* Posts by Sam Therapy

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TalkTalk banbans TeamTeamviewerviewer againagain

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Mushroom

TalkTalk...

I've been stuck with that bunch of polystyrene brained goons for a few years (not through choice) but finally we have FTTP in our area. From personal experience, I can state they are far worse - and their staff more clueless - than you could possibly imagine.

Friday's the day my new connection goes live. Fuck you very much TalkTalk.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

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Reminds me of the old story of the prat who stacked up a, er, stack of Marshall amps. The bottom one drew in cool air and vented out warm air. The second drew in warm air and vented hot, the third drew in hot air and vented scorching air, and the last one, well, it kind of burst into flames.

Irony's lost on old Pope Francis: Pontiff decrees fake news a 'serious sin'

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Angel

Ah, irony. Nice one, Your Popeness.

UK good for superfast broadband, crap for FTTP – Ofcom

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Happy

This Friday, I'll be one of the 3%

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Telly boffin Professor Heinz Wolff has died

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Pint

RIP

Great fun to watch, extrememly funny guy.

Rest now, your work is done.

5 reasons why America's Ctrl-Z on net neutrality rules is a GOOD thing

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Holmes

I think we can go with the sarcasm thing. You did notice this is El Reg, right?

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Angel

Re: Richard 81,

Hitler was a snowflake!

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Re: Socket Protectors

Same place as "Reverse back", "PIN Number" and "Round circle", the Tautology Fairy.

It is what it is.

I'll get me outer garment coat.

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Re: Socket Protectors

Correct. Their use is banned in all NHS Premises. And yet, building inspectors will give a warning to any NHS premises that don't use them, so they put them in until someone complains about it, or points out they're unsafe, so they take them out. Then the building inspectors come in and...

Meet the woman with a supernatural affinity for stiff lovers

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Happy

Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl.

Accused hacker Lauri Love's extradition appeal begins

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Re: I am an Aspie. I don't hack stuff and then cry like a baby.

Problematic, that. My son has what was described as "High Functioning Autism", which is probably going to be Asperger's but at his age it's too early to tell. He - sort of - knows right from wrong but often fails at understanding the consequences of his actions. We tread a very fine line between instruction and punishment, in order to prepare him for later in life.

The real problem is, how can anyone return an objective understanding of someone's, erm, understanding of what they are doing, if it's known and documented they have some fundamental problem with consequences? Everyone with an ASD is different and the way you see the world is different from the way someone else with Asperger's sees it. Then, there's also the - at least to an outsider - seeming attitude of the US system which makes no allowances for mitigation and insists that anyone, including those with mental and/or behavioural "issues" (I hate that word but can't think of a better one right now) should be punished no matter what.

Clone poster girl Dolly the sheep's arthritis was 'normal for her age'

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Re: Really?

I'm sure people are cueing up to respong.

TalkTalk sees red after chucking £75m on restructuring bonfire

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Mushroom

Re: TalkTalk is actually quite good

No they ain't. not even nearly. For them, mediocrity is an impossible goal.

For a variety of reasons, I'm stuck with these idiots for now and they really are the most useless shower of bastards outside the current Conservative front bench.

Almost every single employee I've had the misfortune to deal with appears to be a weapons grade idiot. I say "almost" because, just the odd few times, I've spoken to someone who has a more than room temp IQ and appears to give a shite.

Roll on the day I can ditch these useless fucksticks.

Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops

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Windows

Gobshite!

Parity calamity! Wallet code bug destroys $280m in Ethereum

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Re: This is when I know I'm getting old...

Something makes you think they aren't already?

Why are we disappointed with the best streaming media box on the market?

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Headmaster

"It's only real competitor is Apple TV ..."

"Its " not "It's". Fucking hell!

Forget the 'simulated universe', say boffins, no simulator could hit the required scale

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Headmaster

Re: "To model just a few hundred electrons needs a computer bigger than the universe"

Yep, there is. Read up on the Oxford comma:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

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Happy

Or rather, A shade differential comparison scenario.

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Mushroom

This bunch of useless fucksticks need to be nailed to doors, left on a beach and run over with flail tanks. At the very least.

Equifax mega-leak: Security wonks smack firm over breach notification plan

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Happy

Article picture

Why is Steve Buscemi taking a pair of grips to his phone?

Samsung heir does not pass Go, does not collect $200

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FAIL

Not having a great time lately, are they? Phucked phones, trashed tellies and chairman in chokey.

Oh dear

How sad

Never mind.

Hackers can turn web-connected car washes into horrible death traps

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Alert

True story...

Going through a car wash a few weeks ago, I said to Mrs Therapy, "I bet some genius decides to connect these things to the net and does shag all about security".

We made it through in one piece, though. Probably give 'em a wide berth from now on.

Cassini captures pieces of Saturn’s rings

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Thumb Up

Re: precise measurement of the length of the Saturnian day continues to elude us

There are things, up with, I will not put.

Currys PC World rapped after Knowhow Cloud ad ruled to be 'misleading'

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Shower of lying bastards and it's not the first time they've been slapped for making false claims.

