Posts by Glen 1

Mega-bites of code: Python snakes into 1st place for cyber-attacks

Re: Python is also increasingly important to 3D / Videogames

How about scratch? (Yes, that one)

Video of Emfcamp talk. (Inc demo)

Enigma message crack honours pioneering Polish codebreakers

Something something Brexit something something.

Spent your week box-ticking? It can't be as bad as the folk at this firm

Re: Reminds of my first paid coding gig

No edit link on phone version.

I should add that there were other depts that had identical tasks (from different clients). I estimate I saved a man week per week access all the depts.

Reminds of my first paid coding gig

I was working as an office admin for a company that dealt with hire cars. Every week, my dept was sent a list of 500-1k vehicles that were due an MOT. Muggins (with occasional assistance), had to copy the details into the gov website, hit next a few times, and copy the results (pass/fail/no change) back to the spreadsheet. 3 man hours every day. After the first week I was practically begging them to let me automate it. I did. The powers that be were ecstatic as you might imagine. They layed off a few people, (not me) and the MD showed up to work in a new Aston Martin. Thought twice before volunteering stuff after that.

Article 13 pits Big Tech and bots against European creatives

Re: takedowns

Typo: systems = systemd

Re: takedowns

>Just like communism, fascism and every other ill thought out idea in history

I'd like to add unchecked capitalism, using leverage as verb when not involving a lever, and UEFI to that list. (You may replace UEFI with systems if you wish)

Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes

Re: Oh dear, a fan

Re: door displays.

Depending on how much of a project you want, you could use ereaders. Set them up pointing at a web page of the calendar and tweak the timeout settings and you have a display that looks better than the cheaper lcds

Re: Very brief but large current spikes flowing in the pi

Re: triggering undervoltage

Whoosh.

Golden State passes gold-standard net neutrality bill by 58-17

Re: no surprise

no surprise that the socialist liberals democratically elected officials dominating the state gummint of Cali-Fornicate-Youconservatives have ONCE AGAIN passed legislation to CRAM THEIR AGENDAS up our as down our throats enact the will of the electorate, so typical of "the left" to FORCE EVERYONE ELSE do their jobs correctly like that...

Everybody dance now: Watch this AI code fool friends into thinking you can cut a rug like a pro

Re: OLD NEWS

That was mapping faces to bodies. This is maping the movements one one body on to another. Not swapping bodies, not swapping faces, but transfering the movements

Also, TFA refers to the 'deepfakes' itself - that el reg has already reported on. It's as of you read the headline, then didn't RTFA

Android data slurping measured and monitored

Re: 'The nature of some data may also surprise. App developers receive your age and gender'

>"Leverage" is not a bleedin' verb.

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A HUNDRED TIMES THIS

It on my Bullshit Bingo card. As a rule, if you use the word 'leverage' when you mean 'use', then your credibility drops like a stone.

It may be poor man's Photoshop, but GIMP casts a Long Shadow with latest update

Re: @AMBxx

>>"I miss Paintshop Pro."

>I miss Deluxe Paint.

+1 from me fro those.

I also miss:

Caxton Press

Print Master Gold

One of the reasons why I prefer nano the the behemoths that are Vi and EMACS is the discoverability of features. In many image editing programs, you have to guess where the function you want to use is and hope the developers thought the same way. Paintshop Pro (pre Corel) was the only one to get things right. (I.e. make the same guesses as me)

Example: Image Resize.

Is it a tool? a plugin? Will be next to the related (but different) canvas size or maybe crop? What is the distinction that decides if something is under the edit menu or elsewhere?

When you spend longer googling "How do I do x in y software" than actually doing it, there is a problem. Given that a lot of these functions are called the same, but are in different menus, a search/help system where you could type in the name would be amazingly useful. It shouldn't require an internet connection.

Sort of how the win10 start menu was intended, but failed miserably to do.

It liiives! Sorta. Gentle azure glow of Windows XP clocked in Tesco's self-checkouts, no less

Azure Glow

I see what you did there :3

'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway

Re: Why did they have to pull the terrorist card?

>1 million.

