Crikey!
An "internet address". Sounds terribly technical.
Posts by Mr Dogshit
689 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Oct 2014
Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox
Hayfever in Haymarket, or has Windows sneezed out a BSOD?
Thursday 18th June 2020 09:49 GMT 
I just don't understand why this is supposed to be hilarious
"Operating system behaves as per design". Not funny, is it?
When a crash occurs in Kernel Mode, the operating system's task is to preserve your data. Unlike a crash in Application Mode, it can't recover and continue.
Therefore, it dumps memory to disk using a cut-down device driver and displays a message. What do you expect?
And since writing device drivers is very difficult, yes, they sometimes crash. And often these are drivers not written by Microsoft.
Linux and VMware aren't immune to Kernel Mode crashes, and neither was the Amiga. So where's the joke? I don't get it.
'One rule for me, another for them' is all well and good until it sinks the entire company's ability to receive emails
Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism
Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen
Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up
Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors
Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar
Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app
To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it
Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War
Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things
Penny smart and dollar stupid: IT jobs slashed in US, UK, Europe to cut costs – just when we need staff the most
Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate
Prank warning: You do know your smart speaker's paired with Spotify over the internet, don't you?
Snapchat domain squatter loses comedy £1m URL sellback attempt
Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’
Why should the UK pensions watchdog be able to spy on your internet activities? Same reason as the Environment Agency and many more
Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0
Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops
Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal
Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables
French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle
Watch out, everyone, here come the Coronavirus Cops, enjoying their little slice of power way too much
Ofcom waves DAB radio licences under local broadcasters' noses as FM switchoff debate smoulders again
Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the 'iMask'
Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses
Zoom vows to spend next 90 days thinking hard about its security and privacy after rough week, meeting ID war-dialing tool emerges
NASA's classic worm logo returns for first all-American trip to ISS in years: Are you a meatball or a squiggly fan?
Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus
Dell publishes data centre cleaning guidance, suggests hiring pros to disinfect enterprise kit
IBM puts 1,248 frontline techies at risk of redundo, warns of data centre closures
Wednesday 18th March 2020 11:43 GMT 
Two lions escape from the zoo and split up to increase their chances. When they finally meet after two months, one is skinny and the other overweight.
The thin one says, "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me with guns and nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass."
The fat one replies: "Well, *I* hid near an IBM office and ate a manager every day. Nobody even noticed!"
Secret-sharing app Whisper shared secrets like last known location and actual password tokens in exposed database
Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook for *checks notes* up to £266bn
Microsoft's Cortana turns its back on consumers as skills are stripped from Windows 10
Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month
Crypto-upstart subpoenas Glassdoor to unmask ex-staff believed to be behind negative reviews. EFF joins the fray
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
Friday 31st January 2020 08:41 GMT
No hammer needed
Samsung HDDs. They'd sometimes make a strange clicking noise and the BIOS wouldn't find them.
If you rapped them on the top with your knuckles, or gave a swift tap with a screwdriver handle, they'd spin up and you'd be able to copy the contents across to a replacement drive using Ghost.
Happy days.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
