* Posts by jason_derp

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Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse

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Re: This is fine

Never let the opportunity for a Question Hound reference go unexploited.

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Re: Cheese it!

I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you look at the history of Atari fans, only the Sonic fanbase really has them beat for desperately hoping and throwing money towards a new project they hope is good, only to be met by soul-crushing dissapointment.

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

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How does contracting work exactly, in the UK? In Canada, "contractor" is a way of getting somebody to do the same job as an employee, only they don't need a reason to be fired, don't get sick days, don't get benefits at all really, including employment protections of any sort, and they get paid a lot less. Is it similar over there?

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

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I found the topic that drives Reg readers insane

The naming of products as milk and beer, when they are not, in fact, meeting the stringent and well-established definitions of milk and beer. Still beats the hypertensive word vomiters in the Ars comments.

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

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Re: Windows 10 audio _never_ works properly

Oh man, audio on Windows is such a shitshow. I had this problem where the audio would fall out of sync with anything on the internet, but nowhere else on the computer. Any and all settings were examined and changed, all browser options were explored, nothing ever fixed it. At the same time, video games would have stuttering sound issues as well. Sound card removed, different sound cards tried, no sound card at all, different speaker setups, different drivers.

One of the ways to fix it was to do a completely clean install. It would work for a few weeks and then start again. After a few updates, the window where the audio would work shrunk more and more, until it would happen on even a brand new install. This was with literally NO other software installed other than Firefox and Morrowind, and I also took the liberty of writing over the drive with 0s 1s and random bits several times, to try and burn any of the f*ckwittery remaining off of the SSD.

Finally I talked to their support, and I went through a multi-hour process of doing everything I could. Finally I got to somebody high enough to give a solid answer. "Hardware incompatability". Okay, which part? "Can't tell, too many vairables." Well, all the hardware seems to be working as well as it once did, and the sound worked well a year ago before a few of your sh*tcrafted updates, so I'd kind of like to know. Radio silence.

Spent money to change the MOBO, switched from an Intel to an AMD, switched the RAM completely, switched to a new SSD, new video card, removed any sound boards, even changed the effing PSU because what the hell, I'm basically making a new computer anyways. Installed 10. SAME. THING. AS. BE. FORE.

I use Linux now. In my opinion, Windows 10 is the greatest advertisement for Linux that could ever exist.

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

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"customer service call and chat volumes – has steadily dropped"

I've had this wracking, awful chest cough accompanied by blood and mucus. I've been seeing the same doctor for years, but all he's done recently is prescribe leaches and essential mint oil. As a result, I no longer see that doctor.

Ipso facto, my chest problem must have improved.

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

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Honestly, if somebody from IT can walk into a room full of people at computers and nobody has begun to choke on their mouse, you've seen what some would call "the best case scenario".

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

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There sure are a lot of charges that seem to amount to "had weed, was probably going to sell it". Can you just throw drugs in somebody's shed and get them put away forever on ten different charges? Crazy.

As many as 100,000 IBM staff axed in recent years as Big Blue battles to reinvent itself from IT's 'old fuddy duddy'

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Doesn't sound flawed at all. Sounds like it's working exactly as intended. Unfortunately.

IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished

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Re: That's MY business plan

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. That should probably have a /s or something in there if it was meant to be a joke. This is the internet, there is little reason to not believe you're serious...

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

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Pretty rare that a cop gets in trouble for actually USING a body cam. The justification given for its use makes sense, if only to help separate unnecessary and frivolous complaints about the police from the ones that REALLY need to be looked into and addressed. That being said, if it was that much of a concern to the officer, I feel like it would have been appropriate to mention at the outset that he was recording the interaction.

Customers baffled as Citrix forces password changes for document-slinging Sharefile outfit

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Question about weak passwords

I'm a bit confused about the reasoning behind forcing password changes leading to weaker passwords. If it's only x number of users doing so and making garbage passwords/not using password managers (or company or whatever not providing them), isn't only that single user being effected, or does that become other people's issue as well? If you change out the locks on a door every month, and the person with the key keeps taping it to the same door that's locked, is it the locks fault the door got open by somebody who shouldn't have opened it? If I sell really sharp utility knives to people, do I have to hire people to go and put helmets on users before they start trying to hold the knives with their mouths? I think it's fair to allow for the assumption of a bit of responsibility to the user.

YouTube supremo says vid-streaming-slash-piracy giant can't afford EU's copyright overhaul

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Re: So what?

I wholeheartedly agree! I can't wait for the day where I can just pick up my stuff and leave, or when I can get my groceries delivered so I don't have to even bother with the headache of a store!

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