Posts by IGotOut

UK mobile network EE plumps for Nokia to provide that all-important 5G RAN equipment

Re: Got to ask the question

Nah it gave you cancer...that's why I have healing crystals in my house and wear a copper bracelet around my wrist....both absorb cancer and 3Gs.

Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it

Re: Hello The Register

They do it at the end of every article. Would have thought © would be more appropriate though.

Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes

Do this at home.

Wait outside your house for 7 hours before entering. If it's late, find something really uncomfortable to sleep on.

Once in, sit on your sofa then immediately shove something against your legs and sit like this for 8 hours. For extra effect, have something dig in your spine, have your elbows tied to your side and place a rubbish bin next to you, thus giving you an authentic fellow passenger simulation.

Take a can of Coke, empty 90% of it away, rip up a fiver and then drink the remaining amount.

Repeat above for beer, but if you want another, have someone tell you that there is no more as they have run out.

Stick on a movie from 10 years ago, ideally having spent £20 on some 50p headphones.

If you require the toilet, make sure you piss on your feet to get that authentic sticky floor effect.

Next, take a microwave meal, heat several times then serve lukewarm, eat using plastic cutlery, that couldn't cut custard, feel free to spill it over your lap.

Finally, get someone to confiscate all your electronic goods before shoving a gloved hand up every crevice you have.

Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content

Wonder why the US....

about the human rights abuses, poverty and corruption in the Philippines?

Nothing to do with the huge US military presence I guess.

YouTube axes crowdsourced captioning: Use our buggy speech-to-subtitle code or pay an approved third party

Leaving it blank....

...is better than getting it wrong. I've seen some crackers, but the other week one completely changed the context of the section of the story line.

If I could remember what it was in I'd give the example.

Yet another twist for 2020: Google says Android 12 will make it easier to install alternative app stores

You mean like F-Droid and Amazon?

NATO's at risk if you go your own Huawei on 5G, US government warns Germany

I wonder why Merkel doesn't listen?

Would it be because the US agencies we're found out to be listening to her phone calls?

Director of nuisance-calls company ordered to cough up £114k after ignoring £40k fine from UK data watchdog

This is an old case. Jail is now an option.

Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed... just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia

Eh?

"DDoS attack from a single source."

That does not compute.

The perils of building a career on YouTube: Guitar teacher's channel nearly deleted after music publisher complains

Unfortunately....

...this is correct.

He is using other people's works to make money. He can put all the spin on it he wants, but rightly or wrongly, he is infringing copyright.

If he was doing his own material and got slapped down, it would be a whole different matter.

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Re: Bezos must be a fan of Pete Seger

....buy ASDA nevertheless, Amazon is out to kill all retail including your local shops...

The likes of Asda, Tesco, Kingfisher Group, Arcadia are the ones that killed the local shops. Amazon ate killing those. I'd argue eBay is the small shops biggest enemy.

Re: NOT cute. At all.

Sorry to ruin your memories...look up Furby Connect.

Yup even Furby became an industry spy.

Re: I'll keep living in my gloriously dumb home....

Others that looked for Door Locks With Keys also searched for......

Uber allowed to continue operating in English capital after winning appeal against Transport for London

Never understood the London black cab service.

Can't go South of the river (yes had that as well) yet from Brum often had them doing 40 or 50 mile round trips with no hassle at all.

I still don't get...

...why we just don't regulate them in the same way as minicabs.

Am I missing something?

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Crypto exchange cracked, Bitcoin burgled

Re: Yeah well. Talk about online banking.

Have Barclays lost $100million of customers money? Are those customers going to get it back?

Are you posting as A/C because your handle is your login name at Barclays?

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

Re: ok then ...

And Fox News.

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

Re: How about

Wouldn't leave many at the top.

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

I'll just leave this here..

“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

Yes I have chosen to envoke Goodwins law.

Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Re: Still very poor

Depends. I had blistering speed on my Winphone on EE...but it helped I could see the BT exchange and mast from my window.

Now where I live EE is a joke. I used to get a better reception in the country park down the road than I did on the high st.

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

Rolls eyes.

Spoilt brats complain they don't get bragging rights on <insert media platform>.

May have to wait a whole week or two extra instead.

Tickets to I get as there is a limited supply. Hardware, well they just make more to suit demand. Just wait a little.

Remember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason Tsai's assets

Multi million pound fraud is small fry?

Wow, what exactly is your threashold?

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

More time...

otherwise a load of unsupported IoT may stop working.

Oh dear.

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

Re: Lemmings

Just replying because a poster below doesn't know how to use the Reply button.....

Plus Atari were the better machine <dives for cover>

"Still, at least we still have Morgan"

AC (yes they are still going)

Arash

Ariel

Aston Martin

BAC

Bowler

Caterham

David Brown

Ginetta

Grinnal

JLR

Keating

McClaten

MEV

Metrocab

Nobel

Ovik

Perrin

Radical

Riversimple

Rolls Royce

Ronart

Ultima (one of the fastest road cars in the world)

Westfield

Zenos.

