* Posts by TheSkunkyMonk

111 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Dec 2015

One-time permanent DWP secretary Robert Devereux set to rock up at 'ethical' tech biz Salesforce

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I'm sure "ethical" in business terms really means how much can we squeeze them before they revolt.

It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze

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Don't worry GTA6 will be along soon.

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

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Ordinal Date, Julian Calendar still had months thank god.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

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Re: And I thought Smart TVs were bad

Had my Viera up on the wall for well over a decade now only time it will come down is when it no longer turns on. I fear for that day, do they even make Tv's these days without microphones and cameras built in? Mind its only used for watching episodes off the pc anyway.

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Member?

Bet some nipples where being rubbed in the office the day they came up with that one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJxapWB_G3k

Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it

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One way ticket

I know there isnt many things humanity can agree on but can we atleast accept these marketing folk aren't doing the world any good and we'd be a lot better off with out them, anywhere, on the planet and they should all go and shoot themselves for the sake of humanity. Back on topic, if a site doesn't work with noscript&ABP enabled I simply just don't use that site, advertisers are just as bad as bankers.

NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

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Re: Self certification?

Or make the suppliers face loosing all their infrastructure for telling porkies in future. If your not going to run it legit you don't get to run it at all.

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

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Government should be ran openly anyway, that way maybe they'd get some decent advice and we'd all know what we are actually paying them for.

Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

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Re: More Microsoft user based testing

For an hour if you stay up really late. Fallout 5 with a Coop mode was what we really wanted, even if it was just inviting them as a companion... We would of loved it.

EU politely asks if China could stop snaffling IP as precondition for doing business

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China has got this one right, no one should patents on ideas/inventions and if someone can make something better then so be it! Specially with drugs and medical equipment absolute joke we allow companies to hold patents on cures and treatments and allow research to be done behind closed doors. If humanity ever wants to progress we are going to have to start being more open the idea of sharing our ideas/designs/inventions. Ffs all IT folk should know this, without RFC's and sharing we would of never had the internet and the tools we have today.

Bethesda blunders, IRS sounds the alarm, China ransomware, and more

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So sad Bethesda had to go and trash Fallout, this could of been massive if they had just gave us private servers and mod support, the kind of crap we'd expect with a Fallout game. But nope, they wanted a cosmetics store. Shame so many companies have gone this route and forgot what made them great, I miss pirates on Battlefield :(

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

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Wait why is everyone making this so complicated, nearly every off the shelf drone is vulnerable to simple exploits ffs most can even be sent to the ground with a basic wireless de auth or with a little radio jamming...

Warning: Malware, rogue users can spy on some apps' HTTPS crypto – by whipping them with a CAT o' nine TLS

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Re: It's time to start over

I thought it was working as intended, it was built to get data from one place to another and security was never its intension. The real problems happened when it started getting used for commerce and cost cutting by big business with poorly trained or sometimes overtrained people setting the stuff up to add to the fire!

The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box

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Init is 1026 lines of code in one file and it works great.

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

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Yup why bother paying people to test your product when you can get people todo it for free, same with the games industry as well just its called Early Access. Absolute joke and the practice needs to stop sadly the only way this will happen is if the kids stop parting with their cash for incomplete garbage and the chance to be the first...

Microsoft loves Linux so much its R Open install script rm'd /bin/sh

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If they loved open source they would go open source instead of refusing to even allow games to be played between systems.

Now Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown CPU design

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Bet they come with some great marketing wank/spyware built right into the CPU

Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog

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The only good thing about this is the name! Why not dump all the paperwork and pay every British citizen a universal income instead of the current benefits system, a basic living allowance to cover the costs of life allowing us to work towards better things and brighter futures, it would ease the labor market and make companies give better benefits to get those workers, it would lead to people living a more varied and rewarding life instead of the stress and divides we currently have! Lets keep the name and make a change for the better of society instead of for the greed of others.

Intel confirms it’ll release GPUs in 2020

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Stop

Year 2030

AMD announces its new a$$sucker with built in ram

WannaCry reverse-engineer Marcus Hutchins hit with fresh charges

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He probably did the deed in my eyes but when people are extradited the country they are sent to should at the very least have to cover the legal costs for them if they are removed from a country where a solicitor/barrister would usually be provided for you free of charge, this should be part of the UK's conditions on letting our citizens go through this process! always knew it was to good to be true, and it was probably a story to cover him accidentally registering the domain in his name in the first place, but that is for the court to decide.

