Posts by John Doe 12

Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries

Rebrand?

Maybe it's time for Peloton to be rebranded as Pelokas :-D

Ex IBM sales manager, fired after battling discrimination against subordinates, wins $11m lawsuit

Re: BLM

I don't think this is truly a "BLM" issue so calm down dear. Asians and Hispanics are most likely discriminated against in equal measure and this is why I am an "ALM" person. Not because I am white but because "BLM" doesn't hit the target in a proper way.

Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws

Re: Puntastic

Yawn. Like the person who wrote this article, "get a life"! Or failing that a job as a D.J.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcKzDwm8_o

British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'

Non Disclosure

I am surprised people aren't more outraged at the attempt to gag the customer with an NDA and a 60k "bribe" which thankfully he threw back into their faces. Another day, another example of the Streisand Effect at work :-D

Post Office awards Fujitsu a £42.5m contract extension for the IT system behind wrongful subpostmaster prosecutions

Re: The Beast of Bolsover

Sadly this seems to be #fakenews - would have loved it to be true!!

'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III

John Lennon Moment

VSS Imagine can take you on a trip to imagine-land because that's as far as many people will be going on this laughable project. After all these years how many of the people who paid up front have either died or got too old to handle the experience?

John lennon - but everyone else just has to sit and watch from the ground.

I know that a few Reg readers will crack the code in that last sentence ;-)

NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design

Re: Oops I misread the headline

Me too!!! That's clickbait and a half :-D

What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose

Re: One place I workded...

"EA" means in this case??

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

First One To Say...

...Bobby Tables!!

Obviously this kid has grown into a teenager and gone off the rails :-D

UK network Three hikes pay-as-you-go rates by 400% to push punters to buy 'bundles'

Re: Time for a complaint to Ofcom

This is less of a joke than it sounds. Any Huawei gear I bought from China lately has been arriving with all the logos covered up with silver sticky labels ha ha :-D I assume this is to reduce the risk of intervention by customs.

Pop quiz: You've got a roomful of electrical equipment. How do you put out a fire?

Re: My manager used halon...

I was a passenger on a Ryanair flight from Stansted to Valencia when the halon (or whatever the equivalent is these days) system discharged into the cockpit. Not fun when suddenly the automated announcement says "DESCEND! EMERGENCY!" three times and then the plane starts to shake like crazy. The shaking I later realised was full deployment of the air-brakes. The pilots (and rest of us) lived to tell the tale due to fast deployment of their oxygen masks. The cabin crew were confused as the masks didn't deploy in the passenger cabin.

Happy memories :-D

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

Re: Failing switches?

Another moron who thinks the world revolves around them and that if it didn't happen to them then it doesn't happen - period!!

Re: I have never had a socket switch fail

I love this attitude of "if it's never happened to me then it doesn't exist"!!

I assume you were never in a plane crash either so they don't happen and any such reports are #fakenews ha ha.

Just for your information I had a faulty socket switch only 2-3 months ago on a brand new unit bought locally from a reputable supplier.

Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats

Re: Wonderful...

criminals need to be INCINERATED.

Which is what I read this as in my first glance - in this case I think it's more correct!!

Crown Prosecution Service solicitor accused of targeting judge ex-wife's lover through work computer systems

Didn't you realise that The Register is basically a tech version of the Daily Fail?? :-D

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Re: Railway Lines?

"Spain is the 4th safest country to drive in apparently.

The worst driving here is in Ibiza, the locals including foreigners who live there, are apalling."

Last time I looked Ibiza was part of Spain!!!

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

"It is almost like the people who design aircraft and their procedures know more about these problems than commentators on IT forums :D"

Downvoted you as sadly this statement is no longer true 100% of the time. I would imagine many of the commentators here would appreciate the value of sensor redundancy more than apparently Boeing did!!

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

Re: grandfather rights, repurposing old kit

Well then you are backing up my argument in a way. If the TV has deviated from the way it was manufactured (including by component failure) then it would lose the grandfather rights.

