Posts by James 51

Trump-backed RAISE Act decoded: Points-based immigration, green cards slashed

Re: "The American worker has never had a stronger advocate than President Trump,"

Franklin D. Roosevelt might have a better claim to that title.

Re: Never got the Points System

In this particular scenario you need to take a look at Trump's business interests, those of his family and then the people who voted for him.

Does he know that countries with points based systems are usually trying to boost the numbers of people coming in?

If you love your email standards, SMTP your feet: 35 years later

Re: Already exists

I have had email accounts I have just created receive spam because the senders are sending out to random addresses not caring if they exist or not. Lets not forget companies get hacked and then the emails of their employees and customers get sold on so even if you're careful, that's no guantee that you won't receive spam.

Cancel your summer trip to nearby Proxima b. No chance of life, room service, say boffins

More or less

See title.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

Re: Never mind the dawgs!

@jake, actually taxing bad stuff does work:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/higher-tobacco-taxes-can-improve-health-and-raise-revenue

Boffins grudgingly admit they may have found an exomoon

http://www.nature.com/news/embattled-neutrino-project-leaders-step-down-1.10371

http://www.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/leaders-of-faster-than-light-exp.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21656-leaders-of-controversial-neutrino-experiment-step-down/

Just hope that if it turns out there are no exo-moons here that they don't lose their jobs like the unfortunate incident of the Italian FTL neutrinos.

Universal Service Oh... forget the Obligation. BT offers to stump up £600m for 10Mbps

If there was a 'every person who doesn't have 99.99% up time of 10mb gets it for free for a year automatically with mega bucks fine if we find out you've been fiddling the books' instead of form filling compensation that might work.

Strong and stable, my arse. UK wobbles when coping with ransomware

Re: That makes for dire reading...

Yes, the NHS beat the EU health care system in every category except outcomes. So as long as you don't count stuff like dying sooner if you have cancer, it is the best. BTW I do think the NHS is great, it has been beaten and battered by the Tories who want to farm out as much to the private sector as possible and that is easier if they run it down first.

Re: That makes for dire reading...

I think we've been getting the same people for up and down votes.

Re: That makes for dire reading...

Actually BMW annouced a tiny investment. That assembly line is already producing minis so that is the cheapest place to start manufacturing the electric ones. It is when there are totally new lines for which the retooling for costs as much as a new factory, that is when we'll know which way the wind is blowing.

Re: That makes for dire reading...

Where raging wildfires aside the food and weather and health service are generally much better?

Valley VC sues blogger after sex pest claims, discovers writer is a male tech biz rival

If someone sends a letter bomb and the return address on the envolope is your address, does that make you responsible for it?

Facebook may print money but thirsty Wall Street wants more

Whenever I read that record breaking profits aren't enough for Wall Street I am reminded that the part from Hellboy 2 were the bad guy points out that humanity has a hole in its heart and our greed can never be satisifed. I think he might have had a point.

O2 admits to throttling network bandwidth for EU data roamers

No limitation, just the commerical agreement between Three and the other company. It's annoying but I guess it does keep their prices low.

Glad I am sticking with Three for the moment. I have noticed that it is slower when I go abroad but I don't know if that is Three, their partner or just crappy networks.

Beijing police quench scum allegedly behind 'Fireball' fraudware

Probably hoping to operate under the same rule as the Russians seem to, don't target domestic users/organisations and then you're just a patriotic individual who got out of bed, saw the news and decided to do something.

An 'AI' that can diagnose schizophrenia from a brain scan – here's how it works (or doesn't)

I can't help but be reminded of an early machine learning project that the US military had. They showed the system photos of NATO hardware and Soviet hardware (which shows you how old this story is). In the end the system was very reliable until someone realised what had happened is that the system had actually ‘learned’ to tell the difference between the good quality photos of NATO hardware and the poorer quality shots of Soviet hardware. The contents of the photo were irrelevant.

Expect the Note 8 to break the bank (and your wallet)

The app that is gathering a huge honeypot of data on people and you can't turn off the spyware, No thanks which is a pity cause otherwise it is very tempting. Even without a removable battery.

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration

Their best bet is to stall actual laws while encouraging debate and discussion of what they should look like till the next person takes office.

Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!

The £150K for the prime minister is a purely political amount. If they could get away with more they could but given the money they make afterwards it''s not worth the hassle.

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

I'd buy a nokia 100 that support 4g. My three sim doesn't work with the 100 I have.

US laptops-on-planes ban now applies to just one airport, ends soon

Re: Guns And Explosives

It is obvious from the conduct and statements from the TSA they care not one jot about the people going through the airport or any number of false positives. It's false negatives that agitate them and it is better that 10,000 innocent people are punished if it reduces the risk of a guilty person showing up.

Well, James Bond did have a laser hidden in his.

Now your boss can tear you a new Glasshole: Google's techno-specs reborn as biz gear

Re: Six figures

More like 1+1+1+1+1+1. That has six figures in it.

Re: The Camera is also very useful

No need for a camera for that, the trusts are more than willing to hand the data over and are willing to break the law to do so:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/03/google_deepmind_trial_failed_to_comply_with_data_protection_law/

Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in

Re: River is dead after spending twenty years/one night with the Dr.

It has been established that crossing your own time line is a bad idea (they've still done it though) and from what River has said, she had caught up with all their meetings by the time they got to the planet with the singing rocks.

River is dead after spending twenty years/one night with the Dr.

Russia launches non-terrifying satellite that focuses Sun's solar rays onto Earth

For a moment I thought it was going to be another space mirror to help crops grow 24hrs a day.

