Posts by lglethal

Re: What do you expect?

Sorry Werdsmith, but i can speak from personal experience, about some of my colleagues and their disdainful attitude to anything not coming from the fruity factory.

Which in it's own way is a little bit hilarious because these are the same people who will happily moan (read: continuously) about this and that failure or annoyance on their iphone/macbook but as soon as anyone starts talking about needing/wanting to buy a new phone or a new laptop, these are the same people that will declare that anyone who doesnt purchase an apple product is an idiot, and there is nothing they cant do which a PC/android user can do, and yadda yadda yadda.

It is frigging annoying and does lead to a very strong perception that Apple users are strongly affected by the reality distortion field emanating from Cupertino. If you're lucky enough not to be afflicted with such Apple users I can only wish I was as lucky as you...

Re: €49.3m for Windows 10

You perhaps missed the part in the article that said only €9 Million was for licencing? And that included Windows and Office licencing? €9 million divided by 35k users is about €260 per head. A quick check on mindfactory.de Shows Win 10 Pro is about €120 per licence, and Office 365 Pro is about €160. So about €280 per head. OK i would have hoped for München tax Payers sake that they would have got a better deal then that, but it's not that far off and hopefully there are things like Server included within the €9 Million.

You can argue about whether it's a good idea or not to go back, but they (the council) say that using Linux has caused problems because of interoperability and the lack of programs they need being available in Linux. if that's true, it only makes sense for them to go back to Windows. Whether it's true or just political bollocks is another matter entirely, but since I dont know anyone at München council (and i doubt anyone on the El reg Forums does either), I doubt we will ever find out just how bad (or not) the problem was...

Re: The Dementors of Azkaban

Indeed, Voldemort's behind this.

I didnt realise Balmer was back in charge?!

Re: Roughly the kinetic energy of a flying Mosquito?

Is that a European Mosquito or an African Mosquito?

"Another puerile comment on the reg.. Let's hope you never suffer at the hands of a nutjob because law enforcement were hamstrung by encryption technologies."

Considering the chances of suffering at the hands of a nutjob that is on the loose because of, as you say, law enforcement being hamstrung by encryption technologies (Chance - extremely f%&king low) or the chance of suffering at the hands of law enforcement authorities with the ability to invade people's privacy at will (Chance - high - based on the results of any regime which has got to that point in the past e.g. Stasi East Germany, Stalin's Russia, and to a lesser or greater extent modern China), I'll take my chances with the nutjob any day of the week!

Re: spending millions on poor kids

I still cant believe that when student fees were first talked about being introduced, there wasnt a push from the student unions to require all sitting MP's who voted for the introduction to be required to pay the same fee for their degrees as current students do. Plus interest of course.

Considering most went to Oxbridge, the screams from Westminster might have actually made the fees far more reasonable. Probably not though, Politicians are excellent at worming their way out of paying things they expect the rest of us to.

(Disclaimer - more than 10 years out of Uni and I'm still sitting on A$20k of loans. I'm not bitter... )

Re: Memory Issues

I remember chatting with a doctor friend of mine and he described some of their acronyms, I dont think I've laughed so hard in ages.

My favourite - for a really fat Person - DTS - Danger to Shipping.

Hang on. I thought from the original Report they were saying that the Banks hadnt implemented the additional security at all. Not that the Problem was that the better security wasnt being forced to be used. If it was the latter (what you describe with being able to accept both older and newer OSes Connections with and without the encryption), then I dont think they would have gotten bad marks.

Your solution would be the best result for everyone. But I'm pretty certain that wasnt what was being described.

Re: "The Russian ministry of defense is investigating"

You would think that after the serious mocking that both North Korea and Iran have had for faked/doctored photos, Russia would realise that any pics like this would be discovered pretty damn quickly.

I can only imagine that they hoped the differences would not be found for a day or two, so they could get the domestic Headlines in Russia with their "evidence" and simply then when it was discovered later, just not have that reported widely in the state media. May be they should have followed Trump and just declared the reporting of the fake Images to be fake News.

Fake News, Fake Images, par for the course for 2017...

Re: Less intrusive than adverts

Two different things here:

1) The article mentions that the majority of these sites dont know there being used for harvesting coins. So there's no way they can be transparent about it, and thus it is a Problem. Also it makes it a Problem for those sites that are straight forward about it, as the association will quickly bcome that if you have a miner on your site it is there illegally/unwittingly, so your site cant be trusted, so People will block everything. Boom you've lost your advertising AND mining income.

