Posts by Captain Boing

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

My god! The salt! The salt!

I only came for the comments... you lefties are a predicatble lot - very entertaining

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Re: sentenced to two life sentences, plus an additional 40 years,

I agree, Harris keeping those mostly black men incarcerated past their release dates and refusing to submit evidence which cleared at least two individuals should see her in The Hague.

does trying to get your opponents knocked-off (5 times) not count... The Clintons must be getting trembly their record is in danger. (I don't care who you are, no-one has 46 friends liven't themselves, including 2 aircraft crashes, one mid air "explosion" and a guy who shot himself in the back of the head... twice)

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: Practice what you preach?

would video of Biden at a press conference promising "if [russia invade ukraine] we (who is that then?] will bring an end to it [nordstream 2]" do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUuhNd37WI (nice leftie France24 link to keep you cozy)

perhaps you are a NATO troll talking bollocks.

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

It's gone to sh*t for ages...

It used to be that if you searched for stuff, you could generally find it but there has been a corporate awakening where companies that used to publish data realised they could sell it to you instead.

I was trying to find some details about someone who died a while back. On Google, the first two pages of "results" were adverts, the next two were all similar stuff on fecesbook et all followed by pages of irrelevant articles.

If I don't want to be a member of some walled garden, or to pay for publicly accessible information, or get advertised-at, it is a non starter. It has been bad for a decade or more but it has reached a crescendo these days. Most times, if I want anything a bit niche, I am forced to adopt the mindest of pre-1998 and not bother

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

Re: Does not compute

yeah, not he brightest of ideas to re-locate to USA where they can get him on continuance changes REAL easy.

I think there is an element of mental instability at work

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

Alan Fennel? you're very late

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

???

Social media if just a heap of "my life is better than your life" self indulgent whinings... can't expect Li to be any different

Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database

hate to say...

I said this woud happen at the take-over. Admittedly it has taken longer than I thought but here we are... it was a logical move and made no sense for Oracle to provide a free competitor

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

Brings a whole new meaning ...

... to "A quarter of space dust please, mister"

NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away

jeez, make your minds up!

so on the one hand we have Billy-boy wanting to spray stuff in the air or space a huge tin foil umbrella to block out the sun, then we have this lot trying to reduce sun-blocking steam made my jet engines...

Is the idiocy of this BS starting to sink in yet?

Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid

Re: I would be willing to agree that ...

LOL all the down votes! I literally only came into this thread to see all the mugs that have gobbled down St.Great's BS

Climate change is natural - all you pansies screaming right now answer one question: Where did the last ice age go and why when there was no industrialisation of any kind?

Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI

some things are worse that "derivative and obnoxious janglepop ... force-fed [to] a poor computer Liam Gallagher's insipid drawl"...

not a fan of Oasis or brit-pop in general, but I'll make my own mind up, I don't need a loaded opinion piece full of weasel words attempting to sway MY opinion.

Apple to compel workers to spend '3 days a week' in the office

why ...

... are they always "excited"?

Huawei under investigation for having tech installed near US missile silos

Re: Message to the world

agree with that 100% it is an interesting bellwether I have, half-amused, watched (with a high degree of success in my predictions) for some time

Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

Re: What utter balls

"Are they implying that their existing products are so inefficient they need to be axed for the good of the planet?"

if only...

they are implying that their existing products ... need to be axed for the good of their profits

China rolls out bots to enforce ‘temporary closed-off management’ of Shanghai

"... turn everyone into petty little Stasi."

"... dobbed them in to the police. "

It was always there. Human nature seeks to have power over others and authority, no matter how tenuous, gives people a buzz... Only intelligence and conscientiousness can beat it in yourself and that requires honest objectivity - a rare bird indeed! You mention stasi - never a better example of how neighbours were cheerfully stirring sh*t on each other for no reward other than the dopamine hit and maybe thinking that somehow it may immunize them from suspicion.

"Traffic Warden syndrome" is apparent in far "softer" times - the whole little englander thing, Karens, members of the public who think they can demand ID from street workers and others or who call the cops on 8yr old kids playing in the street. Hateful. What is important is to not forget or forgive these people and at least avoid them - they are a danger always.

Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away

UTC?

unixtime, epochtime whatever you want to call it is not necessarily UTC - it's a representation of the system clock in seconds so it will go on whatever the system clock is set to.

