* Posts by GreggS

309 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Feb 2012

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China's first space station to – ahem – de-orbit in late March

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Re: Coming home

I think the spectre of a burning up satellite landing near their offices would mean they'd have a bigger meltdown problem to deal with.

The sun rose, you woke up, and Qualcomm sued Apple three times

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Re: Mutually assured destruction

Except one of the arguments is that Apple are refusing to pay for their existing licences (and asking all and sundry not to as well), so what's to stop them paying any agreed fee?

Russia threatens to set up its 'own internet' with China, India and pals – let's take a closer look

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But

How will they hijack all the Western powers elections if they cut themselves off from the global internet?

Jet packs are real – and inventor just broke world speed record in it

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Re: The Corliss Resolution

You mean like this?

https://youtu.be/jOe9RiI0280

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

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surely they should have just fined him a tenor then?

Scouse marketing scamps scalped £70k for 100,000+ nuisance calls

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I don't understand why the ICO don't object to any companies making themselves insolvent or striking themselves off the register.

Companies Act 2006 section 1006

The failure to provide you with a copy of the application to strike off is a criminal offence.s.1006(4)

If it was done with the intention of concealing the striking off from you then that is an aggravated offence s1006(5)

https://www.icaew.com/archive/library/subject-gateways/law/insolvency/legal-alert/when-directors-can-be-personally-liable-on-company-insolvency

Dumb bug of the week: Apple's macOS reveals your encrypted drive's password in the hint box

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Welcome to the world of Microsoft Windows

Oh, hang on a minute..

"The biggest problem with Apple putting less effort into macOS isn't that it stagnates — it's that they make buggier, sloppier updates"

Equifax couldn't find or patch vulnerable Struts implementations

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Perhaps

They should hire the hackers. They know a lot more about Equifax's customers than the rest of the Equifax board do.

NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch

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some member of their customer services team had exceeded their authority

By telling the truth.

Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view

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It's the incessant noise that i don't like

But i did marry her.

Smart cities? Tell it like it is, they're surveillance cities

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Perhaps an intelligent toilet is not such a bad idea

may have helped this person out!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

Stephen King's scary movie reboot provokes tears from 'legit clowns'

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So what's released on September 8th?

Ubuntu 'weaponised' to cure NHS of its addiction to Microsoft Windows

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Re: Unpatched=Unsafe

They are only simple if you have an IT department who knows what they are doing. It could be said that Windows patches are equally simple and speedy to apply if they are being pushed out by a mechanism such as Windows Update for Business or by IT departments centrally for Enterprise installs.

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Unpatched=Unsafe

It seems to me that the main issue was unpatched systems. The IT support will have to have a major change for that to be any different, regardless of what OS they are using.

Don't panic, but Linux's Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query

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Only 14 responses (at time of writing)

There'd be 10x that many if it were a Windows flaw.

'No decision' on Raytheon GPS landing system aboard Brit aircraft carriers

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especially if they use Apple maps

ICO fines Morrisons for emailing customers who didn't want to be emailed

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Every little helps!

British Airways poised to shed 1,000 jobs to Capita

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British Airways?

Not any more.

Pirates hack was a hoax, says Disney boss

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What's the world coming to?

Chancers saying they're hackers. When i were a lad....

London City airport swaps control tower for digital cameras

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Windsor Flight 1-1-4, this is Dulles Approach. Do you copy?

That concludes our object lesson for this evening

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

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Not just Mac

Chrome 57.0.2987.133 on W7 shows the incorrect address, but IE11 shows the correct one for the second link and doesn't show or let you click on the first.

BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

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Re: Seems you can't sign up

But at least they're doing something and being pro-active about it (even if it is only for their customers). This does make me wonder if they are actually breaking OFCOM regulations by not delivering the call to it's intended recipient though. I'd like to see each and every telecoms company provide this service FOC!

Uber responds to Waymo: We don't even use that tech you say we stole

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Judge

I note the judge has slammed Uber for relying on Mr Levandowski's pleading of the fifth. He's also questioned why he is still employed by them.

Nokia’s big comeback: Watches, bathroom scales, a 3310 PR gimmick, Snake, erm...

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Re: Makes you wonder

I was once having a conversation with a Nokia engineer and a colleague of mine asked him why they didn't use Android. His response? "Why would we? The only people who make money out of Android is Google."

Bee boffins prove sesame-seed brain is all you need to play football (well, that explains a lot)

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Being a referee at local parks level i concur with the headline.

Dirty data, flogged cores: YES, Microsoft SQL Server R Services has its positives

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Or did they just include R because they're Pirates?

Last Concorde completes last journey, at maybe Mach 0.02

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Good looking

Still looks majestic even on the ground and after all these years.

Parents have no idea when kidz txt m8s 'KMS' or '99'

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It's the amount of problems i have without a bitch being one.

Corn-based diet turns French hamsters into baby eating cannibals

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Re: Eek!

I don't think they exist

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Concrete action?

Feeding them that will just make the hordes of ravenous psycho hamsters harder to kill. if not just harder.

Elon Musk wants to launch 4,000 satellites and smother globe with net connectivity

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"As long as Musk continues to spout hyperbolic nonsense, though, he’ll continue getting the coverage he needs to keep the show on the road"

Stop reporting it then. If media stopped reporting on these people then they might, just might, go away. See also, "reality tv stars", the Kardashians etc.

