Posts by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop

That big beige box is the hard drive, you idiot!

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

Re: Puritanism

The people who enjoy dobbing in their neighbours are having a whale of a time.

If the vaccine is enough, next year will probably be hedonistic. The question is will that defeat or recruit puritans.

As Samuel Johnson might once have uttered:

Bollocks.

Re: Sigh...

I do hope I'm still young enough to enjoy the backlash when it comes.

Amazon makes big bet on New Zealand to crack Indian market

A rest day? What fresh hell is this?

Re: "I wonder how this makes sense then."

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Why is because India are touring New Zealand twice, as the article (now?) says.

You're right.

I wonder how this makes sense then.

Surely the (Australian) Big Bash league is of far more value to Indian consumers given the time differences?

Although anything that isn't scheduled for at least three days isn't proper cricket.

( Mines the one with the binoculars in the pocket )

Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report

Re: Liberal Democrat’s

What a childish response.

Thanks for explaining the downvotes in your attitude. I forgot that El Reg isn't all grownups now.

Re: Liberal Democrat’s

3 Downvotes, no explanation why. They are more similar than they aren't.

The Lib Dems are progressive liberals, just like New Labour, as opposed to classical liberals ( parts of the Tory and Brexit parties ).

Re: Liberal Democrat’s

They want, approximately, a New Labour party that isn't Labour but has a different name.

Hardly revolutionary.

Somebody's Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won't take it lying down

Re: Still confused about the 90%

There is a theory that we in Britain ( and Belgium, and other countries with high excess deaths ),have high excess deaths because we had a good flu season last year - leaving vulnerable people alive who would on average have died last year.

I hope that is true, because if this does rumble on it won't trouble us as much next year because that means the worst is over.

Hopefully we won't have to find out.

Do you not like puns? You're Lenin the side down.

I'm vlad that you posted your pun.

Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud

Bitcoin mixing services are apparently reversible by the police now. Plus if your Bitcoin has been through a tumbler, it's surely dodgy.

Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs

Re: Mitiations?

The SSL negotiation happens first, so the certificate would be rejected before the web server could do anything.

The solution is for Google to push an update of Chrome for these devices containing this certificate.

City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000

Re: "(...)we are temporarily suspending driving operations in San Francisco on 11/3 and 11/4”

11 March 2020 was when the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

11 April 1990, British customs seized what they believe to be part of Project Babylon - Saddam Hussain's space gun project, which while not historically significant, definitely qualifies as "way cool".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon