Posts by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable

Which is perfectly logical because crypto currencies cannot be transferred internationally.

It's not as if somebody could have a cryptocurrency wallet in, say, Nigeria, that is outside of the EU's juristiction.

Happy 'Freedom Day': Stats suggest many in England don't want it or think it's a terrible idea

Re: "If not now, when?"

> The chances of a new variant originating here, like the Kent variant

The Kent variant more than likely didn't originate here. It was discovered here because Britain is doing 50% of the entire worlds genome testing.

Assuming a variant is equally spread throughout the world, there is a 50% chance it will be discovered in Britain.

Probably higher given our testing programme is literally world beating ( four times as many tests as France, for instance ).

Re: I have some sympathy for Boris

> *Something the shower of shit currently in government are trying to complete by running the NHS down.

If you have to lie to further your argument, you should reevaluate whether you believe what you thought you believe.

Re: I have some sympathy for Boris

Given that those people are still banging on about Thatcher, who stepped down 31 years ago, I don't think that's why.

Re: Ha

Of course you know best. If you were dictator, all those people would be at home, doing your approved activities.

Oh if only we were bossed around by a malevolent twat such as yourself.

Re: I have some sympathy for Boris

That comment has one upvote and five downvotes at the time of writing.

It demonstrates perfectly well how far the comments section on El Reg has fallen.

Bloody kids. Get off my lawn.

Re: SNAFU

They'll become adults and start voting Conservative eventually. Boris is going to be PM long enough to see that age group grow out of their left wing childishness.

well?

Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity

Re: "extreme gravitational fields"

> The magnetic field of a neutron star is so strong

That reads like a very nerdy "yo momma is so fat" joke.

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

I was with you right up until you started typing.

> So what, hating Jews and being anti-Semitic is a requirement to work at Google?

Well, Google has a reputation for having left wing staff...

Re: Ummmm

> Maybe just don’t put everything about yourself online.

Don't you repress me

Malaysian Police crush crypto-mining kit to punish electricity thieves

Fair point

Ah, it makes sense now.

The police presumably took the expensive parts out and crushed what was left.

I assume the good bits will currently be on ebay.

> Police also destroyed three houses that were used by the miners.

That seems a tad excessive...

Report: 83% of UK software engineers suffer burnout, COVID-19 made it worse

Re: if you didn't like what was being offered then you could go elsewhere

Congratulations on the disingenuous post. You must be very proud.

Re: @Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

I'm not from Tunbridge Wells.

It's a famous pen name from when a local Tunbridge Wells newspaper wasn't receiving enough letters from its readers.

The editor apparently had the staff write letters. Many signed with things like: Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells. It's become quite famous and I'm definitely not the only Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on the Internet.

Unfortunately as a fictional character, your post went straight over my head.

Re: if you didn't like what was being offered then you could go elsewhere

The alternative to this is everybody having much lower living standards, including the people you apparently care so much about.

Re: Empty coffer

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Re: Empty coffer

> Big corporations that got rich out of our sweat.

No they didn't. And if you didn't like what was being offered then you could go elsewhere.

> They have not been paying right amount of tax for decades

The "right amount of tax" is what they owe. If you have evidence of tax evasion, feel free to share it with the police. If not, wind your neck in.

> and persuaded governments that they can tax them by proxy by taxing the workers.

Are you even old enough to pay tax?

Jesus Christ.

Re: Empty coffer

Who do you think is going to pay for you to doss about on the dole?

Bloody UBI.

IPv6 still 5-10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real

Re: Is this the most sensible Gardner report ever?

CGNAT is only required because of the shortage (and therefore cost) of IPv4 addresses.

IPV4.1 with a 64bit address space would have solved this problem.

Re: Is this the most sensible Gardner report ever?

What do you think "compound interest" means?

Re: Is this the most sensible Gardner report ever?

I bet the vast majority of that is mobile phones.

Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

Either that, or the individuals score when averaged over a number of days?

Re: Naive? Or something else?

If it were possible to say that you are going to die in a year, why would an insurance company offer you a policy that paid out more than a years premiums?

Why do you think they owe you?

> I looked for a way to manually add steps to my daily count after a soccer game in which I couldn't wear it and discovered that it's absolutely impossible.

You could (probably can) buy football boots that have room for an aftermarket tracker under the sole. That can tell you various metrics ( I had the boots for a while, but didn't want to spend the extra on the tracker ). Mine were Adidas.

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

Re: Surely they knew?

But when the IRA murdered civilians, that was fine, I suppose...

