* Posts by Teiwaz

4133 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011

A Register reader turns the computer room into a socialist paradise

Teiwaz

Re: Socialism

Socialist theory: If a man has everything he needs he will not try to get more.

Real world: If a man has everything he wants he will want something more.

If only we can channel that 'more' into intellectual pursuits or creativity rather than one upping neighbours.

We may have to put a legal framework around it, humanity cannot afford a consumer society while locked to one planets resources for much longer. Mining or disposal.

Politicos freak out over facial recognition and deepfakes, Apple saves Drive.AI, and more

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Re: So, I've got question

Okay, how long until Google can predict your next bowel movement ?

Whether the next one will be firm or squishy would be more valuable, then I'd be forwarned to have extra paper or find a bog with a bidet.

White House mulls just banning strong end-to-end crypto. Plus: More bad stuff in infosec land

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The problem is that our technology is effectively useless at telling the difference between baddies and goodies.

Our civilisation has the same problem, and in many cases, whether you are classed as baddie or goodie depends on whose point of view.

Governments don't like to think of themselves as repressive, but some are, (and most are to some extent). While I don't doubt they'll all happily mandate official uses of encryption in the cases of financial transactions and National Security, banning non-mandated use plays into the rhetoric of repressive regimes.

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

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Re: Follow the money

Yes, all Ms getting involved with 'Linux 'governance' is to facilitate their ability to smoothly run 'Linux atop Azure and a MS Licence, nothing more.

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

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Maybe they're right to an extent

Some sort of deleterious brain condition...and this lot seem badly affected.

Most of the time when you come across a 'end is nigh' placard wearing 'left ear person' on the street, you try to ignore them and cross to the other side of the street where possible, preferably, you call up some kind people to lead them away, but surely Parliament is not where you have them taken (unless we move Parliament to a nice offshore island where they can be ignored/given specialist treatment(either suits)).

Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest

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a deep thought about the design.

It's not flat,

It's just got a very dull name.

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

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Re: Call me a snob, but...

"4691 Irradiated Haggis!"

Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss

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Re: "A very strange thing for Parliament to do [..]"

I have never had this happen, personally.

Lucky you, I have three times, once, two out of a four item order were incorrect. Twice my order was IT related and I received clothing items, once I ordered presents for a relative, and they were confused by what they received, and I, embarrassed.

Point is, those fallible operators are probably now manning the warehouses, so it's just passed the fault down the line.

Teiwaz

Re: Jackanory?

It's all about keeping people stupid and unaware of the quandary and quagmires they be in.

Whoo Boy, is that coming back to bite them in the form of flat-earthers, climate denailists, anti-vaxxers, rise of right and alt-right (brexiters and trumpeters?) and fake news.

Teiwaz

Re: "A very strange thing for Parliament to do [..]"

product numbers over voice phone to a fallible operator

What, have you never ordered something 'online' and gotten somebody elses order instead of yours???

I know I have.

Not often, but then it wasn't any less often than when the family ordered from Freemans* catalogues in the 1970s.

I'm more concerned with other services other than commercial concerns. The kind of thing that often delivers benefit to the customer from interaction with an (at least semi-knowledgeable) employee one to one.

* bought by Sears group in 1988

Teiwaz

Re: "A very strange thing for Parliament to do [..]"

Harrumph!!

I'm sure we all remember when doing things online was the new, convenient option to doing things.

Now, it's no longer new, and often neither convenient a lot of the time, and getting well onto no longer being an option, but the only way to do things.

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

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Re: The end of biometrics

That would give an entirely new meaning to the phrase 'log in'.

You'd log out to login, and logging in would make your hair stand up

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

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Re: Interesting

Funnily enough, dropping Unity killed the distro for me. I tried to like the thin civility they put on Gnome, and there are things about gnome I like, but no. Too annoying after a week.

EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts

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BT switched my PAYG a/c last weekend, like a yappy dog, 3 texts prior to switch and several since.

At least they've not embarrassed themselves hounding me about an app - the phone is an Orange 'Rio'

The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

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We remember the days when you'd use text mode precisely because you lacked the horsepower for something more graphical, but here we are.

Well, to be fair, the GUI at the time was usually fairly abysmal at almost all tasks. While today, it's mostly just bad at a lot of things and not much prettier to look at (depending on who you ask).

'Bulls%^t! Complete bull$h*t!' Reset the clock on the last time woke Linus Torvalds exploded at a Linux kernel dev

Teiwaz

Re: Here's to swearing

And Japan?

Don't confuse 'nice' with 'polite'... or respect.

Teiwaz

Re: This is why Diversity matters. Linus is wrong, but he can learn from my story. Here's how.

Nice one, A/C but maybe a little too subtle for some.

Any other site, the imaginary 'Release Armageddon' button would be getting a pounding...

But even on the Reg, where I was 99.99% sure it was someones twisted idea of humour, my testicles were still shrivelling and my shard of the collective soul of humanity was withering unto death.

