* Posts by Queeg

130 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2010

NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard

Queeg

Seems about par for the course from the Rump

I hear next week Elmer Fudd gets the Chairmanship for Protection of Wabbits Society.

Germans force Microsoft to scrap future pushy Windows 10 upgrades

Queeg

"That tweak was rolled out worldwide – so perhaps the above promise on friendlier upgrades will make its way across the globe, too."

I wouldn't put any money on that, we are talking Microsoft here.

GSM gateway ban U-turn casts doubt on 7.5-year prosecution in Blighty

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Re: "The Crown Prosecution Service has been contacted ...."

On bail for Eight years for allowing people to make phone calls.

You'd have thought someone would have asked "Do we really need to do this?."

Queeg

"The Crown Prosecution Service has been contacted ...."

So in other words...

Once they've wiped the egg off their faces.

Got their collective feet out of their mouths.

And got their thumbs out of their arses.

They may be in touch.

Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online

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I know that in a world where you don't kick a man when he's down this post is going to suck.

But I have to say it couldn't have happened to a more deserving company.

Screw the popcorn, get the bar open.

Lexmark patent racket busted by Supremes

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Mushroom

Takes me back

"(self-destructing cartridges)."

Your mission Jim, should you choose to accept it, ...

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We're calling it now: FCC votes 2-1 to rip up net neutrality on Thurs

Queeg

Perhaps it should be Pomeranian Pai.

He's obviously Donnie T Rumps bitch.

US-Europe Privacy Shield not worth the paper it's printed on – civil liberties groups

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FAIL

EU response.

*Fingers in Ears*

.

La..La..La..La..La..La..La..

.

Have they stopped asking questions about Privacy Shield yet?

.

No!

.

SHIT!

.

*Replace fingers*

.

La..La..La..La..La..La..La..

Smash up your kid's Bluetooth-connected Cayla 'surveillance' doll, Germany urges parents

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Boffin

Then again..

They could just remove the batteries.

No more spying and the child keeps the toy.(a little old fashioned I know, dolls without power supplies but this sounds like an emergency after all,)

Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord

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Considering Clarkson's [77] in the lead at time of writing and Tom Bakers [63] mind appears to slipping (too many Jelly Babies).

I suspect we have a Boaty McBoatface situation on our hands.

That's a thought, what about old Dave?

He has to be at least as popular as Jezzer.

Crim charges slapped on copyright trolls who filmed porn, torrented it then sued downloaders

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Mushroom

Old Will had the right idea

William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part2, Act IV, Scene 2.

Canada asks citizens: How would you like us to spy on you?

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Black Helicopters

So let me get this straight...

Along with the Brits, the Yanks, the Aussies and the Kiwi's up until Snowden kicked over the trash can the Canucks were also lying, sneaky bastards who would do anything, say anything to get our info.

And now they want our opinion.

Damn! I think my Bullshit Meter just overloaded.

*Black Chopper for obvious reasons

100k+ petition: MPs must consider debating Snoopers' Charter again

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Big Brother

"In the face of several legal battles, Killock recommends that the debate be used as an opportunity to amend the bill's more questionable legal provisions."

I really can't see High Chancellor May allowing that sort of thing.

(it's enough to curdle your warm milk)

Fingermen to the rescue I suspect..

Experts to Congress: You must act on IoT security. Congress: Encourage industry to develop best practices, you say?

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Coat

We're talking politician here..

They are literally paid to spout bullshit and do as little as possible to rock the boat.

Until someone causes a Senator to drop dead on national TV by screwing with the firmware of their pacemaker they will do nothing.

* for those who didn't vote for Donnie T Rump that was NOT a suggestion.

although "those 2nd Amendment people could do something"

Getting my coat,that'll be the one with the tin foil lining.

Blighty's Home Office database blunders will deprive hundreds of GB driving licences

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I refer you to an earlier comment

Both hand...Map...Guide Dog...GPS Unit.....Arse

Nuff said again

TalkTalk gets record £400k slap-slap from Brit watchdog

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Not enough 0's

HP Ink COO: Sorry not sorry we bricked your otherwise totally fine printer cartridges

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FAIL

Sorry to hear about your miscommunication snafu HP...

One thing though.

Can you say Class Action?

No matter how dumb you think people can be,

the Universe is always ready to produce one with a lower IQ.

IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia's census

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"If you build it, they will come"

and fuck it up

While I am sure IBM deserve a serious kick up the arse (and will get it if any Aussie politician/media whore get they're way).

Talk about naive "We want a system that is totally secure", "Fine, disconnect it from the outside world."

"Oh, and remember to unplug it at the power socket in the wall".

I suspect both sides are equally deserving of the titles Dickwit,Fuckwit and Asshat of the week.

UK Labour man Owen Smith: If you wanna be a leader, you gotta stop with that lens

Queeg

Arse..Two hands...Map...Guide Dog...GPS Unit...

