Can I make a suggestion?
McDonalds should offer the lady a 1000 Rubles voucher for use in any of their stores. But only applicable during the period of Lent...
Posts by lglethal
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Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to
NASA comes up empty on Perseverance rover's first Mars sample drilling attempt
Monday 9th August 2021 11:45 GMT 
Re: I just don't get it.
No, my advice is not to take money from people doing actual science that creates a myriad of benefits, as you and Mark1455 seem to be advocating for.
Now would you like to go back and read my comment again and see where I suggested the money for solving the problems should come from? Hmmm....
Monday 9th August 2021 06:57 GMT
Re: I just don't get it.
You do realise that those "millions" spent on Mars wouldnt do a single bit of good in fighting any of the things on Earth you mention. Hell NASA's entire budget is not even a rounding error on the US Government's budget report. You want to complain about wasted money, try looking at the trillions spent on the world militaries. 1% of their budgets could do a hell of a lot, and would still dwarf NASA's budgets thousands of times over. But those for some reason are untouchable.
And without NASA and it's miniscule budgets you wouldnt have half of your modcons. We get that you "dont get it". So why dont you let the adults in the room discuss the great Science being done, the things we're all learning by NASA having troubles with this drilling, and you can go do your virtue signalling elsewhere. I hear facebook is good for that. The Register is aimed at a higher level of Commentard, one that can actually use logic...
Muppet.
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell
Monday 9th August 2021 08:08 GMT
Re: Worth a watch
Having not heard of Lbry before your comment, I've had a quick look and it seems... interesting.
I would be very intersted to hear what you think of it. Is it any good?
The whole monetisation thing seems like trying to create money from air (so par for the course for digital currencies), and the lack of central controls seems like it would quickly become inundated with conspiracy theories and other bollocks pretty quickly once it gets popular, but for now it seems it could be good.
What are your experiences?
US labor official suggests Amazon's Alabama workers rerun that unionization vote
Thursday 5th August 2021 11:57 GMT
Re: Crikey
if they'd put the tent in the middle of a crocodile pen.
And in an interview in 6 months time...
<Interviewer>: It has been claimed that Amazon once again acted illegally in interfering with the running of the union vote, would you like to comment on those claims?
<Amazon Manager>: Absolutely. we did absolutely nothing illegal, and did not interfere in any way with the vote. We learnt out lessons from last time, there were no cameras anywhere near the voting place, we did not have any mandatory talks or lectures on the topics of unions, and we did not place any information whatsoever in or around the tent. We followed the rules set down by the NRLB to the letter.
<Interviewer>: It has been claimed however, that the Voting Tent was set up in a pit containing 5 live crocodiles.
<Amazon Manager>: Well you can hardly blame us for the appearance of local wildlife in the area.
<Interviewer>: It's been claimed that the crocodiles were not wild but came from a nearby crocodile farm.
<Amazon Manager>: We like to support local businesses were possible.
<Interviewer>: Its been claimed that those crocodiles actively prevented people from voting in the election.
<Amazon Manager>: I assure you, those crocodiles have no opinion on unions one way or the other. And to make such a claim is absurd. So I'll be ending this interview now, goodbye....
Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws
Thursday 5th August 2021 12:19 GMT
And that would be fine if they had openly declared that was what they were doing, rather than claiming that they didnt collect any personally identifiable data.
Although even if they had declared that it would have been behove of them to actually secure said data so that a man-in-the-middle attack couldnt actually sniff out the data so easily.
So first they lied about what the app did, and what data they collected. Then they failed to secure said data. Then they went after the person who pointed out those things. All round fails...
Chinese state media describes gaming as 'spiritual opium' that stunts education and destroys families
Wednesday 4th August 2021 06:32 GMT
So it's the games fault for the child's education suffering. Nothing at all to do with the bad parenting that allowed the kid to spend ridiculous hours playing and not making them do their homework, go to bed at reasonable hours, etc.?
Yep all Tencent's fault. Totally.
I was (and still am) a gamer. I played a lot as a kid, but it never caused any problems with my education, because my parents made sure I went to bed at a reasonable time, made sure I came to the table for meals, made sure that my homework was finished before I was allowed to play. Also not having the PC in my room, meant I couldnt sneakily get up and play in the night (well I probably could have, but the temptation wasnt there).
