Posts by CountCadaver

Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

Re: Outages

Buy better quality duct/gaffa tape and it's then both waterproof and stays stuck

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Re: Riiiight

Disability fraud is for example so low it can't be measured and most of what the papers call fraud is actually "fraud and error", majority of which is errors being made by the professionals at the DWP.

Worse than many are actually underpaid and aren't claiming what they are entitled to or being wrongly told they aren't entitled to it when they are.

UK social security payments are markedly lower than other European nations and our papers compare us with the hellscape known as the USA where vast numbers of people are sleeping on streets or in their cars while working as they can't afford housing or the employment they can get isnt reliable.

Where the mentally ill aren't treated but instead harassed, criminalised, assaulted and abused by a system that views them.as sub human and expendable.

UK social security needs a root and branch purge of the private sector medical insurance infiltrators who have spent 30+ years stoking allegations of fraud to cause division while creaming off vast sums for themselves.

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

Re: weasel (words)

Soon to be met with the warm embrace of a medical discharge from service and then a "caring" assessment by the DWP which will of course find nothing at all wrong with them.....

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

Re: It's worse than that.

Sadly I can see this coming.....

"After the govt acted decisively to protect Brits from the disgusting filth, paedophilia and terrorism laden hell laughably known as the world wide web by cutting the connection, instead you can now subscribe to BritNet or GBNewsNet today and get access to a carefully curated true blue British real information super highway free of woke extremism and instead with common sense restored. All you need is your bank details and your British passport/driving licence, take both of these to your local GBPost office and they will record your details along with taking a photo for your Brit net profile, all so you can rest assured you are safe and the common sense no nonsense Britnet experience will be free from scammers, woke extremists, asylum seekers and other detritus"

*Puke*

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

Re: Manual

As one lawyer put it, you can write whatever shit you want in a contract, doesn't make it legal or enforceable

Re: Manual

Oooh YOUNG MAN,

At your age, At our age YOUNG MAN

</HARRYENFIELD>

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

pedal bike would be a good comparison - can still find parts for bikes sold decades back and some boutique companies will still service and supply parts for bikes they sold 50+ years ago, ditto high end fountain pens where their makers will take back, clean, service and even replate barrels on pens old enough to be my grandfather (and he's over 90)

Re: Not a problem with my paper books

Eink screens can be found on other devices though ....

Though the battery could likely have been replaced with one from AliExpress, possibly even from the original supplier to b&n lol

Likely as they are altering their drm encryption to prevent people jailbreaking their legally purchased books.....

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: I dont doubt the story...

I just added switchbot relay switches either in the light roses or in the switch back boxes

Re: I dont doubt the story...

I'm still fighting to get the android voice add on for home assistant to recognise voice rather than just text...not quite sure whats not playing nice and cant be bothered tinkering with it too much.....yet

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Re: Expansion cards

To quote from your link in another post

"While sources inside the company during the launch of Hardcard claim it was the first HDD controller integrated into the drive printed circuit board,[6] Xebec, a HDD controller manufacturer in the early 1980s, had already done that with their Owl product around August 1984. It was a complete 5.25 inch half-height HDD with an integrated controller and drive electronics on the same printed circuit board with a SASI interface.[12][13]"

Perhaps what the other poster was referring to?

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Re: If AI gets good enough at finding bugs

Or an arms race of the bad guys trying to punch holes in secure systems whilst avoiding being identified by a system that retaliates against an attacker whether using a "soft kill" or "hard kill" strategy.

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Repair shop bodge

Only failure of the shop was failing to glue on longer feet (or worse wood screw them on)

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: New cars, I've seen them

Local air quality is the issue there, mid 2000s where virtually no one would be seen dead with a coal fire or wood burner was the optimal time to outlaw them, except the govt decided they were "green" and now air quality has gone totally to merde....

BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge

Re: Lucky

Who knew you could get so much custard from one cat/sales rep?

