Posts by small and stupid

Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko

Re: The meltdown continues

Lol top Poe

Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong

Hoping for bankruptcy. Die games workshop die.

My diagnosis of ERP problems is that the Accounts Department are the problem.

Either they are narcissistic megalomaniacs who put their administrative convenience before what the organisation needs to do, or, the rest of the organisation are lazy luddite fuckwits and Accounts end up implementing it by default. Either way, the tail wags the dog.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

Re: WTF?

Not quite. Whig History gets up all historians noses, of all political persuasions, because it is wrong.

Historians may disagree all day long about "English greatness", but they willl unite to condemn the "the inevitable path" as fantasy.

Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus

Re: Next test

Oh yes it is. And pious self-righteousnes is funny as well.

IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata

Re: idiot

Exactly. Cheapskate fool.

LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office software project prepares for 10th anniversary

Re: "Has LibreOffice succeeded?"

Charts are for bullshitters

Brexit bad boy Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked: Private messages put online

Re: "Twitter [...] have broken GDPR rules"

Nah

Public Interest

Cry Havoc !

Mike Lynch in court: I was not aware of every single thing Autonomy did around the world (so don't blame me)

And if you can find them, the sucker may still probably be you, they be a fake sucker in on the scam.

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

If you voted Leave, and enjoy masturbation, you have made a serious error of judgement.

#Wankers4Revoke

(for the hard of thinking: Brexit is a disaster, and having our idiot political class constrained by Eurocrats was a fcuking great idea)

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

Re: About time too

Great. So instead of being equally ignorant about all the services, shell be biased towards the navy,

Brekkie TV host Lorraine Kelly wins IR35 ruling against HMRC, adds fuel to freelance techies' ire over tax reforms

Not really, the point was that Ms Kelly is a performer, which strengthens her case as a contractor and makes her agents fees tax deductible

Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs

From another angle.

Part of the problem is that every fucker wants a password. I can remember a strong password. Or three.

So, what are the risks if my password is cracked for:

El Reg, or any typical messageboard. Apart from embarass me, or get me banned.

My utility account password (no card details saved)

A one off purchase from a site (again, no card details saved)

Or am i being naive?

Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'

Clearly, all the benefits* will actually stem from having a central ID register.

So any politician enthusiastically harping on about the benefits of "ID Cards" is either a liar or an idiot.

*Of course it has costs and dangers as well

Re: another iteration

Whats IQ got to do with Politics?

Politics is a mixture of ideology and self-interest.

Put another way. Lets say you are an average tory*. Meet Professor Redbeard here. His IQ is 30 points higher than you, and he is a revolutionary communist**. Does this convince you to join the revolution?

* replace with any mainstream political party

** replace with any extremist

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

Laptops are so last decade. Tablets are obviously better.

However, it would help if tablets had a proper keyboard and more ports. The keyboard could be attached to the screen by a sort of hinge. Also it would probably help to put the brains in the keyboard part rather than the screen. That way it would be more balanced and more comfortable if , for example, you had it on your lap.

'Men only' job ad posts land Facebook in boiling hot water with ACLU

Re: Companies probably aren't doing this to discriminate

Oil. Oil is a necessary evil.

Uber 'does not exist any more' says Turkish president

Re: Yes, but

My suspicion is that an above board minicab-hailing app for an alliance of reputable vetted licenced minicab operators would have got fucked over by the black cab lobby.

However Uber with the ride-share fig leaf and big pockets were able to muscle in.

Re: It's hard to know who to sympathise with...

Unless you have driven in Istanbul as well, then you realise the taxi drivers are no worse than the other lunatics on the road.

Amazon can't or won't collect sales tax in Australia

Tax my arse. Australian retail is complacent and fat and incompetent. If Amazon can capture the Australian market via amazon.au they can make tons of cash by being a bit less shit than their rivals.

While if ozzies go to .com they are only going to make US level profits - plus the hassle of shipping and tax.

US Congress finally emits all 3,000 Russian 'troll' Facebook ads. Let's take a look at some

Its not meddling if its true

Shes a middle of the road Democrat with quite boring and unremarkable policies.

Therefore the republican attack machine has had to invent shit.

Hypothesis C: The possibility that there could have been influence is embarassing and damaging enough to the USA. Win for Russia !

Meet the open sorcerers who have vowed to make Facebook history

Re: another bloody silo that nobody needs

No silos are great.

You can have a separate identity in each and if it goes titsup at least the consequences are limited.

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

Ignorant dinosaur speculation

How certain are we that there wasn't an intelligent dinosaur?

We only know of 700 dinosaur species, total, while right now there are 5000 species of mammals and 10,000+ birds.

Which implies there's thousands of dinosaurs that never made the fossil record?

And what level of civilisation and technology could an intelligent species reach and be invisible to us 65 million years later ?

Too many bricks in the wall? Lego slashes inventory

Random thoughts

I doubt if Lego is more expensive in real terms than it used to be.

Some of the tie-ins seem questionable, they seem to ignore the buildability.

