Posts by NoneSuch

Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there

Re: Average is as average does

On PC, it isn't average, it rocks. The game play on my RTX 3090 is buttery smooth with 150 FPS (I capped it there) at 1440 res on a 32" screen. I played 60 hours so far and am still loving it. Only one CTD in that time . A few glitches that a game reload fixed, but overall a good quality game.

There are a lot of cut scenes. Thankfully, you can skip most of them, but there are a few times where you are forced to "walk and talk" about non-game impacting matters that annoys me. If you are into story then you'll like this game.

Taking on a horde is challenging (as it should be), but I could never get one below half without having to pull out, scrounge for resupply, then return. I'm not a Red Bull infused youth so that may be my age showing, but resupply should be a tad easier. Surprised there's no merchant to buy raw goods.

Best method: Wait until a horde leaves their cave, sneak in and leave remote bombs and scattered gas cans behind then, wait for them to return. Mark the last one to enter with bino's and when he stops moving, detonate the bombs. Satisfying.

When you find the M249, hang onto it.

Well worth $40 on Steam.

Four women suing Google for pay discrimination just had their lawsuit upgraded to a $600m class action

Re: If Google can get away with paying women less than men for the same job...

I suspect 85% of any payout will be consumed in legal bills. Lawyers will make out like bandits in this case. No one else.

Apple announces lossless HD audio at no extra cost, then Amazon Music does too. The ball is now in Spotify's court

The Only Loss...

...is felt in the pocketbook.

My 320 Kbps MP3's have never sounded so good. :P

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

You are getting a deal. The NSA tracks the locations of all foreign cell phones free of charge.

Colonial Pipeline was looking to hire cybersecurity manager before ransomware attack shut down operations

I suspect the compensation package will much more "generous" now.

Microsoft embraces Linux kernel's eBPF super-tool, extends it for Windows

Re: Microsoft embraces... extends...

MS never embraces technology to make it more efficient.

They do it to improve market share and profitability at the detriment to any non MS shareholders.

As another vendor promises 3 years of Android updates, we ask: How long should mobile devices receive support?

Re: I would rather NOT have support

The only person who had issues with Android updates was a guy with 430 installed apps on his phone. He was my VP of IT and an absolute clod when it came to anything digital.

Preliminary report on Texas Tesla crash finds Autosteer was 'not available' along road where both passengers died

Ban it

There is no technology that is idiot proof, especially when driving at 60 MPH with hands off the wheel.

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Data Kept in Europe...

Backups kept in Fort Meade.

The NSA is empowered by law to intercept foreign communications and Europe ain't 'Murica. Expect all sorts of shenanigan's in the future.

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Re: China does not care what the USA says

A gentleman named Blofeld has a spacecraft to retrieve other nations wayward vehicles in orbit.

After all. You Only Live Twice.

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter cleared for further, farther, flying after landing on 117-second fourth flight

Re: Softly, Softly

Typically followed by "Hey hold my beer and watch this!"

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Re: Quick idea of the back of my head

Governments lying to their citizens to get their way is not just a US or Chinese trait. It's pretty much universal.

Who knew Uncle Sam had strike teams for SolarWinds, Exchange flaws? Well, anyway, they are disbanded

Re: "Due to the vastly increased patching and reduction in victims"

They've eliminated a government program to protect computer systems, probably at the behest of NSA who runs government programs to undermine computer security. Why pay for both?

Also, why do you feel a citation is needed in a government press release. The reasons given are almost certainly not the real ones.

'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash

Re: Tesla boss Elon Musk has not explicitly responded to the incident

Or, crazy thinking I know, disable all driver aids and let the person with a license drive the damned car. If it goes off the road, we know who to blame.

Also, having a car company lead the investigation through log retrieval and interpretation is like the mob doing face-to-face witness questioning before trial.

On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies

Re: Well done!

Pretty sure the NSA has installed code on the copter to track the location of the rover, just in case the rover gets ideas beyond its station.

Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)

Bloody Russians.

First there was an airplane gap. Then a missile gap. Then a race to the moon. Then a warhead gap. Now a Russian UFO gap.

Won't anyone think of the multi-billion dollar aeronautics divisions scraping by on mere billions?

FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org

Isolating people for comments and personal opinion the majority disagree with is a dangerous and slippery slope.

