Posts by Teiwaz

Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states

Re: The Right to Suppress your population more like...

How would this even work ? EU retards. This is information control by the EU on

their own population in its early stages... what, they gonna ban VPN's next ??? They say China blocks most the web from its citizens,, they wanna go down that road too ???

RTBF is the right of an individual not to have old no longer relevant information that is not in the public interest popping up on Google Search results, and, as I understand it, requires Google to ensure that such information no longer appears on search results.

It just makes the information harder to reach, it does not remove it.

There are no governmental Winnie the Poohs here. Save your righteous paranoia for where it matters.

Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage

Re: Reserved Storage

avoid losing their data when your fucking OS kicks the bucket AGAIN

But it's YOUR OS too, if you've chosen t use it.

Might be less yours than previous versions, what with the rampant hard to switch off nastiness, the force fed updates etc.

You knew what you were buying, it's not a new brand, you knew who and what you were dealing with, yet you went ahead anyway....

Drone goal! Quadcopter menace alert freezes flights from London Heathrow Airport

Re: "environmental terrorists"

Terrorism could reasonably be described as causing damage for political goals.

Well, that's a dangerously anti-democratic definition. Are you a member of the Cabinet?

By that, any mostly peaceful protest, becomes terrorism if it affects commerce or some opportunistic lout breaks a window due to the over-stimulation....

Any effect on the economy is already considered damage if the government doesn't think they caused it.

Before you know it, wearing a bad suit outside an expensive fashion emporium is terrorism.

Lets stick to terrorism being causing or threatening loss of life. To prevent plod from extending terrorism to include batty stressed housewives shoplifting sprees.

Re: "environmental terrorists"

Lets face it the tree huggers have "form" in respect of various stupid, risky and obstructive actions - climbing industrial machinery at coal power stations, gluing themselves to various commercial and government buildings

Going by that list, it's mostly putting their lives as on the line as what they are trying to protect.

Any drone big enough to have a hairy scruffy type strapped to it would be hard to miss I'd think.

Doesn't really fit the M.O.

Re: At least people can take comfort from the fact that ...

Do these MPs understand that 'no deal' isn't an option (i.e. something you choose)? It's just what happens when you refuse everything else,

Probably out of fear that Reese and the Exit means exit group will vote for No Deal with all the same ferver of the radicals yelling admiral ackbar and lighting a fuse in a packed public space.

Re: Where are the UFO's?

Everything is a drone sighting these days, why can't old fashioned alien saucers cause an alert anymore?

Maybe no one believes in flying saucers these days, while they do believe in drones.

When the human brain sees something they can't grok, they invariably jump to the most recent myth on the popular gossip circle.

I don't think sightings of unrecognised flying things in previous centuries prior to the concept that the earth was not the centre of creation was either drones or aliens - possibly witches, demons or angels or other [fill in religious cultural bias of your choosing].

Re: At least people can take comfort from the fact that ...

just as MPs were fighting the government in Parliament, demanding that the government remove 'no deal' as an option.

No Deal is a frothing mental option - the clinically braindead option vs. May's serious head injury option.

I'm starting to think maybe Heathrow decided on not plumping for the luxury executive Drone protection plan option, and Mr Luigi Vercotti and Mr Dino Vercotti will be seen in the Heathrow Administrative offices in the next day or so.

Y'know how you might look at someone and can't help but wonder if they have a genetic disorder? We've taught AI to do the same

Re: Is this the

The improved version of phrenology is when you have the "correct" bumps engineered into your head by a guy with a hammer so that you get the personality traits you want.

Ah, you mean Retrophrenology

You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets

- Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

aaaand another step to enable systemic eugenics

Things like this increase my perception we're still on track to repeat the 20th century

Bish, Bash... gosh! Good ol' Bourne Again Shell takes a bow as it reaches version five-point-zero

Re: "Trusty command interpreter"?

Debian-like distros usually ship with dash, not bash as the default shell, and its executable is literally a tenth of the size.

Good point, having switched from Ubuntu a while back, I'd forgotten that - Ubuntu has followed suit (being a Debian based distro) since 6.10.

I assume in testing on Ubuntu that was taken into account?

Real-time OS: Ordnance Survey gets snuggly with Intel's Mobileye

Re: Disappointing...

I'm very disappointed in you all.

I think it's due to the pent up need to rant that was stymied by lack of good incendiary over the festive period.

Needed a good Political piece to let that out before the blatant invitation to innuendo was published.