It can be UTC but I bet most such affected systems in Oz will stumble before those in Europe - because of the time difference. saying that it all goes belly up at xx:xx:xx UTC means the clocks in Oz must have some ephemeral immunity for that half day... probably more effort than the fix

jus' sayin'

Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

Re: Just using UNIX text editors can be a challenge

totally!

can't wear the label "Admin" if they can't grasp vi, ed, emacs etc. not on my watch.

Facebook pulls plug on mind-reading neural interface that restored a user's speech

zero altruism, just dollars

nuf said

Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike

LOL, gotta get up there and change out all the electrolytics

Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger

Re: Insert meme here

so true. All this "BTC is just for drug runners and kidnappers" is just people who used to be in control trying to salt the ground for areas where they aren't (can't) be in control.

show me a clean dollar - the currency of choice for nearly all worldwide crime. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-on-money-drug-found-on-90-of-us-bills

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

everything is explainable...

... just not yet. Give it a minute.

I remember seeing a documentary about UFOs years ago. There was a guy working on a North Sea platform who was ex-forces - Royal Observer Corps or similar. Anyway he was a trained observer and could identify absolutely any aircraft. He related seeing a "black triangle" being re-fueled by a flying tanker and escorted by two conventional fighter jets, high up over the North Sea. He underlined his impressive credentials and concluded by saying it was not of this earth because otherwise he would have been able to ID it... I remember thinking "why would a UFO need refueling?" sometime later the F117 stealth fighter became public knowledge... I remembered that documentary - there's your black triangle and it explains the escort and refueling.

I personally saw something very weird - like two cylinders of slightly different diameter stacked on top of each other and it was darting in and out of a cloud. I don't have an explanation but I know there is one that doesn't involve "alien" tech.

The gulf between us and the nearest star is mind blowing (Sun the size of a pea, Proxima Centauri 200Km away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk). It is my firm belief that yes there are other civilizations out there, probably even in our galaxy but we are all in gilded cages. Not interested in debates about generation ships, dimensional travel, FTL etc. There has never been one shred for anything approaching that tech... but give it a minute.

Election security fears doused with reality: Top officials say Nov 3 'was the most secure in American history.' The end

MSM is a trustworthy source of news.

source: MSM

Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown

LOL, that was never gonna go down well in a place like the Reg forum... a place crawling with neo-commies who think the independent is a source of truth.

Re: Screwed

TBH, I never really understood the virgin thing... I was rather hoping that any afterlife (as if...) was on a spiritual plane of infinite wisdom and understanding, freed from the desires of the flesh induced by screaming imbalance of a few chemicals in my dome.

so it sounds like more of the same. disappointed

We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to

The average age of a Battle of Britain pilot was 21

most of you lot are *much* older ... and still playing with toys.

I fall to my knees and thank god we weren't reliant on your infantile minds 80 years ago when everything mattered.

WTFH? GTFU

Let the stoning commence - I wear it as a badge of honour to get -1'ed by you man-babies

BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month

Re: One question

Right.

Our school didn't have any computer (not counting the big thing like a vcr unde a telly on wheels they used to wheel out to demo brownian motion in physics)

We had to put punched cards in a grey holder with loads of rubber strips and poke out the bits of paper with half a clothes peg with a tack in the end.

Then when we had done that, they all used to get sent off to Brunel Uni to run and we would get the results back a week later. I remember one kid (Robert Church - where did that come from?) did a complete calendar for any year!!! I breathlessy waitied for mine...

SYNTAX ERROR IN 10 "PRIVT"

f**k it!.

Re: WTF is wrong with you british people?

how's your Alexa?

Re: AI

it the BBC - what do yu expect. they always love a buzz-word and still think the internet is cool.

a few years back everything was a cure for cancer or came from Mars.

Like grandpa trying break-dance to impress the kids... "I still got it"... no Gramps... you haven't and probably never did.

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Re: The Goog Don't Track Me Not Never...Uhhhhh....

I think it is even worse. I had a phone conversation with my mother about getting her fridge repaired... she is 86 and has trouble with the TV remote so absolutely no interwebs involved. For weeks after I am getting ad's for fridge repairs and new ones but even "refrigerator repairs in <your mum's town>". This was a voice call on an android phone. You join the dots

Hong Kong wants to teach kids more STEM – once it's defined what that is

you'd think... but apparently 2+2=4 is a result of white colonialism in today's clownworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14&ab_channel=UCTScientist

cue the pile-on

Safety driver at the wheel of self-driving Uber car that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide

Elephant in the cab

perhaps stop fiddling with your sodding phone when you are supposed to be doing something else?