Missile systems software dev leaker has sentence almost doubled after UK.gov says 4½ years was too soft

Re: "The sentence for refusing to hand over his password was increased to 2½ years"

The real world example is giving someone a jail sentence for not providing a murder weapon to the police, for a crime they didn't commit.

Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft

Any regime that keeps its populace ignorant of the world at large through censorship and threat of violence needs to be challenged with every technology available.

Instead of running weapons, the CIA should be air dropping Starlink hardware randomly within Chinese and Tibetan borders.

Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say

Take back control of something you always had control of... and here's a massive bill for it.

Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?

The only time I actually need to be in the office is when I need to physically touch something. Realistically, that's a couple of days a month unless I have a big install project. Everything else (vSphere, O365, AD, backups, trouble tickets, environmental controls, security, etc.) I can do remotely.

Companies are rushing to set minimum numbers of days a week to justify their investment in real estate. There is no practical reason for me to be in the office x days a week just to be there.

Microsoft announces a new Office for offline fans, slashes support, hikes the price

2GB of additional HD space required.

The offline version needs a few gig of extra space to store all that rich creamy personal data you generate so it can be uploaded to the mothership the next time it sees an Internet connection.

Google calls in Women in Technology Hall of Famer to lead new Responsible AI group amid internal strife

That whole "Do no evil..." pledge is really inconvenient to how Google wants to operate today.

Good luck to them finding the perfect volcano lair for Alphabet HQ.

Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training

Re: Is proofpoint being malicious

Maybe Facebook should be grabbing the similar domains NOT in responsible hands as a first step.

I almost typed that without cracking a smile. Almost...

Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri using latest telescope technique

Re: So just around the corner

With our luck as a species the new planet will house Jar Jar Binks.

The Linux box that runs the exec carpark gate is down! A chance for PostgreSQL Man to show his quality

"Or did you depart knowing you'd left an accidental timebomb ticking behind you?"

Accidental? No...

NASA offers foodies, boffins $500,000 to find ways for astronauts to make their own dinners on the Moon, Mars

Soylent Green.

Nuff said.

They’ve only gone and bloody done it – yawn – again! NASA, SpaceX send four to ISS

Re: About time

Why do I have a mental image of Jebidiah Kerman burning pancakes?

China compromised F-35 subcontractor and forced expensive software system rewrite, academic tells MPs

Really?

The F-35 was a pig in a poke long before this happened. It was over-budget at the prototype stage and has set records for hemorrhaging money since.

Apple suffers setback in epic Epic Games games fight: Federal judge zaps damages counterclaim

Re: That's gall

I hope the lawyers on both sides of this case are taken care of. We all know how hard it is for them to earn a crust on these open and shut cases.

(ahem)

Swiss spies knew about Crypto AG compromise – and kept it from govt overseers for nearly 30 years

Re: Shocked

Don't be naïve.

Any money in UK banks went to Lichtenstein the day after BREXIT results were posted. Most of it, I imagine, converted to Euros by people connected with the "Leave" vote before the Pound declined.

Luke Skywalker used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 on Tatooine. But Star Wars: Squadrons misses the mark

It's a Bit Crap...

But at least it's better than Star Citizen.

iPhone sales shrink for 2nd year in a row as delay to next-gen mobile launch hits hard

Corrolation?

I wonder if the increasing inability to repair iThings has anything to do with the drop in sales.

Yes, yes it does.

Microsoft makes cloudy Linux licensing less labyrinthine

What's the catch?

You mean apart from paying Microsoft to use something that's free elsewhere you mean...???

NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

"decision to use the NSA-designed Dual EC Pseudorandom Number Generator."

If NSA wrote it for public use, I'm betting it isn't as random as people think.

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it's used to slurp music

Slippery Slope

If they can class anything that can be used for illegal activity, then pretty much everything is illegal in their eyes.

Like a good defragging? The latest Dev Channel Windows 10 might be for you

Windows 10 and Parliament

Microsoft is just like the House of Commons. They add new code to Windows 10 regardless of whether it's needed, while politicians add new unneeded laws to an already stacked pile. All to keep up the illusion they are necessary and worthy of the massive pay rises and bonuses they give themselves.

Windows 10 will be "improved" (into the ground) until the code base bloats to the point where it requires a fresh start and they wipe it out do it all over again.

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

(Heavy German accent) Papers please...

Phone insecurity you mean.

Welcome to the age of fascism.

