* Posts by Baldy50

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World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit

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Death by vivisection!

Those caught attacking hospitals and such should face a particularly harsh punishment and live just long enough to smell their own entrails being burnt on a fire, the rest should go to those in need of a transplant organ.

Any questions? No, not you again at the back, please God no

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Re: Fear of flying

Try a twin engined prop to Dublin in bad weather, aged twelve and travelling unaccompanied.

First flight ever and loved every minute, as a kid, not so sure I'd have liked it as my first flight when an adult.

Iceland's Pirate Party tops polls ahead of national elections

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Pirate Party!

So are we to expect hoards of armoured, axe-wielding blonde invaders to our shores again in the not too distant future?

NHS patients must be taught to share their data, says EU lobby group

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Re: Was

For those not used to UK slang 'Wife beater' means Stella Artois larger. LOL

Google has unleashed Factivism to smite the untruthy

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LOL

http://www.snopes.com/2016/10/17/wikileaks-julian-assange-reportedly-dead/

There are some really crap budget phones out there. Vodafone's Smart Ultra 7 isn't

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Are they rounded corners I see?

One-quarter of UK police websites lack a secure connection

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Re: Goverment in general?

Thanks, very interesting bud.

On the first one, this site scored an 'A' but an 'F' on the other.

Yahoo! halts! email! forwarding! to! outside! email! addresses!

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Name change

From Yahoo to Yeeeehaaa!

Vivaldi.net for me, Norwegian-based, good privacy laws, no spam and no traffic through a US server unless you send an e-mail there.

Actually, yes, Samsung, you do have to pay Apple $120m

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Rounded corners?

My monitor has rounded corners so has my couch, my television, my dining table, my clock on the mantle piece, my chip fryer, cooker, worktops in the kitchen and a sh*t load of other stuff too long to list!

As if a rounded corner was something new, I don't get it but the lawyers do in the folding kind! Just feel someone should be saying "Now children play nice" FFS.

US govt straight up accuses Russia of hacking prez election

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Re: I can believe that the Russians are intentionally trying to influence/compromise things.

I think these games are here to stay and increasingly more so, as the Internet grows so will the threats and the temptation for foreign powers to dabble in the affairs of others just because they can, human nature being what it is and all, especially the types of mindset running some organizations within these governments is only to be expected.

OK! Going off topic, at least that's not illegal yet.

'sadly, even though the U.S. Constitution TRIES to make it hard for pests to do much damage, the "stacking" of the U.S. Supreme Court with extremely liberal judges essentially overrides any such attempts by "re-interpreting" it whatever way they 'feel'.'

Since a third of the supreme court, justices are Jewish and the other two-thirds are Catholic I doubt they'd be very Liberal about abortion for example and any woman made pregnant through a rape wouldn't get much sympathy from them.

Don't panic, but a 'computer error' cut the brakes on a San Francisco bus this week

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Sh*t happens

Thyristors are pretty hardy devices and mostly it's the discreet components to regulate the gate voltage usually a 1N4148 and or the Zener diode that fail.

The same with some older slave controllers on CNC machines, the MOSFETS handling huge amounts of current at 450V very rarely failed as they were heat sinked, but the Darlington driver chips were always blowing even though they were just providing the signal to the gate.

Possibly a combination of faults including the little circuit board these components are mounted on being corroded.

Scary though trains have a dead man's switch, don't they? Like someone else said at least a motor kill switch and maybe a manual way of putting the brakes on.

Just moved, got a new cooker yesterday, turned on big red cooker switch and BANG!

The place has just been rewired and this was a short circuit fault taking the RCD and 32 Amp MCB out.

The mains box is a new metal one conforming to the 3rd amendment of BS 7671 NICEIC regs, it has an inspect and test sticker dated 19Th August so should have shown up in the test!

BT Yahoo! customers: Why! can't! we! grrr! delete! our! webmail! accounts!?

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Re: BT is a shambles

OHHHHH! and then some.

Just changed from BT to S**T, can't still be a virgin after all this time? Although it is rather ugly.

So a speed test at my last abode was at best 3.5 Mbs ish and now I am on 50 Mbs ish, so why does El Reg take the same amount of time to refresh the page when you upvote someone?

Early indications show UK favouring 'hard Brexit', says expert

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Re: "how we label our food"

I've said it before and I'll say it again, again!

Remember the thread on Cheddar cheese?, Over forty percent is manufactured outside the UK but can be labeled made in the UK because it was packaged here and The British Cheese Board will agree too!

