* Posts by Spacedinvader

295 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2014

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I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

Spacedinvader
Facepalm

Re: Rudest, Dumbest - same thing no?

I've had the opposite. Call help desk to report an email issue only to be told to send an email to the help desk.

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Spacedinvader
FAIL

Re: manifesto pledges aren't binding

No, you confirmed "leave". Can't leave the Tory's if you're not one of them.

Spacedinvader
FAIL

Re: manifesto pledges aren't binding

To then "rejoin the EU". That's not independence.

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Spacedinvader
Coffee/keyboard

Re: Is there no societal problem to be addressed?

new kb required, you utter bastard (bloody brilliant)

AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you're from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast...

Spacedinvader
Pirate

Re: Regional accents

"replacing missing Rs on ends of some words"

So you're a pirate?

Butterfingers who don't bother with phone cases, rejoice: New Gorilla Glass 'Victus' tipped to survive 6ft drops

Spacedinvader
Joke

Re: Is that what the marketing department were after? @AC

Romanes eunt domus

Fitness freaks flummoxed as massive global Garmin outage leaves them high and dry for hours

Spacedinvader
Unhappy

Re: Just upload manually to Strava..

Take phone, google tracks yer arse anyway....

VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide

Spacedinvader
Stop

You can't be serious, Shirley?

My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law

Spacedinvader
Pint

Heading in to one?!

Text is required here - have a beer

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Pint

Re: My computer, my rules.

That's all of us...

Teardown nerds delve into Dell's new XPS 15 laptop to find – fancy that – screws and user-serviceable parts

Spacedinvader
Headmaster

upvoted but...

Rossmann

AMD fans forced to sit out latest Windows 10 Insiders build due to 'bug impacting overall usability of these PCs'

Spacedinvader
Pint

Re: Don't cheer too loudly

Have a beer, looks like you need one :)

The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com

Spacedinvader

Xerox

I have. It was shit.

Microsoft's own operating system should finally start working on its own hardware ... 'in the coming weeks'

Spacedinvader
WTF?

"We're offering this update to compatible devices, but your device isn't quite ready for it"

How the hell is it the DEVICE that isn't ready??

Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app

Spacedinvader
Black Helicopters

Re: NHS Test-and-Tag

Wrong icon :)

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Paris Hilton

Re: I always read Dido Harding...

a dildo that would run at a slow speed, be unreliable, and likely leak your personal details.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/04/intimate_adult_toy_fails_penetration_test/

Spacedinvader
Pint

Re: Chair of NHS Improvement

I actually did work with a chap with that name...

NASA's Human Spaceflight boss hits eject a week before SpaceX crew launch

Spacedinvader
Stop

Re: Going while the going's good

"250m mile journey"

The moon is a tad closer than that...

Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones

Spacedinvader
Joke

BOSE

Buy Other Sound Equipment

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Spacedinvader
Pint

Quinone

So we all just get shit faced on G&Ts while this goes down? Sounds like a plan!

Mine's a pint of the stuff -->

Spacedinvader
Unhappy

Re: Echo chamber aside

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/family-says-21-year-old-british-woman-with-no-underlying-health-issues-died-from-coronavirus

Young, female and healthy...

Rotherwood Healthcare AWS bucket security fail left elderly patients' DNR choices freely readable online

Spacedinvader
Joke

If it had random capitalised words throughout I'd have said Google translate was bombastic bob...

Don't break your swanky new Motorola Razr, you probably won't be able to get it fixed

Spacedinvader
Headmaster

Re: I wish they brought back the original V3i RAZR

"shirt pocket compatible"

Rub the nip right off you

--->

face when nip is sore

Microsoft ups the ante with fix-fixing patch that leaves some Windows Server 2008 machines unable to boot

Spacedinvader
FAIL

Re: MS wants us to move on...

"it's not available for mere mortals" and "disable telemetry almost completely"

So we can't get it and it still slurps? Shadow System's comment stands.

Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime

Spacedinvader
Devil

Never trust a copper with a pencil

Notes can be rubbed out...

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

Spacedinvader
Unhappy

Re: "saving more than £1m in taxpayer cash compared to more traditional methods"

They're supposed to and guarantee the work for 2 years...

We need to make it even easier for UK terror cops to rummage about in folks' phones, says govt lawyer

Spacedinvader
Facepalm

Re: Wipe Password

Not so great if you are being held i n said police station...

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Spacedinvader

Re: Brexit voters will be happy

"they dislike foreigners, which mean they're racist." Nope. Xenophobic.

It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

Spacedinvader
Thumb Up

Re: Meteor storms are always accompanied by a shit load of fine dust

"imbibing 10 pints which brings its own problems"

Just pee in a bucket...

We strained our eyes with Lenovo's monster monitor: 43.4 inches for price of five 24" screens

Spacedinvader
Coffee/keyboard

Re: Vertical space rules

New keyboard required!

'Peregrine falcon'-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks

Spacedinvader
WTF?

Re: Spiderman

Superman could just use his frikkin laser eyes instead of Spidey's web slingers...

Hard luck, Claranet. You managed to go 29 whole days without an incident

Spacedinvader
Happy

A clusterfuck then

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

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Thumb Up

Re: In a complete about face...

Beat me to it!

We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos

Spacedinvader
Happy

Cheaper still..

Would be the inbuilt health tracker they have...

Harvard freshman kicked out of US over OTHER people's posts on his social media

Spacedinvader
Stop

Re: So to gain entry into America you MUST......

Submit to facial recognition software and fingerprinting

One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego

Spacedinvader
Happy

Re: ORLY?

Nah it's what the Aussies think of it they just couldn't put it on the tinny...

It's Friday lunchtime on International Beer Day. Bitter hop to it, boss'll be none the weiser

Spacedinvader
Pint

Re: 66.5 litres = 117 pints

Weekly allowance :)

Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul

Spacedinvader
FAIL

RTFA

This correspondent has used myriad repellents to keep the vermin out of my carefully tended green space, ranging from liberal application of chilli powders to areas they frequent, to lion poo

It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins

Spacedinvader
Pint

Roasting Rodger

Fnarr!

Tip for staying cool --->

'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain

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Thumb Up

Re: Phwoar. Katie Hopkins!

Also, check out Specsavers...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean Google isn't listening to everything you say

Spacedinvader
Happy

why do dogs lick their balls?

Because they can

Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years

Spacedinvader

Re: Silly man

Sounds like you are speaking from experience...

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

Spacedinvader
Trollface

They've had a data breach already?

"Customer trust is of the upmost importance, and Amazon take privacy seriously."

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

Spacedinvader
Happy

Re: Any laws being broken?

"perhaps heat can cause gold"

It can...if you 'splode a star...

Reach out for the healing hands... of guru Dabbs

Spacedinvader
Happy

Re: Ah, you have "the glare"...

No glare here. Literally get called over to just stand there. 90% of the time I don't even look at the offending machine. The other 10%? I don't even reach the users desk before the damn thing starts working normally.

"Must've been the threat of you coming over!"

Microsoft has Windows 1.0 retrogasm: Remember when Windows ran in kilobytes, not gigabytes?

Spacedinvader
Happy

Re: I did that...

Yep

Spacedinvader
Trollface

I did that...

by rolling the OS back to 7

I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour

Spacedinvader
Trollface

Is El Reg

pondering if maybe they depend on its services just a little too much?

Iran's blame-it-on-Bitcoin 'leccy shortage probably isn't a US hack cover story... yet

Spacedinvader
Flame

I certainly wouldn't run dishwashers, washing machines or anything else with a high power draw while I slept. Apart from the noise;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48841038

https://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/public-safety/home-safety/washing-machine-and-dishwasher-fire-safety

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

Spacedinvader
Happy

Could be interesting

Mr Torvald's next rant that is...

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