* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

Google to relieve HTC of its phones biz – report

Tigra 07
Megaphone

Wasteful Google

However did Google stay successful with so much waste and bad management?

They must have had about 50 Android chat apps by now duplicating functions and they've got to the point where they have the money to buy companies for fun and sell them at a loss later on.

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Google agenda for Motorola/HTC

1: Buy company

2: Strip of patents and assets

3: Sell to the Chinese at a loss

4: Repeat

Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view

Tigra 07
Coat

Re: Mark 110

Judging by the size of the one...My money is on it being a TARDIS...

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Re: Fail to see

Take a look at the pictures. The boxes are huge

User demanded PC be moved to move to a sunny desk – because it needed Windows

Tigra 07
Trollface

Re: As any good medical professional will tell you

A steam hammer sounds like a tradesman joke, similar to the old left handed hammer or screwdriver...

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Facepalm

Re: Oh dear

I've been thinking this for years.

If we showed kids Mike Judge's Idiocracy at school, they'd likely think it was a documentary...

Tigra 07
Pint

"just because something fits in a cavity that doesn't mean it belongs there!"

Jeez, you sound fun at a party...

France to tack weapons onto spy drones – reports

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Trollface

Re: One more sep

Traditional bombers wouldn't hear the screams in any case from their height.

Suicide bombers might, but that stops when they drop their payload.

Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses

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Re: Right to privacy absolute? Bollocks

It would have cost me too much to bring it to a tribunal and i got another job within a month thankfully.

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WTF?

Right to privacy absolute? Bollocks

I was let go from my last job (a small company in the private sector) for deleting a private twitter account rather than give my manager my login details. Said account was only visible to friends and very rarely mentioned anything work related.

Tigra 07
Megaphone

Re: Which is exactly why it is higher on May priority list

"There shall be no monitoring, recording, or interference with an individual's privacy in a public or private space without their consent"

I dispute that. You have no right to privacy in a public space - I can see you and you can see me. Want privacy? Go home.

Imagine not being able to photograph yourself, your friends, or landmarks in public because everyone around you claims they have a public privacy right. Madness

It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower

Tigra 07
Pint

RE: DaLo

I just tested it on 1 user and got a 100% correlation

Bombastic boss gave insane instructions to sensible sysadmin, with client on speakerphone

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Re: So he knew how to fix it anyway?

Surely we've all met someone who thinks he's an expert because he can turn a computer on?

I meet these people constantly at work and they tend to attract too much attention in the first place.

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"Here's a little ditty about speakerphones that On-Call finds amusing"

Error loading Youtube: Video could not be played...

It's mildly amusing...

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Tigra 07
Mushroom

This was bound to happen

Imagine a future where your kettle and fridge shut down after 2 years or can be easily hacked as they're no longer supported.

DON'T BUY SMART APPLIANCES!

Paris nightclub red-faced after booze-for-boobs offer exposed

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Outrageous Sexism

...That or hairdressing, teaching, childcare, nursing (or other jobs ignored in the equality debate where men are non-existent)

Uncle Sam outlines evidence against British security whiz Hutchins

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Re: Something's up

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the work of the FBI too

British broadband is confusing and speeds are crap, says survey

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Re: Hefty Sums?

I don't buy that argument. It's about competition.

In the US they pay far more than us for lower speeds solely because of lack of competition, so to suggest we don't pay enough to justify investment sidesteps the issue.

BT Openreach monopoly? Hello?

Tigra 07
Meh

Why ask about page crashes in a broadband quality survey? I see countless page crashes a day at work mostly caused by suppliers tinkering with their sites.

I'm wondering what the reason of asking a question which could be blamed on pretty much anything unrelated to the survey topic afterwards could be...

Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls

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WTF?

"they know that calling people on the TPS register is against the law and that we will come down hard on them if they don't respect the public's right to privacy"

A 50K fine is fuck-all and nowhere near a deterrent to these plebs

Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find

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And yet ransomware is exploding in popularity partly because stupid/desperate people/organisations keep paying up

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

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It related to changing a single number relating to the speed he was caught travelling...

Tigra 07
Mushroom

I was once asked by my manager to help figure out how to edit a PDF from the police relating to a court issue he was involved in...Yeah...I'm not tampering with evidence and risking prison for him lol

Judge yanks plug out of AT&T's latest attack on Google Fiber

Tigra 07

Re: Is that fear I smell?

Faster internet means more people seeing Google Ads, especially on Youtube, so even at break even price Google gets more eyeballs on Ads and more revenue.

In the process this forces ISPs to compete in price and quality (Which America seriously needs in this area)

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

Tigra 07
Happy

"the Bing team got wise to the sandy schlong and edited out the free willy"

...Did they use Paint?

NotPetya ransomware attack cost us $300m – shipping giant Maersk

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Meh

Funny that as we're still getting huge delays from Maersk containers in August

And they were trying to profit from the malware outbreak in July by charging extra for a "guaranteed" delivery slot, which they still failed to deliver on.

