Re: Beautiful
Thin Client, anyone?
Posts by Ripper38
45 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2016
When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences
Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?
How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens
Tuesday 10th September 2019 14:56 GMT
Re: "Young people are just smarter" and here is proof
reg. "...Zuck will buy up competition". Spot on! I was wondering about the bit in the article that says: "...Mulley added that by 2040 "the majority of people on Facebook will be over 40" remark. That supposes that FB will still be around in 2040! Me thinks Zuck will see the change coming, milk the cow, buy something else and let FB die a quiet death, you know, like... Yahoo !
Can you download it to me – in an envelope with a stamp?
Monday 9th September 2019 15:14 GMT
brightened up an otherwise dull Monday
Just helping Dabbsy get 200 comments, oh and yes. Lived in France, Germany and now the Netherlands... Dutch DHL are cool plus they speak English too. German DPD tend not to ring and only speak Czech or is it Romanian... can't remember for French couriers, selective memory I suppose... Do remember the French Lettres Recommandées.. shudder to think at some I received! needed sunglasses to read the Bold Red 12pt type they used (icon because explosive)
World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts
Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours
It's official! The Register is fake news… according to .uk overlord Nominet. Just a few problems with that claim, though
Lip-reading smart speakers: Just what no one always wanted
Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator
Friday 15th March 2019 11:59 GMT
Re: re: downvotes
"WhatsApp (/Signal/Telegram) calls are often used by people with a lot of international contacts"
Wholeheartedly second that! As wives are want to do mine talks a lot with her daughter, her mum too. Now as the inlaws all live in countries that once enjoyed Uncle Joe's benevolence its more than possible the some slurping is going on but as far as I'm concerned so be it... the wife's meat pie and cake receipes can be found on Pinterest anyway...the days of paying "Ouch that hurt" telephone bills is a fading memory.
BOFH: State of a job, eh? Roll the Endless Requests for Further Information protocol
Brain brainiacs figure out what turns folks into El Reg journos, readers
US senators ask FTC to investigate Google's Location imbroglio
Navy names new attack sub HMS Agincourt
Tuesday 15th May 2018 15:48 GMT
Re: So sad
@ Rose Compass. Up-voted, not because
1- 'failed' the 11-plus - check
2- 'secondary modern' (late 60s) - check
3- ...attended a comprehensive school in the 1970s, - check (well actually 3)
4- Medieval History - loved it so - check
but because
"[Checked with a paper dictionary before submission!]"
FCA 'gold-plates' EU rule, hits BYOD across entire UK finance sector
Dawn of The Planet of the Phablets in 2019 will see off smartphones
Did eye just do that? Microsoft brings gaze tracking to Windows 10
BOFH: Oh go on. Strap me to your Hell Desk, PFY
Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?
BOFH: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back
Friday 19th May 2017 09:00 GMT 
Won't somebody think of the children, uh, the future BOFHs?
Looking back on some of their verrrry old exploits I started seriously fretting about BOFH & PFY's future especially after reading this: https://qz.com/985808/your-it-job-is-at-risk-if-you-currently-do-these-things-for-a-living/ and then I thought, G̶o̶d̶,̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶r̶s̶t̶y̶...W̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶L̶u̶n̶c̶h̶ "Nah! They wrote the manual" Plus, it says: “Strategic senior level jobs such as CIO or CTO roles won’t vanish, but with the organisation pyramid getting leaner, companies would require fewer managers to manage different teams,” ... Managers vanishing? Well, if that isn't Business As Usual with our favourite IT team...
Drunk user blow-dried laptop after dog lifted its leg over the keyboard
SPY-tunes scandal: Bloke sues Bose after headphones app squeals on his playlist
BOFH: Password HELL. For you, mate, not for me
Queen Lizzie awarded good behaviour medal
Double-negative tweet could be Microsoft Surface Phone hint
Microsoft redfaced after Bing translation cockup enrages Saudis
Wednesday 31st August 2016 08:00 GMT
People=Shit
"...the error occurred because Bing Translator has a crowdsourcing function – if a large group of people (he estimated over a thousand) suggest a translation, then it becomes listed as a possible answer"
Oh, so now it's the translators' fault? Blaming anonymous crowdsourcing resources is a lame excuse and just proves that:
a) Somebody or some “thing”, in the house that Bill built, isn’t doing their or its job, either that or they’re extremely naive not to have red flagged certain , say, TLA org sensitive words and let translations go through unchecked
b) Somebody or some “thing” at Bing Translator doesn’t check or clean-up the terminology base (MTs can do that today)
b) Some wicked, wicked trolls are pissing themselves with laughter. Imagine, today Daesh, tomorrow the Drumpf… the world (of Bing) is my oyster, and
c) That sarcasm and irony identification thing still needs working on.
Mine's the one with the copy of Slipknot's Iowa album in the pocket
Angler hooks German's todger at nudist lake
New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership
How Brussels works: if you can’t beat them, join rewrite an EU directive
Wednesday 17th August 2016 14:07 GMT
Re: wats next
@ IsJustabloke: HMRC say: Challenge accepted! ... Hum! HMRC might look to the German govt. who,having already a whopping budget surplus, have just thought up another idea to make even more money: p̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶s̶s̶i̶l̶ ̶f̶u̶e̶l̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶s̶ Encourage people to buy electric cars.by adding a Green tax on petrol (Barrel price sinks; price at the pump stays the same)
Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?
What Brexit means for you as a motorist
Wednesday 29th June 2016 10:37 GMT
Pointless article, sterile debate
Have to agree with one commentard. We're getting inundated with a mass of pointless, speculative space filling articles about what may, could, might happen to insular Britons/English if Brexit etc and so on. There's not even a "should" or an "in all probability" let alone, and God forbid, anything resembling an enagement to make it happen.
(nb. I say insular as opposed to those of us Britons/English on the other side of the water very merrily exploiting, uh benefiting from the EU).
Furthermore, and from a relatively safe distance of several hundred clicks away in Merkalland I can say that British politicians are doing us proud: between the Labour meltdown and the Tory skullduggery it makes the Borgias, the Medicis and the Game of Thrones look decidedly tame.
PS. Make Boris PM the hang, draw and quarter the conniving bastard.
Patriotic Brits rush into streets to celebrate… National Cream Tea Day
Friday 24th June 2016 12:41 GMT 
A no brainer
From a Janner/Devonian heathen....Sterile debates with misleading claims from pompous gits... uh, sorry blotted confabulating buffoons make me so angry I could crush Brazil nuts with me buttocks... Of course its milk then tea and cream, then jam and just let me catch you putting butter on a scone. </sarc but not quite>
Drinking to forget? OK. But first, eat a curry... QUICK!
Tuesday 21st June 2016 15:11 GMT
Two for the price of one
@Google. Icon says it all.... First Lewis Page + Comments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/kiwi_boffins_prove_booze_makes_you_clever/
... then a Lester Haines special to round the day off to:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/irish_electricity_company_threatens_to_cut_off_graveyard/
Lester Haines: RIP
Belgian brewery lays 3.2km beer pipeline
Swiss effectively disappear Alps: World's largest tunnel opens
Friday 3rd June 2016 12:50 GMT
Re: Swiss efficiency
OK, I'll bite: Stuttgart 21, Elbphilharmonie, BER Airport are all in Germany, so the connection is what? Nothing to do with Swiss efficiency either but never mind, the French built quite a nifty theme park... about wine. Huh! Who'd a thought it: http://www.businessinsider.com/theme-park-for-wine-lovers-france-2016-5
Biting the hand that feeds IT
