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  1. Re:Will it get so advanced... on Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates (windowslatest.com) · · Score: 1

    If they were any good at "doing their job" the need for updates would be much reduced in the first place...

  2. 2... maybe 3 pieces...

  3. I'd agree ... this has only been an issue since Pie came out.

    Whatever Google did is (to put it mildly) flawed...

  4. What about scheduled backups?

    Titanium Backup fails to run any scheduled tasks on my handset - unless the battery "optimisation" for it is turned off... ...run it manually, and it's fine...

  5. It probably did...

    SMS messages were either not arriving at all, or erroneously being declared as such (I pity the poor soul who may have got a bunch of "Is o2 up yet?" messages from me because I was being told they hadn't been delivered)

    Voice calls ... not so sure, but the system would have been overloaded due to people resorting to speaking to each other on their handsets

  6. I prefer Haiku
    Rather than the sonnet form
    Use what you like though

  7. My thought exactly!

  8. Re:what about the knowledge test? on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No problem! :^D

  9. Re:what about the knowledge test? on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Only black cabs need to pass "The Knowledge", if memory serves me correctly.

    Uber (and many other) cabs aren't classified as such - so can happily just use a satnav (or any local knowledge the driver may actually have)

  10. Re:How Quickly They Forget ... on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get a life... a sense of humour... and a username...

  11. How can an AC be a wanker... given they have no balls?

  12. Re:Thanks for all the fish on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There are people who drive around central London in £400,000 Rolls Royce phantoms as their work cars.

    They're all being sent back to Russia, any day now...

  13. Haiku on LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Read the summary:
    Elon Musk is forty six
    I call total bull

  14. Re:my experience with linux on Linux 4.14 Has Been Released (kernelnewbies.org) · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity... how long ago was this?

    (Given that GCC 3.1 dates from 2002 or thereabouts...)

  15. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AT least I have the balls to post with an account, moron

  16. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Indeed... the orange troll-in-chief being top of the list...

  17. Re:Subsidies on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll wager the 8 year figure will end up being nearer 18 too

  18. Re:First world problems on Tesla Model 3 Owners Share More Info On Model (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My initial thought was - they've installed heaters that may never be switched on? Isn't that just a bunch of extra weight that'll get carried around for no reason (thus shortening range)?

    (Unless they're an option that Tesla say can be installed now, but won't be usable until the update is released)

  19. ...and not one coal miner...

  20. Re:Mexico (Read the summary at least) on Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Though I wouldn't put it past any programmers here to miss the same edge case.

    Wouldn't put it past the wall builders to accidentally enclose Mexico, rather than just separate it from the US...

  21. The reality, therefore, is both.

    In my case - a bespoke system replaced by a (rather heavily tweaked) off-the-shelf suite (which was prettier, but slower - despite 10 times the hardware requirements...)

  22. Shortly followed by a spike in jobs at undertakers I presume

  23. That allowed the UK to be ready for a nuclear future.

    Is that the future where we have to kowtow to the US to (supposedly) defend ourselves?

    I wonder just how more expensive Trident will get over the next 4 years, after May has got down on her knees for Donald...?

  24. Re:Let's hope it does better than Shoreham Nuclear on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The barley mutated? ;^D

  25. Re: Neither true nor meaningful on Google Reveals Its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    An example... the very first thing listed on your source.

    1 CVE-2016-7991 388 2016-10-31 2016-12-02 7.8 None Remote Low Not required None Complete None
    On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, the "omacp" app ignores security information embedded in the OMACP messages resulting in remote unsolicited WAP Push SMS messages being accepted, parsed, and handled by the device, leading to unauthorized configuration changes, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.#

    Is that a problem with Android as a whole? No.
    Is it Samsung fucking up some part of their SMS implementation that happens to run on Android? Yes.