user location will be verified
It’s Google. They’ll know your location to 16 decimal places, what you’re wearing, what you had for breakfast and what colour your walls are. If you’re using Chrome they’ll practically know what you’re thinking.
Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere
Labour Party supplier ransomware attack: Who holds ex-members' data and on what legal basis?
Nothing to see here, says IBM, Redbooks are still a thing. Move along please
Friday 5th November 2021 19:06 GMT
"There was no backtracking here"
Just once I wish a PR weasel would lay off the spin. Had the spokesperson said something to the effect of, "Yes, we planned to shut down the Redbooks team, but we had seriously underestimated the depth of customer and stakeholder feeling, so we are reversing that decision" - they'd actually earn my respect.
Instead of which we have a Putin-esque attempt to deny reality, "all the people involved completely imagined being told to shut down their projects, you are imagining it too, black is white, war is peace, there are no Russian troops in the Crimea".
Wankers.
Microsoft: Many workers are stuck on old computers and should probably upgrade
Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson
Apple's macOS Monterey upgrades some people's laptops to doorstops
Windows Subsystem for Android: What's the point?
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 04:55 GMT
Re: Subsystems for everyone
Wasn't there an IBM and Apple OS which was designed to run OS personalities?
I hate my memory sometimes. As soon as I read that, it immediately piped up with “Ah yes, Taligent”. Random trivia about the early 90s tech landscape: gotcha. Birthdays of close friends and family: nope, all blank, nada, sorry…
Chip shortages took $6bn bite out of Apple's top line
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Nippy stocking filler for the nerd in your life – if you can get one
Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers
REvil gang member identified living luxury lifestyle in Russia, says German media
Singaporean minister touts internet 'kill switch' that finds kids reading net nasties and cuts 'em off ASAP
Wednesday 27th October 2021 07:50 GMT 
Typical securocrat.
"The post-COVID world will bring new challenges globally, including to us in the security arena," said Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen
Translating from political securocratese:
"Our intelligence services have been wanting this for a while, and Covid is a convenient excuse to crowbar it onto the agenda..."
Windows XP@20: From the killer of ME to banging out patches for yet another vulnerability
Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board
Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie
Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it
Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone
Saturday 23rd October 2021 17:29 GMT
Pfft. If it's not on the CGA color palette I'm not interested.
You can keep yer Farrow and Ball or Little Greene. I'm painting my house 13/Light Magenta.
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier... but slightly worse
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
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