Posts by Mr Dogshit

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

Just give us a proper client like the good old days, rather than this stupid browser crap that barely works, you dodos.

China, Russia and Iran all attacking US elections and using some nasty new tactics, says Microsoft

Re: Oxymoron

You're the moron.

I can 'proceed without you', judge tells Julian Assange after courtroom outburst

former US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning actually

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

Westminster are behind this!

MI6 did it ! They're trying to discredit Alec Salmon! etc etc

So... just 'Good' then? KFC pulls Finger Lickin' slogan while pandemic rumbles on

"It's less chavvy than McDonald's"

Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal

Re: Hold on

Your assertion that someone at the rank of constable is somehow an inexperienced noob is entirely misguided.

A police officer may spend their entire career at the rank of constable - it doesn't mean they're thick or unambitious. There is a very wide range of roles available at that rank. Perhaps an individual doesn't want to become sergeant. Perhaps they’re happy doing what they’re doing or don’t want the additional responsibility. Ranks in the UK police cannot be compared to the British Army. PC is not equivalent to Lance Corporal.

HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers

ProLiant and AMD

My first choice every time.

NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers

Well DUH

Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors

"A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should."

I thought this was a good read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet/614593/

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

"This coming from a nob end who can't even get the software he bought to work properly..."

What does that even mean?

VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide

Re: This PC subversion only idiotically makes things harder and more confusing for competent people

Are you suggesting that two male connectors (or indeed two female connectors) should not be allowed to mate? Despicable.

Brit retailer John Lewis to catapult 111 tech bods over to Capgemini weeks after dumping 244 on Wipro

Weird place

Their tills were running on token ring as late as 2003.

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Re: Really?

Like this?

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/08/30/the-future-of-video-conferencing/?

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Rat joins sinking ship!

After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good

"shutters"

I see what you did there

Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox

Crikey!

An "internet address". Sounds terribly technical.

Hayfever in Haymarket, or has Windows sneezed out a BSOD?

I just don't understand why this is supposed to be hilarious

"Operating system behaves as per design". Not funny, is it?

When a crash occurs in Kernel Mode, the operating system's task is to preserve your data. Unlike a crash in Application Mode, it can't recover and continue.

Therefore, it dumps memory to disk using a cut-down device driver and displays a message. What do you expect?

And since writing device drivers is very difficult, yes, they sometimes crash. And often these are drivers not written by Microsoft.

Linux and VMware aren't immune to Kernel Mode crashes, and neither was the Amiga. So where's the joke? I don't get it.

'One rule for me, another for them' is all well and good until it sinks the entire company's ability to receive emails

Apps?

They were called "applications" in them days. Or "programs".

Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism

Who the hell reads MSN anyway?

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

Fridges are cool!

Ha! I see what you did there!

Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up

Oh boy oh boy

And people buy cars from this nutjob

Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors

Replaceable RAM and storage! Whatever will they think of next?

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app

Re: SERCO?

Yep. Could have used local government employees or the military, but better just to spunk a load of money on .gov's favourite outsourcer instead.

To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it

Yep. Got one from my local council. It invited me not to go to https://localcouncil.gov.uk/counciltax but https://paymycounciltax.net or something stupid. Probably was legit, but I ain't clicking on it.

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat

We've reached peak fuckwit

when you have to have an app to drink beer

Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

There is no such verb as "to author"

Repeat after me: there is no such verb as "to author"

We are not Americans.

Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things

Ugh

Who'd buy a car from this nut job?

Penny smart and dollar stupid: IT jobs slashed in US, UK, Europe to cut costs – just when we need staff the most

Re: tldr

You what mate?

Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate

I can't believe it was so easy.

Fitting an ISA modem usually involved fannying around with the IRQs and assigning the correct COM port.

Prank warning: You do know your smart speaker's paired with Spotify over the internet, don't you?

Serves him right for being a hipster.

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

Snapchat domain squatter loses comedy £1m URL sellback attempt

Hmm

Looks like snaptwat.co.uk is available, someone should tell him.

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

I'm middle class.

I'd quite like to go to a Volvo theme park.

Why should the UK pensions watchdog be able to spy on your internet activities? Same reason as the Environment Agency and many more

Suspicion builds Confidence

I am reminded of a film called Brazil.

Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0

It's not bad

But it's not Opera 12. Sniff.

Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops

Re: Obviously ==>

Without your consent? Do you really need the Official Secrets Act explaining to you, you mooncalf?

Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal

HOW MUCH?

Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables

Re: Data Centre Management

Just keep it all on a spreadsheet on a file share, is much more cost effective.

French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle

Well I hope Martin-Baker gave him a tie.

P.S. I want some anti-g pants. If they're what I think they are.

Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much

Pretty sure it's Cambridgeshire Police

Ofcom waves DAB radio licences under local broadcasters' noses as FM switchoff debate smoulders again

And another thing

Why are all DAB radios weird, ugly, wooden boxes?

Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the 'iMask'

No 3.5mm headphone socket I note.

Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses

"To ink" is not a verb.

Zoom vows to spend next 90 days thinking hard about its security and privacy after rough week, meeting ID war-dialing tool emerges

I really fancy a Lyons Maid lolly now.

NASA's classic worm logo returns for first all-American trip to ISS in years: Are you a meatball or a squiggly fan?

Worm!

As used on the orbiters, which were awesome!

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

Boo hoo!

Kiddies can't get onto BLT sites.

When I was a kid, to find out anything meant cycling half an hour to the library.

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

But do they have the necessary hashtags?

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

Never mind

Just ruffle your hair and spout some bollocks in Latin, and everything'll be fine.

Dell publishes data centre cleaning guidance, suggests hiring pros to disinfect enterprise kit

Just use Jeyes Fluid.