Posts by MrDamage

In other news

Scientists explain that even if you wear your underpants over the top of your trousers you still cannot fly.

Michio Kaku has explored this idea

And he decided that plasma was the way to go, instead of lasers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lr5OUjFDkg

Sod off the autoplay. And the auto-expansion.

I understand El Reg needs the ads for revenue, but by having them as autoplay audio/visual, basically put El Reg in the same basket as all the other dodgy wannabee web-pages that were coded by inept sloths with brains of mouldy cheese.

El Reg staff should know by now, us visitors to your site have zero issues with text and banner ads, and will more than likely click on them to show your advertisers that they are getting value for money.

Autoplay video and audio, just ensures your readership switches on ad blockers.

Given that

The average yank is about 100 times more likely to be on the receiving end of a bullet from a disenfranchised loner, than they are to be blown up by a beardy weirdy, wouldn't it make more sense for "Yo, bummer" to do something about gun control, before tackling the mathematically impossible?*

*Yes, gun control in the USA is also mathematically impossible. The politicians refused to give up the huge numbers the NRA dump into their pockets.

Here's some violence and porn

Aimed directly at these politicians.

Get the fuck out of our lives before I jam my boo up your collective arses.

worrying trend

The NSW govt in Oz has implmented all these extra laws in wake of a few alcohol fueled "one punch deaths", which include most clubs, and a lot of late night pubs, scanning a copy of your ID, making them a prime target for hackers intent on ID theft.

Typically, the govt will shirk all responsibility if ID theft occurs, and will instead blame the pub and club owners for the theft, despite them mandating the ID scanning, and the type of systems required.

For a moment

I thought the article ha something to do with the after effects of all that borscht they had to resort to eating after the last resupply failed.

How much

Of the "considerable increase" in Win10 uptake, is not due to people actually wanting it, but by Redmond forcibly installing it?

Dangerous Precedent

Now that this moronic wig-wearer has sided with an iTard's reasoning that he should never, ever, have to be responsible for his own data, computer shops around the UK will now have to make up big signs declaring that they cannot be held responsible for loss of data due to the computer/phone/fondleslab owners laziness.

Car Analogy:

A man takes his car in to the dealer due to the radio producing nothing but static, and then sues the dealer for not re-programming the replacement radio with his favourite stations.

The question remains

Why the hell was this thing ratified in secret?

At the very least the ACCC and Fair Trading Commission should have gotten their hands on it to raise these flags before any pens hit paper to sign off on it.

One Invoice is all it takes

Send the old employer one invoice (maybe from the new employer as the "out-sourcing provider") for your time rated at $2k/hour, minimum 2 hours work billed, and watch those letters/calls/texts/emails dry up quickly.

Not to mention now that they have been "reddit'd", the old employer might have a hard time finding a replacement tech.

So...

What they actually mean to say, is that instead of powering off like you tell it to, it goes into standby mode.

Off is exactly that. It's dead. No power, no activity, nothing. If it keeps drawing almost as much power as it's "on" state because it "has to wake up and start recording at any time", then it's in standby mode.

To label it otherwise, is false and misleading advertising.

Extend, embrace, extinguish

Now applies to your privacy.

I'd trust a politician with all of my worldy wealth more than I'd trust Microsoft with my privacy.

No keyboard, no sale.

Call me old fashioned. Call me a relic, but I'm not interested in phones which are touch only.

The only media consumption that occurs on my phone is music, and the occasional web page while waiting for a bus/train, the rest of the time it's used for emails and messaging, which the keyboard makes so much faster and easier.

Obligatory response....

You're charging it wrong.

Snarkiness aside, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a conflict of settings causing it. For example "Keep screen active while charging" and "power screen down if unused for X minutes". Given how other products sold by apple do not seem to undergo real world testing prior to release (Like how a certain device is meant to be held), it would no surprise me in the slightest they didnt bother testing a charge/use cycle common in the real world.

I may be missing something here...

The Vic govt implemented a BYOD regime, then decided that the teachers couldn't actually use their own devices, but instead had to pay for the privilege of bringing a govt supplied device in?

Hubert Farnsworth summed it best.

Booze? or Flies?

Given how we tend not to use our mouths as much when we speak, our accent could have as much to do with our dislike of swallowing the hordes of flies that are prevalent during summer, as it could have to do with our like of swallowing large amounts of beer during summer.