Posts by deive

Throw a sofa at this guy with your mind. She's in Control. Oh look, now I've learnt to bloody fly. She's in Control

Yeah, you are right, I meant shooters in gernernal; rather than just first person ones! My bad.

First person shooters in gerneral arn't my thing, but you are missing out if you haven't played Quantum Break!

I suppose part of it for me was that it was the first 4k HDR game I'd played, but still was great.

Top tip: Using AI to detect alien civilizations is dangerous because if it spots anything, even just a blurry blob, people are going to go nuts

A machine learning algorithm like that should be run by astonomers and they should then check any potential signs spotted by the ML before any kind of press release?

We need to make it even easier for UK terror cops to rummage about in folks' phones, says govt lawyer

Re: No

You missed the news on that then? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/10/xr-extinction-rebellion-listed-extremist-ideology-police-prevent-scheme-guidance

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Re: Those moneychangers...

And also the UK computer industry...

Just in case you were expecting 10Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 hits 700Mbps in real-world download tests

Re: My Mantra

It is super annoying that ther are still no consumer 10G wired motherboards!

123-Reg is at it again: Registrar charges chap for domains he didn’t order – and didn't want

Re: Credit card

Someone else on these hallowed boards recommended https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ (can't remember who, soz)

I've just moved to them from 123-reg, so far I am very happy!

Silicon Valley Scrooges sidestep debt to society through tax avoidance to the tune of $100bn

"Amazon is primarily a retailer where profit margins are low, so comparisons to technology companies with operating profit margins of closer to 50 per cent is not rational."

Also seems to be a lie, as AWS provides most of their profits.

e.g. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/26/amazon_intel_google_q2/

and https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-2018-aws-delivered-most-of-amazons-operating-income/

and https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-cloud-online-shopping-profits-chart-2017-5?op=1&r=US&IR=T

Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?

Re: Once more, with feeling

And what about the security holes that the same update also patches? At my workplace here we use them, and they are pretty damn good - until this.

Radio nerd who sipped NHS pager messages then streamed them via webcam may have committed a crime

Because of the specific details it may not come to prosuction if it is not in the public interest. The fact it is unencrypted and easy for the public to access could well mean that they have a strong defnse.

If you leave your house unlocked, you're insurance won't pay out...

Even if it is illegal to do, do you think someone can be prosecuted for recieving non-encryted info sent out over the air?

Engineer grumbles and user gripes do little to slow down Nadella's trillion-dollar Microsoft

Re: Settings

There is 2 of everthing in different places??

Your kids will be glad a UK government-funded robot will be changing your nappy and not them

The antics of retired BOFH :-)

Who's the leakiest of them all? It's the UK's public sector, breach fine analysis reveals

Re: Trust the fucking (what we laughingly refer to as) the government

"I now use a sacrificial computer and after every use, do a clean install from a clean backup" - You could try Tails Linux...

Now the US DoJ has charged Apple's insider trading lawyer with, er... well, it's embarrassing

Re: What a muppet.

Yeah, it's not like lawers are payed peanuts at the best of times, and when you are a lawer and board memeber of Apple how much was he making??

What a gready idiot.

Microsoft's cloud keeps printing cash, Surface not so much as Windows giant pockets $119m profit a day

When you report about all the money these big corps are making, perhaps you could mention just how much tax they are paying too?

Republican senators shoot down a triple whammy of proposed election security laws

Re: Kill bills 1, 2 and 3

That fact was reported. Also reported was the fact that he lied about the reason; as he himself has introduced multiple private member bills.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/16/sir-christopher-chope-hates-private-members-bills-but-has-created-31-in-the-last-year-7636993/

HP CEO: Help us save the world one tree at a time... by printing stuff (with our kit, of course)

Re: CO2 uptake

How about the habitats for other life that continual logging destroys?

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Re: So Good news

It was tracked down earlier this year. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48353341

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

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"government department in a decent democratic country should be a safe custome "

That seems a little niave, especially given that a story like this is currentlly on the reg's homepage: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse/

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That's odd.... I thought it was a business with actual human staff and everything!

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

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I downvoted because we DON'T "need a shed load of cheap, call centre trained workers". What we need is for fat cats to stop taking quite so many millions in bonuses and actually pay a fair living wage to their staff.

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

A perfect example of schools making people remeber mostly useless crap by rote, but not actually teaching anything useful to everyday life.

TalkTalk bollocked after fibre marketing emails found to be full of sh!t

f**k talk talk.

that is all.