Capt.E Blackadder

Re: Sales

Army would have been another option - Royal Logistics Corp or the Royal Tank Regiment - both have all- terrain arctics capable of hauling well over 70 tonnes on or off road in all conditions.

If the track was beyond those....I'm sure a challenger 2 could be fitted with a tow hitch...and little or nothing is going to stop one of those...

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

*Statler and Waldorf

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: If you know, you know...

Actually I think the Canadian tire money will be worth more than many currencies soon the way things are going....

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

Re: Has he tried

Reminds me of Austin Powers.....

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

So basically Horizon : ZeroDawn complete with Farobots running amok and unstoppable..

Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans

20 years?

Many people are held back due to parental, community and societal attitudes on learning, where schools are not designed to educate but instead to contain and condition it's "inmates" to produce unquestioning, compliant worker drones

Otherwise you could skip much of the dead time (which the Simpsons parodied so well with "magazine time" and Skinner's justification that he can't challenge intelligent students as the "stupider kids would be sitting there furrowing their brows, trying in vain to understand"), bin all the "rote learning" so beloved of right wing politicians and pub bores and replace it with giving kids problem solving strategies, alongside more practical skills and real life examples to get them

1) moving, 30+ hours of sitting still a week and we wonder why kids look like beach balls.....

2) working in teams Vs the obsolete "sit in silence, no talking, no discussion with others, keep your books closed" attitudes created when schools were there to provide church sponsored minimal education to young factory and mill.workers, where the church told the mill and factory owners they could have "their" workers from noon onwards. All so you know kids ACTUALLY know HOW to work in teams,.something employers have been complaining about for decades now that young folk have no idea how to work in a team

3) encourage them to ask questions, think of their own solutions

4) expose them to the real world concept that it's ok and often desirable to fail at something to foster innovation and understanding of the problem

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Re: Is there anything left for AI to ruin at this point?

Well AI is demanding vast amounts of water, so maybe their next "genius" idea will be govt funded rain collectors, so crops wither and die through lack of water to keep the ai shit barns supplied with water

Re: Think of the end game

The billionaires will just waltz into another well paid role as they once led a massive company, the media will demand "unsustainable".welfare payments are abolished, minimum wage slashed (or at least frozen permanently)

Re: Think of the end game

More like ala Louis Vitton, it will all be crushed/incinerated and landfilled to avoid "undermining the market value" and then.written off as a tax loss.....

Re: My storage area...

eBay? Modern art piece "the beginning of the end?"

Re: I still use HDDs.

Nope - I have 3 boxes of current and "obsolete" IT components - FDD, Zip drive, parallel ATA cables, dvd burners, all manner of usb ports and flavours, power cords with various ends and more....

Re: And people thought the egg shortage was bad in the US

Well unless of course the AI bubble bursts suddenly - perhaps due to the outbreak of global war, a severe spike in interest rates, another great recession/depression, rioting, societal hostility towards ai turning into outright direct action whether mass boycotts or more kinetic, an outbreak of internal conflict/civil war in a large nation......or even development of a more effective alternative that causes a mass pivot or the markets lose faith in ai

Any of that happens......all bets are off frankly

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

Re: So let me get this straight

That or boredom leads to extreme behaviour - military bunkrooms with names like "the zoo" where outrageous bs was positively encouraged and this at an obstensibly upstanding British military officer training college.....

Anyone who has served may well know which branch of the UK armed forces I am talking about here....

Re: "I think the letter of the rules doesn't get applied when it comes to toilet breaks"

Better hope then your escortee doesn't suffer from IBS,.Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis as they can and often are stuck in the loo for long periods without warning

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Re: Europe is definitely going to get together on this

I seem to recall the 1950s zeitgeist was manned aircraft would be obsolete before the early to mid 1960s - leading to cancellation of the TSR2 and the avro Arrow....

