Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

US judges say you can Google Google, but you can't google Google

What will happen when Duck Duck Go takes over as the first choice of search engine?

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

@Mark 110

All very well but what happens when the vendor goes out of business?

Beaten passenger, check. Dead giant rabbit, check. Now United loses cockpit door codes

Re: "t took a few thousand deaths for the airlines to get their acts together."

I have always been a little surprised that Emirates issues splendid metal knives and forks with its (economy class) meals.

While Microsoft griped about NSA exploit stockpiles, it stockpiled patches: Friday's WinXP fix was built in February

Re: Plenty of blame to go around

False analogy. A car sold with a serious braking fault falls under the same kind of regulation that applies to any item that is not suitable for use when purchased (even if the flaw only becomes apparent after a period of time). A closer analogy would be the development of methods to overcome car locking and security systems which may well have been state of the art / undefeatable at the time of purchase.

Take a sneak peek at Google's Android replacement, Fuchsia

Re: A wonderful name

Hail handleoclast. You have kept a smile on my lips despite all those disapproving readers.

Now, which syllable has the emphasis in macadamia?

Need the toilet? Wanna watch a video ad about erectile dysfunction?

Re: Always use the disabled toilets

Comes from the same stable as "This door is alarmed".

PC sales are up across Europe. You read that right. PC sales are up

Re: Brexiteer

"going forth bravely"

Foolhardily, more like.

Prisoners built two PCs from parts, hid them in ceiling, connected to the state's network and did cybershenanigans

Re: 2 PC's what?

When I were a lad, P.C. stood for Police Constable as in Dixon of Dock Green.

Crafty Fokker: Norfolk surgeon builds Red Baron triplane replica

Re: The actual quote from his wife

There was another quote by her that I saw in another newspaper along the lines of "Of course we will all be there for its first flight but I just hope he doesn't expect me to go up in it with him".

Re: You have to love...

The same attitude is not uncommon in, for example, violin makers. Tiny files and blades are fashioned from domestic items in order to do a particular job then carefully labelled and stored for the next time.

Alabama man gets electrocuted after sleeping with iPhone

Re: and things like chargers tend to have plastic prongs with metal tops.

The video that you link to shows a plug being inserted upside down into the earth socket so that the shutters on the the other two sockets are opened. If the earth pin on the plug was triangular in cross section (or any other shape where the two sides are not parallel), this would not be possible.

BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'

Re: Being on a placement myself...

An example of the Irregular Illogical Illiterate Apostrophe:

"teas and coffee's".

New plastic banknote plans now upsetting environmental campaigners

Re: Well at least the palm oil means...

Well, the value goes down while it is in your pocket, so, no difference? (No relevance to the fact that I am Scottish).

You are not alone. It must be the single most common chemical spelling error (based, anecdotally) on quite a number of years teaching the subject. Closely matched by "seperate".

Bloke whose drone was blasted out of sky by angry dad loses another court battle for compo

Re: always adding extra syllables

Clicky Ba, was it not? In the Hotspur or one of its stablemates, Since it was around 60 years ago, I cannot remember the name of the (Oriental?) character who wielded this amazing instrument of war.

New iPad revealed. Big price cut is main feature

Re: Same Old Tricks?

I am sympathetic to your point about politicians use of words. My pet hate at present is the indefinite article pronounced "ay" instead of "ah".

Re: Same Old Tricks?

The oldest copy of Chambers Dictionary (published 1972) that I have at home includes definition of differential as a noun as well as an adjective and gives as an example "pay or price differential".

The phrase has therefore been in use for around half a century at least and probably rather longer in order to become sufficiently well established to get into the dictionary.

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

Re: Disaster Waiting to Happen

"the hubster's porn filled web surfing history"

As I read it, the phrase you have quoted is sexually non-specific.

User lubed PC with butter, because pressing a button didn't work

Re: Always be nice to the IT folks.

In a chemistry laboratory, the equivalents, I found were the Stores and the glassblowing service.

Watt the f... Dim smart meters caught simply making up readings

Slack journalism

Am I the only person to be disappointed to find that the article is an attempt at sensationalisation of a politically sensitive topic and disappointed that the editors of The Register have allowed themselves to be used in this way?

FAKE BREWS: America rocked by 'craft beer' scandal allegations

Re: "India Pale Ale went *to* India"

It's called India Pale Ale, not Indian Pale Ale.

Florida Man jailed for 4 years after raking in a million bucks from spam

According to Chambers Dictionary pled is an alternative to pleaded ("Spenser, Scot, US and dialect").

It is commonly used in reports of Scottish court cases so presumably is the term used in court.

Vivaldi and me: Just browsing? Nah, I'm sold

Default browser

Running W10 Pro here; the only times I have had my default browser switched back from FF to Edge were at the big update last year and one occasion when I got things into a horrible mess and did a clean reinstall.

I might try Vivaldi again having had a go with it in the early days of its introduction.

The best of Reg readers' David Hockney-style logo redesigns

Oh dear

Unfortunately, I have the images blocked.

RAF pilot sent jet into 4,000ft plummet by playing with camera, court martial hears

Re: Low level loss of concentration

That could have been the same aircraft that scared the shit out of me and numerous others as we were playing cricket.The most frightening thing was the noise.

A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Sod off, BBC!

unit of slowness

I have a friend who is renowned for his slow but steady pace of ascent when hill walking. His surname has become the standard unit of slowness among his circle of friends (but with the first letter in lower case, of course).

