Posts by Camilla Smythe

Intel rips up microcode security fix license that banned benchmarking

Kudos to Debian but...

Shouldn’t Microsoft have told Intel to fuck off first?

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

Re: "Since it’s made from metal"

The article mentions that the metallic strips which the single atom contacts are silver so there is your 'bulk' metal. As Toastan Buttar suggests it sounds more like a relay than a transistor.

NHS Digital to fling half a billion quid at new GP procurement framework

NHoS

https://nhos.openhealthhub.org

Oh Dear. Looks like that one is going to time out.

Oh Fuck I am so Fucking Stupid.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/nhs_buntu_trademark_cease_and_desist/

Looks like they have all fucked off.

So Dominic Cummings gets to smear the NHS Logo over his Vote Leave Shit and nothing happens but....

Linux Haters can Fuck off as Well.

Bank on it: It's either legal to port-scan someone without consent or it's not, fumes researcher

Re: I'm not... However

If I thought about it and wanted to play nice then if my Bank wanted to scan my ports when I landed on their Login page then they can pop up a message saying something like.

For added security if you are a customer about to log in to your account we would like to perform an external port scan in order to check that your computer has not been compromised. If we find anything suspicious then we might not allow you to Log In and ask you to contact us.

Once you have Logged In we will perform an internal port scan to once again verify that your computer has not been compromised. If we find anything suspicious we may lock your account and ask you to contact us.

If you agree to this then please click Accept to log in. If you do not then please click Reject. You will be redirected to your Home Page.

Of course the above is not going to happen because if they get it wrong they have to accept liability for it.

I'm not.

If I want my ports scanned I can ask, give permission, for someone with an appropriate and legitimate service to do so.

I do not need some dweeb dropping in on my open ports saying they are or appearing in my logs as being some sort of security scanning service.

I've never had one of the twats e-mail me to to warn me that I might have a security problem. I can only conclude that the service is for themselves or the data is sold on to third parties for profit.

That's wear and tear on my equipment and uses up my bandwidth along with adding to my electricity bill so they can fuck off into IPTables.

Profit-strapped Symantec pulls employee share scheme

WarFrame?

The company has not sent us a publicly usable statement following our calls for comment yesterday evening.

... Could be WidowMaker?

Qualcomm demands blueprints to Intel chips used in Apple iPhones

Re: Intels stuff is worse though...

OK Downvoters. The lack of logic goes like this.

Qualcomm wants Intel's Blueprints. Qualcomm's present kit performs better than Intel's. Perhaps Qualcom's prior iteration performed just as badly as Intel's current product and did so in *exactly* the same way.

If Qualcomm's prior iteration had IP protection and they can demonstrate such similar or preferably exact behaviour then they might have good reason to ask for some blueprints.

Intels stuff is worse though...

Some background: Apple has been using a mix of Qualcomm and Intel baseband chipsets in its recent iPhones, without any differentiation that would be evident to fans other than Qualcomm-powered handhelds performing better than those with Chipzilla's modems.

Why are Qualcom so intent on finding out how to do it wrong?

Shock Land Rover Discovery: Sellers could meddle with connected cars if not unbound

Re: Land Rover pwned?

All Caps and Swearing. I guess we can all see who is losing the argument here.

Anyway. How do I know that you did not cheat and just type five zeroes followed by five sets of four zeroes rather than doing it properly?

Re: Land Rover pwned?

Fine... Have it your way but you have just proved my point. Neither I or anyone else would be able to easily tell which zero you removed.

Anyway my methodology is also much more secure than yours since you can only remove one of five zeroes whereas I have six places where I can add a zero.

Re: Land Rover pwned?

Sheesh! There's always one.

Perhaps you are getting yourself confused by the OP saying "one zero out" and thinking that a zero needs to be removed but removing a zero leaves a space. Like that is really going to work in that the pin now has a space in it.

00000

00_00

See?

Re: Land Rover pwned?

Yah-But

Where do you put the missing zero AY?

Lah-Dee-Dah 'legitimate research person'. Not looking so clever now are you?

IBM Watson dishes out 'dodgy cancer advice', Google Translate isn't better than humans yet, and other AI tidbits

Should have gone to Google...

“This product is a piece of shit,” a doctor at Florida’s Jupiter Hospital said to IBM, according to the documents seen by Stat News. “We bought it for marketing and with hopes that you would achieve the vision. We can’t use it for most cases.”

