Posts by Sloppy Crapmonster

Broadcom billionaire Henry Nicholas and pal on drugs rap cough up $1m to avoid the clink

Re: It’s good to be white. And rich.

Whatabout, whatabout, what-what-whatabout whatabout ouoww-out!

Darkest Dungeon: Lovecraftian PTSD simulator will cause your own mask to slip

_Spec Ops: The Line_ was quite obviously a retelling of _Heart of Darkness_, but I felt the ending was a letdown because I didn't understand the guy at the end was talking to *me the player* and not John Walker(the PC).

I'll have to go back and play it again, but after I finish _Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain_. It's goofy, but it's deadly serious about being goofy.

Re: Those crawling horrors of which we dare not speak...

OJ Simpson is a Heisman trophy winner, and was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

The US Dollar is worth something because it is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government. Believe what you want about the full faith and credit of the US government. Why is Bitcoin worth anything? Because you can (maybe) sell one for some multiple of a US Dollar? How does that make sense?

Chuck-E-Cheese makes you put US Dollars into their changers to play their games, and you'll notice there isn't a CEC credit-to-US Dollar changer at the exit. Why is that? Sure, there are bigger suckers than you right now, but will they be there when you want to get out?

But here I am again, screaming into the void Register comments section, which I said I wouldn't do. Dammit.

Do you want a Kool-Aid with that, Huawei? You'll need one after watching boss chat to US mavens

Re: Says it all, really

Up until 2016, anyone with half a brain thought of him as a harmless buffoon. After 2016, he's a weaponized Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Microsoft's Edge gang pops a head above the parapet to give Linux fans a strong 'maybe'

Why are you asking us?

Shirley, you know it won't, just as it won't on MickOS[0]. And what makes you think IE mode would prevent MS from sucking down every last drop of the contents, once they've gone balls-deep on your computer? It's the entire shaft that's the problem. "IE Mode" would be grafting an additional set of seminal vesicles to the base of the browser that were aimed specifically at MS and not Google. So a delivery system that, while you enjoy it as well, does nothing but gratify MS.

This is why I decided to get off (ha!) the internet: so I don't feel the need to write things like this.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity "List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity" I think I approve, wikipedia, but I'm not sure why

Huawei thanks US for 'raising 5G awareness' by banning telecom kit giant's wares

> Handsets remain a scarce commodity. Huawei's own 5G flagship, the foldable Mate X, was conspicuous by its absence (although as things have turned out, that might not be such a bad thing).

Shirley, you mean "...although as things have unfolded"

God DRAM, that's a big price drop: Memory down 30 per cent, claim industry watchers

Re: The article's reasoning doesn't make sense

Most people don't need anything more than a low-end CPU, and that's been the case for a good long time now. They need a GPU capable of playing Fortnite or PUBG, and I can do that on my 5 year old phone.

Vodafone exec dons tartan tam-o'-shanter, clutches bottle of Irn-Bru, in snap shared with firm... just before Glasgow staff told of redundo dates

Right, so most of the time racism is fine by you, but in this case you'd like to see the brown guy ruined because you do in fact see his actions as being awful as well as culturally insensitive.

Thanks for sharing.

Brave claims its mobe browser batt use bests whatever you're using. Why? Hint: It begins with A then D then V...

The WWW is the wrong place for you if you make your money from ads

Simply because of how it works. What you really want is a magazine, or a TV network, or some other technology where the suckers consuming what you're producing have no choice in the matter. It might be my *fault* that my ad-blocking results in you not making any money, but it's certainly not my *problem*.

How politics works, part 97: Telecoms industry throws a fundraiser for US senator night before he oversees, er, a telecoms privacy hearing

Re: The more things change, the less they really do.

Oh stop. At our current level, Nancy Pelosi is pretty far down the list of trash to get rid of.

OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

Re: Out of curiosity ...

"why do people put up with billion dollar multi-national corporations telling them when, and how, they are allowed to play the music they have bought a license to listen to?"

I can't tell if you're joking, but that's literally what a license is -- an agreement that stipulates exactly how you can use the item being licensed.

Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

Re: @Semtex451: BritPop

I think that "Jagger is dead" nonsense is in your head. In your head. Zombie. Zombie. Zombieehehhehh

Congratulations on misspelling a misspelt word.

The eulogising of The Mother Of All Demos at 50 is Silicon Valley going goo-goo for gurus again

Re: Telefunken invented the balled mouse?

pics or it didn't happen

Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges

I run my own phone service on a shared host ~900 miles away from my home. It costs me about $150 a year (lowest-end VM on ramnode - $30/yr, Debian OS - $0/yr, asterisk - $0/yr, Twilio trunk - ~$10/mo), on top of the Internet bill I would be paying already. I'm okay with this.

Every step you take: We track you for your own safety, you know?

"fondling a hoe in one hand while wielding his dibber in the other"

Pretty sure that gets your prison time in The Land Of The Free.

Bill Clinton's cyber-attack novel: The airport haxploit-blockbuster you knew it would be

If you're looking for presidential superheroes, skip this and wait for Metal Wolf Chaos XD instead:

http://mechamericagreatagain.com

Trump’s new ZTE tweet trumps old ZTE tweets that trumped his first ZTE tweet

Re: da drumpf! da drumpf!

Iran could reduce Israel to rubble with conventional weapons if they wanted to. What Trump tore up was the pretense that they wouldn't develop a nuke for the next decade. Now we don't even have that.

We weren't *giving* Iran nuke tech, we were *delaying them* from deploying it.

Re: "But that’s democracy for you - it’s flawed, but better than any alternative"

Democracy is literally dictatorship of the majority. Here in the democratic republic of the USA, we have seen -- twice!, in the last 20 years -- the majority of ballots cast for the candidate that loses. Just because the American system worked against you (and me!) doesn't mean it doesn't work.