Re: Ripe for the picking

sponsored by BowWows, the Corgi's choice

Don't you mean BowWows, by Royal Appointment

You don't see those added to labelling anymore? Aren't Hello magazine doing their job of finding out which pile cream elderly member of the R.F. are using to combat the effects of too many photo-ops next to cold stone walls in kilts...? (that's the people in kilts, not the stone walls - although with some of them, it's hard to tell the difference I know).

Re: Personally, I'd rather they fixed the fucking potholes.

rather than sprinkle "autonomous mapping" shit all over them.

I guess I'm a weirdo.

Well, sounds like O.S. have their shit together - The local councils don't seem to

Perhaps you should start a campaign for the O.S. to take over managing Road Works for the entire country....

Such a vastly inflated organisation would invariably become a fat quango struggling to cope with the overload in no time - i.e. almost a true Government Department.

Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don't want to be dominant. Also, we don't fancy being taxed on revenues

A "mystique" has built up around the term "algorithm", she added, but went on to say that "it's just maths" and Amazon's tracking of customer activity was "the same as old retailers counting footfall".

How come then, tracking in order to sell me more, results in ads for things I've already looked at and dismissed for a similar product or already bought?

The only mystique is that some businesses still seem to think that this method works.

NHS England claims it will be all-digital within the decade

Re: creating joined-up systems

*It resulted in one female patient being given erectile dysfunction cream for an eye condition causing considerable pain and additional treatment needs, hence costs.

You know what they say about Doctors handwriting....

But I have to question what kind of 'no questions asked' chemists didn't question the prescription vs. any application instructions/customers gender.

Not necessarily digital would have prevented this had the confusion been over similar packaging and inattentive pharmacy staff.

It'll soon be even more illegal to fly drones near UK airports

Re: Keystone Cops

Instead we got endless interviews with confused and frustrated members of public whose holidays had been ruined!

Personal interest story used to be a new angle, but mostly fit only for 'That's Life' or 'Nationwide' now it's used instead of real investigative journalism.

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but BBC news is increasingly articles of this sort.

Linux reaches the big five (point) oh

Re: Par for the course

(Optional: add a "_rc2" suffix if you can't be arsed to test the hotfix before releasing)

Dashed good idea...

Can we have 'rc' attached to unproven MPs too....?

But of course that would probably be all of them except the deceased ones.

Re: If only...

Maybe we should all jump ship and start installing GNU/HURD systems?

It'd be nice to have the option - but Linux has much better hardware support for the pic 'n mix lucky bag modern PC space most of us are kinda stuck with...

3.23 & 4.21

Obvious pattern is obvious

Arbitrary or major upgrade, seems once a release gets some way into the point twenties Linus wants to progress the big hand on the clock.

Probably something pskologicaly in that, but I can't be arsed....

Attention all British .eu owners: Buy dotcom domains and prepare to sue, says UK govt

Re: Don't worry, it's only money

Considering the Royals bring in more than they cost........

In the case of Charles, some in Cornwall might disagree...

Re: Don't worry, it's only money

I think one of the problems with the EU is that it's very real benefits founded on lasting peace and on freedom of movement of goods, services and people has become so intrinsic and basic to Europe a to be taken for granted.

Maybe less benefit for UK citizens/subjects of her majesty/inmates of the overpriced island cul-de-sac.

Popping over to a neighbouring EU country has never seen the benefit that it has on mainland Europe, and I am not certain that lack of benefit is down to the mere geographic boundary, but certainly a provincial island mentality that leads the government to want to rifle through your overnight bag for the sheer hell of it as you pass the border, freedom of movement or no.

This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far

Re: As ever

"If you're not paying the owner of the product for the product, you are the product."

Is probably more correct.

You can blame laziness as much as greed for Apple's New Year shock

Re: Didn't know that - which one?

Or is it a case of "I'm all right Jack"?

Isn't that the Brexit attitude?

The Winds of the future blowing back, showing how it's going to be. UK thoughtlessly bundling government services on a platform tied to one provider alone.

Provided the service or the manual paper based alternative actually work in the first place or the information doesn't get sold/left on a bus or dumped several months before it's critically needed to identify you as not an illegal alien...

More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

A lot of people I think here are older and don't realise that the kind and extent of porn on the internet today is a lot more f*cked up. It does not remotely compare to what twas around before broadband.

??? So older people don't look at porn anymore, and we're all going by hazy recollections from our dim and distant yoof when the pictures were sepia and the women like Wookees?

You have to go as deep into the internet as you do that metaphorical dark alley to get the kind of material you are talking about. Dark stuff was actually much closer to the surface of the internet where it could be stumbled upon twenty years ago.

The more harmless the material, the closer to the surface it becomes - much as the drug scene the more dangerous and deadly the drug, the more dangerous the lifestyle (or at least mostly, prior to the recent Coventry incident - but we've no further info on that for the moment).