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

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Mushroom

Bastarding Flash and that chuffing Real Player. I hates em both, me.

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

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Re: Only a British would use a ZX spectrum for music...

The Thompson Twins singer was from Sheffield. So, at least part Brit.

UK government's war on e-cigs is over

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Re: Jesus, NO!

I have COPD and asthma and I vape with no adverse effects.

Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide

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"The superficial resemblance to Petya is only skin deep,"

Tautology... it is what it is.

PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet

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Here's one

Way back, I had an Amiga 1200 with an intermittently fautly mouse. I couldn't work out what caused it to stop working, the switches weren't the silly silver plated ones, the ball (remember those) was clean, as were the rollers.

I began to notice the thing stopped working always at a certain time of day and gradually realized the problem was caused by sunlight shining through a nearby window into a gap in the mouse casing. This was sending one of the internal sensors daft. Solution: A piece of paper taped over the gap.

I could have pulled down the blind but I liked the view over Rivelin Valley from my window.

IT firms guilty of blasting customers with soul-numbing canned music

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Worst I ever heard...

Was a badly edited (so it didn't repeat correctly) loop of an Enya track. For hours. I didn't like Enya before but now whenever I hear her "music" I get a red mist in front of my eyes.

Man sues date for cinema texting fiasco, demands $17.31

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“This is like one of my biggest pet peeves,”

Misuses "like". Sues date.

Twat.

Forgetful ZX Spectrum reboot firm loses control of its web domains

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Facepalm

R:Tape loading error

Oh dearie bloody fuck.

Lyrebird steals your voice to make you say things you didn't – and we hate this future

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Trusting fools

This could get interesting very quickly.

People will tend to trust something they have been told is genuine, even when it's demonstrably compromised, or been shown to be total bollocks. So called Lie Detectors, for example, have no scientific validity, yet many people still think they work.

At the very least, (Insert politician/public figure of your choice here) can always claim they never said such a thing and that it was created by this simulator. It's been - in theory - possible to put together fake speeches by using tape editing and sampling but this tech makes it much more convenient.

Another ZX Spectrum modern reboot crowdfunder pops up

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Yup. Or just dig out yer old Speccy.

Trump's self-imposed cybersecurity deadline is up: What we got?

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Facepalm

Honestly...

did anyone with a functioning brain expect anything other than this?

The guy is a shyster, a smoke and mirrors merchant and quite possibly not too bright.

SPY-tunes scandal: Bloke sues Bose after headphones app squeals on his playlist

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Facepalm

Bloody fool for buying Bose headphones

Sennheiser all the way.

Burger King's 'OK Google' sad ad saga somehow gets worse

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Re: Desperation

Seems like Spongebob was predictive after all.

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Re: Rat Burger

Buggrit!

Eric S. Raymond says you probably fit one of eight tech archetypes

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Devil

Prankster

That's the nearest I can find to me, given the list shown.

I have good social skills, was frequently in a manager/TL post and often caused utter mayhem (deliberately) at many places I worked.

I love making people laugh. Not all people, not all the time, and not necessarily at the same time, either.

BDSM sex rocks Drupal world: Top dev banished for sci-fi hanky-panky

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Facepalm

Yup, I can confirm the Gor books - or at least, the one I read - are/is shite but so what? Unless the guy is hunting down unwilling victims and acting out his fantasies on 'em I don't see what the problem is.

Any laws broken? Anyone harmed by this? Nope. Then shut the fuck up.

Cheap, flimsy, breakable and replaceable – yup, Ikea, you'll be right at home in the IoT world

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Yup. Most of their hardware and fittings are commonly available anyhow.

Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future

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One hundred and chuffing three? And it was One chuffing hundred? Damn, that's low. Worryingly low.

No wonder most people seem stupid.

Boffins crowdsource hunt for 'Planet 9'

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Just so long as it's not Telos or Mondas I ain't too worried.

Europe will fine Twitter, Facebook, Google etc unless they rip up T&Cs

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Thumb Up

Agreed with AC there

And upvoted. The sooner Fakebook, Twatter, Googhoul and the like get their wings clipped, the better.

GCHQ dismisses Trump wiretap rumours as tosh

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Re: Random

Antigravity already exists. Buttered cat.

Gov.UK pulls plug on its YouTube ads amid extremism concerns

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Happy

At last, someone wakes up

Grauniad have also pulled their ads for the same reason. The only way Google and others of that ilk will ever be made to do anything is by hitting them in the pocket.

Long may it continue.

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

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Dear Google

I never wanted one of these things before and I most definitely do not want one now.

Go and fuck yourselves with something sharp.

If fast radio bursts really are revving up interstellar sailcraft, here's the maths

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I welcome our nano-scale overlords.

Vice News YouTube video commenter set for retrial over 'menacing' posts

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Re: Discretion

... and early Curry's deliveries.

I mean, who'd want *anything* from Curry's?

Is your child a hacker? Liverpudlian parents get warning signs checklist

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Unhappy

Nice to see the Thought Police are still operating.

My son has Autism, possibly Asperger's. No doubt he'll be singled out for special attention when he gets older.

What a fucking world.

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