Re: I stopped right here...
Hey, give them credit. They had the ENTIRE Bing user-base doing testing.
And he said it was OK to ship.
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Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
UK.gov to press ahead with online smut checks (but expects £10m in legals in year 1)
First it came for your desktop, now Windows 10 1809 is coming for your Things
Monday 8th October 2018 16:12 GMT 
Spazturtle They should just get rid of the current 'penalties' for using an unregistered copy on Windows and just make it so that unregistered copies are automatically enrolled into the windows insider update rings.
Ah, you're of the "hanging's too good for 'em, the Taliban were too liberal" persuasion, I see.
Pain spotting: Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal source code, config files on public internet
Thursday 27th September 2018 00:30 GMT 
How responsible of you...
”We have decided not to link to the server exposing the information, nor go into detail on the data-leaking vulnerability, in the interests of responsible disclosure.”
In other words, “...because we don’t want to come into work one day and find Novichok smeared on our door handles”
Spent your week box-ticking? It can't be as bad as the folk at this firm
Sunday 23rd September 2018 18:17 GMT
Re: “were quoted a ridiculous price and told it would take four months”.
Morel of the story,
That'll be a D H Lawrence story.
I think it makes him sound like a fun guy.
(EDIT: D’oh, after scrolling down the page I see that about 45 other people beat me to similar puns. So don’t bother up voting this. I’m not THAT desperate.
I wish the Reg comments system threaded conversations properly!)
HP Ink should cough up $1.5m for bricking printers using unofficial cartridges – lawsuit
Friday 21st September 2018 17:51 GMT 
Wait, what?
The plaintiffs said the settlement fund would be sufficient to pay all valid claims from people who owned printers and experienced print interruptions.
$1.5million, and between 2.2 and 2.4million claimants?
So ~68 cents each, even assuming that the lawyers don’t take the lion’s share (unlikely)?
Well, this is certainly a strong way for HP, Ink. to show their customers just how much they’re valued...
Fat chance: Cholesterol leads boffins to discover world's oldest animal fossil – 558m years old
Scottish brewery recovers from ransomware attack
Friday 21st September 2018 17:58 GMT
Sorry, this is a ransomware attack. You mean your database is your loved one, and they send it back row by row?
No, read what he said... “a bit at a time”.
So one day you get a 1 in the post, then a 0, then maybe another 0... maybe they’ll take a byte out of the victim, or if the extortionists are really cruel they’ll communicate by the time-honored method of cutting out words.
Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag
You know all those movies you bought from Apple? Um, well, think different: You didn't
Wednesday 12th September 2018 20:22 GMT
File sizes
"A DVD quality movie will typically run to around 4GB, and a Blu-ray movie to 7 or 8GB..."
You're using the wrong codecs then. DVD-quality local rips^H^H^H^Hcopies are around 700MB, and 1080p quality runs around 2-4GB.
Although a few extra bytes are taken up by having ".x265.BDRip-YIFY.EngSubs" and suchlike appended to the filename.
...Or so I've heard.
Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes
Wednesday 12th September 2018 01:46 GMT
Re: Oh dear, a fan
Stevie Or is that fast breeder reactors? I always get the two confused (which explains the prompt criticality fiasco when I deployed my home-made set-top box).
For some reason this passage from Good Omens comes to mind:
“He plugged it in to the socket. Then he switched the socket on.
Every light in the house went out.
Newton beamed with pride. He was getting better. Last time he’d done it he’d blacked out the whole of Dorking, and a man from the Electric had come over and had a word with his mum.”
Register-Orbi-damned: Netgear account order irks infosec bods
Tuesday 11th September 2018 01:27 GMT 
Worse than that...
The management/configuration portal for the Orbi hub is at Orbilogin.net (entered on a machine connected to the orbi wifi, it does a local DNS redirect to the hub’s IP).
Netgear didn’t have the foresight to register obvious variations such as Orbilogon.net, orbilogin.com etc., which of course have all now been registered by squatters/scammers.
To compound their stupidity, they actually reference one of the “wrong” URLs in one of their online guides.
Apple sees the (augmented) light, buys holo-glass tech startup
Thursday 30th August 2018 18:09 GMT
As Karl notes, to achieve a good resolution by spinning a length of optical fibre in a spiral to cover the field of view (akin to how a cathode ray scans back and forth to cover an area) would have said fibre exceeding the sound barrier, if you want a decent refresh rate.
Quite apart from the velocity/refresh question - is it just me, or does that sound terrifyingly close to "here, put this weed-whacker / garden strimmer 2 inches from your eyeballs"?
Toshiba crams 14TB into another helium drive, this time with SAS boost
Cobbler feels the shoe-leather: An IP address is still not a human
Tuesday 28th August 2018 04:28 GMT
Re: what’s with Adam Sandler?
But if it was him or a Tranformer movie, I’d know my pick.
It could be worse. Last summer I went to a drive-in movie theater, and they'd changed the bill at the last minute. I ended up accidentally having to sit through the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. All I can say is that I was very glad I had lots of alcohol to hand. Compared to that, an Adam Sandler movie is f*cking Citizen Kane.
It's a net neutrality whodunnit: Boffins devise way to detect who's throttling transit
Friday 24th August 2018 18:29 GMT 
News of Verizon throttling a California fire department's data suggest things have already changed in America
Can we please stop this misconception right now?