Like Americas prohibition experiment, make the least likely vice illegal and it raises the stakes to tommy gun levels.

They'll be a Paul Raymond mob along any time now, in dirty macs and kalashnikovs running Russian and Scandinavian porn into the country [Joke]....

Re: Just like buying a magazine.

Yes, but sadly there ARE parents who 'just don't care'. And really, they should not be having children. But they do,

I'd prefer to see the government bring in legislation to fix that - it'd be much less hassle all round, and probably less risky for the majority.

Re: Just like buying a magazine.

I think the idea behind this, is that you have to be 18 to buy a porn magazine from a shop, and therefore you should have the same protection for children.

From my recollection, the 'have to be 18 to buy' rule didn't really count if you just slid the mag under your clothes when the shop assistant was engaged with a customer and wandered out nonchalantly*.

This whole legislation is a) not going to work ad intended, b) is going to open people up to the risk of more fraud and other issues.

And if brexit goes bad, which it will, remove another distraction and dissuade some tension release. Without tension release, violence is more likely, and possibly more likelihood of Britain facing some of the same issues Korea has, as a repressed population seeks an outlet.

* As Bart Simpson would say 'I didn't do it', but I used to know someone who did and who would then sell the goods.

My 2019 resolution? Not to buy any of THIS rubbish

Re: Hospitality sector had it coming

Same as why I think estate agents still exist. What do they do?

Do they still do all that?

I thought they're purpose was to put leaflets through your door telling you to move away because someone nicer and more deserving aught to live there - Also a popular pastime in certain parts of Northern Ireland (and maybe Gaza).

I'm honestly surprised one half haven't eaten the others yet....

Re: Hospitality sector had it coming

Travel agents are a historical hangover who probably only still exist because of people who are not IT literate

You could add Insurance brokerages to that - This year mine happily offered a renewal my car insurance at nearly double last years cost.

I found the online big websites a useless waste of time also - had to actually talk to someone on the phone In this day and age???

It's not that I don't think that it shouldn't be necessary but that companies are trying to convince us other methods work as well - they don't.

Found yet another plastic nostalgia knock-off under the tree? You, sir, need an emulator

Owned both C64 & A550 - kind of wish I still had both

But it'd just be more junk around my neck I might fire up once a blue moon - possessions are a burden.

Do fire up Vice and play L.A S.W.A.T or Street Surfer (I have really cheap taste - and probably shouldn't be taken anywhere classy).

Insiders! The good news: Windows 10 Sandbox is here for testing. Bad news: Microsoft has already broken it

"We've made the decision to only do one bug bash this release."

Seems sensible, squashing one bug can often create another two new ones.

Seems with Windows, it's almost inevitable.

It's 2019, and from Beijing to Blighty folk are still worried about slurp-happy apps

Developers warned not to overindulge in personal data

Is it really developers, or the Cloven-hoofed Marketing dept's they're behooven to?

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Re: " it's the regulation and integration into existing infrastructure"

The closest you'll come to Blade Runner emulation is the Sex Automata with AI.

- I wouldn't be so quick to go for that either.....

There was a slight circuitry problem...'

'She wouldn't stop. It was like being trapped in a milking machine.'

'Well, if sir would care to make another choice, at the expense of the management -'

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers - Grant Naylor

IIRC some of the electronic pets "died" if you didn't look after them regularly. Unlike gods who merely got smaller as people stopped believing in them.

The 'pets' on Animal Crossing by Nintendo get really stroppy and whiney when you don't play for a week or two, and the town gets weed-choked - it's like being back in shared housing where everything else is someone elses problem, as long as it isn't theirs.

Re: C'mon

"'Crowdsourced steering'

Sounds like a random car-jacking during a riot.

Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7

Put your money away, I just saw this recently, and have not had a chance to test it ;-}

https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ghostbsd

Looks interesting, but I'd be cagey about recommending a BSD to newcomers used to the hardware world ensuring everything is certificated to run on at least the most recent Windows - I'm not sure BSD is as forgiving to people who buy hardware expecting it to just work, but 'Linux is mostly there for most things, even if you have to wait 6 months to a year.

Re: But will Windows ever get to 11?

fact is that most people are not moving to Linux, it's just too different - I think there's a market opening for an operating system that looks like, and works like, Windows 7 but runs on OpenBSD or some other secure system

OpenBSD is probably more 'too different' than 'Linux.

You'd be happy to pay for something that's not Windows but would (presumably) run windows?

I have to agree with other reply, bung some money at Wine - it's probably a surer bet than ReactOS in the shortterm - I use it for a few Windows programs I still want to use.

