* Posts by MJI

6867 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

Samsung shaves 0.1μm off pixels to make new ISOCELL sensor lineup 15% slimmer

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I prefer Sony sensors anyway

They do seem to be good, and fitted to most things which take pictures.

Bad apples: US customs seize OnePlus earbuds thinking they're knock-off AirPods

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Good job not electric toothbrush heads

Or they would get seized as well.

Tesco self-service separates innocent Reg reader from beer after collapsing into heap of Windows dialog boxes

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Re: Self service check outs

Have you used one?

Too bossy!

Too slow.

Too annoying.

No I do not want to put this ONE item in a bag, I just want to pay.

Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log

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Our licence software is slightly broken

So we relicence the Yanks to

10/10/2020 or 11/11/2020 and so on.

Needs to be 100% compatible with the proper software so we can use it in our office.

I did insist on YYYY-MM-DD for their acounts link.

But inches - aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They get stored by an algorythm converting to nearest mm and back again, IN THE FIELD EDIT.

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

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Re: GOV.UK Leads the way in high tech initiatives

The Pendodildo is a lot less advanced than APT.

And this was from an APT engineer.

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Re: Well it's kind of a good idea but...

>> Scargill poll dancer

No, but may be as a stripper.

Remember it was Maggie.

Angry 123-Reg customers in the UK wake up to another day where hosted mail doesn't get through to users on Microsoft email accounts

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Re: My 123Reg hosted seems fine

To the downvoters I mentioned this to point out that emails were working otherwise and it as not a complete email failure.

One person realised that was why.

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My 123Reg hosted seems fine

But I use Thunderbird and my own domain.

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

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Lots of little inlets in Cornwall

Time to up the level of smuggling.

Could a ferry get up the Helford?

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

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Re: Well the

Many Victorian businesses were ran on this basis, MOST chocolate manufacturers.

Railway companies usually looked after their staff.

However mills and mines were particularly bad.

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This is more about US employment (lack of) rights

They are totally shocking.

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

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Of course it would be like this

Smal country = easy to wire up.

Homeland Security demands a 911 for reporting security holes in federal networks: 'Vulns in internet systems cause real-world impacts'

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911

Had a drive in one once.

Not an exciting car in the supercar sense, but so well made.

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

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But Windows IS WIN32

Any other reasons to run Windows?

AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies

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Re: Peanut Butter and Banana?

bananas work well with clotted cream vanilla ice cream* and with clotted cream, yum!

* over here normally called Clotted Cornish ice cream

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

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Re: Crime doesn't pay?

I investigated crime proceeds and hours and was shocked by the results.

Much more money to be made by working than thieving.

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

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Sideloaded still downdated

Uninstalled got a boy to sideload 68, fine for 2 days, then.

It effing downdated again.

Uninstalled again.

Returned to boy to fix.

How do I stop Android FF downdating?

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Not usable now

My start screen was of course bookmarks, a sensible choice for people with a small number of sites they use frequently.

Now I can't get it to do it.

And the bookmark screen is missing the menus.

had it working right two weeks (replacement phone)

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Unhappy

Re: An alternative?

Sorry no PaleMoon, I looked there first.

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

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Re: Blocking Ads

But we used to have this then they started to make us block them.

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Re: Desperate

I was FORCED to use adblockers by the advertisers. (pop up, animated etc)

I do allow site specific adverts on certain sites. (Hobbies with ads from known suppliers)

Most though blocked to oblivion.

This google blob method, great for virus transmission.

As to all the ITVs out there, PVR FTW.

Oh I prefer to fast forwards than skip to catch the entertaining adverts, there are some better than the programmes.

Be very afraid! British Army might scrap battle tanks for keyboard warriors – report

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Re: Send in the Drones

Sounds like S1 of Amazon Jack Ryan

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What are tank crew doing?

Drinking tea probably.

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Re: The US buys tanks the Army doesn't want

Could we afford their over thirsty, under armoured, under gunned tanks?

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And your 200 are really good.

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I'd take 200 Challenger 2s over any other tank

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

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Re: Interesting

Loads of Afons and Avons makes me laugh anyway.

I like the naming history, facinating.

I think it is someone asking a local the name of a river, they say river.

