Posts by GrumpenKraut

Ich nicht bin Charlie: Facebook must crack down on racists, says Germany's Merkel

Re: Inappropriate response

It's not just hate speech, photos and addresses of people they want to see attacked are also posted.

Police have turned a blind eye(*) on nazi types in the last 25 years. I do hope this will change. Had it not been for police officers killed by them they'd just gone ahead, I am afraid.

(*) As in completely refusing to accept reports of nazi violence, even in most severe cases. In cases of killings by them (we have had more than 150 since 1990, quite possibly much more) they'd conveniently leave the "extreme right did this" box unchecked., hence badly skewed stats.

> ...Germany doesn't have freedom of speech

Erm, we do have free speech, it's in the law.

Some forms of hate propaganda are forbidden (as in "Kill all the [something]s!"). Nazi propaganda (and symbolism) is explicitly verboten, I cannot say I'd regret that.

Manchester fuzz 'truly sorry' for 'accidentally' hacking phone of whistleblower cop's girlf

Re: Been there - had that happen

> Every PC taken was returned broken

Not the first time I heard this. One more reason for off-site backup.

Ubuntu Wily gaggle builds 15.10 beta beachhead

Re: Here it comes?

> ... 16th 'year of linux' on my desktop though.

23rd year here. Remember computing the scan-line parameters for X11?

Icon for how old I feel all of a sudden.

Apple hypegasm countdown. What will the new, big iPad ACTUALLY be called?

Me:

> OT: ... spell-checking ...

Never mind, fixed now. Apologies for the noise.

Icon depicts myself.

> Lewis Page (he may even turn green sometimes).

...for a completely new definition of "green"?

OT: can anybody tell me why spell-checking doesn't work in the comment's here? Using iceweasel(firefox) and spell check works everywhere else.

Laminate this: Inside Argos' ongoing online (r)evolution

Re: Yodel ...

There are only few things that I consider a reason to fire an employee immediately, this is one.

Exact same situation for me, stopped the van on the road (blocked way), got my parcel (almost had to hurt the idiot). Guy was _still_ snotty after all of this. Other country, so not Yodel (funny name!).

US trade watchdog to FBI: 'You think the crims won't know about the backdoor too?'

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

So do I, in some morbid way. Jacket with loooong sleeves ==----->

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

> "and does not have an account now"

Let's assume that should have been "has his login disabled now".

> Maybe we'll hear something better next week.

I indeed hope so. Trying to bribe the mod with a beer ==------------------>

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

> Shadow Systems seems to be quite intact.

My (ahem, educated) guess is that disabling login will leave history and messages intact.

The only case I am aware of a "removal from history" was the user 'Eadon'. Even though I somewhat regret the chainsaw purge, I can understand that his insane repetitiveness led to him to being nuked from the orbit Reg-wise. He was a thermonuclear god-awful PITA if there ever was one.

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

In a part of the interwebs, far away from here, I work as an editor. I have to admit that there are things that make me suggest to ban an account. Personal threats is one of them (even if not directed towards me). Very strong (or persistent) insults can, at least on a bad/sad day, make me wish to kick somebody. We are all only humans.

Ho-hum, beer o'clock.

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

Neither of us seems to have seen the text before it was purged. As it might have been extreme(ly offending to the Reg) we should IMO not make any assumptions.

In the end it's their house, their rules.

Re: MODERATOR, please kill this post...

> ...because a page not being accessible is such a common problem.

From what I heard from a blind coworker, a page not being accessible is close to the norm. Considering how mad I get with broken web pages, I marvel that these people are not on a constant rage.

MODERATOR, please kill this post...

... after reconsidering the ban on the user "Shadow Systems", see the comments with http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/04/nsa_explains_handling_zerodays/

Let's just say he was tired and emotional, OK?

( I could not read his message, it was already purged).

Microsoft's 'successful' Nokia slurp kills off Lumia photo apps

Pretty poetic! I see an article with headline "The cloud is not forever. It's just someone else's computer." and sub heading " A computer they will eventually turn off."

Parts 1, 2, 3, ...

