Posts by Forget It

I read this news first from the RSS feed:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom

Best

wait until Patch Wednesdays

guys

The rest is silence

Was Hamlet talking about brexit?

I cannot live to hear the news from England;

But I do prophesy the election lights

On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,

Which have solicited. The rest is silence

Contactless

anyone?

Standard Price | 2 Day Conference Ticket (15, 16 Oct)

£900.00 + £180.00 VAT

whistles

Sometimes it pays to add a leading zero.

Italian PINs are generally 5 digits not 4.

Checkup app here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.srlabs.snoopsnitch

Select Menu: Android patch level analysis

World got shafted big time:

Base Fook

Free goodies any one?

Nice big wooden horse?

Beware of geek bearing gifts.

AI moral dilemma:

Self driving car has to choose between

a) killing 1 pedestrian

b) not being part of the greater Uber

Which does it choose?

b

What is this face, less clear and clearer

The pulse in the arm, less strong and stronger—

Given or lent? more distant than stars and nearer than the eye

...

TS Eliot

> But do they have Trappist beer ?

If they do

they are keeping quite about it.

Gratis-dom for Everyone ™

> ... there is inherent value in professional newsgathering

Long live The Register

Long live the FREE press

Ain't broke:

Don't fix it.

pls

(Paris: dumb it UP don't dumb it down)

Can we know the location coordinates of interest please?

artificial intelligence

real dumness

It's all well and good for an AI to solve Sudoku

But can it:

1) Explain the whys and wherefores

2) Enjoy the process

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/01/sudoku-3920-hard

> .... we’re still in the computing Stone Ages, only with 64-bit colour stone.

> A kind of neo-Paleolithic age. ®

Paleo Alto

perhaps

Firefox remedy via addon (WE)

https://poperblocker.com/firefox/

Now that's what I call Time Travel.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand.

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand.

And Eternity in an hour

or something like that

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence

I was skeptical but it's much much better now.

Most addons and tweaks still work - if you go looking for them.

Dunce Cap tip

Isn't it security-101 to not store passwords on the server - but their hashes instead?

How come then does the NatWest server know individual letters of my password

when it prompts me for a random selection of them at each login?

Obscurity through Security

perhaps

Nice one WordPress

Hey Team

they are looking for the buttons!

Let's put Ads on the buttons!

P = Pudding

NP = No Pudding

The proof is in the Pudding.

QED

It's Elvis's

Echoes of Mr Logic

http://viz.co.uk/category/cartoons/strip-cartoons/mr-logic/#content

Irfanview has a mini-paint substitute F12

deep mind

long nose

I guess they do the same for anyone leaving from Sweden - Assange perhaps.

Why not just send a squad of Assange look-alikes to the embassy. then he can walk out with them while the police dither trying to guess which one to arrest - See Pale Fire by Nabokov or I was Sadam's double, etc.

Conflict of interest

anybody?

Cyber-Jesus ?

Q: Who is my neighbour?

A: I'll google that for you.

Oh no!

Someone in the NHS

used Reply_All

to the whole of GMail

Q: Why is the bath in a student flat like Saturn?

A: Coz it's got permanent rings around it.

[No Uranus replies please]