Re: Dross?
Definitely worth watching.
Spoiler Alert! Later seasons are a bit more adult than earlier seasons, so you might want to check them out before you let your kids watch.
Posts by John 110
431 posts • joined 10 Aug 2009
'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin
LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want
Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs
Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?
Tuesday 29th January 2019 14:52 GMT
Re: thanks to my family I can't
The main problem is that the majority of folk aren't the sort of paranoid savvy individuals that you find here at the Reg. I've tried to get the other half to switch from Chrome to something that doesn't collect her data, but "Chrome already works" and the effort to switch is too energy intensive for her (she is ill after all)
But even those people that do have the capability to take more care of their personal data just can't be arsed if it means trying to learn something different.
Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight
Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?
Microsoft: Come and play in our Windows SandBox
Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics
Friday 7th December 2018 10:42 GMT
25 years of IT support...
...in a laboratory where Louis Pasteur would recognise the techniques we use.
* One poor soul couldn't understand why that big silver DELL button didn't turn the computer on.
* Our office manager (who could lay out documents on a typewriter that you would swear had been professionally typeset) kept all her correspondence in a single Word file (5 for DOS, then kept the practice up when we transitioned to 2.0 on Win 3.11).
* A friend who took early retirement rather than have to face using a PC every day.
It's easy to mock these people, especially when we work in a high-tech environment, but like I say, I've worked 45 years in a microbiology lab (25 of those in IT support) and the technological changes we've seen in that time have been unbelievable (look up MALDI-TOF). The pc revolution just seemed like one more thing to cope with for some people.
These days of course, we're sitting people down in front of desktop PCs using keyboard oriented software, when their computing experience is mainly stabbing their finger at a phone or iPad. Still, keeps me in a job (until next year)
Huawei MateBook Pro X: PC makers look out, the phone guys are here
Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid
Wombats literally sh!t bricks – and now boffins reckon they know how
Brexit: UK will be disconnected from EU databases after 2020
Watchdog sceptical UK.gov's Universal Credit can handle 8.5m benefits claimants
With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?
Friday 12th October 2018 14:28 GMT
Re: No worries
""I'm surprised we haven't already done the 'space force' thing, actually."
You have. It's called USAF Space Command."
Yeah, but they run the Stargate program and you can't use that to get to Earth orbit unless you gate to a planet with a goa'uld mothership (and that would be bad)
Does Google make hardware just so nobody buys it?
30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days
It's a mug's game: Watch AI robot grab a cuppa it hasn't seen before
NASA 'sextortionist' allegedly tricked women into revealing their password reset answers, stole their nude selfies
Trainer regrets giving straight answer to staffer's odd question
BlackBerry, Sony, Honor and LG flash their new phones for all to see
Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep
Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything
Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything
Happy birthday, you lumbering MS-DOS-based mess: Windows 98 turns 20 today
Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space
NASA finds more stuff suggesting Mars could have hosted life, maybe
Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory
Tuesday 5th June 2018 15:42 GMT
Re: This is why science rocks
"but if you have to sully it with water at least do it the honour of using spring water and not that chemically tainted tap excretion...."
Is that spring water that you collected yourself from an actual spring (NOT downhill from a sheepdip pit!) or Spring Water that some other bugger has bottled from HIS tap just for you (and your wallet)?
Just curious.
Personally I wouldn't put anything in whisky, but if I'm forced to drink water...
AIOps they did it again, played with your heart, new acronym shame
You should find out what's going on in that neural network. Y'know they're cheating now?
Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech
45-day drone flights? You are like a little baby. How about a full YEAR?
Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed
Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat
Tuesday 10th April 2018 10:36 GMT
Re: Although...
It's good to know I'm not alone, although I put it down to carelessness on the part of someone giving their email address. These days I just delete the emails, but I have been known to report them to abuse@ whoever sent them, and once I went the extra mile to inform a doctor's practise in California that their patient was never going to turn up for surgery... (That was hard, due to a reluctance on the part of the practise to put any contact details on the website that didn't need logged in to, and I wasn't going to phone them)
Happy 100th birthday to the Royal Air Force
Saturday 31st March 2018 21:51 GMT
Re: What about Martin Baker?
@skippybing
Interesting thread you linked to. Thanks.
Having read the first couple of pages, the reaction to the prosecution seems mixed, but the consensus seems to be that it was the right thing to do.
[disclaimer] I was too lazy^h^h^h^hbusy to read the whole thread, so opinion may have shifted towards the end.
Autonomous vehicle claims are just a load of hot air… and here's why
Friday 30th March 2018 13:41 GMT
Re: BTW
"...horrors the Brits perpetrate when making/serving coffee. ;-)"
Coffee bag in a mug. Add boiling water. Risk blistered fingers by dunking it about a bit until it's cooled enough to drink. Drink slowly, leaving bag in mug to achieve a turkish level of strength by the time you get to the end.
What's wrong with that?
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough
Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
A ghoulish tale of pigs, devs and docs revived from the dead
Japan's Robo-Bartenders point to a golden future
Tuesday 20th February 2018 15:11 GMT 
Heard in the pub I used to work in (working class - Scottish)
"Could you fit a nip in there?"
"Aye"
"Well top it up then, I asked for a Pint"
Tradition was to hand over the first pint while filling the rest, the punter would drink the first mouthful, then ask for a topup (used the honesty principle to ensure that the first mouthful wasn't pint-sized)
Ah the seventies - where did they go?
Capita contract probed after thousands of clinical letters stuffed in a drawer somewhere
Friday 2nd February 2018 12:08 GMT
Meanwhile in NHS Tayside...
The Tory MSP for NE Scotland is complaining about £100,000 worth of uneaten food in Tayside hospitals, claiming it's " further evidence of the health board’s inefficiency"
Oh - and it's not privatised...
It kinda puts a bill for £6m for sorting out a cock-up into perspective, eh.
