Posts by fruitoftheloon

2015 Fiat 500 fashionista, complete with facelift

@Vordan

Vordan,

There is a clue in the URL matey: .co.uk

It really isn't that complicated...

Regards,

Jay

Your security is just dandy, Apple Pay, but here comes Android

@SadCase...

Blimey,

are you quite sure about that?

Pleased with your Apple dividends recently?

Just wondered...

@Blank reg: Re: Existing cards

Blank,

likewise, my bank rang me after brekkie, they were fairly sure I hadn't initiated the transaction due to it being circa two in the morning (which historical data suggested would be a little unlikely for me).

On several other occasions over the lasat ten years or so, my bank (First Direct) have called me within minutes of me making a given (legitimate) transaction.

Which I think is jolly good!

Cheers,

jay

Err what? leave my wallet at home

Methinks there is a slight flaw here (and not with the 'security')

I somehow doubt that even if I were fortunate enough to find that all commercial entities I interacted with on a given day would accept it, I sure as fekk wouldn't leave my wallet at home.

Methinks the 'regurgitated press release' quotient is a little higher than usual today.

/end cynicism

Sod the law! We'll crack on with our metadata witchhunts, growl cops

He's been a very naughty boy

Because the fekker GOT CAUGHT!!!

As to the plebs dropping a piece of orange peel, driving 1mph over the limit, having the temerity to challenge a copper's knowledge of the law, having your dna recorded because the copper in question didn't have enough arrests for the week.

YOU'RE NICKED SONNY...

The 'penalty' for the law-breakers in question will no doubt be something along the lines of: cessation of biscuit rations and a slap on the back all round...

/rant

From doodles to designs – sketch it out with a stylish stylus

@Phuq: Re: They're All Shit

Phuq,

I'm with you on that...

Our preferred (can't afford a Cintiq) solution, is a fabby Wacom (Bamboo) pen to work with a Samsung NotePro, the missus is a very capable artist (was a reluctant convert to the digital world), she absolutely loves it.

Plus the wacom bamboo pen also works great with my Note 2 etc

I use it for note taking and sketching out ideas/mind maps etc. Small boy enjoys using it for doodles etc

There is an area of the screen around the button where goes a bit weird, that aside it is an awesome combination.

Ymmv.

Jay

Smartphones are ludicrously under-used, so steal their brains

@Simon Harris: Re: Meh

Simon,

quite, our whizzy [black]goods washing machine has umpteen programs, of which we use in descending order:

- mixed

- cottons

- delicates

Have one on me, I was wondering if I were the only one that views some of this whizzy-doodah intereconnectedness as pointless complexity...

/rant

Jay

'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers – barmy prof

Meanwhile, back in the real world....

A study suggests that many people would like to have a partner who was very good looking, loaded, not selfish, excellent at looking after (and making) sprogs, awesome in the sack and not at all likely to cheat on them...

7/7 memories: I was on a helpdesk that day and one of my users died

@Shadow Systems: Re: To all those affected on that day...

Sir,

have a (softie) pint on me...

Kind regards,

jay

Thank you

Kelly,

many thanks for sharing your memory with us.

Kind regards,

jay

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who

Paid by the word????

Is it me, or does this 'review' need a review, or at the very least a sub to send it back to the author with 'have another go' on the draft in VERY BIG RED LETTERS?

Ymmv.

Jay

Kobo Glo HD vs Amazon Kindle Paperwhite: Which one's best?

Checkout bookbub.com

Folks,

May I suggest that you check out bookbub.com, everyday I receive an email with info about relevant books on promo etc. There is some tatt there, but quite a bit of good stuff too...

Btw I have no €£ interest in their company...

Ymmv.

Jay.

Apple Music: First three months for free? We lasted less than 3 hours

@Mage: Re: Meh or just a me too service?

Mage,

Our household heartily disagrees with your statement, we have all of our desired tunes on a number of on/offline boxen for 10 squids a month.

