Posts by Hud Dunlap

Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat

I have heard of cow tipping, but Fly tipping?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

Flies seem a might small to tip over.

I will get my coat.

Apple sprays down bug-ridden iOS 11 with more fixes

Re: With an annoying feature.

Thanks. That did it.

With an annoying feature.

It keeps trying to get me to setup Apple Pay. The settings icon still has that red circle with a one it. I tap it and it says " finish setting up your iPhone set up Apple Pay"

No I don't want to do that.

Can we get a former apply fanboy icon?

This speech recognition code is 'just as good' as a pro transcriber

Try a true southern accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZjCbRuZ3c

Lewis Grizzard on southern accents.

My Nest smoke alarm was great … right up to the point it went nuts

Re: You don't need "smart"... @Antron Argalv

"A Gentleman does not motor about after Dark."

Is Apple's software getting worse or what?

Re: It's downhill all the way ... @Blue Pumpkin

Couldn't agree more. The ease of use is gone. Safari used to have an icon to show your downloads. It is gone. You have to hunt down the download folder now. I have owned Macs since the MacPlus and every time I upgraded I never considered anything but a Mac. That is not true anymore and I no longer suggest anyone by a Mac now.

The Reg needs a former Apple Fanboy icon.

Nest developers become Oompa-Loompas in Google shake-up

@Charlie Clark

You forgot your Pedantic Grammar Nazi Icon

Re: "creating a unified Internet of Things platform" @paulf

The EULA that came out a few months ago gives Nest the right to track you on the Internet with the comment that " the may not be able to honor Do not track requests". They also sell them via the utilities so that the power companies can change the temperature of you house at will during times of peak usage. I have not given the Utility the permission to change the settings as I bought it before that program came out and before Google bought the company.

They have had issues with bricking the controllers on software updates. Mine decided to set itself to away mode and set the temperature to 85 degrees. I sleep during the day and being woken up because the house was unbearably hot is not pleasant.

I am looking for a replacement. I don't want to be tracked and it is not reliable enough.

If you use ‘smart’ Bluetooth locks, you're asking to be burgled

What about lightning?

I only ask because I had bought an electronic lock years ago. Everything worked great until a thunderstorm hit and it had to be reprogrammed .

Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

Re: Well there is a point to this

It was Van Halen.

http://sevenstorylearning.com/creativity/brown-mm/

Spam King sent down for 30 months

So the U.S. is learning from the old Soviet Union.

"Wallace, from Las Vegas but sentenced in San Jose, will also undergo a mental health evaluation"

I am seeing this more and more. The old Soviet Union thought you were crazy if you didn't like living this. It has been used for years as way to have child predators locked up long after there sentence is over. The public hasn't complained, "think of the Children", so now they are going to use it for other things.

Of course people like AC above think it is a great idea.

Seattle Suehawks: Smart meter hush-up launched because, er ... terrorism

@ Sir Runcible Spoon. One reason is because of the dogs

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/05/16/dog-attacked-wrench-centerpoint-energy-contractor-died/

For some reason the building code is to put the meter behind the privacy fence where the meter reader has to go to read it. Even if you don't have a privacy fence if you have a pool you have at least a chain linked fence. A lot of rural meter readers carry quality binoculars to read the meter so they can avoid the dogs..

With a smart meter you can read and turn them off remotely if the bill hasn't been paid. Of course you can turn them off during periods of high use for rolling black outs too. This is one reason cities are pushing Smart Thermostats. The City will install them for free and give you a whole ten dollars if you give them the right to adjust your thermostat when they want.

Apple's iOS updates brick iPads

Re: Apple could spend

The start would be getting rid of Tim Cook.

Other weirdness in the upgrade

When I try to upgrade my 5s it tells me it needs 700MB free in order to upgrade and that I need to adjust my music settings. I have 4.1 GB free so I don't see the problem. I think I will wait a couple of days before I try again.

'Apple ate my music!' Streaming jukebox wipes 122GB – including muso's original tracks

Streamed from Apple

What if you aren't in range of a signal? I know a lot of times I am not.

We need a "Former Apple Fanboy" icon.

How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists

Re: a bloke in the pub told me that...

Is it the Judean Peoples Front or the Peoples Front of Judea that has the Crack Jewish Suicide Squad?

I can't keep track

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

Re: Urrmm...yeah, but....

watch this documentary

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2520398/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_61

a lot of civil rights activists used guns to protect themselves

Re: Excuse me, I have to take this

Chicago has very strict control laws, yet someone is murdered every 13 hours. Guns don't jump off the shelf and shoot people by themselves

http://heyjackass.com

Whatever happened to ... Nest?

Re: I bought a Nest before Google bought Nest.

This is for you Mr. AC.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-03

I bought a Nest before Google bought Nest.

One of the functions I used to have was the ability to change the programing on the thermostat from my desktop. The latest software upgrade breaks this. Not directly of course, or they would fix that. It is the new EULA that is the problem. I have to accept using cookies and I have to accept that they " might not be able to honor a do not track request". If I do not accept the terms I can not use the software anymore. I haven't followed changes in the law, if there have been any, but it used to be public utility records were all public records. That meant any one could see my bills. I wonder if this means that anyone could request my browsing history because it is part of the correspondence with my nest thermostat and my city utility.

I am looking for a new thermostat.

This chap's maintained an Apple game for 32 years – from Mac to iOS

the high scores are crazy

Ok I downloaded it. Something like 27000 points for winning. I took a look at the high score list and someone is over a billion.

Smartphones help medicos, but security is a problem

Re: Private comms? There's an app for that.

A thumbs up for the link. It is disappointing how many Apps have not had a recent audit. Although in just glancing at the link I didn't see how long recent was.

