Airborne visible light weaponry...
We already have a defensive shield... it's called "The UK's weather".
Although as I type this there isn't actually a cloud in the sky... but you get the idea.
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Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking
Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?
Friday 20th April 2018 10:31 GMT 
Re: Probably...
Why the thumbs down? I thought it was a humorous jape and wasn't expecting anything other than my usual, very reasonable, fee of £10 an hour plus parts. I figured if she was that desperate to get it fixed I better get over there... besides, the relationship developed into a mid-length-term girlfriend/boyfriend one, so it was probably offered with more of an ulterior motive than as a method of payment.
Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times
Thursday 19th April 2018 23:55 GMT
I recall a whole lecture about the neural mechanisms of ejaculation in mammals, including a number of experiments involving canine spinal sectioning. When it got to the questions part, someone near me put their hand up and asked, "So exactly how does one write a grant application asking for the money to spend five years wanking off dogs?"
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried
BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network
Thursday 19th April 2018 15:44 GMT
Re: Just imagine...
The front door slams open behind you. You think it's the wind, and you turn round, reaching out to shut it again against the raging storm, when silhouetted against the lighting illuminated solid rain downpour, the outline of Sarah. But not the Sarah you knew, this one is dressed in a sopping, torn dress, head lolling on one side, vacant staring look in her one remaining eye. You take a step forwards, but then recoil as she raises both arms and shuffles forwards, letting out a dull moan, her teeth gnashing together in a slow, biting, chewing motion... Are those words she's trying to form? "Brainnnnzzzzzz...."
Thursday 19th April 2018 13:29 GMT
Re: Mobile as the emergency option?
So... around 5,600 local telephone exchanges in the UK, each, let's be generous, having around 100 cabinets, so around 560,000 geographically dispersed battery backed up units... unless they plan to run new PSU cables out to the cabinets from a central power source at each exchange... so what's the problem with POTS again?
Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST
Tuesday 17th April 2018 12:11 GMT
Re: I know that military aircraft...
As for training in use of an autopilot... satnav use has been included in the driving test now. Certainly the number of incidents involving them, the driving lessons should include sections on common sense, following signs, map reading and not trusting technology!
The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic'
Monday 16th April 2018 12:34 GMT
Re: Surely any true AI, deserving of a persona legalis ...
Until someone figures out a universal algorythm for "justice" , "ethics", and other such stuff you won't actually have an artificial intelligence.
Or am I confusing intelligence with intellect? Anyway, the jurisprudential arguments for the existence of law are all to do with ethics, morals and social consensus - how does one arrive at governance? How does one arrive at a rule of law?
Monday 16th April 2018 11:05 GMT
Surely any true AI, deserving of a persona legalis ...
would by its very own essence understand ethics, morals and the other esoteric features of living, thinking, beings? After all, is that not what the law is about? This is why animals do not have a legal personality, even though they exhibit everything that the term AI is used to mean nowadays - sensation, processing, reaction, self-awareness, multi-modal object recognition, etc...
UK pub chain Wetherspoons' last call: ♫ Just a spoonful of Twitter – let's pull social media down ♫
'I crashed AOL for 19 hours and messed up global email for a week'
Apple leak: If you leak from Apple, we'll have you arrested, says Apple
Sunday 15th April 2018 09:52 GMT
Re: Cast iron guarantee
You will wear a flak jacket made of fully charged lithium batteries taken from Apple products, whilst being dunked into a tank of water. Every 10 minutes you will be removed from the tank and shot at with 200 rounds from an airsoft gun. After two hours of this, we will switch to an air rifle.
Sunday 15th April 2018 09:48 GMT
Re: "...an employee leaked a link to the gold master of iOS 11..."
Security by obscurity is not security. But it makes a wonderful headline, piques interest and curiosity, generates a buzz... what IS it that's so secret that it'll mean commercial ruin if it leaks out? It's the Holy Grail... the gaudy cup of anticipation rather than the carpenter's crudely carved beaker. They know exactly what they are doing.
Sysadmin’s worst client was … his mother! Until his sister called for help
Friday 13th April 2018 10:20 GMT
I sometimes dread going home...
because when I do the family rounds, I get to spend only 50% of the time on seeing my relatives, the rest of the time it's fixing stuff. Like last weekend... my father (a retired CNC lathe operator and metallurgist, so not a dunce) complained that the printer now wouldn't work from the laptop. It was fine from the desktop still, though. Had they made any changes to anything computer related recently? No... well, (eventually) they had received a new box from Virgin, but they just swapped out the old one, and typed the new password into the laptops and phones and it was all working, so that couldn't have been the cause. I spied the Virgin box sitting behind the television, in a different room to the printer.
Had they put the new password into the printer, then?
No, because the desktop computer worked with both the printer and with the internet after the Virgin box was changed, so that couldn't be the problem.
Well, that would have been a reasonable deduction; except the desktop was plugged into the printer by USB, and it had been originally set up so the printer managed its own queue and was connected to the WiFi as well as the USB so they could print from the laptop without having to turn the desktop on.
Problem fixed, I then drove back to my mother's house to see how that Windows 10 Creators Update was coming along so that she could pick up her Yahoo! mail again after the OAuth2 update issue which had "frozen" her computer. By which she meant it hadn't picked up new email since early February rather than the mouse and keyboard didn't respond with a visible change on the screen.
At least my aunt next door is totally technophobic and without a single PC, Mac, laptop, smartphone or anything like that in the house. And no... that scratch on the kids favourite DVD isn't repairable, and yes, it is the reason the disc won't play properly anymore.
UK defines Cyber DEFCON 1, 2 and 3, though of course doesn't call it that
Thursday 12th April 2018 11:21 GMT
Call it Cycon.
Pronounced the same as Psycon. Then you can announce the level nationwide by getting Brian Blessed to shout it from the top deck of The Shard.
El Reg needs you – to help build an automated beer-transporting robot
Was April 10th 'Add storage features to enterprise OSes day'?
Thursday 12th April 2018 12:43 GMT
"Migrates that data, security, and network settings to a new, modern target by using the SMB protocol."?
That's the bit I'm having trouble with. Surely a migration is the time to review that kind of thing, refine or adjust them, test the new settings in place on the new server whilst it is still clean... And SMB??!! On an Enterprise system? As part of something other than a user service? Surely the back orrifice stuff is done using something more... hm... specialised? More secure?
'Dear Mr F*ckingjoking': UK PM Theresa May's mass marketing missive misses mark
Thursday 12th April 2018 12:38 GMT
They're working on this bit...
"And of course you only have to go onto a party’s website or walk near a local campaign group to be inundated with requests for your personal information."
If they get their way, you will no longer need to visit the website or take a walk or, for that matter, be inundated with requests for your personal information - they'll be able to collect it without interrupting your day whatsoever, not even to tell you that they've done it.
Total WIPOut: IT chief finds his own job advertised
Skype for Business has nasty habit of closing down… for business
Wednesday 11th April 2018 21:42 GMT
Total bollocks.
If you're going to use such a shite method of providing the pixels from an application's window, you could do it with, say, mapping 16x16 blocks of the out-of-scope parts of the screen, because no-one is going to bat an eyelid at a couple of fuzzy frames in a Skype for Boneheads call. The compression algorithm is dreadful anyway, and the other participants are bound to be rescaling it as well.
Besides, isn't this the kind of thing the OS window manager is supposed to do for you?
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