Posts by Hollerithevo

Creditors urge Toshiba to consider bankruptcy – reports

Re: Bankruptcy is shameful in Japan...

So brave a deed is it, that doing it four times makes you an Olympian god!

It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines

That's why sanctions have been upped

Al the USA security services say the Russians were trying to hack the election. (They just say 'tried'). Congress apparently believes them, and have slapped on more sanctions. If Mrs Clinton is the evil-doer here, why aren't they slapping charges of treason on her or someone in her party?

The election was over six months ago. Trump and the Republicans won. Theya re in charge. Get used to it. Even giving Trump a three mont easing-in period, which the GOP did not need, I'd say everythign from, oh, 31 May, is down to Trumpa nd the Republicans. Your guys are in charge, Big John. What do you fear?

Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens

Shut up and take my money

Definitely a must-see. The global postal system, the global time zone agreement: two of the glorious international treaties of the 19th century.

The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY

Re: Nobody has mentioned toast....

Yes, London has its secret breakfast oases, and I happen to be near one situated a stone's throw from Ludgate Circus. Old-fashioned caffs still clinging by their fingers...

Re: Sorry for the thread subversion...

I too saw the terracotta abomination and thought 'fast food outlet', but were it Nando's, all is explained.

Re: Get it right

When i first came to Britain I heard of two things: fried slice and chip butty. Both sounded disgusting to me.

Then I had a fried slice. OMFG.

Later I had a chip buttie and new what heaven was, and did my damnedest to get there by eating many.

dipped in bacon fat and grilled

A tomato, halved and doused with bacon fat then grilled, is no longer either a fruit or a vegetable, but a culinary art-form.

Valley VC sues blogger after sex pest claims, discovers writer is a male tech biz rival

Re: Ummm ...

I have never framed a mate over anything, trivial or not. Because they are a mate. I wouldn't do it to someone not a mate, because I'm a professional. Geez, guys.

Slapping crap bosses just got cheaper: Blighty's Supreme Court nixes tribunal fees

Or vexatious litigants alone

Vexatious litigants go into it for the hope of a big cash award or for vengeance etc. Lawyers are not necessary shysters for representing them.

Re: Setting a good example

@ Big John, and yet he did win, and so far there are no faked-up charges, unless you think what is being uncovered, and admitted to, by (for instance) Trump Jr and Mr Kushner, is faked up.

Take that, gender pay gap! Atos to offshore hundreds of BBC roles

I have always supposed the idea of the BBC, but...

A nationally-owned TV and radio service that isn't beholden to corporate billionaires and thus enslaved tot heir views, and which is commercial-free and whose purpose is to provide all sectors with impartial and trustworthy information and good, representative entertainment -- this would be great. I am happy to pay a licence fee for that.

But is that what we are getting? How can we get that from a company that becomes more and more corporately distasteful? My station of choice BBC radio 3, is so dumbed-down and so out-sourced that I barely listen to it any more.

It does seem time either to pull the BBC up by its socks or to cut it loose from public money.

Cassini captures pieces of Saturn’s rings

Before I go into that good night

I hope that I am as useful in my last few weeks of life as Cassini.

Learn or learn not -- there is no retire.

US vending machine firm plans employee chip implant scheme

Re: As an optional bonus

A brilliant solution for the dimwits who have agreed.

Brits must now register virtually all new drones and undergo safety tests

Re: using a canon

Bach has also asked that his not be mis-used.

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

Likely to die, but not certainly

Not all airplane accidents end with 100% death. And with a Sullenberger, not even one. Whereas if the maglev goes blooey, really, so does everyone aboard.

User filed fake trouble tickets to take helpful sysadmin to lunches

Agree on the paper

I have many pieces of university paper in very non-marketable areas, but I simply point out, at interview, that I taught myself, as a graduate student, how to set up a project, how to direct myself to a successful on time, on budget finish (i.e. got the degree), and so had proven that I was able to work hard for a goal often many years away. Oh, and I was both details-oriented and yet could see the bigger picture. Also, could read Latin. And Anglo-Saxon.

Re: "He would put in a (fake) trouble ticket and request me."

