Posts by David 132

Re: Kvetching

>I can't. I am a humble reporter.

Right, but I'm sure the associated mountains of gold and cocaine and hordes of adoring journo-groupies make up for that, yes?

It's an animated GIF (remember them?) not a "video" per se, and the corruption seems to appear when it's scaled down, as it is embedded in the article. Clicking opens it at full size, whereupon it works.

Out of interest, I wonder if this is browser-specific? For what it's worth I'm using Firefox 114 on Windows.

Either that or it's the Reg's scaling algorithm that's wonky.

Re: The aforementioned IPAs

Sounds like Rivos have a pretty stout defence.

But then, it's Apple, so anything gose. Whether the employees knowingly took the information could be the de-cider.

Re: Really .... ???!!!

I just noticed that I mistyped "schadenfreude" in my earlier comment, and yet you were far too nice to say anything about it.

Still, the temptation to gloat at my misfortune must have been huge. There must be a word for that, I'm sure :P

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

Right-click on a point on the map and select "Report a data problem".

From there you can add or delete roads - or at least, request the changes - report business-listing problems, etc etc.

I've done it a couple of times because Google is adamant that my driveway connects to my neighbors' driveway. Anyone turning onto mine in the hope of getting to the neighbors is bound for disappointment.

Re: allow Copilot to interrogate shoppers

I spotted one Red Dwarf reference there and one Pink Floyd. Have one of these ->

<Fry>

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

</Fry>

Re: I let the scammers in once...

> One day, he got a scam call. As proof of payment, he sent the "picture of my credit card" to the scammers. The last thing the Brit heard from the scammer were "oh, no. What is going on? Why did you do that? What did you just sent me?" And the line went dead.

I like it! The biter bit. Kudos to that researcher.

Re: ICC - International Criminal Court (or vassals of the USA empire)

Don’t bother to feed the troll orc.

I knew this story would attract the usual useful idiots with their vacuous anti-Western blitherings! Pitiful, aren’t they?

Whatever you do, don't at this point remember Crazy Frog and have it as an earworm for the rest of the day.

Muhahahaha. You're welcome.

:-P

Re: So it took them three full years to determine this?

> and they are only getting around to Apple now?

It'll be a long long long time before they get to Zyxel, then...

Re: Inevitable

> Unless your core business is being a CRM vendor, you're better off changing your business to suit one of the many CRM systems. It'll be cheaper, quicker and less hassle.

Ah, CRM inspired by the Bed of Procrustes!

Re: Rabbit nozzles

Either that or it’s some new street drug that all the edgy kids are now using?

Re: Firefox

Upvoted for a very detailed and helpful 'splainer.

However, I'm docking you one-tenth of a Quatloo for typing "loose [sic] any settings" !

God, now I'm having flashbacks to the "Bribery and Anti-Corruption" training I was made to re-take every year in my former life at a large US company. "If you have taken this training before, you can choose to skip straight to the test. If you fail the test, you will have to sit through the whole bloody boring and patronising thing all over again, and endure it as it uses painfully staged actors taking 10 minutes each time to role-play a scenario that could be described in one 10-second paragraph. Clockwork Orange-style eyelid clamps will be provided. If you scream or whimper, the entire training will start over."

One of my few pleasures was telling my boss, when in weekly Staff meeting he asked if I'd done it, "Yes, I bribed an underage child of a North Korean government official to take it for me..." - seeing each year how many violations I could lard into one response :)

Re: Circuit Breakers - whose turn to be Igor?

“For the last time, it’s pronounced ‘Fronkensteen’!”

Re: Being based off ...

"Oh no, not again"

Re: Shame.....

I have noticed that in the more recent versions of iOS, Siri handles dictated words it can't recognize by simply ignoring them, whereas before it would at least have a stab at transcribing them. Is it better, or worse, to send texts that say (for example):

"I will be there, fuel" (current behaviour, with multiple words omitted), or

"I will be there short Lee half two git fuel" (previously)

Personally I preferred the earlier behaviour; while frustrating and comical in equal measure, it was usually at least possible to figure out what the sender was trying to say.

As others have pointed out, Siri is also completely context-unaware; if I am passing the town of "Jonesberg", for example (name tweaked slightly for purposes of example), and have typed that name in multiple texts over many, many months, why does Siri insist on transcribing it as "Jonesburgh"? Which isn't even a similar pronunciation?

Grrr.

Re: 'Legacy' support

I have a feeling that in 2038, a non-trivial number of *nix systems will suddenly think it’s 1970, so never mind BIOS… punched-card support needs to be maintained in the kernel.

Re: Map book?

You are truly a Fountainhead of knowledge.

Re: I ditched HP printers

For really exciting spam, hook up your 3D printer to the Internet!

Re: Life's history

If it's just two people traveling, then two thousand years of travel would involve 1.46 billion beers if they are only drinking one a day.

Or they’d go into stasis for the trip, leaving the ship’s computer to handle the navigation… kept sane only by his collection of singing potatoes.

Re: Second level nerfing

"And Arnold, the things this boy can do with Alphabetti Spaghetti..."

Re: As expected

So you’re saying this latest thing is a Pons-y scheme too?