Britain's new F-35s arrive in UK as US.gov auditor sounds reliability warning klaxon

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Re: What will happen during a war?

If IBM can sell machines to the English and Germans during war time I am sure there will be no problems here! War is just an excuse to keep the economy running and to rebuild stuff we already have.

Mind the gap: Men paid 18.6% more than women in Blighty tech sector

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Did the men work more hours by anychance? what was the math behind the statistics? Because I'm sure if a man and woman do the same job in the UK and work the same hours they get the same pay...

Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?

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cost-effective but results in a blind spot low to the ground all around the car .

They don't like dogs do they :(

Microsoft loves Linux so much it wants someone else to build distros for its Windows Store

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I hope they stick to there guns and stay away from the store until Microsoft decides to dump its forced upgrade policy(YES WE ALL KNOW SEA OF THIEVES COULD BE RAN ON WINDOWS 7 OR EVEN XP! yes Im a kid at heart forget office)to its crappy Marketeers wet dream that is Windows10 and they themself's finally open up their source code. I know when 7 finally goes(its only for games its used atm anyway) Ubuntu with GnomeFlashback and a few other alterations will be my goto OS.

UK smut overlord declares age checks should protect users' privates

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A Little Out Their

I know this may seem a little odd in the modern world but have we erm tried parenting? Like old fashioned style where the parents pay attention to their kids and what they get up to... I know giving them a smart phone and unfettered access to the net is easy and give you mummies plenty extra time for candy crush but maybe we need to get a little old school and start looking after our families again! We could start doing the same for our old as well instead of dumping them off in old peoples homes, imagine a world where people cared...

Bitcoin's blockchain: Potentially a hazardous waste dump of child abuse, malware, etc

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politically sensitive content

Oh please say the register will be posting, or atleast hinting towards what? Is it May at the Torrie conference bending over members with her strapon out? oh if only she were so powerful I fear it is going to be much worse.

Sysadmin held a rack of servers off the ground for 15 mins, crashed ISP when he put them down

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its good to see that my lack of trust in tech call centers in well founded, thank you :P

Birmingham UK to Uber: Want a new licence? Tell us about your operating model

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They are just taxi's that don't need to have the extra vehicle safety checks, or special insurance, or local knowledge tests, or any form of check really, face it they are nothing more than a taxi you order with an app instead of a telephone call. unless they are sending out registered taxi drivers they should be fined and stopped from trading in the UK or the regulations on insurance and vehicle safety tests should be dropped for taxi drivers.

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

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If it was me and I had requested a short break from my colleague and was told no I would of slipped. Sorry, whats the point of being a team if their is no teamwork to speak off... and punishing people for a mistake is just mean... Never read Mobby Dick.

When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? A Brit expert explains to El Reg

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Its not complicated, if software kills it should be down to the manufacturer of said product the ones who released and brought it to market, unless malicious tampering is evident(pissed off developer or so on).

Wish you could log into someone's Netgear box without a password? Summon a &genie=1

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shhh these aren't bugs they are features.

Here's why online social networks are bad for humanity, the nerds who helped build them tut-tut

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provide resources to parents to help cut down on their kids' device use

Resources? surely most can afford a book or two or even the great outdoors?

Hold on to your aaSes: Yup, Windows 10 'as a service' is incoming

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so first it collects the marketing data, next it feeds you the adds and then it charges you an appropriate amount for the pleasure. Yay just what we always needed to help further mankind.

How much will Britain's next F-35s cost? Not telling, says MoD

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Microtransactions

They are not telling because they have no idea how many updates and new items will be available for the flight computers yet all with convenient buy it now buttons and in flight currency. Bet the poor pilots end up forking out for most of them as well.

GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online

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GCSE is a joke if its still anything like it was when I did it, we had to make a Zeotrope, write a letter in word and produce a presentation to explain how we would design a website no actual html or php just an explanation as to how we would lay it out, in English words not code, no image editing no nothing it was the biggest sham I had ever seen. Their only defense was we were the first year to take it.

