Posts by IGotOut

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Re: Just another...

Just another...

... manifestation of ... corporate policy? "Do it our way and nobody gets hurt".

Tftfy

Fed up of playing Whac-A-Mole with network of SoftBank-owned patent holders, Intel hits court

Re: pot

anything or setting up a reasonable licensing scheme (e.g. like ARM does)....

That would be the Arm owned by Softbank?

I see your blue passport and raise you a green number plate: UK mulls rewards scheme for zero-emission vehicles

Better incentive.

Remove VAT on electric cars.

Done.

Big Red tells crypto-coin publication: One does not simply call one's website 'OracleTimes'

There was a Big Mac's cafe in the west midlands. He won his case, as he was a big guy called Macdonald (I think that was name).

I do like the cheeky named Karachi Fried Chicken in Brum along with Safebury's small supermarkets.

I don't know, some of those on zero hour contracts in the shops may draw some comparisons

Assange fails to delay extradition hearing as date set for February

If I were the US

once he is extradited...

Well he is a proven flight risk, so he has 0 chance of bail.

Ignoring that, if I were the US and found him guilty, just give him a slap on the wrist, tell him not to do it again and deport him.

Then all his whining and self imprisionment will make him look even more stupid than he does now.

Not enough time?

So what did he actually do all those years sat on his ass whilst evading justice? Talking about skipping bail which he WAS guilty off.

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Errr it is.

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

Re: Bonfire

We're getting passports from the French Navy?

No one would be so scummy as to scam a charity, right? UK orgs find out the hard way

Re: Charities are a fraud

I call bullshit on your figures.

The vast majority of charities don't even have a turn over of the numbers you are talking about.

Get off your lazy ass, go to a local charity and find out for youself how much most people earn. Most don't earn a penny for the work they do, in fact many make a fucking loss.

My charity work COST me £100 a year.

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Sorry, you've never driven in Birmingham.

Green = Go

Amber = Go faster

Red = Go if you can proberbly get away with it.

Luckily I no longer have to drive in that hell hole.

Google lashes out at DoJ, Oracle as it asks US Supremes to sniff Java suit one last time

Re: Java was supposed to be a platform agnostic programming language.....

Volvo gave away the patent for the three point safety belt. So would be impossible to pursue.

A funny thing happened on Huawei to the bank. We made even more money. Hahaha. Here till Friday

Have you actually seen the News? Considering what is happening, the police are pretty restrained.

Lets see, lets take a riot in the USA shall we?

Deaths

63

Injuries

2,383

Arrested

12,111

This doesn't say I agree with the actions of the police, but lets get some context shall we?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots

In solidarity with its broken email hosting, 123-Reg's '24/7' support lines also fall over

Post your email address here, we'll send a test message for you.

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Re: I use DDG a lot

Use Startpage. Google results, without Google tracking

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

No, wrong.

500 emails means you do a select all unread. Hit delete and then see who ACTUALLY needs a response.

As a decent manager once said, if it's important they'll email you again.

Former TalkTalk cybersecurity overseer rattles the tin to cover costs of equal pay dispute against UK ISP

We have no pay gap!

https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/4jQsqJaW/2018

Ok it's not perfect, but it gives some indication.

WeWork's Meetup slaps RSVP fees on events ‒ then tells everyone not to panic amid backlash

Next plan...

...charge the hosts for the meeting venue....even when it belongs to someone else.

Hands off our phones, says Google: Radar-gesture-sensing Pixel 4 just $999 with a 3-year lifespan – great value!

Stop it Reg!

"It's about two pounds, 13mm thick"

Pick one, either modern or medieval but please, just pick one and stick with it.

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

Re: Yes, we know it only has four legs, but just look at it.

"although they seem less quick to defend the rights of creepy-crawlies anyway."

Yes, they tend to require to have fur, or be tasty, to be defended by that mob.

YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins' neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

My relentless workload...

...of attention whoring lead me to be found out, I mean, let my standards slip.

I promise to get better, so don't forget to Like this post and subscribe.

Apple insists it's totally not doing that thing it wasn't accused of: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people's IP addresses

Re: "The privacy community, he said, has mostly come to terms with the privacy trade-off"

Proberbly the privacy community that understand how the real works perhaps?

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

Burn them in a open pit to make electricity?

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Re: Way to go El Reg

Do you know what the worse part is?

The Reg uses Cloudflare.

Turn the fucking option on to hide email addresses from spammers!

Here, have a link.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170016-What-is-Email-Address-Obfuscation-

Re: Same sort of people who get fake outraged at Stallman & Trump...

It's called stock photography, get over it.

And do you know her personally?

She could be a devil worshiping, baby eating mass murderer for all you know.

Reg, as he one of those that like to be offended on others behalf, can you change it to something more realustic, say an elderly, overweight drunk balding guy eating shit from a crack addicted trafficked sex worker from eastern europe.

Thanks.

Re: hmmm....

Prostitution is also legal in the UK...

