Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Sledgehammer, meet nut.

Trivial as in something your granny can do?

Grannies running a digital signage firm??

Sounds like another Monty Python reference (but probably not edgy enough, would need to be a Granny hacking collective).

Re: 'hello world' warhorse?

Well, maybe, if you have a voluntary Bible class group.

With most kids, you'll be really really lucky if they only change 'hello world' to 'hello [redacted]'. The rest will be either not paying attention, looking at their phones or asking if the computers have any games on them 'cause 'this is bor-ring'

Re: Not a planet?

Snoopy Noopers tell you this?

Will anyone remember what Yahoo was by 2022?

They! will! if! you! ask! the question! a little! like! this!

Possibly also triggering PTSD.

Re: In theory

We need to sort out our own problems here instead of exporting people and their associated shortcomings.

And if it turns out most of our problems are due to being cooped up on one increasingly overcrowded rock, with some trying to carve out their own niche, others trying to climb to the top of the heap no matter whose face they step on?

Re: Only true boffins...

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

Well, not that shocked.

I expect a fair few dozed in the benches until it was time for the party whips to herd them to vote with the electric cattle prods.

Except Win10 doesn't appear to be sinking

What can you do when staff and customers are content to wade through ankle deep crud.

Taiwaz, as I said, go to a remote island.

I grew up in Northern Ireland.

That was remote enough from civilisation thank you.

Re: Where will this end....

12, 12A and 12B....

Reminds me..

All this is much the same as how they changed the class designations while I was at school to A1 and A2, B1 and B2 from A, B, C and D (so kids didn't have to bear the stigma of being in C or D presumably).

Didn't really alter eventual grade outcomes...or improve anything else.

Re: KB4559309: Windows Update

MS knows that it is and has done for years and years yet steadfastedly refuses to do anything about it.

That's a bit rough.

I think they'd have to be aware and trying to do something.

Unfortunately the result of their efforts seems to be a little like pissing into the wind.

George Orwell new the importance of language, the whole point of New Speak in 1984 was the elimination of words and hence the elimination of the thought behind the word

I'm not sure you can banish thought by banishing an associated word. It sounds plausible, but no.

It might make it harder for the monkeys to discuss it with other monkeys, but spoken language isn't really much good at much other than 'telling other monkeys where the ripe fruit is*' or 'yelling defiance at the monkeys in the next tree*'

* T. Pratchett

Re: Stop Press! Linux nerds confused by Windows tech

It's not so much 'confused' as aghast.

Re: Have a go at the policy...

@Dr_N @DavCrav

Stop writing 'Fake News' - You're both not Trump, and it wasn't even 'news', it was oldz.

Re: stop <strike>using</strike> working for it

they should vote with their feet an go work for companies they are proud to be associated with

Those kinds of companies often seem in short supply.

Would you want to clear up the horse shit afterwards?

Probably not as shit as the service.

And shovelling horsedung up can't be as disgusting as some of the cleaning jobs in the kitchen with the congealed grease and fat.

Re: The key takeaway

a sense of absurdist humor.

'lettuce encrypt' isn't that absurd - it makes a certain amount of sense

calling it 'fruit and cheese trombone' would be absurdist.

Re: It's a trifle early for the silly season, but ...

People generally assume it was some ones fault - and it is.

What is really silly is Microsoft claiming it wasn't the software at fault while admitting there had been a software error.

The other ladies of the group (whose name I can't recall, as I'd never heard of them until today), aren't of course transparent, just not of a newsworthy colour just now.

This is only the first blunder, the 'A.I' is going to do this again, or something similar, all because MS would rather not pay a few salaries for a quality, intelligent edit.

Cheap bastards.

Re: 3 years for a terrorist offence ?

There was fear involved in the offense.

But the fear was his own.

Gov and Police are increasingly trying to add 'Terrorism' on to offences for (I dunno, the publicity, higher sentences or just to ramp up fear on the rest of the population).

Come to think about it, baseless labelling of offences as 'terror related' is terrorism, as it alarms and unsettles the public.

That's a Good idea

My favorite however is OpenBSD's pledge()'ed chromium browser which has been "locked" down to only allow reading and writing into ~/Downloads.

Firefox mostly dumps in Downloads, but has an annoying tendency to ocassionaly dump in Documents or home dir which results in me having to hunt for the file.

Re: Restructure the Market

However, the EU countries using road charging seem to be doing so without major problems

Doesn't mean the UK Gov won't

Actually fairly sure they will. Since they can't seem to create any legislation that doesn't run into Privacy and Human Rights issues.

Re: Bad News

Sensible.

No we can tell phone zombies and annoying load phone conversation holder to shove their phones up their bums and it can be now classed as medical advice.

victim mentality

a bit irritated at the EU's continued determination to punish the UK

What's really irritating is the Brexit supporters constant cries of 'oh wow is us, the EU are pulling all the benefits of EU membership, we thought we could leave the club and retain all benefits'

Going by downvotes, the minority present on the reg are Brexit supporters.

If you want a more appreciative audience, the BBC forums seemed to be the place (or at least used to).

Re: re: anything from Microsoft could be regarded as a Stilton

Once tried, never forgotten and seldom tasted again.

The Dwarf bread of cheeses, then.

'Have you ever eaten dwarf bread?’

‘Everyone should try it once,’ said Carrot. He appeared to consider this. ‘Most people do,’ he added

- Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett

This was technology's time to shine .

With UKGov's greasy fingerprints all over it, <u>shine</u> was never a possibility.

Re: Too late

Ah, yes. WSL2

Microsofts answer to trying to balance the Pyramids on top of a carton of yogurt.

Re: 1984

...up to the point that they invented social media and started to foster a bubble culture with stories that amplify themselves, however crazy they seem at the start

I always got the impression that Social Media was for the distraction and manipulation of the Prole population.

IBM/Oracle/Google stooges

Apart from the fact that if you gave those companies a gun, they'd shoot themselves in both feet and in the groin too.

MS don't have to be efficient, people buy their crap anyway, no matter the number of foul ups, dodgy behaviour and PR shiftiness.