Posts by Montague Wanktrollop

Nvidia's multi-billion-dollar buying spree continues as it slurps up Cumulus soon after swallowing Mellanox

as it slurps up Cumulus soon after swallowing Mellanox

yeah......yeah, I see what you did there......

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Just dawned on me....

So that's why celebs wear sunglasses at night! I always thought they were just twats.

Glasgow extends middle finger to southern fairies as London ranks bottom in mobile signal top 10

Whatever

‘Its findings were based on crowdsourced anonymous Cambridge Analytics data and network tests personal data splurging over 3,000 consumer applications on iOS and Android devices’

FTFY

Hinkley Point nuclear power station will be late and £2bn over budget

Can someone explain to me.....

As a private sector employee who regularly bids for and sometimes wins contracts, even Local Authority contracts, if I go over budget due to my lack of due dligence it's my tough titty. I suffer the financial consequences. Same as the penalties I face if go over time. Why is it with Government contracts (HS2, Carrier programme, Universal Credit etc. ad infinitum) that if you go over budget the Government just shells out the dough no matter how large. Over time? No problem.

Am I missing something really fundamental here? Do the Government write their contracts on the back of a fag packet?

Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

SugarCRM anyone?

I'm sure most of know about SugarCRM. An Open Source project for 14 years or so which churned out a fantastic product in the form of the Community Edition. Impressive work and one in the eye for the big boys in the CRM world.

But... greed took its toll and they decided to go 100% commercial and stopped the Community verson (i.e. free) in its tracks. So a big 'cheers for constructing our business model guys, we can afford our own developers now so sod off and do one'.

That is the problem. The developers don't want paying for their work, but you know, they'd like to use it!

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

Starglider was better!

Did they drag theVisiCalc and WordStar UI designers out of retirement to design that control interface? No wonder they'd rather look at the grass.

America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit

Ion thrusters

Just sayin'.....

SUPERVOLCANIC MAGMA reservoir BUBBLING under Yellowstone Park

But....

will it blend?

Apple Watch RIPPED APART, its GUTS EXPOSED to hungry Vultures

So they're finally out!

Now the global use of the phrase 'you twat' will increase tenfold.

Microsoft to offer special Surface 3 for schools

Not shiny enough

Teachers and kids prefer shiny kit. Read Apple.

MS will have a hard time cutting it with this. Even with the 10% discount it doesn't approach shiny territory.

Exchange Server 2016 will be mostly Cloud Exchange ported back on-premises

Really?

I read the Reg at work like most people. Is it really necessary to have a mahoosive pic of a woman's lips in a seductive post to head an article on Exchange?

Cue adblock to remove all Reg images.

Android lands on Microsoft's money-machine island fortress

'Other cost savings will be passed on to the banks in terms of not having to pay a Microsoft licensing fee for Windows on each cash machine they operate.'

Correct, they won't. They instead will be paying a Microsoft licencing fee for Android on each cash machine they operate.

EU says dominant Google illegally alters search results

I believe that McDonald's is abusing its position as a major outlet of fast food by only displaying its own products prominently on the in-store menu rather than the offerings of Burger King.

Whilst Google are no angels - EU go and take a dump you useless bunch of wankticians!

Non-American nerds jam immigration pleading for right to live in the US

Nice to see...

...that a degree puts you at the top of the pile with total disregard for actual experience

Bristol’s ‘Smart City’ reserved for boffins. Sorry bumpkins

Wow!

The R&D team for Just Eat are based there!

I can see the exodus from Silicone Valley already.

Seriously. What a load of Local Authority spun garbage.

700,000 beautiful women do the bidding of one Twitter-scamming man

'tis just a drop in the ocean

When I dipped my toe into the Blackhat side of internet marketing I uncovered just how massive this way of scamming/spamming is. Indeed there's dozens of bot programs which can create thousands of accounts a minute on most major websites and then automatically schedule and post to those accounts, SENuke and Scrapebox being the most popular.

They're fire and forget - this guy didn't have to do much account creation. I would imagine the bulk of his work was in the wording of his tweets but even then those aformentioned programs can 'spin' the comments so they are unique all the time.

BT Home Hub SIP backdoor blunder blamed for VoIP fraud

Re: HH3

If you're an SME I'd recommend a Draytek Vigor connected to your HH3 via an Ethernet cable. There's plenty of help on this setup on t'interweb.

Really?

A firm of solicitors. A home hub. A flat network. An Asterisk pbx (nothing wrong with Asterisk in essence but their IT company is happy for them to use a BT home router as their firewall which makes me think the Asterisk config is also full of holes).

It should be the IT company being fingered for this but I suspect it's one of the solicitors relatives.

Dell denies 'insecure autoupdate app' flings open PC backdoor

Article pic

I was just wondering how many other images you sifted through when searching for 'insecure backdoor'?

