Posts by BrownishMonstr

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Re: @The Oncoming Scorn - Ah, Git ...

Except the number "zero", which I think the Arabs invented.

This is also a system for GPs, right? UK doctors seek clarity over Health dept's £40m single sign-on funding

Re: what is a GP?

You should probably move to a more crap GP, they tend to be more free (time-wise).

Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC

Re: It looks like a PC...

If it computes stuff and it's personal, then it's a PC. Much like my phone. Much like my brain implant.

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

Re: Eew!

But think of the brotherly bonding.

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

Re: Say it ain't so!

Cheater in Queef, you say?

Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru

This wouldn't happen to be the same Sajid Javid who overrode Lancashire County Council's decision on Cuadrilla's planning permission application?

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

Not if they're editing the content to construe a different message to what the producers intended.

Regarding the British public funding the BBC, not all of us pay the TV license since we neither watch live TV nor iPlayer.

Taxi for Uber: Ride-hailing app giant stripped of licence to operate in London

Re: re. "Passenger safety is not our priority"

our customers are our priority

Well, they aren't completely wrong. Without customer, no profits.

Re: re. Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

Well, at least their customer services isn't all that bad.

Iran kills the internet for its people's own good as riots grip the Middle Eastern nation

Re: President Hassan Rouhani says the protesters are "thugs"?

I thought Mr. Supremo called them thugs?

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

Re: Servers & DRM too

The Hudl looked suspiciously similar to one featured in an advert about some technology, I think it was Intel but I could well be wrong.

I feel Hudl might be a white-label product that Tesco haven't any control over.

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

Re: Beautiful

I thought Z drive was where dead files come back alive, but not in the way you remember them.

That's me looking for my gun

Re: Beautiful

Just proves skinner boxes work. You may get somewhere treating them nicely, but it won't be as effective as electrocuting them now and again.

Yes, my electrocuting office chair is patent pending. Works wonders. As long as no one plays mad hatter.

Re: Beautiful

Maybe there should be a monthly nuke, it'll get 'em prepared.

Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

Maybe they should sell it to pornhub. I'm sure they can invest in some Android porn.

Isn't porn always the driver behind tech?

Leeds IT bloke pleads guilty to hacking Jet2 CEO's email account

Sounded like he had a chip on the shoulder.

Sorry.

IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman

Re: I cannot understand why HMRC pursues contractors so much.

The people who created the rules were obviously on drugs.

The ones implementing them obviously have a rusty stick up their arse.

Re: I cannot understand why HMRC pursues contractors so much.

But what if you are a company genuinely licensing from another? What if you were so creative that you named it the same as the one you're licensing it from.

Microsoft sees sense, will give Office 365 admins veto rights on self-service Power tools

Re: It's a start...

"Well it costs money and we're short on that, yes we acquired that company for a few million squids so it means we're in the red."

"But it will save me so much time and effort "

"You just have to work more efficiently"

"screw this I'll just pay for it myself "

Who's the leakiest of them all? It's the UK's public sector, breach fine analysis reveals

Perhaps the department loses some of its budget and it should feel the squeeze.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Re: Red for stop?

A small increase in speed is more efficient than heavy braking and increasing it from 0. It was for the planet after all, gov, honest.

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Surprised PayPal are doing this.

I assumed they take my personal data and privacy very seriously.

I mean, they've locked my account and send emails telling me so. Suspicious emails, like they were sent from hackers. But it seems other people have received similarly suspicious emails and have verified these to be genuine. Plus my account is locked out, but I don't feel too comfortable asking them to unlock it. Can't remember why but it sounded like a joke.

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Wait, you don't have your phone surgically embedded in you? Gee-whiz, Grandpa--this ain't the 10's anymore.

I can see the need of someone leaving something on to boil, then goes to another room to for whatever reason (hoover/screaming child/whatever), and then realise they won't be able to return to the kitchen soon enough, so can turn it off by their phone.

Theoretically, of course.

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Not to forget one person's terrorist may end up being considered their freedom fighter at some later point, and vice-versa.

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

Re: I Hope This Isn't True...

I personally dislike phone calls. I can get back to messages on my own time, which is unsocially never.

I also find the longer the phone call goes, the ever increasing chance I'll zone out* without realising it and I'll miss the important stuff. If it's longer than 15 seconds then please email me.

*I am a bit of a dick head, or a lot in my honest opinion, so this could explain me zoning out mid conversation. That said, I have zoned out of books, films (the part where M dies in Bond and I only realised after rewatching it), and even real life (only realise when people mention something and even though I was there I couldn't remember it, despite that it would be something I'll remember).

Re: Some 44 per cent of people used less than 500MB of mobile data per month

I'm using it for Netflix at work and the times the wifi is shit but I can't be arsed fixing it.

Iran tried to hack hundreds of politicians, journalists email accounts last month, warns Microsoft

Re: Screw this political BS!

Super interesting, for some reason I had assumed The Register would state the account was deleted--perhaps I am confusing it with some other News website. Yes, yes, I know. Treachery.

