Posts by Natalie Gritpants Jr

Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers

Company sponsored blow-job after every casualty-free landing.

Lords: New IR35 off-payroll tax rules 'riddled with problems, unfairnesses, unintended consequences'

Re: unintended consequences

Actually the lead on a rope was dropped to the floor and then the sailor holding it would hold it vertically and walk along the ship. The time was taken at two points and so the speed of the ship calculated. Swinging the lead was a shortcut so the sailor didn't have to walk to the start point. This was bad as it is less accurate leading to navigation errors (potentially fatal if it means arriving at the end of the sea too soon)

House of Commons agrees to allow Zoom app in Parliament, British MPs will still have to dress smartly

Re: No opportunity for grabbing the Mace

Two swords? Surely you only need one sword length for safety between the two sides.

Hello, sub £-100 Moto: Lenovo punts 6.1-inch display e6S at low-cost crowd

Re: Yeah the Nokia 2.3 is better

India has a huge population, many are not poor.

Amazon launches itself into retail IT with 'all the necessary technologies'. Not saying which, but you know...

Pickpockets paradise

Seems like the cameras are monitoring the shelves to see who picks up and puts back what and then assumes they walk out and are happy to pay for it. All very well till some ne're-do-wells realize the cameras are not monitoring them pinching stuff from other peoples trolleys.

Almost as hopeless as letting you buy watermelons at the self-checkout and not figuring out that it's a case of vodka and not a watermelon you've just put on the scales.

Scottish biz raided, fined £500k for making 193 million automated calls

Re: The probe found the company made 1.6 million calls a day ...

Of course the telco knows, they also know they are getting paid for every call answered and are not held responsible.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband

Re: Drying

Press the button with your elbow.

Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear

Small time criminal?

Add to that award winning bee keeper and bitcoin entrepreneur.

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

Re: "as your mum once told me"

Move the mouse to the left hand side. Take a bit of getting used to but it's much cheaper than a physio.

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Re: Clearly a cover up

Doesn't really matter what the ASCII values are as long as they are in alphabetical order because he is subtracting one set from another. I'm assuming the illuminati were familiar with the english alphabet - oh wait..

Raw sunlight is going to cause our asteroid belt to spin itself to death by YORPing – but not for another six billion years

Re: Snowballs

So we don't need Bruce Willis?

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

One reason to replace and old desktop is power consumption

A laptop can often be just as powerful, is portable if you need it to be and has a built in UPS. Unless you want terabytes of disk.

Contractors welcome Lords inquiry into IR35 before tax reforms hit private sector but fear it's 'too little, too late'

Not really (unless you are HMRC). My employer treats me really well - unlimited holidays etc. The company that contracts my employer treats my employer like shit though.

Re: Too little, too late

<me_too> I've been told I'm inside so I'm looking for a new contract ASAP. It will either cost me income if I don't find one or it will cost my client time to market as we're at a critical point in the run up to tape out.

Cache flow problems continue for Intel: Yet more data-leaking processor design blunders discovered, patches due soon

And how are they going to put more recent instructions in the older CPUs? Magic?

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

He need some new friends

if they get their social life updates by patrolling the graveyard.

Co-Op Insurance and IBM play blame game over collapse of £175m megaproject

Re: Good news for...

Indeed, trebles all round for those whose bonuses depended on the signing of contracts and not the delivery.

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

Might be cheaper to have just one really good camera on the back together with a small low res screen on the back for selfies/facetime.

Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers

Re: Does the noise-cancelling work without a source?

Maybe play some music and turn the volume down to zero.

Re: oh no!

I have a LG-G5 phone with USB-C and it is bollocks, it is now so loose it falls out when it's on the car dashboard. It is very fiddly to get it in properly. Never had those problems with Micro-USB. Stick your finger on the cable end and you can feel which way round it is, then pop it in and it locks.

