* Posts by Teiwaz

4133 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011

Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Teiwaz

Re: do people still say "surf the web"?

The kids nowadays are all cruising the information super highway.

That's what you're supposed to think

I reality: "The users arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these..."

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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What’s an “Insider” ?

Some one who enjoys installing then rolling back the bug infected, broken mess?

Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?

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Re: Twitter is to blame!

Power corrupts, etc.

Frank Herbert writes (in Dune: God Empereror I think) that instead it should be 'Power attracts the corruptible'.

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Re: "it has worsened the public's attitude towards them"

I'm pretty sure the effect of shortening public discourse to what you can get over in 280 characters has done little to improve the quality of debate.

not really from the Politicians perspective, they've been used to that amount for 'sound bites' for ages, but were people would have had to research to find the actual choco ration, it's there recorded in writing.

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Re: A filter?

We haven't contacted any other civilisations because we prefer to do pointless carp like 'grow the economy'.

Humanity is a couple of kids totally obsessed with 'Swap Shop'.

If we ever do, we;ll be regarded as the same way star fleet officers view ferengi

insert Lyrics to 'fire coming out of the monkeys head'

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Its a bad thing because then you start making policy based on the opinions of shouty people on Twatter instead of talking to your average everyday person

It's not like that's new - a certain type of MP will always cow-tow (yes I know spelling) to some shouty group that think they represent more than their relatively small sampling of their membership and not the silent majority after all - said types of MP think some movement or other will sweep them into power.

Twitter and the concept of 'influencers' have just whittled the mass effect down to individuals.

You can't blame Twitter if you've gone on it and made a Twat of yourself.

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

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These are not the drones you're looking for.

And if this group are just the red herring and there's another group preparing to do the same that don't advertise beforehand.

Think of the ruckus then....it's not as if it wouldn't take more than a brief sighting of some drone at Heathrow for a repeat of the Xmas chaos.

Just a thought.

Watchdog: Hush-hush UK.gov blew £97m on Brexit wonks from six of the usual suspects

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Maybe

They wanted a consultation on fitting Brexit anally, when 'someone told someone in government to stick it up their arse'

Thinking and shaping sounds like a modern interpretation on too many committee meetings.

Is that B-Ark not ready yet?

- oh and this time we're making room for the politicians (there's no A-Ark).

Vulture Central team welcomed to our new nest by crashed Ubuntu that's 3 years out of date

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Re: Unwanted

Saw something like it in Northampton the other day

weird triangular free standing jobbie not last a minuet (or a minute) in a good old british riot (also know as clothing bargain sale) - old dears and housewives on a budget will demolish it in seconds.

The good old proud to british (or prodded) should have gone for a tried and tested phone box design. Red or Blue (for the tourists).

Post box for something more compact.

Infosec prophet Bruce Schneier (peace be upon him) is only as famous as half of Salt-N-Pepa

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Re: I had to look that up

I've never have recognised Got from that rather (trying to hard to be a) Gen-X'er description.

I've not watched TV since 2012, i just assumed it was in reference to some sitcom about disability that managed to garner enough interest to reach a certain level of awareness, but not much beyond the non-TV watching public (say, somewhere between the second Roseanne and Big Bang Theory, but not as high as Friends - probably around Will and Grace levels*).

* There's no A.A. for TV - but I used to be a bit of an addict.

UK children's charity: Social media firms rubbish at stopping grooming. Time for a mandatory... AI

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Re: use AI to detect suspicious grooming behaviour

If we were all in chainmail it would solve a lot of problems.

Who gets to keep the keys?

No, wait, I'm thinking of chastity belts, another type of metal clothing.

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Re: AI's not going to help much

Children are going to want to connect with their classmates

Currently, Facebook and their ilk are so obsessed with mapping your life down to which way you wipe in the bog (if they could) they harass you over every single person someone you know happens to 'be connected to'. Over e-mail as well as every time you login (it's very easy to click the wrong button and end up accepting a link you didn't intend).

It's like join the dots with a real anal freak (proly not P.C. but who cares, I'm one and i don't mind it) who feels uncomfortable for every dot not linked to an adjacent.