COUGH-COUGH-COUGH

Oh boy: MPs prepare to probe UK.gov's digital prowess and tech savvy

Re: Lone Ranger Renegade Rogue Style for Going Forwards* with NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT

Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments to rubbish it.

Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments and read them to see who is also rubbishing it.

Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments and read them to see who is also rubbishing it and hit an amanfromMars 1 comment and have to do a double take to check the user name just to make sure I am not losing my sanity.

Whilst, in this case, he is making perfect sense the submission will be interpreted by non IT inclined people, MPs, as meaning more google-analytics and survey-monkey.

Google Chrome: HTTPS or bust. Insecure HTTP D-Day is tomorrow, folks

Re: Um-Kay

Looks like you need to install the repository key. The exact command to do so is left as an exercise for the reader.

And that just about sums your fuck up.

Um-Kay

Let me just do that for my raspberry pi.

https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/

Looks like I need Certbot for Debian Stretch...

https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianstretch-apache

Err... need to do something about backports...

https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

Now we have to Dick about with 'clarity' of the instructions. Dick Dick Dick..

sudo apt-get update

Reading package lists... Done

W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553 NO_PUBKEY 7638D0442B90D010

W: The repository 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease' is not signed.

N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Looks like that is fucked then.

LetsEncrypt - - - - LetsNotBother

... and don't give me no PEBCAK.

I worked out your stupid instructions and it fell over.

... and don't tell me the fault lies with Debian or RPi

If you tell me to use someone else's shit to use your shit you better make sure the other shit works with your shit,,, and my shit.

You may consider this to be my bug report.

FFS. Falls over on a Public Key Error.

If Brussels wants Android forks, phone makers aren't helping

Re: And the mess that is Android updating

I have concluded that your head must be so far up your ass arse

Microsoft Visual Studio Code replumbed for better Python taming

It is available as an opt-in preview

Hopefully the opt-in is GDPR compliant.

Anyway as I have previously mentioned all of your programming languages are self ego serving undecipherable wank, and fuck off with your 'once you know one you can deal with them all', that get compiled down through layers of shite to shite.

I've got an EVO 250GB SSD.

Again... Can I define a variable record and save an array of it to what is basically memory? Can I fuck. I have to use someone's flavour of a Shitty Base and everyone has a different opinion about which Shitty Base is the best Shitty Base and the syntax used to set it up and access it.

Thank fuck for Global Warming. Unfortunately...

https://twitter.com/EveForster/status/1020616441727463424

The Dolphin is slightly pissed off that it evolved on a planet that became infested by Idiots.

Doctor, doctor, I feel like my IoT-enabled vacuum cleaner is spying on me

Perhaps Mr Chope...

Was concerned that his new found Haxoring Skillz were about to get wasted.

♫ The Core i9 clock cycles go up. Who cares where they come down?

Yah... But...

What's the point when you are trying to frag a Boss if both you and the Boss get really quick for a couple of minutes and then the game goes into Geocities Banner Mode?

UK's Huawei handler dials back support for Chinese giant's kit in critical infrastructure

Bwaa-Hwaa-Hwaa StalkStalk and Internet Connection Records Anyone?

This is likely to be the kit used by TalkTalk for their StalkStalk,

http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1000009228?section=j00a

It is also likely to be the kit used by TalkTalk and other ISPs should they get around to implementing Internet Connection Records as mooted in the IPAct.

ISTR TalkTalk dropping a clanger by suggesting in their customer forums that the equipment was maintained by and remotely accessible to Huawei's engineers.

Never mind that the system was illegal because, and TalkTalk also admitted but later fudged with The ICO even though the evidence was smeared all over website logfiles, it was monitoring for and visiting below top level URLs.

Now people are suggesting that there might be Security Risks.

Does the Bear wipe its Arse with the Rabbit?

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

Re: Question?

I usually take both sets down when snapping a few knob pictures.

Light Traffic

So if its not on speaker phone and I'm in even light traffic then the other person cannot be heard at all.

Dude... You may not know but faffing about with your mobile phone whilst driving qualifies you for a stupid award plus your local Constabulary might slap you with an on the spot fine and put a couple of points on your license.

YMMV if you are not in the UK.

Question?

Not being a Smart Phone owner myself how does everyone else cope with earwax, skin grease, snot, drool and pubic hair?

I suppose having mentioned pubic hair then I should include genital excretions and, thanks for the lead Mr Dabbs, dingleberries?

Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord

Re: And people wonder why ...

In any online discussion about computer language development and/or maintenance as the discussion goes on the probability of a comparison with Linus Torvalds approaches 1.