And still the button got pounded.

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

Teiwaz

Re: This was always May's toy

I'd guess they won't even make 25 thousand.

Yep, and the remaining 24,975,000 will just set up a VPN

I'm not even sure the masses of the mostly computer illiterate will manage that. It'll sound too complicated and scary.

If they don't think twice about unwise tweets or sharing everything on FB, they'll not for the pron signup.

Or they'll just not (and possibly bottle it up). Another social safety valve gets wrenched shut.

Teiwaz

Re: This was always May's toy

Both extremes are pretty much the same in their ideas of imposing social control.

A small step to far left or right leads to the same place, the political spectrum is curved.

The safe part of the spectrum is more narrow than people realise.

We walk on a knife edge.

Teiwaz

Re: The shorn lamb

When I was a lad, if it had hairs it was old enough

Well, that's a false guideline for a start....

Teiwaz

Re: There's something I don't get

Then we still have to abide by EU rules and regulations whether we are leaving or not.

Hello?

Aspects of the UKs RIPA surveilance act struck down by EC court.

Unlike us poor benighted (and unknighted) individuals, govs can decide to ignore some judgements but not, it appears, others...

But bureaucracy trumps everything and seemingly 'permission to block some porn please' is more important than even potential Human Rights abuses.

Teiwaz

Re: This was always May's toy

See also, MPs on both ends admitting to taking drugs but rejecting any plans to decriminalise anything.

Or, it seems to step in over canabis oil prescription before some small child dies for want of it.

PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad

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Re: Sinfulness

"Turning your back to your audience to look at the screen and then reading the slides out loud".

Public speaking is a skill that requires practice and effort, PP cons people into believing that just with this benighted piece of s/w they can shine and delight an audience with their pithy and occasionaly amusing slides and witty banter with the audience (the latter is of course deep into fantasy lala land).

The reality is, most casual presenters brains switch to read only the moment they step up in front of their audience.

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Teiwaz

Re: What could possibly go wrong ... "sectioned" by computer analysis?

Here are two quotes from the discussion section:

** "This work is a proof of concept study... "

All very cogent, but then then we have a Police service trialling an unproven system of equally dodgy provenance - which probably had exactly this disclaimer but since it said 'proof' they thought they had it 'bang to rights' and assumed they could convict on it.

UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

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"at risk of being lost abroad unless a buyer can be found to match..."

Oh, I know this, it was a Goodies episode 'Culture for the Masses' - shouldn't the price required be one million billion quintillion zillion pounds and two and a half new pence. but that was for a Renoir.

US can try extraditing Julian Assange next year, rules UK court

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Re: Cant see

him getting granted bail when his current term for bail jumping runs out .....

Why not? Various government depts. still get given a budget for the next hairbrained IT project despite wasting billions on previous failed attempts.

Can't think he really enjoyed the last major part of the decade in the tiny consulates confines. Everyone should have a chance to not repeat mistakes + cheaper for the taxpayer to not incarcerate at considerable expense someone who's not an immediate danger to the public.

Teiwaz

Re: why the remeote video link ?

I'm just popping out for a fag

I wouldn't say that in the US...

I know, such a single-entendre bunch, I mean, do they know how much sitcom humour they've just thrown away by not also having it possibly refer to a) ciggies b) small sticks of wood c) odd pork derived foodstuff?

Teiwaz

Re: why the remeote video link ?

Is it because British fear an assassination attempt by some rogue ... *ponder* ... persons or people, or an abduction to a black site.

Why would they fear that, they were complicit with the Monty Burns state in rendition or at the very least, aI'm just popping out for a fag, and didn't see anything.

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

Teiwaz

Re: Small point

Well, probably not allowed, but personally, I'm all in favour of the next season of minor celeb basking in attention show or whatever in the hot zone there.

When it comes to DNS over HTTPS, it's privacy in excess, frets UK child exploitation watchdog

Teiwaz

Re: Garbage

It's debatable as to whether a truly anarchic society could design and build a garbage truck.

Or need Insurance. It is a product of how currently functions.

Money laundering and crypto-coin legislation could hurt open-source ecosystem – activists

Teiwaz

Re: Is this

What BOTH sides?

There were THREE SIDES (at least) on propped up government to begin with

Back bench tory MPs, May, and The DUP

Turned the optimistic appraisal that each groups RED LINES could all be accommodated like picking your way judiciously through a maze was BOLLOCKS and it was actually a form of enTRENCHed warfare.

It was a no win from the beginning. A stupid idea, egged on by the want of newspaper sales, badly thought out, poorly implemented and will need to be rescinded and begun again in a few years.

Just like most government projects lately.

Zorin OS 15 nods at Ubuntu and welcomes Windows escapees

Teiwaz

Re: The 39 Steps

Depends whether you ask in the right forum, how you ask, and in some forums whether you've actually attempted to research the problem and ignored duplicate questions and solutions already provided.

