* Posts by wolfetone

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Careful with the 'virtual hugs' says new FreeBSD Code of Conduct

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It's a pity Malcolm Tucker from The Thick Of It didn't write this omnishambles.

Australia joins the 'decrypt it or we'll legislate' club

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It's been said that the Austrailians have that accent due to all the convicts going there being completely drunk all the time.

It looks like some of the decendents are still drunk though.

Coinbase, Worldpay, Visa play blame game after dosh vanishes from crypto-fans' pockets

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Re: use virtual credit cards, don't use debit cards as credit cards

Exactly this.

I use Coinbase but I've only ever used credit cards (which I pay off using my bank account) to purchase anything. So, as far as I know, I haven't been affected. And even if I had been, it's all going to my credit card which I'm more or less protected on.

But like you say, you shouldn't use a debit card as a credit card.

iPhone X 'slump' is real, whisper supply chain moles

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Re: Maybe Apple

"Are losing their grip."

You know a company has ran out of "innovative ideas" when the advert they use to sell this phone is of a blonde girl singing something, and showing how her face can be used to animate a shit.

Crunch time: Maplin in talks to sell the business

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Re: But seeing in store

"But why do we feel the need to to that for washing machines, dishwashers etc? It's not likely that you can see them working."

When I bought our washing machine and dishwasher I went to Curry's to have a look at them. Only because I wanted to see the size of the drum. You can't tell that easily on the internet, regardless of dimensions. One washing machine said it was 9Kg, as did the one we ended up buying. But the first machine had very shallow drum, whereas the one we bought had a deeper drum.

So that's one reason to look in the flesh rather than online I suppose.

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Edinburgh Woollen Mill?

Well, I hope they do buy it. I can't wait to get my hands on some solar powered heated tweed gloves.

Capita data centres hit by buttload of outages

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I can see their point

60 isn't a high number.

61 is a high number.

But 60 isn't high.

KFC: Enemy of waistlines, AI, arteries and logistics software

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Near me, some one has taken it upon themselves to spray "ish" underneath the speed on the signs.

Makes me chuckle.

PM urged to protect data flows post-Brexit ahead of Munich speech

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Re: Project Fear is still alive and well at camp remoan.

Kindly fuck off if you're not going to say something sensible.

UK.gov: Psst. Belgium. Buy these Typhoon fighter jets from us, will you?

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""Our world-class Typhoon has led the way in combat air power and this demonstrates the continued confidence in the capability the Typhoon has to offer. With more than 20,000 flying hours on global operations to date, the Typhoon offers unparalleled reliability and proven interoperability with our allies.""

So why are the UK buying F-35's then?

Apple to devs: Code for the iPhone X or nothing from April onwards

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Re: We develop for Apple and Android

"How does it feel to know your app runs on so many different devices?"

There's a massive difference between knowing your app could work on 9,000 devices, and knowing it works on 9,000 devices.

I doubt any one developer knows for certain that users of all 9,000 devices get the same experience as they intended.

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"To be honest, I would HATE to be dictated to in such a manner as a developer."

It isn't a nice position to be in, but the Apple ecosystem has been good to developers. They make far more money on iOS than they do on Android. But I do feel Apple can shout jump at their developers and they will only respond with "how high?".

If this laptop is so portable, where's the keyboard, huh? HUH?

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My wife's a solicitor, and this makes perfect sense.

Every time there's a problem, I ask her if she's restarted it. Then she gets all arsey saying "That's what the tech guys at work tell her, if you're all so smart why are you in a job". I say nothing, laptop restarts, then I ask "Does it work now?". She, quietly says, "yes, it does".

Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs

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Hahahahahaaaa

You can fuck RIGHT off with that bullshit.

Roses are red, Kaspersky is blue: 'That ban's unconstitutional!' Boo hoo hoo

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"Oh looky here, we have another one who gets all their news from only Trump approved sources."

Trump only likes Fox News. I've never, ever, listened to or seen Fox. What I've read has come from all over the place. Interviews on CNN, articles from The Guardian for example.

"Sorry, the FBI probe was started BEFORE the Steele dossier came out. That's been proven in open congressional testimony, not that Fox News is going to tell their viewers that because it conflicts with the storyline lie that the right wing is trying to spread that blames everything on Steele."

I never said the FBI probe was started after the Steele dossier came out. I said that the dossier helped the FBI with their FISA application. Those are two very different things.

But don't let your own bigotry get in the way of understanding plain English.

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"I'm continually surprised at the number of people who dismiss the possibility that Russia is interfering in US elections, hacking emails, etc. Russia is basically run by gangsters but somehow a lot of people seem to think they are squeaky clean!"