Re: More to the point

I call BS on you!!! At least until more sensible sounding arguments are presented :-) While name calling in the first 4 words of your response don't really get you off to a good start I do give you kudos for using a slang word that's very British (in that context) and that I don't hear any more since I moved many years ago to Ireland from the England ;-)

I would comment that if this TV is as old as the hills then it's been in use for that long. The DSL system has presumably been there for a good few years also. Hence the TV has gone faulty and probably lost all grandfather rights it might have had. I mean by your argument you could take any piece of old kit, repurpose it and then claim grandfather rights.

One thing you can be sure of is that if it was disrupting an air traffic control tower the set would be taken without any delay.

Re: More to the point

I wasn't implying that the owner of said TV was deliberately doing this - but certainly the law is very clear. However as someone else commented BT could have just bought them a new TV and taken the old one away for destruction just to make sure there is closure. After all if this person still is in possession of the set then they could theoretically turn it on if they wanted.

Re: More to the point

That TV is not legally operated!!! From what it sounds like it is in clear breach of the law as it is generating serious RFI. This would be the same story if it were knocking out air traffic control communications or something similar. I am surprised that the communications regulator haven't confiscated the set for destruction.

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

Re: BTDT.

"nobody could understand how they got it unless they were sleeping with the boss."

Sounds like you got caught sleeping with the bosses WIFE from the way you were treated!! Seriously though, if it's all as you say, then I hope the ex-employer gets a major dose of karma...

Research into deflecting potentially world-destroying asteroids is apparently not a 'national priority' for the UK

This Makes Sense

After all what could you do anyway if you found one. Not to mention that most of them are only discovered when they are hours away or even already gone by. This feels a lot like Homer buying that volcano insurance in Springfield :-)

Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked

PC World

During my student years I worked for PC world and you were always searched when leaving the store - including if you just popped in on your day off to do some shopping. To be honest I didn't really mind and it only took a minute or so and was done in a private room away from the general public. During induction there was a staff training video staring Colin Tarrant aka Inspector Andrew Monroe from The Bill which basically was to tell you they knew all the tricks - like putting stolen goods into the shop dumpster to collect after hours :-D

Then a year or so later I got my 1 year uni work placement in Vickers Defence Systems where they make Challenger tanks and you have to sign the official secrets act. Not once did I get searched leaving that place of work and in fact the local scumbags would break in and steal military hardware from the tanks which often some local person would find dumped and return to the gatehouse.

The two of those jobs compared side-by-side and their differing security arrangements always amuse me to this very day.

Chinese prof sent down for 18 months for stealing semiconductor secrets, trying to patent them to cover tracks

The Lord giveth.....

...and the Chinese take away :-D

A bridge too far: Passengers on Sydney's new ferries would get 'their heads knocked off' on upper deck, say politicos

Re: They could

I suspect he might have been talking about it's predecessor. Like that London Bridge you could dismantle it and sell it off to some dumb ass American with more money than sense and hey presto - no more bridge problem :-D

Pass that Brit guy with the right-hand drive: UK looking into legalising automated lane-keeping systems by 2021

Re: This has to be subject to rules for automation

A half full bottle of water wedged into the steering wheel will fix that "issue" and give you a poor mans Tesla for free :-D Never tried it myself but plenty of info and videos online about this trick.

Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images

Storage Wars

Does nobody else here see the potential for a low budget TV show with a load of rednecks bidding to poke through all the abandoned crap?

Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers

Is the South Park defence referring to the "it was coming straight at him" or for the tannerite? Just curious ha ha

I don't think the guy had any choice but to whack it as it was coming straight for him.

I just saw a video on YouTube entitled "Hog Control with Tannerite" which as someone commented is "The most American thing I ever saw". Warning - this is not a video for people of a weak disposition hence why I didn't post an actual link to the clip.

Oh and greetings to Valencia - my "second home" :-D

VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately

Re: Lead photo

"Re-record - not fade away..."

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Copy And Paste

Beware copy and paste in general - depending on the context. I managed to shake off a 3 year business contract I no longer wanted after only 15 months because the genius who drafted the paperwork copy / pasted from a 1 year version and forgot to modify all the exit clauses. This cost them EUR50,000 and saved me almost the same amount - once the solicitor fees were paid :-D

What evil lurks within the data centre, and why is it DDoS-ing the ever-loving pants off us?

