Posts by wolfetone

Skip-wrecked! Boat full o' rubbish scuppered in Brit residential street

It's not coinkydink that Mr.Bowen leaves us for that big dart board in the sky, and suddenly the streets of the UK are bereft of speedboats and old Vauxhall Nova's. Just abandoned.

Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg has flunky tell UK MPs: Nope, he's sending someone else

"Although the committee flew out to the United States to question execs from the major tech firms last month - reportedly at a cost of £84,000 "

And I bet the bastards didn't fly economy either, or stayed at a Holiday Inn or whatever passes for cheap accommodation in America.

Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win

Re: Easy to blame the VSC

"The same thing (not being able to follow closely) seems to have affected at least half the field according to the post-race interviews (Force India and Red Bull "for sure"), and is definitely the bane of modern F1 for me."

I took that as the cars became unstable in the dirty air so they lost power. I think Hamilton had the car to over take the Ferrari but couldn't because the car kept over heating.

"Is it really? I've seen quite a fair few races lately where he doesn't impress and gets stuck midfield. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if Bottas gets replaced next year."

That's how I saw it, he's had some good races and Austrailia, for me, was out of character. But he'll be replaced anyway with Ocon or Wehrlein.

Easy to blame the VSC

But as Hamilton closed up on Vettel he had to back off.

Why? Mercedes designed a car that would be in the lead all the time with maximum undisturbed air flow. That didn't happen in Australia, so when Hamilton got close to Vettel his engine and other components started to overheat, meaning his engineer ordering him to back off to cool every thing down. To my knowledge the same thing occurred to Bottas who struggled in the midfield, which is uncharacteristic of him.

PwC: More redundos at HQ of UK 'leccy stuff shop Maplin

Re: At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...

"You won't have heard of a thing called 'tax' then, or understand that two separate countries might have different rates of taxation applied to things like pints of Guinness? Booze has always been cheaper in the UK - please tell me more things I already know..."

You're an arse?

Re: At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...

"Quite an unoriginal shitpost, if I may say so.

Irish people drink Guinness? Next you'll tell me they like potatoes..."

They do. Except in Cork where they drink Murphy's, as for every pint of Guinness you drink you put a Cork man out of a job. You'd do well to Google my name.

And as for costs, £3.50, at the most £4 is what should be charged for a pint of Guinness.

Re: At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...

While that is shocking, pubs in Ireland also charging over €5 for a pint of Guinness and they seem to think it's alright.

So if you look at the prices of goods as "how many pints of Guinness" instead of the cost, well you'd never buy anything. You'd just get drunk.

India: Yeah, we would like to 3D-print igloos on the Moon

I think it's nice that a country like India can put this much effort in to building habitations on the moon when half of their population live in shanty towns.

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

Re: I'm (not) sorry

"If he wants to slurp data about my guitar parts buying preferences or curse word count per sentence, he's welcome to it. I'm sure the authorities would be riveted by my ability to buy a pair of Gretch filtertron pickups for a "fucking bargain""

You, people like you, are the problem.

Ex-ZX Spectrum reboot man threatens sueball over unpaid invoices

"He received £14,000 from RCL and we have nothing useful to show for it."

And you received over £500,000 from crowd sourcing and you've nothing useful to show for that either.

Cambridge Analytica seeks data protection assistant

"Job Type: Temporary

Required education:

Bachelor's"

So either they don't have that big of a problem, or they don't intend to be around for very much longer.

And really? You need a Bachelors to understand data protection?

Prof Stephen Hawking's ashes will be interred alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

It's Friday. It's the end of the week. I take solace in the bossom of El Reg on such a day to while away the hours until I can legally leave my job without being docked pay, and enjoy the fruits of my labours tonight in the bossom of a lovely bottle of red wine or 12 pack of beer.

However, my peace is destroyed whenever religion is mentioned along side science on the site. Not because I believe in one more than the other or don't believe in anything or everything, but it's how such articles really do bring out the worst of the commentards here in both camps. And comments turn in to long streams of poison and futility, and it really does ruin the day.

Surprise UK raid of Cambridge Analytica delayed: Nobody expects the British information commissioner!