Birmingham or Manchester? :P

Linux 4.18 arrives fashionably late while Zorin OS shines up its Windows

Re: That UI...

I thought that was XP. Dubbed 'the Tellytubby interface'

Re: Zorin OS

More windows 2000 and windows xp.

Kinda the same under the hood, but quite different interface wise, and with a (sometimes) different set of default apps

Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

Re: Another price increase .....

>That Northerners need their own currency?

No. Unless you mean north of Watford. The south east of England needs its own currency.

>So you've just, effectively, argued for the disbanding of the Euro.

My point (that sadly went over your head) is that they're the same arguments.

>... arty types who don't really know how economies work or where their ... salaries come from.

One of our main clients is a multinational and is waiting for this clusterfuck to sort itself out before awarding/extending any contracts. The contractors *we* use have had their hours slashed. I am *ACUTELY* aware of where my salary comes from.

Re: Another price increase .....

But what of La France UK?

Sheltering in the EurozoneEEA, hiding behind the strength of Germany London, who joined with an undervalued currency.

Your appalling unemployment under-employment data says it all.

How long can the Eurozone UK stagger on, with it fairyland economics,

the huge disparity between northern and southern Europe UK (within England especially), the unresolved debts bought by the ECB BoE (where do you think the QE went?),

and all the while the spectre of Turkey Scotland waiting to join leave and flood you with cheap labour become a mecca for the better educated English speakers within the UK (who mostly voted remain),

or not being allowed to join leave and flooding Europe (EU) with (formally British) migrants?

Sorry if that was hard to follow, but I think I've made my point.

Phased out: IT architect plugs hole in clean-freak admin's wiring design

Re: Plot twist? What plot twist?

Re: hot chassis

Reminds me of the old Usenet yarn.

Magic/More magic

Don't get me started on the Story of Mel

Psst, says Qualcomm... Kid, you wanna see what a 5G antenna looks like?

Re: Who is this person

>Although I moved out of the field

Was it... an electromagnetic field?

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

Re: stuck on HTTP

>A house with glass windows is not in-secure. Its just a house and not a prison.

A burglar with a brick/hammer would disagree.

People on this thread have short memories.

Remember Phorm?

Almost impossible over HTTPS.

LLVM contributor hits breakpoint, quits citing inclusivity intolerance

Re: Most discriminated against

"you have to work..."

vs

"boss sexually assaults you, no one takes it seriously "

"threats of violence including death threats because of which bathroom someone else says you're allowed to use"

"people assume you're the janitor/admin staff rather than a experienced engineer"

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for meritocracy, but the shortsightedness of the "what about me" brigade. Reeks of *precisely* the kind of privileged behaviour these codes of conduct are designed to highlight as wrong.

Like the thread about Stack Overflow the other day - yes, facts trump opinions. Facts like:

"Person A has derogatory remarks made about <an irrelevant attribute> twice a week"

"Person B's sole contact with 'the community' was being told they were stupid for asking a stupid question and <insult implying they are stupid because of irrelevant attribute>"

Yes it *IS* virtue signalling. Its signalling the virtue that "scumbags are not welcome here" Being a white/straight/male doesn't make you a scumbag. Being a scumbag makes you a scumbag.

Re: Both sides' extremes are idiots

no true Roman ca- Scotsman

Seriously, friends. You suck at driving. Get a computer behind the wheel to save your life

Re: This does throw up some questions that need answering

" If we can get 80% of the autonomous benefits at 20% of the cost, that leaves a lot of money for trolley, train, sidewalks, and public transport."

Depends on who is spending the money.

If the autonomous features are included in cars as options, then its Joe public deciding to pay for them.

The other stuff is politicians deciding to spend Joe public's money.

The worst of both worlds would be mandating they be included in cars. Anything that reduces the drivers control and therefore culpability i feel is a bad thing.

See Also: Plane crashes caused by pilots not having sufficient training/understanding of the autopilot.

UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

Point of order

I thought we were *all* fellow commentards?

Like Boffins, tis a badge of honour.

Stop using USB sticks to move kids' data, auditor tells Education Dept

Re: I cringe..

