* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

Tax the tech giants and ISPs until the bits squeak – Corbyn

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Re: Wolfetone

Are we expected to ignore all the antisemitism from just the last 2 years because 1 of the events isn't exactly as described in the media? The problem is no one Jewish could trust Comrade Corbyn anymore and every week we get more antisemitism tied to him.

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Boo Hoo

Boo Hoo! The press keep pointing out how all my friends are terrorists, terrorist sympathisers and antisemites. Vote for me and i'll punish them by giving more to the biased and unfit for this century BBC.

Lord Buckethead would make a better Prime Minister...Heck...Even Theresa May is a better Prime Minister!

Bloke hurls sueball over Google's 'is it off yet?' location data slurping

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RE: ratfox

The little fellow who took on Google...

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Android user here

I hope Google lose. Don't be evil

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

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Re: To put it mildly.

That's your problem Dave. Apple customers aren't supposed to look at or care about the specs. Ooh it's NEW, it's SHINY, it has the APPLE logo on the back. BUY IT. BUY IT NOW! Take out a loan! Sell everything to buy it! It's the best thing ever! Revolutionary!

That's the way the cookies crumble: Consent banners up 16% since GDPR

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Flame

I've noticed that declining the data collection breaks multiple sites. Are they really expecting everyone to opt in?

Here's a fun one. PinkNews gives an accept or decline button, but then loads a wall of text and doesn't allow you to read articles if you click "decline". You can go back a page of course but it's an inconvenience they must know about and ignored just to bug people into accepting the data collection. Bastards

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RE: ratfox

I had one site last weekend that gave a massively inconvenient and time consuming loading screen after unticking about 100 data collection options. It then failed for 80+ of the domains and asked me to try again. So, i left the site and read a similar news story on another site. Absolute shit lords.

How's that encryption coming, buddy? DNS requests routinely spied on, boffins claim

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Re: whatismydnsresolver.com

Because someone is stealing most of the packets you sent...Duh

If you drop a tablet in a forest of smartphones, will anyone hear it fall?

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Meh

Went to John Lewis over the weekend to inquire about Huawei tablets. The staff member for this part of the store says that they're only available on the website and all they have in store is Samsung, Lenovo, and the terrible Amazon tablets.

Seems even the retailers don't like Amazon's Fire tablets...

We've Amber heard a NASty rumour: Marvell man touts private cloud box

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Pint

I expected something completely different...

Hearing "Amber" and "internet" in the same sentence usually involves a dipshit Home Secretary trying to outlaw Encryption or create magic backdoors...

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

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Re: AC

Google knows what you want. It has all that data on you. Are you saying the big Google in the sky is wrong and you don't want a male order bride? Blasphemy!

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

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Oops. Forget that anything Trump does must automatically be bad and i'll be downvoted for forgetting that... *cough* Biased whiney babies *cough*

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Alien

This actually seems like a common sense idea. Especially since China and the Russians already have space forces of their own (even if just in name).

Android ain't done until Samsung won't run? 9.0 Pie borks Gear watch app

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Trollface

Google borks Samsung watches before announcing their own...Purely coincidental of course...

Mind behind 16.7m nuisance call menace cops six-year boss ban

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FAIL

Re: Now he can't run a UK biz

He's probably now the Manager and his wife/brother's name is on the books as Director...Stick him in prison instead. These people have had enough warnings and it's not deterring them.

'Unhackable' Bitfi crypto-currency wallet maker will be shocked to find fingernails exist

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Stop

"Although for those wondering why on earth McAfee would risk undermining his professional reputation"

Whoa. Whoa Whoa! Stop it...Stop it... John McAfee doesn't have a professional reputation as anything other than a toilet man or bollock toad.

Dixons Carphone: Yeah, so, about that hack we said hit 1.2m records? Multiply that by 8.3

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Taking tips from the Talk Talk school of getting hacked i see...Will this number be revised upwards again in a few days to cover all customers?

The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past

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Pint

Move on

He may have been violent in the past but he's a good neighbour these days. Jeez, it's been billions of years! Let it go!

FBI boss: We went to the Moon, so why can't we have crypto backdoors? – and more this week

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Re: Bob

So...We need the X-men?

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Re: Man on the sun

"if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can put a man on the sun"

And as the great Ali G himself said: "We send them at night when the sun is cold."

UK 'fake news' inquiry calls for end to tech middleman excuses, election law overhaul

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Childcatcher

Moral panic the worst in history...

Geroge Soros and Rupert Murdock can pump hundreds of millions of pounds into the country to spread their agendas, and the Americans too...but this much smaller amount of money is from Russians! Oh dear! Change the laws in a panic!

How much do we spend abroad bombing other countries into democracy? Would you rather have freedom bombs or adverts?

Child catcher icon for obvs...

Google unwraps its gateway drug: Edge TPU chips for IoT AI code

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Terminator

Re: Robin

"Ok Google, make me some toast."

"I'm sorry but I can't do that Dave...You're out of bread..."

HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days

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Pint

Linux...In...Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

All that dust on Mars is coming from one weird giant alien structure

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Joke

Re: Elon Musk

UPDATE: He's sent a miniature submarine equipped with a vacuum to Mars on a SpaceX rocket and called the Martian locals pedos.

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Re: Oncoming Scorn

Thumbs up for Tom Baker reference.

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Pint

I'll bet Elon Musk is already tweeting about building a solar-scale vacuum cleaner to clean up Mars...

From toothbrushes to coffee makers to computers: Europe fines Asus, Pioneer, Philips for rigging prices of kit

Tigra 07
IT Angle

Was Maplins involved and keeping all their prices artificially high due to orders from manufacturers...Or were they just a very expensive retailer?

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But why?

Surely if the retailer sells more they then buy more stock from the manufacturer? The manufacturer gets paid either way so there's no logical reason to push the retailer's prices higher since they're cutting their own profits?

Can someone explain that?

Fake prudes: Catholic uni AI bot taught to daub bikinis on naked chicks

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Trollface

RE: AC

"Presumably there's some good Catholic boys working on this, and they've got a cast iron excuse for looking at endless pictures of nudes"

Uh oh, bathroom break! How many is that this morning...16? Little Timmy is getting a lot of hand blisters from his keyboard too!

Elon Musk, his arch nemesis DeepMind swear off AI weapons

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Trollface

Re: Pugwash 2.0?

Dayum! You just got Clock Blocked!

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Coat

Re: Spold

The AI. It didn't promise not to hurt anyone in your example. It dodged the question.

Saying you could do something isn't the same as actually doing it.

Did i win?

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Pirate

Re: Chris

Yeah...But the Russian Furbys will be filled with Polonium...

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Re: Pugwash 2.0?

Government projects usually overrun by years, billions in costs, and under deliver.

If UK GOV starts AI research for future war machines they won't have anything to show for it this century and the final product will be more furby capability than terminator.

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xkill Terminator

All well and good but what about the big elephant in the room? Linux

Linux is what future terminators run on (as evident in the films) and what are they doing about this?

Spooked Cisco chief phoned AWS, asked: You're not making a switch, are you?

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Re: Not yet anyway.

"Confirmed that AWS is not actively building a commercial network switch"

...Because they've already built one and it wasn't worth pursuing?

Techie sues ex-bosses, claims their AI avatar tech was faked – and he was allegedly beaten up after crying foul

Tigra 07

Why was personal data on the company laptop?

People hate hot-desking. Google thinks they’ll love hot-Chromebooking

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Pint

Re: Aladdin Sane

Want to buy a laptop splashguard for... erm... personal use?

Tigra 07
Trollface

Basically the Boris Bike option for laptops... Will we start to see Chromebooks floating in canals and strewn from trees and road signs by people who can't be arsed to put them back in the "racks" where they came from?

Apple gives MacBook Pro keyboard rubber pants

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Trollface

Re: Jay

"The original keyboard design was brilliant, provided it was sealed away from direct contact with the outside world"

...In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard?

Sorry, i hate that joke but couldn't resist...

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"As we noted, Apple's professional laptops can often be found in unforgiving environments, such as field work" coffee shops.

There, fixed that for you!

FBI for the Apple guy: Bloke accused of stealing robo-car tech

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RE: Comments are attributed to your handle

Article has been corrected...They must have noticed...

European Parliament balks at copyright law reform vote

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RE: Doc Syntax

Yeah...But it affects the very functioning of the internet, why shouldn't people from elsewhere be allowed a say?

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Childcatcher

"The detractors included the Mozilla Foundation, Google and Wikipedia, which arguably wouldn't have been affected by any of the changes."

Really? You don't think Wikipedia would be affected by a link tax? EVERY Wikipedia article using a link to a news site would be hit with a bill. For anyone not aware that's a massive bill and will result in widespread censorship of the internet to avoid linking, or such huge bills that i doubt even the Wikimedia foundation could afford.

Huawei enterprise comms kit has a TLS crypto bug

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Prediction...

2017: US Gov considers Huawei dangerous to National Security because the may have backdoors.

2018: Huawei fixes backdoors.

2019: US Gov attacks Huawei publicly for not giving US Gov backdoors.

Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything

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Pint

Re: Byron

"There's no sane reason I can think of to ever drink alcohol"

You sound fun at parties.

Here, have a beer. You might like it >>>>

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Alien

Re: Made it here first!

"There are actually benefits to vaporizing mary jane"

Who told you of our plans to vapourize the humans?

Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running

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I pushed the wrong button on the fan this morning and blew all my papers on the floor...

Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out

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Re: Might be the compass

Sounds like your phone is upside down? Are you in Australia?

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"This is, after all, the app that once directed me to walk through the centre of an unlit Hyde Park at 2am and whose audio inexplicably but routinely barks "Turn left!" when you're supposed to turn right"

Technically it's not wrong. Turn left 3 times and you're heading in the correct direction.

GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep

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Re: Mystic Megabyte

Don't forget Gitlub on iCloud