Nominet continues milking .uk registry cash cow with 4 per cent price rise for... what exactly?

Stop complaining and pay their bonus, commies! </sarc>

Pupil mental health monitor promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered

This is getting beyond contemptible now.

This should be programming 101.

It reflects so badly on the rest of us who dedicate our time to learning and doing things correctly.

Google: Read my lips. You cannot link up a G Suite account with Nest smart home gizmos

Stange... I have a G Suite account with a nest thermostat and it is fine.

There are some things it can't/won't do with the G Suite account, like rifle though your emails and calender (which I take as a positive).

The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network

Re: Wireshark is my shell...

assuming you're using a qwerty keyboard....

Last one out, hit the lights: UK energy supplier SSE to axe 115 bodies from tech department

Re: Dumb move

...And the water to you, and your sewerage away from you.

Donno if the other areas are the same but I am currentlly having to pay for Londons new sewerage system that SSE are building, despite not living in London at all :-(

Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads

Doesn't jelly also appear like a brain to an EEG?

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Re: Eh?

Not offensive quite so directly, but you can also get a wheelchair from https://www.karmamobility.co.uk/

UK parliament sends snippy letter to Zuck and his poodle Clegg as it seems Facebook has been lying again

Re: Shocked

Good point, I somehow managed to skip over that bit (perhaps a bit of uncoincious bias?).

Grouping a whole diseperate groupd of people to attack is a lazy thing to do.

Re: Shocked

I'd really like to know what the downvoters think of him?

Pi in the sky as ESA starts testing encrypted comms on International Space Station

Re: Not sure that I get it.

I think the answer to those are in the article?

1. Using harderdend electronics with radiation casing

2. They aren't being sacrificed, the radiation isn't "killing" the hardware, it is messing with RAM, causing bits to flip.

3. When a key is curropted you can no longer decrypt anything, including the new key. You don't send a new key in plain text as then anyone who is listening has access to the new key.

4. That detail wasn't in the article :-)

Hope this helps!

This is probably true... but if you only have 2, which one is the "correct" one and which has had bits flipped?

Facebook, Microsoft, Google among tender, caring tech giants on UK internet safety board

Nothing like giving wolfs the keys to the henhouse :-)

Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky

Another completley rational promise by Borris.

Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

Re: Brexit Unlikely Reason

and for those really lazy... https://www.google.com/search?q=(89+%2B+20%25)+USD+in+GBP

"= 86.1366734 British pounds" :-)

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

He deserves it. Or more precisley we deserve to keep his memory alive!

Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth's ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken

Re: I still think...

Well said Danny 2! I try to do similar and be sparing with the down votes.

Having said that; if someone gets offended that you don't agree with them then that is their problem, not yours!

King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops

The police need to stop treating protesters as terrorists. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/25/police-surveillance-protest-domestic-extremism

July is here – and so are the latest Android security fixes. Plenty of critical updates for all

Re: If only

The Nexus 9 is 5 years old??

https://www.gsmarena.com/htc_nexus_9-5823.php

I would say that this is poor as well, but it's not 1 year.

UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations'

"small businesses - from the likes of Airbnb, Barclays, BT, Expedia, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group and TripAdvisor."...

Hmmm. So many problems here! They are not small, struggling, British companies so why are we giving them more data??

It could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Wiltshire or in Bath: Euro cops cuff 6 for cybersquatting, allegedly nicking €24m in Bitcoin

Re: You keep it all in.

Quick answer for that is yes :-)

Apple's tailored SwiftUI makes coding Mac and iOS apps RAD again

Don't forget Anko for Kotlin on Android! :-)

https://github.com/Kotlin/anko

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

Re: I'm OK with all this crap

The best version of Windows! After installing you reboot... to find Linux there :-)

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

Re: Stop it.

Upvote, but I still would say "the two don't necessarily have the same optimum approaches" is wrong as plastic are made from oil, which is by far the largest contribution to our CO2 output?

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

The irony is the main problem in the West are greedy people who just want to get rich, and don't care about anyone else...

Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?

"and now we have a fully fledged cloud-native-ish service" - this has to be up their for the pointless sentences award - you prefix something with "fully fledged" if it is complete, but you suffix something with "-sh" to say it's not fully complete.

Marketing and PR speak p*sses me off. Sorry.

Plus, if you are moving away from an Oracle DB you are going to same money on costs, doesn't matter if you move to "the cloud" or any other server...