Re: Hey, remember the 2000s?
I remember them from the '90s, which as we all know, was 10 years ago.
Posts by Semtex451
859 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2012
How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens
Wednesday 4th September 2019 12:34 GMT 
Could it finally be good news I'm reading?
This article implies that the self obsessed, self promoting onanists on FB are finally unfashionable. Can Instagran be far behind?
I'm hoping this is a sign that the folk on the interwebs are finally improving, that the lowest common denominator is trying to climb it's way out of the primordial soup.
So please don't ruin my dreamy optimism
Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament
Wednesday 28th August 2019 15:39 GMT
Relax. If it all goes pear shaped you’ll eventually get your membership of the United Socialist States of Europe under the Germans that the majority of you crave. You’ll get the added benefit of pouring years of scorn on all the Brexiteers you despise for setting old England back to the dark ages. In between you can wail and knash your teeth to your hearts content.
Or you could shut up and do something positive productive with your lives.
The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?
Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'
Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again
Suspected dark-web meth dealers caught by, er, 'using real address' when buying stamps
Could an AI android live forever? What, like your other IT devices?
That this AI can simulate universes in 30ms is not the scary part. It's that its creators don't know why it works so well
UK's MoD is helping itself to cops' fingerprint database 'unlawfully', rules biometrics chief
Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told
Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer
Oh snap! The road's closed. Never mind, Google Maps has a plan...
It could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Wiltshire or in Bath: Euro cops cuff 6 for cybersquatting, allegedly nicking €24m in Bitcoin
Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space
The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release aims at business
Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?
Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane
Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot
Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will
UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros
Do you want a Kool-Aid with that, Huawei? You'll need one after watching boss chat to US mavens
Monday 17th June 2019 14:45 GMT 
"strange mixture of a terrible TED discussion and the outlining of a Communist Party Five-Year Plan"
The latter part could be considered progress, but the article does not say what that outline looks like.
Please don't make us watch the whole thing if it was a pointless meeting, we waste enough time with those as it is.
We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods
Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)
Friday 14th June 2019 12:36 GMT 
Ikabai Sital
Hailing, as I do, from the dark ages when modesty existed, I consider myself an Icky.
I am staggered that someone calling themselves a 'Pathfinder' managed to stumble over the dusty El Reg pages to your 2015 article, presumably a statistical anomaly like shakespeare from primates. I had a glimmer of hope that my faith in humanity was about to be restored until i read the linked post and then the posters' profile. Glimmer extinguished.
TFIFriday
When virtual mittens sell for thousands, of course gamers are ripe targets for cyber shenanigans
Box shifting on the Moon? Lunar payloads on Amazon Prime
There's a reason why my cat doesn't need two-factor authentication
BT to axe 90% of its UK real estate, retain circa 30 sites
Wednesday 5th June 2019 12:22 GMT
Hi I'm Marvin try me
I think I'm starting to think like amanfrommars1, if not sound like it. Worse things could happen, true, but probably I need a holiday.
Anyway, once the Developers get hold of all that land I still won't be able to afford to buy a flat.
Also ca 8K UK BT staff on the dole is more bad news in more ways than one. I'm sorry to generalise here, but sadly my experiences of working with or recruiting former BT employees has been universally disappointing, so far.
No offence is intended.
On the upside there's .......mmmm
....always real amanfrommars comments to brighten the week :(
Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech
Wednesday 5th June 2019 11:50 GMT
Re: welcome to the future of voice assistants
Thing is folk increasingly seem to want tech to pre-empt their needs and that needs data, so while we wait for the Borg implants they're seemingly happy that many companys 'know them' inside and out.
Sorry for repeating myself.
Just being online, well I'm sure someone told me that internet access was a 'human right' or was about to be. On that basis it should probably be inferred that privacy won't be for long, if it ever was.
Unless permanent VPN & Tor is also going to be a human right.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
