"needs patching"? Needs removing, more like. And that's real work, too...
Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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McAfee Security Manager lets anybody bypass managers' security
BOFH: Taking a spin in a decommissioned racer? On your own grill cam be it
Mozilla: Five... Four... Three... Two... One... Thunderbirds are – gone
Wednesday 2nd December 2015 06:44 GMT
Re: They got it the wrong way round
You can also put several of the portable version on your machine, just chuck each in its own folder. Run .exe from folder or put shortcuts on the desktop, renaming tem so you can tell them apart. You can run only one at a time, obviously - but you can fine-tune every one of them for a specific user or a specific task (different plug-ins, different add-ons, different settings for ad blockers or NoScript, and so on).
Final countdown – NSA says it really will end blanket phone spying on US citizens this Sunday
Outsourcer didn't press ON switch, so Reg reader flew 15 hours to do the job
Sunday 29th November 2015 14:31 GMT
Re: Infrared printing tale
"(not that IR printing ever worked!)"
Oh, I don't know... Some 15 years ago I had a MP2100 (Apple Newton, the first generation of them that actually worked and consequentially the last they ever made, had still the best address database on any mobile device ever, but I digress...). The local Staples had a HP Laserjet as a demo model on display. The customers could press a button to print a test page. The printer also hat an IR port. So every now and then whten I had to print something I'd pop into Staples and used the demo printer. Always worked like a charm.
Who owns space? Looking at the US asteroid-mining act
Australian cops rush to stop 2AM murder of … a spider
Sunday 29th November 2015 13:02 GMT
"The most poisonous spider is the Sydney funnel web. We get about five hundred people a year bitten by spiders. A lot of them used to die, so we had to develop an antidote to stop people bothering me with it all the time." (Struan Sutherland)
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"So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?" I [Douglas Adams] asked.
He blinked at me as if I were stupid.
"Well what do you think you do?" he [Struan Sutherland] said. "You die of course. That's what deadly means."
Sunday 29th November 2015 12:45 GMT
Re: Could someone explain the (multiple) phone calls ? -- Domestic Violence???
"The air force is performing bomber flybys in protest against male violence."
What? Don't get me wrong - about the only part of the "Ken Titus Way" I'm okay with is the "You don't hit a woman, ever! Even after she hits you, burns you, stabs you, and tries to blow you up!" bit - but using one of the ultimate symbols of indiscriminate violent death to protest against violence? Oxymoron, with the emphasis on moron?
So why exactly are IT investors so utterly clueless?
Saturday 28th November 2015 16:47 GMT
Assets? Assets!
Patty: Assets? what are they, anyway?
Marcus Pendleton: Young female donkeys.
IT angle? One of the earliest movies using computer crime as a plot device.
Saturday 28th November 2015 15:44 GMT
Re: @Ledswinger -- Opportunity Knocks...
"Which knob-head designers think button flies are a good idea? We invented the zip a hundred years ago, and some tossers keep putting buttons on trouser fronts.
Trousers with button flies are a very good idea for people who don't like wearing underpants. Getting your pubes caught in a zipper is, uh, kinda unpleasant. And with the mental images just riggered, I whish you a nice weekend.
RAF web survey asks for bank details via unencrypted email
HPE to open private London drinking club
Friday 27th November 2015 08:07 GMT
Re: As a non-Brit
So, Breakaway Candy Bars? (He asked her knowingly?)
Or were you possibly suggesting... thingy...
Thursday 26th November 2015 13:40 GMT
As a non-Brit
I have to ask: what is "late night refreshment"? Why is it restricted from 23.00 to 24.00, while "alcohol" can be dispensed from 08.00 to 24.00?
I'm assuming that a "bona fide private function" is something not involving private parts, but just what is "late night refreshment"???
EDIT
Never mind, I have found The Licensing Act 2003: "Late night refreshment" is defined as the supply of hot food or drink (that is, food or drink that is either served at, or has been heated on the premises to, a point above ambient temperature) to the public for consumption, both on or off the premises, between 23:00 and 05:00.
So I can start drinking alcohol at 08.00, but I'll have to wait 'til 23.00 before I can get food hotter than the ambient temperature? Nekulturny.
MoJ restarts troubled £250m National Offender management ICT system
Russian nuke plant operator to build on-site data centre
Kim Dotcom slams 'dirty ugly bully' Uncle Sam as extradition hearing ends
Mincing Nokia's factories made Microsoft a sausage factory
UK gov sinks £25k into Pi-powered cyberdesk
Thursday 26th November 2015 13:09 GMT
Re: " what's the receipt printer under the desk for "
Exactly. This is really haunting me - what is this thing for??? Who is going to change the printer rolls? Whatever happened to the paperless office? The Dutch are doing it, including the bog:
http://www.dutchdailynews.com/dutch-office-of-the-future-with-a-ban-on-toilet-paper/
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/06/from_testing_toilet_paper_to_t/
https://www.decos.com/en/news/paperless-decos-now-also-has-paperless-toilets/
Dell-EMC deal difficulties: VMware and daddy postpone roadtrip
Thursday 26th November 2015 12:46 GMT
Seibert: Yeah. So, listen, fellas, who’s up for a little party this Saturday night? Open bar, good eats, might even be a few pretty girls.
Raj: Sounds great!
Howard: I’m in!
Sheldon: Hold on. Just because the nice man is offering you candy, doesn’t mean you should jump into his windowless van. What’s the occasion?
Seibert: Just a little fund-raiser for the university.