Briefcases are just as easily left on public transport, although these days are likely to be subject to a controlled explosion. Still, that would be better data sanitation than just binning a usb drive too small to be useful.

Large file transfers are technically still possible

Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install

Re: Well somebody had to :---

¿ʇɥƃᴉɹ ʇᴉ ƃuᴉop ᴉ ɯɐ I ˙punoɹɐ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ǝɥʇ pǝuɹnʇ I

Boffins' gravitational wave detection hat trick blows open astronomy

Re: Step 1 done

I would assume they figured it out from the timing between the detections - or more accurately - the size of the phase difference (i think)

The Turtle moves

Curiosity Rover eyes Mars' creeping dunes

Re: Bah!

"odfo dear..."

You are Sarah Bee, and I claim my £5

After eight years, NASA's Dawn probe brings Ceres into closest focus

Re: Comparisons in decreasing order?

"It's fundamentally-incorrect Writing 101."

Ignoring that the moon is closer than the sun, (yes, I know 20 times the distance isn't)

I'll refer to a better writer than I...

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Edit: You do seem to be channeling DNA with the chemist reference. This is The Reg, not The Times. Next you'll be banishing the hard-won title Boffin.

'Leaked' EU digi wish list: Junkets for Eurocrats, sops to copyright and telcos

Easier because its already been done. See Shazam and related services.

As for identifying porn, one persons 'educational vid' is another's fap fodder.

That's a big 4Ker of a cosmos: 3D planetarium to open in Bristol

Re: Will there be toilets too?

Re: Armitage-Shanks Interface

Here is an example of such a device.

Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?

Re: Sackcloth

Close - Primark

Re: Hmm...$10,000...

W-86

Wanted a watch with a stopwatch for my running.

The next model down had one, but didnt have a backlight.

Obsolete – and IP-baring – Anon tool linked to feminist blog DDoS

Re: Self-victimization

Oh dear...

Lets just get this out of the way:

No True Scotsman Feminist hates men.

According to Emma Watson (and the UN), if you are for equality then whether you are male or female (or other), you are a feminist.

No True Scotsman GamerGater hates feminists.

It is right to be concerned about the integrity of people who present themselves as neutral.

Meanwhile...

While people like to draw lines in the sand between "Us" and "Them" they quite often draw them in the wrong place.

There are scumbags who threaten to rape the mutilated corpse of the target of their abuse. There are scumbags who believe that the male 'race' should be put on reservations and be allowed to die out once we have the technology to make babies without sperm. That women should shut up and do as their told, under threat of violence. Who deludedly think that if/when what they percieve as the 'Patriarchy' is replaced then we wont have war anymore.

It is our shame as a collection of societies that it's the most hate filled sets of these voices are oh so much louder than the rest. Shouting past each other, bringing out customised sets of strawmen to undermine what is 'other'.

When one set of scumbags does a particulally effective job? Blame the victim? Wow.

When a victim uses an atack as a rallying cry against the attackers... some how you think thats wrong? That the attack was a false flag op to milk symapthy? Wow.

Please go away.

My personal view on feminism?

Has to pass the hipocracy test.

If obectifying women is demeaning, then objectifying men is demeaning. If a woman lusting after a man is a male power fantacy, then the opposite is true. Otherwise it is not equal by defnintiton.

So who just bought the rights to .blog for $20m? A chap living in Panama

Re Email Validation

Email validation is important when the email address needs to be used.

I would not want any important (or mildly pertinent) info being sent to [e-mail]

That said, valid emails should be valid...

Proposed US law could deal knockout blow to FBI in overseas cloud privacy ding-dongs

RE NY judge getting EU data

Been looking for something like Digital Ocean's $5 a month plan, but based in the EU (ie not just having EU servers). I don't mind if its a bit more expensive, my (performance) needs aren't huge.

I just don't want any of my (potential) client's data to be available to a judge half the world away, it's a hell of a liability.

At least not without the proper authority of the local judiciary (for a given value of proper).

Any suggestions?