Gaming is no different to any other past time - done to excess, anything can be bad for you. And like most things that kids to do excess, bad parenting in allowing it to be done to excess is usually the main cause. So maybe China, if it really cared about the effect of gaming on kids, should be looking into the problem of bad parenting first, rather than just blaming the games...
Vivo X60 Pro: Branding was plastered all over the Euros, but does the phone perform better than the English team?
Tuesday 3rd August 2021 09:25 GMT
Size?
Can we get an idea of how big this is? Size matters after all?
And I might be in the minority, but what I wouldnt give for a good SMALL phone! My Xperia X Compact is getting to the end of its life (the USB socket is failing, so charging is becoming a problem), but finding a phone thats even remotely near that size is almost impossible.
Closest are Pixel 4a (blerrgg Google), Iphone 12 mini (blerggh Apple), or Xperia 5 III (3cm longer! WTF!). Anyone got any other suggestions?
US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon's surface with SpaceX, thanks
Tuesday 3rd August 2021 21:13 GMT
Re: Yep sounds like it..
When you control theWhite House, the house of representatives and have 50% of the senate (plus the deciding vote in the VP), then you should be able to get through a budget closer to the amount asked for, if it truly was a priority. $300 million compared to $2.4 billion, is throwing NASA a bone, nothing more...
Tuesday 3rd August 2021 06:46 GMT
Yep sounds like it..
...and establishing a long-term presence on the Moon is a priority for the Biden Administration...
Yep thats why Congress only gave NASA $300 million instead of the $2.4 billion they asked for so that they could have multiple lander designs.
Very much a priority. I think we can all see that, no?
UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers
Tuesday 3rd August 2021 15:12 GMT
Re: The Office
And if he wanted "water" he'd send his secretary out to get him an Evian.
Water fom a communcal fixture, no VP would be caught dead around such a thing.
Unless of course it was for a publicity shot.,After which he/she would have to gargle some Champagne and disinfect for an hour or so with a fine cognac to make sure that none of those plebian germs infected him/her...
Ecuador shreds Julian Assange's citizenship
Wednesday 28th July 2021 12:24 GMT
Re: use of different signatures
Actually just on that point, IANAL but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that Embassy Grounds count as territory of the Embassy's country. So 7 years living in the Ecudorian Embassies broom cupboard would count as 7 years on Embassy territory, no?
Although maybe he didnt register with the proper authorities as living at that particular address at the time? ;)
UK's National Cyber Security Centre needs its posh Westminster digs, says Cabinet Office, because of WannaCry
Wednesday 28th July 2021 11:31 GMT
Re: Yes, but...
Yes because Shoreditch and Canary wharf are sooooo far away from Central London.
7 stops on the Jubilee line gets you from Westminster to Canary Wharf.
9 Stops on the Circle/District line gets you to Liverpool Street which coupled with a 10minute walk gets you to Shoreditch high street.
So maybe 20 minutes travel time total. Considering that no one below the rank of Executive lives within 5km of Westminster and as such your average workers are already coming from somewhere else in London, which probably has better connections to Liverpool Street/Shoreditch or Canary Wharf, then I doubt you would see a mass exodus as if you were moving to say Royal Tunbridge Wells (for example).
SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube
What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell
Monday 26th July 2021 11:04 GMT
A couple of funny ones I can remember hearing from mates
One German mate of mine was interviewing with a British firm and they wanted to check up on his technical English abilities (apparently talking to him in the interview wasnt enough). So they handed him a one page Technical Report in English about something or other and asked "Can you read and understand this report?". He looked it over, and then declared with just a hint of smugness "Of course!", before handing the document back. Apparently the response was a stunned "Umm OK, next question...". Apparently they'd been expecting him to read out and then explain it to them. He did end up getting the job after all too.
Another mate of mine had organised a telephone interview with a top firm on the other side of the pond, for a friday morning. On the Tuesday, he headed down to London for his brothers birthday and around 4am the next morning, he got a call from the firm asking if he would be able to do the interview in about 2 hours time instead. He rather stupidly agreed. So after an all night bender, and with no sleep he proceeded to have the telephone interview. Needless to say he did not end up getting the job. The lesson to take away from that, there really are times when you just have to say sorry, but No that's not an option.