OnePlus 6: Perfect porridge? One has to make a smartphone that's juuuust right

I bought a OnePlus One last year after killing my Samsung Note 2 (that I also bought last year-- I shouldn't be allowed to have a phone not in a case because I kill them) and, after installing LineageOS, I don't see a need for a newer phone. I want Firefox, and a TOTP client, and my bank's check deposit app, and I'm good. Unfortunately, that last condition means I'm stuck on Android.

Leaked pics: Motorola to add 'unpatriotic' 5G to 4G phones with magnets

Re: 5G is more about vast swathes of new spectrum

> As you say, no one needs a gigabit to their phone and there's no foreseeable future use for case for such a thing

Of course there is. How do you think THHGTTG works? 802.11b?

Re: I dont really understand why i need 5g at all

Won't somebody please think of the ISPs? How are they supposed to fill up their boatloads of cash if they have to provide service to people?

You've heard that pop will eat itself. Boffins have unveiled a rocket that does the same

No no no no no no no no no no no no, no.

Not now, James.

Cheap-ish. Not Intel. Nice graphics. Pick, er, 3: AMD touts Ryzen Pro processors for business

Not that they can't; they don't try.

Exclusive to all press: Atari launches world's best ever games console

Re: ET

I do hope the world gets better for you white men soon, it's just been so hard on you all this time.

Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it

The current problem with *coins is that people are selling them for money that you can spend. You can't actually spend them themselves. Kinda like gold, except you won't need a computer to spend your gold when the nukes destroy the electrical grid.

I got 99 secure devices but a Nintendo Switch ain't one: If you're using Nvidia's Tegra boot ROM I feel bad for you, son

Re: Yawn

I'm looking forward to having full-scale demos on my switch, myself. Yes, I can afford to buy retail games. No, I'm not going to buy a game at retail, get 10 minutes into it, and regret making a £60 mistake.

Gemini: Vulture gives PDA some Linux lovin'

Re: Rear Camara

*Camera

If I have to pay extra to have a rear camera, it's fair to say it doesn't come with a rear camera, isn't it?

Please no Basic Instinct flashing, HPE legal eagles warn staffers

"There should be no more than 10 slides for a half-hour presentation, and the message must be limited to six points per slides and one to two lines for each point, it added."

Right, so PowerPoint is good, I can have however many slides I like, and I can put twelve lines of text on a slide. That sounds like an excellent way to get my point across. /s

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

Re: 30 per cent faster

Now that I've gotten used to uMatrix, I like it a lot more than NoScript.

Forget One Windows, Microsoft says it's time to modernize your apps

Re: Modernise apps?

GOOD LUCK DOOD

Oracle VP: 'We want the next decade to be Java first, Java always'

Re: JavaScript != Java

Ouch. He said that because, while Java generally does have a spot somewhere near the lower part of the top of the rankings, JavaScript clearly outweighs it.

"We generally see big piles of shit and candy at the top of the foodstuff rankings"

El Reg is hiring an intern. Apply now before it closes

Re: Let me make a prediction...

She'll have to supply her own eeePC and macrame bikini.

Google, propaganda, and the new New Man

Re: Lying is always bad propaganda, because it deceives and misleads the people

"Sure, only IT is a toxic places for women to work in, other places are all heavens"

The comment you replied to didn't say that. Disagree, sure, but don't make shit up to argue against it, please.

Thousands of hornets swarm over innocent fire service drone

Re: "drone was attacked by the hornets while being used [..] to locate the creatures' nest"

The Fahrenheit 451-style firemen, maybe?

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

Re: The end

I too liked it for manipulating screenshots, until I discovered Snipping Tool buried in the start menu. Why hadn't I run across this before?

Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?

Dilatechtonics

The art of preserving earthquakes.

Whisky snobs scotched by artificial tongue

Does it have alcohol in it?

I'll take that one.

Come celebrate World Hypocrisy Day

Andrew Orlowski is ElReg's Richard Stallman. I've come around to the point where, instead of being annoyed that he keeps writing, I'm upset that he's mostly right, most of the time. It just hits too close to home that he's also more cynical than I am.

That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it's actually Russian

Re: an easy fix for firefox

Firefox and AD? No. You *might* be able to use FrontMotion's MSI and group policy extensions but I had to give it up years ago because the extensions weren't keeping up with the features in the browser.

WD flashes first SanDisk drives: Blue and Green

Everyone has a drive supplier they hate

Personally, I hate them all, ever since they decided to go with 1GB=10^3 bytes.

And my home storage system is a linux SWRAID10 composed of Seagate Barracuda and WD Green drives slotted into dual-bay USB docks.

Foxconn outbids WD with ¥3 TRILLION offer for Tosh memory biz

That's ~27 Instagrams

Who needs all that memory anyway?

Robots are killing jobs after all, apparently: One droid equals 5.6 workers

Performance rights?

I'm sure the contract the worker signs to be recorded destroying the livelihood of all their co-workers says they have no performance rights in the recording, but I fail to see how that's okay.

Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers

I am going to be using that "cleaning" icon on everything now. Thanks Japan!

The Dread Server BlackBerry Enterprise is no more

Re: Not too fearful

Good way to disprove a point, by arguing against something completely unrelated, anonymously.

Samsung, the Angel of Death: Exploding Note 7 phones will be bricked

Re: Is this even legal in the EU?

I upvoted you, then saw this was really a rant against a credit card you had revoked at some time in the past, then downvoted you.

Moscow says writing infrastructure attack code is a thought crime

"modificating"

Dell EMC cranks Xeon servers into ludicrous mode with Tesla GPUs

I tried, I couldn't come up with DIGITS out of the full name of the... whatever it is.