Bah!
Own a Dyson. Will never own another. Overhyped, under engineered, plain dangerous in certain situations.
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We suck? No, James Dyson. It is you who suck – Bosch and Siemens
Aussies' distinctive Strine down to drunk forefathers
Wednesday 28th October 2015 15:24 GMT
Bah!
I believe, upon serious meditation on the matter, and with due consideration of the social mix of highly distinctive accents sure to be among those co-existing in close proximity at the dawn of the European Occupation of Australia, and with special attention paid to the linguistic foibles of my own country and the regularity of my own accent being incorrectly identified as Australian (a place in which I have never set foot) that - all things considered - I am drawn to the reluctant conclusion that the author of this rather questionable hypothesis is coming the raw prawn.
Oracle's Larry Ellison claims his Sparc M7 chip is hacker-proof – Errr...
Yahoo! crypto! queen! turns! security! code! into! evil! tracker!
Wednesday 28th October 2015 11:47 GMT
Bah!
Well, not fer nuthin but you've been anywhere the target site makes you go.
I had to get my work account unlocked when I was caught trying to access gun sites more than three consecutive times and the robot said no more interwebs for me.
I actually accessed the university of Wisconsin's site once.
On Planet Oracle, Big Red wasn't a decade late to cloud ... Amazon was just years too early
Tuesday 27th October 2015 22:54 GMT
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Yeah, but you probably have to access Mr O'Racle's services using a portal running on Weblogic.
When asked by a Noracle drone recently how we were getting on with Weblogic I got kicked out of the meeting and made to sit in the Uncooperative Corner for answering "We liked it so much we switched our application to IBM Websphere and saw an order of magnitude pickup in just about every metric. Bet you wish the techs we begged for help for two long, slow years had been more responsive, eh?"
Oracle only seem to engage when they are being pipped at the post these days.
Dad who shot 'snooping vid drone' out of the sky is cleared of charges
Balloon-lofted space podule hits 30,000m
WhatsApp laid bare: Info-sucking app's innards probed
RBS promises 'safe, secure, confidential' info-sharing on Facebook at Work
If Amazon can have delivery drones, we want them too, says Walmart
TalkTalk incident management: A timeline
Tuesday 27th October 2015 12:35 GMT
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I imagine that after a few more days of PR, Talk-Talk's share price will be in the toilet and there won't be anyone able to pursue fleeing subscribers and assess penalties owing to there not being any money left in the petty cash secure reserve (the tea caddy in the coffee room with a "petty cash" sticker on it).
Further confusion at TalkTalk claims it was hit by 'sequential attack'
Monday 26th October 2015 18:05 GMT
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Clearly the press release was dictated over a cell phone.
Modern cell phones can reproduce Dark Side of the Moon in 7.1 Dolby surround sound flawlessly but are incapable of rendering human speech intelligibly to the same standard as delivered by the GPO circa 1965 over lizard-hide insulated twisted (and permanently sticky) cables between two Bakelite handsets using a voltage standard no-one can remember any more.
Digital is always better, even if you can't understand a word over the phone or watch a movie on your TV from start to finish without pixelation artifacts ruining the picture. Soon your lightbulbs will be digital too, with the consequent "improvement" in light quality that will bring. One can only dream of the wonders of digital car transportation.
Actually, my morning commute on the LIRR was fucked-up to a fare-thee-well so I have a pretty good idea what that last one will feel like.
We applied to Google's €150m journalism fund – here's what we sent in
The iPhone 6 doused in bromine - an incendiary mix or not?
Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster
Court to Wikimedia: Your NSA spying evidence is inadmissable, so you can't prove NSA spying
Crash this beauty? James Bond's concept DB10 Aston debuts in Spectre
Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg
Friday 23rd October 2015 19:51 GMT
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Look here Berners-Lee, you may have invented the world wide web but without my "Web Cam" it will fizzle out in the public perception as an electronic filing cabinet for academics within six months, so you might show a bit more enthusiasm, damn your eyes! And for the love of God adjust your horizontal hold!
TalkTalk website STILL down on day TWO
Lancashire Police warn of malware email impersonation scam
Windows 10 out, users happy, PCs upgraded, my work here is done – says Microsoft OS chief
Thursday 22nd October 2015 17:38 GMT
Re: Bah!
Yes, quite true, but when she calls every few months because the system gets so freaking slow it needs a reinstall
Hasn't been true for some years now. Restore points make undoing clickbait pit traps undoable while drinking a nice cuppa. Your way indicates a rather dated knowledge of the OS in question. And if you really charge the price of a Mac to Do It The Hard Way, well, you are overpaid. Well done for being able to put that over your audience. Kudos.