Eg Star Wars seems right, because taking your X-wing set and your Y-wing set and mashing them up to make a Z-wing is natural. But whatya gonna do with Harry Potter? Make a different Hagrids Hut?

The problem now isnt the specialised bricks, its that the set designs are over-complicated, over-specific, and havent been designed to be customisable. eg.as a kid building LL928 gave me a template for building other spaceships. While a typical star wars lego spaceship doesnt teach you how to make anything else (i know that kinda undermines my point above but at least the Idea of Star wars lego makes sense)

User stepped on mouse, complained pedal wasn’t making PC go faster

Re: How do we survive?

Bullshit. Illiterate people cant afford tinned baby food.

Re: Grannies will be grannies

Roving gangs of grannies can smell fear, and will exploit it for their own amusement.

Early contender for comment of the year. Jolly well done.

Nunes FBI memo: Yep, it's every bit as terrible as you imagined

Nice to see the Trumptards out in force today.

Transport pundit Christian Wolmar on why the driverless car is on a 'road to nowhere'

Re: And of course the moral issue...

Kill the motorcyclist, obviously. They are only worth 2/3 of a regular person.

FCA 'gold-plates' EU rule, hits BYOD across entire UK finance sector

Does this stuff apply to the non-financial everyday admin bits of the business? I mean, does BigBank have to be able to monitor the facilities manager arguing with the catering company about sandwiches ?

What if theres a conglomerate, with one wing that sells consumer finance and another that sells holidays?

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

The point is that although Ocean is probably useless to Brazil, its still an order of magnitude less useless than a submarine, a jet fighter or a battle tank. It could, for example, go to a disaster area and help out.

Re: Basic arsemetrics

Fair point - IF Oceans steel has worn away to uneconomic-to-repair levels (in which case - are the Brazilians blind, bribed, or both? )

Machinery - doubtful. The 'Civilian' machinery isnt that expensive and the 'Military' stuff has to be upgraded periodically regardless of the age of the vessel.

I suspect that a decent civilian design can have a 30 year life, and 'military spec' includes plenty of gold-plated nonsense.

Re: actual profit..

A set of lads will go round ripping the nameplates off all the machinery and doctoring the equipment manuals so all spare parts have to go through Artco Marine Spares LLC (Panama) c/o Arthur Dailey Jnr Marine Enterprises (Plymouth)

Basic arthimetic

So: the most useful ship in the Navy is only worth £80m and costs a mere £12m a year to run

An F-35B costs £50m+ each.

A type 45 destroyer costs £ 1b

'Twas the night before Y2K and a grinch stole the IT department's overtime payout

I slightly disagree. The best bosses are the ones who cant do your job but know they cant.

its the middle ground that sucks

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

Re: Fixing without dry docking

Yes. There will be a guarantee claims list hundreds of items long and the builder and/or equipment makers will be dutifully rectifying / bullshitting their way out of them as we speak.

5 reasons why America's Ctrl-Z on net neutrality rules is a GOOD thing

Hope you have a donor card

Once again, UK doesn't rule out buying F-35A fighter jets

We should have built full size nuclear carriers , or bought second hand of the yanks, or not bothered at all.

Non-nuclear pocket carriers wedded to one unproven airplane design = fucking idiocy.

Its because the -B isnt going to work, isnt it?

Permissionless data slurping: Why Google's latest bombshell matters

As a total idiot luddite, i ask:

Can you get a cookie fucking program that deliberately corrupts the data in them?

Lord of the Rings TV show shopped around Hollywood

Yuck

Every cent spent on LOTR TV is a cent NOT being spent on "The Continuing Adventures of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser" and/or " Tales of the Dying Earth" and/or "Tales from Zothique and Hyperborea"

What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly

Re: A certain bias, there

Why privilege lunch over breakfast?

Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?

Re: The Home Office

Its Dementors. definitely.

Re: "patronising" techies that "sneered" at politicians

Yeah, theres this huge crowd of far more competent Tory politicians that should have got the job instead.

San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite

Alt-right is a stupid term

What the fuck is the alt-right? I see a spectrum with old fashioned neo-nazis at one end and 4-chan troll wankers at the other. What I don't see is a single new idea.

WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON

Re: Burn, baby burn..

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

NEWSFLASH Now even science* says moneybags footballers are overpaid

Footballers abilities are frequently and publicly tested and their pay comes from willing consumers.

So:

Bankers, well, fuck knows what they do all day , and they fuck up things for everyone.

Presenters: I am very sure that Messi is a much better footballe than A N Other, Melchester reserves.

But I dont really know that Gary Lineker is any better at presenting MoTD than A N Other personable retired ex pro.

Genoans flout terror ban with bumper basil hand baggage policy

Belin

"There are many possible variations: you may also add dried and/or fresh tomatoes, other kinds of seeds instead of or in addition to pine nuts, even other oils. As with all traditional stuff, there isn't a single recipe (I do many different variations myself)."

No, no, no, no. a Genovese hit squad is on its way now to punish you.

Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future

Re: Douglas Coupland wrote microserfs

Did you know that sometimes, the opinions voiced by a character in a fictional work, are not actually the opinions of the author?