* Posts by earl grey

1631 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2011

Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags

earl grey
Devil

you've all missed the obvious case for enforcement

Put all the execs in a soundproof room and play their recordings non-stop all the way up to 11. Seriously.

Watt the f... Dim smart meters caught simply making up readings

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Trollface

Re: There's more to it that that...

Thought? Whoa now. Let's not be insulting them.

Q: How many IBMers need to volunteer for corporate guillotine?

earl grey
Facepalm

It's the stop and the end

So, does it matter if they shove them off the roof or force them to jump?

China proposes new world order for cyberspace regulation

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WTF?

who stirred up amandrommars?

haven't seen that many posts in one place or in one day in quite a while;

and, what's worse, they're almost understandable...wtf with that?

Net neutrality? Bye bye, says American Pai

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Facepalm

Mr. Pai is NOT a dingo

I've heard he only eats a FEW babies....

Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions at one London court targeted women

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Stop

who opens their door to strangers?

I'm not too worried about it, but don't expect wife or kids to ever open the door to strangers.

You missed the "no trespassing" sign?

I don't know you...you need to leave now before the sheriff gets here.

We found a hidden backdoor in Chinese Internet of Things devices – researchers

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Facepalm

IOT = POS

'Nuf said.

Who will banish spy-cam drones from US skies? The FAA doesn't want to do it. EPIC disagrees

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Black Helicopters

Re: If some agency does not cough up necessary regulations....

"searched your house"

Unlikely unless legal probable cause for a search warrant and even then, if your "controller" is for your own unit they would never be able to prove you interfered with another unit... no case... no probable cause...no search

Helicopters because....

Sysadmin's sole client was his wife – and she queried his bill

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Trollface

"but the majority provide other services that they might not appreciate being paid for"

Outsourced all that - just sayin'

New UK laws address driverless cars insurance and liability

earl grey
Devil

you're shafted no matter what

didn't update your software - guilty

did update your software - guilty

let your self-driving car actually self-drive - guilty

didn't use the self-driving feature - guilty

ran over 42 little kids - extra guilty

Get this: Tech industry thinks journos are too mean. TOO MEAN?!

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Facepalm

blowjob journalism

Seriously? I thought IT was going to be the thing to do... Who knew?

Google agrees to break pirates' domination over music searches

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Facepalm

just for a day

it would be nice if, just for a day, the "two big" search engines blocked say....

The top 1000 song artists

The top dozen music publishers

All the top "rights" groups

and returned the search with a "sorry, we can't provide that today to show you how government control of search is a bad thing..."

A webcam is not so much a leering eye as the barrel of a gun

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Trollface

Re: My solution to the laptop camera

"is the humble clothes peg"

Wait a minute...you're pegging your computer... mind bleach please

Why I had to sue the FCC – VoIP granddaddy Dan Berninger

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Facepalm

intel blah blah blah

The only reason Intel continued to invest and try to make better/faster chips was because they had competition from AMD for at least 5 minutes or so... the telcos still don't have competition on their home turf.

Two words, Mozilla: SPEED! NOW! Quit fiddling and get serious

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Flame

scripting is what kills my FF

It's bad enough when a site has a primary script (in their name), but when I ok that and suddenly see 20 more pop up and can't see anything on the site... you're done for.

scripting is by far the biggest overhead pig in my FF... "normal" stuff is satisfactory...

2009 IBM: Teleworking will save the WORLD! 2017 IBM: Get back to the office or else

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Flame

El Reg is less and less a tech site

ODFO

NORKS fires missile that India reckons it could shoot down in flight

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Facepalm

Re: Good work India...

"(ignoring Calais..)"

Did that somehow magically get moved across the Channel?

Senator wants a piece of Pai: FCC boss blasted for ripping up schools, libraries internet report

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Trollface

Re: "have been voting Republican for generations"

"When it changed in the '60s "

That's at least 4 generations in the south...

Oracle settles court spat with fired cloud 'sales inflation whistleblower'

earl grey
Mushroom

I did not lie

'fingers crossed behind back'

wankers

Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies

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Flame

British Embassies abroad?

So, if i posted a picture and the address of a British Embassy in the united snakes they would send someone over to tag me? Good luck with that.

Conviction by computer is go, confirms UK Ministry of Justice

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WTF?

Re: Victim surcharge

Shouldn't that be "alleged crime"?

Feds snooping on your email without a warrant? US lawmakers are on a war path to stop that

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FAIL

Re: You mean...

Apparently they haven't enacted a Snooper's Charter yet....

IBM's Marissa Mayer moment: Staff ordered to work in one of 6 main offices – or face the axe

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Mushroom

Re: Creative way to get many US employees to voluntarily quit

"paying severance"

Not so much...in the US, if you "voluntarily" leave, it's not a severance issue. if you are let go, they only have a severance of ONE month anyway, so it's not much and there's no telling they won't move you to an expensive living and travel area and then let you go a month later anyway. I wouldn't trust them as far as i could throw Big Ben.

Parents have no idea when kidz txt m8s 'KMS' or '99'

earl grey
Devil

All i can say is FML

and if you don't like that, ODFO

Why does it cost 20 times as much to protect Mark Zuckerberg as Tim Cook?

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Trollface

Re: In Fairness to Zuckerberg...

I thought that was Col. Mustard in the library with the lead pipe...

This many standards is dumb: Decoding 25Gb Ethernet and beyond

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Facepalm

cat-8?

