Re: Shirley
RE: "The thing you missed is the ¡Bong! byline "
So what you are saying is everything in the article is bollocks? Got it!
Posts by Geoffrey W
1320 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jan 2009
The Bong Diaries, Pt.94: Bowie, Martha... and where's my knighthood?
No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs
Friday 15th January 2016 15:24 GMT
@KeithR
Don't worry. Plenty to go round. You can have a few of your own too :-) I even got moderated as well but I cant say why or it'll happen again. I wouldn't mind but I'm not a very good "Microsoft FanBoy" since I don't like much of how Windows 10 is being managed. The unstoppable windows updates, the data collection policies, and the aggressive pushing of win 10 on other versions. MS is its own worst enemy at times. But I refuse to call them "Slurp" like many here do, or get shriekingly hysterical. It is hilarious though and quite entertaining, once you stop being irritated by it.
Thursday 14th January 2016 09:29 GMT
For versions that are capable of connecting to a domain there is now a method of disabling windows 10 updates via the local group policy editor.
When I said no change I was referring to Home Premium versions of windows which indeed have not changed.They never could connect to a domain and they always have GWX enabled. That's still the case. I'm not approving of GWX, which I think is a pain in the ass, but for domain enabled versions there is now a genuine way of turning off the updates. You still might get initial notifications which will then prompt admins to go into the policy editor and turn them off. That fails to horrify me.
Thursday 14th January 2016 02:42 GMT
The article is not entirely accurate. It failed to mention another change Microsoft has made. They have now added a proper way to disable nags and disable windows 10 updates in all versions except Home, and not just enterprise versions. Since, I think, windows 7 home cannot join a domain there is no change there at all then. In professional and ultimate editions they have now added local group policies that allow you to control the win 10 upgrade process, including, I believe, disabling it altogether using the group policy editor. Its another click bait article poking the usual crowd of angry commenters without providing a full technical account of what actually is happening. See Ars Technica for a little more information:-
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/microsoft-finally-has-a-proper-way-to-opt-out-of-windows-78-to-windows-10-upgrades/
Going on a date, and it's just the two of you? How ... quaint. OkCupid's setting up threesomes
Good news! US broadband speeds are up. Bad news – they're still rubbish
Saturday 2nd January 2016 08:17 GMT
Re: 6Mb DSL on an average day...
You're singing my song. I rarely piss in the yard (though I could if I had to) but the bears certainly do. We watch them and it might not be as great as some of the videos on you tube but I can smell them and hear their breath, and the hair at the back of my neck tingles when they look at me and move closer. Real life is still better than the internet. I'll give Comcast their due though, they did manage to roll a few cables out this way. I just wish someone else would so I had a choice.
Saturday 2nd January 2016 05:48 GMT
Re: I feel sorry for you guys
Of equal interest and possibly of more value is how much those speeds cost you, and where in the world you are?
If it costs vastly more than my paltry bits cost me then my response is a shrug. If not then my response is unrepeatable except to the CEO of the provider of my paltry bits.
It's replicant Roy Batty's birthday – but hey, where's my killer robot?
Saturday 9th January 2016 19:37 GMT
Re: Your arsehole sthn. hemisphere 'moderators'
Bleu, I too have had posts moderated off the comments, usually when I say something about the Register which the Register disapproves of. However, I can still see those posts when I click on my user name and look at my comment activity. There they are, flagged as removed. And in the comments themselves will appear a blank stub where it used to live. If you see neither of these things then I suggest it is not the moderators to blame but the internet things that live under the internet bed and your comment looked a bit too closely to see what it was that was drooling down there and...alas...your shining pearls shine no more.
US Marines kill noisy BigDog robo-mule for blowing their cover
No, Kim Kardashian's plump posterior's pixels did not break the App Store – just this El Reg man's mind
Thursday 24th December 2015 23:35 GMT
Re: "The team is busy producing more little K's for when version 1 reaches its end of life."