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Re: International Recognition

That looks like a Mash clone.

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Re: Send them to Scotland for a few years...

Been there done that don't bother and stop asking me for money when you keep pulling this crap!

Rule one of shittipedia.

Only use it for basic information of simple things like a TV series.

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Re: Some languages are preserved, some aren't

Another close relative language then.

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Interesting

Scots does seem to be partially ignored in favour of Gaelic.

Yet it is part of the same family as English.

It is interesting to see the similarity in words with English as well.

Written down some of it is quite readable to a native English speaker.

An example in Kirk (as in James T) this is Scots for Church, such similar words.

But then it shares ancestry with English via Middle English.

Isn't the history of languages fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Frisian_languages#Anglic_languages

Start Me Up: 25 years ago this week, Windows 95 launched and, for a brief moment, Microsoft was almost cool

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Same day as REAL/32 launch

Now I did like that concurrent DOS done well.

Bletchley Park Trust can’t crack COVID-caused revenue slump without losing staff

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Re: This is the theme park isn't it?

Interesting as I had read it was full of actors.

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This is the theme park isn't it?

I have heard enough to put me off visiting the theme park side.

I only want to see the code breaking computers. TNMOC.

Unexpected Porthcawl in the borkage area: Riding an indoor Power Truck to nowhere

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One main road in and out to M4.

My advice, keep going, then turn off for Gower or keep going for Pembrokeshire.

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Have you actually been there?

Look on map, "ooh a seaside town", not too far away, day trip time.

It is basically a Welsh version of Bream.

I think we stayed about 2 hours before we headed elsewhere.

Appears to the a giant static caravan storage area.

Stuck to Pembrokeshire afterwards.

UK national debt hits 1.46 Apples – and weighs as much as 2 billion adult badgers

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or in other units

Nearly 5726 lies on a bus

You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt

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Re: I'm telling you, falconry is the way to go!!

No he can fly like this lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

'Get out of my office, you're being a pest!' Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets

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Scottish Road Trip

I am planning one too.

Will take own car though.

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

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Re: Starmer's doing his job

"Honest Tory"

There were many but BoJo didn't like them.

Samsung slows smartphone upgrade treadmill with promise to support three Android generations on Galaxies

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Re: A good first start for Sammy

My recently died phone a few months ago started talking to my car radio and my TV.

Why was my pocket talking?

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as long as they last

And their screens do not pop and go purple.

Sun welcomes vampire dating website company: Arrgh! No! It burns! It buuurrrrnsss!

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Re: vampires still exists

They exist and here is a list

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

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Re: Inappropriate garb

I am untrusting of suits.

Most recent exposure was one trying to sell me a really shit new car when I was looking for older big comfy ones. (Think GM EU and big V6 saloons popular with Police vs a horrid little 5 seat people carrier)

Shoved me in one, said how wonderful.

"It's full of plastic shit!"

Started on about HP.

I actually ran out of the dealer and never been back.

I hate suits.

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced techie is indistinguishable from magic

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Re: a GUI in the office was a dim and distant dream.

So confusing, I have a VAX 4000 (vacuum) in the garage.

Different VAX, but still makes me laugh.

Talking about vacuums mention the computers.

Talk about computers mention the Vacuums.

And even some same model numbers.

And I live near a hotbed of vacuum manufacturers (OK two).

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Re: Light sensors!

"Umatics - used dozens of optical sensors"

Probably why they moved to magnetic for their domestic recorders.

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Re: Light sensors!

My VCRs were more posh they used magnetic sensors.

How do you feel about single-use plastics? OK, interesting. Now tell us your views on surprise Windows updates

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visit to outpatients was late

Got in to room, IT problems, MS on blue message on screen.

Just what you need.

Money talks as Chinese chip foundries lure TSMC staff with massive salaries to fix the Middle Kingdom's tech gap

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Re: More blowback from Trump's epic mishandling of foreign affairs

I have always thought that if Putin was really friendly with Europe and US he would have a lot of friends.

I would love to visit (esp St. Petersburg).

Instead he wants to piss everyone else off.

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Re: Nonsense

He is crooked so I expect that the huge amount of votes his rivals get will again be translated into him winning.

Look what he is doing to their equivalent of RM!