Re: IKEA coming our way soon
Good Lord! If the can't follow the directions on the floor how are they going to cope with the directions in the little leaflet?
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Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows
Wednesday 25th August 2021 12:17 GMT 
Re: IKEA
A group of people I knew once had a native Swedish speaker amongst them, and for amusement they had a game called The Ikea Game, where they picked a product name out of the catalogue at random and (1) had to try to pronounce it correctly and (2) the others then had to guess what kind of product it was.
Well... I suppose it must have helped pass the time.
Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit
Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse
Wednesday 25th August 2021 14:49 GMT
Worse still, in order to activate the FreeView application in some TVs, you have to have a strong enough TV signal via an aerial that it can detect the region data in the MUX broadcast. And it needs to check that every time you start the application. Kind of buggers the idea of having a smart TV for those bits of the house where you can't get a good signal from the terrestrial digital TV masts but the WiFi / Internet signal is OK.
Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain
Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?
Tuesday 24th August 2021 11:50 GMT
I once wanted a fifth hard drive...
in my PC running Windows 95...
But I only had IDE cards which sat in a specific range of memory, and you only got a single choice of location within that using a dip switch on the card... so a maximum two cards per PC, with a master and slave* on each - so 4 hard drives only.
Quick bit of jiggery pokery with wrapping wire, a spot-face cutter, some through pins and a soldering iron and I was able to fool the card into thinking it was on an address it expected when in reality, it wasn't. Unfortunately Windows 95 only expected those kinds of devices on specific address boundaries, so I had to make a few registry changes as well in order to get it the driver working half-way through the next address block instead of at the start...
But I did it! And it worked. And it only took a day of reading/planning and a few hours of messing around.
* Let's get HISTORICAL not HYSTERICAL - this is what they were properly called in those days - it said so on the cables and the devices!
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped
Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland
Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space
Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely
Tuesday 17th August 2021 08:20 GMT
Re: "It's on device, therefore it's private.
Presumably because one could reverse engineer a nonce image which could then be used to flood the system and render it useless. Unless there's some kind of double hash thing going on. I don't know. But there are enough 'privacy warriors' around who would join in I think to defeat this.
Monday 16th August 2021 15:30 GMT
Re: Capability
Possibly, possibly, but then when various governments around the world start playing the 'Think of the Children' card as part of their electioneering, and then when they get into power then kick those lobbying TechGiants right in the 'nads by NOT giving in to them about technical infeasibility in ensuring that they are not a vehicle for the distribution of whatever kind of immorality is the flavour of that four years... Apple can say "We're doing everything feasible and reasonable to ensure that the spread of kiddie pr0n / donkey pr0n etc is not something we are facilitating"... and STILL be able to say their messaging is e2e encrypted, backups are securely stored etc etc...
They effectively dodge the feds thumbscrews on encryption etc by putting an AI fed agent into every device on the inside of the user encryption wall.
I mean, they're getting nail gunned by the press now, BUT (and this is where I'm probably being somewhat naive and too optimistic), if they can present a mechanism that satisfies the feds and gets them to back down from pressuring the law makers into weakening encryption... then that's a win, no?
BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret
Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?
Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more
Friday 13th August 2021 20:07 GMT
A few years ago, reference Office 365...
Can't I download the Office applications to my computer? I prefer the non-web version for when I'm working offline.
OK, you click on the field of 9 dots on the top left of the page in your web browser next to where it says Office 365... No, not on the words Office 365, that takes you somewhere else, it's the 9 dots... Yes I know it's not very obvious... don't shout at me! I didn't write the bloody thing.
BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'
Friday 13th August 2021 14:55 GMT
Of course there's another level to this story...
In a master stroke of genius not only did Simon exchange the real money for some vaguely passable forgeries that he ran off quietly on a few reams of that plastic impregnated "long-life" paper bought a few years ago to print "permit to work" and "storage permits" for contractors working in outdoor/harsh environments, you know, the stuff certified for cleanroom use, but that the "Sustainability Champions" managed to get banned due to the high plastic content (so now they have to print new permits every time it rains) and has been sitting quietly in the corner of the paper store for the last 5 years, but he also videoed the whole shebang, including a running commentary, of 'How the boss burned two grand' which he then auctioned off as an NFT and made a further £20k from.
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
Monday 9th August 2021 19:00 GMT
Re: I had a similar "shock" once
I had the same up north. Some dickhead had constructed a lighting ring going out of one breaker and back into another. Luckily I have a sixth sense for that kind of thing. All the hairs on the back of my hand stood up as it neared the relivened bare end of the wire.
Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk
Wednesday 11th August 2021 16:38 GMT
I used to have a desert made with Kahlua, Baileys, cold instant coffee made up with milk and vanilla ice cream with chocolate sprinkles/a flake, and a straw served in a tall dessert glass (knickerbocker glory glass)
One could rarely finish a glass... by the time one got to the bit you could eat with a spoon, a Baileys coma was rapidly approaching.
Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device
Wednesday 11th August 2021 10:51 GMT
Pff! I hear the same arguments about Harry Potter London Experience - it's in Watford, not London. Disneyland Paris? 20 miles away. I've no idea what sized cell constitutes a unit of geographical / topological awareness... I expect it varies from culture to culture. Do we need a reg unit, perhaps?
Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
Tuesday 10th August 2021 10:10 GMT
Re: Lets do the maths
Indeed. It's comfortable downstairs for around 3 days of daytime temperatures in excess of 30 degrees C... after that the brick walls have warmed up and can no longer pull the heat out of the air. The trick is to get a big through-flow of cooler air overnight to hopefully pull as much heat out of the bricks as one can. The warm air rises up the stair cases, though, and the temperature in the bedrooms can get unbearable. The dark slate roof doesn't help - I'd happily swap them for ultra-white ceramics, if it wasn't for being in a conservation area. :(
Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system
Tuesday 10th August 2021 09:55 GMT
Did I see on another news story...
that it was for images that are SHARED using iCloud? There is a difference. One story said "uploaded" to iCloud, the other said "shared using iCloud".
Now I can see why Apple wouldn't want to be DISSEMINATORS (publishers) of CSAM, or indeed ANY illegal visual material... protecting their own backsides in a legitimate and ethical manner is an expected activity for a business to engage in. Not so sure extending the "Think of the children!" defence to stomping all over any and all remaining vestiges of the expectation of privacy is.
Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to
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