Automatic cat flaps are all the rubbish...
... Mine conspired to keep out MY cat and let in the huge tabby from down the street, which hoovered up the available cat food and left with nary a backward glance.
Posts by CAPS LOCK
1164 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2012
Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker
One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark
Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction
Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins
Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index
Wednesday 30th October 2019 08:35 GMT
All4...
...It's been a while since I last tried to use All4, but back then it used Flash DRM, which excluded Linux users. As a result I looked for the programs (Drifters, fact fans) SOMEWHERE ELSE. And I found them free of DRM AND free of adverts. Well done Channel 4, now I know how to get your content without adverts.
Hubble grabs first snap of interstellar comet... or at least that's what we hope this smudge is
Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block
Wednesday 16th October 2019 14:28 GMT
Only guessing but...
"Hello, Cabinet Office?, GCHQ here. This porno thing, it's going to cause a huge increase in VPN use, err. that's a technology which makes it hard for us to read the traffic, which will make our job a lot harder"
"Cabinet Secretary here. That's too bad, you'll just have to work harder and spend less time drinking Martini's and driving your Aston-Martins"
"Well, let me put that another way, we already know what everyone does online, including your good self, and it would be a shame if it became public knowledge about the site you visited on Saturday night..."
"Yes, yes, I can see how this VNP thingy might be a problem, I'll get right on it"
The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look
You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders
Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US peeps? Well, guess what…
HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry
Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool
Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it
DoH! Mozilla assures UK minister that DNS-over-HTTPS won't be default in Firefox for Britons
Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast
Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once
Vulture Central team welcomed to our new nest by crashed Ubuntu that's 3 years out of date
UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules
Thursday 12th September 2019 09:28 GMT
It seems to me there are at least two issues here...
1. It's likely that some level of piracy is good for a gaming platform, I seem to recall music pirates bought a lot more music than non-pirates.
2. Increasing incentives to use technologies such as VPN will make the jobs of security agencies more difficult through the can't-see-the-wood-for-the trees effect.
Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it
My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)
It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors
Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny
Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings
LibreOffice handlers defend suite's security after 'unfortunately partial' patch
Summer vacations put an end to rampant desktop crimewave
Friday 26th July 2019 16:10 GMT
"use a fountain pen" is the correct answer.
Since I was plagued by the ball-point problem myself, I bought a modestly priced fountain pen. That was twenty years ago. It's still here and still works perfectly. I got the sort that uses the little generic ink cartridges you can buy in Smiths, so no messing with bottles of Quink. Job done.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