But please continue to babble your out of date FUD. It is your right to look daft if you want to.
And of course, MS have, post Win7, made everything harder to do in the name of simplicity. They don't have an answer on how to make 8 and 10 work if the search facility is borked by evildoers, but there you go. Young people and change for it's own sake have turned a market killer into a business killer.
Won't make for more Mac sales though. Linux will still steal the market from under Apple's increasingly off-message noses, just like Windows 95 did twenty years ago.
Thursday 22nd October 2015 12:37 GMT
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Can't speak for why others are saying "I've tried it. I hate it" but I suspect it has to do with two major factors: the "use search to do anything" model and those bug-ugly assymetric tiles confronting anyone trying not to use search to do something.
As for people swotching to Macs, I don't see that in my neck of the woods. Even my mother in law knows you don't "need" a mac to do any home computer related stuff. Anything you can run on a Mac has a version on Windows or an equivalent. Would that were true of the opposite case: there have been times I've been tempted to switch. Not many, not often, but some.
I won't be using Win 10. They finally went a needless gui change too far.
Pebble smartwatch finds its voice
Experts ponder improbable size of Cleopatra's asp
Bosch, you suck! Dyson says VW pal cheated in vacuum cleaner tests
Our intuitive AI outperforms (most) puny humans, claims MIT
UK MPs have right old whinge about ‘defunct’ Wilson Doctrine
Wednesday 21st October 2015 12:15 GMT
Re: does not apply to MPs
I seem to remember that it used to be that that was only the case if whatever was said was prefaced by the phrase "without prejudice" as in "may I say without prejudice that my honorable opponent is espousing views that indicate he is unquestionably criminally insane and a danger to the public good".
Some like it hot ... very hot: How to use heat to your advantage in your data center
White House to Feds: Stop buying new PCs, laptops right now
Wednesday 21st October 2015 00:57 GMT
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I worked for [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] state and well into the age of XP I was told I could have the loaner laptop I had requested some years before.
It ran NT 4.0.
And the government in question had a warehouse full of 'em.
The machines were state of the art when acquired, but the process of actually agreeing who could have one meant that they were well obsoleted long before the first one was sent to the "thankful" recipient.
Battery life was jaw-dropping too. About twenty minutes or so.
Having learned my lesson I reluctantly admitted my ten year old request for a stapler was never going to be honored, so I bought my own, a nice red one.
Rogue Silk Road Fed starts 6.5-year stretch for nicking Bitcoins
NASA deep space scope serves up EPIC Earth snapshots
Ireland moves to scrap 1 and 2 cent coins
Tuesday 20th October 2015 12:31 GMT
Re: Your either too young or too stupid
Nonononono.
It was advice to the new student, not the geezer with the dulcet tones of The Scaffold still ringing in his ears.
But if we are recommending "little thoughts" might I just suggest that a mature man or woman can continue their formal education into later years if they so desire? The American course structuring makes this more palatable than the disappointingly still prevalent British Three Year Wodge O' Learnin', but there are other options than University even then.
Or are you like the young men that surround me at work, convinced that a sixty year old is past it good and proper brains wise? Because if so, I have to tell you that on an IBM course I attnded last week it was the under forties who were slowing things to a crawl with monumental levels of shirt-thickness, every man jack of them armed with a shiny CS degree still piping hot from the oven.
Connected kettles boil over, spill Wi-Fi passwords over London
US Navy grabs old-fashioned sextants amid hacker attack fears
Euro privacy warriors: You've got until January to fix safe harbor mess – or we unleash hell
Radio wave gun zaps drones out of the sky – and it's perfectly legal*
Friday 16th October 2015 12:19 GMT
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And our pilot today is captain Fred Trubshaw, newly returned to work here at Crashlander Airlines after getting his nice new pacemaker. To our left you can see some idiot is buzzing us with a drone, but fear not. If you watch closely you will see it fly away after being bathed in radio noise that disrupts control signals, gps and medical ... Okay, crash positions everyone.
Amazon Echo: We put Jeff Bezos' always-on microphone-speaker in a Reg family home
FAA issues lithium battery warning
Thursday 15th October 2015 22:11 GMT
Re: not getting it, charles9
Spare (uninstalled) lithium ion and lithium metal batteries must be carried in carry-on baggage only. When a carry-on bag is checked at the gate or at planeside, all spare lithium batteries must be removed from the bag and kept with the passenger in the aircraft cabin. The battery terminals must be protected from short circuit."
So yes.
Weight, what? The perfect kilogram is nearly in Planck's grasp
Hillary's sysadmin left VNC, RDP exposed to the internet - report
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