Posts by RedCardinal

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

>>As Reg readers will know, HTTP 500 is the code for an internal server error.

Well, if we know, why are you bothering telling us....

IT biz embezzlement brouhaha leaves bloke with $456k migraine

Re: Steal £10 from an old lady, go to jail

If you steal millions, you're hardly poor :)

Fix this faxing hell! NHS told to stop hanging onto archaic tech

What about the DWP which still insists that some documents be faxed to them...

Brit spending watchdog brands GP Primary Support Care a 'complete mess'

Re: and to think...

Or as well as our obesession with handing public services over to private companies so that they can make their shareholders large amounts of cash...

Gosh! Who would have thought something involving Capita could have gone wrong....

Scam alert: No, hackers don't have webcam vids of you enjoying p0rno. Don't give them any $$s

You don't know what you're missing...

Foot lose: Idiot perv's shoe-mounted upskirt vid camera explodes

I'm confused (not for the first time!). Why did he go the police?

Indiegogo lawyer asks ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Where's the cash?

>>The platform confirmed to us that its corporate attorney has written to RCL seeking reimbursement from the company

Oh no! The lawyer has written a letter. Lol. They'll be trembling in fear....

*discards letter in bin*

Cardiff chap chucks challenge at chops*-checking cops

Re: Huh?

Anyone can be photogrpaphed in a public place without their permission being sought first. There is no legislation preventing that. If the subject wished to claim that his "right" to privacy was breached then it's open to him/her to sue the photographer (as this chap looks set to do).

Re: Huh?

In The UK you can take anyone's photo in a public place without their permission. You can subsequently sell it or publish it if you wish,

Aussie bloke wins right to sue Google over 'underworld' images

Re: Can I sue?

Well Mr Scotsman...

TSB meltdown latest: Facepalming reaches critical mass as Brits get strangers' bank letters

And....what exactly is the ICO doing about this flagrant breach of the Data Protection Regulations?

Ex-staffer of UK.gov dept bags payout after boss blabbed medical info to colleagues

Re: What?

You can't have a "final written warning" if you haven't first had a written warning :)

Navy names new attack sub HMS Agincourt

In the interests of pedantry, it would be remiss of me not to point out that the French defeated Austria Hungary and Russia at Austerlitz and not Germnay which then was largely Prussia, Bavaria and a host of small principalities. :)

Re: So sad

Just like 90% of the population under 30 I suspect... ;)

I wouldn't mock too much given that Brtain has probably had more military defeats over the years than the French. Strangely enough you don't tend to hear about them in Britain...

The other fun thing about Agincourt (and Crecy) were that they were French defeats but the French not only won more battles (which again we don't tend to hear about in UK-land) during the Hundred Years War but won the war overall.... :)

Car-crash television: 'Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?' 'Yes I do,' replies AMD's CEO

>>To be fair to Brundle, Su is probably recognizable only in the tech world,

Soooo, no story here then really?

Moving on to actual news...

Scotland: Get tae f**k on 10Mbps Broadband USO

Englandshire

Spot the usual uninformed comments by Englandphiles. Most of which miss the fact that if Scottish taxpayers are paying for the Scottish broadband roleout, they shouldn't then have to pay for Englands (in effect paying twice).

He's cheesed it! French flick pirate on the lam to swerve €80m fine, two-year stretch in the clink

Running away? Certainly sir

>>A Frenchman? Running away? Gawd, you don't say

Does Dunkirk ring any bells with you. Been a popular film about it recently - you know the Brits running away and abandoning their French ally. :P

Ex-staffer sues UK's DWP, claims superior blabbed confidential medical info

Racist troll is racist

>>The clue's in the name.....

Well done for being today's inbred racist troll. No go away and take your shite with you.

It's 2018 and… wow, you're still using Firefox? All right then, patch these horrid bugs

Re: Firefox really is the worst

I concur.

I'll stick with Firefox thanks.

Shady US sigint base upgrade marred by stolen photograph

what is? The photo?

I think someone needs to read up on copyright law. The photo in question is certainly NOT in the public domain (something users of Pinterest need to learn...)

Microsoft faces Dutch crunch over Windows 10 private data slurp

Meanwhile, the UK regulator is perfectly happy with Microsoft and it's Windows 10 info-hoover. Why are we not surprised...

Commodore 64 makes a half-sized comeback

I don't understand who this is aimed at. Surely any retro games fans who want to play C64 games will already being doing so - via an emulator on their pc?

