Posts by MrDamage

Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal

Can you blame it?

I mean *gestures broadly* who'd want to stick around this shitshow?

Mormon Church IT ransacked, data stolen by 'state-sponsored' cyber-thieves

Re: Jesus saves

It's saved on my RAIDen array.

BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2

Re: Very nice episode again

When it comes to defenestration, we all do.

Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365

Ford to rebrand as "Car"?

They sorta tried it already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ka

US executive order a long way from settling EU privacy cases

Re: "Leader of the free world"

Don't forget, this is the same country that hosts a World Series sports event, but only invites itself.

Don't want to get run over by a Ford car? There's a Bluetooth app for that

Re: Whilst other manufacturers develop windows

But how will other people know how small my penis is, if I don't buy a big truck and then add a 6 inch lift kit?

Re: It's not the 1960s anymore.

You were just shopping. Why the fuck didn't you buy a pair of shoes?

Re: V2X

> I've never heard of cameras being used for this. Sounds unreliable, but I'm sure someone has patted themselves on the back for using high-tech.

Standard conservative policy, isn't it? Have a look at the technology available, go for the shittiest option whilst taking brown paper bags from all suppliers. After a few years of "this shit ain't good enough", they then "upgrade" to the second shittiest technology, again taking brown paper bags from suppliers.

Rinse and repeat.

No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

Re: Customer pushback

I just started calling my family in the middle of the night with problem regarding their line of work. Older brother got calls at 1am telling him my car sounded a bit funny when driving at 140kmh.

Literal and metaphorical wake up call.

Rather than take the L, Amazon sues state that dared criticize warehouse safety

Re: Who are their lawyers?

Minimum wage, and child labour laws, both exist to remind society that greedy arseholes would pay you less, and exploit children, if they could get away with it.

Re: Who are their lawyers?

this is the same company that would rather introduce "mental health booths" for it's overworked and underpaid warehouse workers instead of, you know, paying them a living fucking wage.

Er, Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge

Re: as opposed to

Given those same GOP voters have to wait a few days before the John Deere mechanic will come out (at cost) to effectively perform a capacitance reset on a tractor, I'm sure they have plenty of their own free time watching crops spoil.

Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins

That's enough to display 5318008.

Elon Musk tells Twitter: My takeover deal is back on

Re: hmm

Remind me, who was such a poor loser, he attempted a coup?

Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1

23.23. Meat AND 2 veg.

US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals

Re: Comparing wax apples with silk poppies

I'll take half a badger's worth if he's handing some out.

Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

Re: Easy as solution

Grab the linux version and take a wander through the source code yourself.

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

But will it have Bluetooth?

AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

Re: Not for the office.

Most office workers could get away with a Pi running a Windows VM.

FTC sues data broker for selling millions of people's 'precise' location info

Re: In the age of high tech tracking...

Nice t see that company has also finally added some style to the old tinfoil hat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/D6C11205-88B5-4A27-AACA-DDAF0E600D8B?ingress=2&visitId=a1bb1f6c-9017-41de-8159-1dacb71c813d&ref_=ast_bln

Tesla owner gets key fob chip implanted in his hand

Re: I Have an Idea So Clever You Could Put a Tail on it and Call it a Weasel

I already got the patent on that mate. You owe me a fiver. Or a pint.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2013/06/10/forgotten_your_password_just_get_gurning_says_google/#c_1854329

I believe a gentleman by the name of Goatse could help you with that.

Nvidia will unveil next-gen GPU architecture in September

There's some pun to be had

With the name of the chipset, and the fact that most punters would choke at the price.

Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit

Re: Death Sentence for Corporations

Fuck the shareholders. They had no problems taking the cash as a result of these illegal practices, knowingly throwing their money at the sociopathic reptilian despite all of the privacy issues they've created. They go last.

Apple to compel workers to spend '3 days a week' in the office

They should close the offices Mondays and Tuesdays, because after 4 days of relaxation, WTF is appropriate.

Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit

Re: I smell a hoax.

Many of us have boxes of bits we could throw together to test the various brands of rust to see whose can resist the siren's warble.