User left unable to type passwords after 'tropical island stress therapy'

Re: Nailed it in one

There was one lady in a plcae I worked had who had very long nails (not sure if natural or artifical, guessing the later) and could type very quickly but all the letters had been scratched off her keyboard.

Re: One week at Bigger Blue.

Prejudice is probably too strong a term but talking with him and saying pratical clothing was encouraged would have been a better way to handle it. There are some shops that require support staff to be in trousers/shirt/tie/nice shoes because it is what looks professional. Anyway, graduaties are always encourged to turn up looking smart and was probably just following the careers advice they had been given.

Boffins start work on data centre to analyse UK infrastructure

£8m facility to help government identify and fix weaknesses

Was I alone in thinking that is an expensive mirror?

Trump's CNN tantrum could delay $85bn AT&T-Time Warner merger

Re: THE REGISTER IS FAKE! ON THE SIDE OF CNN!

@Dave You forgot the joke icon.

Astronomers fire up AI algorithms to hunt Milky Way's hot Jupiters

This is a good use of machine learning. Isn't stuff like this already going on already in big pharma research? I'm sure there will be lots of uses for this kind of data sifting technology. It will be up to the researchers to determine if it's gold or iron pyrite.

European MPs push for right to repair rules

@DaLo I have a roccat keyboard and almost all the leds in the keys died within two months. You'd need a solidering iron to even try to replace them. At least I know why it was on sale at the same price as the ones without leds now.

Fancy fixing your own mobile devices? Just take the display off carefu...CRUNCH !£$%!

Re: Green lobby failure

Of course the price you pay when you buy it is not the true cost but this is what I mean by that. The full cost of any device should include dealing with environmental damaged causing during its creation and disposing of it when it has reached the end of its useful life (or when people decide to chuck it in the bin and buy the new shiny). There are lots of costs you can associate with a device but as manufactures don't bear the cost of dealing with them, they aren't included in the price you pay when you buy. Cleaning up the pollution released in the mining and refining the materials needed to make the phone. The environmental damage done directly by the mining (particularly if it is open cast) and the human cost were safety standards are very low. Then there is the pollution released in creating the components and manufacturing the device. Then when it is time to be disposed of, there is dealing with any number of toxic materials embedded in a device that has been designed to be difficult to dismantle and repair to encourage people to buy the new shiny rather than repair it when something goes wrong. All this could be applied to TVs as well. I could go on but you get the idea.

If there was a fairphone 3 coming out or someone took advantage of the fairphone 2's modular construction to put a more powerful CPU in then I'd probably head over to the co op website and get one. As it is, after about four years my Q10 struggles with some websites as they are so media heavy. Don't want to end up with hardware that's fine but unusable because of software stuff (my playbook being a case in point).

Re: Green lobby failure

To pay the true cost of the device over its entire life cycle.

Ailing Brit chip designer Imagination Technologies up for sale

@DougS Imagine a Chinese firm bought in the chips, examined them and saw how it worked, pushed out other customers and then said thanks but we'll start producing our own version now and we pinky promise it won't infringe on your IP. Would your post have been as blaise about Apple's conduct then?

Elop crippled Nokia's stock before MS bought it. No one took him to task over that.

Homeland Security: Putin’s hackers tried to crack electoral networks in 21 US states

Re: Homeland Security: Putin’s hackers tried to crack electoral networks in 21 US states

Arresting a lieutenant to say you don’t have ties to a king pin doesn't mean you're not in the pocket of organised crime:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/eric-trump-says-syria-strike-shows-there-is-no-tie-between-russia-president-donald-trump-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

Re: If the facts support it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_Ukraine_%282014%E2%80%93present%29

Google may follow Apple, design mobile chips in-house

Android multitasking is dire. Still can't match BB10.

NASA's Kepler space telescope finishes its original mission catalog

Re: Good job, Kepler!...And oh, the space telescope too!

We'd need a space elavator or a radical new propulsion technology for that to happen.

Report estimates cost of disruption to GPS in UK would be £1bn per day

@winger, if you read the article you'd know there are issues with docking large ships (cause oil tankers crashing in their dock is no big deal) and aumblance drivers not being able to make it to where they are needed as quickly as possible. We could do without just as we could do without other benefits of technology but that doesn't mean it will be a pleasent experience.

Virtual reality audiences stare straight ahead 75% of the time

I have a gear vr and I've tried to watch some 360 videos on it. The first problem is realisticly you need to be standing up in order to be able to turn around and view what is happening so you have to have the ablity and the room to stand. Given that VR is profoundly anti social you can't do it when other people or there. Motion sickness is another problem. I know if I try to play minecraft full screen after five minutes I have to stop. Another problem is that you're always going to be missing something. Your field of vision is only so wide so you can't see it all all the time unless it is straight in front of you. Plus people are still new at the 360 thing, it's going to take a while for people to learn what works and what doesn't.

Look who's joined the anti-encryption posse: Germany, come on down

Re: BS

@ Mr Herd you just need to pick a pictular book and everyone goes and buys it. Or even something like the best selling book of last year on the new york times book publishing list. A self updating pad in that case. Or this on line book club's list. etc etc.

Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G

First world issue but will 5G be able to get a signal, preferably with a good data connection in the middle of a building? Will there be no more not spots on the train lines? Will it take up less battery life than 4G or 3G (I could swear that each phone I but has less battery life than the last one when doing the same things)?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Microsoft's 'Ms Pac-Man beating AI' is more Automatic Idiot

Sounds a lot like how the first version of the sims worked.