Bunch of bastards

Not another Linux desktop! Robots cross the Uncanny Valley

Tigra 07
Terminator

Worst case scenario...

They'll drown themselves in the hotel pool...

Tech giants warp eco standards to greenwash electronics, rake in cash

Tigra 07
Thumb Up

It's a fineable ofence to park in the cycle lane? That cheers me up a bit.

I'd resorted to reporting the car lot to the council for selling their cars in the cycle lane further up a big hill and putting their advertising signs in the lane too. No idea if anything will come of it.

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Cyclist here. Lovely wide cycling lane where I live, but unusable since there's up to 50 cars parked in it usually, forcing me to cycle nearly a metre out and block the road for everyone else unfortunately.

And i'm not so uncaring that i enjoy this as i usually end up moving aside for cars so often that i'm putting myself in danger just so they can beep at me and give me abuse.

It's almost as though car drivers manufacture the very problems they complain about. They don't like sharing the road, but then park in the cycle lanes and force a bottleneck of traffic.

TalkTalk fined £100k for exposing personal sensitive info

Tigra 07

Re: £100K

It's not completely meaningless as the customers will be paying the fine anyway.

My predictions: Price rises coming soon for the customers and another fine or scandal at Talk Talk in the next 3 months.

Tigra 07
Meh

Scam Talk

"We continue to take our customers’ data and privacy incredibly seriously"

You keep saying this Talk Talk but clearly don't know what it means. That or your definition of "seriously" is seriously shit

70% of Windows 10 users are totally happy with our big telemetry slurp, beams Microsoft

Tigra 07

Re: No need to change the default settings! Erase all of WIN 10

I'm in England and I bought from pcspecialist.co.uk and installed Ubuntu.

System76 is apparently very good, though the prices are eye watering

Tigra 07

Re: No need to change the default settings! Erase all of WIN 10

This likely makes little difference to them since you still paid for a Windows licence.

Should have gone to System76

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

Tigra 07
Coat

Re: You might have also looked up "Social Darwinism"

"This was the idea that lead to laws in the US allowing doctors to enforce mandatory sterilization of people for everything from having below average IQs to having a child outside marriage"

So us thickos and mongoloids *in* marriages are exempt? Good

Google diversity memo: Web giant repudiates staffer's screed for 'incorrect assumptions about gender'

Tigra 07
Trollface

Re: The token conservative spoke out!

Or an Apache Helicoper...

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Flame

Re: The token conservative spoke out!

I'm pretty sure i can type more words per minute than someone with no arms, regardless of their colour, gender or ethnicity.

Unfortunately even gays aren't diverse enough anymore to these racist SJWs if we're white.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/03/22/nus-tells-lgbt-societies-to-abolish-gay-mens-reps-because-they-dont-face-oppression/

Strong and stable, my arse. UK wobbles when coping with ransomware

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Re: That makes for dire reading...

Hey, i'm just working off the criteria set by James...You couldn't pay me to be French...

Tigra 07
Flame

Re: That makes for dire reading...

I know it's fashionable to criticise the NHS, but...

We have the better healthcare system:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40608253

And similar weather, but less rain:

http://www.weather-guide.com/country/england-france-weather.html

Food is a matter of taste, but they win that one

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Thumb Up

That makes for dire reading...

Still...At least we're not France...

Flash... Nu-uh! Tech folk champing at the bit to switch off life support

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RE: Doctor Syntax

That sounds more difficult than going to Google and searching for "UK weather".

Virgin Media's profanity warning triggered by chief exec's name

Tigra 07
Devil

I wish i'd seen this before you posted as it appears his wife is one of our customers. Lol!

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Coat

Re: Ivor Baddick

We have a regular named Mrs Bastard...

Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested

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Re: Inspired by...

In addition they've also done this to one of their own fanboy researchers: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/apple_excommunicates_charlie_miller/

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FAIL

Inspired by...

Sounds like they're learning from Apple.

Isn't this almost exactly how they treated bug reports in Germany?

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

Tigra 07
Black Helicopters

Re: Google is in trouble

"and another totally legitimate and politically neutral word that I am worried about posting"

Any clues as to what this word is?

I came here for Google talk, but now i'm intrigued and want to know this word...

'Coke dealer' called us after his stash was stolen – cops

Tigra 07
Joke

FTFY

"Floridian fuzz said that local David Blackmon"

Should read: "Floridian fuzz said that local black man, David"

...Yes, it's a joke, don't shoot me

European MPs push for right to repair rules

Tigra 07
Meh

"asking that durable products be durable and repairable"

Surely that's false advertising if your durable products are fragile?

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

Tigra 07

Re: Next ...

fucking furries...

Tigra 07
Pint

Good luck with that

"even if you as a parent work diligently and carefully to put your child on a hetrosexual path"

Good luck with that. Didn't work for me or anyone I know.

If it wasn't for my dislike of kids i'd certainly choose to be straight. Am I happy? Yeah. But it would be simpler.

Ad 'urgently' seeks company to build national e-ID system

Tigra 07
Pirate

And if the person doesn't have a face? What then?