Posts by RuffianXion

We know it's hard to get your kicks at work – just do it away from a wall switch powering anything important

Re: Uses of Radar

The story I heard, from a school Physics teacher, was that a young couple had chosen a secluded spot on restricted MOD land (that turned out to be a radar testing site) for a bit of canoodling. They were discovered shortly afterwards, lightly cooked on the inside.

UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website

Re: "neither side was short of a few shekels"

Shouldn't that be (Undies Secretary)?

Reg reader's XXXbox oddity: The BBC4 topless thumbnail trauma whodunnit

Re: "Sweaty masses"

Sadly, it's been many years since mere words alone could trigger my extension.

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

Re: What Navy?

What fishing?

Backers of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone furious after shock specs downgrade

Re: Furious?

Perhaps they should have left the 's' off 'Backers'.

Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem

"4 deaths, of which at least 3 were not caused by any violent act by the protestors"

ALL of those deaths (of which there are 5 confirmed) were caused by that mob. If they hadn't stormed the Capitol building all those people would still be alive.

Let's check in now with the new California monolith... And it's gone, torn down by a bunch of MAGA muppets

Re: Usually

For that they would need the ability to reflect on their actions and apply critical thinking, so I don't think they need to worry.

Why, yes, you can register an XSS attack as a UK company name. How do we know that? Someone actually did it

Re: Still winning

Clicking the 'View availability' tab on that page is good for a giggle.

India orders 180-day sprint to wire 46,000 villages

That's one hell of a sprint

'before March 31st, 2020' - I guess they're hoping to hit 88mph.

QR-code based contact-tracing app brings 'defining moment' for UK’s 'world beating' test and trace system

Re: Hm.

No smartphone? Heretic! (I'll have two points, two flats and a packet of gravel.)

Re: Absolutely NO lies necessary!!!!

My local takes ONLY cash, no card payments whatsoever. Anyone new to the establishment who brandishes a card for payment of their round is directed to the nearby convenience store's cash machine.

You're stuck inside, gaming's getting you through, and you've $1,500 to burn. Check out Nvidia's latest GPUs

Re: "neither side was short of a few shekels"

When you're as rich as Huang is, fashion norms cease to be applicable.

All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up

Reboot indeed

Take the streetview back to 2008 and you will see that the property was once occupied by True-Form Boot Co. - https://buildingourpast.com/2016/07/05/true-form/

One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway

Re: £92m

Eton

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Re: "neither side was short of a few shekels"

Seems it wasn't, it's been changed to 'short of cash' now.

Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter

Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) - I'm always amused by the lengths that scientists, engineers etc. will go to in the quest for a good acronym.

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm

Quelle Surprise!

"The staff member who sent it put their email addresses in the CC section of the email, rather than the blind CC section" and we're expected to entrust our personal data to these numpties?

Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts

Re: So by saying...

Stewart Lee fan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgeXd5kRDg - NSFW (language)

PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure

Re: Still ticking along - 415th as of today

Given that the overal no.1-ranked folder has joined our team (and seems to be folding for us exclusively) - https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/1437 - I'd say that was pretty likely. I wouldn't want their electricity bill landing on my doormat!

Watch now the three UFO videos uncovered by Blink-182 star – and today officially released by the Pentagon

I'm not terribly well-versed in American political history so could you remind me, was Roland Reagan the President before or after Ronald?

Facebook, distributor of deceptive political ads, sues registrar Namecheap over deceptive domain names

Re: Obvious

A domain name is not required to contain information about the nature or prime purpose of the business. Where did you get that nonsense from?

Re: Only in England the source of the Skripal fantasy would this title fly

It's 'British' and 'Britain' and it's not but thanks for playing though, your contribution is important ( but probably not in the way you thought it would be). Please keep trying though, your attempts to denigrate our society are amusing important to us.

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

WTF?

I didn't realise until now that, although I had disabled (or thought I had) all location tracking on my phone, that I was still being tracked via my gmail account - not anymore though.

Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches

Re: Court

So you're suggesting we treat the legal system like a sport, such as the NFL (or cricket if you are a right-pondian such as myself)? I can see that that would end up working tremendously well. /s

Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations

I'm sure that once Donald America can get Tim Apple, Jeff Amazon and Frank Microsoft together, this will all be resolved amicably (as soon as someone explains what 'amicably' means to Donald).

Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they'll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea

Re: !!!

What the actual what the actual fck? (I didn't mis-type that). I'm speechless. Zillions of dollars spent and it can't do what the F-86 could do?

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

Why would you?

"I can't magic HTTPS into existence on a site I don't own if I'd like to link to a data file it hosts,"

Why are you having anything to do with a site that doesn't use https in 2020? It's "free" (yeah I know they build it into the hosting price, but the hosts that aren't charging an arm and leg for for https as an addon are generally better than those that are anyway - Siteground >>> 123Reg ) from decent hosts FFS. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for any website not to have https.

'Supporting Internet Explorer is hell': Web developers identify top needs – new survey

Re: Interesting that the communty here seems almost unified for once

Well, anyone who agrees that CSS is too hard probably won't have found their way here anyway, or if they did, found that forums are too hard as well and went home.

Re: Supporting Internet Explorer?

Didn't we already nuke it from Chrome?

Just because 8.2 per cent 'identify' as women, that doesn't mean 8.2 per cent actually ARE women. It's 2019, we're on the verge of a whole new decade where gender means whatever you want it to mean, making statistics such as this utterly meaningless (sorry statisticians).

I'm a little bit younger and quite a bit newer to the web and it's associated technologies than many here, but ActiveX in my mind is basically a synonym for malware, did I get that right?

Found on Mars: Alien insects... or whatever the hell this smudge is supposed to be, anyway

Re: 20/20

My guess would be that he's also a keen believer in single malt whisky.

Helen Fospero makes yet another Brit telly presenter to win IR35 case against taxman

Beyond their grasp

'And if HMRC cannot grasp its own legislation, how can it expect businesses across the UK to when it changes IR35 in the private sector next April?'

I wouldn't expect HMRC to be able to grasp a 'Dick & Jane' book, never mind a piece of convoluted tax legislation.

Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more

This won't end well

So by using an image set that was categorised via MTurk, researchers effectively got a bunch of randos from the internet to train their AIs? That was never going to end well was it?

Good guy, Microsoft: Multi-factor auth outage gives cloudy Office, Azure users a surprise three-day weekend

Re: authenticator app does not "receive" codes

TOTP? Wasn't Top of the Pops cancelled years ago?

Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!

Re: Not just business

"At these levels of mark up, that bag is probably worth more than the new beemer on my neighbour's driveway." If you add consultancy fees, travel expenses and some random expenditure that no-one except a fellow IT 'consultant' can explain, you're probably about right.

We're all doooooomed: Gloomy Brit workforce really isn't coping well with impending Brexit

"All you need is an axe to start with" - Axe, what axe? Everyone knows you start with a crowbar.

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

It doesn't really matter how old the data is - how often do you change banks? I've been with the same one for 20 years.

Watchdog: Hush-hush UK.gov blew £97m on Brexit wonks from six of the usual suspects

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=satire

Re: Small Change

The ones who started planning this 4 years ago.

Fed-up graphic design outfit dangles cash to anyone who can free infosec of hoodie pics

Waste of effort

She could have been carrying her hacking tools in a clear plastic bag and I wouldn't have noticed.

To get a sense of Samsung's Q2 profits, picture a Galaxy Fold closing to half the size

Re: 5G

Huawei - Your way, my way, any way to get a clickbait title. Websites love Huawei - click here for 25 best ways to incorporate Huawei into a page title for clicks. Also some random news about 5G.

It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins

Re: Names

That's 'Siobhan'.

Trump: Huawei ban will be lifted!
US Commerce Dept.: Yeah, about that…

Re: She can't MAGA

'The word is that even the most fervent of Trumpites aren't that keen on Ivanka'

Oh I don't know, the most fervent Trumpite of all (Trump himself) seems pretty keen on her...

UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations'

Those companies are where the data is coming FROM; they already have the data and will be making it available - via the Hub - to SMEs.

Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)

Re: Not laughing with you

Whooosh...

Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...

Re: You Just Need to Have Faith

Jesus Christ, that webpage made my eyes bleed.

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

Re: Golden Rule of Audit

Why make an error yourself when HMRC are perfectly capable of making them themselves?

A day in the life of London seen through spam and weak Wi-Fi

Nope, that's a pancreas.