Photoshop for 40 quid: Affinity Photo pushes pixels further than most

Re: The Elephant in the Room

> In conclusion, "No cloud" is not a problem for us, it is an absolute requirement.

Yarp!

They’re FAT. They’re ROUND. They’re worth almost a POUND. Smart waaatch, smart waaatch

Re: Smart watch - dumb prefix

Suggest to always read "smart" as "smart ass". It helps.

Mind-blowing secrets of NSA's security exploit stockpile revealed at last

Re: Bitch slap the Editor.

Dear commenters and EL Reg, as far as I know Shadow Systems is BLIND.

Thus you may want to re-consider that part:

> ... does not have an account now

I appreciated the vast majority of his comments I have seen.

Windows 10 grabbed about five per cent market share in August

Re: O/S stats, another source

Indeed, the way systems are lumped together has to be considered very critically. So far I am not happy in this regard with any of the stats I have seen.

Beer, because I am off to the country, a good day to you all.

Re: O/S stats, another source

I certainly take all stats with a ton of salt. Just wanted to mention one that looks very consistent over time and the web site does not have any apparent interest in biased results. My feeling is that the sites often cited in the news are more likely to have an interest in same bias. For a good article one should try to cite a couple of sources but I have never seen that happen.

Hopefully the Reg will do this some day. <-----= beep, beep, beep!

Re: So What!

As far as I am concerned there are two ways to use Linux (or about any Unix based system).

The developer will usually use the command line a lot. True for me, I do not have ever used any kind of "desktop".

The non-technical user has a choice between various desktops and should really find one that does what is wanted.

I seem to be unable to follow the last sentence of your message. At least the apparent statement that Linux needs a ton of newly written GUI programs to reach the level of some old version of Windows sounds dubious to me.

O/S stats, another source

OS Statistics at w3schools.com.

Especially the trends are interesting.

Re: So What!

> sudo every 5 seconds?? HELL NO

You could just open a root terminal.

Plus for development work I have yet to see a single case where clicky-shiny beats the command line.

> ...are STILL worse than Win 3.1

If Windows is what you prefer, just use Windows. Linux will (hopefully) never be the "better Windows", although some (muppets) are trying to achieve this.

Wikipedia’s biggest scandal: Industrial-scale blackmail

Re: Reading two Wikis in parallel

> Rules are different among diff language wpedias.

Thanks, I was not aware of this.

> ..."no original research" is the opposite regarding images.

Not quite, you can pick an image when the copyright situation allows, see the very many old photos in any Wiki.

Reading two Wikis in parallel

can be instructive (for me that is English and Krautish). English tends to give more information but sometimes just babbles along without apparent point or structure.

Even just the number of (language-) versions of a single article can be telling.

An example of a vanity article (including the telltale "can't get over myself" image), which appears to be easier to plug into the English Wiki compared to others, is this. Note there is no version of this in any language other than English, not even in the Latvian language.

And then there are original sources to read, at least someone on the internet said that.

Au oh, there's gold in them thar server farms, so lead the way

Re: Civic Amenity

> "there's no market for the precious metals from them."

Considering that the concentration of gold is much higher than in gold ore and it's much easier to extract that's curious. Maybe the proper answer would have been "we don't do it".

Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack

Re: But what does it all mean?

It is a kind of sport: extreme Dunning–Krugering. He's a pro.

NHS to go paperless by 2020. No, really, it will, says gros fromage

Seen in a Uni toilet (many years ago): someone put up a sign "Please use the BRUSH!!!", later another one put up "I much prefer paper."

Paperless office, the one with the brush.

Turkey cites crypto software find in terror charges against TV crew

Turkey nowadays

a bit like Russia, though with a very small dick.

Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches

Re: In the week Wes Craven died...

And finally it becomes true: WIndows, the virus with a user interface.

Re: Unfortunately

Over time people who care influence those that do not (or to a lesser degree). Let's hope.

Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com.

Thanks!

Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com.

> ...an open source code...

...followed by a Microsoft update to take care of it. Rest assured the spying functionality will be near impossible to stop from within the system.

Re: Hackintosh?