There is no way it would be more economical and less hassle for us to buy what we listen to and have it available as we do now...

Not everyone has the same reqs as you matey!!!

Cheers,

Jay

Linux Mint 17.2: If only all penguinista desktops were done this way

@Phoenix: Re: Goodness.

Phoenix,

'gushing', 'orifice', yup sums up your post pretty well.

Perhaps the author wrote it as such because the thing being reviewed is ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD.

It ain't rocket surgery matey, some of us choose tools (physical, computers, software) based on their abilillty to meet our subjective requirements and get some work done; as opposed to some weird pseudo-religious drivel levelled against anything that differs to 'the chosen OS'.

Please carry on...

Regards,

jay

@AC (the village idiot)

Dear AC,

I haven't met you.

That makes me happy!

Cheers,

jay

Sprint: Our 'unlimited' mobe plan has one tiny limit: High-quality video

@Frank ly: Re: What about torrent downloads?

Frank,

methinks that grandma and bubba may find getting stuff from torrents a little more challenging than Netflix...

Torrenting etc is fine for us techies and the 'yewf', but f'all use for most other folk!

Jay

Universal Credit white elephant needs 'urgent breakthrough' says MP

@El Fev: Re: When did the Register become the mouthpiece of a failed labour party??

El Fev,

ooi what do you do for a living?

I trust you don't have much experience of appraising something that is basically cream crackered?

Some of us around here know a thing or three about sorting out shagged, pointless, missguided, poorly managed, absurdly optimistic programmes.

And what is with the 'Labour mouthpiece' bollocks??

Have you had your meds today?

Kind regards,

jay

Subaru Outback Lineartronic: The thinking person’s 4x4

@MJI Re: Questions - Real 4x4 Gumby

MJI,

that's nice for you.

Ooi what do you consider a 'proper off roader' to be?

Yes I lurve Defenders too, but (re my previous posts), didn't get one for us because it does not meet our requrements, and Defenders are great until they start to rust...

Ymmv.

Cheers,

jay

10k AVs Re: Questions

10kAVs,

I may be missing something, please elucidate.

Kind regards,

jay.

@Ac Re: Questions

Ac,

Pre 1999 jeep grand cherokees had uber-soft suspension, our 2004 grand cherokee can corner surprisingly well if you set it up for the corner properly....

Yes I know it is an oxymoron.

Cheers,

Jay

We forget NOTHING, the Beeb thunders at Europe

FF22: Re: Lawsuits inbound

Ff,

Please pay attention, you have missed the point BY MILES, please do some homework...

Regards,

Jay

Hi-res audio folk to introduce new rules and weed out impure noises

@Timbo: Re: Dynamic Range

Timbo,

I have long been a Buddy Holly fan, and have also wondered how they were recorded in such an amazing way...

Have one on me.

Cheers,

Jay

10 things you need to avoid SNAFUs in your data centre

@Mangler: Re: my ha'penny

Mangler,

I don't recall exactly but she lost an argy-bargy with a whole forest of ugly-trees..

Cheers,

Jay

my ha'penny

Very helpful indeed!

My fave relevant war story relates to 2001ish when I was a pm responsible for upgrading a region of HMRC (the UK version on the IRS) desktops to the latest whizz bang version etc.

Every morning I would lug my coffee machine into the relevant office and would dish out the (usually) still warm pastries to my crew that were swapping out the kit, it helped to get them in at f'ing early o'clock EVERY DAY.

At a regional progress review meeting a senior HMRC manager had a major strop about public money being used to provide breakfast for contractors.

I pointed out that it was my machine, and I paid for the coffee and pastries out of my own pocket...

The look on her face as as most of her colleagues laughed at her was a joy to behold.

Cheers,

jay

Microsoft releases free Office apps for half of all Android phones

@ kryptylomese Re: "Hate fest"...?

kryptylomese,

what exactly has Linux 'won'?

