Posts by Dolvaran

'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

Re: Getting Something Done? Not Really!!

"The good folk in SW1 keep "passing laws"................and NOTHING happens!!!"

That's what happens when you get lawyers in Parliament. The continue to labour under the misconception that passing a law will actually change behaviour - whilst deliberately remaining ignorant to the fact that changes in bad behaviour are directly linked to the chances of getting caught. With our Police forces heavily underfunded and badly controlled (at the HO level), the chances of getting caught are vanishingly small much of the time - unless you're committing a motoring offence of course.

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

Re: Love the aesthetic, but don't use it...

You can have an upvote for Narnia!

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Trump and Musk believe in the principle that Might is Right. Britain went to war to defend against that principle but we are now a broken reed. Who will defend the world against it now?

Re: All the interlocking components of the state, carefully designed

For democracy to be safe and effective, the population must be educated. A prime facet of a good education is learning how to think critically and question effectively. Without this, democracy becomes the rule of the mob, and we all know how well mobs can be influenced by madmen.

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

Looks like another example of the naivety of this new government being taken advantage of by the modern-day feudal barons in the DWP - similarly to those in the Treasury that got the WFA removal back on the agenda. The ethos and 'corporate' culture of the DWP is pure evil and something needs to be done about it. Sadly pitchforks and bonfires will be of little use, but they are about all that the beaten-down population of this benighted country has left.

Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order

Wow! Someone woke the troll.

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Re: They'll reap what they sow

"BTW When is "talk like a pirate day" again?"

September 19th - Hermione Granger's birthday.

It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde

I remember the sound of the engines in test at Filton in the late 60's - my school was 5 miles away in Thornbury!

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

I never understood why they used telco's at all. The technology to send data over the mains cabling has existed for decades. The power distributors should have kept it all in house.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Re: if you tolerate this then your chilled air will be next.

I thought I recalled that the 486SX was a DX with a failed FPU, so they could still sell the defective part?

Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

The Highway code includes elements of the Road Traffic Act, but not all of the Highway Code is in the Act. So, assuming that the Highway Code is law is erroneous.

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

And of course the physical art world has been doing this for years - it's called a print!

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

They are entirely different. The Civil Service is a single organisation. Each local authority is sovereign and can run itself as it wishes.

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

You could argue that the national government during WW2 was competent - in looking after the population at least. Prior to that, you might have to look at the House of York's tenure during the Wars of the Roses.

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Re: Off topic

Unless you got on the speed reading course at school - and ended up at over 2000 words per minute. Costs a fortune in books...

Re: Off topic

CompuServe on a 9k6 modem. Those were the days!

UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

Re: Well then compete...

It's the railways all over again! When will they ever learn?

Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension

Don't be so sure that the head unit is actually borked by this issue - the parts cannon is the goto solution in much of the automotive world. Proper diagnosis is a dying art, it seems.

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Shame no one can fix the 'no sound through DisplayPort ' on the recent MacOS versions.

Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99

Re: Bad greek

The River Avon

Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod

Ah! The amazing 'targets' set by government. You could consider comparing the success (or rather, lack of) of the smart meter rollout. That was supposed to have been completed years ago. I think the last figure was 34%?

Re: We've switched to LTE

Have a word with Commsworld or City Fibre - they've carried a major rollout across Edinburgh. May also be worth while speaking to the city Council to see if any help may be available. They funded part of the rollout.

Negative Trustpilot review of law firm Summerfield Browne cost aggrieved Briton £28k

Anyone who believes that a solicitor has acted improperly on their behalf has a very simple way of addressing that grievance - complain to the Law Society. Complaints are taken seriously, and if found to be valid, the implications for the solicitor in question can be serious.

And no, I don't work for TLS.

Exonerated: First subpostmasters cleared of criminal convictions in Post Office Horizon scandal

Re: A priest...

The reason Hell is cold, is because it's impossible to get close to the fire for all the parsons...

Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah

Re: It's alien

Asterix rules!

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Re: Hammer used as a screwdriver?

I thought it was a Birmingham screwdriver?

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Re: Can't wait to see...

Dyson then. My cousin was one of the under-appreciated engineers.

Anti-5G-vaxx pressure group sues Zuckerberg, Facebook, fact checkers for daring to suggest it might be wrong

Re: Idiots

Actually, I prefer the late, great Frank Muir singing about how everyone is a fruit and nut case - crazy for those Cadbury's nut and raisins...

'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets

You are out of date. You no longer require a licence to own television receiving equipment, only to watch live broadcasts.

It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?

It used to be known as Cornish Cream before the War.

Re: There is a third option:

British Army field kitchens have a wonderful desert - deep fried battered jam sandwiches with custard. Now there's food for the Gods. The only savoury jam is made from onions.

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Re: What 5G ?

Actually, it's bears, not lions. Ever so 'portant how you walk.

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

Re: You supported a system...

Actually, the Weimar republic was much the same before the event.

Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party

Re: Another thing...

It was ever thus.

Where's the best place to add Mentos to Diet Coke for the most foam? How big are the individual bubbles? Has science gone too far?

Re: efficient insertion of Mentos is key

Try an alternative propulsion system. Bleach + Harpic works extremely well.

Tinfoil hat brigade switches brand allegiance to bog paper

Re: you'd still struggle to get through a couple of rolls

It did make good tracing paper though...

Turnover down, losses widen and shares crash: So, business as usual at Capita

'Modest organic growth'.

So a reasonable amount of mould growing then.

It's Terpin time: Bloke who was SIM jacked twice by Bitcoin thieves gets green light to sue telco for millions

About time some action was taken

This type of fraud is common, and has been common for years now. The Telcos don't care - or report it to the Police. The same goes for the banks who are also involved. Even where there is clear evidence of collusion between employees from both organisation types. Is that a generalisation? Yes, but it doesn't make it not true.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

Your country has crashed

Reflect, repent, reboot

Peace will return.

(with apologies to the original)

So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

I don't recall the make of hard disk, but the PC was a 286 MOD purchase of indeterminate origin. On discovering that the disk was stuck and refusing to spin up, we discovered that a comb was just the right size to slip into a slot in the front of the disk and jemmy the thing into movement. Worked every time.

You spoke, we didn't listen: Ubiquiti says UniFi routers will beam performance data back to mothership automatically

For GDPR, probably not - provided they really don't collect personally identifiable data

Get a small mini-itx system and install pfSense. Best router I've worked with in the Soho space.

Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

Re: Miffy?

Miffy is a Dutch rabbit who wears a cute little dress. There are no words in her books, just pictures. So the reader (?) has to make the story up as they go along.

In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry

I’ve been waiting for an anti-trust case against Oracle - for its licensing practices - for over a decade. I can only conclude that there is a nefarious reason why it has never materialised.

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

Re: New Reg unit?

What about the Blue String Pudding?

Google and IBM square off in Schrodinger’s catfight over quantum supremacy

Re: Seems my post still hasn't made it yet

Didn't that already happen (albeit quite some time ago)?

From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on

Re: frustrating genius

Give me James Blish anyday!

Having trouble finding a job in your 40s? Study shows some bosses like job applicants... up until they see dates of birth

This is hardly news. The situation has been the same for at least 2 decades. That's not to say that it's right, but then that's hardly new either.

Lynch lied about Autonomy's accounts, rages HPE to the High Court

Re: Fraud

And DUX/Tru64 - which was dropped like a hot potato. I was on a focus group shortly after the acquisition that looked into which features should be ported from Tru64 to HPUX. The top items were remote management and the cluster file system. Interestingly, HP decided to drop the lot and go with the v1.0 product from Veritas. I never understood why.

Re: Fraud

Interestingly, you could have said much of the same about Compaq under Capellas immediately after the DEC acquisition. The end result was very similar also.