HP never appears on my list of printers for exactly that kind of shenanigans
Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser
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Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink
Resistance is futile: Some Cisco security appliances are ticking time bombs of fail thanks to faulty resistors
From attacked engineers to a crypto-loving preacher with a questionable CV: Yep, it's still very much 5G silly season
Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music
Want to put a satellite into orbit for US comms? Whoa, says Uncle Sam: Where's your space crash risk assessment?
We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump
Cortana, why are you still here? Microsoft makes the long-suffering assistant chattier for more countries with new Windows 10 build
Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: TalkTalk customers unable to opt out of ISP's ad-jacking DNS – just like six years ago
Monday 20th April 2020 18:05 GMT 
Based on previous experience of the incompetent customer indifference halfwits* at WankWank, they will tell you they can't help over the problem with your email service. After a pause if about 6 months you will get a call from some nebulous twat "following up" about your "problem with email" and asking how WankWank did.
*Sorry, but I am bigging WankWank up to an unreasonable degree with that choice of words however a proper expression of my real contempt would damage your screen.
From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard
You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'
Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted
Hi, Google Duplex here, trying to book a haircut for a socially inept human. Sorry, 'COVID-19'?... DOES NOT COMPUTE
NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount
Hunting for IT staff? Lost your job during the pandemic? Sysadmin vacancies – and a free job ads offer – inside
What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over
Short of tech talent to deal with novel coronavirus surge? Let us help – with free job ads on The Register
Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman
Tupperware-dot-com has a live credit card skimmer on its payment page, warns Malwarebytes
Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean
Rocket Lab wants to break free, hopes next mission is more 'A Kind Of Magic' than 'Another One Bites The Dust'
Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook for *checks notes* up to £266bn
Disk stuck in the drive? Don't dilly-Dali – get IT on the case!
Saturday 7th March 2020 07:57 GMT
Re: a melting mystery
I remember an article in a kit car magazine many years back. It was the tale of someone who, on one of our days of Full English Weather (brilliant sun and sharp showers), came back to their car and found a dirty great scorch mark across a seat.
There had been a shower earlier, which had puddled on the clear panel the'd decided to have put in the roof part of the soft top. Think sunshine roof. Around the middle of the day the rain had stopped and the sun had come out to shine Down. The puddle of water on the sun roof had neatly focused the sunlight onto the seat.
You'll get your money – when this bank has upgraded Windows 7... or bought extended support
'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc
Vivo's APEX 2020 concept smartphone grabs life by the gimbals to shoot stable snaps
Sunday 1st March 2020 23:45 GMT
Nice but, yet again, the thing will be spoilt by telecos installing their own take on what people will find irresistible (but, inevitably quite the opposite) and other sundry non-removeable bloatware.
Plain vanilla OS please, telecos, and a carefully curated store of all that stuff you're sure we will find irresistible. You probably won't even need a working server for that.
BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer...
Admins beware! Microsoft gives heads-up for 'disruptive' changes to authentication in Office 365 email service
Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches
Astroboffins agog after spotting the first repeating fast radio burst that pings every 16 days from another galaxy
Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump
Astroboffins may have raged at Elon's emissions staining the sky, but all those satellites will be more boon than bother
Who's got the WD-40? Owners of Motorola's rebooted Razr whinge about creaky hinge
Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this
Friday 31st January 2020 20:40 GMT
Re: 3 laws for AI
TRT. At least part of your musings seems related to the film Bicentennial Man (IIRC). A gentle and surprisingly good film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson, and Oliver Platt. It was based on the 1992 novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (which is itself based on Asimov's original 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man"),
It says here.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