Email blackmail brouhaha tears UKIP apart as High Court refuses computer seizure attempt

The conclusion I draw is that this is where the Brexit party will be very soon, followed by Labour unless by some miracle they elect a moderate leader.

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

Hey geeks

Does anyone know of a good IoT over mains wiring system? I used to use X10 but they are difficult to source now and the most recent ones I bought are crap. They also don't control lights of less than 60W so no LEDs!

I have mains around the garden but as I'm in Somerset WiFi doesn't go more than three feet in normal weather and some of the buildings are stone.

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

Re: Consumer hardware

I thought I was the bees knees when I had the biggest AIM65 in the lab. A whole 4kBytes of RAM! No floppy or tape, just type your program in every time. I suppose the 40 char thermal printer could count as storage.

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

Can I now refer to his muskiness as a p***-guy because I find him creepy?

You looking for an AI project? You love Lego? Look no further than this Reg reader's machine-learning Lego sorter

They're sorted by purchase date silly.

Now let's see it bibbing itself.

Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?

Re: end UK dependance on GPS?

I'm guessing you stick one on each mobile phone mast and then you can get position anywhere that you can get a mobile signal from three masts - oh,wait...

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

Re: So much for commentard being enlightened here...

More likely they assumed a crusher of young dreams wouldn't be female.

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

How do you pronounce spadeadm?

is it spaddy adam, spade adam or spad eya dam?

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Re: Noise cancelling

I use my Sennheisers while using power tools. They don't block out everything but good for reducing the noise of a chainsaw.

Why would you update the firmware on headphone?

If they work when you buy them keep them. It's not like they have a webserver in them that needs security fixes. Or is it???

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

Re: Can I get you to do Morrisons as well?

Download the Morrisons app, log in and order 100 pairs of pants.

Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System

Re: Obligatory PTerry reference

I'm thinking of a bear with floppy ears and a waggy tail.

A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months

Re: All those precautions and 'they' left out the most obvious one

Surely that's not an extreme measure?

Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer

How many organisations that run data centres just take the distro defaults?

What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner

How many of these is it?

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Potentially they could turn your electricity off. That could take out your alarm and will almost certainly disable your fancy remote front door camera.

IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE

Re: IR35 idiocy

Dublin is very commutable, did a spell at Intel Leixlip. Just remember to pay the bridge toll within 24 hours or the car hire company will get cross.

HMRC 'disciplined' almost 100 employees for computer misuse over 24 months

Re: What's the issue?

Also we don't have a choice as to which tax authority we are the customers of. I can stop using Amazon if I don't like the way they handle information about me, can't do that with the tax office.

Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit

Is that picture real

Very disturbing that they fit a kiddy-killer on the front. It thought it was serve and protect, not swerve and maim.

The Wun Show: Douglas Crockford has been sniffing JavaScript's bad parts again

Re: Fabulous . . .

or scooters

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

Re: Pony up.

Like the green Beetle that appears four times?

Also hilarious how many one-wheel-peels there are (love those solid rear axles).

The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network

Re: Press Ctrl + S to Save Yourself Against this Exploit

Won't work, ctrl-s suspends output from the computer to terminal. It doesn't stop your keypresses going to the remote end.

Re: Wireshark is my shell...

Or use more than one fnger to type the password.

New lows at Bose as firmware update woes infuriate soundbar bros

Of course you can just not connect the ethernet port. I doubt it's getting updates via the HDMI port. Hopefully it doesn't scan for wifi channels because that would make it a spying device.

Wunderlist creator asks Microsoft to sell him back his biz as Redmond updates To Do

"small fortune – between $100m and $200m"

To me that's a large fortune, not huge, enormous or ginormous, but not small either.

Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul

If you don't want vermin stop feeding them

Your urine has probably attracted rats and they are very tasty to foxes.

'Member Ke3chang? They're still at it, you know. Euro diplomats targeted by 'China-based' hacker crew

Re: It would be useful

The answer is none of them initially, then all of them later.

It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

Re: Curious reaction

You're doing it wrong.