Re: You just couldn't help it!
I’ve always felt that what Notepad really, really needs is social media integration.
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Microsoft Notepad: If it ain't broke, shove it in the Store, then break it?
Web body mulls halving HTTPS cert lifetimes. That screaming in the distance is HTTPS cert sellers fearing orgs will bail for Let's Encrypt
US gives Chinese smuggler 37 months in the slammer for selling knock-off Apple kit
Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb
We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers
Virgin Media blocks Imgur, literally tens of people rage at UK ISP
Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest
Thursday 27th June 2019 05:31 GMT 
Re: Pricey
There's only one LEGO Spaceship for me, though: 928
Darn you to heck.
I had to look up that kit - and now I’m 9 years old again, it’s Christmas morning 1983, and I have to tear myself away from building the space-ship because it’s time for us all to go over to Na & Grandad for Christmas dinner...
Madeleine moment? Pah, if Proust had been writing a few decades later, his narrator would be having a LEGO set moment...
It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat
Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam
Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP
Wednesday 12th June 2019 23:54 GMT
Re: "hysterical shit about Prince Harry "dressing as a Nazi","
And if you still cling to the view that "all Germans in the War were Nazis and evil", I highly recommend the book "A Higher Call" by Adam Makos (here's a preview link on Amazon, if their evil link-share thing works as I hope it does)
It's a fascinating (true) tale of how a Luftwaffe pilot escorted a badly damaged B-17 bomber out of German airspace to safety, and goes into some detail about the mutual respect between the Luftwaffe and their opponents. It will open your eyes to a very different perspective.
IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE after judge rules: The law is a mess but it's still the law
Wednesday 12th June 2019 23:45 GMT
I feel that HPE have shot themselves in the foot here.
For the sake of a piffling $10-20K or so - a lot to Mr White, but less than a rounding error to HPE - they have sent out a message, loud and clear* to all prospective hires: "Don't work for us, we will treat you like sh*t and pull a fast one on you with our HR policies at every opportunity we get**." Well, that'll have people queueing up to work for them, won't it?
*yes, I know... as if the message wasn't already obvious from all the other HPE stories we've seen.
** yeah yeah, just like every other large company out there... oh, you cynic...
Wondering where that upcoming meeting with 'Cheap Viagra' came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics...
What's up at Microsoft this week? Windows 10 builds of course, Skype screen sharing... zzzzz... New Flight Simulator?!
Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks
Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech
Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge
Gaze in awe at the first ever movie of a solar eclipse from recording long thought lost forever
Black Wednesday: DXC hosting services wonky for almost 8 hours after core switches go rogue
How do you like dem Windows, Apple? July opening for Microsoft's first store in Blighty
Thursday 30th May 2019 12:01 GMT 
Say what?
"...OEM PCs were notorious for cramming in shoddy bloatware that damages the user experience..."
This is so true. I have a Windows 10 PC here and it's just crammed with utter crapware straight out of the box - Candy Crush Soda Saga, Dolby something-or-other, March of Empires, Minecraft, some racing game, and about half-a-dozen other pieces of sh*te that pollute the start menu. Some scammy background process keeps popping up to tell me "<XXX> just got installed! Check it out!".
What's more annoying is that it's the Pro version of the OS. If only I'd had the chance to do a clean install of Windows 10 and avoid all that, eh Microsoft?
'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days
That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon
Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores...
DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office space... and sales tumbled, funnily enough
Friday 24th May 2019 20:25 GMT
Hiring for SUCCESS
DXC “haven’t seen that much wage inflation” from those hires, the CEO assured analysts, because the people hired are “much earlier in their career.”
Translation: “We didn’t hire the best people, instead we’ve cheaped out and hired a load of interns and recent college graduates. Experience and wisdom are EXPENSIVE, and frankly would impact our cost numbers for the next quarter too much.”
Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath
Long-distance dildo devotee deploys ding-dong over data deceit
Amazon agrees to stop selling toxic jewelry, school supplies to kids, coughs up some couch change ($700,000)
Saturday 11th May 2019 00:42 GMT
Re: If I were a betting man...
Beat me to it. And I have little sympathy for Amazon; they've brought this on themselves by opening up their site to every scummy, dodgy Chinese reseller. Seriously - search for LED bulbs, or a thousand other product types, and you'll see page after page of identical product photos, sold by randomly-generated company names (AGH Co, AKL Co, IIK Co, etc etc). It's becoming more of a wretched hive of scum and villainy every day.
Crap band sues crap beer maker: Hair-metal rockers have an Axl to grind over Guns N' Rosé
In the claws of a vulture: Nebra AnyBeam Laser Projector
Portal to 'HELL' cracks open in street – oh sorry, it's just another pothole
The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows
What a meth: Elderly Melbourne couple sign for 20kg shipment of drugs, say cops
Thursday 2nd May 2019 16:34 GMT
Re: Breaking News - 2022
”we must take £2000 of customs duty fully as importantly as we do take a £2000 home burglary"
So not seriously at all then. A leaflet about victim-of-crime counseling services, if you’re lucky.
If you’d said “as seriously as we do take someone saying something mean about someone else on Twitter”, on the other hand..
May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'
Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy
Gin and bear it: Juniper Networks sales down across the board... so, er, 'better than expected'
Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out
Amazon boss snubs 'expensive', 'sub-optimal' relational databases. Here's looking at you, Larry
Sunday 14th April 2019 00:09 GMT
Re: 'Would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen...'
As a Star Trek fan, I do have a black, always-on cylinder in my kitchen. Well, to be accurate, it’s positioned in low earth orbit above my kitchen. It’s neat, except that it keeps emitting whale-song noises at interstellar volume and disrupting my electricity supply (not to mention vaporizing my swimming pool).
IBM bid to unmask age discrimination whistleblower goes down in flames
Need a Ferranti Pegasus board in your life? Brit computing history could be yours for four figures
Patch blues-day: Microsoft yanks code after some PCs are rendered super secure (and unbootable) following update
RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009
Thursday 11th April 2019 04:25 GMT
Re: She was a good ship
Not quite. ME was a stopgap for consumers, a halfway house between the old DOS+shell world of 9x and the modern, shiny, but oh-so-resource-heavy by comparison, world of NT (64MB RAM needed! the horror!)
In practical terms, what that meant was that they ripped out access to the underlying DOS (it was still there but you couldn’t exit out of Windows to it), put in some DirectX stuff... and ended up with an OS that combined all the games compatibility of NT with the renowned stability of 95.
All this is IIRC of course and it’s possible that the years have made me more cynical about it.
Town admits 'a poor decision was made' after baseball field set on fire to 'dry' it more quickly
Thursday 11th April 2019 00:50 GMT
Re: How about
The “Drones” was the name of the fictional gentlemens’ club in PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster books. It was a club of what we might otherwise refer to as upper-class twits.
Bear that in mind, and from now on any news stories you read about ”drones being used to deliver groceries” or ”drones sighted on airport runway” etc. will be just that little bit more surreal and interesting with the appropriate mental substitution.
Tuesday 9th April 2019 15:19 GMT
Re: Idiots
Ah yes. Fireworks.
Britain: “It’s early November, everything’s wetter than a haddock’s bathing costume, it goes dark around 1pm...let’s set off fireworks!”
The US: “It’s early July, everything’s tinder-dry, there’s enough daylight to read by until 10:30pm... let’s set off fireworks!”
Seemed faintly ridiculous to me when I first arrived in the US, but now I just accept it. When in Rome, etc.
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