Re: Android

for the major reason that an actual Linux system consists of more than a kernel.

Linux is the kernel, the common alternate desktop O.S you are thinking of is GNU/Linux, often referred to as Linux (should at least be 'Linux though) as it is/was the Linux kernel plus the GNU software stack.

Today, we could probably do with adding a few more, ' /' to the name, but people would still contract the name to just 'linux' and continue to sow confusion.

Oz cops investigating screams of 'why don't you die?' find bloke in battle with spider

They were either trying to distract the spider with a snack before making their escape, or offering a sacrifice to their new eight-legged god.

Probably trying to get the cat 'switched on' in a hurry - damn things don't come with a manual, and always seem to have a bad motivator.

Had the same problem with a rodent and two cat units, even locked in the room with the intruder they did nothing more than flick an ear at it. Wasn't until six hours later, incident forgotten, that a sudden rucus signalled the cats had come online and done the deed, took the dog by surprise and he went into full policeman mode barking and chased the cats out of the house like criminals.

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

Re: "20 months for the rest of the data to be transmitted back to Earth"

A bit like the 1980s then, waiting for a CBM-64 to load a game from tape*!

(* or from a 1541 disk)

That's not too bad, as long as we can all bop along with the Ocean Loader while we wait...

Let me know when the probe detects the remains of the Uranus expedition from 1986.

Was that the very unsuccessful and much maligned sequel to Fantastic Voyage?

The glorious Brexit uncertainty: The only dead cert on data rules for tech biz in 2019

Re: My prediction is...

(but it will keep the brexitering muppets happy)

If you believe that, you must be Neville Chamberlains illegitimate offspring - Nothing is going to satisfy that rabid bunch of carpet baggers except selling the UK off as antique castle with raised drawbridge and willing and desperate serfs as a wet tax haven.

Can't we just have the inevitable civil war now while I'm still young enough to have a chance to defend myself from the ravening brigands?

Millennium Buggery: When things that shouldn't be shut down, shut down

Noell's Beadle Family Christmas Work accidents and gaffes.

There's been a lot of these articles lately....and YbF used to offer cash for videotapes...

A little dull here this xmas, not even one good drunken* family overload breakdown rant, not one....

* I'm no help, there - alcohol forbidden me this year on health grounds.

The Great British Curry: Put down the takeaway, you're cooking tonight

Drunk?

Not tonight, nor for the foreseeable.

Health forced me to give up smokes, convenience foods and now alcohol.

Tonight was steamed veg and fish.

If I have to give up much more, my health won't be worth it.

Damn, kids, where's my waving grumpily stick?

It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security

Re: Equifax -- Penalties

how over-sized objects need to be stuffed into certain little holes.

From fried chips to stuffed elections, a look back at the year that was

So you mis-read the byline title in a saucy mindset too?

Your mates vape. Your boss quit smoking. You promised to quit in 2019. But how will Big Tobacco give it up?

Re: Look out

Previous generations used the term "little 'itler"

Ah, yes I barely remember that one - I bet we'd no one incensed on someone else's behalf over the use of 'itler' to describe someone, oh the shock, the horror, it's too harsh, their life is over etc.

The same types, no doubt stand with 'righteous indignance' for harshest penalties for other mistakes of the human condition.

Re: Look out

“Nazis” really?

That little 'epithet' has been around a while, it might even be common parlance. I think it's meant to be more 'comic' Nazi than real, it does after all belittle, both "Nazis" and the low grade wanna-be potential oppressor.

Personally, I found all such ciggy stand-ins a barely adequate substitute for the real thing, but just enough to stand in for the habit. I don't think it's anywhere near half as addictive.

And teens are going to find something disproved of to latch onto as a part of rebellion.

Could you speak up a bit? I didn't catch your password

Re: Loopy passengers

They do however, make extremely effective suppositories when dealing with a severe blockage.

Which RPG though?

I don't think I'd recommend either, funny shaped dice could only make the problem worse and military grade explosive would be a tad too terminal a solution.

Re: Loopy passengers

Q: What did you get on your Sex Ed. test?

A: Drool

GDPR: Four letters that put fear into firms' hearts in 2018

Re: Ah.. GDPR...

H&S for the digital age.

For some sites it's been a laxative, as they been shitting themselves over it, many just decided to sew it up, others took too much stool hardner, for stubborn constipation, revealed by their unrelenting opt out panels.

Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud

Nadella was wheeled out and asked coders to "judge us by our actions".

Rather unfortunately put.

''wheeled out' made me immediately imagine Davros.

Or was that the intention.

....Or is he really Davros