Assuming this has not already been postulated you may now refer to it as Camilla's law.

Do you really want your kids' future in the hands of Capita? Well, too bad

Phonics screening check?

Fuck... I had to look that one up and became concerned that Capita would gain responsibility for Children learning something like word association with the result that they all end up speaking Capita Management Buzz Speak.

Having delved deeper...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-2018-materials

In particular...

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/715823/2018_phonics_pupils_materials_standard.pdf.pdf

... Yes it is a .pdf.pdf file but What The Actual Fuck is that?

Perhaps as a result of not being a Parent I could be missing some of the subtleties assuming there are any, Jub puts in an appearance, but even so I cannot see how the involvement of Capita will improve the situation.

Salesforce ‘Einstein’ now smart enough for customer service

Excellent.

I'll add them to my list of free-call fapping time numbers.

Azure Dev Spaces has hit public preview, so El Reg took it for a spin

Yup. Today we just copy/pasta from SE.

I am sure there is an unintended linguine coding joke trying make an appearance here.

Fresh cup of WTF with lunch? TeamViewer's big in Twitter's domination-as-a-service scene

Yew! Ugly People.

Who'd of thunk?

Goes off in search of kitteh pictures.

Decision time for AI: Sometimes accuracy is not your friend

TL;DR

I started out with the anticipation that this might start from the premise that sometimes it is good to make mistakes but recognise that when AI is used against Humans such mistakes might be quite damaging.

I got as far as, my dawning expectation, Men and/or Women buying socks or pantyhose and an almost subliminal glance at what looked like a graph with a blue shape and a red shape on it and instantly reached the conclusion that the author was some sort of SEO Cookie Spawning Marketing Twat who should just chain themselves to an Estate Agent and go throw themselves in some deep water somewhere on top of the rest of the dross that serve no purpose other than to waste my oxygen.

Perhaps someone else who has read the full article can advise me as to why I might be wrong. Try not to let the possibility that I am not interested stop you from doing so.

Welsh firm fined £60k for pummelling phones with 270k pay-day loan texts

Psst Save yourselves £47,998

https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/register-your-company

£12 on line.

Don't bother filing more stuff for the previous one. Just wait until Companies House gets around to losing it via a hard floppy disk failure.

The Notch contagion is spreading slower than phone experts thought

Whut?

Being a non smart phone user I thought that this might be a warning of some virusy thing but... It turned out to be click bait.

However if I were to be a smart phone user I would be telling those responsible to take their notch and fuck right off with the repulsive blemish.

I would also tell those trying to find excuses for the wart to go fuck off as well.

I was forced to Google this...

https://gizmodo.com/after-just-6-months-the-phone-notch-is-already-deeply-1823469447

When Essential debuted the first-ever notched display on the PH-1, it was a bold, divisive statement about smartphone design.

No!!11!! Just Fuck Off.

With the recent trend of smartphones opting for full-view or extra-wide or whatever you want to call it displays and cutting down on bezels, the notch was really an inevitable evolution.

No!!11!! Stop insulting Darwin or at least let Darwin take its course.

"Ooooo. I see you have a notch phone."

"Yes. Bow down before its Superior Notchiness."

"Still got your Google Glass stored in your Sock Draw?"

"Fuck Off!"

"BwaHahHahHahLOL."

"Fuck Off!"

And that’s really the issue at heart, because not long after Essential and Apple made notches neat, everyone else hopped on the bandwagon and ruined it. After all, there are few things worse than running into someone and realizing you are wearing the same clothes. What a bummer.

Wait... This is Gizmodo? Maybe I missed the <sarc> tags. Are they at WeboRrhea3?

... Glad I missed that bandwagon.

"Oooooooo. Yooooou've got a 'Notch Phone'."

"Fuck Off."

"Is it still under contract?"

"Look. Just Fuck OFF!"

"Mark of the Beast LOL... Noooo Don't hit me have some Beers as a consolation."

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

Simon Says...

"Blah Blah Blah."

Crew Says...

"Fuck Off Simon."

Foot lose: Idiot perv's shoe-mounted upskirt vid camera explodes

ISTR Alas Smith and Jones...

Doing a face to face about having an eye on the end of your finger.

ROTFLMAO. When you think about it some things do not stand the test of reason.

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR

Icon

Eyes Right -->

Registry to ban Cyrillic .eu addresses even if you've paid for them

You can all Fuck Off and...

Use Emojis.YourFlagEmoji

Sorted.

Oracle, for one, says we'll welcome our new robot overlords: '90%' of you will obey an AI bot

1,320 "HR leaders and employees."