First water world exoplanet spotted – and thankfully no sign of Kevin Costner, rejoice!

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Red Dwarf solar system too far away for a jaunt on Starbug

The important question from 'The boys from the Dwarf'...

Is it shaped like Felicity Kendalls bottom?

UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

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Re: Hmm, (and a bottle 'O Rum)

Yes, probably. But irrelevant.

The 'Yo Ho Ho' image dominates for 'pirate'.

If there's an afterlife 'eternal' punishment for 'Piracy' sweaty little poseurs caught taping Metallica or Genesis albums will have been consigned there along with various peg-legged 'coloured beards' parrot abusers and eye-patch wearers, but fortunately, I think the universe is much better designed than the U.S justice system - or at least I hope.

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Hmm, (and a bottle 'O Rum)

I don't know if it's a mis-spent youth playing Monkey Island, but whenever I read headlines using the word 'Pirate' to refer to illegal duplication of software or media, I think of 'Har Har', cut-throats, wooden legs and Grog (oh, and terrible singing).

The former just doesn't gel with latter in my head.

Does this mean I'll never grow up?

eBay eBabe enigma explained: Microsoft bug blamed after topless model slings e-souk's emails at stunned Brits

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Oh, and not particularly racey, even a little tasteful IMO

For some reason it reminded me of the Test Card.

Welcome to The Reg's poetry corner... hiQ once again / beats LinkedIn on web scrape case / more appeals await

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"LinkedIn will continue to fight to protect our members and the information they entrust to LinkedIn.”

Should read:

"LinkedIn will continue to fight to protect our members and our information, us and only us, all ours, mine mine mine.”

Well, who'd want to actually sign up to LinkedIn to use their resource? The buggers and their desperate Top Trump collecting 'please add me to your network' users are best dealt with at a distance, and HiQ sounds like an adequate barge pole.

For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020

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Ada?

"Ada has outlived Python, Python 2 and one day Python 3" is not only quite funny but also now quite correct.

I've not heard anyone mention Ada since the early nineties, along with Modula-2 and Pascal.

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Re: 20 years is a lot of time.

Are people still using COBOL? Unbelievably yes. First released:1959. C++ is from 1984.

I never get this - for most business logic, COBOL is still perfect. I've been hearing 'academics' knock COBOL for decades - starting at Uni in the early 90's 'nobody uses COBOL anymore' all the staff at one notable English University stated categorically.

Granted, COBOL could do with modernisation, but mostly it's an image makeover it needs.

D'aw! They still have hope! Interns make a song and dance of their summer at Microsoft

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refreshingly am-dram

There's nothing refreshing about am-dram in my experience. But then, for me, the word 'glee' conjures up images of a delighted Emperor Palpatine.

The whole thing suits MS though, after all, their software releases of late could only be considered poor dress rehersals submitted to paying theatre goers.

Valorous Vikram lunar lander – or Star Wreck: Enterprise? India's Moon craft goes all silent running during descent

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Personally I think it was about to land on top of the old North Korean moonbase so they shot it down.

More likely they'd attempt to capture it and resell it on the Black Market.

Opal Fruits, Princess Diana and... PowerToys? Microsoft is dragging Windows 10 back to '95

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realising that FancyZones doesn't really like multi-monitor setups.

To be fair, most desktops don't cope well with them.

I've yet to find Desktop or window manager that gets it completely right.

Closest how I like it is i3 - let down mostly by Xorg limitations and out of date ui Freedesktop concepts.

Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ

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Re: Stallman went there to preach the Gospel of Free Software

Why the reference to "infidels"?

As the faith the term came from has been thought to advise - offer people a chance to convert, if they refuse, enslave them.

If you convert, you've no option on the data gathering. It's like one of those evangelical churches that expects you to go out bothering people door to door every week.

And they call Free Software a religion sometimes....?

Gospel of hate

Well, that doesn't sound like a gospel any longer 'gos' old english 'good', 'spel' 'news' - it might be a 'spel' but not a 'gos'. - yfelspel, maybe....

