Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

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.

Hackers electrocute selves in quest to turn secure doors inside out

Re: "Others interested in the field could leverage their work,"

As long as you pronounce it leeverage and not bloody American levverage.

'Post-truth' beats 'chatbot' to Word of the Year Crown

My word of the year

At irregular intervals I by reading and listening to news and comment programmes, I become aware that certain words have become fashionable. The current favourite is "decade". Count how many examples you come across in the next week or so.

British banks chuck smartphone apps out of Windows

Re: Wasted opportunity...

I think perfenestrate fits the situation more accurately (per = through, trans = across).

'Pavement power' - The bad idea that never seems to die

Foot power - the alternative

OK, so foot power is not scientifically feasible but here's an idea. What if all those millions of people sitting at desks all day had a treadle under the desk just like the old, mechanical sewing machines? How much electricity could be generated that way?

What went wrong at Tesco Bank?

Re: Gormless National Savings & investments

The only time I was ever a millionaire was in Vietnam where (at the time) there were about 30000 of the local currency to £1.

Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet

Re: "The scary thing about the US, is that it is such a big and powerful idiot."

@John Smith 19

As a chemist, It is always a surprise and a source of humour to me when I come across "lead" instead of led. Especially in a periodical that deals (partly) with scientific subjects. I am reminded of my favourite corny joke about the guy who was the lead guitarist in a heavy metal band.

Re: And we thought BREXIT was bad

@Anonymous Coward

After reading your rather odd comment, I have had another look through the article and could not find any statement or implication by the author that he wanted Clinton to win. What I found was a pretty straight, factual account of the run up to the election and an interesting additional piece of information about one particular group of voters who may have had some significant effect on the outcome of the election. If you read it the way you express in your comment, it seems to me to say more about your attitude than that of the author of the article.

Daily email missing

Daily email missing

I haven't received one since Tuesday (2nd November).

Smartmobe made 'intermittent bright flashes and a hissing noise' in Biz class seat

The reaction of lithium with water is pretty unexciting, Things get more vigorous as you go down the Group of the Periodic Table of which lithium is at the lightest element. Sodium and potassium can be safely demonstarated in a classroom but rubidium and caesium are video-only.

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

Re: agreed

Yes, "The Chambers Dictionary" does just that for me. First off, a definite article is a must - no name is really complete without one; then the actual name combining as it does memories of my old Latin teacher with the hint of allusion to the legal world and a touch of Russian Roulette; and finally, the clincher, "Dictionary" - punchy and right to the point. Couldn't be bettered.

Boy, 12, gets €100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense

Re: Twelve =/= teen

Based on the number of fingers and toes that the locals had on their hands/feet?

Reseller offered $$$ for old tech gear – then stiffed thousands with suddenly lower quotes

Re: Read slower

Better than saying that the offered price is "between 10 and 30 times smaller than..."

Should Computer Misuse Act offences committed in UK be prosecuted in UK?

Mirror image

What would happen if an American citizen on the autistic sprctrum and resident in USA successfully hacked into the files of some UK Government agencies?

A year living with the Nexus 5X – the good, the bad, and the Nougat

Plurals

Why do people get so confused about plurals? As a change from the now commonplace Illiterate Apostrophe, I see in this article a reference to "Nexii owners". N.B. virus - viruses, callus - calluses, campus - campuses etc.

???

Apart from the fact that Nexii is possibly the plural of some unknown word "Nexius", you don't talk about Volvos owners or Dysons owners. In fact, reading them back to myself, those last two phrases could perhaps be used to refer to the people who own the companies but there you would need an apostrophe as in "Volvo's owners..."

Using a different construction, however, you would say "the owners of Volvos or Dysons (or even Nexuses)".

Russian hackers target MH17 journalists for embarrassing Putin

Re: Journalists or Churnalists?

So what does that tell us about the Lockerbie disaster - that the plane was brought down by Scot Nats?

Sex is bad for older men, and even worse when it's good

Re: Doesn't anyone proof read anymore?

Or write clear, unambiguous English.

Sophos Windows users face black screens after false positive snafu

Re: I don't think RedHat, Mint or Linux are AV Software are they?

Viruses is the plural of virus, like omnibus (bus), callus, grampus etc. etc.

