Posts by Patrick R

Dutch cops’ shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in

Re: Taking advantage of kids and the elderly

If there's any mention of kids in the article, it's not as victims.

Re: how the police got the pictures of the suspected scammers

There is a camera in each(?) ATM and if it's hidden enough, thugs don't know how to block it, and they are too buzzy smiling and chatting on the phone anyway.. Sometimes there's one on the wall as well.. Cops can link the images to the card number. For those who stole jewelry, they are often passing by random cameras in the street.

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

I've had interferences from the street light on my TV. During Euro 2024, halfway the evening match, the image would suffer interferences. Both neighbors were OK. It took me 3 days to figure it out. My coax TV cable runs 40 cm vertically before going in through the wall, and the street lamp is just a meter away. The lamp was turning on and flickering from ~22:30. It was fixed 2 weeks later. Side note: last week we got LEDs.

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine

Re: school kids at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girl's school were obviously better informed than you

Unfortunately they probably died before learning what "full scale military invasion" means. I hope you still have time for that. Even Trump hasn't dared such hyperbole yet.

Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that

Re: AI powers "Privacy Alerts" that inform users if apps attempt to access sensitive data

It bears the question "How much sensitive data must you feed AI before it recognizes it as such?".

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Re: Stop these worse-than-useless euphemisms

How about "dematerialisation"; keyboardless keyboard warriors and typo emulators ?

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

What's the IT angle ?

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Re: Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Yeah, and "... within conformity of the law and the ethics of America" ?

It seems you can't have both.

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Re: This is an issue

That's OK when you're innocent till proven guilty, but once it was known that Sky ECC was used mainly by criminals, it made sense to crack it and use the info. IMHO.

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

"fit into any laptop bag that holds a 16-inch or larger laptop"

So basically, any laptop bag. Oh, wait.

Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia

Google (maps) got away with it years ago. It was just "a mistake".

Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda

Trump has pivoted to straight-up economic terrorism

It's all in the 3 first letters of his first name.

Hungarian right wing website uncovers EU threats to press independence.

Ha ha ha.

Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google

Re: Quality content?

I use Youtube without account. The majority of content I'm presented with is "New" or made few days /weeks ago. Most of it is AI-generated click baits pretending to be documentaries. It's contra-productive for YT as I won't click any of those.

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

Re: So

And what about "Well, I mean..." when they've said nothing prior to that ?

Deliver, target, twenty-twelve, Golf of America.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Down votes for the obvious?

You said it. Also it's irrelevant to the article. Could as well come from AI.

Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon

Also, well educated people in Japan.

Omnipresent delinquency means you'd need something more sturdy in the UK. Then again, that is compensated by less frequent earthquakes.

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

For an average 70-kg adult it takes about half a millisecond

Now there's not many people know that!

Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council

Re: ? Chinese/North Korean/Belgian hackers are being misled by the governments

Belgium is famous for its numerous governments and beers, not for its hackers.

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Re: The end of Google cannot happen fast enough!!!!!

Androïd and Chrome are far doing pretty well with respectively 72 and 64%.

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

Re: The answer is always "gravity"

Gravity is not an energy. The energy comes from the sun that lets the grass grow and feeds the cows that create the milk's mass on top of the hill.

Aside nuclear and tidal, most energy on earth comes from the sun.

We know what Musk will probably dress up as this year: A victim

Re: Today on pro-celebrity clown show!

To be fair we also missed him referrring to the tribunal as a "circus" while "defending the law, actually".

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Why not use this properly / smoothly, in Summer ?

It's called "Summer Time" yet the implementation is for 7 months (from April to October), why not have it just in SUMMER ? From May to August, the change would only be visible in the evening but not when you wake up ( probably for 90 % of people).

people naturally choose not to follow it

Following the natural solar time doesn't automatically mean having your day symetrically set on the sun's journey.

Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish

Gosh, how generous ???

Your provider in France offers illimited text, 2hours voice and 50MB data (4G) for 2€. Great!

You are comparing that to unlimited texts, minutes and data (5G) for 10£ ... ??? That's comparing appels and pears.

Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim

Re "I think everyone is missing the point here."

Do you mean they do it for the money ?

Windows 11 Insider preview brings new Sandbox features and fatter FAT32

Re: fat32format

Ranish Partition Manager was doing that in the late 90s and I remember using it to format a 64GB stick a year ago.

NTT uses scattered monitors to trick your brain into seeing 3D images

It's not really seeing a broken 2D picture

As I understand, the bits and pieces are from 2 or more (?) slightly different 2D images, not from one 2D image like in the triangle example.

AI Octopus predicts results of Euro 2024: It isn't looking good for England

"It's hard to say Belgium because we had a hard loss against France"

When was that ? Oh yes, 2018, Very relevant then. Funny how people see a sign in any star in the sky. Like any team that has won two matches in a row is on a winning strike. What about the elimination phase where all teams are presented by TV pundits as in good shape and very dangerous comming 1st or 2nd of their group ? That's before the match of course. After the match, everyone will explain why we had one bad team on the pitch, even if the difference is just 1 goal at the 89th minute. I can hardly find any other field where someone who gets it wrong half the time is still considered an expert.

