Posts by Stoneshop

Loose wrists shake chips: Your wrist-job could be a PIN-snitch

Re: Pretty neat

That would also thwart the IR scan attack.

People who rely on their muscle memory would have to unlearn that if such measures are introduced.

Prominent Brit law firm instructed to block Brexit Article 50 trigger

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

Your reading comprehension is beyond abominable.

Is it up to them? I thought we voted for MEP's, it was one of those claims of democracy.

Regardless of whether one's elected democratically into a council or parliament (and through whatever method, FPTP, PR or Preference Voting) anyone in that assemblage can have their personal opinion on whether to like or dislike a particular member, considering him or her worthy of a seat or not, and wanting that member to stay or leave. And I doubt there's much love lost between MEPs with BRemain leanings and Nigel Ravage. I do doubt that quite strongly.

The promised referendum which will be carried out once the result is in should be carried out.

You had your referendum already, and I gathered the BRexiters didn't want another one.

I dont know who your MP is.

I already mentioned that I am not directly affected by BRexit, but to help you grasp what I mean by that: I am neither an UK resident nor an UK citizen, and ergo I do not have a "my MP".

If he is a man of principle then he is right to wait there until we actually leave the EU

One may take that view, yes. Another is that he's involved in, and paid by, an organisation he despises, an attitude one may well call hypocritical and dishonest.

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

So if we remain in the EU then the remain crowd want him (as well as all MEP's) to be employed there

Given his recent speech, do you really think his fellow UKMEPs still want him there? And I doubt that any BRemainer has had positive feelings about him anyway.

You want him out then tell your MP

Who would that be?

He shouldnt need to quit unless the democratic vote is being ignored.

Out of principle would be another reason. But that's a word that's apparently not in Ravage Farage's vocabulary.

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

Out of interest what is the complaint against this?

Do look up the words "opportunist" and "hypocrite".

Re: Result not significant

We didn't have a bloody 2/3 majority vote to get into the draconian shitpile attempted superstate

From the moment you got in up until two weeks ago you could have influenced (and did) how that "draconian shitpile attempted superstate" functioned. That, IMO, allows for a lower threshold on entry: because you can have a say in which way things are to develop. Furthermore, economic and social conditions have changed a bit over the 40 years you've been in; both within the UK and the EU as well as globally; it would behoove all of the involved to take that into account as well, and setting a different threshold for exit now might well be one of the consequences of that.

Re: This "Parliament" you speak of

"To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

Re: From another angle...

nothing more than an opinion pole

How about an opinion spaniard, or an opinion greek, dutchman or estonian (as opposed to etonian, we've seen their opinions)?

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

The tories are in power and Cameron is in charge so UKIP having an exit plan (fairly sure they do) is irrelevant especially as Nigel has been excluded from the leave talks. [...] Can you imagine any tory crowing about an exit plan, Osborne and Cameron would do anything to scupper it.

There's nothing to stop you from preparing an exit plan even if you expect not needing to use it, and equally, not being able to crow about it doesn't excuse you from preparing one. On the contrary, having one and presenting it once it's become necessary shows you as being prudently prepared (at least if the plan is halfway realistic, anyway). This holds for Farage too; even if he was excluded from the official campaign, there's nothing barring him from having a plan ready for the event of Brexit. Stating clearly and unequivocally beforehand that he won't be making one, instead considering a win to be all he wants and that's it would be fine too.

For quite a few of those involved, it has shown them for what they are.

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

When did he promise that? And even if it shows he has kept that promise, how about his promise to resign as UKIP leader if the 2015 election results didn't show a significant breakthrough for them (which they didn't).

Never mind that pro-Brexit ended up being a pile of half-truths, numbers-finagling and plain impossible items, going into the Euro Parliament with an exit speech consisting of lies and insults ("none of you have ever had a proper job") doesn't make his promises any more valuable.

Not that I'm directly affected by Brexit; if I was I'd be seriously miffed by all this. And not just Farage and Johnson for running away from what I consider their responsibility, also the major clusterfuck that the referendum was: lack of clearly defined procedures (if it's advisory, don't act as if it's binding; how and when to invoke A50, and by whom; some kind of contingency planning for both outcomes, etcetera)

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

Brave Sir Nigel ran away! When reality reared its ugly head, Sir Nigel turned his tail and fled, brave brave brave Sir Nigel.