A few years back I got heavily down-voted for pointing out that you should be ready & able to take control of an autonomous vehicle for exactly this reason and it's not an excuse to become a passenger. I stand ready to receive apologies... yeah I won't hold my breath

Research into deflecting potentially world-destroying asteroids is apparently not a 'national priority' for the UK

"the dinosaurs couldn't"

hmm. those animals with no technological advancement of any kind whose super-power was turning each other into shit.

What a daft thing to say - and get your haircut

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

Re: "1.5x10^27 oxygen particles [..] annually"

for god's sake, dont tell Greta and the XR mob

Re: How long before.....

Astronaut jobbies are already there in placcy bags

Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police

Re: Would never have happened in my day

@LucreLout

your personal "beliefs" do not enter into it - observe the facts

god help anyone where you sit on the jury

OK, so you've air-gapped that PC. Cut the speakers. Covered the LEDs. Disconnected the monitor. Now, about the data-leaking power supply unit...

the vid proves nothing. it would never keep up. the speed most people type and the data was arriving at about 1cps on the mobe

never trust a man with a top-knot in 2020

Watch now the three UFO videos uncovered by Blink-182 star – and today officially released by the Pentagon

they all look a bit... mechanical in their movement... dead straight lines, rotation that stops precisely, not fluidity...

I stopped believing video as evidence/proof (doubly so on yutoob) when I saw Keanu Reeves singing "Nuthin' compares 2u". Absolutely anything is fake-able in video.... and the "I want to believe" brigade has completely shat in their own nest by being only too keen to effectively lie to you in the hope of swinging you to their particular way of thinking (and being called out time and again with sadly no retardation on their bullshit).

Why is video of this stuff always crap?

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4bN7heMFvY

Nah, not 'avin' it. I think you have an "I want to believe" t-shirt. Just the way you are phrasing things tells me you are 90% of the way there if not 100%

BTW, there are no other "solar systems". Sol is a proper noun - the name of our star. "Solar" means of or pertaining to; Sol. There is only one Solar system*... lots of other star systems but this basic mistake is a sort of litmus test for the pursuit of detail (and truth) instead of going with what suits one's

tin-foil hat desires.

Time and again I see these conspiracists and "UFOlogists" hang on to long-ago-debunked stuff and willfully re-present them as "proof" to anyone who will listen and hasn't been informed. That contrail for Aurora in the closing seconds of a 1.5 hour vid is awfully straight for something allegedly laid in a turbulent atmosphere over time... and where are the reference points for calculating the speed that was stated?

Nothing personal, just a feeling I get reading your posts and looking at the type of links you been putting faith in.

*https://www.quora.com/Is-the-term-Solar-System-correct-when-talking-about-other-systems

From Amanda Holden to petrol-filled water guns: It has been a weird week for 5G

Re: No smoke without a burning mast

"British Telecom 'engineers' broke into my home"

although a "statutory right of entry" existed back then, It wouldn't be executed without the owner being present (and/or police) - the legal implications are mind-boggling... Having been an "engineer" (thanks for belittling my trade with quotes btw. tosser) for many years, I never even heard of it being done, ever. I suspect this is embellishment to make a story.

"stole the phone" the phone wasn't yours. End user equipment was rented back then

who leaves guinea pigs running around the house?... dirty man.

Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty

Re: 20m

mmmmm.... sexbots....

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

Re: When I were a lad...

Not an "IF" in sight

<code>

Function IsLeapYear(n As Integer) As Integer

IsLeapYear=((n Mod 4=0) And (n Mod 100 <>0)) Or (n Mod 400=0)

End Function

</code>

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Re: these terms are "divisive and humiliating,"

"Depends who's talking..."

That isn't how freedom works. People condemn themselves from their own mouths, they don't need a sainted few to do it for them and take offence on behalf of some other. No-one should be free to shut down discussion because they consider the message unpalatable. You debate idiots and prove to them (and everyone else) that they are crazy. Maybe you learn something yourself?

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

Salman Rushdie is quoted as saying "If freedom is to have any limits, it must be to deny it to those who would destroy it" - quite so.

The N-word is the new N-word

seriously?

I want off this rock!

Re: these terms are "divisive and humiliating,"

"A small and weak nerd is defenseless against the big bullies"

until he learns to code, then kneel at his feet

Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn

gets its claws into everything

I de-installed LMI years ago...

some time after I was doing registry cleanup... couldn't believe the number of logmein hits I got when searching.