Posts by Teiwaz

Re: usual gobble-de-gook + Mid afternoon rant.

Thus meeting their target for engaging with SMEs.

More likely, SMEagol!!!

""I can't emphasize enough how critical it is for everyone to always keep their systems up-to-date," wrote Navin Shenoy,"

"I can't emphasize enough how critical it is for everyone to always keep giving Intel money." Navin Shenoy wanted to write, but didn't think he could get away with it.

No particular benefit to the consumer, who would still be saddled with Meltdown-Spectre, only on the latest faulty Intel kit rather than slightly older faulty Intel kit.

Well, they could do with a bigger tide-over while they sort out some over-priced offering that is bug-free free of PR disaster-level revealed flaws.

"Give Us Our Freedom Now!"

Scary.

Finallly it has arrived then (probably came in a while back, I was just to wrapped up in my own affairs to notice).

Knew we were heading toward U.S. style political arena. The divisive, militant landscape must either being serving some cartel, or merely the dumb pandering to the worst nationalistic tendencies by a unprincipled and opportunistic tabloid media.

Re: Despite Brexit...

Thank you El Reg for another two minute hate on MSFT. What a time to be alive.

Two minute ridicule more like...

There,s stupid, there's stupid and annoying, and then further along, there's MS Office with built in LinkedIn job whoring from the service that gave you Top Trumps with business profiles.

Re: "Computer says no..."

I get pissed off with ignorant politicians who claim that something isn't technically possible, when it clearly is.

Don't forget the added perversity of demanding things that aren't mathematically possible are done because they wish it.

Hmm, maybe that's why they keep on at it. If they're mantra is 'not possible' when they don't want to do something, they possibly think the IT people are using the same excuse for the same reason.

Re: Good stuff

Our government may be twats...

Might have bought in that you were just a an average IT joe had you bothered with posting under your own name rather than hiding anonymous

Must have something to hide then, huh?

But, they are right, I'd certainly object to that claim.

Lady crisps

I thought it was a medical condition....

Re: The police have form for this

Keeping DNA samples and fingerprints even after a suspect is found innocent.

Perfectly sensible, given once you've had the Policing and Justice system 'steamroll' over you once, you're unlikely to be as helpful with the police anymore, twice or more, well, by that time you'd be thinking of hitting the proverbial woods with a small arsenal.

Re: One should add to the graph...

Most users are not tech savvy and don't really mind know there is an alternative to looking at the internet through a blur of massed advertizing.

Fixed that for you.

Re: The B ark.....

What's a cat pick?

Guitar pick for cats.

or

Guitar pick with cats claw pointy end.

Cats playing guitar Seriously, Wahh! cute!!

Re: Programming is scale invariant

We will only be to do away with devs, when we can keep the complexity for all tasks below some LOCcrit which non-specialist can cope with.

Never mind redesigning the development environment, we'd need a redesign on the human brain as well.

Despite occasional appearances to the contrary, the human brain does not in fact run on pure logic,it doesn't generally even run on some base form of common sense, but on a form of self generated logic which is certainly not platform independent, and often not even common to other similar models of human brain.

New brain from Currys

This is nothing new , or we wouldnt have had the term "Script kiddie" since the eighties

True, this is just a case of leaving a more efficient chainsaw out near the reach of chubby reeces pieces stained fingers, when they already had hold of a circular saws and other nasties.

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't really have a clue what blockchain is?

"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door"

'Build too good a mousetrap, and the special interest groups while beat you to death and burn the mousetrap.'

Re: It

It is not Microsoft's job to keep the uninformed from installing stupid stuff, anymore than it is not your bank's job to keep you from buying stupid stuff. You can ruin your computer, and you can ruin your bank account. All your choice.

Good excuse to add a toll gate to skim software sales on the Windows platform with a 'Store' tho.

Re: And where will they be?

I went past some charging points in York the other day. Limited to one hour.

That was my general experience in York last time I was at a Hotel there (nothing to do with car charging points). No Hotel parking, little nearby parking, I think a couple of days I had to go back to move the car a couple of times a day.

I've seen a few ads on El Reg about blockchain being the future of the apartment rental industry...

That's going to add to the confusion, Blockchain <> Apartment Block.

I'm all for just banning all ads that are just silly. That ones rife for the metaphorical raw chicken over the head knight.

Re: Hello fellow USian

My money's on robotic lizard people

Ah, an original Battlestar Galactica fan!

Didn't think you models were still in production.

Re: So if it was illegal, who is goign to jail?

So if it was illegal, who is goign to jail?

If the previous regulations were illegal, then surely someone should be getting arrested and charges laid for breaking laws?

If all were truly equal before the law, and the vast majority of the population weren't asleep, yes.

Like sleeping Dragons, it's best not to wake them though, it usually ends with mountains of bodies.

Every time the government disappoints the electorate, the iceberg shifts a bit further downhill

Britain has a national obsession with "preserving stuff for the nation"

Well, well. I think Ledswinger has put his finger on the surveillance obsession.

The government merely wants to preserve all the mindless chatter of the entire country and all the swapped 'genital passport photos' for the enrichment of future generations....

How many decades 'til the entire country is one huge museum, crusting over with antiquated IT 'cause the government can't put new systems in place without blowing the project and antique goverment that's (roughly) 70% tradition and furry ceremony, 20% pomp and privilege and 10% ineptitude.

Re: All Processors have bugs

Charles 9 said: That may be you, but you're in the minority. In the REAL real world, people just want to get crap done, using whatever tools are at hand.

I'd prefer tools that aren't over complex up the wazoo, and the Arch/i3 was an example of that, not a hardline about interfaces, but I guess that went over you head.

So 'cause admins want it, it was rammed down every throat - and I thought a lot of h/w venders had a problem with business users using consumer tech

Re: Maps are useful, but things change

And GPS or map data just isn't going to be good enough to stop vehicles hitting anything.

And GPS or map data just isn't going to be good enough to stop vehicles hitting everything.

...In all likelihood ... especially with the IT project karma our most recent series of governments have had inflicted....

Re: Ahah!

Humm, not exercising doesn't necessarily mean always having food to hand.

Re: Surveillance what for ?

The often mentioned: Drug Lords, Terrorists, Paedophiles & Master Criminals ...

Politicians - they are the ones that really need watching...

Re: They do not need it, they only want it

You had me up to but at the same time not actually spend a huge amount of money

As long the politicians can spend as little of their own and claim the rest as expenses, Tax money is there to be frittered away to ensure executive board seats at retirement...

Re: C64 Joysticks

Was the phase of joystick failure related in any way to the release of Daley Thompson's Decathlon?

No, I did once break the chair I was sitting on playing Combat School the choice of forward-backward rhythm rather than the more common left-right for the assault course was seriously malicious.