Admiral Hopper: I believe you are just the type of woman who would deal swiftly and decisively with any stalker.

Uber, Twitter's legal eagles gather to wring claws about bro culture

Good luck with that

I wouldn't put money on the change. I have 23 years old men coming into my team that still don't get that the word is not 100% white guys (with the occasional Asian guy just coming into focus) with a few other lesser life forms floating around to be the target of jokes, leers and contempt.

The only thing that keeps me hanging on is the great guys who respect talent and brains no matter what outer wrapping it has.

HMS Frigatey Mcfrigateface given her official name

Re: City class names are ok

At least be witty.

Re: Towns again....

Yes:

Swiftsure

Redoubtable

etc

gets the blood going!

Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!

Re: Don't blame the stars for low pay

Women don't learn what's out there to be had, so they accept what they're offered, and agents want to sell cheaper talent.

If you think you are worth a certain amount argue for it. Don't do a preemptive cringe.

I say that as a woman who got £30k more just for digging my heels in.

Another Brexit cliff edge: UK.gov warned over data flows to EU

Re: what?

@wolfetone

Yes, and he was happy to keep trousering the MEP's wages.

US laptops-on-planes ban now applies to just one airport, ends soon

Re: Guns

@AC most of these are a jealous wife? Most? Keep repeating that and realise how dim this sounds.

Re: Guns

Surely a responsible gun owner never forgets that he or she is carrying a firearm.

Brit neural net pioneer just revolutionised speech recognition all over again

It's the complexity we need

We've lost hundreds of thousands of languages and can't therefore measure the ways of thinking they represent. I remember learning that Gaelic didn't have words for the same colours as English, they had ones for blue-greens and grey-blues that we don't have. Even English has lost many precise words -- a good half-dozen simply for parts of a wheel. As we simplify and homogenise we end up with 'stuff' and 'thing' and other generalisations that lessen exactitude and the joy of language.

So I don't want one world language, just as I don't want one form of music and one kind of car.

Google must cough up contact info for 8,000 employees in gender discrimination case

Wait till Gender Pay Gap hits UK

I already know my firm pays non-white men less than white men, all women here less than the non-white men, and non-white women less than their white sisters. Why? Because they can, and they can get away with it. For now.

Do I think non-white men and all women will be paid more fairly in the future? No. The rules will be jigged, somehow.

Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in

Re: not to be "scared" of her agenda

Whose agenda, I wonder? The actor's? Presumably she wants to be successful in the role. The new Doctor Who's? To fight evil and succeed at Time Lord stuff. The writers? To build up a bigger fan base. The producers? To have a hugely successful show. The BBC? To get more viewers and to be able to sell a stronger series overseas.

And...that's it.

Re: I'll just leave this here

I'll just leave this here:

Male Doctor

Sonic Screwdriver

Rule 34

Re: Let the feminazis have this one

Us pesky feminazis, running every international corporation, taking over every board room, in charge of every large charity, dominating the UK Supreme Court and ditto the House of Commons. Yes, ha ha ha we have come to bring all men into slavery! You have named and shamed with your Daily Mail article on why too many women doctors means the end of our species. Oh noes!

Oh gosh

You are absolutely flipping bonkers, aren't you? Bless your heart.

If you're all in favour of strong female roles...

...then why exclude shows with strong followings? Or do these strong female roles have to battle against entrenched favorites by starting new series? Doctor Who is supposed to be shockingly strange. If the new Doctor was an orca or an elephant or some other intelligent species, it would be fun and weird. It's a bit sad that a female human is seen as not-fun and challenging.

Re: Not my opinion!

Speaking as a female with 'Dr in front of her name, I do get tired of the assumption that Dr = male.

"It's a joke'

I always love a put-down and sneer postscripted by 'it's a joke'. Oh, that makes it all right then. Knee-slapper.

IETF moves meeting from USA to Canada to dodge Trump travel ban

Re: stupid politics

@meph... Thanks for your replies. I have a Canadian colleague who is going to attend and was deciding not too after getting lots of hassle in US Customs in the airport going to the last one. He said the queue took forever, that he feared for his laptop and phone, and he had to keep explaining why, as a Canadian, he was coming in from France (where he works).