"I bet their power usage has shot through the roof - all those drives being formatted and shredders running 24*7"

Well I hope that the journalists enquire as to whether they use smart meters or not at least.

Anyone would think that the establishment are trying to give CA enough of a chance to clean their house before they have a snoop around.

We sent a vulture to find the relaunched Atari box – and all he got was this lousy baseball cap

Jeez, they invite journalists to hotel rooms to see vapourware?

F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m

I ain't never seen a white elephant fly.

Until I saw the F-35B take off.

Hip hop-eration: Hopless Franken-beer will bring you hoppiness

Re: Whatever next?

"Orgasm-free sex?"

Didn't do my parents any harm.

Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today

Re: Help

"I can confirm, (and I didn't want to believe it), that Jacob is an unbelievably nice bloke"

Yeah, Christians who don't believe in abortion and see it as a morally wrong thing to do but don't mind making money from the companies who produce the items used in such tasks tend to be jolly fellows.

Re: Help

You mean there isn't a Creative Commons licensed photo of Jacob Reese-Moog?

Re: Tried explaining to my SO what was going on this week

"This story isn't trending in Facebook News Feeds! "

That would be because the news feed is no longer algorithm based, and they have a team selecting which news articles to display in order to prevent "fake news" from being published.

So, maybe, they see the CA bullshit as fake nooze?

Brit MPs chide UK.gov: You're acting like EU data adequacy prep is easy

"Article 59 states that once triggered, the triggering country will not be a member of the EU after 2 years.

The Dutch media are probably (rightly) pointing out that removing a complex country from a complex group is difficult and will probably take a decade to fix."

Quite right. This is a first for the EU, so the rules are being tested for the first time. Probably after the UK finishes the process the rules will be changed to either be less optimistic with the deadlines or have a better structure in place to deal with it all.

A friend of mine lives in Holland, and when he was over last we were talking about Brexit and he asked me how it was being reported. Told him what had been said etc, and he said that the whole 2 years thing was bizzarre to him, as the Dutch media have regularly reported that the process will take up to 10 years.

So either the Dutch are wrong, or the UK MP's are disgustingly optimistic over time frames.

Telegram still won't hand over crypto keys it says it does not store

@John H Woods

"False dichotomy. There's a whole spectrum between conclusive and hearsay. The evidence suggests that it was probably the Russian state, but it might not have been. But it is odd how those who don't think there is enough evidence that Russia did it are suggesting it might be a false flag. There's even less evidence for that and I would suggest the threshold for such an extraordinary claim should be higher in any case."

Wars have been started over less, so I wouldn't say it's a false dichotomy. It's called taking a balanced approach without letting prejudice cloud judgements.

But who am I to get in the way of you and your wanton lust for a nuclear winter.

@AC via Vorlands Right Hand

The first link is interesting, because (if you are to believe it) the Russians are bumping off anyone they don't like and it's all very strange, cloak and dagger type of arrangement. So would the Salsbury spy case be cloak and dagger? No, if it was an assasination its very messy and leaves so much evidence that it would be traced back to the person who ordered it. So the two instances are light years apart.

The second link is also interesting, as it's exactly the same law the UK have when it comes to defending itself from extremism. We're regularly sending drones to the Middle East to blow up "targets", and those are only the ones we know about. Do you think that the UK is prim and proper enough to be clear about who they're targetting and snuffing out? Are they bollocks.

Also, for the record, doesn't it strike anyone as odd that Salisbury wasn't closed down if it was a suspected chemical attack? There's an army barracks not that far away from there, it would've been closed and locked down fairly quickly. And isn't it odd that the next day Porton Down gets £45 million in the wake of this event, a facility which is only 20 minutes away from where the event took place? And we're suddenly vacinating the army for anthrax when it was - aparently - another agent?

While all the time, might I add, there's actually no clear conclusive proof that the Russians did do it. Only conjecture and hearsay.

15 years ago the UK went to war in Iraq on the back of a dossier which came out at a time of hubris and conjecture which we have now found to be total bullshit. Yet here we are, 15 years later, doing the exact same thing.

Cop yourselves on, all of you.

"Pretty courageous to stand up to a regime known for poisoning people they don't like."

Fuck off to the Daily Fail with that shite.

