He ought to have got 10 years for wearing brown shoes with a dark suit.
Posts by HarryBl
144 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2013
IT consultant who deleted every account on UK company Jet2's domain cops 5 months in jail
When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games
Wednesday 11th December 2019 21:01 GMT
Re: AKA Libertarians
When I was in the merchant I went for a haircut in San Francisco. I asked the barber what the certificate on his wall was and he told me it was the state licence that said he was allowed to cut hair.
He was stunned when I told him all you needed to cut hair in the UK was a chair and a pair of scissors...
Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election
Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!
Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein
Friday 13th September 2019 17:28 GMT
I used to work for a company that installed Windows networks into GP surgeries. We'd go in and install the kit and give the staff a quick whiz round the desktop before the proper training took place.
This was at a time when personal computers were quite rare in people's homes so the staff weren't particularly familiar with Windows.
I will never forget the female receptionist who was quite happy moving the mouse pointer from left to right by moving the mouse from left to right but couldn't understand why the pointer didn't move up the screen when she lifted the mouse off the desk...
Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs want folk to bargain over broadband
Friday 23rd August 2019 18:19 GMT
Re: Marketing lies
I called Virgin last week to do a bit of haggling and the woman from the Philippines tried to convince me that I'd be better off paying £20 more than I was.
I told her to cancel my account and was immediately put through to 'accounts' who asked me if a 60% reduction on my bill for the next year would be acceptable...
Facebook: The future is private! So private, we designed some handy new fingercams for y'all!
UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials
Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default
Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one
Tractors, not phones, will (maybe) get America a right-to-repair law at this rate: Bernie slams 'truly insane' situation
Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada
Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35
Sunday 31st March 2019 00:23 GMT
Re: Easy to hack ...................
I don't know. I'm British and it didn't sound like a joke to me. It just sounded like the usual uninformed bullshit that passes for fact round here.
Perhaps you ought to read the results of this years Red Flag
https://theaviationist.com/2019/02/16/the-first-reports-of-how-the-f-35-strutted-its-stuff-in-dogfights-against-aggressors-at-red-flag-are-starting-to-emerge/
Blighty's most trusted brand? Yeah, you wish, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system ruling
China still doesn't want iPhones despite Apple slashing prices, say market watchers
Where's Zero Cool when you need him? Loose chips sink ships: How hackers could wreck container vessels
Thursday 21st February 2019 16:17 GMT
Re: Serious infrastructure carnage
I was a 'freight guy' for 10 years and everybody on board called them ships.
I've never sailed with anyone who called them vessels in every day speech.
'Vessel' is reserved for logs or other official documents.
Sometimes (shock horror) we even called them boats as in box boats or gas boats.
What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse
Wednesday 2nd January 2019 20:41 GMT
I did it for 10 years as a radio officer in the merchant. Once you're reasonably competent the letters just form in your head. It's a bit like speaking another language.
In audio morse there's a plateau at about 12 words per minute where your brain switches from hearing dit dah dit as 3 separate sounds to the letter R fully formed.
After that you can lag enough to be able to write whole words at once rather than separate letters
+ VA
Take my advice and stop using Rubik's Cubes to prove your intelligence
Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
The Chinese are here: Xiaomi to bring phones to the UK next month
Monday 29th October 2018 18:34 GMT
"Chinese brands are notorious for their eccentric UIs, but Xiaomi has a decent story here. "
Xiaomi do two versions of some of the phones, one with their own UI and one with plain Android One. The Redmi 6 Pro has their UI whereas the Mi A2 Lite is the same hardware running Android One.
I bought a Mi A2 Lite off a UK seller on Ebay last month and am very pleased with it.
Code of conduct claims new Texas Instruments CEO after just six weeks
Registry to ban Cyrillic .eu addresses even if you've paid for them
First A380 flown in anger to be broken up for parts
Crappy IoT on the high seas: Holes punched in hull of maritime security
UK's Royal Navy accepts missile-blasting missile as Gulf clouds gather
'Every little helps'... unless you want email: Tesco to kill free service
FCC drops idiotic plans to downgrade entire nation's internet speeds
Surveillance law slip-up in sight for staff stalking citizens on socials
Coventry: Once a 'Ghost Town', soon to be UK City of Culture
El Reg assesses crypto of UK banks: Who gets to wear the dunce cap?
Aviation industry hits turbulence as Airbus buys into Bombardier’s new jetplanes
Software update turned my display and mouse upside-down, says user
Airplane bomb fears spark America's laptop, tablet carry-on ban
Tuesday 21st March 2017 15:55 GMT
From the Graun
"US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete. All three Middle Eastern airlines are among the carriers affected by the electronics ban."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