> Last I checked, a PC of that age would be landfill.

Not with a proper O/S on it. Sitting at a 2010 PC here (that was cheapo town when I bought it), no plans to replace it in the next three years. I did upgrade RAM once (for HPC), and that was it.

A top range new system is performance wise "up to" twice as fast (old: AMD Phenom, new: expensive intel Xeon). Yes, I measured it myself.

Icon for "anything but Microsoft".

Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com

As explained above, this may not help. Do block the IP on your router.

Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com.

As I understand: "hardcoded" is for access vie raw IP, so DNS-something will not work. You'll have to block the IP with a device between your system and them interwebs.

Nasty fuckers.

Exactly.

What sounds like a silly yoga-fitness-dance craze, and lost $325m in value in 8 years? Zimbra

Zimbra (web) email

That's the one that cannot show threads? Where you can show either 20, 50, or 100 messages but no other number (as, for example, all messages)? That piece of thermonuclear crap?

Icon for the fate I wish for it.

Ex top judge admits he's incapable of reading email, doesn't own a PC

Re: Don't know whether I sought applaud or shake my head

> ...then wrote longhand replies ...

Same for a Professor in the 1990s at a Uni where I was. He was the head of the computer science department.

Linux Foundation releases PARANOID internal infosec guide

Re: Funny, SecureBoot is nice and "critical"...

As long as I cannot verify otherwise I treat SecureBoot as a backdoor for three letter agencies, that's what the text suggests to my ears.

Re: burn a hard drive?

Burnung is overkill. Once the platters are accessible use a strong enough solvent to remove the "rust". I am pretty sure that acetone(*) will do. No need to destruct and/or "remove" platters as well.

(*) nail polish removal fluid should do.

Boffins unveil open source GPU

Of course, just really slow!

Germany to fork out BEELLLIONS for farmers' broadband

Re: 50 Meg Everywhere, eh?

> ...the car toll was just ...

It was purely populistic, and I think it failed even as such. Car owners are more than a little fed up about paying through their noses.

Re: 50 Meg Everywhere, eh?

8-)

Mister Pooprint is the guy who suggested to collect car (not: lorry) tax for our Autobahns. Reason given (well, not, but that was the rationale): evil foreigners use our roads without paying (boo hoo, bad!). Totally a step towards a united Europe. This crap will only be yet another layer of bureaucracy, and _zero_ gain. Oh, and spying on all road users.

Accordingly I correct his title to Fuckmuppetosaurus Rex.

Re: 50 Meg Everywhere, eh?

> Shows what you could do if you tried...

I am less than confident that the promise will be kept.

Also, Dobrindt is in the same league of fuckmuppetry as "H." Oettinger, the German Wiki page is quite informative (the English very much not):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dobrindt

What time is it Oxford Dictionaries? How about almost ‘beer o’clock’

Re: @CAPS LOCK (was: English is rubbish...)

> In German, words make up themselves!

Tzis ist incorrectenstein!

Re: English is rubbish...

> wordstogetherstuckform

Marvel at that as well, IMO the hypen form is the best: midpoint vs. mid-point vs. mid point. Mkay?

Grumpenland seems to leave wordstogetherstuckform in favor of words together stuck form, not really an improvement.

(btw. a read the above as wordtogetherfuckstorm).

Google makes it official: Chrome will freeze Flash ads on sight from Sept 1

Re: Great...

Just played the first browser game in my life (html5 version). Sadly I sucked.

Fugitive UK hacker turned ISIS recruiter killed in Syria

Re: I guess the last thing that went through his mind...

> How about you? Are you sure you're not a cruel murderous fucktard too?

I am quite unsure about which way I'd have taken in Germany's darkest times. Out of sheer luck I was born later. All I can say is that I hope we (westernes) improve over time in putting human rights into first place. My optimism in this regard has not grown over time, though.

Yes we have many skeletons in the closet. As said in an earlier post I always have been critical about many aspects in our society.

Re: I guess the last thing that went through his mind...

> Sad. He should have suffered a little bit first.

No. They are the cruel mindless murderous hating fucktards and WE ARE NOT.