Well the first part is easy, as in the US election "interference". Twitter came out with the numbers, along with Facebook, and the number of "Russian" created bots were somewhere in the region of 0.5% of the total tweets/posts sent regarding the election during the election campaign. The effect was tiny, if there was any effect at all.

Also, we've had the release of the memo's that point to the Obama administration getting FISA warrants based on discredited information from that Steel chap. You know, the guy who came out saying Trump paid prostitutes to piss on a bed slept in by Obama? That story came from 4Chan, and Mr.Steel himself was paid to investigate these claims by the DNC. It's been said that the FISA warrants wouldn't have been issued if his evidence hadn't been given during the FISA hearings.

The hacking of the DNC emails, the Podesta emails, came from Podesta getting an email looking like it was from Google asking him to change his password. He forwarded it to his IT guy, who said it was "legitimate" - when in fact he meant to say "illegitimate". So the sophisticated email hacking Russia did was nothing more than what everyone gets these days - the equivalent of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. But the NSA, as well, have come out and said the download of internal DNC emails was localised, meaning someone inside the DNC leaked the emails. The transmission rates just wouldn't have been possible to get from a remote server.

Yeah, Russia is ran by gangsters. But you'd be a complete fool to believe America isn't being run by equally as bad - and inept in cases - gangsters.

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I think a lot of people thought McCarthyism was dead, but that just doesn't seem the case. Does it?

UK names Russia as source of NotPetya, USA follows suit

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Malicious cyber?

Is that when the other person doesn't tell you their A/S/L?

Despite the headlines, Rudd's online terror takedown tool is only part of the solution

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"...so just add 'Down with this sort of thing' as well and they can't really object!"

Careful now.

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It detected 99.995% of the 94% material it was given that it should've detected.

Or, in simpler terms: 60% of the time it works every time.

Six things I learned from using the iPad Pro for Real Work™

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I have to agree with the assertion that the iOS 11 update transformed the iPad. I've used my iPad Air 2 (or whatever it's called, I didn't buy it) for more research work than I would've done thanks to the split screening. However, I've found it convoluted and a bit buggy really to work properly.

But still, any port in a storm if you're desperate for on the road working.

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Do they use iPads too?

Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court

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I know it's only February, but I wonder if Mr.Assange will be on Judge Arbuthnot's christmas card list?

National Museum of Computing rattles the bucket: Help shift war-winning proto-puter

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Re: Well-known actor Bandersnatchington Cumperdinklehough

Bendertwix Cunderthunt

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Re: Support TNMOC, Boycott Bletchley Park

If we're all honest with each other, you can go to Bletchley Park once and you're done.

But, if you go to the TNMOC once, you have to go again because it's so bloody brilliant! Last time I went I had acquired an IBM PC XT and I wasn't keen on keeping it. I spoke to TNMOC thinking I had a super rare machine (I hadn't seen one in the flesh or on eBay my entire life). But the chap pointed out the one they had and said they had 10 more in the back.

Still, I'd sooner support TNMOC than Bletchley every day of the week. Including sundays.

NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump

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"Like you lost Vietnam?

I'm English, how did I lose Vietnam?"

My sincere apologies my good fellow. It's just your rhetoric is more befitting of a gentleman from the southern states of the USA shouting 'murica than someone from the United Kingdom.

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"Give it a rest you utter tiresome libtards. Like Brexit, YOU LOST. LOSERS. GET OVER IT."

Like you lost Vietnam?

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Re: We choose to go to the Moon

"Pssst: Miss Monroe!"

JFK couldn't do her alone, he had to have his brother and a few mafia guys help him out as well.

UK Home Sec Amber Rudd unveils extremism blocking tool

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Re: 99.995% is impossible

"You laugh but an episode of Peppa Pig is banned in Australia...

(for saying spiders aren't dangerous, basically, which is a little bit misleading in Oz...)"

More fool them for living in a country that's trying to kill them every day.

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Well this is fantastic. I guess we've entered the age where the Government will be able to censor material from the public without the public ever really knowing.

All in the name of terrorism and our safety of course.

Until last week, you could pwn KDE Linux desktop with a USB stick

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Re: It's a problem with "Open Source" vs "Free Software"

Have you any sort of idea as to why Linus Torvalds always goes mental when some clown submits daft code in to the Linux kernel?

People are checking the code.

Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners

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Re: I am quite OK with technology trials like this ...

Silly pleb.

You do what you're bloody told and you leave the thinking and privacy to those above you.

