Posts by Sureo

Quantum CPU upstart D-Wave drills into physics simulations to boost vital magnetic shielding

30,000 times colder than room temperature

Sounds like a typical Canadian winter. We measure temperature in millikelvins here (makes it seem warmer than it really is). No wonder D-Wave is located here.

Shields up! Shields up! ASTRONAUTS flying to MARS will arrive BRAIN DAMAGED, boffins claim

Perhaps all that radiation will cause mutations resulting in humans who can actually live on Mars.

Why should I learn by ORAL tradition? Where's the DOCUMENTATION?

I used to work for a large company that was glad to bring teacher-contractors in-house to teach courses we needed. The only trouble was they would insist that a 5 day course be presented in 3 days, and a 10 day course in 5 days. At the end of the course our heads were spinning, but the bean counters were happy.

NASA spies weird glow from Pluto's FRIGID pole

"...who knows what we'll find?"

Well said. Words to launch 1000 space probes.

We'll buy patents for cash, says Google – just don't feed the trolls

Do you suppose they would be interested in the patent for electrons moving in a conductor I was issued last week?

Bulgarian Bill Gates blagger busted, banged up, again: report

Yes and how come he was arrested in Paraguay for stealing money in the Philippines? What was he doing in Paraguay?

NSA: 'Back doors are a bad idea, give us a FRONT door key'

I think it's all a smokescreen to hide the fact that they already have access to everything they want, but they don't want you to know that.

RELICS of the Earth's long lost TWIN planet FOUND ON MOON

Maybe Theia is still there, on the opposite side of earth's orbit, behind the sun where we can't see it.

Boffins: Large Hadron Collider NOW movin', we're getting down and crush groovin'

"I'd love to see the sort of money we've collectively thrown at particle physics thrown at something like fusion power..."

What makes you think they're not developing fusion power?

Stress me, test me, vex me ... boffins seek Hall Effect in frustrated magnets

Re: Well? Did they or not?

They just want to make sure you understand the term 'frustrated'.

Crack security team finishes TrueCrypt audit – and the results are in

The Powers that Be hate TrueCrypt, what better strategy than to get people to stop using it?

Microsoft drops Do Not Track default from Internet Explorer

Why should they respect your privacy (and give up the opportunity to monetize you) when they provide you with "free" services? If privacy were legislated, those free services might disappear. Most users like the services, indeed have come to depend on them, and don't think it costs them anything.

Belgium to the rescue as UK consumers freeze after BST blunder

Fail

I have an old clock radio that was programmed to change time automatically. Then a few years ago the powers that be here in North America moved the dates a few weeks. Now I have to manually change this clock four times a year!

FTC: All-powerful Google ABUSED rivals. So we did NOTHING

revised quote

"After an exhaustive 19-month review, covering nine million pages of documents and many hours of testimony, the FTC staff and all five FTC Commissioners agreed that there was no need to take action on how we rank and display search results."

should have said

"After an exhaustive 19-month review, covering nine million pages of documents and many hours of testimony, the FTC staff and all five FTC Commissioners forgot what it was they were doing and went out for a few beers."

Snowden tells tech bigwigs: It's up to you to thwart mass surveillance

"influential people from the tech world"

The trouble is the big technology companies want to spy on us too, so they are hardly motivated to work to protect our privacy. The war was lost a long time ago, we just need to wave the white flag.

Redundo-happy IBMers will benefit from High Court pension ruling

I'm surprised....

...by now that anyone still works for IBM.

(former disgruntled IBMer)

Yay! Wearables! It's the future! Uh-oh! I'm going to be sick

Re: you might be right Dabbsy apple watch might be succesful

Actually battery life shouldn't be a problem. If you can afford one at 12K you can afford two or three, always one charged up and ready to go.

Microsoft RE-BORKS Windows 7 patch after reboot loop horror

Re. grub

Whuddya need a timer for? Can't you type fast enough?

Redmond's Patch Tuesday to kill off the Windows FREAK show

Whoa

This month's updates required two re-boots on my Win7 32 and 64 bit PCs. Nice going.

Samsung in second SSD slowdown SNAFU

Re: Can we just lose FLASH already?

"Oh, so if I buy 2 I can have a really fast Amiga!"

Well, a very famous person said you would never need more than 640K!

Hellooo, NSA? The US State Department can't kick hackers out of its networks – report

They reap what they sown

Sorry for the bad grammar.

Ex-NASA boffin dreams of PREDATOR-ish tech in humble microwaves

Sounds like a great idea

But do we really need the NSA watching what we're cooking?

Data retention: It seems BORING ... until your TV SPIES ON YOU

....TV was switched off ....

The TV isn't really switched off, is it?

