Posts by Will Godfrey

Worrying

In view of the performance of other updates, the words 'chock full' give considerable cause for concern.

P.S. That '6.5' might turn out to be prophetic.

Should I worry?

As a person of some {cough}maturity{cough} how likely is this in the next, say, 30 years?

A pox on both their houses

One size does not fit all. It never did, and never will.

Don't be so hasty to dismiss the monolith

After all this time, being sentient, it probably fancied a move, and had put on weight - middle-age spread maybe.

Why is this being reported?

All us commentards knew it would happen.

Hmm, I suppose to be fair, we didn't know the exact date.

Unbelieveable

Dod the ransomware bastards manage to get a sleeper into the organisation?

Is someone high up being blackmailed?

I can't think of any other explanation. This is just totally wrong from any point of view. To say nothing of the fact it simply WON'T WORK!

Shouting? I wanted to scream it out.

Thanks

Beers all round to El Reg journos for staying on this.

It's sad that it's necessary. I seem to (dimly) remember a time when Nominet were the good guys - for some undefined value of 'good'.

Love this bit!

"with the help of Peter Vaughan, responsible adult and volunteer at the National Computing Museum"

A thought

I wonder who it was that came up with the term "cloud". At the time, did they recognise the possibility (or even likelihood) of rain. It really is so appropriate as to be positively spooky.

Thank you but...

I didn't need any more reasons to avoid cloud services like the plague.

Oh, and yes I do keep off-site backups of my own data.

A voice crying in the wilderness

See title.

I was born in Islington

Escaped at the ripe old age of about 2 and I've not been back since.

Nuff sed?

Conspiracy Theory

Could it be a new kind of advertising?

If you haven't been hacked you can't be very important, so secretly leave an exploit available, then have a chat with a few 'friends' down the local.

A story my dad told me

His office in central London decided to remove a safe and take it to a new out of city location. I think this was in the early 1950s. The safe was on the second floor, and changes in internal access routes over the years meant the only way to get it out was by removing a window and hoicking it out with a crane.

This took several hours.

Nobody in the area had been told this was going to happen, yet nobody questioned it

Scary stuff

They've really opened Pandora's box this time. Nothing you see or hear can be taken as real now.

What a surprise

A politician with zero grasp of what he is spouting.

Strange Game

The only winning move is not to play.

Have they completely lost the plot?

It certainly looks like it from here.

I take my hat of to these guys

... and I I was a {cough}few{cough} years younger I'd take my jacket off too and give them a hand.

Good news

Hopefully Intel can feel the ground wobble a bit under their feet. Maybe it will make them more amenable.

Admitted?

I wonder how far they had both arms forced up their back while being held in a stranglehold.

No Chance

Unfortunately there's money to be made, and bribes to be paid off, so don't hold your breath waiting for an improvement.

A question answered

Yes. The whole edifice can get more insane.

A thought occurs to me

Yes - second one this year!

If you close one eye very tightly it totally changes your facial geometry - and if questioned, you just say it's very sore after a speck of dirt got into it.