Down to Earth: NASA's kilo-kitty balloon lands after 46 days

What condition were the cats in?

After more than eight weeks aloft, I suspect they were getting more than a little miffed with not being allowed to sharpen their claws.

By the way, how many Super Tigers rode that previous balloon? No mention of the weight of even one such tiger (a normal one is about 300kg, 71 jubs), nor of that balloon's lifting capacity. Inquiring minds want to know.

fMRI bugs could upend years of research

Re: You can kick instruments

MRI, as a tool for looking inside your noggin while it's still more or less functioning*, is quite OK. Which can, and has been, calibrated by scanning corpses and cutting them up**.. What happens to be a problem is interpreting correlations in activity in different brain areas, for instance the physical stimuli as caused by consuming Coke (or coke), and the associated feelings.

* mine nearly wasn't, and MRI showed the cause, allowing the correct medical treatment. Guessing would have had well over 50% chance of being dead wrong.

** Or so I've been told by someone working at Philips Medical Systems.

Re: Good science

The measuring instruments were all (?) badly calibrated.

The problem is not the scanner; going from MR data to images does produce images that look quite like slicing your body and taking piccies of that, but it's less invasive. Living people tend to prefer it that way. The problem is the statistics software used to correlate bits of brain activity, and while it's essential to the research mentioned, I wouldn't classify it as 'instruments', those being something you can kick.

Forget YouTube – meet ChewTube: Strangers watching millennials eat

Re: I'm thinking of starting a channel as well.

How about live streaming of you streaming videos?

Hey, El Reg

"Yeah actually it's probably time to switch off the internet"

And in the next article the UN,calls on countries to NOT switch it off. So, it's going to blink, right?

But still

it has insufficient power to teach people the correct use of "its" and "it's".

BAM! Astroboffins now have a second way of picking up black holes' collision super kicks

Hmpf

"The shift between short and long wavelengths will show if the gravitational waves from super kicks are being directed towards or away from Earth."

The wave we detect is always directed at Earth, otherwise we wouldn't be able to detect it. What a Doppler shift would show is whether the source is moving towards Earth, or away from it.

Visiting America? US border agents want your Twitter, Facebook URLs

Re: Good idea

Are you now, or have you every been an expert?

Are you now, or have you every been a foreigner?*

* Furriner, for the other side of the pond.

Re: I'll have whatever you're smoking.

the stationary cupboard

As they overwhelmingly tend to be.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO, CCO to call it a day

"To further accelerate the time it takes"

The word is 'shorten'.

Beautiful model to explain the universe to physicists

Reading the headline

I expected it to be about Doutzen Kroes getting a job as spokesperson for CERN or something like that

Time to re-file your patents and trademarks, Britain

Re: "Never was so much lost by so many due to one stupid decision"

On top of that, much as I really don't agree with the amount of power the "financial markets" have over us, the fact is that they do,

How much of that power can be attributed to the global financial market, how much to the EU and how much to the Euro (which the UK wasn't part of anyway)?

Boris seems to be back-pedalling a bit,

Juncker suggests going ahead as soon as possible.

Re: 'EU' -> 'UK' -> 'K'

Borisland

Raspberry Pi 3 tops SBC poll for self-brew hackers and Linux folk

Re: Meh

You're replying to Camilla Smythe, known (but apparently not to you, yet) for stringing together techno-gobbledygook apparently to rile up other commentards and garner downvotes.

Note that CS has, in this case, vehemently excluded the most obvious route to solving the problem. A tactic observed more often.

Re: My nipples implode with despair

Mines full of Penguins!

Coppermines? (probably not in this case, because that's x86)

Re: Community and price.

I looked at Arduino, and it was US$85 dollars for a wi-fi shield. Ridiculous.

Sounds like you're looking in the wrong place then. The average Chinese tat bazaar like DealExtreme, TinyDeal and BangGood has them starting from US$15, occasionally even cheaper. And even sites like Adafruit and Sparkfun have them for less than half of that US$85, including Arduino base boards with integrated WiFi.

Micro-USB

If you need a micro-USB for supplying power: obtain one of those wireless charging gizmos you can fit inside a smartphone (such as this one http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Wireless-Charging-Receiver-micro-USB/dp/B00H7FJXCC/ Mind the orientation of the plug w.r.t. the cable) , open it up (they all seem to have the actual electronics and coil sandwiched between two plastic sheets that come apart fairly easily), figure out the polarity, unsolder the flatcable from the electronics and solder some wires on.

