* Posts by wolfetone

4437 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2011

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

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Tell you what though, you know what are an utter waste of time? Ergonomic keyboards.

I've used them for years, and you know what happened? Carpal tunnel in both wrists.

When this current ergonomic keyboard I have bites the dust I am going to go back to a Model M, or as near as damn one.

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

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Re: National security

Don't worry.

They'll ask for the IT providers to agree to a voluntary agreement where they will endevour to make every possible effort to improve.

That'll fix it all right up!

IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge

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Or you could just mandate national services like the NHS use a national provider. Have it headed up by GCHQ/NCSC. Let them control it.

This fucking nonsense of getting CEOs who exist to make their company's turn a profit to write some meaningless document is just that - nonsense. It won't force them to do anything that requires spending money and time on making it do the job it's meant to do.

Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer

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Re: Lack of Disclosure

You got an email?

I know for certain I've bought stuff from M&S and I've received fuck all from them.

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What's to learn here other than they don't target schools/hospitals and they don't do anything in Russia?

I came here for an idea as to how M&S and the Co-Op got smacked by it. Not how people are guessing what this DragonForceBallZ are up to or operating.

Jesus Christ the BBC have more useful information about the hacks than El Reg right now.

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

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Awww, Trumpy Trumpkins has a pwoblem? Awwww the poor baba.

Fuck off.

Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project

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Re: Important addition

They will join a long list of people who have been wronged by governments over the years who will await some sort of compensation. A long, long list.

Put it this way, if the victims of the blood scandal who have died, or are dying waiting for something over what they suffered during the 1970's/1980's, can't get their justice - do the Post Office victims think they'll get seen to sooner?

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

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The thing flies and fires missiles that kill people, often innocent people.

Who gets uppity and becomes a full on Lampard about what you call it? Surely you should be more concerned with how they're used?

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

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Not enough people go on the comments section during work hours when sat on the bog.

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Boss earns a dollar

I earn a dime

That's why I shit start my own company

On company time.

After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over

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Re: Splashing harmlessly in the ocean

Kosmos 482 isn't big enough to hit all the people I want it to hit in one go.

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

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Re: I don't really give a fuck that they got hacked...

Has your data fundamentally changed since the Equifax hack?

Remember - you didn't need to be an Equifax customer to have been affected. You only had to have been dealing with a 3rd party who used them for a credit check.

We're all fucked. This M&S hack is the one you hear about, I'm certain there are others that haven't been revealed.

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

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Re: God Mode

You're missing the point of Lego.

The point of Lego is to explore. Try something, change something, try something change something make something bettterrrrrrrrr

*whistles in early 2000's Honda advert*

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God Mode

The whole point of Lego is to use your imagination to work these things out. This just feels like putting God mode in to Fallout 3.

Ruins the whole thing.

But it's still fucking cool.

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

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Re: The biggest suprise

Someone on here recommended Orion to me and I've never looked back.

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

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If Forest Gump taught us anything

Is that Jenny will always use you for when it suits her.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

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Re: Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 12

Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 11, or 12 actually.

Along with even more intrusive spying and advertising.

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

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I'm being a bit dim today - but does this mean that the new kernel won't run on newer 486 chips that you can buy that power embedded systems?

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

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Re: M&S Store shopping - no stock at the best of times

I'd recommend John Lewis for a suit. I'm 6ft 3 and I find the clothes are better at JL than M&S anyway.

Also, as a tall bloke - do you too get fucked off that all the 33 long jeans are always at the bottom of the rack, while the 29" leg trousers are on the top rack?

Surely it should be the other way round!?

China turns on ‘minors mode’ that ensures kids only see wholesome socialist content online

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It's a learned behaviour.

My lad is 3 years old and we've never put a phone on in front of him to watch anything. We'll put something on the TV for him when we're with him, and we're talking through it.

We'll be in a resturant and a kid the same age as my boy will be just sat their watching some shite on the tablet while the parents are either on their phone or doing something else entirely. No thought or process to what the child is doing or any engagement.

My boy will kick off if he's bored. But there are plenty of things around. Give him a toy car, sheet of paper, or even walk around and it occupies them. Or you could put a digital nanny in front of them and be done with it.

Parenting is fucking hard, especially as we're in a world now both parents have to work to stand still. If you've had a hard week, and a child who's particularly crap today, I don't blame them for opting for the digital nanny.

HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M

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Re: Small business VAT

"HMRC loves brown envelopes."

The postman turned up with a load of letters, and as I walked to them I saw 2 brown envelopes. And I go "Oh no it's a brown envelope!". My 3 year old who loves letters coming through the door, thinks it's all magical, couldn't understand why I'd be so down on a brown envelope. He thought they were special because all the other letters are often in white envelopes.

It then dawned on me that my child could well turn out to be a future HMRC tax man.

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

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Re: What is the world coming to?

They would be the good guys if they had the bottle to follow through with it.

But no, they've said they were never going to do it. So it's the same old shit. Disappointing on one hand but then par of the course with a faceless entity that doesn't give two shits about the world it exists in.

Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle

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If it is true...

Think of all the hard drives that'll come on to eBay for cheap!