Monday 26th July 2021 09:34 GMT
I've had two interviews that stick in my mind.
The first was for a contracting firm, where they told me up front there would be 2 telephone interviews (I was living in a different country at the time and this was before the days of video conferencing) followed by an in person interview if the other 2 went well. No Problem, they were up front about it. The first Telephone interview would be with my would-be manager, the second with HR and a company Executive (to test company fit i guess). I had the first telephone interview and it was great, manager and I got on swimmingly.
The next day I got a call to say I had the job, they'd be sending me the contract in the post today, and could I please start next week. And yes I did take the job, moved country and was in place the week later as requested only to find out they werent ready for me (they did pay me for that time even though they couldnt actually get me to start work, but thats a whole other story...
The second was actually not a job interview, but a firm that would be using our contracting firm, wanted to interview the engineers that would actually be doing the work to check that they actually knew their stuff (smart, no?). So a dozen of us engineers are sitting around a table facing a handful of their staff, and they started going around the table, really grilling people. It got to me, the lead guy asked me one question with an extremely smug look on his face which he must have thought was a really hard, killer of a question, but which happened to be something I'd been working on not more than a week before. 30 seconds into my detailed explanation of the answer and with a shocked look on his face, he simply cut me off with a "You're fine. Next!" and moved on.
If you ask a question of someone in an interview, you really should not be shocked when they know the answer. Thankfully, I never needed to work with any of the people aksing the questions and the engineers at the firm where top drawer. So all good! :)
For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5
Monday 26th July 2021 13:02 GMT
"In addition, the use of third party inks invalidates the warranty of the printer."
This probably also goes someway to explaining why people stick with the higher priced "original" inks. Printers are notoriously unreliable. If you have a relatively expensive printer, having a working warranty is an important consideration.
You might get cheaper ink, but if the printer than fails, and they refuse the warranty, you'll be significantly more out of pocket. That they can waive the warranty away like that just because of the ink used is really something that needs to be fixed in legislation. Imagine if the car company's tried to fix it so that if you bought one of their cars, you had to stick to one brand of petrol, or you invalidate your warranty. People would be in uproar (not to mention prices would skyrocket like ink prices have!).
Punchy Italian kartist gets 15-year ban for trackside rampage... and other stories
China pushes back against Exchange attack sponsorship claims
Thursday 22nd July 2021 09:35 GMT
And have you, China, provided the addresses and details of these "American" miscreants to the relevant American authorities? I'm sure some of them are NSA or the like, but how many are just regular miscreants who have chosen not to p&ss in their own backyard (in order to avoid the local plod, like the Russian crews). I have no doubt the US would also like to collar those miscreants. It would be a nice little bit of publicity to say "See we're stopping our own miscreants! Now its time for Russian and China to do the same!". The Yanks are not going to avoid an opportunity like that, if you give them the details! So why havent you protected your citizens and handed over the details?
And having been provided with the details by the US, UK and EU of your Chinese miscreants have you acted against them?
Hmmm... Methinks he doth protest too much...
Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable
Thursday 22nd July 2021 08:52 GMT
Re: Being in the wrong
Lets say it all once again - Tax Avoidance is not illegal. Tax evasion is illegal. And when firms cross that line they get hit hard. That's why they pay large sums of money to accountants to go as far up to that line as they can without crossing it.
Should the tax laws be better written to reduce the amount of tax avoidance that goes on, abso-f%&kin-lutely, but is that not just "playing whack-a-mole while having a legislative diarrhea"?
Illegal drugs are illegal, why shouldnt the governments go after them? If the collective will of a nation decides certain drugs should be made legal (e.g. Marijuana in the Netherlands), then it will happen. But what do you suggest? Make all drugs legal? You really want a world where Ice (Crystal Meth for Americans) is legal and available to everyone? I certainly dont. Should some drugs be made legal and restricted like alcohol and cigarettes, in my opinion yes (Marijuana, and Ecstacy would be my first two legal choices). But I dont think for a minute that would solve all our crime problems.