Super Cali goes ballistic, IT school is hopeless: Tech boot camp ITT frozen by edu officials

Re: The title is no longer required

Not sure if this was the first such example of a spoof on Supercalifragilistic....etc. but on 8th February 2000, Inverness Caledonian Thistle (then a second tier club) beat Celtic in Glasgow in the Scottish Cup. Next day, The Scottish Sun splashed the following headline: SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS.

Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

Re: Anyone who puts the milk in tea whilst the bag is still in the cup

I like the idea of a callus attack on a working man. Would he be a horny-handed son of the soil by any chance?

Re: Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

Agree completely. Mind you, stuff like Yorkshire Tea, Tetley's, Typhoo is such shite that putting milk in it is the only way to make it remeotely palatable.

Microsoft adds useful feature to PowerPoint. Seriously

Re: "add any other overly fancy use of language and management terms at will"

I have often found members of the armed forces to be very fond of unexplained acronyms.

Question: What's missing in Microsoft's data science professional degree?

Re: Is this..

Like product placement in television programmes.

Lindsay Lohan ‘happy’ to turn on Kettering

Tut, tut. Women in this profession are called actors nowadays.

Amazon's AWS cash machine embiggens, breezes past $2bn-a-quarter mark

Unoriginal

That's two headlines in the same issue with the word "embiggens".

Docker hired private detectives to pursue woman engineer's rape, death threat trolls

My son, when a student, had to give up a catering job after just a few days for exactly that reason (about 25 years ago).

Trouble at t'spinning rust mill: Disk drive production is about to head south

Re: t' glottal stop

au contraire to au contraire.

There are plenty of examples in the vdeo where the glottal stop is used as I recall it from my time spent living in the north of England. I would say that the occasions it is not used are when the performers are forcing the words to fit the rhythm of the music.

Obama to admit Moon landing was faked?

Re: in his 80's, with half a lung

Even though he's a left-footer?

Pothole campaigner sprays Surrey street with phallic paintings

Here in Perthshire, the council has responded to the pothole problem by changing the definition of a pothole from minimum 40cm diameter to minimum 60cm.

German lodges todger in 13 steel rings

Re: Did they first try using a thread?

Reminds me of the old medical joke about the attractive young female sudent carrying out dissection of the male genitalia in anatomy class. After a while, she calls over the demonstrator saying, "I can't find the bone."

Re: What a nob!

Knob?

David Cameron is a nob (and possibly also a knob, but that is a matter of opinion).

More and more Brits are using ad-blockers, says survey

Re: How do people use the web without an ad blocker?

I buy the actual paper edition of the Times each Saturday. First job is to run the mechanical adblock filter by going through it, taking out all the advertising supplements and binning them, unlooked at and unloved. Then, when reading the paper itself, my heart leaps with delight when I see a full page ad, knowing that I can ignore that page completely; even more so if it is a double page spread - I can turn over to the next page without even giving it a glance. The advertisers' "expensively created content" serves a good purpose - in the recycling bin - and has had minimal influence on my purchasing intentions.

Humans – 1 Robots – 0: Mercedes deautomates production lines

Re: I heard a rumor

Nothing so complicated. They were drinking and sleeping on night shifts when they should have been working.

Patch ASAP: Tons of Linux apps can be hijacked by evil DNS servers, man-in-the-middle miscreants

Re: I'll bet...

If we use double negatives, "I could care less" becomes "I couldn't care more". Doesn't it?

Or we read it as "I COULD care less (but I won't)"

This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs

Re: I had a user-written script for a National Instrument's interface box...

The full abbreviation C.U. was presumably used by Glasgow accountancy companies.

BT blames 'faulty router' for mega outage. Did they try turning it off and on again?

Re: 'Faulty Router'

@ Anthony Hegedus

That's funny.

I have a collection of BT-supplied routers going back about a dozen years to when I switched to wireless. All of them are still in perfect working order and the only lengthy hiccup I have experienced in that time (2 days out) was tracked down to a problem at the local exchange. The comment sounds like those that I see about Windows 10 - I hate BT because they are BT.

Police Scotland will have direct access to disabled parking badge database

Re: Safeguards? Pff, what an old-fashioned notion

Exactly. The blue badge goes with the individual not the car. I sometimes feel the same way as you mention when parking my car to go and collect my son from the swimming pool etc.