WTF happened to cat-7?

New US Net Neutrality law coming 'within three months' – advisor

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Mushroom

this rates a "pants on fire"

"“There’s a huge amount of abuse because they can game the system and get lots of reimbursements from people who never take it up,"

and the whole article reads like it was written by the telcos. For shame Reg, for shame.

New measurement alerts! Badgers, great white sharks and the Lindisfarne Gospel

earl grey
Pint

Carry on

And have a few of these to help.

UK.gov hiring folk to watch smutty vids? All hail our blind censors...

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Facepalm

Re: Anybody know how many porn sites on the web ?

True. It's hard to get a grip on such a slippery subject.

How to they propose to deal with on-the-job injuries? Just sayin'

Well-rested women in danger of bouncing their men into early grave

earl grey
Paris Hilton

so, at this rate i should live forever?

Naw, talk to the hand.

Icon seems appropriate.

Felted! AI poker bot Libratus cleans out pros in grueling tournament, smugly trousers $1.8m

earl grey
Trollface

Re: Visage

Guess you'll just have to ask Lady Gaga....

2017 is already fail: Let’s try a Chinese reboot

earl grey
Pint

Arse my eye

You haven't learnt to pre-fill your calendar. Back to school with ya and learn yer lessons sonny!

After that you can have one of these...

Hey, AT&T. Help us out. Why is buying Time Warner a good idea?

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Flame

You forgot the other part

The requisite layoffs of redundant personnel and the experienced (read: more highly paid) employees.

Only then can the bonuses and happy dance begin.

UK ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers

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Trollface

Re: Think of the children..

" reasonable storyline."

Wait, they had storylines?

Jinn workers besiege delivery app co-founder to protest wage changes

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Flame

incentivise

Sounds like someone need a high voltage discharge to the bollocks.

350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone

earl grey
Devil

Re: The 80:20 rule?

"A lot of people on Facebook wouldn't pass a turing test."

Sadly enough, it still makes sense when i read that as turding...

My hole is a private thing – see for yourself

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Facepalm

"“top five cloud trends for 2017”."

And here i mis-read that as clowns. Would have made just as much sense.

All the cool kids are doing it – BT hikes broadband and TV bills

earl grey
Unhappy

Re: Where are Offcom?

"Customers will get a better package"

That's what i'm afraid of...

Korean boffins vow 1,000km-an-hour supertrain

earl grey
FAIL

it'll never happen

The tube is too expensive

The train is too expensive

The route is too expensive

They'll have to stop every 300 metres in every town to pick up passengers

They'll have to avoid environmentally sensitive areas

They can's use fossil fuel and water and air

They have to give a hoot and not pollute

They can' t build in my back yard (NIMBY)

The tickets will be too expensive

There won't be enough passengers

Now GTFO and off my lawn!

Microsoft Germany says Windows 7 already unfit for business users

earl grey
Unhappy

Re: Enough Whining.

You're Satya and i claim my 5p (you're not worth more than that)...

Europe mulls treating robots legally as people ... but with kill switches

earl grey

I know how to solve the problem of liability

Simply make all the C level and board of directors directly legally and financially liable to the strictest limit possible "when shit happens"™

Mr Angry pays taxman with five wheelbarrows worth of loose change

earl grey
FAIL

Re: Change The Picture?

"ditch the $1 note"

Yeah, that would work out great since that pile of notes in my wallet weigh so much more than a comparable pile of coins.

not.....ever

Clone wars: Wrestler sues Microsoft over Gears of War character

earl grey
Trollface

he's just unhappy

he missed the gravy train

Crumbs. Exceedingly good cakes, meat dressing price hike in wake of the Brexit

earl grey
Trollface

₤ = $

Getting there is half the fun. I want my metric ₤.

/s

As far as italy making autos as good as german...i'm sure they can figure a way to cheat on their diesels too. /s

For Fark's sake! Fark fury follows 5-week ad ban for 5-year-old story

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Paris Hilton

Re: Alternatives?

"We all know that Google sucks ..."

Yes, we do. I can't say for sure, but...

Anti-smut law dubs PCs, phones 'pornographic vendor machines', demands internet filters

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Flame

won't pass constitutional exam

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;" and it doesn't say, "except for porn" or "except for what I don't like"... it says NO LAW. regardless of what numpties or former supremes say. It's sad that the new attorney general feels the need to suppress porn (instead of going after real crims).

Flames on all of them...

New Windows 10 privacy controls: Just a little snooping – or the max

earl grey
Mushroom

I don't want their ads

And i don't want anything going back to them except dumps; and then only with my express permission. ODFO MS

Renault goes open source with next-gen electric buggy you might generously call 'a car'

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Facepalm

steering clear of talking about the security risks

Bugger all. Minor details that. Are they paying the insurance and have they got attach points so when this rolling coffin gets hit they can just drop it in a hole?

Have they figured out the conundrum of who gets sacrificed - the passenger or the crowd of kiddies on the sidewalk when a lorry comes screaming toward it?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Flame

Re: Waymo. So called because

Google services are always "complementary"

Not free.

They're only complementary if waymo is giving me a free ride. If i'm paying for a vehicle and ride, then i'm not free and neither is my info.

FM now stands for 'fleeting mortality' in Norway

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Trollface

"diverse and pluralistic radio content"

So, someone else's version of shite instead of my normal shite?

Thanks, but no thanks.