Spanish cops cuff Brit bloke accused of playing role in 2020 celeb Twitter hijacking
Hundreds of irate UK Parliamentary staffers sue IPSA over 2017 salary spreadsheet publication snafu
Wednesday 21st July 2021 10:57 GMT
That's one way to look at it, but another way is to ask the question - would you be happy to have your pay and entitlements made public to all of your neighbours? As well as to all of the scam artists and thieves out there? Complete with your address and the amount of hours you work (a good indication of when they can consider you might not be at home)?
Your neighbours might just complain about the poor state of your fence ("Considering how much money your making, you think could take a bit better care of it, no?") or try to hit you up for a loan.
But the Ne'er do wells out there will pay close attention, when it comes to knowing how much you earn, what you might have in your house, and when your likely to be working. That's ripe conditions for becoming a target.
So yes, knowing how much civil servants earn would be nice from a making sure we taxpayers are getting our money's worth (sorry, I mean how much we're getting shafted by), but for the individuals concerned it carries significant risks if not done carefully and properly.
Engineers' Laurel and Hardy moment caused British Airways 787 to take an accidental knee
US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game
Monday 19th July 2021 19:29 GMT
Stop! That's an absolute load of bollocks.
Fact check it here at reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccines-clinical-trials-idUSKBN2A22D3
That was written in February, when both Astra Zeneca and Biontech were fully past there Phase 3 trials.
Or if you'd prefer it from the horses mouth, from the WHO: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines
Download the Vaccine Tracker spreadsheet and you can see (as of 16/7), all of the vaccines in use or in development, which phases they have completed, and a lot more info.
Basically, EVERY Vaccine available in the US or the EU has passed all 4 phases of their clinical Trials. They are not experimental medicines. And by not getting a vaccine and spouting that nonsense, you've allowed yourself to believe utter bollocks. So stop repeating it. Go and read up, get away from Facebook and Youtube, and learn the facts. And then go and get vaccinated, to rptect yourself and those you love.
Monday 19th July 2021 11:40 GMT
I am actually honestly curious why some people are against mandatory vaccination? I mean your use of the term "militate" when talking about mandatory vaccination, implies strongly that you are against it, so can you explain why?
I'm not trying to call you out or be rude, but I am honestly curious. Most of the responses I find on the internet revolve around people claiming personal freedoms, etc. but that seems to conveniently ignore that we have plenty of laws requiring people to do things mandatorily (wear seatbelts, drive under the speed limit, not fire weapons in a built up area, etc.) especially where not obeying the laws can lead to loss of life (either one's own or especially other peoples).
So I'm genuinely curious, why would you not want to make vaccination mandatory?
Monday 19th July 2021 09:26 GMT
Just to add a small addendum to your comment Phil, catching and recovering does not always provide long term immunity from said virus. And the evidence is mounting that the immunity from catching and recovering from Covid is maybe 6 months at most. Vaccines however, can be tailored to provide that long last immunity.
A perfect example is Tetanus. Which catching and recovering from provides pretty much no natural immunity. However, the Tetanus vaccine does provide a long lasting immunity (although you still need a booster shot every 10 years).
Vaccination is the only good way to get the virus to drop in the community, not to mention avoiding the potential side effects of getting infected (e.g. long covid, and internal organ damage).
Monday 19th July 2021 08:39 GMT
Unfortuately it is a problem for the collective.
Because those idiots end up in our collective hospitals taking up intensive care beds and causing our hospital staff to be overworked. That means they potentially make mistakes elsewhere and for other people who havent been stupid.
On top of that, you have things like insurance costs which are averaged over the whole community which because of their hospitalisation drives all of our prices up. Sick people dont work, production goes down, costs of goods go up for everyone.
And finally, there are people out there that cant be vaccinated, not out of some stupid belief, but because medically they're either allergic to something in the vaccine, or their immune systems are already damaged and cant withstand the vaccine. The idiots not getting vaccinated, puts these peoples very lives at risk, and that again harms the entire community.
So whilst its nice to think that idiots not getting vaccinated is just hurting themselves, the truth is, it risks other peoples lives, directly and indirectly, and drives prices up for EVERYONE in the community. For that reason, these people need to be educated, to realise how stupid they're being, and how much they are costing their communities...
