* Posts by J. R. Hartley

1016 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2011

Behind the scenes of Slovaks' fight to liberate their .sk domain

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Re: Cross-border domain shopping

What?

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The title is no longer required

First rule of downvotes is that we don't talk about downvotes.

PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet

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For the craic.

Tesla death smash probe: Neither driver nor autopilot saw the truck

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Re: They still call it Autopilot?

I think they've since changed the name.

Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation – so the AI learned to lie

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Just what do you think you're doing, Dave.

Can they lipread yet?

Raspberry Pi sours thanks to mining malware

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Re: "...it's a sufficiently common devuce..."

*spelt

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law gets six months for hacking sweary super-chef's computer

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Wow

Wowowowow

'My PC needs to lose weight' says user with FAT filesystem

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Re: Too bad he didn't use FAT32...

FFS

Use an Amiga instead.

Qualcomm names its Windows 10 ARM PC partners

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Re: Stop me if this sounds familiar...

ROM towers may or may not be involved.

Extreme Networks confirms it's buying Avaya's network biz

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The curse of Commodore, sorry I mean Nortel, continues.

What is dead may never die: a new version of OS/2 just arrived

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Clunky?

Wasn't the GUI taken from the Amiga? Wash your mouth out!

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Re: Obscurity

The bastards!

Microsoft plans summer CRM war opener against Salesforce

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Satya

Show Cook how everything you touch turns to shit.

Foxconn, Apple, big biz circle Toshiba's memory biz cash cow – rumors

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It's not looking good

Is it.

Mondays suck. So why not spend yours playing with an original Mac and games in your browser

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No thanks

Microsoft raises pistol, pulls the trigger on Windows 7, 8 updates for new Intel, AMD chips

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Somebody explain it to her

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How do I get out of this chicken shit outfit?

Cyberattacks wipe more than $50bn off big biz value, say beancounters

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sy£tems?

Shirley you mean syst£ms? Or sy$tems? :/

US military makes first drop of Mother-of-All-Bombs on Daesh-bags

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Mushroom

Stupid bastards

When will they learn. One can't simply bomb ISIS out of existence, the same way one couldn't bomb the IRA out of existence. Look at the size of Northern Ireland and consider that at the height of the conflict there were 35000 British soldiers on the ground and they were totally ineffective. To make matters worse, there is no reasoning with ISIS.

In summary then: we're fucked.

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

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Just you wait...

April proves to be the cruellest month again as Fujitsu staff down tools

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Wankers

Thank fuck I'm out of there.

Apple finally teaches Android music app to validate certificates

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Apple in 2017?

Lol

Facebook's 'delightful' AI Clippy the Paperclip creeps into Messenger

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Just what do you think you're doing, Dave.

Boaty McBoatface sinks in South Atlantic on her maiden deployment

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Clickbait

Can't we have an official Clickbait category for some stories? That would actually be really cool.

Printer blown to bits by compressed air

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Making them inhale the dead flesh of their colleagues. Are you the BOFH?

Mac Pro update: Apple promises another pricey thing it will no doubt abandon after a year

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Bollocks

Build a Hackintosh if you want a decent Mac. Like back in the 90s when the quickest way to run Mac software was on an Amiga running Shapeshifter.

Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall

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Really? Like the way no-one listens to techno?

UK's 'homebrew firmware' Chinooks set to be usable a mere 16 years late

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I say, old bean. Are you from the colonies?

I need an ISP that offers IPv6. Virgin Media: Whatevs, nerd

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Am I the only one...

That actually prefers IPv4 and NAT rather than the madness of IPv6?

FYI Docs.com users: You may have leaked passwords, personal info – thousands have

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What a pisser

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

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Web2.0rrhea at its finest.

'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court

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Damage to hardware?

Does information stored magnetically count as hardware?

It's happening! It's happening! W3C erects DRM as web standard

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This is heavy

Huawei's P10 breathing on Samsung's shoulder

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But does it play Stonehenge?

BlackBerry admits dying BB10 is in pain

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Sad end of a company

It's a bad time to have a RIM job.

Cisco reports bug disclosed in WikiLeaks' Vault 7 CIA dump

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The title is no longer required.

Really no excuse for not using SSH these days.

Bloke cuffed after 'You deserve a seizure' GIF tweet gave epileptic a fit

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Re: Attempted manslaughter?

Very good, Poirot. Spot the question mark.

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Attempted manslaughter?

He tried to fuck him up in such a way that he knew could have killed him.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

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See ye

Boffins Rickroll smartphone by tickling its accelerometer

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Johnson

This is bollocks, Mark.

Do you use .home and .mail on your network? ICANN mulls .corp, .mail, .home dot-word domains

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This is the biggest load of ballix I've ever heard. Between IPv6 and dot everything, the internet is becoming frankly a bit silly.

UK to block Kodi pirates in real-time: Saturday kick-off

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FAPL

Isn't that what fanbois do?

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Will it work?

No.

Microsoft nicks one more Apple idea: An ad-supported OS

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Urgh

Windows really is an abomination. It's almost like they are purposely killing it. Win7 and Office 2007 are definitely peak Windows. I miss the Amiga.

Lloyds to outsource 2,000 staff in IBM deal

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Re: Thanks for the heads up

Oh brilliant!! I must open an account with them and wait for things to go titsup a la Ulster Bank. A lot of people got a lot of free money from that fuckup.

Marissa! Mayer! out! as! CEO! of! Yahoo! corpse! post-Verizon! gobble!

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Shitting! Crikey!

Vodafone to bring 2,100 customer service jobs in-house

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Meh

Vodafone customer service droids are the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking earth.

Where in the world is Fast.co.uk web hosting?

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As a pedant etc

*He's

*pining

*fjords.

See me.