Posts by WereWoof

AI can now tell if you're a criminal or not

Sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dy9URkLFI

US citizens crash Canadian immigration site after Trump victory

Coming soon, The White House to be renamed The Trump mansion, and Washington D.C to be renamed Trumpton!

Fleeing Aussie burglar shot in arse with bow and arrow

I used to be a burglar till I got an arrow in the . . . . .

Tesla's big news today:
sudo killall -9 Autopilot

"...including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency BREAKING . ." Sighs

Think virtual reality is just about games? Think again, friend

many years ago at Disneworld in florida we always made this a must see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-Vision_360%C2%B0

Adventures in (re) naming your business: Fire up the 4-syllable random name generator

New Zealand Immigration Service NZIS which spellcheckers changed to NAZIS.

Star Trek's Enterprise turns 50 and still no sign of a warp drive. Sigh

Personally I am still waiting for the DoubleKay drive ((KK or Kurita - Kinoshita Drive):

http://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/spacecraftouterframe.htm

See also http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php for a description

Watch the world's biggest 'flying bum' go arse over tit in a crash

Airship vs fixed wing "It`s an entirely different type of flying altogether"

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

Re: @ Greg D

Thank you for "twatbadgers" It made my day. I must remember that next time someone annoys me at work :)

Did mock cop bot trot on fraught tot? Maybe not

How long before a "Chopping Mall" style incident? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopping_Mall

Space station to get shiny new ringpiece for automatic penetration

Will it only let them dock if the computer talks dirty to it?

Airbus to build plane that's even uglier than the A380

I give you the de Havilland Dragon Rapide. Absolutely gorgeous. Or for a jet, Vickers VC10.

'Planet nine' theory boosted by Kuiper Belt Object with odd orbit

I wonder what part of peoples lives astrologers will claim this alleged planet controls?

Plucky cable billionaires defeat menace of small-town broadband

The Chatanooga choo choo has been derailed.

The monitor didn't work but the problem was between the user's ears

I did have a manager once who decided to move his PC and connected the parasite power lead meant to power the monitor back into his PC then wondered why neither his PC or his monitor would power up.

Boeing just about gives up on the 747

VC10

Vickers VC10, Now that was a beautiful aircraft to travel in back in the day (1970). B.O.A.C Junior jet Club member and I still have the FREE cabin bag you got given! Those were the days *sighs* 1st flight was in a 707, also flew in Chalks Seaplanes on Nassau - Miami-Nassau route. That, too, was a wonderful experience.

If it still works six months from now, count yourself lucky

Beer

You, Alistair, owe me a new keyboard for "bacon-scented banana hammock", but have a pint on me for making me laugh like a maniac!

Why Microsoft yanked its latest Windows 10 update download: It hijacked privacy settings

"Recently we learned of an issue that could have impacted an extremely small number of people who had already installed Windows 10 and applied the November update," a spokesperson told The Register on Tuesday. = Oh Bugger, they noticed.

Volvo eyes kangaroo detection tech

Moose

This reminds me of this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2AXGwacBs0

That is all.

Lawyers harrumph at TalkTalk's 'no obligation to encrypt' blurt

Re: All hot air, no action

You forgot to mention pig porking.

Nippy, palaver and cockwomble: Greatest words in English?

Old but good.

One word I only heard once (used by maternal grandmother to describe a girl she knew) and saw in print a few times that I took a shine to is "Flibbertigibbet", It just rolls off the tongue marvellously!

Good news: Adobe bangs out Flash patch fast. Bad news: Google's defenses were useless

With the number of patches flash has had over the years there must be none of the original code left, it seems that they are now patching patches that patched previous patches.

iOS malware YiSpecter: iPhones menaced by software nasty

A Geordie creation?

YiSpecter - Why Aye Man!

Asia-focussed Chinese PLA hacking crew surfaces

Tooting Popular Front?

AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October

Re: Why on earth do people still expect decent software to be free?

It is partly due to the paid software containing disclaimers like "If we let a virus through, not our fault","If an update stops your pc from booting, not our problem", "If our software trashes you data, Tough, you are on your own" (I`m looking at you Norton)

Viper sinks fangs into unwary Indian farmer's todger

This is what happens when you piss off a snake, or should that be on?

Don't want to upgrade to Windows 10? You'll download it WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

No doubt the next step will be, once the files are downloaded, you reboot your machine one day and voila! enforced upgrade to windows 10 with no user intervention required.

Stench of confiscated dope overwhelms Catalan cop shop

Send it all to me and I will dispose of it in a series of small carefully controlled fires over a period of time.

Canned laughter for Canadians selling cans of air at $15 a pop

Makes me think of doing something like this, along the lines of Peckham Spring Water perhaps but with air, I have a nice compressor at home so I can sell high pressure air to rejuvenate your home and make it smell of spring freshness, Ideal for those trying to sell their homes! (I do wonder if BBC sold off the prop bottles for that episode).