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

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Re: Brexshit

we have voted leave. We elected a government promising leave. We elected brexit MEP's in an election we shouldn't even have been a member for, so why cant we leave?

Clearly not as cut and dried as that.

Considering the rising backlash, it could be seen to be read as the waking of a large segment of the population waking to the rising horror of what some were attempting to do to the country.

I have to question, if indeed the case is so clearly that the mass of the country is behind this decision, clearly and simply. Why are underhand methods repeatedly being used to push it through?

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Re: Unlikely now anyway

If you really cared about democracy, you'd want to make sure that all who vote are actually informed about what they are voting for

If A/C really is from N.I - they've not had much of a devolved democracy in some time, and not a lot before the frankly useless N.I parties decided they didn't want to talk to eachother any more.

I'm inclined to think several interest groups prefer N.I this way, seems little public pressure or governmental censure on elected MLAs not actually doing so.

I'm still embarrassed to come from there.

UK plod could lose access to 79 million criminal alerts in event of a no-deal Brexit

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Re: Are mothers turning in their children for thoughts against the state yet

Less likely to be the other way round as has happened before

All we have this time round is the Instagram Youth - less marching to band music

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Re: Do not all countries lose by this ?

We may* be leaving the the EU, we are not leaving the planet. Cooperation will still be to mutual benefit.

They say "No man is an island" but the fact that Great Britain is, seems to be the problem.

Google, YouTube cough up $170m to make that trifling little thing about slurping kids' info without consent go away

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Re: It would be nice if...

Apply that law to all forms of organisation, and the US can convict itself out of existence.

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

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Now we know why Windows isn't improving...

If this is an example of the commits to Windows.

....The source is probably so squeaky clean you could take it to meet your 'ole mum and Maiden Aunts though...

Developer reconsiders npm command-line ad caper after outcry

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Re: Have they thought of making it voluntary?

Put it in as an optional dependency?

Not a bad idea.

Gov flings £10m to help businesses get Brexit-ready with, um... information packs

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Do we paint the windows white, build a shelter under the stairs, and put a bag over our heads, or what ?

grumble..rather out a bag over Boris head...

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Re: Looks like el Reg is being as disingenuous as the Biased Broadcasting Corporation

There is zero evidence in any polling data that people have changed their minds in significant numbers.

They decision wasn't made on 'significant numbers' but on a slim margin.

Which is why a second referendum is needed after what's now been several years.

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Re: Looks like el Reg is being as disingenuous as the Biased Broadcasting Corporation

Waiting for an extended period of time and referring to polls which say the mood of the people has now changed does not constitute a valid mechanism for overturning what was the largest largest democratic exercise of all time in the UK.

What makes me suspicious is the government are never usually that keen to rush though any election promises they've gotten into power on the back of.

I can only conclude this is of more interest and of benefit to them not to the greater electorate.

Bloke who claimed he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case. He can't. He's waiting for a time traveler to arrive

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Re: Time

Thank you for making me double check you weren't amanfrommars1 .

You aren't, are you?

Could be his sane personality. But, since he doesn't post that often could be they only let him near a computer at the secure facility when he's been on his best behaviour.

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Re: $5bn

Wright claims that they split the keys to the wallet into multiple parts, so that it would require multiple people all agreeing to decrypt the wallet. He claims to have seven keys, and that he would need at least eight to unlock the money (how handy eh?). He says that his dead partner had the rest, and that a key (or several?) will be delivered to him by a courier in Jan 2020

There's a movie in that - something fantasy along the lines of Krull without the love interest, so maybe not a good one.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

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Re: This is an attempted coup.

Incorrect. She has complete freedom of action to agree or disagree. However, going by precedent, she grants such requests, so she did so.

That's just the 'Gentlemens Agreement' propaganda that permitted that justified the restoration.

A twist of the truth that allowed all involved to save face that also involved digging up the corpse of late Lord Protector so he could be executed.

If the Queen refused, it would embarass the entire establishment and while under the conservatives it certainly wouldn't end the Monarchy, the Queen wouldn't be for long after.

