* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins

Tigra 07

Re: what's so difficult about Q, U, X, Y and Z?

*Cough* Moon Unit Zappa *Cough*

Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?

Tigra 07
Childcatcher

Re: Error Messages

It doesn't really fit, but my favourite quote:

"Even if there are 200 million priests in the world and five percent are paedophiles. That's still only 10 million paedophiles!"

Tigra 07

Re: Error Messages

"I really shouldn't be here!"

Careful now.

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Error Messages

Don't forget to DRINK!

Well, it is Friday!

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

Tigra 07
Facepalm

Re: Strange

I've actually heard worse. Apparently anyone can mass claim videos, without checks as to whether or not they actually own any of the infringed copyrights. It happened to a channel i look at by a serial video claimer. There was no music or copyrighted material in the videos, and yet these videos were now demonetised and the channel had to fight for them to be bought back under their own control...ONE AT A TIME.

Tigra 07
Facepalm

Re: Cui bono

You can have videos demonetised from anything controversial. Even showing clips of violent video games (Call of Duty, etc) on a video game channel can result in demonetisation.

News segments are often demonetised for being gorey, "problematic" or traumatic too. This happened with coverage of September 11th videos and compilations of news coverage.

Youtube is for the advertisers first, not the creators that keep the site running.

Tigra 07
Paris Hilton

Re: Strange

Perhaps a cat meowed in the video and Content ID claimed the entire video, and took down the channel.

It's happened before for birds tweeting in the background...

Paris likes tweeting...

Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope

Tigra 07
Trollface

RE: Korev

You're on the 3 network?

Tigra 07
Thumb Up

RE: Blockchain

Mount it to one of those colourful plastic kids slides in your back garden and you can plausibly deny that it's a permanent structure when the Council come knocking.

14 sailors die aboard Russian cable spy, er, ocean research nuke sub after fire breaks out

Tigra 07

Re: Out of interest...

"They are not wanting to break the cable (which would just piss everyone off), but intercepting the signals passing through them, preferably without the user of the cable knowing."

Ah. I've heard before speculation from a source, that i don't quite recall, about the Americans or Russians wanting the ability to cut entire nations off from the internet in wartime. That's where that came from.

Tigra 07
Pint

Out of interest...

How would a submersible like this sever an undersea cable?

I'm picturing a submarine with a robo/crane-like arm attached...Or would they just torpedo the cable? Use divers from the Submarine? Summon the Kraken?

Here's a great idea: Why don't we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs?

Tigra 07
Facepalm

RE: TonyJ

"I am genuinely staggered that this kind of shit still happens."

I'm genuinely not. People need to stop buying this crap, while the security is an afterthought. Car security for keyless entry to Jaguar Land Rover vehicles has been shit for over 10 years and yet people still buy them too. It's been common for people to turn up with cheap Ebay equipment to airport car parks and unlock hordes of cars with a transmitter and a signal from said equipment, yet people keep buying the cars... >>INSERT WTF GIF HERE<<

Related disclosure: I have a friend who lives in a rather nice area and her partner has had 2 Land Rover Discoveries stolen from outside their house. Their next vehicle to replace it - Yep! A Land Rover Discovery. Some people don't learn.

Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid

Tigra 07
Pint

RE: Aladdin

Exactly. People like this should stick to those special gambling machines you can find everywhere, that pay out sweets and drinks. The odds of winning are much better too.

UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations'

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: The Britain Experience

Bad reviews for hotels in tourist destinations can be quite damaging.

I've heard from a few people that the French in the service industry can be quite rude and condescending to Brits abroad.

Coincidentally I had a friend named Arthur who was insulted by a French man, who told him his mother was a hamster, and his father smelt of elderberries.

Tigra 07
WTF?

Re: The Britain Experience

True experience last time i stayed in a Spanish hotel (2017):

Upon finding a dead cockroach by the fridge and asking to move rooms - "But what if the next room has roaches?"

NO! You DO NOT say that to a customer. You say something along the lines of "i'm very sorry sir. We'll get that sorted and move you to another room", or just offer a discount or something.

Now i know it's a badly cleaned hotel with an infestation you still think i'd want to stay there?

In the age of online reviews bad service can be a death sentence for a business. Any business.

Tigra 07
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Re: The Britain Experience

If you think the customer service here is that bad may i suggest you go to Europe and experience their customer service?

Even in Spanish tourist destinations it can be shockingly bad sometimes. And then there's the French...

Not all of the 60+ million people of the UK are anti-social miserable people when dealing with tourists/the public/in general.