People bored of mobes, say magic quadrant wizards

Re: Bored "with"?

You get things for nothing or you get things free, you do NOT get them for free . . . And don`t get me started on the ridiculous pre-order.

You forgot people confusing affect/effect, break/brake and the one that really annoys me loose/lose.

Comet 67/P CAKED in LIFE-GIVING RUBBLE, say astroboffins

The mission may not have gone entirely as planned, but I am still in awe of what has been achieved.

Flash deserves to live, says Cisco security man

"Use the force Luke" - Adobe Wan Kenobe.

Microsoft Edge web browser: A well-presented mea culpa

The Microsoft Windows Experience now includes a charge for Windows games if you want them Advert free.

Three-mile-high pyramid found on alien dwarf world, baffles boffins

Pyramid? It must be one of the System Lords . ...

Today's smart home devices are too dumb to succeed

Re: Interface

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.

Get off the phone!! Seven out of ten US drivers put theirs and your lives at risk

Re: the real problem is that people don't know how to drive any more

You drive with your eyes closed?

High on bath salts, alleged Norse god attempts tree love

"A Norse A Norse, My Kingdom for a Norse"

Flying cars will take to the skies in 2017, if government allows

The MAJOR obstacle is getting a pilots licence which you WILL need to fly it. Seeing how people ignore rules of the road can you really see them flying these safely?

Boffinry listicle MADNESS: ONE THING you need to know about CHAMELEONS

In The Tick episode Tick vs The Idea Men, Chameleons can`t do plaid.

Data retention: It seems BORING ... until your TV SPIES ON YOU

I wonder how many Smart Voice controlled spying devices will get a heavy object through the screen during flu season when your voice can change significantly, No disrespect to Glaswegians but understanding one isn`t that easy at the best of times, now imagine the TV pissing off a drunk Glaswegian who also has Flu . . . . Of course this can be seen as a bonus to the makers as it means they may sell one a year rather than one every few years.

US military SATELLITE suddenly BLOWS UP: 'Temperature spike' blamed

It was The Mysterons trying to destroy S.I.D again.

FBI fingering Norks for Sony hack: The TRUTH – by the NSA's spyboss

With apologies to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein & The Sound Of Music Fans

B. Obama: "How do you solve a problem like Korea?

How do you catch a clown and pin him down?"

Apple's 16GB iPhones are a big fat lie, claims iOS 8 storage hog lawsuit

Re: truth in storage

There was a class action suit against Western Digital for exactly this reason - "The class-action lawsuit against Western Digital Corporation involves the way the company reports hard drive capacity. For example, an 80GB model reported by the hard drive manufacturer will only hold 74.4GB of data, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. This is a known fact throughout the storage community and is no news to those of us who have ever bought or used a hard drive." They settled. ref:http://www.dailytech.com/Western+Digital+Settles+Drive+Capacity+ClassAction+Lawsuit/article3072.htm

Freedom of Info at 10: Tony Blair's WORST NIGHTMARE

Bur surely Mr. Blair, If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear!

Feds finger Norks in Sony hack, Obama asks: HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KOREA?

"North Korea’s actions were intended to inflict significant harm on a US business and suppress the right of American citizens to express themselves," the FBI concludes . . ." - I did not know Sony was American, learn something new everyday.

Super Cali's futuristic Tesla batt swap focus – even though car tech test is an expected bonus

Re: This is the only reasonable way it works

In reality what will happen is the power suppliers will do the same as happens with ISPs, use to much and you will be capped/traffic shaped and subject to a *fair use policy* rather than them spending money to improve the infrastructure so you can actually use the *unlimited* package that you have been sold!

RUMPY PUMPY: Bone says humans BONED Neanderthals 50,000 years B.C.

It just goes to show that some people with sh*g anything,

Vanished blog posts? Enterprise gaps? Welcome to Windows 10

I have been playing around with W10 for a few hours in a Virtual Box VM and Classic Shell works fine with this release, I haven`t done much testing with other software as really I do not use a great deal apart from PSP5 and Open office and a few other minor things. It installed very quickly using defaults (I set up a MS account specifically for this test machine) I am not to keen on the flat look, but then I am not often in the desktop except at start up and shut down and that is what themes are for after all! Frankly I have been much more pleases with the speed of W10 in a virtual machine than i was with VISTA on a bare metal install when that came out. It isn`t as pretty as 98/XP/Vista/7/8 but bear in mind it is not even an alpha release yet so a lot may change, Then again it may not . . . .

PHABBA-DABBA-DOO! Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Edge, Gear VR – feast your eyes

Re: Fab phones

Try an iPhone, There`s a waterproofing app for that ! *Evil Grin*