Version 2 and above of this class of product rarely achieves the awesomeness and depth of version 1 and, personally, I think this product line has already peaked and they are about to enter the degenerate stage and enter rehab, at which point they will all appear on the Oprah show, or whatever is the latest flavour of whiny and earnest, to make their confessions about how they were abused as children and daddy didn't understand them and mummy was simply awful! Perhaps they already did that and I missed it. Dunno...
Thursday 24th December 2015 02:48 GMT
I very much doubt that Ms K herself turned anything into an emoji as her fingernails are too long and her brain (probably) too short for her to work a keyboard with enough coherence to produce an emoji or an app. Ms K is a product and is sold by a management team and PR department the same way as any other product. The team is busy producing more little K's for when version 1 reaches its end of life. If you do not like this proprietary celebrity there are plenty of free and open source celebrities busy promoting themselves right now. See You Tube for numerous examples. If you prefer alternative opiates then there is a glut of porn to choose from, or a fine selection of religions and political parties to suit every taste. There are even actual opiates should you be unable to adjust to more abstract distractions and require something with more substance.
UK ISP Sky to make smut an opt-in service from 2016
Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?
Facepalm time: MS Office update wipes custom Word autotext
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 03:42 GMT
Re: Gone!
Look, I'm not a fan of MS Office and haven't used it for many a decade, but how does this glitch make you want to stop using it if you hadn't already reached that point? The story says it renames the file - Can't you just rename it back again or something? I dunno, maybe that's not possible and I have no way of knowing since I use neither windows 10 nor Office, but, FFS!
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 00:46 GMT
I think you're missing my point. The story is about a windows 10 security patch so there is no rejection of windows 10 involved. If this happened to you then you already have windows 10 installed.
Now, if this also happens to other versions of windows then your theory just *Might* have some vague possibilities, though as yet totally unproven, but until it does happen on a non windows 10 machine then its just making up shit.
And anyway, its about renaming the existing normal.dotm so that it reverts to the system default. How on earth is that an attack vector? Your logic still evades me.
Chicago cops under fire for astonishingly high dashcam, mic failures
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 03:23 GMT
I remember reading that the military had, or have, lots of surplus and outdated equipment they don't know what to do with, so it gets sold off, or perhaps loaned, at enormously reduced prices to the police. I believe there also exist certain clauses in the contract for this equipment that if they do not use it within a certain period then they lose it. A use it or lose it clause on big guns and vehicles sounds like a dubious idea to me.
Free Wi-Fi for the NHS, promises health secretary Jeremy Hunt
Monday 21st December 2015 16:22 GMT
Re: Silliest thing I've read in a long time
Online health tools you can use at home is great, but if you're already in the hospital awaiting blood test results then I see little worth in knowing the results before your doctors do. There's little you can do about it except worry - they already got their hands on you. I suppose it would allow you to see the actual results and double check what you are being told, but, still, doesn't seem a priority to me. Great to get WiFi in hospital but deal with it when all other priorities are dealt with first maybe
13,000 Comcast customers complain to FCC over data caps
Thursday 17th December 2015 23:32 GMT
Comcast is losing revenue because of all the users, of which I am one, dropping their overpriced and over bundled cable TV services. They have to make it back some how and no doubt feel justified since we are using their internet to watch TV instead of paying them to watch it. Think I will be joining the complain-a-thon too, and checking my actual usage against their alleged usage.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Star Wars Special Editions
Friday 18th December 2015 05:23 GMT
Re: Am I the only one ...
"My brother's other half not only hasn't seen any of the SW movies, she adamantly refuses to watch them"
I assume your brother does like Star Wars (otherwise its a bit of a pointless post), and here I am with a woman who loves Star Wars, while I don't. The Joke God in the sky does like his petty torments. Still, I love her dearly, and her lovely big bottom, so I will endure this new film bravely.
Thursday 17th December 2015 13:45 GMT
Re: Am I the only one ...