Nuff Said.

HSBC: How will we verify business banking customers? Selfies!

Queeg
Alert

Has nobody considered...

"Now Mr CEO, you will stand there looking calmly into the smartphone camera my colleague is holding.

Or we will cut another finger off your wifes hand."

Brutal scenario I admit but you'd have thought someone would have brought it up in the planning meeting.

Our pacemakers are totally secure, says short-sold St Jude

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Re: Two points

I kid you not...

It is illegal in most countries to incinerate powered medical devices.

After death Pacemakers/Defibrilators are removed before cremation.

They can then be sterilised, tested, recharged and believe it or not

implanted into Horses* and other large animals.

Thereby giving plenty of opportunity for 2nd hand equipment to fall into the wrong hands.

*Got it from the Horses mouth(Cardiologist Consultant)

An end to rude emails?

Queeg

Could have been worse...

It might have been predictive text.

Now that would be a real pain in the aardvark.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update completely borks USB webcams. Yay.

Queeg

Also my first thought...

Beautiful plumage

Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?

Queeg

Well, Well

Posted a week ago

"Is it me just being a cynical, suspicious old git...

Or come the deadline 8 and a bit days from now is Microshaft going to gift their

valued customers by extending the FREE* Windon't 10 upgrade?

*or else"

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/29/you-can-still-grab-a-free-windows-10-upgrade-after-july-29-2016/

"Microsoft made it clear that it is not restricting access to specific assistive technologies. In fact, the company is not restricting access at all. You do confirm however that you are using assistive technologies with a click on the upgrade now button.

If you want Windows 10 now and are ready to take advantage of the free upgrade offer, click the button below to get started.

Yes, I use assistive technologies and I am ready for my free upgrade to Windows 10.

This means that anyone, even customers who don't use assistive technologies, can upgrade their operating system for free after July 29, 2016.

Microsoft notes that it may end the extension offer at any point in time in the future, but has not decided yet whether to do so or not. The company promises however that it will make a public announcement before the offer ends.

Closing Words

It is likely that some customers who don't use assistive technologies will take Microsoft up on the offer. Since there is no need to provide proof, anyone may still upgrade to Windows 10 for free for as long as the offer is up and not pulled by Microsoft."

Still a cynical, suspicious old git

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Windows

Is it me just being a cynical, suspicious old git...

Or come the deadline 8 and a bit days from now is Microshaft going to gift their

valued customers by extending the FREE* Windon't 10 upgrade?

*or else

Get ready for mandatory porn site age checks, Brits. You read that right

Queeg

Tor,Tor,Tor,Tor....Tor,Tor,Tor,Tor......Tor wonderful Tor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o

You'll get the idea.

Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware goes FULL SCREEN in final push

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Alert

I know where you can cram it

"It's hoped that after the free period is over, and you'll have to pay for Windows 10, Microsoft will dial down its efforts to cram its software onto people's machines."

Suggestions on a post card to....

1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, United States

Bendy see-thru mobes? Materials scientists make nanofilm advance

Queeg

Meh!

Old news

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/earthfinalconflict/images/9/99/Global.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110929150742

:)

Google to kill passwords on Android, replace 'em with 'trust scores'

Queeg
WTF?

You can have...

You can have my password when you tear it from my cold, dead ......

Hang on a sec

Now that's just not playing fair.

Would we want to regenerate brains of patients who are clinically dead?

Queeg
Alert

Re: A possible benefit

Please God no!

David Hameron,Terrorista May and Boris the Animal with Higher Brain Functions.

Meep

US govt quietly tweaks rules to let cops, Feds hack computers anywhere, anytime

Queeg

....

"Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue pill?"

Belgian boffins breed 'digital canaries' to test your random numbers

Queeg
Headmaster

Not to be a pedant...

but that's a Blue tit...

William Hague: Brussels attacks mean we must destroy crypto ASAP

Queeg

Another politician...

Who couldn't find his Arse with both hands, a map, a guide dog and a GPS unit.

And they wonder why people don't trush them.

Windows 10 pilot rollouts will surge in early 2016, says Gartner

Queeg
Flame

There you go...

The first six months of 2016 will see an upsurge in pilot rollouts of Windows 10, Gartner has predicted.

Many enterprises will then broaden their deployments later in the year with Gartner expecting at least half to have started some form of production deployment by the beginning of 2017, and looking to complete migrations in 2019.

That will help Windows 10 become Microsoft’s most widely deployed operating system, following in the footsteps of Windows 7 and Windows XP, Gartner said.

That may, or may not, be what Microsoft wants to hear. Windows XP and Windows 7 both became de facto client standards and getting customers to move onto succeeding versions of Microsoft's software has proved nigh impossible.

Microsoft’s declared goal is for Windows 10 to be on one billion devices in the next two to three years. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella claimed in October that 110 million devices were running Windows 10.