2) If you're really suffering from pop-up and problems with adverts, then you probably need to invest some more time in finding a better solution. Firefox with NoScript and ADP works extremely well, but takes some time to get working optimally (i.e. letting sites you visit regularly allow specific things that you want). Similar solutions exist on most other browsers (mu script, etc - I'm sure other users here on El reg can make suggestions for their browser of choice), so you really should be able to remove the problem no matter what your setup.

Re: Do "Normal" Taxi firms vet their drivers to this level... would think not... does anyone know?

Yes they do. Taxi firms are required to get Police Background checks of Drivers. Uber doesnt do this, because they Claim a) they're not a taxi firm, and b) they dont employ the Drivers (they're freelancers apparently). That's part of the reason why Uber can be cheaper than the competition, it costs Money to do things like Background checks which Uber are weaseling their way out of. London has at least started to reign this in by removing Uber's licence and part of the reasoning was that they were breaking the law by not doing These Background checks...

So anything that forces Über do to these things that are required of everyone else is a good thing, even if it ends up costing you a little bit more in your taxi (sorry Uber) fare...

Re: Leaked leaks did not come from WikiLeaks

I call bollocks. Provide links or your just talking out your a$$.

"If Russia or someone else is trying to destabilise the west with election rigging then why didn't the racist f*cknuggit le pen get into power in France?

Why did Helmut Merkel get back into power in Germany?"

Might i suggest that the People in Germany and France are better educated and naturally more suspicious of politicians than Americans?

Additionally, France and Germany have multiple political parties and People are less likely to continuously vote for a single Party. In America, you have a choice between Republicans and Democrats and People follow them religiously (by the way the rest of the world thinks that's utterly insane!). So no matter how sh%t you think the policies and candidates of your Party are, Americans will still vote for them or at worst will just not vote, but they will never vote against their Party. In Europe, you just vote for whichever Party matches your tastes in this election. That makes it far harder to influence an election and far less likely that you'll end up with extremists (like Trump) in power.

Re: Actually not much like the Shuttle at all

"given the Shuttle handled like a brick"

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

Worked for the Vogons!!!

Re: Let's see...

Perhaps a truly Jobsian Answer would be :

You're location is wrong...

Hmm...

Since Facebook are asking for the Pictures and some of the People sending them would be under 18, does that mean Facebook would be breaking the law by "soliciting underage pornography"?

Just curious...

@ naive: Dont think of 3d parts as replacements for forged/machined components. think of them as replacements for cast parts.

You can replace a machined component with 3d printed, but it's the same effect (from strength, etc) as if you replaced it with a cast part. but usually cheaper then cast and with sometimes fewer restrictions...

"their problems are related to certain sections of their assembly lines and that the failings of the contractor handling that were missed."

So you then go and buy that contractor?? hmmm.....

Re: How very useful

I had no idea Vulture Central was so big!!!

I'm sure they'll accept BitCoin from you AC.

That was what you meant, right?

Re: Why Do They Want That?

"They also have a dead shooter and his smartphone... Did nobody think of taking the phone down to the morgue and pushing the sensor against his fingers?"

I assume the failure here is that they cant get the gun out of his hands. Isnt that what gun crazy Yanks always say "They'll get my gun when they pry it from my cold dead fingers..."

Re: who

I dunno... Coastguard?

Re: XB = Experimental Bomber

There's a reason it's called Boom...

I cant see the difficulty...

Imagine that every user of the Iplayer or BBC Online Services gets a Login, and when they create the Login they give their address. When they pay their licence fee they provide their Login details. Boom straight up every user of Online Content is registered in the database and their payment status confirmed.

If a user wants to access Premium Services (e.g. the back catalogue, etc) they pay a subscription and that gives them access to the Content they want.

Everyone can still access regular TV and pay everything the old fashioned way, but it would give the BBC a much easier list to idenitfy households not paying the fee or not using the online contents.

This is not a new system. It should not be difficult to implement. Tiered access to Services is used all over the shop, so I really dont get the BBC objections... Other than that their lazy c&nts, but we kinda already knew that...

Re: 'image persistence' or 'burn-in'

Gargle and Spit? Luxury!

We had to drink the Petrol and then fart it out in the right air/fuel mix or our dad would thrash us!

Re: Even the experts sound iffy

I think you might have misunderstood. The Whisky in this case was supposedly bottled in 1878.

So presumably the experts know what type of bottles Macallan used to bottle there Whisky in 1878, and what type of labels they used. Since this bottle doesnt match the bottles Macallan used in 1878 and the label was different it raised suspicions. Justifiably so.

Nothing to do with when the cask was laid in this case...

"it was like paint stripper in both taste and chemistry."

Ahhh so you had a good Willy then... Trust me you DONT want to know what a bad one tastes like...