Just wondered...

jay

@ kryptylomese: Re: "Hate fest"...?

K,

I think the reference is to CHOOSING to use Linux.

Toyota sell a lot more cars than Bentley, if someone else were paying for it, I know what I would prefer...

Says he typing on Lenovo thingy with win 8.1, at home there are: 1 x Mint HTPC, ubuntu media & myth tv server, 1 x MacPro AV editing box.

Ymmv, vive la difference matey!

Jay

Guy puts 1990s MacOS 7 on an Apple Watch – without jailbreaking it

@Youngone: Re: I miss System 7

Y,

indeed, back in the day (when I had hair), I used to refer to my trusty Mac SE (with 19 inch screen no less!!!) as a Grapple Crashintosh...

I don't recall the particular version of 6.x it was, I do recall how f'ing unreliable it was.

Cheers,

jay

FBI says in secret that secret spy Cessnas aren't secret

@Ac (the thick one) Re: Works 4 me

Ac,

You are a plonker of the first order.

Also as you are abfab with your government tracking everything you do.

WTF are you posting as an AC?

Do you have something to hide?

Cheers,

Jay

'Lemme tell you about my trouble with girls ...' Er, please don't, bro-ffin

@Bahboh: Re: Pot, Kettle - The Register's next

Bahboh,

Ooi do you have any daughters?

Just wondered...

The thing about Apple's 'one MORE thing'? It's a streaming music thing

@DougS: Re: Anyone know if it supports caching?

Doug,

Spotify (premium) works just dandy offline on our various non-ios devices...

Ymmv.

J.

Google: Our self-driving cars would be tip-top if you meatheads didn’t crash into them

IanDs:freedomRe: I love the idea

Ian,

Yay, smokers and their freedom, there is an interesting concept.

Wifey lost ~30% of her lung capacity due to a relatively common condition.

If she (involuntarily) gets a lung full of someone else' smoke, a trip to casualty may beckon.

How would you reconcile that with 'smokers rights'?

Just wondered....

Regards,

Jay

Charles the ninth: Re: @1980s coder: @ Idiot ac: Defensive driving

Charlie,

Will do, thanks for the pointer!

Cheers.

Jay

Phick with: Re: @ Idiot ac: Defensive driving

Pw,

Yay, with you there bro, one takes pleasure from the fact that someone else f'ing got it...

Have one one me, btw would you believe it, my favepub in da village, £2.50 per pint..

Cheers,

Jay

@ Pookietoo: Re: you're prepared in any event.

Pookietoo,

Yay, but that is focussed on vehicles that have five rings on the bonnet/hood...

Cheers,

Jay

@Len Goddard: Re: Assumptions

Len,

I am with you on that one matey.

A while ago I had a gratis motorbike lesson, basically to see if I had the basic coordination needed.

The instructor asked if I had ever riden a motorbike at all, my answer was "no, but I have regularly cycled through central London", his reply was "you'll be fine then..."

Cheers,

Jay

@1980s coder: Re: @ Idiot ac: Defensive driving

I was being ironic (perhaps too ironic...)

Also I will lookup a nipkov disc tomorrow, it sounds jolly interesting.

Have one on me.

Cheers,

Jay

@ Idiot ac: Re: Defensive driving

Dear Ac,

Having considered your narrative, may I make a few observations:

- if googles plan to develop autonomous cars is so shit, why don't you show them where they went wrong? I am sure they would appreciate your sage thoughts

- were it not for homo sapiens pushing the boundaries (and occasionally tripping over them) WE WOULD BE STILL LIVING IN CAVES watching TV by candlelight...

It is called 'evolution'

Btw how did your last Nobel committee nomination go??

Regards,

Jay

Ed Snowden should be pardoned, thunders Amnesty Int'l

@Smooth newt: Re: @Boltar

Sn,

Yup, kinda what I was alluding to.

Have one on me.

