Posts by Trollslayer

Boffins' better blues beat battery blues

Simple concept

but a lot of work to achieve it.

FBI: Your real SECURITY TERROR? An ANGRY INSIDE MAN

Going postal?

Remember this happened when Reagan allowed massive asset stripping and someone snapped.

FBI boss: Apple's iPhone, iPad encryption puts people 'ABOVE THE LAW'

Land of the free?

In the US there is a thing called 'civil forfeiture' where goods - including dwellings with contents - can be seized and sold on the basis of suspicion of crime, no proof.

Philadelphia (a city BTW) seizes about 250 houses a year, police simply turn up and force people out of their home. That's it. Then everything is sold.

Small town police size the car and contents of people travelling through and sell them.

It's usually poorer people who can't afford to fight back and the Attorney General refuses to do anything about it because it would cost the police too much money.

Same mentality.

Apple 'Genius': iPhone 6? We've had NO COMPLAINTS about our BENDY iThing

Genius?

It doesn't take one to despise Apple's attitude.

Man's future in space ... Barack Obama: Mars. Narendra Modi: Mars. Vladimir Putin: Er, Moon

Re: Moon is a harsh mistress

You drop rocks from orbit, the gravity well on the moon is too high.

Iron Sky II

Just saying.

Oh, and Palin for president.

Troll hunter Rackspace turns Rotatable's bizarro patent to stone

They get my vote

From someone with trollslayer.org.

Ericsson follows Broadcom to modem Mordor

Re: Nvidia and Intel

Intel was Picochip in Bath actually, acquired via Macom.

Nvidia and Intel

Both modem business units are British start-ups that were acquired.

Add ARM and others, the UK does pretty well.

Oz carrier Tiger Air takes terror alerts to new heights

Hmm... the country with one third out population but ordering three times as many F-35s (if they ever work).

The country which alcohol fuelled violence getting out of control.

It's official: LOHAN's arboreal avoidance algorithm is PANTS

The whole thing

is gloriously, wonderfully daft!

It makes life worth living!

Cops apologise for leaving EXPLOSIVES in suitcase at airport

Re: Bom bom bomb!

That only works if the probabilities are dependant in some way which they weren't.

NORKS ban Wi-Fi and satellite internet at embassies

Easy

Satellite phone with a data plan.

Ofcom will not probe lesbian lizard snog in new Dr Who series

THat episode wasn't about the plot

But about the characters and this bit was to knock people out of their groove which it did.

Also if you watched the bit after that the important part about the veil came out. A bit metaphysical but nicely done.

If you missed it then tough.

No, thank you. I will not code for the Caliphate

The keyboard is mightier than the idiot

Shows them up for what they are - rabid.

Good to see satire is alive and well.

Renegade NSA, GCHQ spies help fix Tor vulns, claims project boss

Not so much NCIS

as Abbot and Costello.

These places are nothing like they are portrayed on TV.

FCC not quite sold on Comcast TWC gobble

Comcast literally abuse their customers - and CS staff.

Now who is spending money lobbying politicians so they can do it to more people?

Echopraxia scores 'diamond cutter' on the sci-fi hardness scale

Not where I would expect a book review

but very enjoyable, particularly because of the the involvement by readers here.

Many thanks El Reg!

I have ordered Ancillary Justice - if you don't try you never know if you like it.

Buzzwords

I've read books where someone keeps throwing things in to sound knowledgeable then put the book down.The Coriolis effect is always there so why would people be thinking about it like that?

Premier League wants to PURGE ALL FOOTIE GIFs from social media

I must be getting old

I can remember when football was about sport

Spooks, cops, say Oz metadata push is for consistency, not data grab

Out of their depth

The PM demands an answer, doesn't care if it is right or what it will cost someone else.

Add people given the job who are completely out of their depth plus I have to wonder about how Irvine got that job - a good intelligence officer wouldn't spout crap like that.

Europe: Apple could NOT care less about kids' in-app cash sprees

Shocked

OK, I'm not.

MYSTERIOUS Siberia CRATER: ALIENS or METEOR not involved, officials insist

Aliens?

They have better sense than bother with the kind of people who think aliens would bother.

Say goodbye to the noughties: Yesterday’s hi-fi biz is BUSTED, bro

A nice piece of op ed

But frankly rubbish.

You are going on about one demographic and using that to push a point of view.

It is mostly listing equipment which is pointless.

There will always be different market segments yet you are trying to ram one down everyone's throat.