Married man arrives at A&E with wedding ring stuck on todger

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Re: Love is a burning thing

Or alternatively;

I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

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Love is a burning thing

And it makes a firery ring. Bound by wild desire. I fell into a ring of fire.

Russia shoves antitrust probe into Microsoft after Kaspersky gripes about Windows 10

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Kasperksy

I've had absolutely no issues with running Kaspersky on my three Windows 10 machines, so i don't see where they are coming from on this. It seems like they're complaining after the horse has bolted.

Smartmobe made 'intermittent bright flashes and a hissing noise' in Biz class seat

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QANTAS

It seems that your average QANTAS flyer is the culprit here as the majority of the incidents have happened with them. Perhaps they should change their pre-flight briefing and have passengers fasten their phones to their forehead with velcro.

Of course, if they do lose the phone, it's obvious where it will be - down under.

Judge allows Apple's faceless Irish head to settle for €45k - report

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Perhaps

Him and Bernie Ecclestone should start breakfasting together to compare notes.

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You've already bribed the Deatheaters so your stay won't be that long.

Amazon supremo Bezos' Blue Origin blows its top over Texas desert

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It certainly was some ejaculation!

Exchange down for Android and iOS users

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Outlook for iOS

I've had no issues with Outlook or the native Mail app on my iPhone connected to my work O365 server.

Hacker and chums jailed over gold bullion hack, track 'n' grab scam

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Re: The toilet cistern?

Perhaps flushed with their successes, he thought it would be a good place to hide it.

There - i said it.

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

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Lacey Jonas or Andrea Bottino?

http://www.gamesradar.com/new-yorks-courts-throw-out-the-gta-5-lindsay-lohan-case-its-satire/

'Daddy, what's a Blu-ray disc?'

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Re: Forgotten format?

Me too. Plex anyone?

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

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They won't need to. They'll use your wi-fi signal instead;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/06/bbc_detector_van_wi_fi_iplayer/

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Some of these choices are strange

So , Leavers;

1) HP sauce, taken away from the UK and now produced in the Netherlands. An argument for keeping things British and supporting Leave I suppose.

2) Bisto - still produced in the UK by Premier Foods.

3) ITV News?, ITV News?, come on people. Only slightly higher up the rung than Sky news. Still watching this all the time would probably have me voting to leave as well.

4) The Health Lottery. A lottery where good 'ole UK folk can spend thousands trying for the "big win" and contribute to "health related causes" - not even NHS mind and they don't even contribute to these causes as much as the National Lottery does. Run by the company owned by Richard Desmond! I suppose the justification is that this is required at all.

5) Birds Eye - An AMERICAN brand and always has been. I suppose it is difficult for people who voted leave to differentiate between mainland Europeans, Americans or any other continent for that matter (as has been proven with some of the reported post-Brexit racially motivated attacks that have taken place).

6) Iceland - Seriously? If this was the best that Britain could offer supermarket wise then i suppose i'd want to leave as well.

7) Sky News - see 3) and the fact this is owned by an Australian. I don't see them complaining about Sky Sports ruining football.

8) Cathedral city - This is still made in Cornwall, so a good British brand.

9) PG Tips - and this one.

10) Richmond - As in London? Really? It's half-owned by Russian oligarchs. The other half is owned by the Chinese.

As for the Remainers;

1) bbc.co.uk - It's not exactly TheRegister.co.uk is it?

2) BBC iplayer - It's not exactly Netflix is it?

3) Instagram - It's no Facebook, oh, wait a minute..

4) London Underground - Are they actually not on strike this week then?

5) Spotify - It's no Tidal is it? But at least it is European.

6) Airbnb - Another American site.

7) LinkedIn - sigh, this is also an American site.

8) Virgin Trains - It's no Southern Rail is it? At least it is a British "success" story, uses French & Belgian built trains.

9) Twitter - Another American web-site??? sorry i've ran out of characte

10) EasyJet - started by a Greek-Cypriot man who lives in the tax haven of Monaco.

BT customers hit by broadband outage ... again

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Nothing to do

with the recent Government report telling BT to get their house in order???

GMB tests Uber 'self-employed drivers' claim at London tribunal

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Re: Care agencies seem to get away with it

Actually, this has now changed. They have to be paid for travel time as well and it has to be included in minimum wage calculations and holiday pay;

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2014/06/unison-welcomes-travel-time-victory/

and here;

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/carers-mihomecare-settlement-minimum-wage-care-worker-landmark-legal-case-a6936406.html

This was another way employers could avoid payment to not only their workers but The Inland Revenue.

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

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So tell us

what you really thought of it!

Man killed in gruesome Tesla autopilot crash was saved by his car's software weeks earlier

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Re: Autopilot...

You're correct, it was clarified after not only this, but an earlier near-miss involving two Japanese airlines. The Japanese asked for the clarification after that incident but it wasn't until the final report on this accident that it was actually specified TCAS takes priority. The incident report also found that both sets of advice was contradictory, the DHL pilots being instructed to go with TCAS, the Russian one, to go with ATC (or their last instruction).

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Re: Autopilot...

if i remember rightly the Russian pilot overruled the TCAS system and also got conflicting information from the sole air-traffic controller working on the nigh - so humans caused that, not the automated TCAS which gave the correct instructions to avoid the collision to both sets of pilots.

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