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

Tigra 07

Re: Kabukiwookie

They're currently turning Windows 10 into some kind of hybrid Frankenstein monster, where no one needs to bother dualbooting to run Linux and Windows. This is an attack on Linux, since they're trying to limit people running full Linux as a competitor.

Can't have people using a full install of Linux and realising it's got a lot of advantages over Windows, can we now...

Tigra 07

Re: They are now the Voyager Borg

"I hope that what you say is true, but I doubt it. Microsoft outclasses the Linux community in terms of sheer ruthlessness, not to mention money and power"

True, but the fact that Microsoft is grossly incompetent works in our favour.

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

Tigra 07
Trollface

RE: BebopWeBop

Jeremy Corbyn has since issued a statement clarifying that Labour does not blame 4G for the the decline in insects, his friends at Hezbollah have told him it's the fault of the Jews.

Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest

Tigra 07
Devil

Two can play at this game

And the Earth is a flat plane, floating on the back of a giant Intergalactic Galapagos Turtle...Named Jeremy.

Tigra 07
Trollface

Conspiracy confirmed. The moon is flat.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Tigra 07
Trollface

Re: Child-proof reset operation

Our toddlers have always been born full sized. Wait, aren't everyones?

Tigra 07
Devil

Re: Pascal

Downvoted with 3 people who bought "smart" bulbs i see. Or possibly wankers, who don't want to be associated with people buying smart bulbs.

Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims

Tigra 07
Facepalm

Re: How many checking?

Yes, but do you have the bone spur in question? I do. I need a cuppa now...

Vivaldi to give abusive sites the middle finger with built-in ad blocking

Tigra 07

Re: Nice, but...

Firefox allows the blocking of autoplaying videos already. Shouldn't be too difficult for Vivaldi to manage

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

Tigra 07
Pint

RE: Anonymous Wanker

Just change your VPN to Switzerland. You do have a VPN to protect your privacy from the snooper's charter right? right?

Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

Tigra 07

Re: Re NoScript

True, but you can disable it for a tab with two clicks.

Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget

Tigra 07
Devil

Sorry, couldn't resist

In Soviet Russia 2019 TV watches You!

Help the Macless: Apple’s iPadOS is a huge update that will enable more people to do without a Mac... or a PC

Tigra 07

Re: We've seen it all before

This may be the longest Apple has gone without "revolutionary" new features...

Tigra 07

Re: iPadOS?

It kills me how Google is doing nothing with tablets, but putting slightly better hardware in them every few years, while Apple is actually (and this is hard to believe) innovating in this area. If Google was doing things like this i'd update my crappy, laggy, light bleeding, old Nexus 9.

News aggregator app Flipboard hacked: All passwords reset after hackers pinch user data

Tigra 07
Meh

RE: GnuTzu

I guess it depends on whether people ever used the app or not and created an account. I did, and now my details may be compromised. I may not have ever used it if it wasn't installed by default.

Tigra 07

Flipboard was once installed on Samsung phones by default, so this may be one reason why it has so many installs. Other manufacturers may have also made deals like this. As i remember Flipboard was terrible.

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

Tigra 07
Coat

Re: Unicornpiss

My favourite was "Fix It Again Tony" from King of the Hill...

We'll hack back at Russians, declare UK ministers in cyber-Blitz blitz

Tigra 07
Trollface

Re: What a surprise

Surely such a thing does not exist.

</sarc>

Tigra 07
Black Helicopters

We could harass the Russians during their own elections via VK and Facebook if they weren't always rigged in Putin's favour anyway. Alternatively, we could just do what the Americans do: Discover oil in Russia and send our freedom carriers over there to ravage them with freedom bombs and freedom troops and freedom, well, you get the idea.

US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?

Tigra 07
Go

Re: How touching

"I suspect he does not not read El Reg on a regular basis and did not realise his leg was being pulled - probably accounts for the downvotes (the sense of humour failure)"

I would say Whooooosh! But he might mistake it for a fighter jet passing overhead...

Tigra 07
Thumb Up

I approve...

Step 1: Infect computer to harvest data.

Step 2: Gain access to (possible) incriminating data from the malware.

Step 3: Realise you're an idiot unable to use the data as evidence since it was gained illegally.

Step 4: Get prosecuted yourself for breaking the law.