So I would agree with Mays decision and furthermore would like an additional label on food to show how green it is.

If the carbon footprint for a particular item was very high and the footprint for the same quality similarly priced item from another supplier/grower was lower I would purchase the one that used less fuel to get here.

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Re: I have said it before, I will say it again

Agree with you totally, the victim always seems to come second with regards to human rights and where are the ECHR on the Lauri Love deportation?

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Re: I have said it before, I will say it again

I've said it before and I'll say it again in for the example of Abbu Hamsa 'The Hook', the UCHR were a right royal pain in the bum and cost the tax payer a bucket load of coin protecting a previously convicted criminal and courts had documented video and audio proof of his guilt.

Let the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights fight for his rights if you're worried he won't be treated well.

Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet

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Just turned all these off on new V router, wise or not?

IPv4 firewall protection

Block fragmented IP packets

Port scan detection

IP flood detection

Nice to be back, no Internet for over a week and got very bored, went through the boot notes first and do the writers on El Reg have some fetish for the nether regions?

Alleged hacker Lauri Love loses extradition case. Judge: Suicide safeguards in place

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What he did was illegal!

The thing is how do you feel about what he did and with regards to what poor Aaron did?

He obviously did what he did because he was disgusted at what the US legal system had done to Aaron and now he is about to get he same in return.

So you give all your work for free to the college or uni or whatever and they then use some company like JSTOR who charges a shit load of money for other students etc to access it and in the process have the sole rights for something they didn't commission or pay for and should be in the public domain in the first place, look at the profits these companies make for doing basically fookall.

The US gov is always going to side with the big corporations, end of story!

Microsoft: Our AI speech recognition mangles your words the least

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Don't....

Install Windows ten work? Or does the 'Don't' not get recognised?

Brexit will happen. The EU GDPR will happen. You can't avoid either

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Not a bit arsed!

Norwegian server for me, data going to be collected anyway at every turn and shared/misused of course and if you don't put anything out there you don't want leaked fookum!

PCI Council wants upgradeable credit card readers ... next year

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Although there is still a degree of counterfeiting of bank notes the amount of money generated from digital crimes is far greater, if everybody started using cash for most transactions again more fake bills would be produced as it would become more profitable again.

I do mainly use cash and will drive reasonable distances to use cash, if you have an account just for online purchases with only enough in it for the purchase in question you feel safer than giving out your current account information.

We've discussed a similar issue before and the use of a special card just for using online, if you could top it up anywhere ATM's, shops, garages etc like a gas or electricity card I'd use one.

Jokes of no more than 2 lines

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Bush shoe game.

http://www.sockandawe.com/

Anyone bored?

looking for a new phone but ccant find one

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Zanco Fly?

http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/19/this-is-the-worlds-tiniest-phone-and-its-unsurprisingly-popular-with-prisoners-5828253/

Obviously not what your after but interesting how small these things can be made now, couldn’t find out if it has 'vibrate on silent'!

My first thought after reading the article, some prisoner suddenly starting to moan and lose interest in the conversation.

When Irish eyes are filing: Ireland to appeal Europe's $15bn Apple tax claw-back

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Re: Wonder what the EU's got in store for this lot?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3782591/The-new-robber-barons-MARGARET-HODGE-Starbucks-Amazon-Goldman-Sachs-ripping-billions-British-taxpayers-civil-servants-tax-chiefs-helping-them.html

Forgot the URL, what a plonker!!!!!

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Wonder what the EU's got in store for this lot?

The new robber barons: MARGARET HODGE on how Starbucks, Amazon and Goldman Sachs are ripping billions off British taxpayers... while OUR civil servants and tax chiefs are helping them

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Love the Articles title.

No comment!

Assange returns to Earth

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If only if he'd pop over to blighty for a visit and has a sense of humour.

Can you imagine the cops faces if he walked into the Embassy carrying a Harods bag and dressed in a suit, turns around and waves to them as the door shuts?

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is off to nick some rocks from asteroid Bennu

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Could find gold!

The thing is, could be this a precursor to a mining operation?

If the samples contain rare earth elements that are worth the expense of bringing it into a stable orbit to be used in manufacturing etc and if they manage to get a working, reliable space elevator in the future it would make it far easier to get the stuff back to big blue!

Anyone got any mining knowledge? We made them all redundant you know and killed the whole industry off too.

Seagate sued by its own staff for leaking personal info to identity thieves

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Any company or government body whomever it is that holds peoples personal information has to be responsible for it's theft IMHO and must be accountable by law.