Yet 70+ years later we are still building, flying and designing manned jets

Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia

Staff being less productive due to slow network connectivity i.e. field support techs - where it takes longer to upload and download relevant patches etc to systems as one example?

Re: Trump 1 - Europe 0…

Can't even call AMFM "AI" as even the most basic of AI chat bots is more erudite and cohesive

Internet version of a numbers station? Low quality translation engine? Someone trying to write poetically ala Byron?

Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow

Re: How are they paying for it?

Thought that was what was backing up Ellison Jr attempts to buy WB-Discovery?

Re: Irrational exuberance

So in a nutshell, exuberant means incontinent tit?

Seems right

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Dog licencing has been debunked multiple times - all it does is penalise dog owners on a low income, while those with money but are "bad" owners are ignored and those who cause issues don't bother buying one in the first place.

If the BBC was a person it would be Boris Johnson - Socially very conservative with a mindset of the 1950s, anti europe, pro environment, pro wealthy, anti poor and anti disabled

The BBC litters its daytime schedules with utter dirge like faked "antiques hunt shows", umpteen various flavours of property shows "Hi this is Bob and Sue, Bob works part time in a pub and Sue is a retired part time cleaner in a supermarket, their budget is £3 Million but they can stretch to £5.5 Million for their dream home" and various other shows to make hospital waiting rooms even more tortuous.

They could turn off their daytime output and it might well improve the country

TVL Crapita Contractors != Enforcement "Officers"

TV Licencing like to name their outsourced heavies from Crapita as "Enforcement Officers" to imply they are police empowered professional investigators, they are nothing of the sort. They are just whoever Crapita can find this week to go knock on doors and try induce people to incriminate themselves.

They have no powers of entry and can (and many would say should) be told to go away.

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

Re: Quite a rare sight

Or perhaps "MariuszZbigniewPudzianowski"?

Re: Quite a rare sight

write english right to left ala several other languages?

Not sure if bonus points for writing it in a mirror form to normal english or writing right to left but still producing "normal" english characters....hmmm

Re: Posher

My current (and not top of the range) 27" 4K Coolermaster IPS with MiniLED HDR1200 backlighting (576 dimming zones vs 1100+ on the higher end ones) was £750 and that was an ouch purchase but it has a fantastic image quality with minimal blooming. Shame the firmware onboard still has quite a few bugs around switching sources where coming out of a fullscreen game can at times result in a black screen (something I believe to do with HDR particularly in windows)

I know someone who had a 21" or worse 23" Trinitron monitor, which weighed some ridiculous amount, not to mention the sheer depth of a CRT monitor of those dimensions

Re: "I did a spot of Artexing"

Apparently one of the old school routes was using a wall paper steamer to soften and remove it

Re: "I did a spot of Artexing"

somehow my maternal grandfather has made it through growing up in poverty, working 60 years with plaster, asbestos, ripping down ceilings and being covered with bird shit, rat droppings and worse, much of this being before ppe and masks were a thing and is only slightly out of breath with no signs of asbestosis or mesothelioma. He's now 90 years old and *hopefully* will be 91 in late spring.

Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork

Re: NativeErrorCode 1801

Or the hellspawn known as the Irukandji Jellyfish

https://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/info/reef-dangers/Irukandji/

Love the beach also + suggestion

perhaps a side thing the register could do - send us your best pics of <theme> we've mentioned or included a photo of in the article

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

Re: What's the joke about regexes ?

People said the same thing about the NHS, People said the same thing about providing social security (which the right attempt to destroy by cutting taxes and thus wilfully undermining it so they can brand it "unsustainable")

The biggest problem is that politicians are a parcel of rogues in a nation, bought and sold for billionaire's gold (paraphrasing Rabbie Burns)

If the techbillionaire's faced 1950s levels of taxation (you know the time period so many wax lyrical about, where everything was "milk and honey") then society and public services would be far better off and their tax contributions would be far higher.

Re: What's the joke about regexes ?

so basically your argument is "the devil makes work for idle hands"?