Up to now, that AI octopus seems as good as them.

US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans

"machine learning in an X-62A VISTA"

What kind of Operating System does it use???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M46HvyAG2k

Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn't fix it, engineers claim

Re: which is terrifying

Surely much more for his fellows road users than for himself. Cruise Control creates lazy and bad driving habits indeed.

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

Re: still a bit bigger than I normally like them.

5.79 inches (147mm) for the XCover 5. Good luck finding a smaller, decent and recent Androïd phone. There is none.

Meta's Zuckerberg paid $27M in 'other' compensation for 2022

Re: Why do we indulge...

Because the people deciding on the matter benefit from the same scheme.

Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

Re: It is completely useless as organisation and it is not preventing anything.

I'm outside in the winter and my jacket is not preventing me from feelng cold, do I take it off?

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: As others have noted, that's long been a strength of the Register.

Thanks, that's one thing. Quite different than telling anyone whith an ounce of critics to "go somewhere else for news" or to "go back to RT".

Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac

Re: People will die

There is a software that uses databases to fill Excel sheets. It's called Axiom Software. You can enter, save and retrieve data from within an Excel file (like refresh it). People can have their own files or use a common read-only file, that when refreshed, shows the relevant data as entered by everybody. Databases knowledge is needed in the background but not for all end users.

Nvidia brings liquid cooling to A100 PCIe GPU cards for ‘greener’ datacenters

Re: The same amount of heat energy has to get moved from A to B

I guess if you find a more efficient way (fan vs liquid) to move that heat energy, you do cut down on energy consumption. It is not a closed system, "B" is out of the system.

Google lab proposes solar-powered moisture farming to provide water for billions

I read that as 1 hypothetical device.

1m^2 that would yield 0.2 to 2.5 /kWh at respectively 30% to 90% relative humidity.

Why doubling the surface would halve the yield remains a good question ...or an error.

I guess the original device is in fact 2m^2 and the author tried to reduce to 1 but got mixed up.

So the line above would be for a 2m^2 device and translate to "0.1 to 1.25 litres per meter square per kWh".

Zoom vows to spend next 90 days thinking hard about its security and privacy after rough week, meeting ID war-dialing tool emerges

Re: Zoom / Teams / Hangouts

My camera is off too. Off in the Bios, that is. Bios from 2019 on a Dell XPS from 2015 with Windows 10.

Zoom doesn't care and can activate it. Ain't it creepy?

I contacted Dell, they said it's out of warranty but I can still contact their legal department. What a great answer. There was a (Zoom) update last week and now Zoom says it "doesn't find" a camera.

Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers

What high voltage?

I had a hamburger (or was it hamberder) restaurant manager turning on a CRT in front of me to show it was dead.

I was there to assess the damages from a badly leaking roof and heavy rains during the night. Water was still pouring almost continuously on the screen, from the ceiling, as the guy pushed the button !

I stepped back 2 meters at that moment. I was the one in shock.

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

Large corporations such as Google simply 'interpret the law differently'

They honestly abide an alternative law.

Tumblr resorts to AI in attempt to scrub itself clean from filth

What the world needs now is MORE nipples. More breasts in NON SEXUAL context. Breast feeding, natural pose, topless on the beach, antic statues, everyday life. That is NOT porn, that is "normal". People should get used to them, not choke on them. Saying a good breast is a censored (or amputated) breast is not helping the fundamental problem.

YouTube supremo says vid-streaming-slash-piracy giant can't afford EU's copyright overhaul

Despacito..."we might have to block videos like this"

What a loss for the World.

China tells Trump to use a Huawei phone to avoid eavesdroppers

Re: Why would Huawei be safer?

Because Vlad also said so. He could even send some specialists to examine the device along with the FBI.

Dutch cheesed off with Russians, expel four suspects over chemical weapons Wi-Fi spying

Re: Does Russia think anyone believes them?

They have as much credibility as the US these days.

Facebook sued for exposing content moderators to Facebook

I've done the math for you.

10.000.000 items a week for 7500 workers, 5 days/week and 8h/day.

That's 266 items a day, 33 items an hour, a bit less than two minutes/item.

And sadly but obviously, there is an IT angle to this article.

The internet – not as great as we all thought it was going to be, eh?

"...only through their phones [...] i.e. they don't have a broadband connection"

Isn't 4G considered broadband?

Plug your computer on my phone's Internet. I don't see much reasons to pay twice.

Turn that bachelor pad into a touch pad: Now you can paint buttons, sensors on your walls

Re: Scientists find the obvious!

yeah... nothing new here. Walls with Windows.pfff...

Machines learned to assemble IKEA’s semi-disposable furniture

Assembling never was the hardest part.

Now, can they please make a robot that goes to and walks through the Ikea with my girlfriend please?

Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?

his office knew Uber had been secretly testing its cars for months in his state

Secretly to the state but not to the office of the governor?