Cheers,

Jay

@Apptitude: Re: He's a traitor

So I can presume that you worship at the altar of J Edgar Hoover and the agencies can do no wrong?

Just wondered....

Jay

@Boltar: Re: Sometimes it helps to be old

Boltar,

"Government agencies have always done as they pleased and always will do"

That's fine then isn't it?

Do you have ANY CONCERNS re what the agencies are up to?

Regards,

Jay

Otto: Re: What he did.

Otto,

Where do we start?

'He stole info on everything', amazing, you seem to have more info on what he purloined than the NSA do!!!

The fact that relevant agencies can do something does not mean that THEY SHOULD...

I remem well IRA bombs going off in London, I have had a bomb go off 15 yards from my desk (I was working from home at the time).

An uncle just missed getting splatted by an IRA bomb in London.

They are called TERRORISTS, hence if you LET THEM change your life, they have won.

The odds of getting splatted by a terrorist are so f'ing low the populace would be safer if all kids were given mandatory lessons on how to cross roads and ride a bike in public.

The purpose of our agencies is apparently to keep us safe, how has that worked out for the USA and UK?

Btw who funded (most of the) the IRA activity?

Why has ISIL come about?

Where have ISIL got a lot of weapony from?

@Lord Lucan: Re: @Boltar

My Lord,

Worth a go, however I do rather suspect that you overtaxing Boltar's intellect somewhat...

I have many faults, one of them isn't acknowledging that one or more of my previous opinions may have been a bit duff.

Your humble servant,

Jack the ripper

@Boltar: Re: @Boltar

Boltar,

I don't recall a newspaper headline or parliamentary/congressional inquest statement along the lines of:

"Commie/nork unpleasant people" tracked down and gave our (insert name of 'dead' spy), a right f'ing good going over, all because of that Snowden bloke".

Of course it is possible that this may have happened, but if it did, do you think it would have been "accidentally leaked" by now?

Regards,

Jay

@Boltar

Boltar,

What evidence you have re your statement that 'he put operatives lives at risk'?

J

@ma2010: Re: Sometimes it helps to be old

Ma,

Well said, it is genuinely scary about the number of people who still don't get it...

Have one on me.

Cheers,

Jay.

Meanwhile, back in the real world....

Well, it isn't going to happen, a few reasons being:

- way too many big ($) interests have far too much invested to find another hole in the road to bliss right in front of them

- can you imagine how many people would lose their jobs across the globe if there was an objective assesment of how effective the whole war on privacy, sorry I meant terror actually is?

- even if POTUS did want to go 'oops, sorry, I dropped a bollock there...', how often does a Politician admit to having made a bad call?

But hey, we can live in hope (for the moment anyway).

Jay.

Why did Snowden swipe 900k+ US DoD files? (Or so Uncle Sam claims)

@Ac: Re: I know I'm in a minority on here

Ac,

I would respect you a (very) small bit if you had the balls to at least not hide behind the cowards' curtain.

You are so empty-headed, naive and intellectually shallow that I am genuinely in awe of your stupidity...

I am currently decorating our kitchen, and have met spiders that are brighter than you.

Carry on in your state of bliss, I hope the reality of what is brewing does not bite you or yours on the derriere, 'cos you ain't going to see it coming...

/feels better

Jay

Science teacher jammed his school kids' phones, gets week suspension

@Yetanotherlocksmith: Re: Whatever happened to 'respect'???

Hi,

You DO NOT have to answer the phone, it needs to be answered by someone else or go into voicemail...

Btw I am a sparky so I do get where you are coming from.

Cheers,

J

Smartwatch biz Pebble says smartwatch biz Apple won't approve its new app – surprise

@Ac: Re: Well done Apple!

Ac,

Q: How many wrists do you have?

A: more than that of your IQ I presume...

J.

@Ac: Re: Is this really going to affect many people?

Ac,

You are an idiot, and a wuss too, what is with the AC???

Jay.