Monday 19th July 2021 07:31 GMT 
"12 people who are producing 65 per cent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms"
Can we get the names of these 12 please? And then could someone please place a large order for tar and feathers?
Actually better yet, this being America, can someone who has had a relative die from Corona, who specifically and publically refused to get vaccinated after reading the bollocks from these 12, please sue them into oblivion! Maybe then they'll disappear back into the holes they crawled out of...
(from someone who has known people who have died from Covid, and another since afflcited with long covid. It's not a joke people, get vaccinated now!)
Google killed desktop Drive and replaced it with two apps. Now it’s killing those, and Drive for desktop is returning
Tuesday 13th July 2021 09:17 GMT
Re: Google - great at search...
Oh No! Google are brilliant at convincing Marketing Departments to pay signifcantly more for "targeted" advertising thats been shown to be significantly less worthwhile than simple untargeted ads. Actually internet ads in general have been found to be pretty much worthless, but google have convinced Marketing Departments everywhere that they are the bees knees, and worth every penny (that they can squeeze out of them)!
Google are brilliant at the ad stuff. Everything else is unimportant (to Google)...
Tuesday 13th July 2021 08:11 GMT
Re: Dancing to someone else's tune
But that wouldnt be disurptive, and agile, and innovative, and whatever other bullsh&t bingo words you want to throw in the mix!
It's just another reminder that The Cloud is just someone else's computer. And if they decide to change the rules around using their computer, then you either have to suck it up and accept it, or to try and pull back in all your data yourself. Neither of which is usually an easy or pleasant experience...
Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip
Monday 12th July 2021 06:11 GMT 
I find that tweet from Blue Origins more than a little on the nose.
Surely, a congratulatory tweet (maybe with a slightly snide remark about the Virgin astronauts* if you really must), is what should have been done. Getting to space is hard work, and anyone getting there (or thereabouts) deserves respect.
Yes, Blue Origin are probably miffed that Beardy stole some of their limelight, but such a condescending tweet feels completely inappropriate. Leaves me with a pretty bad impression of the whole Blue Origin team...
BOFH: Where there is darkness, let there be a light
Beijing further tightens its grip on local web giants with 'Network Security Review Measures'
Monday 12th July 2021 06:30 GMT
So the Chinese Internet firms, which did so much to consolidate the iron grip of the CCP over the chinese internet space, are now finding that the CCP wants to take more of an iron grip over them as well. Should they really be surprised?
If you're going to dance with the devil, dont be surprised when the devil later changes the tune...
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up
Wednesday 7th July 2021 09:28 GMT
Re: Perfect workers
- robots will not join a union
Lester: Why are we doing this?
Rimmer: What are you talking about? This is vital, absoutely vital work!
Lester: Come on, we all know that the only reason we're stuck doing this and not the maintenance droids, is because they've got a better union than us.
Red Dwarf already called it! Not only will Robots join a union, they'll have a better union then their meatsack colleagues...
Biden to sign exec order calling for right-to-repair rules for farmers, maybe rest of us
Wednesday 7th July 2021 08:28 GMT
But, but, but... Trump and all the Republicans told me that Biden and the Democrats are massively anti-farmer and only care about the urban elite!
But here they're doing something to help farmers! But Trump and McConnell told me that would never happen. I mean they didnt actually try and help the farmers with such an easy fix, but they would have got around to eventually, right? I mean Republicans are the party of the country people, so when they held power for all of those years in congress they could have passed such a law to rein in the John Deere's... but i guess they were busy with other stuff...
But now its a Democrat in power and their the ones passing the law to help the farmers?
I'm so confused!!! What is happening in America? It used to be so clear cut...
(This post is brought to you by the Canyon in the German Saarland also known as Sarcasm....)
Kaseya’s VSA SaaS restart fails, service restoration delayed by at least ten hours
Wednesday 7th July 2021 07:50 GMT 
Hey, hey, hey. It only affected about 50 of our customers. So it's not a big deal.
What do you mean it affected thousands of other firms, using our software? Yeah but they didnt buy directly from us, so their not our problem. It's fine, only a small number of firms affected, yadda, yadda...
This is what I hear everytime I see the responses from Kaseya. It definitely makes me never want to work with their firm. Their management sound like a right bunch of Wayne Kerrs...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