You're not actually guilty of anything, but we're just gonna check your phone to be sure.

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

Re: Are you going to deny it, and attend and pretend it is not so?

The Director of the NSA repeatedly lied to Congress under oath. The US government violated the US Constitution on a national scale. The person who proved they were breaking the law is the subject of an income grab by the US government because he didn't submit his book to a corrupt system for approval.

If the USA lasts beyond 2030, I'll be surprised.

IBM manager had to make one person redundant from choice of two, still bungled it and got firm done for unfair dismissal

Re: One day, out of the blue...

About three weeks after being rudely laid off, I was called by the same HR Manager who had done the deed to inquire about some photos on my cell phone I had taken to document the disassembly of a major piece of ancient IT equipment a year before. It was then placed in storage. Turned out they needed to put it back together to get some audit data off it, but no one knew how to re-assemble it. The cabling on the back side was horribly complicated and used the same connector cables and blocks. Without docs and my "before" images, it would be challenging. Someone in the company recalled I had taken the pics on my Sony flip phone.

I had the images showing the cabling runs, plus a e-copy of the equipment manual (that had been very hard to track down) showing assembly / disassembly stages also my folio with serial/model numbers and other relevant scribbling. I simply told them that as I had been let go for for "not meeting company standards" and "inadequate documentation of activities," I wondered aloud why he thought I would have such things. The ten seconds of silence from the other end of the phone was priceless.

He then said it would be in my best interest to turn over any documentation to avoid "legal proceedings." I replied that he himself had told me in the exit interview to not retain any company info. I told him I had formatted my phone after leaving the building to conform to his HR policy, wished him luck and hung up. That was the last I heard from him. To the best of my knowledge, they never succeeded in re-assembling that gear.

HR people will hold the companies best interest over yours every single time.

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

It'll glide long enough for a reboot surely...

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

Don't Buy Them Until The New Year

Wait til Jan / Feb. Will be lots of stock then and no one will be buying as everyone will have splurged for Christmas. Best time to buy.

Anyone buying a card second hand from a scalper is an idiot and a contributor to the problem. Let them watch their cards depreciate on the shelf.

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Yadda yadda yadda

Just imagine a "lipstick on a pig" comment here.

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

European Union

What continues to amaze me is that Euope is still "negotiating" a settlement. The Brexit vote was over four years ago with a two year deadline and there's still no agreement. Why they don't just say "FU, you want out, yer out. That's a hard Brexit then," amazes me. It's well within their powers and authority to do so.

A surprise rake handle to the face for every man, woman and child in 'Great' Britain. Lord knows we asked for it through uneducated voters and bent politicians who will make a packet in the process.

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

Re: Dystopian future

Some bloke tried to demo his system at Gatwick. It wasn't received well.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Re: State Aid????

The Income Tax act in Canada was introduced as a "temporary" measure to finance the debt from WW1. It's still in effect today.

Politicians and heroin users have the same motivation. Except politicians need a never ending supply of your money.

I can 'proceed without you', judge tells Julian Assange after courtroom outburst

Re: Blackmailed

"Having been threatened with having his child forcibly removed for adoption unless he identified his fellow hackers, single father Monsegur is said to have passed on information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)."

The FBI are supposed to be the good guys. Yet they threaten the well being and long term emotional stability of a child to get what they want.

I guess their motto is now Fidelity, Bravery, Intimidation.

Help. The political process is corrupted, full of lies and state-sponsored deep fakes. Now Microsoft's to the rescue

Welcome...

... to the downfall of society. Where Facebook and Twitter posts have replaced the news. Where opinions are presented as fact without any supporting evidence. Where Fake News is just news. Where the Flat Earth Society is increasing in numbers year after year.

Monumental ignorance growing to a planetary scale.

The human race is doomed.

Dating apps swiped left on Pakistan’s request to clean up their acts, bans followed

You are dealing with a combination of ignorance and religious intolerance. Neither can be filtered or blocked. They only want their message heard and nothing else. Their standards, their morals, their expectations.

No different than the Great Firewall of China, Russian border routers, North Korea's restrictions on any outside information or Fox News moderators deleting liberal comments from their web sites.

They are right. If you have an opposing view, you are wrong.

'My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else's account ... Now someone's charged her card'

Re: Methinks

My wife had her credit card stolen last month.

I didn't report it. The guy who took it is spending a lot less than she did.