Re: SMTP ddos

Funny thing is I find Indians tend to be very tech savvy - at least the ones that are in the I.T. industry. But I do get the point being made that the guy's race is a bit too prominent in the original post - even though I admit I would most likely use such language in conversation. I guess some things look worse when written down and then can be read more than once.

Chips for Huawei are fried: TSMC stops shipping parts to Middle Kingdom mega-maker this September

Re: The sooner Trump is out of office the better

Like the US is trying to do?

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

Re: Only a white person could think this would help

"Duh, there isn't one."

Spoken like a white supremacist!!! You mean things like the police targeting and killing black people isn't a problem for YOU...

Re: Only a white person could think this would help

This sums it all up so well in my opinion.

Swedish-Finn / American

Two nationalities that shouldn't be allowed to mix ha ha!! Hope Linus doesn't miss out on his lobster parties this year due to Covid-19 :-D

Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

Re: PHP

You may just be trolling here (especially judging by the chosen icon) but I would be interested to hear a reasoned argument to back up your statement.

Definitely a moment for this YouTube vid....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA

Hey, Boeing. Don't celebrate your first post-grounding 737 Max test flight too hard. You just lost another big contract

My chargeback refund was on a DEBIT card and not a CREDIT card. It's a common misnomer that you only have protection if you use a Mastercard or something like that. Now I cannot speak for the USA as often the rules there are quite different but in Europe chargeback is very feasible as I can vouch for. Perhaps that's a bad choice of word as several of the scumbag airlines are trying to fob people off with vouchers and basically cheat them out of their legal right to a refund.

One word - chargeback!!! Worked for me with Aer Lingus - my bank took back the money from them :-D Worth noting that the rules say that you have 120 days to make a claim and that clock only starts running from the date of your first flight.

First Flight Since The Grounding?

My understanding was that there have been some limited flights (without passengers of course) to allow for planes to be stored in more sensible places. Is this true or did I just imagine it?

Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay

Re: Someone with a blunt axe to grind?

Because it hasn't got all the way there yet. When that day comes I will stop visiting The Register, you can be sure of it :-D

Anyway it's fun to annoy the commentards who think they own the place because they have such a huge... post count ;-) Maybe that's some form of compensation for other issues?

Re: Someone with a blunt axe to grind?

"Others considerably more experienced in the field"

And there is a beautiful example of someone making wild assumptions based on zero information. How do you know what I do for a living any more than I would know what you do either? So I have 42 posts and joined in September 2010 - big deal ha ha. Doesn't change the fact that The Register is slowly turning into some weird tech version of the Daily Mail.

To be honest The Register has been turning "weirdly schoolchildish" for a long time now. Some of the "reporters" here seem to be more interested in making up some stupid catchy byline than writing a decent grown-up article. So have an upvote from me :-D

Splunk to junk masters and slaves once a committee figures out replacements

Re: The repugnant term is black or white

There's only one race: the race to be first in the lunch queue :-D

Some Brits reckon broadband got worse after lockdown – but that's just what happens when you're online 12 hours straight

Re: C'est La Vie --- Or Not, For Some People

Have an upvote for being a sensible voice among all the other moaners! Internet access is not vital for survival despite many people thinking otherwise. As you rightly say people are dying and that's what's important right now.

Re: Smug mode engaged...

" it normally hovers around 270 but drops to 90 if the kids and missus is streaming stuff."

Assuming 1 missus and 3 kids that's 45Mbps per stream! Do they each run their own full size cinema with ultra-super-future-proofed-HD multiple screens??

"Annoyingly it ended last month so I've been back to 300Mbps"

What a whinging douchebag ha ha!! Honestly it's like a piddling competition for some people who I assume are lacking in other areas. Anything over 40Mbps is a luxury and mostly pointless. This "need for speed" is why the more rural areas are lacking in services while the cities are being flooded with pointless bandwidth.

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

Re: Order of magnitude error

Not ALL trains are running at 25kV AC. For example the Tyne and Wear Metro in the UK is 1500v DC and I remember as a trainee working in the substation watching the ammeters climb well past 1000amps.

I seem to remember that Holland is also 1500v DC which is why they bought locos originally built to work the Manchester-Sheffield route back in the early 70's.

Boeing inspired drone....

...with Max-8 style "technology" built in!!