Elon Musk's Tesla burns $675.3m in largest ever quarterly loss

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"So I'm hopeful that people think that if we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt, we could probably solve Model 3 production."

I look forward to it. I mean he said he was aiming for Mars but then ended up in the Astroid belt, it might mean the Model 4 gets put in to production before he finishes the 500,000 back orders of the Model 3?

Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

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Re: Yeah

"FIAT is still alive "

So is Peugeot, doesn't mean the cars are any good.

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Re: Yeah

It's also worth noting that the Mercedes W124 was attacked by Fifth Gear to see how reliable it was. They blew it up, drowned it, drove it over rubbish roads, and the thing still kept going.

You can find the clip on YouToob.

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Re: Yeah

Because with a Mercedes, you don't "Fix It Again Tomorrow" like you do with a FIAT.

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Who knew the actual code for iBoot were song lyrics?

ASA tells Poundland and its teabagging elf: Enough with the smutty social ninja sh*t

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I'm glad they can't report comments on El Reg to the ASA.

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Ladies and gentlemen we have found one of the 84!!!!

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84 people obviously don't have better things to do with their time.

Indiegogo to ailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm: End of May... or we call the debt collector

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"The Companies House record for Retro Computers Ltd currently says its accounts are overdue. They should have been filed on 31 January."

I forsee the next story involving RCL to be along the lines of: "RCL file for administration".

Wileyfox goes TITSUP*: Smartmobe maker calls in the administrators

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Re: Russian money

"So the comment that said:

'Instead now they can have a banner "Screwed by Brexit. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"'

Didn't say that?"

Arguably no, it didn't. I didn't interpret it that way, especially as the comment before hand mentioned the Russian financing.

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Re: Russian money

Not one comment here has said this is solely down to Brexit.

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Re: Russian money

"Nothing to do with their cashflow being frozen or them not selling the number of phones they expected to in the face of increased competition.

No, it was Brexit, obviously."

Well if Brexit caused the price of memory to increase by 25% alone, reducing the profit on each handset built and sold, it would have a fairly big impact on an already beleaguered company. Wouldn't it?

UK Home Office grilled over biometrics, being clingy with folks' mugshots

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I'm 6ft 4.

UK PM Theresa May orders review of online abuse laws in suffrage centenary speech

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Re: The last general election results ...

"I can accept that. Just as some people still think we should remain in the EU because end of western civilisation. But it really does seem to take a special kind of person to believe Corbyns labour wouldnt trash the country. Corbyn pretty much seems to rely on students so thats about 50% of the young adults, most excluded until they reach 18, some of which can think so deduct them and since he supports brexit he doesnt even get that protest group.

Although you could be right and I might hold the UK electorate in higher estimation than deserved."

How can you trash a country that's already burning?

Employment levels are low, yes, but that's because of zero hour contracts. When you're on one of these you go off the unemployment books, even though you could work 16 hours over 4 weeks with 3 weeks of no work. Although massaging of unemployment figures is something every government has done.

Education is on it's arse. How those in Government can tell the rest of us (who are younger) that we have to pay for an education they received for free?

Society is on it's arse. Today there's a story about a DPD delivery man (on said zero hour contract) dying of diabetes because of the workplace practices they used, which they're allowed to use under this government.

Social housing is on it's arse and has been since Thatcher. Stocks were never replaced, meaning councils end up paying more money to private landlords to use their properties to house the electorate.

In my honest view, the country's already fucked and I don't know anyone who can say it isn't. So is the alternative all that bad? I like Corbyn, more than any other politician that's gone before him since Tony Benn. At least he's honest and hasn't sold himself out for a sniff of power.

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Re: The last general election results ...

"Hopefully the voters are smart enough not to like them too right now."

Can you expand on that?

Remember, some* of the 52% who voted to leave the EU believed the writing on the big red bus. Don't think for a second they can see through propaganda.

*no hard evidence, but it's certain a percentage did

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Re: The last general election results ...

She remained in power because 85% of the media in the UK do not like Labour. So they set about repeatedly beating Dianne Abbot about forgetting/fudging figures over police, yet didn't mention Phil Hammond admitting he had no idea how much HS2 was going to cost, or even had cost at that time. (He was being "interviewed" by Andrew Marr).

One isn't in Government, and the other is in Government and sets the agenda. Tell me which figure recollection faux pas was worse?

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Andrea Leadsome has more to do with that then Pig Botherer Dave.

Comments she made during the leadership election along the lines of "women who have never had children don't know what compassion and empathy are" lead to her withdrawing from the "contest". Which then meant Frau May-Bot won by default.