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

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Why is this under "Opinion" when it should be under "Fact"?

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

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Re: Dementia

So you actually voted for Hegseth?

Interesting.

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Re: Maybe he's just running low..

It is incredible how many of those "Make America Great Again" bottles, t-shirts and hats are made in China. For real.

This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'

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Gift cards are a con.

"It's your birthday. So what I did was use this £20 note that you can spend anywhere to buy you a gift card for £20 which you can only use in a very narrow selection of stores. Enjoy your day x"

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

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Some of you (drones) may die

But that's a chance we're willing to take.

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

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Re: What would you do?

Why is it China's fault that American doctors perscribed patients incredibly strong and highly addictive pain medication, at which point American health insurance policies pulled the ability from these patients to get them in an affordable manner?

Why is it China's fault that America, so hell bent on Crapitalism, built an economy whereby the lowest bidder always wins regardless of the quality of the product?

Why is it China's fault that countless American administrations have thrown the American working people under the bus and left them for dead?

Why is it China's fault that America doesn't see the benefit in education, and would rather their country was full of people just barely able to pull a trigger and pay for bullets rather than be educated enough to see that having gun drills in schools is not ok?

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

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Shares in Microsoft have plunged on the news as it turns out Windows will continue to have CVEs.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

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Re: Reasoning

I think they've gone for the stump.

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Re: EU Funding?

Why should the EU pay for poor US products?

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

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Re: From a home-user perspective, Windows 7 remains the best overall OS

Windows 7 isn't the best overall OS. It's 2nd best. 1st best is XP.

XP you could do you anything on it. Stick a DVD in and let it autorun. Great!

Windows 7? You try to do anything with that and all you get is "Are you sure you wanted to install this?". Every time. Every damn time. Fuck off with the nagging already.

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power

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Facepalm

Imagine the scene.

They've gone up to the moon, they've finally built these solar panels, only for a giant asteroid to smash it all to bits.

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

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Or it gives them a reason to start a war with China.

America are itching for it, they have been for years.

To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences

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Re: One copy is no copy, two copies are half

"Bits die when no one looks at them anymore."

You die 3 times.

First, you die. Then you die again when people stop talking about you.

Then you die a 3rd time when the only record of your existance doesn't get looked at on a dusty old hard drive.

Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options

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"I'm also intrigued, if Specsavers are using an associate/partner/franchise type model, seems there's not going to be a universal one vendor solution to these myriad options."

I know a few people who work for them. I think it's on an associate/partner basis. In the UK at least.

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

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Re: GDPR?

Gov: "We're going to fine you £100,000 a day"

Biz: "No you're not."

Gov: "We are"

Biz: "Can't fine a dissolved company"

Gov: "er, well, er..."

Biz: "TTFN dickhead"

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Re: Peter Kyle?

I wish it was Peter Kay, and he was chancellor.

"This year we're giving everyone £5 a week for pick 'n' mix. Woah woah woah, fudge, no mate you want them flying t'saucers you can have as many of them as you want"

Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses

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Re: Yikes

I thought I was full of fear before, now I've read this!!!

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Re: Yikes

I knew about it before we had our boy and as soon as I saw him start smashing anything containing a button battery I took it off of him. The toys just aren't well made and the batteries can just fly out.

It's the magnets I didn't know about. He has magnetic blocks and I know at least one of the tiles broke open and a magnet fell out. When I saw it I said to him (he's 3) that the tile is broken and we need to throw it away, which he was fine with. 10 minutes later he's come up with this small grey block (must only be 5mm thick and 20mm long, if that) and said "Daddy this came out of the block we need to throw it away". Thought nothing of it at the time other than a bit proud my boy was intelligent enough to spot something like that. Now I'm just full of fear, like I have been with button batteries, that he might swallow one of them or stick it somewhere.

VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores

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Thanks Broadcom

You've made a difficult decision fairly fucking easy to make now.

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

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Re: Burning it down

They don't want the small business. That's fine. That will save small businesses a small fortune.

What I hope is that larger customers see a value in Proxmox or even HPE's new software and tell Broadcom to take a long walk off a short pier.

India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs

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I think the UK has a long history of following the USA in everything it does.

In the long run, the returns on that policy haven't really proved fruitful. It's weakened the UK and caused no end of problems up and down society. Everything from the ever increasing rate of privatisation right through to national security.

It's times like these I really wish Hugh Grant was the Prime Minister, Martine McClutcheon worked at Number 10 with her sizeable arse, and Billy Bob Thornton sexually harrassed her. At least them MAYBE the UK would tell the USA to fuck off to where it came from and not come back.

23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11

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Re: Just don't!

"Without a copy of everyone's DNA how will they detect possible Canadians?"

That's easy - just ask them what they think about hockey.

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"23andMe was founded in 2006 but has never turned a profit."

Money isn't worth the paper it's printed on these days.

Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit

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Re: Here's a suggestion

Who the hell do you think you are coming on to a public forum like this and providing good solid sound advice?!

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

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Re: Not uploading

Everyone loves bashing teachers, yet none of them would teach themselves.

Interesting.