Re: Screw this political BS!

I'm rather curious, how do you know his account was created today and that was his fourth comment?

I thought, as AC, such information wasn't publicly available, unless you're either an El Reg employee with access to such information, or part of the Iranian Government who has hacked The Register.

Perhaps, even, you are part of another nation who has hacked The Register to...<MESSAGE INTERCEPTED>

Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020

Re: No thanks

Is this the iPod competitor that never made it to the UK, or pretty much anywhere else other than The States (and Canada)?

It looked awesome when I first saw it and I would have loved to have one, if I could afford it, but it wasn't even released here.

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

Can we throw beers, instead? Beers from 'spoons?

Re: Hang on....

I am assuming it was a promotional tweet, so most likely ASA have jurisdiction over it. On the other hand, if Twitter is an American company, does ASA still have jurisdiction over tweets.

IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE

Don't underestimate the stupidity of our nation, my friend.

On the other hand, don't expect the captains of Brexit to go down with their ship.

Re: COBOL

I'll be honest, I usually do return the coffees and tea I consumed, but they expect me to immediately dispose of it.

The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row

Re: Is this just an English thing ?

It's called a "þorn", for those who would like to know.

A funny-looking word.

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you

Re: track record of showing that state-of-the-art technology c..........................

Perhaps she means we are a country of the art.

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Re: "automation in retail and banking had led to fewer jobs..."

I rather like using my phone to pay for my kebab so I don't have to transport my card around the place.

Apple tells European Commission it's nutty for slapping €13bn tax bill on Irish subsidiary

Re: 'defies reality and common sense'

Provided their employees are in the UK/EU, they should get some discount. Ideally, once an employee reaches a specific salary (not too low nor too high) then the company no longer receives a tax discount/rebate/whatever on that employee. They should employee more people at better wages.

Re: 'defies reality and common sense'

Well, there goes my idea of reducing tax on companies which employ more people at a better living wage.

Ta ra my beautiful idea.....

Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Re: Gaming the IVR

Doesn't work with Gov.UK. Their call centre agents know fuck-all--which explains why they wanted to make the Gov.UK websites good enough.

Re: Gaming the IVR

I've tried that. Sometimes it works, other times the fucker just cuts me off and I have to traverse the many levels and---Wait, my issue doesn't fit into any of these.

You know what the NHS really needs? Influencers, right guys? #blessed

Wouldn't it be cheaper to prevent people going to the hospital in the first place? Better if they didn't even need to attend, still good if they needed to but still don't turn up. The best hospital is the one with just admin staff. No deaths, or outbreaks. But you need the admin staff to maintain the building and give the employees their paychecks.

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Re: Eh?

Is it racist? I mean, really?

I would say it depends more on the context of what is being said than the term itself.

Some of them use it to describe themselves all of the time, in which case it would be racist if you couldn't use it.

I might find it somewhat offensive, if you call me one, and feel somewhat uncomfortable. But I certainly wouldn't feel like you were being racist if you were to use the term in an otherwise normal conversation. I certainly wouldn't say anything either if there were no racist undertones (through anything else you say, or how you say it).

Bearing in mind, my comment is said as I physically look like one and can ethnically be considered as one. Also, I'm not writing it because I don't want it flagged on the company's internet.

Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship

That they are pseudo-scientific?

I would not encourage my daughter to study IT for the sake of being a programmer. Between now (she's turned one last week) and when she's old enough to get a programming job, I have no idea what the market will be like. Companies might jump through hoops now, but maybe not in ten years. Our jobs might even end up being automated. Hell, I like automating my job as much as I lazily can.

I will tell her to study some form of IT, and definitely study programming and automation. Hopefully she will get a professional job in a different field, but still have the knowledge of programming/automation. So if/when the time comes that her professional job is automated, she will still have a chance to be on the 'winning' team i.e., not the ones without a job.

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Re: Indeed

I can imagine being an observer in the situation, it could take me a few moments to think what the fuck is going on, then many hours to think how I could have made it different.

Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing

Re: Back to Firefox for me I think, but

The reason I moved to chrome 10 years ago, was because of the tabbed browsing experience, incognito, and it also felt a lot faster and stable compared to IE.

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Electron. Obvo. Written by gods. Like Slack desktop app is so reliable and never asks me to refresh ten times in a row, then immediately requiring a forced restart because even that doesn't work. That never happens to me. It's awesome.

Being serious, Web apps are the way forward. Stuck in the nostalgic 90's and imitates desktop development with the plethora of frameworks. Super fun to debug too. I ❤️ stateless Web apps.

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

Re: Amazon Response

Interesting story there, Bob. Might telling us more? I am particularly interested in the part about the tuning of the RF elements and how it affected the company logo embedded inside.

How does UK.gov fsck up IT projects? Let us count the ways

BoJo the clown has become Prime Minister. Toot! Toot!

Now we just need to buy him an official clown car.