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

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Faster? its using more memory/cpu than ever! Plus the new look is absolutely hideous, and I only see a hindrance to the new layout no extra benefits to it all. All in all they dragged me away from Microsoft over ten year ago and now they have just pushed me right back with this godawful update! well until a fork comes along then I might have another look. Hope NoScript gets ported to IE it was Firefoxes biggest selling point for me(yes I know firefox will have it back soon as well).

IBM: We're now a, what's not losing money? Ah, a cognitive cloud champ!

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Shiny

I don't care if it is equipped with two sx33's what is that box on the article picture?

Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond

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Re: The next stage

Nah, they just can't control coins already in circulation until they find the current owner and he who has the biggest miner owns all new bitcoins.

The internet may well be the root cause of today's problems… but not in the way you think

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Re: The problem isn't ideologies spreading on the Internet

It was the only thing that Thatcher actually got right, when she decided that breweries should only be allowed to own a certain amount of pubs. This idea should be taken a step further and be implemented with property and cash. We don't need people owning hundred of flats and houses and it does nothing but increase prices for everyone else(I do see how that can be a benefit if you already have property, and yes I do and id rather see the loss). The same for money, it is not an unlimited resource we only have so much in circulation, so why on earth should people be allowed to hoard large percentages of it? I'm not even going to get started on the way it is created and paid for.

Ransomware scum have already unleashed kill-switch-free WannaCry‬pt‪ variant

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Re: So you're blaming a commercial company for not patching a 13 year old OS?

Thanks for my morning giggle, just the thought of manufacturers making stuff that lasts really got me going! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdh7_PA8GZU

Facebook fake news: Sort it out yourself, readers

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misspellings and "unusual formatting"

Legalese, should be looking at that even more. Still amazes me that modern society allows the legal elite to use completely different definitions to words than there stand oxford equivalent. It kind of sound like a bit of a con maybe?

Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors

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then god help those with pic programmers

UK ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers

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Erm, don't you need to be 18 to sign up to an ISP? Yes I know it is a lot to ask that parents pay attention to their kids activities.

UK prison reform report wants hard-coded no-fly zones in drones to keep them out of jail

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Re: "hard-coded no-fly zones in drones"

is that not what parliamentary privilege is for?

Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs

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Re: Why the double standard here?

Limited Liability, same reason no one goes to jail when the oil companies try to save a few pennies on piping, or when the banks steel millions. can't send a bit of paper to jail, or can you?

MtGox collapse victims now picked off by phishing vultures

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i wrote abit of code on sorceforge years ago called mshell in vb, removed recently for some unkown reason highlighting the biggest problem with windows and trojans, with a simple dll call you can hide your process from taskmon to top this off this stunt can also be pulled off in the dev version spy++

its a stupid feature that should of never been added as it only allows abuse and personally I believe that is why it was added.

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

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i used to work as a tech in a shop in my youth, we had a cock up on a receipt and the counter guy had put Mhz down after the amd 1800, its didn't run at 1800mhz, and at the time that was the fastest chip, i had to handle the call and well i told him where togo after he didnt accept the explanation(why i was never allowed in the shop front) and he later managed to come in the store and get my boss, i was shocked he just gave the guy a full refund on his system and let him keep it he even got software covered on his warranty he was in nearly every week with some idiotic issue and would always ask for me, sure he just liked getting under my skin. needless to say after reading this i now know why he just gave him his money back and kissed his arse.

Scrum.org hacked, may have lost crypto keys and some user data

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I have a friend who teaches IT/Programming in far off lands after many years of doing the same in the UK, the man didn't even know what a RFC was until a few month ago :( I fear for the future of our IT Professionals

Linux 4.7rc-1 shipped

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can i use my high dpi mouse yet without having to download a ton of source, modify the kernel and recompile? please say its so i miss my ubuntu and i already had enough trouble getting my 750ti working and I'm a lazy man. plus i bet they become more standard kinda good to be ready...

Lost your shirt in the MtGox Bitcoin mess? Release the Kraken!

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Re: Is this....

it may be free from political control but whoever has the biggest rig can control the market.