No, Sierra Leone did not just run the world's first 'blockchain election'

Hit me with your crypto shtick

Hit me.

Hit me.

You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding

"Nottingham is in the EAST MIDLANDS........ you know near EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT, which is sort of validation of that fact....."

Pfft. That's like saying Chelmsley Wood is in Solihull when in fact it's North Solihull because Solihull don't want them in Solihull.

And East Midlands "Airport"? You call that an aiport? That ain't an airport, THAT'S A LIE!

I wouldn't say Nottingham could be classed as being the midlands. Midlands starts at around Coventry and ends at Walsall.

You mean Northerners.

We need to talk, Brit Parliamentary committee tells Mark Zuckerberg

Re: About time

"Can't we send a gunboat?"

I'm sure the spooks at MI6 could borrow some stuff from Porton Down and slip it in to his coffee.

Or see if he could fit himself in to a sports bag and close it up on himself.

UK's London Gatwick Airport boasts of driverless vehicle trial

Re: The mind boggles

"Yes, planes have autopilots, "

They do, and when the autopilot receives conflicting data it hands back control of the aircraft to the pilot.

BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose

Re: Why are we only talking about the US Election ?

"This article is the subject of legal complaints on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited."

Well it must be true if they're complaining.

Re: Something is weird here

CamAlGate?

I wonder how much of the £2.1 million the Tories spent in the last election on Facebook adverts went to Cambridge Analytica?

Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation

"On what do you base such faith in the face of zero evidence?"

Absense of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absense.

"If we ever detect signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, they are likely already dead, a somewhat downbeat update to the venerable Drake equation suggests."

I have every faith in civilisations existing outside of our our solar system are very much a live and kicking, and that the only thing dead here is that bloody equation.

Patch LOSE-day: Microsoft secures servers of the world. By disconnecting them

You call it a botched patch, Microsoft call it virtual air gapping.

More power to UK, say 'leccy vehicle makers. Seriously, they need it

I can take a fairly good guess about who that manufacturer is, and I can tell you that the reason they've stated isn't totally true. They have another factory in Slovakia, big enough to hold two (or three) of their UK plants there. One particular plant in the UK will be closed shortly, and another plant is safe until at least 2021. All because of money, cost of manufacture of the workforce and - I'm sorry - Brexit. As well as capacity of their UK factories as they're hemmed in where they all are.

Agency workers will be the first to go, but the workers of this company who were already shafted with the demise of Rover in the mid 2000's will be shafted again.

It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?

Re: >> a history of sucking badly in the Bluetooth department

"BT is a piece of sh't."

Are you still on about Bluetooh or have you moved on to British Telecom?

Have you considered using an SSD drive in conjunction with the RPI? I'm like you, I want to build a media centre to hold films and music on there but it's too big to fit on an SD Card.

Fantastic!

My drawer at home could do with another Raspberry Pi.

Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76

Such a tune.

I didn't see it in the article, so could the rest of El Reg confirm or deny these ideas I've heard about the man.

1) When he was diagnosed with his disease, didn't he train his body to use less oxygen to prolong his life?

2) When he was diagnosed with his disease, didn't he help develop the computer that he would use to communicate with? Along with the wheelchair?

Amazing man who stuck it to America when some idiot proclaimed that if he had been under the care of the NHS he'd have been dead long ago.

RIP.

London Mayor calls for social networks and sharing economy to stop harming society

Fairly sure members of the Kensington & Chelsea borough are readers of El Reg and don't like the truth being made public.

Oh yeah, I know he's a VIP alright. A Very Important Prick.

Hold up.

The Grenfell Tower residents are still in emergency accomodation, and this gobshite gets an expenses paid trip to America to talk shite about stuff he really has no say over?

That's absolutely disgusting.

Millionaire-backed science fiction church to launch Scientology TV network

Will they be showing the Louis Theroux documentary on Scientology?

Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs

I'm sure the ladies of Essex will welcome their new form of protection.

Age checks for UK pr0n site visitors on ice as regulator cobbles together some guidance

I think some of the Tory politicos still think it's the 19th Century.

Tim Berners-Lee says regulation of the web may be needed

Re: An idea (A problem)

The Underpants Gnomes?