Posts by Rukario
563 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2008
How d'ya make a JPMorgan banker cry? Ask him questions on Twitter
Justin BIEBER ploughs cash into NaaS: NARCISSISM-as-a-Service
Sysadmins forced to CLEAN UP after bosses WATCH SMUT at work
Wednesday 13th November 2013 07:07 GMT
Re: not entirely fair
It's not meant to be entirely fair, in fact it's not meant to be fair at all. The proportion of executives surfing porn from their work computers is necessarily higher than that of non-executives, non-executives who probably believe that some IT bod is monitoring all internet activity all the time, and is just waiting to pounce on someone who is caught out. Conversely, the caught executive is expecting their rank to trump the BOFH, and keep their "infraction" on the quiet.
The main question, however, is whether being a complete berk is merely necessary, or both necessary and sufficient, to be an executive, porn-surfing or otherwise.
I certainly don't want to know the aposteriori distribution of those executives. Probably quite large, I'd imagine.
Apple's new iPad Mini: ALREADY set for Black Friday PRICE SLASH
Google makes Gmail EVEN NOISIER, or should that be nosier?
NO! Radio broadcasters snub 'end of FM' DAB radio changeover
Oooh! My NAUGHTY SKIRT keeps riding up! Hello, INTERNET EXPLORER
Friday 8th November 2013 23:50 GMT
Re: Oh, dear...
> Anime characters representing products up ten story buildings. When I went even the 500 series shinkansen had anime robots on them.
The 500 series shinkansen had nothing on this train: http://youtu.be/GJdkD2GZRfU
Snowden: Hey fellow NSA worker, mind if I copy your PASSWORD?
Spies and crooks RAVAGE Microsoft's unpatched 0-day HOLE
Berners-Lee: 'Appalling and foolish' NSA spying HELPS CRIMINALS
Thursday 7th November 2013 21:56 GMT
Re: It's not a negotiation
Once in, though, you can't get rid of them. If e-petitions have any merit, here's one to look at:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/56449
Of course, the chances that anything worthwhile will happen are pretty much nil, as it means getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter.
10 Types of IT managers from hell
Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO
Thought you didn't need to show ID in the UK? Wrong
Have you reinstalled Windows yet? No, I just want to PRINT THIS DAMN PAGE
Friday 1st November 2013 18:12 GMT
Lasers are just as disposable.
Lexmark CS310N colour laser printer... C$170. Built-in cartridges get about 750 pages.
Lexmark 700H1 black cartridge... C$157
Lexmark 700 H2 Cyan/H3 Magenta/H4 Yellow cartridge... C$189 each.
Cartridges are 3000 pages each.
The cost of replacing the cartridges ($724) is greater than buying 4 printers ($680)
Ohh! The PRECIOUS! Give it to uss. We WANTS it: Shiny iThings coming in 2014
You've spent $1,500 on Glass. Now Google wants you to sell more specs
Mac OS X Mavericks 'upgrade' ruins iWorks
Hate data fees but love your HD slab? Here's a better way to pay for bytes
In a meeting with a woman? For pity's sake don't read this
Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start
Do Not Track W3C murder plot fails by handful of votes
Hard-as-woodpecker-lips MOUSE GOBBLES live scorpion, LAUGHS off stings to face
TWO THIRDS of Retina iPad mini shoppers will weep this holiday season
Apple's first iPhone now COSTS MORE than golden mobe 5S
Monday 21st October 2013 22:16 GMT
Re: Bugger!
I gave away my P800, P900, and P910, with that strange keyboard on the inside of the flap. The P990, though, is still a solid backup phone. Not sure of the fates of the other two, but the P900 was replaced by a Blackberry Z10*.
* DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for the tastes of my friends.
That's a lotta cats: 40% of YouTube vids are streamed to mobes
Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins
Canadian operator EasyDNS stands firm against London cops
Boffins spot LONE PLANET roaming interstellar void
MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS
Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different...
Wednesday 9th October 2013 20:33 GMT
Re: Aspergers Test
If you don't score high, you may well be in the wrong job as a reader here.
Here's another, a 150-question version:
http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php
At the end of it, you get a PDF with a 14-page analysis based on the questions, starting with a radar chart:
http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12c.php?p1=98&p2=96&p3=96&p4=91&p5=84&p6=97&p7=91&p8=89&p9=92&p10=39&p11=77&p12=62
Not at all a diagnosis, of course, it is after all, a quiz on teh internetz. I wonder how to answer the questions to make a cat face on the chart.
Brit inventor Dyson challenges EU ruling on his hoover's energy efficiency ratings
RSA: That NSA crypto-algorithm we put in our products? Stop using that
Great Fall of China: iPhone 5C sales lag as blinged-up 5S sells out
Monday 23rd September 2013 21:24 GMT
Re: So long as we are quoting articles via Google Translate ...
"Simulating the true styles and making carefully." - This makes www.engrish.com seem mild in comparison.
What's worse is that anime translations seem to be going that route also, with speech-to-text run through something like Google Translate. Imagine when "okasan" gets picked up as "kuso".
El Reg seeks new mobile, wireless tech writer - could it be YOU?
WHY do phone cams turn me into a clumsy twat with dexterity of an elephant?
Boffins: Earth will be habitable for only 1.75 BEEELLION more years
I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future
Thursday 19th September 2013 20:50 GMT
Re: Bad for us?
> I, for one, noticed something as missing from this rosy picture - someone will still need to design and build all those robots that will make food and clothes and skyscrapers and fondleslabs. And someone else will have to fix them when they break in completely unexpected ways.
I was watching the movie "Idiocracy" earlier in the week, and was thinking the same thing. With the population having been dumbed down to the extent that a totally average person from 2005 is the smartest person alive, and with a world basically run on technology, then who is designing, building, and maintaining all of this technology, like the Carl's Jr "food" dispenser and the automatic barcode tattoo machine?
Thursday 19th September 2013 20:33 GMT
Re: Just close the loop entirely
> I live in Vancouver and we have the Skytrain rapid transit. There is no driver or conductor. There is a control centre and staff wandering about making sure people are alright.
And the staff have to take over the controls and actually drive the things whenever there's anything more than a light dusting of snow.
They want to do the same to buses and make them driverless (Translink + Google now there's a scary combination).
One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?
Wednesday 18th September 2013 22:56 GMT
Re: Independant Scotland outside the EU... ha ha ha
> Why is Spain held to be indivisible?
Section 2 of the 1978 Spanish Constitution:
The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation, the common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards; it recognizes and guarantees the right to self-government of the nationalities and regions of which it is composed and the solidarity among them all.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