Microsoft's AI is so good it steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league

>>steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league

>>the Renault team – running 7th out of 10 in the 2017 Formula One Constructor Standings

So which is it? Or to put it another way, does no one double-check your articles before publication?

Developer swings DMCA sueball at foul-mouthed streamer PewDiePie

Re: Perjury

Instead of blindly saying "fair use" I'd suggest that you actually read the legal definition of it. The allowed useage is not as broad as many people think it is.

Argentina eyes up laser death cannon testbed warship

The USS what? "Ponce" I hear you say? PONCE! ...

Bwawawawawawawa....

*cough* sorry....

Bwawawawawawawa...

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Re: Go Samsung!

>>he videos are usually such poor quality that they look sketchy on my 6" phone screen, let alone a 40" (or bigger) tv.

Perhaps you need to be more selective about what you watch as plenty Youtube videos are 702 or 1080 HD. :)

We experienced Windows Mixed Reality. Results: Well, mixed

Yet more VR rubbish that will never sell enough units to actually make a profit. B

Are Asimov's laws enough to stop AI stomping humanity?

As we are never ever going to have true AI - yes.

70% of Windows 10 users are totally happy with our big telemetry slurp, beams Microsoft

Re: Just one question Microsoft...

>>Are the UK regulators ICO just plain stupid, or being paid to be plain stupid?

The UK privacy regulator has always been feeble and showed little interest in actually protecting individual privacy.

She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base

And her aircraft are where....?

White elephant alert!

UK taxmen slammed for tech glitches rampant on child benefits website

And what happens if you could afford them when they were born (nice job etc) and subsequently lost your job or became ill and couldn't work any more? Or if you're in a low paid job? Are you suggesting that only rich people can have children?

So no it really isn't that simple except for dicks like you...

Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'

>>As good as human driving

Or as bad?

All your bass are belong to us: Soundcloud fans raid site for music amid fears of total collapse

>>Users, meanwhile, don't seem to be buying it. Many are flocking to the site seeking to download as much music as possible ahead of an anticipated shutdown.

And how exactly do you know this? Oh wait, you don't do you...

Thanks for U-turning on biz-killing ban, Ofcom – now cough up, say GSM gateway bods

Re: Huh?

>>will we see a queue of drug dealers outside their local council offices

Not outside Council offices you won't as local Councils have nothing to do with the laws surrounding Canabis et al :)

UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks

yeah that'll work just like it does with Pirate Bay...

Re: Worthless.

Except that (as far as I can see) there's no suggestion of UK ISPs blocking access to porn sites which don't comply.

Hilarity ensues....

I'd take a quick guess that at least 95% of porn sites are operated by non UK companies situated on websites outside the UK and who's ISPS are also non UK.

How will they be able to enforce this?

Nearly three-quarters of convicted TV Licence non-payers are women

Re: See me...

Not to mention that magistrate courts don't exist in Scotland...

Banking app startups go TITSUP as payment slurper keels over. Again

>>Monzo, Revolut, Curve, Loot and Starling Bank

Who?

Games rights-holders tell ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Pay or we pull titles

Hmm, the royalties on ancient Spectrum games. Okay. here's £10....

ZX Spectrum reboot firm gets £52k court costs order quashed

hahahahha...crowdfunding....suckers....:P

Humanity is doomed: We watch 45 BILLION hours of YouTube a month

As opposed to watching tv or streaming services?

And the problem is what exactly....

Virtual reality audiences stare straight ahead 75% of the time

>>Virtual reality audiences

That'll be all 5 of them then...:P

Europe-wide BitTorrent indexer blockade looms after Pirate Bay blow

Good luck with the blocking. I'm sure that will be just as "effective" as the existing blocking....

Teen girl who texted boyfriend to kill himself guilty of manslaughter

Re: "don't understand why it took so long."

But do they strap you into Poetry Appreciation chairs?

Auntie sh!tcans BBC Store after 18 months

>>As of this month, the Beeb has made it necessary to log in to access iPlayer under new TV licensing laws introduced last year

No they haven't. Login is (at the moment) still optional.

Sainsbury's IT glitch spoils bank holiday food orders

Re: Time to call a plumber?

didn't realise you could get coke out of taps...

Re: First world problems

>>A lot of it is laziness

Bollocks. It's convenience. Like all online shopping, I can do it quickly and easily from my own home or I can trundle down to the supermarket, wander around it till I find all the shopping I want and then queue in the checkout (or use the crap self-service tills). Oh and I don't have a car so how easy is it to get my shopping back home?

10 minutes on the computer that then allows me more time to do other things or spend that time going around the supermarket aisles. No brainer really :)