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Re: This is an attempted coup.

Whilst I don't agree with the pomp and ceremony around the monarchy, the position of a hereditary head of state does mean that we don't suffer to quite the same extent from the problems of short-termism that having an elected president presents (looks over there...)

What we'd end up with would probably end up being more like Ireland than the duress.

God Save Mrs Ethel Shroake

Twice in one month: Microsoft updates new-style Terminal preview

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Re: Dyspepsia

"DysPEPSIa : The choice of the current generation"

Sorry, i couldn't resist - I used to get it a lot during puberty - especially if I drank anything fizzy.

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

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Just drop the G

Then you've something delightfully cheeky and artful and not something in a rubber suit that eats live animals.

or just a font and case change gImp

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Look, i'm about as PC as they come. Left wing, environmentalist, feminist. (Yes i know this is El Reg, yes i know I'm painting a target on my back)

Someone once asked me if I was a feminist, I replied they might as well ask me if I was a Roundhead or a Cavalier, as far as I was concerned, that was a war long over before I was born.

Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship

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The Real Question

What have women got against PHP?

AMD agrees to cough up $35-a-chip payout over eight-core Bulldozer advertising fiasco

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Generous Lawyers?

The agreement says the lawyers haven’t even discussed how much they are going to pay one another at this point but have kindly offered to “limit” their frees to no more than 30 per cent of the settlement fund - so $3.63m.

I did hit tips and corrections but a @mailto has nothing to launch on my device.

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

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Re: Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for their corporate cult mentality

Potentially rich ground for a new business in corporate deprogramming.

Drive around in a van kidnapping wage slaves from outside corporate HQs, ferry them over to an old warehouse (that's been converted to a nice art gallery) and subjecting them to a quick round of 'you no longer work for X' and then sign them up to a Recruitment website.

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Re: Perfectly viable.

you need more than one two by four

using the same one over and over again leads to a rather small garden leisure space.

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Re: Kinds of dictatorship

Are you surprised?

Already turned off, tuned out and dropped activist employees (allegedly)

...as a less early generation of rebels put it.

It's up for grabs which sold out for as much profit

hemp farms remain through both.

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Re: Perfectly viable.

"I think this and I'll deck anyone who disagrees with me"

Sounds like a good offer.

Why would anyone turn down the chance for free garden improvement?

US regulators push back against White House plan to police social media censorship

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ALL agree that Faceb[itch,ook] and Tw[a,i]tter and Google have TOO MUCH POWER in their hands? They're in a position to literally TAKE OVER THE WORLD by manipulating the 'sheeple'. That is NOT a good thing.

It's not always a shadowy agenda that drives these things. Yes, I agree that the likes of Facebook are often misleading and manipulative of their masses of users, but corporations are paranoid about bad press potentially impacting their business.

Their platforms are driven by on the engines of human drivel, the mundane to the scandalous. However, it's a find line, and too much outrage or controversy they fear will lead users to abandon them, and they pull the source and try to look contrite and as outraged as everyone else.

If they are pulling more 'right-wing' nonsense than left, it's because the masses of their users are closer to pitchforks and torches over it than they are the 'left-wing' nonsense.

If you are noticing more content being pulled you agree with, you should be worried about potentially being groomed by extremists.

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Re: Why does Trump want Greenland anyway?

'Viking' propaganda finding it's last victim'?

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs want folk to bargain over broadband

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The meek shall inherit a larger bill.

I companies are quite willing to hike prices up come renewal with some automated process that picks the most expensive for the consumer deal.

While, of course, telling you they are competitive - which they are, quite willing to elbow anyone out of the way to win.

Fleece the sheep

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

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popcorn???

"doubtless sold thousands of bags of popcorn across the English-speaking tech world"

Yeah popcorn? Maybe a very small punnet.

Really, I think only the 'stakeholders' (or more probably steakholders - something more tasty to nom on, and perhaps a bloody one something to throw to the baying of the lawyer hounds).

Most I cold manage is a small box of chocolate raisins with the highlights.