Incorrect.

There is a huge difference against not prosecuting someone and it being legal. For starters, they could start arresting them because the Daily Mail in on yet another right wing, piss poor researched morale crusade and the current powers that be, decide they need the votes, and not after worry about annoying things such as getting it through parliment.

The legal method would require a change in the law and good look not annoying the morale brigade in that.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/prostitution-and-exploitation-prostitution#_Toc534624525

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/54

I'd say their respective service levels depend mainly on the kind of pipe you need unclogging.

If you have ever seen euro porn from the 70's and 80's you'll know that plumber is always key to the 'plot'

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Re: A genuine question.

You must be under forty, not from the UK or lived under a rock.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/63

A genuine question.

Would the UK allow such an app? We know how pissy they get about photographing things, playing repetitive beats and, well just hanging out with your friends (worse, if you happen to be a teenager)

Europe publishes 5G risk assessment; America scrawls ‘Huawei’ on the side of a nuke and goes for a ride

Re: ZTE

Especially as Lenovo bought IBM's business.

American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities

Re: NSA should be banned.

That's their job.

See you in Hull: First UK city to be hooked up to full-fibre broadband

Re: Um

I here its worser on this fourum

Uncle Sam punishes China for abusing Uyghur Muslims – by blacklisting top AI surveillance companies

Your right...those bloody Iranians, fighting with Iraq.

And then cosying up with the Russians who were fighting the (soon to be called) taliban in Afghanistan.

Thank goodness the US never went to war with those, otherwise it may look a little suspect.

Next you'll be telling me that the US supported terrorists carrying out attacks against one of it's own allies

Re: blacklisting top AI surveillance companies

No, hence it needs the help.

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Will it be like the old days...

...where the rent you an item at the same rate you can buy it for?

Oh I forgot, they still do that...just with Wifi discs.

Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash

Well...

looks like a clear GDPR violotion from. Lets see some BIG fines from the EU.

The UK however will wag it's tail in order not to upset our "special relationship" i.e. get royally fucked over.

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Executive tweet

Hope those users in Turkey are frantically backing up and looking for alternatives, your next on the incoherant meglomaniac's list.

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

I'm suprised.

Who would of thought one of the main leavers would put forward a plan, knowing it would fail, therefore allowing him to claim it wasn't his fault.

Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices

Rolls eyes

"He wasn't sure if his political party "has an established view on transhumanism"...

...but they should have their own toilets .

Spain's Cellnex snags Arqiva's telecoms unit for £2bn to become the UK's 'largest' wireless infrastructure operator

Re: People power

... worry about foreign control if it's Huawei...Motorola and Lenovo are fine.

It's almost like those two don't have competition with more expensive and less competitive US rivals.

Promise of £5bn for rural fibre prompts Openreach to reach for the trench-digging diamond cutter

Re: Power Lines

Additionally,as I've previously said, a huge amount of rural (a small towns) are serviced by phone lines strung over phone poles. Why noy just sling the fibre along these?

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Re: Wind 'em up

This one did happen some time ago. (Apologies for the source)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-430129/Customer-sends-bailiffs-seize-banks-computers.html

Google sounds the alarm over Android flaw being exploited in the wild, possibly by NSO

Re: I knew that there was a reason ...

Then why bother with a smart phone at all?

Google Maps gets Incognito fig leaf: We'll give you vague peace of mind if you hold off those privacy laws

Re: Fig leaf

Why would you even try to hide your belly behind a fig leaf?

After 72 hours of recurring outages, you'd be forgiven for wanting to slightly tweak the first syllable of Bitbucket

Re: Spokesdroid?

Yes, along with the boilerplate "security is....."

Medic! Uncle Sam warns hospitals not to use outdated IPnet freely on their networks

Re: Make these a federal crime.

How about the Hospitals / Goverment agencies do some fucking work and patch the bloody systems, lock down devices and do basic IT security.

Yes, you will have specialised equipment that can't be updated because the vendor insists XP is the only OS it will work with, but that PA's laptop, sorry no excuse.

Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020

Apps?

Surely the Neo is just going to be a dual screen monitor configuration. Why do you need special "apps".

Or is it going to be another stupid project people buy and then MS abandon again?

Zune? WindowsRT? Winphone?

EU's top court says tracking cookies require actual consent before scarfing down user data

Re: When will El Reg comply?

Oh I don't know, visiting a thousand sites, using broken links and obscure wording, often going round in circles, seems perfectly complaint.

Just remember how long it took the Register to go to https while slagging others off?

Dell breaks out the checkbook and $7m later, US discrimination claims go away

Interesting...

"two laws that forbid the government from doing business with companies that discriminate based on race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, or veteran status"

Ironically it tends to be goverement departments that are the worst offenders...Not come across many deaf police officers...and lets not even mention being openly gay in the military.

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

Re: "engage on a PAYE basis"

If they are PAYE, they will be simply employees as all others, just maybe on short contracts.