For full-blown (micro-)USB/HDMI I'd start by looking at DIY plugs and male PCB-mounted connectors. I had no actual need for those, so I don't have links to usable items.

Cloudian clobbers car drivers with targeted ads

Re: So how long

A belt-fed paintball gun. Preferably a Gatling.

Fujitsu picks 64-bit ARM for Japan's monster 1,000-PFLOPS super

Re: This is why AMD and NVidia are making ARM chips

Itanium should have been successful,

You're quite funny, you know.

Gravitational waves: A new type of astronomy

Re: Poor science - @Dr Mouse

energy falls off according to 1/R^2 as they expand spherically

ITYM 1/r^3. Area of a spherical object (cow or otherwise) is 4/3*pi*r^3, so energy per unit area of a spherical wavefront is proportional with r^-3

Re: Clarification

(This rasise the question of what happens if a gravitational wave arrives from vertically above.)

For one detector that would indeed cause it to not detect it, but there are three: one at 119W, one at 90W and one at 10E. Given that the Earth is, roughly, a sphere, for two of the detectors an incoming wave can not be coming in from straight above if it is for the third.

Re: Poor science

Other scientists will have to analyse the results to see whether any mistakes in the experiment are present.

Don't you think this is already being done?

Cats understand the laws of physics, researchers claim

Re: By "rudimentary understanding of gravity"...

cats understand the concept of "containers"

Ah, but do they also understand DevOps and Agile?

a human concept called gravity.

It's a physical property, one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, and the one that works over the greatest distance.

The human concept is calling it "gravity", "Mass times other mass times capital G over distance squared" would be more precise, but rather cumbersome.

This research also reveals that the researchers involved have had no fundamental interactions with cats before.

"This study may be viewed as evidence for cats having a rudimentary understanding of gravity."

One of our cats has a perfect understanding of gravity. She has even figured ways to thumb* her nose at it.

* Non-opposable, which she probably regrets, but which in the long run is quite likely better for all involved.

Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

made by Archimedes

Ah, he of Acorn Computers and ARM.

(computer chips, when submerged in beer, are subject to an upwards force equal to the weight of the displaced beer volume)

Re: Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

And then someone considered these instructions a fine basis for developing APL.

Please translate

авторское право 183 BC международная торговая машина

You didn't specify what language it needed to be translated into.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

Re: Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

πνευματικών 183 προ Χριστού όλα τα δικαιώματα κατοχυρωμένα δικαιωμάτων διεθνείς επιχειρηματικές μηχάνημα.

(pnevmatikón 183 pro Christoú óla ta dikaiómata katochyroména diethneís epicheirimatikés michánima)

That would be "Vegetarian sweet and sour long pork"

Re: Ancient tech support

In modern Greek it's 'έχετε δοκιμάσει την απενεργοποίηση και ξανά?' (échete dokimásei tin apenergopoíisi kai xaná ?). Now all you have to do is wait until around Y4K, and this will have become ancient Greek too.

Sneaky brown dwarf gives us a bright flash and astroboffins are confused

Re: It's obviously trying to start a fusion reaction...

a new ignition coil

One not made by Lucas, Prince of Darkness and Sacred Keeper of the Three-State-Switch*

* Off, dim and flicker.

The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you

Re: You can [still] have classic stationery and postal stamps...

Clearly, energystar has overdosed not on Snickers, but on AManFromMars bars

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the price of 36 Instagrams

Re: The day I'll delete my account...

Like avoiding a Windows 10 upgrade.

No problem, unless one of those dastardly Windows Updates is surreptitiously blocking any Linux iso you want to download.

Re: Pretty obvious, no ?

An Agile Python DevOps Cloud Container version of Windows.

Re: Eh?

So basically they are going to open up all your [private and confidential] Office365 content,

"Working on confidential content" and "cloud services" (not limited to O365). I see a contradiction here.

Government regulation will clip coders' wings, says Bruce Schneier

Re: I want a dumb house.

Fifteen cents the 'chip', plus antenna. Who needs to warn You, miserable consumer?

I do, myself. There are no 15 cent chips (plus antenna) in the gear I use.

Re: What is the IOT anyway?

(that are functionally similar to the X25 stuff we could get from Radio Shack years ago if a little more expensive).

ITYM X10

Rat Shack is dead, X10 doesn't use the Internet, so it's not Hip Innovative Shit