Then there are all the F1, Rally and NASCAR (sorry yanks, most are made in the UK).

A few of these may be foreign owned, but all are based in the UK.

We may be out of it when it comes to generic jelly moulds, but we still make some if the best of the world.

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

Re: When that Ethernet network degrades or fails, things can become unpredictable.

Yes the switches degraded gracefully by completely shutting down the port. Pain on pc, hell on an uplink.

The amount of times that orange light on a BayStack lit up still haunts me to this day.

BT cutting contractors' rates by a fifth and halving notice period because 'coronavirus'

No suprise.

It's far cheaper to lay off contractors i.e. zero cost.

The whole point of a temp / contractor is they are easiest to get rid of if required.

Contractors usually get paid more than perms, as losing your job is part of the reward / risk scenario.

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Re: Should really be OFCOM

Jail is now an option. Dissolving a company is no longer an escape route.

Re: Still not clear

Nothing at all to do with GDPR. Uses a pre existing law stating that marketing calls are

A) Callee is not on a do not call list

B) Callee has an existing relationship with caller and has consented to marketing calls.

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

To be fair...

...it's about time other countries / continents broke up currencies.

As well as the Dollar, US payment systems such Visa, Mastercard, Paypal.

About time these became less dominate.

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Guess what.

If lazy or "I'm so important" types actually got of there arses and checked they haven't kicked out the plug, checked the printer has paper in it, rebooted the pc, checked the network cable is in, checked there is a power light on, rebooted the router, and on and on....then they may be able to a better response to real problems.

I always found the more remote a branch from the IT department, the less trivial issues they had. Waiting two days for an engineer to arrive on site made them actually check as well as each other.

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

Simple answer.

Make the Directors and Airlines that want to rush this through sign a contract that they will be liable for murder for any deaths caused by Aircraft malfunction due to design issues.

25 years and $10million per death. 50% for injury only.

Then we'll see how happily they will pass it off.

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

Slag of Bing...

but a least it doesn't rig image searches when you don't use their own browser.

Hint: Do an image search with a n other browser on Google, then compare with Chrome. Note the lack of filtering options when not using Chrome?

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

"Not that I trust anything to do with it from Gates, who of course is in it for the money."

The same Gates that has little to do with Microsoft these days and donates billions to eradicating disease and improving education?

Or do you mean the gates that your mates at Qanon believe in that he implanting a non-existent technology into our veins to track us for err...not sure why...5g?

Revolutionary.

It can detectbwe people are approaching dangerous machinery and warn them.

As they gaze at their mobile phone ignoring the barriers, hazard tape, coloured floooring, flashing lights, sirens and trip sensors already in place.

Re: WTF

"Or, it could be set to trigger an alarm if anyone has been standing in one place - such as a checkout queue - for more than five minutes."

Wow, in the human world, we call them eyes.

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

Dip switches.

Luxury.

I used a 1p coin to factory reset crashed dial-up RAS hardware. State of the art 33k stuff mind.

Can we send Bob one?

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Really odd.

I've, until recently, had paperless payroll for close on 20 years.

Moved to a new job and got a wage slip. I was stunned and didn't know what to do with it....make a paper plane?

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Re: $21,999 85-inch jumped-up whiteboard

"Or maybe that BMW X5 M I know I can't afford."

Just put a condom over your head. That way you get to look like a dick without spending a fortune.

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Re: At least ... IE

"I was trying to get updates and converters for Office 2003 and Office 2007."

You were trying to get updates for 13 year old software and seem surprised you can't find it?

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Re: No way to stop it

Yes, but we had the design ready before WW2.

One Word.

Cadbury.

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Re: Five years - Not Enough

"He sounds like a nasty piece of work who's been in prison before for similar offences. "

The same offences. He was prosecuted for the UK crimes then extradited for the same US offences, we just used different laws to get him.

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

It's the land where the cuckoos live.

Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests

Didn't show in testing

Odd that a mainly white male test team* didn't notice these issues.

* Based a biased view of who was doing the testing.

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

Translation....

Because Chrome did it, why not us?

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Re: I Dunno

Please point to the part of the article where the Reg "sneered" at them?

The snark appears to be aimed at the agencies having to be told to patch.

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

Wow...

...those Trump bribes, sorry donations, must have been REALLY steep thus year.

Still, it got them TikTok, so keep on giving them backhanders. It ain't cheap blackmailing companies after all.

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

Re: hydrogen engines?

There are a couple of small car companies that make them, not sure if you have heard of them.

Toyota

Hyundai

Honda

Mercedes Benz

And some other called Audi and Kia have them in testing phases