See also: David Carruthers

'Boutique' ISPs: Snub the Big 4 AND get great service

Re: Where is Zen Internet in this advertorial?

It could be argued that perhaps the smaller ISPs don't want 'a lot of potential customers' if it means expanding to the point that their service suffers.

There is little point in recommending an ISP aimed at techies to Nan and Grandad. The filter that is first line support is there for a reason, as much as it might irritate us.

That said, if they do start to get bigger, they will probably follow Plusnet's lead and get bought out...

5 Times An 'Unhappy Person' Dared To Use The Word 'Boring' At CES 2015

Re: And the problem with that was what precisely?

re: 'laughing at them'

why? They're out, and beating everyone who can't be bothered or are 'too busy'

Being shit at something is the first step to being not completely shit at something.

I tried to get into running with shorts/tshirt/regular trainers. After my first few 5k Parkruns, injured my foot, had sore nipples due to chafing (not fun). I couldn't run for 6 weeks. Did I give up? No.

Bought some proper running trainers (got them fitted properly), and a techcical running shirt. been running 5ks most saturdays for 2 years.

Erm guys...

Fellow commentards, you know this was a spoof article, right?

What do UK and Iran have in common? Both want to outlaw encrypted apps

Re: Am I a wrung'en?

'relies on secure financial transaciions'

Are you so naive that you think the spooks dont [have the capability to] monitor this?

The US openly admits it hoovers all the SWIFT banking records. All in the name of terrizm of course...

One of the many reports on the matter

Edit: perhaps not all, just the ones they like the look of.

re: https illegal

The trust mechanism used is already broken, they dont need to ban it.

Google results for "snowden https"

Re: Ahh The dereaded VPN

They won't outlaw VPNs...

They will probably mandate that all VPNs are encrypted with certs from 'authorised' or 'known' certificate authorites. (which the spooks can already MITM)

cough*easily removable fig leaf*cough

BILL GATES DRINKS 'boiled and treated' POO. Ah, 'delicious'

Re: nothing new here

but Dihydrogen Monoxide is a key component of acid rain!!

Won't somebody think of the children!?

Re: Well..

Re: Dinosaur pee

XKCD's What If

Near the bottom of the page

LOHAN's Plucky Playmonaut touches down at Spaceport America

Opportunity missed...?

Background music for the vid:

Benny Hill theme

Cool Breeze from Outrun

Plus all the AC/DC classics

Buses? PAH. Begone with your filthy peasant-wagons

Re: Some points

@ Doctor Syntax

I do indeed, and fair enough, a convoluted commute would have me thinking twice about not driving.

You've thought it through and made a decision, and at least have a contingency if the car is off the road due to Reasons.

At my previous job, when the subject came up, I was spoken to as if there was something wrong with me for not wanting a car, ('You'll never have a girlfriend unless you get a car' etc).

But then, that was the same job where my 'Team Leader' didn't know what a tsunami was, and believed bisexual people didn't exist (that they were either gay or straight and just confused).

Sufficed to say, I don't work there anymore.

Some points

For many people, it is more cost effective to get the bus.

The bus only needs to have ~5 people on it for it to be space effective (vs 5 cars)

point to point bus service is called ring and ride.

Some sums:

Price of bus pass for my area: £51 /cal month (£612/yr)

vs

£1000 car spread over 3 years: ~£333.34 (rounded up)

Insurance: min £1000 for 1st year insurance: £1000+

(as e reference my 72 yr old Dad pays £553.90/yr fully comp for his 4yr old fabia)

Tax: ~£140

MOT:~£50

= over £1500 not including petrol/service/repairs

(less for no claims, more for more expensive car)

Sooo... I can spend £800 on taxis/delivery fees and still be ahead

even something as simple as:

Parking in city centre = £4.80 for 4 hours

Daysaver = £4

I'm a single guy living on the outskirts of a major city, so YMMV.

There are logical reasons for having/using a car, but its suprising how many people think of a car as something your *supposed* to have without really thinking it through. They think anyone who doesn't have one is a weirdo.

Fuck those people.

2014: The condensed conference keynotes

Yep

Seems legit