There's a reason why my cat doesn't need two-factor authentication

Teiwaz

figuring out

it's not the figuring out, it's the convincing others to listen and act.

What happened to the time honoured 'guy' at a desk with an unlock button?

Once upon a time it would be someone there who might have carried a little responsibility, and hence still had a little pride and a considerable amount of gumption. And would been able to help because they weren't tied to a limited set of procedures.

The next stage will be an unmanned installation, then they'll be no one for the confused, the desperate and the annoyed to go and seek advice, reassurance or vent on. Just a phone number backed by another machine.

Alexa Conversations: Amazon's AI assistant is about to get a whole lot more like Clippy

Teiwaz

Looks like you're making some toast...

Only a waffle?

My experiences with Amazon advertising I'd fully expect ads for toasters upon recognising toast making in progress.

Computers have long gotten past the business of cutting out some of the drudgery of human existence and moved onto filling up that empty space with mundanity.

Powers of stash and rebase fall into the hands of noobs with GitHub Desktop 2.0

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"We hope to continue to lower the barriers to entry so that millions more can participate in software development, research, design, and more,"

Hmmm, let's just hope companies involved in Nuclear Power don't get the same idea.

What first attracted Ofcom boss Sharon White to the near-£1m salary offered by John Lewis Partnership?

Teiwaz

Re: But on the bright side

Well, unless that's where John Lewis want to be...

...maybe taking wedding lists end to end.

AWS goes live with Windows containers... but contain yourselves: It's going to be niche

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Joke

Windows Containers?

They're called bins over here.

Supra smart TVs aren't so super smart: Hole lets hackers go all Max Headroom on e-tellies

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Windows

Re: TL:DR but plus one for Max Headroom reference

It's wonderful, isn't it!'

Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp?

Teiwaz

Re: 30 Years Ago

In the '80s the UK porn industry was mainly ignored by the Govmt, so there was plenty of backstreet stuff going on... The money came from Europe and US, where there was no problem...

Yeah, but anything available in the Uk was a con anyway. Labels like Electric Blue generally promised more than they actually delivered.

Teiwaz

As IQ is currently defined, the average IQ is exactly 100

Are we absolutely sure?

Theresa Mays recent Brexit deal strategy resembled the act of repeatedly trying to jam the square block through the round hole and expecting a different result each time, and measured against the general population, she's clearly not of below average intelligence.

Then there's the further evidence of the general population repeatedly voting conservative.

Teiwaz

Re: Some studio did a xxx parody remake of Barbarella

Inffinitly preferable to most movies produced from the mid 80's all the same.

I prefer movies that run into the surreal rather than those designed to be understood by the vast masses of hick yokels who resent any expectations toward out of the box thinking.

Teiwaz

Rin-chan Nau!!

Perhaps, but knowing my luck I'd get the Megurine Luka sexbot, and she'd reject me and shag the Miku sexbot instead...

Not what I've heard

Teiwaz

Tpyos

Belive me, freind, we all kno Her.

I thought she was equatable with the Aztec goddess typexwetcoatal

Teiwaz

Re: The Reflex

Following the Barbarella reference I was expecting a Duran Duran clip at the end.

I'd have thought, some nice wholesome organ music....

I mean, what have a bunch of 80'a poseurs got in relevance to hands free sexual fulfillment...

Be careful what you wish for: Nutanix wanted subscribers, just not that many all at once

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Coat

Is it just me?

Every time I read of Nutanix, my brain assumes it's just read Nutella.

Then I get all confused as everything is covered in hazlenut chocolate*...

* It's not shit.

In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do

Teiwaz

Re: Forgive me my anti-ludditism

Reese-Mogg love-ins???

Sounds like an Americans visual image when hearing the phrase 'British Porn'

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

Teiwaz

Re: Mommy Microsoft

Now go and suck your dummy.

That's not a dummy, Dougal....

Teiwaz

Nice set of Goals to have

Chance of actually pulling any of them off, Zero. (minus fifty, since it's Microsoft).

Having your tech items seamlessly talk to each other has been an intent since DVD and TVs, possibly earlier.

Ends up just being a away for unbalanced individuals to send piccies of their junk to women on the train.

It's just a list of high-minded optimistic goals, just like Capita telling a Government agency it can fulfill that service agreement efficiently and with adequate resources for the price.

Ikea hopes to spare shoppers the one-way Helvete of its stores with ÅR app overhaul

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Coat

Inevitable Yakov Smirnoff (did I spell that rite? call 0800....)

but says nothing about all those leftover screws

In [Former] Soviet Russia, Screw You!!

Uncle Sam to blow millions on mind-control weapon tech that can be fitted without surgery

Teiwaz

The same sort of mess as when you suddenly think that you need to scratch your arse.

The Military will have to set up a laser that can scratch your arse from space just in case...

- early Family Guy joke