Oh 4G, I'm speechless: EE network outage smacks rare breed of customer that talks into their mobile phone

Tigra 07
Coat

RE: Alister

EE? You mean NN - Nothing Nowhere

Lyft, Uber drivers boost app surge prices by turning off, tuning out – and cashing in

Tigra 07
Childcatcher

RE: Blockchain

The user has to agree to the surge pricing before the app finds them a willing driver. After that, even if millions of drivers become available the user won't know. They've already agreed to pay more.

The alternative is to find alternative transport, or keep checking the app to see if the surge pricing is increasing or decreasing (which for me has sometimes taken around 10 minutes to become reasonable again)

Tigra 07
FAIL

An Uber driver told me about this in Birmingham over a year ago. The problem is widespread and has been going on without Uber giving a shit.

Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder

Tigra 07
Pint

Jeez. This is meant to be my haven away from this Eurovision crap El Reg!

Breaking news: Bank-card-slurping malware sneaks into Forbes' mag subscription website

Tigra 07
Facepalm

Re: Forbes says that none of the credit card information was leaked

Begins with: "it doesn’t appear the crooks got anyone’s credit card information"

Followed by: "recent subscribers should check their credit card statements for signs of fraudulent use"

Ridiculous doublespeak.

What's that? Uber isn't actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: 0laf

"I rarely see drivers ignore red lights, though I have seen it."

That's interesting. It's like a free-for-all here in the Midlands. Very few people indicate, very few stick to their lane. It's getting terribly dangerous some days. There's people crossing red lights and one-way streets often too. You can't go a week without seeing someone drving anti-clockwise on a roundabout.

Near me we have one of those pedestrianised roads in the middle of town that's only for buses, taxis and cyclists...It's made over £2 million in 2 years from people not reading the signs on every post and driving through anyway.

I guess i should say "your region may vary"

Tigra 07
Meh

Re: 0laf

"I'm not a cyclist hater, I see many more stupid and dangerous things done every day by drivers than cyclists. But I think cyclist have some 'evangelists' that go out tooled up with cameras looking for trouble and that engenders a lot of bad feeling."

I've been a cyclist for about 5 years now and the police do <u>fuck all</u> even with evidence when a serious offence is reported to them. It's unfair to criticise people for having an inexpensive camera mounted to their (probably expensive) transport to pursue a prosecution, when the chance of being killed in a minor crash is high. I don't have a camera but i see why so many do.

RE: Valerion: "I've never seen a car do the same"

You've never seen a car pass a red light? That must be a lie. I see them every day on the way back from work. I even see them driving on the wrong side of the road commonly, and without lights on in the dark some evenings. I'd love more traffic police around and speed cameras.

Tigra 07
Devil

Re: Efficient Market

Don't be a dick Jake.

"Very few pedestrian fatalities involve cyclists. Of the 448 pedestrians killed by a vehicle in 2016, 3 were caused by cyclists, compared to 289 by cars. These levels have been broadly consistent over the past five years"

Source: https://fullfact.org/health/cyclist-deaths/

Oh, and let's challenge that persistent myth about cyclists and red lights too:

"a new study from the Danish Road Directorate found that less than 5 per cent of cyclists break traffic laws compared to 66 per cent of motorists"

Source: https://road.cc/content/news/260509-cyclists-far-less-likely-break-traffic-laws-motorists-finds-study

Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian

Tigra 07
WTF?

Re: My Accent

I've always been in a similar situation. Brummies don't seem to think i'm one of them despite living there all my life and being born there too. I'm continually asked where i'm from and "what accent is that?".

Maybe it's a good thing i don't sound like them according to these surveys.

Tigra 07
Pint

Can't go a day in Bear-min-gam without hearing "ow am ya?" and "orright?"

It's not a bad accident. I'm not sure why everyone seems to dislike it.

Apple stock hits bottom ... as AirPod exits man's backside and still works after colonic travels

Tigra 07
Joke

Re: John H Woods

I prefer this version:

Last night i had a dream i was eating the world's BIGGEST marshmallow...And when i woke up...I was being sexually abused!

Frankie Boyle

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

Tigra 07
Facepalm

Re: Not Good Enough

"Williamson keeps a pet tarantula on his HoC desk to intimidate folk. I've never known anyone to keep a pet at work, guy's a psycho and not the sort of psycho he pretends to be, just a daftie with no empathy and unreasonable ambition"

Was he auditioning for the job of Prime Minister or a typical Bond villain?

NPM is Not Particularly Magnanimous? Staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

Tigra 07
FAIL

Re: Diversity

"Minorities of all types are fighting a losing battle *because* the level playing field does *not* exist even though the non-minorities think otherwise"

Bullshit. Absolutely. Find a reputable study for that and come back with an actual argument.