So.. that will be 1318 HR Leaders and 2 Employees.

Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it

SCOHub

What do you mean... "Don't disturb the Zombie."?

Places order for Popcorn.

Google Cloud CEO admits: Yeah, we wanted GitHub too. Whatevs

WTAFeh?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/26/gitlab_moving_platform_to_google_cloud/

To further distance itself from suspicions that this is a reaction to the GitHub furore, GitLab pointed out in its announcement that it has maintained a secondary GitLab.com site, containing some 200TB of Git data, on the Google Cloud Platform using GitLab's own Geo mirroring technology for a "few months".

I appear to have acquired 4TB of local spinning storage as a result of a DWP error in my favour. I have fuck all idea what to do with it but, for the moment, I appear to have 3TB of unpartitioned space spare. OK it's sitting on the end of an ADSL line plus I switch the computer off when I go to bed.

It should not be beyond the classical stupidity of the Idiots involved to fuck up some script in Ruby, Twat or Python such that I can donate some storage. Stick some BlockChain on it as well for brownie points...

Don't forget "Cloud is Someone Else's Computer".

Try not to Wank It Up.

That'll learn ya! Data watchdog spanks two Brit phone botherers

If it is not a Criminal Offence Make it a Criminal Offence.

Don't bother fining the companies involved. The Tea and Muffin ICO stick the Directors in front of a Judge. The Judge ticks the Criminal Offence box. The Chocolate Tea Pot Companies House disqualifies the Directors and they are unable to set up another company. Did I miss anything?

Not OK Google: Massive outage turns smart home kit utterly dumb

Hmmmm

So far, though, the most likely cause is a software update that Google published around the same time as the first complaints of downtime came in, an update that added the Spanish language to its devices.

Siesta Time.

Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive

Re: Coding inspiration

Ian Bell, Elite's coauthor, has been offering the source for download for years, along with what was produced as to ship designs for a putative sequel.

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/bbc/

ARGHHHHHH MY EYES!!

Oh fuck. Thargoids and Cops.

Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination

Someone on the Internet is Wrong!!1!!

because everyone else is using Slack. It's a bit like asking why nobody uses Google+ even though it's better than FaceBook.

I am not using Slack. As an aside I do not use Google+ or Facebook or MatterHost.... whatever that is. Assuming I exist inside the set of 'everyone else' by virtue of not being you and I do not use Slack then you are completely wrong and should delete yourself.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Buttonless and port-free: Expect the next iPhone to be as smooth as a baby's bum

Re: Wireless Charging is Shit

It's a non-starter.

Yabbut their website... http://energous.com/ has pictures of smiley happy people looking smiley and happy plus they have videos.

Shit... I have to take a break to go fiddle with my anti-grav fusion powered alien space saucer, a couple of adjustments and it will be good to go, but if there are any Angel Investors out there I have modified my toilet to transmute my piss into platinum.... I just need something more sensitive to verify that the piss in the bowl has some platinum in it and then we are good to go.

Re: Wireless Charging is Shit

Seriously... do a Patent search on Energous.

Blob of Putty A transfers energy wirelessly to Jelly B because X = a + ib

http://energous.com/

Wireless Charging is Shit

It will only appear to work if you add BlockChain to it and then it will still be Shit.

Cops: Autonomous Uber driver may have been streaming The Voice before death crash

Dick Heads

Let me just be rubbish here, feel free to down vote if I am or improve the suggestion.

Require that at all times the human driver always has to drive the car whilst the car drives autonomously.

Compare the demand from the human driver to the demand from the autonomous driver. Whilst they match inside a set of defined limits for the available inputs the autonomous driver has control.

Ideally if the inputs match the human driver will not notice and if they do then they will be able to adapt accordingly and report those differences.

If and when they differ outside that set of defined limits for the available inputs either the car stops, preferable, or the human driver takes priority.

If things are extremely out of whack then the human driver is looking at the fluff in their navel and MagnaVolt should be applied to the human driver after the vehicle has rendered itself safe. Call it an incentive.

The same NTSB paper also reported that Uber's self-driving Volvo XC90's emergency braking systems were turned off "to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behaviour". The operator of the vehicle was supposed to be watching the road and dealing with emergencies.

... "to stop the computers arguing with each other."?

Presumably Uber was too busy programming a rate hike for situations when a cyclist gets pulped and local traffic is disrupted by the emergency services to bother about asking Volvo how the apparently disparate systems might be modified to play nice with each other.