The Cali fire dept thing was a case of them going over the data allowance on their plan, and had nothing to do with Net Neutrality. It would have been a NN issue if Verizon had been, say, allowing them to access FireSupplyCo-Who-Have-A-Deal-With-Verizon.com at full speed, but throttling their traffic to BobsFireSupplies.com and other sites.
Now you can argue that either the fire dept didn’t pay for the right level of service, or that Verizon mis-sold their package, or Verizon lied about what “unlimited” data meant...but none of that is NN.
There are MANY reasons to loathe Verizon (and AT&T) but let’s not undermine the Net Neutrality fight by conflating it with unrelated dickish behavior.
Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme
Tuesday 21st August 2018 17:02 GMT
Re: "criminal fines of up to $750,000 when he is sentenced later this year."
@Doctor Syntax "It also includes clauses that will see cash gathered by Prenda, and potentially more in damages, returned to the people who paid up."
Unless the victims can't be identified.
In which case the cash will "return to Prenda, address unknown..."
Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!
Talk about left Field: Apple lures back Tesla engineering guru
Google Spectre whizz kicked out of Caesars, blocked from DEF CON over hack 'attack' tweet
Clap, damn you, clap! Samsung's Bixby 2.0 AI reveal is met with apathy
Friday 10th August 2018 13:34 GMT
Re: "Do not want" is not strong enough.
You can always tell when a software feature is for the benefit of the vendor, not the user - it will be difficult-to-impossible to remove/disable it.
Bixby’s a prime example, but also: apple pay, cortana, apple Music, the windows Store, animated emoji crap on just about every modern platform, iOS/Windows updates... I’m sure you can think of others.
Yes, I’m aware that some of those can in theory be disabled, but they have a habit of popping back every so often (after every update in the case of Windows 10, and about every 10th time I try to play a local MP3 file in the case of Apple Music).
Greybeard greebos do runner from care home to attend world's largest heavy metal fest Wacken
Tuesday 7th August 2018 22:07 GMT
@Gene Cash Nurse Ratchet won't hear of that foolishness.
Just to be pedantic - the name of the nurse in the original movie was Ratched. "Ratchet" - and how could it be anything else? - was the name of the robot nurse in Futurama.
Unless German nursing homes are more high-tech than assumed, I am technically correct (the best kind of correct).
Boffins build a NAZI AI – wait, let's check that... OK, it's a grammar nazi
Did you know: Lawyers can certify web domain ownership? Well, not no more they ain't
Sen. Ron Wyden: Adobe Flash is doomed, why is Uncle Sam still using it?
Core blimey! Apple macOS update lifts boot from MacBook Pro neck
Microsoft still longs to be a 'lifestyle' brand, but the cupboard looks bare
Y'know... Publishing tech specs may be fair use, says appeals court
Wednesday 18th July 2018 23:02 GMT
Re: Why is this even a question?
Oh dear. Well, I suppose you have to learn sometime. Come, sit down.
See... the world isn't fair, or logical, or consistent. Some people are greedy - for money, or power, or control. Some are idiots in thrall to the greedy ones.
Next week, when you've recovered from this, I'll let you in on the shocking truth about the Easter Bunny, Father Christmas, and the Honest Salesman.
Call records breach let users feel like Movistars (with everyone watching who they're talking to)
Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again
Monday 16th July 2018 16:57 GMT
Re: New version of Cluedo
Now I have a vision of Tim Curry as the BOFH. Or maybe Madeline Kahn.
Cracking film, by the way. Watch it if you haven't already. You're in for a treat.
Microsoft's TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge
A curious tale of the priest, the broker, the hacked newswires, and $100m of insider trades
At last! Apple admits its MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards utterly suck, offers free replacements
Microsoft open-sources UI Recorder tool for Windows 10 developers
Scrapping Brit cap on nurses, doctors means more room for IT folk
Thursday 14th June 2018 21:41 GMT
Re: Nige is spitting feathers
Thank you for that reasoned, mature and well-argued contribution.
On behalf of all of us who voted to leave: kindly fuck off and take your ad-hominem petulance with you while the grown-ups get on with trying to extricate the country from the bureaucratic, corrupt, arrogant and anti-democratic mess that is the EU.
Braking news: Tesla preps firmware fling to 'fix' Model 3's inability to stop in time
Your parents love you, Cortana. That's why we bought you an upgrade
Monday 21st May 2018 18:11 GMT
Re: Rejoice, rejoice!
@AC - don't be mean to "JJ Carter", who is after all just another AI experiment from Microsoft:
IF ($article-text.contains("Microsoft"))
{
post_reply ("thank you for this two-minutes hate")
/* TODO: can't get this next line to work properly, right now it segfaults every time */
/* post_reply ($well-reasoned-argument-carefully-and-eloquently-rebutting-the-article) */
}
Apparently, we're supposed to see Microsoft as the Emmanuel Goldstein de nos jours.
JJC is less annoying than Cortana, but only just.
How many ways can a PDF mess up your PC? 47 in this Adobe update alone
Hacking train Wi-Fi may expose passenger data and control systems
Saturday 12th May 2018 18:00 GMT
Re: Routers, Routers, Routers
Justin Case >>I recall stories of proposals in the early days of mobile for just that since they had a huge wired commas network for trackside
Imagine if someone hacked that. What an apostrophe!
That would certainly give a period of chaos and would be a dire critical situation.
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