Yep. Icon.......

Cyanogen finds $80m in collecting tin after busking session

Another fork!

Although I use and love Cyanogen why distance itself from core android? Why spend that round of cash in recreating the wheel?

If they can distance themselves from the MS royalty payments then all well and good but I can't help but feel this another wasteful Gnome /KDE scenario

Osbo: Choose a IoT fridge. Choose spirit-crushing driverless cars

The Chancellor claimed Britain was "walking tall again".

Before crouching over its IT contractors in preparation for the release of a giant turd.

Aged 18-24? Don't care about voting? Got a phone? Oh dear...

You say that ignorant people should not vote? Judging by your post I expect you will be staying in bed on election day.

Attack of the Digital People: The BBC goes fully Bong

If you have been affected by the events in this article please call...........

BT inks deal with Williams F1 for go-faster cloudy goodness

They'll regret it...

When they have a fleet of Openreach vans digging up the circuits mid race.

Google will make you live to be 500, claims Ventures president

Nanobots eh?

Well seeing how they made 7 of 9 look I'll have a bucket of them for the Mrs.

Boffins say Mars had ocean covering 20 per cent of planet

NASA

The problem with the Mars missions at the moment is similar to how the space programme was in the mid 70's in that people got bored of it. Same old, same old. Because of that the NASA budget was slashed and we didn't go to the moon anymore.

With NASA's budget again on a proverbial shoestring, rather than constantly send rovers to look at the geology of the red planet which the majority find boring (not me) why can't they stick a HD camera on top of one and stream it live 24/7 back to earth which will surely get the kiddos interested again and hence obtain a budget increase?

I know we currently suffer from bandwidth limitations but surely if they can land a rover on Mars in one piece then it's not beyond the realms of possibility is it?

Office for Mac 2016 Preview: This letter will self-destruct in 60 days

Still....

no Project for OSX then? I'll be damned if I have to use Vtech 8.1 to run Project in the future.

How many Androids does it take to change a light bulb?

Re: IoT? WoT?

Manservant? So last year. I've had a penis butler ever since winning the lottery.

Re: IoT? WoT?

So your friends at your parties get seriously impressed by you making a complete twat of yourself having to whip your phone out to dim a light bulb when you're stood right next to the switch?

'Fry-OS 8' iPhone BLEW UP MY PANTS wails roasted Johnson

......

Better call Saul.....

SkyProwler VTOL transformo-drone set to darken skies

Is it just me?

Or was anyone else waiting for him to say 'I'll be back'?

Revival of fortune: Mad Catz Mojo Android gaming micro console

Why?

Is this just a geek project to see how far Android can be taken? I use Android on phone and tablet but as a dedicated gaming machine?

C'mon, I can get an Xbox 360 for around 130 klebbies, why would I want this crap?

Spotty Ceres baffles boffins with bright patches

It's a film set

It's the campfires burning during the filming of Blazing Saddles 2. Couldn't follow it up with another cowboy setting so Space was the answer.

Just wait until the probe gets to audible range.....

Elementary, my dear penguin: It's the second beta of Freya

Paid for desktop linux?

They've clearly copied the Lindows/ Linspire and Mandrake/ Mandriva models.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apple Watch 'didn't work on HAIRY FANBOIS, was stripped of sensor tech'

Wow!

So a watch that has a feature to set a reminder to go off once an hour is a cancer beater! I'll have 5 of them £400 a pop babies.

Just wish my first generation Casio LED watch back in the 70's had that wild but awesome hourly reminder feature........

Evolve: A shoot-em-up full of scary monsters and super creeps

Company name change required

So am I to understand correctly that DLC meaning DownLoadable Content is being sold as such by Turtle's Head but in fact the content is on the disc already - they've just sliced the game to bits in order to coin it?

Fuck right off indeed.

Now Samsung's spying smart TVs insert ADS in YOUR OWN movies

meanwhile in other news...

BT and Sky have splurged gazillions on the rights to broadcast near permanent TV advertising sprinkled sparingly with live football.

Do adverts actually work? Do we see something like Pepsi and have an urge to buy a Pepsi?

No.

Maybe that's why they are advertising everything everywhere. Attrition. Someone, somewhere will buy it eventually.

Meru Networks CEO: 2014 was a year of Cs & Ds

'Other initiatives the company is betting on to get it out of a hole include a Meru app store'

And they wonder why they are where they are.....

Breaking news: BBC FINALLY spots millions of mugshots on cop database

Before arriving on the Reg earlier I was browsing for MDM solutions. Lo and behold when arriving here I get served up with 'Sponsored Ads' offering me all kinds of MDM software.

That form of tracking is more intrusive to me than having my ugly mug on the feds computers.