The USA can close its borders and keep out anyone it wants to, but it has to expect that people will decide for themselves what to do about this. We foreigners can keep trying and run all sorts of risks, as well as unpleasantness, or we can go somewhere else. And we are going somewhere else.

It is called the logical consequences of initial action.

US border cops search cloud accounts? Ha ha, nope, negative, no way, siree – Homeland Sec

Re: Sighs

Get a second-hand old-fashioned Nokia chocolate bar (great phones, BTW) or even new from Amazon, a cheap card, because you 're even more suspicious if you have no phone at all. If one is taken from your eye view at US Customs (only once), dispose of it.

Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies

The science fiction angle did immediately jump to my brain

A sort of Plannet of the Apes, where humans (and perhaps most animals) are no more but the Tardis have plenty of time to evolve and fill all vacant ecological niches. Scaled up, the eight limbs can become all sorts of different things. Would they develop eyes, as has happened several time over the evolution of species? Or...?

Fun thoughts. Choosing a hero, now, and working out a future tardi culture: challenging.

Pastor la vista, baby! FCC enforcers shut down church pirate radio

Re: To be fair ...

Well, Mr John, The Reg is an online news site and it can't write the same article with the same words over and over, so it looks for new events to be able to run a theme. I think Net Neutrality is a fair and equal way of ensuring that corporations don't continue to shut out everyone but their own monopolies or cartels. El Reg brings to my attention where Governemnt agencies are siding with corporations and not helping ordinary Americans. Do you think their facts are incorrect, or is it their tone and approach you don't care for?

Fake Newspaper steals Reg design to spruik storage upstart

Picasso didn't say it

So 'supposedly' over thy ass.

Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines

Re: That's not a f***ing novel idea

It's called 'Tax Simplification' and it is already in hand.

What did OVH learn from 24-hour outage? Water and servers do not mix

Re: Once

A web design agency stuck me on OVH for w while. Migrated off at first opportunity.

Trump to world: Forget moving to America to do a startup

Re: Welcome to Gilead,

Given that women in Arkansas now have to have a man's permission to have an abortion, Gilead is moving ever closer.

Trump backs off idea for joint US/Russian 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit'

Re: What a f@#$ing rube

But Mr Bob, wouldn't multiple votes from one person be voter fraud?

Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal

Re: Stop calling him "sir" you monarchist scum

Only when you stop pretending that childish nick-names are worthy of an Anarchist mask.

Re: Let a thousand indie studios bloom

One of your zillion ideas is to remake 'Time Tunnel'. No wonder we don't need Hollywood any more!

Sysadmin bloodied by icicle that overheated airport data centre

Re: Frozen winter shit.

I've often noted that there is an I in 'dickhead' and a 'u' in 'fuckwad'. So when I get a lot of 'I don't think that's my job description and what are you going to do about it?' I know what I am dealing with.

Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month

Re: wonderful

The sort of journalism that flourished around, say, 1776 and onward was foul-mouthed vituperative and libellous. And yet the Founders supported a free press and even enshrined a free press in the founding documents of the USA. Journalists don't have to be impartial about issues, but they do have to be honest and accurate about facts. So they must report the facts and then they can go to town on interpreting them.

Re: So, never another Watergate?

Johannes Magnus, you are partly right, in that Obama refrained from asking the FBI to look at growing proofs that the Russians had their fingers all over US election data and processes because he didn't want to appear to be meddling in an election. That lack of spine has resulted in the body-blow the USA has now received.

Now, personally, I was all for Trump, because I hoped he would weaken the USA and make it a laughing-stock around the world, thus diminishing it from 'top world power' to 'that crazy place that doesn't know its ass from its elbow' and so lead to a new balance of power. Sadly, that is not happening quickly enough, but I still have hopes for a Trump Administration meltdown.

Microsoft boasted it had rebuilt Skype 'from the ground up'. Instead, it should have buried it

Re: Following the trend

Thanks! A good read.

Re: You will appreciate what *we* say you should appreciate!

I was a Google News fan, but I took one look at the new layout and moved to Bing News, which is not as well done as the old Google News, but much better than the new Google News.

Re: midas != microsoft

...some other four-letter word...

Mayo?