Re: Update your Adobe PDF software...
Master PDF Editor works for me
Posts by tony2heads
1220 posts • joined 1 Apr 2010
Haven't updated your Adobe PDF software lately? Here's 85 new reasons to do it now
Windows 10 passes 700 million, Office Mobile in a coma and Intune, er, cracks time travel
Re: Win 10 win by attrition
Win 10 was pre-installed on my home computer, but I looked at the news on data slurping and updates, so I installed Ubuntu.
DEF CON hackers' dossier on US voting machine security is just as grim as feared
Re: Graveyard voting
That would account for the zombies they have in office
Fallover Friday: NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank go TITSUP*
Re: Back now
Movie services into the clown
Was that a typo or not??
Tech to solve post-Brexit customs woes doesn't exist yet, peers say
Re: The answer is...
Yes, they are using Natural Stupidity rather that Artificial Intelligence
Fujitsu says sayonara to UK exec heavyweights
Re: I wonder why
to quote The Who:
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'
Re: The American Midwest is famous
Well don't wait for the Yellowstone Supervolcano to erupt.
Google is 20, Chrome is 10, and Microsoft would rather ignore the Nokia deal's 5th birthday
Trainer regrets giving straight answer to staffer's odd question
Coca cola contains nasty amounts of phosphoric acid and the sugar glues the keyboard (drink unsweetened tea if you must do it next to a keyboard
Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts
Re: Case sensor
At home it is known as BFI, Brute Force and Ignorance.
Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)
Also
What happens with fully automated image collection systems (webcams, systems triggered by animals or people going past) where nobody actually consciously made the image. What is the copyright situation on them?
But what if..
If I take a photo of the image on the website (e.g with my camera) do I have copyright on my photo of it?
New age discrim row: Accenture, Facebook sued by sales boss for favoring 'new blood'
Young blood
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed could be your role model.
Think of the children!!
Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered
Re: One little pill?
forget the pills- just eat berries and grapes, drink cocoa and red wine.
Add a few peanuts into the mix for variety
Well, well, well. Crime does pay: Ransomware creeps let off with community service
ReactOS 0.4.9 release metes out stability and self-hosting, still looks like a '90s fever dream
Who watches Sony's watcher? Boffins poke holes in surveillance kit
Re: Who trusts Sony?
Indeed I haven't bought anything from them since the rootkit scandal
Apache Cassandra at 10: Making a community believe in NoSQL
Scam alert: No, hackers don't have webcam vids of you enjoying p0rno. Don't give them any $$s
One two three... Go: Long Pig Microsoft avoids cannibalising Surface
Re: "It's an office runtime for students"
Serious documentation should be in Tex or LaTex
Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars
Larva
If this is the hole that the larva made, I would hate to meet the adult form
Former wig-wearing Twitterphobe replaces Hancock as UK.gov's Secretary of Fun
Brexiteers jump ship
I believe the usual idiom is 'like rats off a sinking ship'.
To switch idiom; Capt May has hit the iceberg but continues to order full steam ahead
IBM fired me because I'm not a millennial, says axed cloud sales star in age discrim court row
Re: 60 year old boomer
I defy any sane person to understand IBM’s business strategy.
A £1.3m prize for a plunging share price at BT? Not so fast...
RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89
Re: Anyone who hasn't seen Noggin The Nog recently needs a trip to...
Personally I think Olaf the Lofty was a somebody I could identify with
Bankrupt Aussie Hells Angel scoops £750k lottery jackpot
Police are said to have flagged the win as suspicious.
Do they mean that the Hells Angels run the lottery is Australia??
What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++
closer to the Mary Rose
The Tudor warship performed well for decade until the upgrade.
Developer’s code worked, but not in the right century
Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog
Re: The government position:
DWP and 'agile' do not even belong in the same universe.
DWP belongs with slow, cumbersome, rules-based, box-ticking, legacy.
Agile belongs with new, experimental, startup.
It's like running a bus with a formula-1 engine.
10 social networks ignored UK government consultations
“And after all, these companies were set up to make the world a better place."
What universe does she come from?
Companies are set up to make MONEY.
LocationDumb: Phone tracker foul-up exposes world+dog to tracking
Re: carriers sell the data to services
DEATH to corporations!!
If they can swindle and kill they should be sentence appropriately.
John McAfee ‘goes underground’ in motorcade to flee SEC
Batshit crazy - perhaps
but he definitely has his own small army, so I would not push the point too hard.
How many ways can a PDF mess up your PC? 47 in this Adobe update alone
UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures
Cloud themselves
Surely the UK government with all the HMRC, NHS and other stuff would be big enough to run their own cloud.
Or is that a stupid idea?
NASA boss insists US returning to the Moon after Peanuts to show for past four decades
Google's socially awkward geeks craft socially awkward AI bot that calls people for you
Re: "The software pretends to be you, or act for you"...
Google are starting to morph into the Sirius Cybernetics corporation with 'socially awkward' AI.
Share and Enjoy!
I spy with my little eye ... a quantum drum with TRILLIONS of atoms
Windows 10 Spring Creators Update team explains the hold-up: You little BSOD!
*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode
Shhh! Don’t tell KillBots the UN’s about to debate which ones to ban
Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?
Re: "...a [Lidar] blind spot low to the ground all around the car."
What about sinkholes?
BT: We're shuttering final salary pension scheme
Re: I suspect that there will come a time
@J27
They definitely did exist once -my father in law had one. The are thought to be extinct but may still exist, like the coelacanth, in obscure parts of the world.
Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation
Not dead, but asleep
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Bad blood: Theranos CEO charged with massive fraud
Re: 2014: "...simply made up figures."
aren't they just 'alternative figures' just as we now have 'alternative truth' ?
BTW how did this stuff get past accountants for so long?
Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thing
Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: open-source the UPS
Diesel generator
I assume there is a seriously large flywheel in the system to get you therough the diesel startup.
Re: Cheapo UPS?
Seriously WTF.
They can't or won't (for cost reasons) supply him with power, but when he gets his own setup working they want to sue him..
In many other places he would be lauded for getting his own solar powered system.