Factors driving the uptake of Windows 10 on the consumer side are the free, 12-month upgrades, plus the availability of broadband connectivity for devices, making over-the-air downloads a reasonable feat to perform.

According to Gartner, factors driving migrations include the planned end of support for Windows 7 in January 2020 plus strong application compatibly with Windows 10. That, plus pent-up demand for tablets and two-in-one devices, will drive uptake.

“There will be tens of millions of users familiar with the operating system before the end of 2015,” research vice president Steve Kleynhans said in a statement.

“For businesses, we expect that implementation will be significantly more rapid than that seen with Windows 7 six years ago,” he added.

Windows 10 was released by Microsoft in July; as far as receiving free Windows 10 is concerned, complaints have emerged among some Windows 7 and 8 users that rather than the upgrade being voluntary Windows 10 is forcing itself onto their PCs. ®

*Due to marketing factors, customer take-up and the unfortunate habit of Microsoft to stack Bullshit so high it becomes a danger to anyone passing their steaming pile of crap these predictions may have to be reconsidered*

fixed it for you.

(Couldn't find a pile of crap icon, perhaps El Reg should consider another icon update).

MPs to assess tech feasibility of requirements under draft surveillance laws

Queeg
Headmaster

Once the Committee has reported back..

And someone tells them about TOR I wonder how long it'll be before one of the technologically challenged Etonian Luddites advises Hameron it should be banned and he sticks his foot in his mouth again.

Better his foot than anything else I suppose.

Comfy chair and popcorn preordered.

UK's super-cyber-snoop shopping list: Internet data, bulk spying, covert equipment tapping

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Re: How is the data stored?

No need for that.

It's all arranged,they're giving it all to Dido Harding to look after.

After all what could go wrong?

I considered adding a "Joke Alert" icon but we're talking Governmint here.

I may be right. meep

Queeg

Re: I haven't heared so much bull$h1t since the last time she stood up...

You ask, you get...

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473770/Draft_Investigatory_Powers_Bill.pdf

Queeg

I haven't heared so much bull$h1t since the last time she stood up...

"Internet Connection Record will only show that they accessed that site, not the particular pages they looked at, who they communicated with, or what they said.

It is simply the modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill".

So if my Internet Connection Record shows I visited Tiemeupandwhipme.com, Tranniesrus.com, DoIhaveanSDI.com and Divorceforbeginers.com it tells them sod all about me only the web sites I visited.

I suspect end to end encrypted e-mail and Tor browser use to skyrocket in the near future.

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

Queeg

You can have my Bacon Buttie

When you pry it from my cold dead hand.

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

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GCHQ surveillance systems have come a long way in the last 40 years.

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Hi Gran, I can't talk for long these Video calls to Australia are a pain in the neck.

GCHQ can and will spy on politicos, rules tribunal

Queeg

So, one rule for them and the same rule for us.

How refreshing.

Now they know I wonder how long that will last.

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So that Bear over there taking a dump looks so detailed.

This VR stuff is really goo.........aaaAAAaRRRGHHHHHH

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Queeg

"Yes Dad I know."

I'm still not sure if I own the Copyright to "Jesus Phone"

"Why don't you ask Abaddon to get one of his lawyers to check with that Jobs guy."

"Then screw forgiveness, we'll smite them for eveything they have."

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Queeg

Absolutely!

Bigger

Bouncier

Firmer

Guaranteed

*Terms and conditions apply.....

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Queeg

Oops

Ctrl Alt Delete....Your kidding right?

Queeg

Crtl Alt Delete....Your kidding right?

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

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I know it's not a bird of paradise but I wonder if David Attenborough will like this one too.

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

Queeg

Have to say...

From what I've seen of the Windows 10 builds my opinion hasn't really changed from the initial one.

It still looks like the bastard child of Vista and 8.1.

I'm not saying it's not an improvement on the last OS, obviously there are things that look and feel

better.

Unfortunately for Microsoft an OS has to do more than just look good, it pretty much has to work straight out of the box for the ordinary guy* in the street.

If he can't play his games/music watch his movies check out the family photo collection he's

sending to Aunty Rose in Australia, surf, chat, tweet, waffle, troll or outherwise interact with the rest

of his tribe the first thing he's going to say when anyone asks what the new OS is like is,

"It's crap, I'm wiping it and going back to Windows 7".

It doesn't matter what the IT press finally descide after Win 10's launch.

It doesn't even matter if Win 10 turns out to be God's gift 6 months down the road.

If enough of Joe public thinks it "crap" on or just after release it'll nose dive the same as Vista.

Free** doesn't always mean good after all.

*Generic term (He/She/We/Whatever)

*Terms and Conditions apply.

150,000 angry Redditors demand Chairman Pao's head on a spike

Queeg
Stop

Re: Shirley..........

God!, I.m so tempted......

No,.....NO.....

Just press Return and step away from the keyboard.