* Posts by hplasm

5614 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

El Reg deep dive: Everything you need to know about UK.gov's pr0n block

hplasm
Devil

Re: Still at it

"I have nothing to hide."

Your pictures on Grindr agree...

Leaning tower of NASA receives last big arm

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Coat

Re: Mobile launcher

"The thing won't fit under "normal" overpasses."

The latest overpasses fall down, so it can just go over the wreckage...

(too soon?)

Windows 10 debuts Blue QR Code of Death – and why malware will love it

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Linux

Re: dump

"that's what the dump is for"

Dumping the Windows PC?

Seems a bit harsh on the hardware...

Programming languages can be hard to grasp for non-English speakers. Step forward, Bato: A Ruby port for Filipinos

hplasm
Happy

Re: Just do Swedish!

... with Bezerker spelling!

Oh bucket! Unpack the suitcases. TRAPPIST-1 planets too wet to support life

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Holmes

So they are wet.

The dolphins have to go somewhere.

And as for the Dasorians and their ilk...

You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding

hplasm
Pirate

Interesting....

I'll try one two for science.

Smoke me a bucket. I'll be back after the extra thin mint.

Space, the final blunt-tier: Binary system ejected huge 'spliff' asteroid, boffins reckon

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Happy

Re: ' More on the wy'

It's an Emissary!

From F'tumch!

hplasm
Coat

Re: Unflushable?

"You might want to use an extra bucket of flush while you are at it."

And a stick...

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

hplasm
Windows

" if I just want to get my work done and not fight with the computer daily."

Don't use Windows 10 then.

hplasm
Gimp

Re: So ?

"The only people left on the platform are unthinking cattle."

And the odd noisy marsupial with a chip in its pouch. --->

Here is how Google handles Right To Be Forgotten requests

hplasm
Holmes

" I can't put cheese in my cup of tea."

Of course you can! But it would probably not be very nice.

Another day, another self-flying car pipe dream surfaces

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Devil

Audi self driving flying car.

You had me after self-driving Audi.

Please do not allow manual override.

Flying is a bonus.

Taxpayers chuck burnt-out Bongs* millions of pounds to 'decelerate'

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Happy

Re: Unbelievable

"Hell no. "

Technocracy Not dick nocracy

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Meh

Re: Unbelievable

"Those with a vested interest will always have reason to lobby for their interest, and have no opposition as no one else cares about their interest."

Is there an office in Shoreditch that has a form that I can sign up for this with? I could use a few million.

hplasm
Devil

"will somebody pay me a few million ...

...to dress up in funny clothes and talk bull?"

Law or Clergy?

Techies building UK web smut age check tools: You'll get a spec next week

hplasm
Happy

Re: I'm assuming

"I have a BT router and there's no way to change the DNS. Does that affect anything?"

No., it'll still be a very dodgy connection - and therefore, blocked.

hplasm
Coat

Ground Unicorn Horn?

That comes from th Lesser Ground Unicorn - the one with No Legs...

*badum tish*

I couldn't give a Greek clock about your IoT fertility tracker

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Thumb Up

Re: Antikythera Mechanism

A chap on YouTube called Clickspring is actually making one, in interesting instalments.

And the tools possibly used too...

Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet

hplasm
Gimp

"My money says at least 10% of them will still need a proper local MS Office install"

Then it's not your money - it's Microsoft's.

You just haven't bent down and handed it over yet.

Google to 'forget me' man: Have you forgotten what you said earlier?

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Happy

Re: What about people

Who visited Barnsley and / or paid for a crop top?

Surely they have a right to be forgotten ?

FTFY..

And, yes.

More power to UK, say 'leccy vehicle makers. Seriously, they need it

hplasm
Unhappy

Re: Its not just manufacturing that needs a solution

"This has not been properly thought out."

sadly, it's not about thinking things out, and porviding useful stuff. It's about big profit, asap.

And looking like something future-y is being done, even if it isn't.

It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?

hplasm
Coat

Re: Dates

"You can't collapse the 0s, though."

Ah, yes you can... 0000/01/10 becomes ___/_1/1_

Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs

hplasm
Mushroom

Re: Even the greatest minds have a few failures

"Elon is not even a mediocre mind. ..."

You poor, unlucky person.

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Coat

Re: Even the greatest minds have a few failures

"Few people remember the problems that Brunel had with his 'Atmospheric Railway'."

Just really, really old ones.

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Homemade Security.

+1 for that!

hplasm
Boffin

Re: If that's the case then how did they land on the moon?

"Realising that the Moon's gravity is only a fifth of the Earth's."

Ahem!

hplasm
Facepalm

Re: RE: Crossrail

"...well some of the very long video you linked."

TIL Fifteen minutes is very long time...