Trump's cartoon comedy approach to running a country: 'One in, two out' rule for regulations

Re: I like it @Mikel

Your Father the deity?

Microsoft Germany says Windows 7 already unfit for business users

Re: Enough Whining.

If it's so important (or frequently used), why do you have to search for it every time? Why not have it on the task bar so that a single click gives you what you want? And that applies equally to W7, does it not?

BBC surrenders 'linear' exclusivity to compete with binge-watch Netflix

Re: End of the TV Licence

At least you can now arrange the comments from oldest first.

Anti-smut law dubs PCs, phones 'pornographic vendor machines', demands internet filters

Re: Prudishness, or business?

I am keeping a count of the the number of times I find where the name of the heavy metal element, symbol Pb, atomic number 82 is used instead of led as the past participle of the verb "to lead". Currently approaching 30 in not much over a year.

Man jailed for 3 days after Texas cops confuse cat litter for meth

Re: I carry a whole bag in winter

It gets you out of the shit?

Florida Man sues Verizon for $72m – for letting him commit identity theft

Re: Nice to see...

Except

1. Usually the leaders of each party are settled before a general election so it could be argued that voters are actually voting for a prime minister despite the fact that their cross is beside the name of someeone else. Much of the election publicity produced by parties before an election is based on this idea.

2. The past tense of lead (pronounced leed) is led. Lead (pronounced led) is a heavy metal, symbol Pb, atomic number 82).

Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya

Re: Monkey Photo

copyright

Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'

Re: Apology or not, results are the same

I speak as someone who has never awarded either an upvote or a downvote in any online discussion forum because I believe the system is silly and childish and should, of course, be scrapped.

In the case of the Register, I also think that many people click on these because of their prejudices (justified or not) about the subject of the post and not as a balanced assessment of its truth/accuracy etc. But that would mean having to read them all to find out what they actually say.

Support chap's Sonic Screwdriver fixes PC as user fumes in disbelief

Re: There is no such verb as "to helm"

OK, but what about the contributor (above) who refers to "dissembling" a computer?

This reminds me of a chemical equivalent (no pun there for chemists); one particular lecturer I recall was always very insistent that ionic compounds disassociate in aqueous solution rather than the slightly shortened version that was in common use.

Did webcam 'performer' offer support chap payment in kind?

Re: Oh tomato tohmahto..

There are some words that just don't go well with the -i plural ending. After a little bit of research using a crossword solver, I think that it has a lot to do with the last couple of letters before -us. Some word endings are found commonly in Latin and even made up names (like plant names) that have such endings suit an -i plural. Even so, the -uses plural sounds just as good to me in many cases.

The majority of -us words (nouns) seem to be more suited to the -i plural. Here are some that I think are not:

virus, chorus, hiatus, omnibus (and bus, of course), rhombus, phallus, isthmus, tetanus, grampus, octopus (YES), papyrus, quietus, hibiscus, meniscus and platypus.

You can't trust news on Facebook – and (once again) you can't trust its web ad metrics

Plural

Thank heavens they have got the plural of abacus correct. None of this faux Latin stuff.

London's Winter Wonderland URGENTLY seeks Windows 10 desk support

Re: Maybe Oops?

To quote more accurately, one is an accident, two is coincidence and three is sheer bloody carelessness.

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

Pejorative or what?

What is the difference between Microsoft distributing (or some other neutral word to describe what they did) and "sneaking out" a patch? One is journalism and the other is propaganda.

The Dread Server BlackBerry Enterprise is no more

I tyhought at first it was Blackberry Pi.

Military reservist bemoans frost-bitten baby-maker on Antarctic trek

Re: Cross-country skiers have similar issues

I can recall coming back indoors after playing football on wet snow and weeping with agony - and that was only as my feet warmed up.

Re: You just have to...

Thought the first t was an f.

Men! If you want to win at board games this Christmas, turn off the rock music – scientists

Says it all

"Men who listened to AC/DC....."

What did they expect to discover/

Busted Windows 8, 10 update blamed for breaking Brits' DHCP

Re: Not just BT

BTW, for other readers, find the option hidden away here, Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\System Settings "Turn on fast startup (recommended)"

Not in my version of Windows 10. Control Panel/Power Options then Choose what the power button does/Change settings that are currentlu unavailable.

Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

Re: From a user's point of view...

Billy?

Re: From a user's point of view...

Historically, it means the same as "bin" as in Osama bin Laden.

Re: 2IC's name

The Burmese man I came across called U Nu.

Plastic fiver: 28 years' work, saves acres of cotton... may have killed less than ONE cow*

Re: Not much of a chemist then?

The most annoying thing about US banknotes is that they are all the same size.

Eugene Kaspersky is now personally defending your feet

Non-interchangeable

Has anyone else noticed a trend in recent years for socks with a symbol/logo on one side? Presumably these are intended to be worn with the logo on the outside which means that you have perforce defined right and left socks. This goes against the idea that, even if they are put away folded together in the sock drawer, you don't have to worry which one goes on which foot while fumbling around getting dressed in the semi-darkness of a winter morning trying not to waken the still slumbering occupant of the bed.

So, no thanks. I perefer my socks ambidextrous (ambipodous?).

Google's Chromecast Audio busted BT home routers – now it has a fix

Re: BT Homehubs and Amazon Echo

I would echo all that has ben said about the reliability of BT routers (although I do not use Google Chromecast). Like Michael H, I had a different SSID for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands but since the latest (SmartHub or HH6), I do not apear to be able to do this.