It would be the only way to wake them up and take security seriously at the risk of losing a pot load of money.

When easily avoidable data breaches occur the penalty should as high as possible including the perpetrator, that being the idiot that clicked on an e mail attachment FFS, sack the numpty.

If a store gets robbed and you'd delivered goods to that store the day before, who owes you the money for the goods the thieves or the store?

Petulant Facebook claims it can't tell the difference between child abuse and war photography

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http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/09/facebook-napalm-girl-photo-censorship-norway/

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Vietnam!

I guess most Americans would like all that shit to disappear including Zuck, but how would Facebook stand on holocaust pictures of naked, shaven, malnourished, beaten, dead men, women and children in an open grave?

Plusnet broadband outage: Customers fume as TITSUP* continues

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Re: No problems here...

Fine in Wigan too! No problem ordering pies whatsoever.

Is there paper in the printer? Yes and it's so neatly wrapped!

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No dogs but when I get locked in at WB Drilling it's two ladders to get out and a walk through mud, bricks and crap on the ground, nettles and big weeds by the side of the fence, it's a razor wired fence too!

Walk around to the main gate unlock it and then the inner gate unlock that as well, it's not a short walk BTW.

Put ladders back and lock everywhere up again, the inner gate is solid steel and can only be unlocked from the other side and a bit daft really.

Winters the worst if I haven't got my head torch with me, twice last winter and twice recently locked in!

No-fly zone suggested for Galaxy Note 7

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Me too! I have spares for mine and can take two spare charged batteries with me if needed, a lot easier than trying to find a mains socket in a strange work place that's not secure or you can't always see your phone from where you’re working.

I don't watch much telly, but on an commercial the other day I think one of these phones were being offered as a prize for winning a competition or something! Scary or what?

Kaspersky to 1337 haxors: take down our power grid. We dare you

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Real jarts when I was a teenager were old arts with ribbon or string attached to the shaft, the flights had to be glued in place mind.

A one foot square bit of old board with a bullseye in the middle with a score of fifty, circles of twenty, ten and 5 radiating outward and painted or marker penned onto the board.

It was a one on one player game with each idiot at opposite ends of the field and the dart was whizzed up into the air in the general direction of your opponent, he had to run around as the dart was falling and track it then hold the board up to catch it and try and get the best score over so many goes.

Ribbon was preferred as it made the dart more visible but not always available and Fred got a dart in the back of his head one day and just kept running around the field screaming, when we finally caught him we had to put him on his front and three of us sit on him so rick could pull the fecker out.

Sorry back on topic!

'It will cover some form of travel and accommodation costs and offer high-tech gadgets to winners.'

What, no cash? Maybe they'll do a few ATM's while they're in town for beer money.

Ten-year-old Windows Media Player hack is the new black, again

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Re: Wait, Windows has a media player?

Yep me too if VLC can't play then it's dodgy with a capital D and delete the fecker!

Pains us to run an Apple article without the words 'fined', 'guilty' or 'on fire' in it, but here we are

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Rotten apples!

Never buy another, I will not.

Public masturbation not a crime declares Italy’s top court

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Re: Legislative Decree 8

Pull the other one!

Tesla driver dies after Model S hits tree

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Disconnect.

We'll assume you all understand return paths and if their is no return path then no current can flow.

I've worked on live 450V using just thick rubber gloves (The type you use when working on foul water).

I would start furthest away from the damaged batteries and crop the interconnects between batteries and each one you remove the lower the voltage becomes across the circuit.

The one or ones shorting I would try if possible with something insulated knock off or free the cable or whatever was shorting it, at least you wouldn't be dealing with 300V any more.

Heat is an important issue so if the battery is cooled down it is less likely to explode whilst working on it and the advantage of CO2 extinguishers is they cool down the fire, this could give you the time you needed to just slip a rope around each one and rip them away from each other.

UK will be 'cut off' from 'full intelligence picture' after Brexit – Europol strategy man

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Yep not fit for purpose considering the attacks the EU countries have endured recently.

It's time for humanity to embrace SEX ROBOTS. For, uh, science, of course

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Wouldn't the sex robot Jude Law plays in the Spielberg film 'AI Artificial Intelligence' 2001 have been a better choice as he did and she didn't?

Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er...

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Where are the profits going?

Well the profits are there for some new or better kit and experienced IT personnel to run it!

Time to invest on what puts the food on the table!

International Space Station astros prepare to rejoin us Earthlings

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The O’Neill cylinder?