Most people don't go on about "the bloody Irish" the way you racists go on about us English people, despite there being blood on both sides.

Re: Surely they knew?

That's barely even English.

I know us Brexiters are supposed to be older, but you could at least wait until you've learned to write before making a fool of yourself.

Re: Surely they knew?

> Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I think the Donning Kruger effect is the intellectual argument equivalent to the wedding speech opening "Oxford English dictionary defines...".

> What you describe occurred when Dublin was a Viking outpost and the things you describe were carried out by Vikings.

So?

The people alive in 1800's Britain were different people to those alive today. People like you are keen to bizarrely hold us accountable for their sins, yet this is somehow different? Pull the other one.

> You gammons

And you're a racist too. Who would have thunk it.

Re: Surely they knew?

Are you saying that the simple narrative of anti-English history isn't accurate?

No! It can't be!

Re: Surely they knew?

> You also seem to have forgotten what Britain did to the Irish not that long ago. Trust me, they haven't forgotten.

Are you talking about when a Scottish king invaded the north of the Island of Ireland and invited Scottish people to move there?

Or are you talking about potato blight? When the Peel government bought £100k of food from America to distribute in Ireland?

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong effort from an entity-lister, but your tiny child hands may struggle

Re: Hard Nope

All Chinese companies are effectively controlled by the state.

Re: It's a flagship, but it's not priced as such. The base model starts at £649

You're looking at a grand for the latest iPhone. £650 is well below that.

Suck on this: El Reg forces dog hair, biscuit crumbs, and disconcertingly sticky stains down two mini vacuums

Re: Why an app for the upright?

Ah. Now that makes sense.

Re: Why an app for the upright?

For a robot hoover, you are presumably going to want to set schedules. It is much easier to do that with an app.

Focus on the camera, mobile devs: 48MP shooters about to become the sweet spot

My current budget/mid phone ( moto g 5g plus ) has two front facing cameras, and four rear cameras.

What's the point? There has to be at some point diminishing returns from adding the number of megapixels or the number of cameras.

Most of the pictures I take are of the shopping list we keep on the side of the fridge.

Surely if photography is important to you, you can buy a phone that specialises in having a good camera. I'd rather Levono spent the extra money on something where the money would see more benefit such as wireless charging.

Boffins say they've improved on algorithm for dynamic load balancing of server workloads

Re: Playing with their balls, in bins

It's the "in 10 jumps rathe than 100" part that I don't get.

> no server is more than 10 per cent more burdened than others in 10 jumps instead of 100,

I've read that about ten times. What?

Hoe yes he did: IT pro record-botherer balances garden tool on his head for 2.5 hours

It sounds like he's desperate for a sport.

New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional

Re: Reading between the lines of recruitment bullshit

I believe "front end php developer" means "I can do a bit of PHP, but you wouldn't want to set me loose on anything complicated. I will work for free office coffee.".

Whereas "backend php developer" means "I can do complicated stuff, but I've got the visual sense of Stevie Wonder" and the eye for style of Steptoe. I insist on being paid in money. "

I have to say I was slightly taken aback when I pressed play on that video.

One good deed leads to a storm in an Exchange Server

Re: Lucas

As a junior sysadmin, he should have known not to change the configuration of a production system without permission and certainly not without telling anybody.

Re: Lucas

Not only that, but changing the config of a production server without permission and without telling anybody is just daft.

Also: don't change the configuration of a production system without telling anybody.

If he had, they would have said "Don't do that, it's stupid and this is why..."

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

Re: Domestic cross breeding is the real problem

> Along with hunters illicitly feeding them too.

i know that France is a backward place with strange people, but I think they might be doing hunting wrong.

Google tweaks Android Messages app to auto-classify or auto-delete messages

Re: Restrictions

I was wondering how many texts do they send each other if hardware from 2015 can't cope with processing it.

Re: One time passwords

Authenticator is great until you get a new phone and it loses all of the bastard data. Again. Because unlike everything else, it doesn't bother syncing with your Google account.

SMS for me.

Watchdog bans crypto super-exchange Binance from 'regulated activities' in the UK

They've disabled both methods of withdrawing cash in the UK today, so I've transferred out most of my holdings just in case.

Hubble memory errors persist despite NASA booting long-idle backup payload computer

Somebody didn't like being looked at.

UK gains 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but making that stick all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges

Re: It's a feature not a bug

Voting to leave a political and trade union isn't in any way related with becoming Nazi's. Grow up you child.