Man who gave interviews about his crimes asks court to delete Google results

hplasm
Holmes

Re: Win for the Lawyers

"The difference is that barbers don't usually try to cut their own clients and bleed them dry."

...any more.

London Mayor calls for social networks and sharing economy to stop harming society

hplasm
Coat

Re: Or in other words....

"KHHAAAAANNN!!!"

Somebody had to say it...

Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: Open-source the UPS

hplasm
Meh

Re: ATX connector?

"Fairly sure your monitor and network switch don't run off 240v. Mine have external power bricks."

Some do, some don''t.

Tim Berners-Lee says regulation of the web may be needed

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Meh

@ Charles9

"But increasingly things like Facebook are the ONLY form of contact for people too close too ignore, such as family."

Why jump through their hoops?

If they want to bother you, make them jump through yours, eg "No Facebook. Call me. Or not."

Sci-tech wants skilled worker cap on PhD and shortage jobs scrapped

hplasm
Childcatcher

Re:My question is.

"Why did we bother to educate her if we are to make it difficult for her to live and work in this country?"

Because foreign students pay £££££££££££££££££ to prop up our educational

establishments (...bosses salaries).

Windows 10 S to become a 'mode', not a discrete product

hplasm
Holmes

Political Speak.

"I have every faith in this product and its future is secure" = It's for the chop.

Suspected drug dealer who refused to poo for 46 DAYS released... on bail

hplasm
Coat

It's...

...still a bum rap!

*badum -tish*

Ofcom to probe Three and Vodafone over network throttling

hplasm
Devil

Re: "Where...

...is Ajit Pai when you need him?"

Where he belongs, fortunately.

UK.gov: Name a more iconic duo than 'culture' and 'digital'. We'll wait

hplasm
Paris Hilton

Re: More iconic due

HMG?

Arse and Elbow.

British military spends more on computers than weapons and ammo

hplasm
Meh

Shows where wars of the 21st century will really be fought...

In the Accountancy Suite.

ESA builds air-breathing engine that works in space

hplasm
Coat

Re: Accelerating the wrong way ?

"I am not a rocket science."

You are a brain surgery and I claim my £5!

10 PRINT "ZX81 at 37" 20 GOTO 10

hplasm
Happy

Re: I remember...

I printed out the ROM listing for the Nascom 1 at college*. Took a whole *roll* of printer paper.

I was impressed by the company 'Microsoft' that wrote it, then.

* Also ripped of an eprom copy, intending to use it on my homebrewed Z80. heh heh.

UK data watchdog's inaugural tech strategy was written with... *drumroll* Word 2010

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All of the above comments.

It just works.

(Unlike the later versions )

Fancy owning a two-seat Second World War Messerschmitt fighter?

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Coat

Re: before they convinced the pointy haired generals it was just coincidence..

"So what was so secret about the shape ???"

Knowing the MOD, it was probably a normal bomb, shaped like an 'H'...

Inviting nearby exoplanet revealed as radiation-baked hell

hplasm
Boffin

Re: Not really near

Ha! 4LY? That's hardly the distance to the corner shop...

Cryptocurrencies kill people and may kill again, says Bill Gates

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Coat

MS have it covered already!

"Microsoft is making large investments in quantum - particularly in handling the error problems that most approaches have."

Error: An Unknown Problem Has Been Detected.

They saw this coming years ago! Awesome!

Virgin Media's Brit biz broadband goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Upset People

hplasm
Facepalm

Wah Wah worst ever.!!

Go on - try Talk Talk or BT- 100% reliable...

or you could pay and get Business connections...

Oi, drag this creaking, 217-year-old UK census into the data-driven age

hplasm
Devil

Re: Bitrot

"2011 paper forms were shredded, pulped and recycled chucked on a tip en masse..."

FTFY

NRA gives FCC boss Ajit Pai a gun as reward for killing net neutrality. Yeah, an actual gun

hplasm
Meh

Re: Missing the point..

"But what if it's ALREADY too late, or they've gone sociopathic?"

In the US? Either charge them $$$, ignore them or shoot them.

hplasm
Gimp

Re: Face it, dweebs

"You lost the internet. The adults are in charge now."

Except in the US.

Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X

hplasm
Coat

Re: Specifications

It's 1.05 Kg for the hardware and 1.33Kg with Win 10 installed...

New Google bias lawsuit claims company fired chap who opposed discrimination

hplasm
Devil

"But...

... if you're spending any amount of time playing on a Facebook-substitute rather than actually working,..."

Posted during your lunch break, of course.

Lloyds Banking Group to splash £3bn on tech

hplasm
Holmes

Re: Remove the hype and check the reality

ITYM

""Lloyds Banking Group is to splash £1M on IT redundacies, £100M on consultancy and the rest on bonuses, yachts and swanky new offices."