You're not alone. I was something of a punk at the time and scowled ferociously at such populist nonsense. I have however seen one or two of the more recent things as it would have been churlish to let my wife go on her own. I didn't enjoy them. One of them contained Jar Jar Binks. The things you do for love.
Let's shut down the internet: Republicans vacate their mind bowels
Thursday 17th December 2015 02:18 GMT
Re: "Vacated their mind bowels" - a lovely phrase
@big john
I could say that the Register was just doing (the opposite of) what you often claim your beloved Rush Limbaugh does all the time: Baiting Liberals (Conservatives in this case). You applaud Rush for what he does, so I would assume its likewise OK to bait folks like yourself. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
But, really, The Register is a tech website that prides itself on its sarcastic tone and, as such, was merely reporting in its own house style on the tech subjects being debated by a group of potentially very influential people who it appears are extremely ignorant of tech subjects. If you feel that's not worthy of comment then what on earth are we all supposed to do? Take a GOP favoring stance and gloss over all the shortcomings of what the GOP hopefuls say, just because some like yourself approve of them? Perhaps ignore what they say altogether? And if we take a GOP friendly stance in this case then presumably we are also to take a Democratic friendly stance when they get up to yack about all the shit they know nothing about, and your good self will likewise keep silent also in deference to the liberals reading?
Enraged Brits demand Donald Trump UK ban
Microsoft pitches lobotomized Cortana for iOS, Android handsets
Thursday 10th December 2015 06:43 GMT
Re: Pointless
If you are a Brit, as you appear to be from your post, then what on earth are you doing up at 6 in the morning? Everyone (in the USA) knows Europeans only work 3 hours a day and spend most of their time drinking and eating and avoiding good honest toil, and watching sex on your tiny TV's in your minuscule terraced houses. You dont fool me; You're an agent of SLURP!
Thursday 10th December 2015 05:56 GMT
Re: Pointless
Glad you're here to keep us all safe by letting us know what SLURP and their sinister cronies are up to. You are one of the few who are still aware that SLURP is a thing and they must be so desperate by now that they will be hunting you down with helicopters and little tiny robots that can scuttle up walls and scan your brains with laser beams...best be safe and dump ALL your devices in the river...go DARK...NOW...before they find you...its not too late!
Donald Trump wants Bill Gates to 'close the Internet', Jeff Bezos to pay tax
Tuesday 8th December 2015 23:10 GMT
Re: Vote Chump
@Chris G
If you give any credence to the "Clinton Murders" then you are either a moron or your bias is preventing you seeing how stupid that is. Snopes, as ever, has an excellent article about it and can give it the analysis I can't here
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
Microsoft drops dogma, open-sources Chakra JavaScript engine
From Zero to hero: Why mini 'puter Oberon should grab Pi's crown
Google snoops on kids via Chromebooks, claims EFF in FTC filing
Visual Studio Code: The top five features
Microsoft takes PUPs behind the shed with gun in hand
Monday 30th November 2015 17:00 GMT
Re: So When is Oracle Removed
RE: "Who gets to decide?"
The user probably when the PUP detector tells us what it found.
RE: "Ask Toolbar...Personally, I think it's garbage - but I guess some people use it."
Hence the name Potentially Unwanted Program. *Potentially*. I expect Slurp is also going to break with tradition and not present a list of what it found so the user can choose what to remove but will instead just remove whatever it wants to. There you go, another scary possibility to keep you awake at night.
Monday 30th November 2015 04:28 GMT
Re: So When is Oracle Removed
Really? Is that truly and honestly what you think? That Microsoft is going to remove MySQL and other competitors from computers under control of its operating systems? Christ on a Bike, your tin foil hat is leaking. Oh, and before I forget, you win first mention of SLURP in this thread. Well done dood! And don't worry, your *Sheeple* pals will rally round and downvote me to hell and back.
Now look what you made me do. I'm gonna have to stop reading these Microsoft, sorry, SLURP comments; they're getting increasingly moronic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