Twitter ATTENTION SEEKERS can now blab to each other IN PRIVATE

Private

You, me and the NSA

Latest menace to internet economy: Gators EATING all the PUSSIES

Thanks for the cute kitty photo.

TERROR in SPACE: ISS 'Nauts end panic by switching computer off and on again

Re: Can you believe it?

"switching computer off and on again"

It's the first thing I try when something screws up. And it usually works too.

Tor de farce: NSA fails to decrypt anonymised network

Re: Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

If they deploy anything that keeps the bad guys out, anyone can use it to keep them out. Not in their interest I'm afraid.

PLEASE STOP with the snooping requests, begs Google as gov data demands skyrocket

How convenient for the government that Google collects so much data for them.

HOLD IT! Last minute gifts for one's nerd minions

Re: Keurig

"Don't buy a Keurig" - you got that right.

Keurig recalls about 7.2M coffee makers due to burn risk....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/12/23/keurig-recalls-coffee-makers/20801483/

EU breaks 'legally binding' lobbying register promise

The picture at the top of the article...

Is that of Frans Timmermans? On the left or the right?

Just askin'.

Chum's house burnt down? Facebook mulls 'DISLIKE' button for that

Zuck should look at the Reg for how a good rating system is implemented.

Me, the only button I'll click is 'Hate Facebook'.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

I hate hot links that pop up all over the screen when you move your mouse around. If I want to see one I can click on it.

Microsoft opens Azure cloud to US govt for vid surveillance, etc

The US government should start its own cloud service. Goodness knows it has enough computing resources. And it would save them so much trouble snooping other's clouds.

Use Windows software on Android – Microsoft couldn't be app-ier

Re: Why?

.......... Azure .........

Gezundheit.

FCC puts AT&T and Comcast gobbles back on the table

I hope they realize what a really bad idea these mergers are. In Canada we have two highly vertically integrated companies that control almost everything - production, distribution, TV/radio stations, cable distribution, mobile networks. Aided and abetted by the national regulator. It's expensive, there's little real choice, and much of the content is appalling.

Sony Pictures struggles as staff details, salaries and films leaked

"Sony Pictures has regained control of its technical networks after requesting staff disconnect personal devices from the compromised network."

Consequence of BYOD.

Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m

Re: they are emailing too

I got that email too. I'd like to know where they got my email address.

EU-Canada airline passenger data-sharing is not a done deal

If this deal falls through, the authorities will find another way to collect the data. It will be done quietly and very likely illegally. It's probably already being done.

Regin: The super-spyware the security industry has been silent about

Re: I was just about to post the same thing.

"Maybe we should all just offer ourselves up for re-education?"

No, they'll just implant a chip in your head, monitor you and shock you if you misbehave.

Bond villains lament as Wicked Lasers withdraw death ray

Re: Sonic Repellent

One more thing to get I didn't think I needed.

Exit the dragon: US govt blows $325m on China-beating 300PFLOPS monster computer

I hope...

I hope they put BOINC in it to put the spare cycles to good use.

If you're suing the UK govt, Brit spies will snoop on your briefs

The War Against Terror (TWAT)

That's why I love reading the Reg.

BONFIRE of the MEGA-BUCKS: $200m+ BURNED in SECONDS in Antares launch blast

Sadly the astronauts will be eating freeze-dried broccoli for the next 6 months.

Return of the disk drive bigness? Not for poor old, busted WD

Unfortunately they did not rate my Seagate 2TB ST2000DM001 drive. So far it has been running without problems in my PC for just over a year, knock wood.

This Changes Everything? OH Naomi Klein, NO

Carbon Tax

I'm all for carbon tax, except for one problem: it won't make carbon pollution go away, it will just take money out of my pocket and put it in some rich bastard's pocket (or the government's which is worse).

Boffins want to put Quanta in containers, after docking

Beam me up, Scotty. I canna do that, captain, your quanta are all entangled!

Yahoo! Timestamps! Now! Block! Facebook! Email! Snoops!

Re: I had the opposite problem

A few years ago I had a Yahoo email account. When I discovered that Yahoo knew and recorded every email address I ever used, I deleted the account, and was informed that it would take 2 years to be forgotten. Cynic that I am I'm sure Yahoo never forgets.

Ada Lovelace Day: Meet the 6 women who gave you the 'computer'

Will having a female CEO make Oracle a kinder, gentler company?

Countless Belkin routers go TITSUP in massive mystery meltdown

So who owns the router, the customer who paid for it or Belkin?

Hiss-hiss! GIGANTIC SOLAR FILAMENT snakes around Sun

Re: uh oh! (dangerous neighborhood)

I'm glad you're staying up at night worrying about this so I don't have to.