Sheldon: Aha! The tear-stained air mattress in the back of the van.
Plusnet ignores GCHQ, spits out plaintext passwords to customers
Fingers crossed tomorrow morning for Telecity's third repair shot
Thursday 26th November 2015 12:16 GMT
Re: RE: Have they tried
Even the "turning off" bit can be pretty tricky sometimes.
Complex systems, "engineers" that are really technicians with a two week orientation under the belt - what could possibly go wrong?
Finding security bugs on the road to creating a verifiably secure TLS lib
Thursday 26th November 2015 12:03 GMT
Re: Mathematically correct code
Is that even possible, considering Gödel's theorems?
(Maths end-user here, aka engineer... give me any formula and I'll run the numbers, but don't ask me to prove that 2+2=4)
Nest defends web CCTV Cam amid unstoppable 24/7 surveillance fears
Thursday 26th November 2015 11:46 GMT
"We've gotten used to trusting device makers that standby and shutdown really do what they say...
Nope. When I want one of my devices (okay, toys) to be off I'll make sure they are off. With some of them it's a bit of a hassle as they take some time to power up/boot, but I know that and can take it into account. Most of it isn't that time critical anyway, and a bit of applied time management can help, too.
I started doing this years ago when I started paying for my own leccy, and realized all the stuff in standby mode was adding up (and eating into the have-fun-at-weekends fund).
Indian scientists teach computers to see by watching Cricket
Thursday 26th November 2015 11:20 GMT
AIs that understand cricket could have an impact on global politics
IIRC, in the weeks during the situation re the Falklands slowly simmering towards boiling point, Punch suggested defusing the situation by teaching cricket to the Argentinians. Because historically, no two cricketing nations had ever gone to war on each other.
The other suggestion for coping with the crisis was to teach youself bowls, as that is the thing to do to remain calm in the event of an approaching hostile armada.
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Slartibartfast interrupted his train of thought at this point as if sensing what was going through his mind.
"The game you know as cricket," he said, and his voice still seemed to be wandering lost in subterranean passages, "is just one of those curious freaks of racial memory which can keep images alive in the mind aeons after their true significance has been lost in the mists of time. Of all the races on the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game.
"Rather fond of it myself," he added, "but in most people's eyes you have been inadvertently guilty of the most grotesque bad taste. Particularly the bit about the little red ball hitting the wicket, that's very nasty."
Mozilla annual report shows risky Google dependency now risky Yahoo! dependency
Green rectangles are the new rounded rectangles
Samsung Gear VR is good. So good 2016 could be year virtual reality finally makes it
Thursday 26th November 2015 10:42 GMT
Re: It's going to be video games.
Yup. Games and porn, in the consumer market at least. I do see practical uses in industry, especially combined with augmented reality.
On the other hand, I've been waiting for proper, useable, affordable VR kit for almost as long as I've been waiting for my jet pack now.
Suck it, Elon – Jeff Bezos' New Shepard space rocket blasts off, lands in one piece
Thursday 26th November 2015 10:12 GMT
Re: Race for the 1% Market
Boilerplate.
Hermes Conrad: Okay, captain, this is just a standard legal release, protecting Planet Express from lawsuits in the event of the unforeseen.
Leela: [reading] "Death by airlock failure... "
Hermes Conrad: Mm-hm.
Leela: "... death by brain parasite... "
Hermes Conrad: Yah.
Leela: "... death by sonic diarrhea... "
Hermes Conrad: Oho, you don't want that.
Leela: Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.
Hermes Conrad: Ohohohohohohoho... Sign the paper.
Thursday 26th November 2015 09:49 GMT
Re: Its the wrong way to get off this planet
Maybe there will be a way once we really figure these out.
Another idea would be short-time time travel. No, really. Earth moves all the time, and pretty fast, too. (Rotating around itself, revolving around the sun, the solar system is moving, our galaxy is moving, the universe is expanding - it all adds up. Or not, given the vectors.) Given that your device will move you in time only (and not both in time and space) all you'd have to do was jump back in time for a short bit and - presto, you're in spaaace. The same could be achieved if your device would allow you to 'sidestep' in time, i.e. enter a seperate/subjective loop for a bit, just long enough for the earth to move away from you. So mo mucking around with escape velocities, let earth do all the work!
Could someone who's up for the math for planetary movements do some quick back-of-the-beer-mat calculations, please? (This is El Reg, there must be someone who can do this. I'll be the guy who bulids the launch pad, promise.) Off the top of my head I'd say anything between 30 seconds and 2 minuties should to it.
Cyber-terror: How real is the threat? Squirrels are more of a danger
Telecity fails with car park net rescue plan. In fact, things got worse. Again
Thai women drugged punters 'with Xanax-spiked nipples' – cops
Fifth arrest in TalkTalk hacking probe: Now Plod cuff chap in Wales
Paris, jihadis, tech giants ... What is David Cameron's speechwriter banging on about now?
Google launches virtual plastic pal who's fun to be with
Randall Munroe spoke to The Reg again. We're habit-forming that way
Tuesday 24th November 2015 20:56 GMT
Re: There is a version in German
Well, that's compund languages for you.
BTW: male "Lebensabschnittgefährte", female "Lebensabschnittgefährtin"
And if your Finnish is up to it, you can really knock yourself out, try atomiydinenergiareaktorigeneraattorilauhduttajaturbiiniratasvaihde for size...
A font farewell to Fontdeck as website service closes
TV broadcast vans drive ESA from Perth
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