NASA celebrates 50-year anniversary of first spaceship docking in orbit

A game about the space race

For those who might be interested.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/462/details/Buzz.Aldrin's.Space.Program.Manager

Randomness is a lottery, so why not use a lottery for randomness?

Re: that public lotteries [are] hard to manipulate.

You beat me to it.

The numbers racket is better

The people who run the numbers rackets used to use, -and may still use= the last four digits of the volume of the NYSE. Completely random and easily verifiable.

Bill Gates denies iPhone crack demand would set precedent

What about the password reset?

I keep seeing on different sites that either the county or FBI reset the password. Well if you reset the password you know what the new one is. Well who reset it?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-san-bernardino-shooters-icloud-password-reset-consent/story?id=37093031

I caught part of the interview.

He kept talking about whether or not you can trust the Government. He said something about the abuses we have had were back in the J. Edgar Hoover era.

I walked out at that point.

China 'evacuates' 9,000 around monster radio 'scope

Re: China is horrid with property rights @ Destroy all monsters

I don't get the down voles. Just look up the Kelo ruling and the many disasters that came with it. One of which is the keystone pipeline. NAFTA allows a foreign company to use eminent domain to take Americans land. I know that, for now, Obama , has blocked the Keystone pipeline. That hasn't stopped a number of people in Texas from giving up their land rather than risk getting less for it under eminent domain. You can also look up all of the land taken by former Governor Rick Perry for toll roads and a new railroad line for Toyota.

For fun you can always look up Donald Trump and eminent domain.

Philae comet lander officially dead

Chances of communication 'close to zero'

So it's "a million to one chance"? Keep trying then. It is a dead cert it will come back to life!

US taxmen borked in computer cockup riddle

Re: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

I used to work with a Scotsman who married an American and moved to the U.S. permanently. The first year he had to file he had a stack of forms on his desk and he was shaking his head saying " What is this Bloody Shit?"

Apple's design 'drives up support costs, makes gadgets harder to use'

@ El Reg

Can you come up with a former Apple fanboy icon?

Ivy, Cook et al have really trashed what used to be a nice easy to use computer.

CISA blowup: 'Web giants sharing private info isn't about security – it's state surveillance'

Nothing to worry about.

It is a bipartisan effort.

FBI, US g-men tried to snatch DNA results from blood-testing biz. What a time to be alive

Re: Some interesting reading

Watch the true crime shows like " forensic files". Some will scare you to death. There was a cold murder case that occurred before DNA and there was still enough tissue around to get a match. They had two hits, one would have been a ten year old boy at the time of the murder and another was a guy who would have been old enough to have committed the murder. He was convicted solely on the DNA evidence.

The cop said that when the guy was told they DNA match on him to the murder " he didn't act innocent. Whatever that means.

Experts ponder improbable size of Cleopatra's asp

Re: Slapper? @ Tom 38

Technically it is the United States of Mexico. It is just that no one calls it that. We are still called Americans.

MACAQUE ATTACK: Monkey plunders Florida resident's box, gobbles contents

Re: They did not shoot him?

Depends on the cop and how many people are taking videos.

Watch this dog chew the bumper off a cop car.

http://archive.11alive.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=142202

iPhone 6s and 6s Plus: Harder, faster and they'll give you a buzz

I was going to buy one but...

Safari doesn't work anymore. It goes blank, won't load web pages, quits, etc. I don't if it the hacking thing people were talking about- and it seems to have disappeared from the press- or something else . I am looking at other options now.

Look out, Silicon Valley – Don Basile is back to kick ass and chew gum

Here you go

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYU9-wqG2wYt

If memory serves rowdy roddy said or in his matches. I haven't found a video reference to that yet.

Get the saying right!!

It's"Kick ass OR chew gum".

Apple slings bug-fixed iOS 9.0.1 at fanbois, PIN bypass hole still open

I was ready to upgrade my iPhone, now I am not so sure

It might not be an Apple in my future.

It's 2015 and a text file can hack your Apple Watch. IS THIS THE FUTURE YOU WANTED?

And Apple wants to build a car?

See subject.

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

It doesn't work for Almost "A's"

Ask your girlfriend if you don't get it.

Microsoft to splurge $75m on computer training for kids

Maybe they need to quit hiring all of those H1-B visa people

So these kids will have a job when they grow up.

AT&T grabs dictionary, turns to 'unlimited', scribbles it out, writes: '22GB a month'

yes this is correct

"in some cases alleged to be as low as 3–5GB"

I have seen it on mine. The funny thing is I can't see how much I use. When I check my usage on their website it just says unlimited. When I check it on my phone I just see some outrageous number.

I blame Clash of Clans.

Files on Seagate wireless disks can be poisoned, purloined – thanks to hidden login

Re: That picture

Thermite might be hard to get. Tannerite is easier.

http://www.explodingtargets.org/exploding-target-recipe/

Attention sysadmins! Here’s how to dodge bullets in a post-Ashley Madison world

Why do people use work email for personal use?

I could understand it in the old days. Now I just use my phone.

Fiat Chrysler recalls THOUSANDS more cars to swerve hack-my-brakes roadkill

@Mark 85

Thanks. I needed a smile today.

Black and blue: The rise of the riotous Richard Pryor

the union grievance scene from blue collar is the best

Everyone I know who has worked in a union shop will tell you that scene is spot on. My Dad spent his life working in factories and he thought that was one of the best movies he had ever seen.

Big trouble in big China: Crashing economy in Middle Kingdom body slams US tech stocks

You missed this about Cook.

The SEC might want to talk to him.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-ceo-tim-cook-may-have-violated-sec-rules-with-jim-cramer-email-2015-08-24

Mohawk Valley, NY to become the new Silicon Valley in fab fab deal

So how many jobs....

....does NY get for $1.5 billion dollars