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

Most of the world would like to know, what's the name of the twentieth month?

CIA accused of illegally spying on Americans visiting Assange in embassy

Re: Publicity seeking bullshit

If you bothered to read the article (or tried comprehending it if you did actually read it), it is about US citizens suing the CIA for violations of the 4th amendment. Nowhere does it say in the amendment that it is null and void the moment a person steps out of their country, It gives US citizens a universal right not to be spied upon by their own government, regardless of where they are in the world.

>> Case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

- The war crimes happened in the middle east, not the USA.

- Assange was in Europe (Or Ecuador*) at the time, not the USA.

- The material was posted on the internet, not the USA.

So, by your logic, the USA had no remit, recourse, or reason to want to extradite Assange, because nothing happened in the USA, apart form the complaints of being found out.

*The embassy, sovereign ground etc.

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

Re: Why Do They Insist On Blatantly Denying Anything Is Wrong?

Because we're the ones who are expected to troubleshoot Apple's nonsensical bullshit. It all "just works", until it doesn't.

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

Re: LibreOffice is not as good as MS Office

Managers should lead by example. If they can't do what their team can do, then time to get a new manager.

Re: Living in a bubble?

>> Excel, I think is where the biggest problem is. Libre Calc will do the basics, but it does not have feature parity with Excel.

Because it's a spreadsheet program that will only work as a spreadsheet program, and not, say, as a database, as many Excel users seem to think it is.

Re: preaching the gospel

Excuse me! There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

Just tell yourself the person coding that page was a shit typist. Ignore the "ov".

Taiwan: Prince of China.

Apple sued by French media over App Store power

You can sideload on Android, which is the only reason why they are not chasing Google for the same thing.

Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you

Re: So?

If it's a cabling issue under the desk, no.

Reg readers tell us what they wanted for SysAdmin Appreciation Day

Re: Unless you work in Education

Make it the 19th. That way if we don't get what we want, we can get "carried away" with our role play the following day.

Google postpones Chrome's third-party cookie bonfire yet again

Re: Dear website owner

Protip: Switch off your ad-blocking for an hour. Google bikini pictures (or speedos if so inclined), re-enable ad-blocking. Any ads that make it through your blocking regime in future, will likely be a picture of an attractive person in swimwear, and thus not a fully unpleasant annoyance

Re: Dear website owner

"This website is best viewed with ad-block disabled" usually means "You cannot make sense of this website with ad-block disabled."

Re: LIAR

Featuring: The Dread Road Warrior Rockatansky.

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Why not chickens feet?

Lobbed off at the ankle, no opposing muscles groups, actuated simply by pulling on the tendons, and in plentiful supply already. Greater structural integrity too.

Re: Rise of the machines?

Cats: Fiercely independent and proud, yet utterly reliant upon a system in place for their benefit

See also: libertarian.

At least we have the decency to kill it humanely first, unlike dolphins, sea lions, cats, and countless other species.

Microsoft warns Windows 10 patch broke printing for some

Re: "It just borks."

Drop the idea to someone in Apple's marketing department.

Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation

Re: Data economy?

So you feel strongly supportive about Brexit, but you're ashamed to put your name to it.

Curious.

Rejoice! System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD) is nigh

Upgrade your hardware

The newer shovels make digging in dry, hard, or compacted soil easier.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roughneck-ROU68044-Handled-Shovel-Sharp-Serrated/dp/B08QVV64PM

Re: Baby sitter required

Who even needs the interns? We could just script it, and have Roy do the honours for us

Judge approves Twitter's request to hurry along Musk trial to October

Re: An elongated fine?

Elon knew how many bots he had, he paid for them after all.

Re: An elongated fine?

If the share price for Twitter is below that what it was before Elon announced his intentions to buy, I believe the judge would also take that into consideration. Have the payment price set midway between Twitter's original price, and what was offered.

Re: seems so simple

True, but who, or what, defines an account as "monetizable".

Tesla jettisons 75% of Bitcoin holdings, boosting cash balance by $936m

A pint says

One of Elon's simps will start a GoFundMe.