Other designs of course.

Since the lack of gravity is one of the main problems this has to be something they're considering?

http://www.scifiideas.com/sfi/10-space-station-concepts/

Could Passive magnetic bearings be used for friction free support of the stations rotating section using permanent magnetic attractive, repulsive forces or both?

Though if the solar panels were on one end of the station facing the sun they could spin too.

unlike a traditional motor bearing design with a small surface area it would have to be far larger I guess.

Though if the solar panels were on one end of the station facing the sun they could spin too along with the habitat section.

Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

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Re: Some Formula 1 people may soon be available

Could have a little sidekick alongside him like in Austin Powers!

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Beat me to it bud, Chiwetal Ejiofor was brilliant in Serenity and yes I've always thought Clive Owen would have made a good bond too.

Enjoyed the flamboyant character and his acting in 'Shoot Em Up' with Monic Bellucci and Paul Giamatti

These are not just job cuts, these are M&S job cuts

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Re: Horrible company

Let's hope it's as toxic for them when they stopped making knickers and whatever in the UK!

Two companies local to me went down and the machinery went abroad, I was working for a machinery sales/shipping company at the time.

It was as daft as a few pennies per item manufactured they saved from using a foreign company as opposed to keeping UK jobs.

Just seems to be their business model, they don't mind us buying their shit they just don't seem to like employing us!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/supermarket-sandwich-company-snubbed-brits-4635564

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

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Of course they're going to try and keep the UK on the back foot so to speak, it's just better for their negotiations to try and manipulate the situation, what do you expect from politicians and especially slimy toads like Obama/Putin?

As many world and business leaders in the run up to the vote put their two penn'orth in, this time with sarcasm.

AS a retort should have brought up the new Nuclear plant to be built at Hinkley point and slip in something like 'Someone proposed Japan and Russia as possible partners but we went for French and Chinese in the end over safety concerns,!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3773725/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Brexit-s-dead-ducks-warned-doom-Union.html

Google scraps its Project Ara modular smartphone wheeze

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Re: FIgures

I agree!

Also if you drop your phone depending on type the back might fly off mine and the battery fall out but that’s all!

You smart phone guys probably have a heat gun on standby to change a cracked screen at a moments notice.

The thing would probably take you minutes to pick all the pieces up and put them back together, not to mention ingress of dust and water with all these pluggable modules.

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

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Re: Well for me....

Getting on a ferry or going through the channel tunnel with brimmed fuel tanks is a fire risk if an accident occurred, should be dipped before boarding and refused passage if any one tank is more than a quarter full.

So you don't think we have nice food here? Loser!

Watch some dash cam vids on youtube pal, way, way worse than here and watch those ruskies wreck shit.

My road tax and insurance whilst living abroad covered me throughout the whole of Europe and the little van at the time cost 53 Euros per year, the 2 litre turbo diesel 75 and the moped 6.75 a year.

This was a local tax as the main tax was included in the fuel duty and went direct to the area in which I was registered.

It was used by the local councils not the government and they maintained the roads impeccably.

Old thread this one and if your like me sometimes go through previous threads when bored, I sincerely hope you come across this reply and down vote it too, you moron.

Ps.... Anonymous cos who’d put their real name to a load of crap like that?

Paint your wagon (with electric circuits) but leave my crotch alone

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Re: Noise is the way forward

Living in Spain at the time and had different ring tones for mother/father, other family, friends, clients/ customers and fuckwits.

The quietest least annoying on this old Nokia was Sicada, it's a noisy bug when it's on your window and you are trying to have your siesta, had the phone set to increment the volume so I'm in a restaurant and the thing is in my jacket pocket.

I didn't click at first until I saw waiters scanning the room intently looking for the bug, quickly and discretely reached into my pocket and cancelled the call, as the volume went higher and higher they were approaching my location.

I looked over the other side of the room after the phone stopped and the waiters went past me, my friends and family at the table had by this time clicked as well and we had a good laugh about it.

I was even looking for the bloody bug myself at first, changed ring tone for the fucktards the next day as I had unwittingly become one too.

We want GCHQ-style spy powers to hack cybercrims, say police

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When an exploit has been found from say the Russian hackers or another country attacking the severs in this country, identify the exploit and where it is from, purchase the exploit and use it against as many of the companies and government of that country.

The government in question would soon learn where the exploit was made and if it's Putin would probably chop their hands off.

Isolate ourselves and our allies Internet feeds to and from from the country targeted, sit back and laugh.

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