Revealed: SECRET DNA TEST SCANDAL at UN IP agency

So, the Swiss police

Are at the beck and call of anyone?

It's alive! Space hackers fire up zombie Sun probe's engines

The right stuff

Then and now.

We need to talk about SPEAKERS: Sorry, 'audiophiles', only IT will break the sound barrier

What ARE you on?

This is a rant about MP3s on one hand and idiotic audiophiles on the other.

In fact you mix them up in the same sentence.

Good audio is lossless - either PCM or with lossless compression.

As for "10 per cent of a CD" do you mean 1.6 bits/sample or are you discussing frequency? Is this with dithering?

"carpenters don’t know how to do that" is just patronising. I suggest you visit Kef and find out what happens in the real world.

"Only IT will break the sound barrier"? IT look after PCs, server and networks. To lump all the specialities involved in creating sound systems under that is just plain insulting.

Err.. materials science for example?

NHS slammed for MAJOR data blunders as scale of patient info sell-off is revealed

This is why I opt out every time.

Apple wheels out sueball cannon, again

Apple a legal company?

Yes but not a moral one.

Well, it saves dealing with things like innovation.

The Internet of Things helps insurance firms reward, punish

A standard port you say...

So a standard port with a standard protocol.

I see a market for an in-line item that 'corrects' the data going to the spy box.

That can be removed if needed of course.

Titsup Russian rocket EXPLODES, destroys $275m telly satellite

SpaceX

They are choosing a good path - build up business with a reputation for reliability.

Keep on with long term projects of course but I don't think they need to overreach.

Apple, Beats and fools with money who trust celeb endorsements

Re: A fool and his money are easily parted.

This reminds me of a competition between myself and another engineer to find the worst spoof audiophile product.

The problem is that we found spoofs then people wanted to buy them!

Delicately put

"Their expertise in porcine aerodynamics is unparalleled"

I remember when I was first traumatised by directional speaker cable. Fortunately for others there wasn't a chainsaw to hand.

Vladimir Putin says internet is a 'CIA project'

In Russia...

Rabies catches Putin.

Spy back doors? That would be suicide, says Huawei

Pot

Kettle.

Tim Cook: Apple's 'closer than it's ever been' to releasing new product range

Gathering dust

That's the image I have Apple now.

Reg probe bombshell: How we HACKED mobile voicemail without a PIN

Phew

Glad I'm on Vodafone.

Dell charges £5 to switch on power-saving for new PCs (it takes 5 clicks)

5 seconds

One click during the system configuration procedure that will be done remotely.

I have to agree with David Austin's point about supplying to non technical users though.

Github cofounder resigns after clearance in sex-harass probe

Not cleared

Simply not found guilty.

'Maybe I'll go to Hell, but I think it's a good thing' says plastic Liberator gunsmith Cody Wilson

Crypto

Anyone who sticks 'crypto' at the beginning of a word sounds like a 15 year old who wants to impress a girl at school.

Of course, given the failure rate on them he won't take any responsibility for deaths or injuries amongst users. But that is the usual cowardice of these people.

Apple patent LOCKS drivers out of their OWN PHONES

Class action

No, not by Apple but from people who are wrong stopped from using items they own.

NBN Co to government: 'unchain us'

Eh?

NBN? TPG?

What?

Whaddaya mean, No refund? But I paid in Bitcoins! Oh I see...

Silicon roundabout at its' err... best?

Usual entitled self indulgents think they are above the law.

Frankly if you indulge in Bitcons you deserve to get Bit.

Micron plumps STACKED SILICON BEAUTY with SerDes

Reaching the limit?

I don't think anyone has a realistic plan to go below 10nm for general semis in the near future.

Russian deputy PM: 'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'

Going to launch from

Ukraine?

Yeah, there could be a problem

Russia's economy is collapsing, albeit slowly, because of the massive corruption.

I mean on a scale larger than the economy of many other countries.

In 10-15 years they are going to start needing economic aid.

Android engineer: We didn't copy Apple or follow Samsung's orders

Bullies

That is Apple these days.

Boffins power wearable tech with body static

Petrol stations, anywhere with a gas leak

See the icon

Microsoft slaps LTE mobe broadband into Surface 2 slabs (Yeah, take that, iPad)

Re: If it's not unlocked, I'm not interested

The AT&T mention is about approval nothing more.

The modem is suitable for all networks.

Hey, MoJ, we're not your Buddi: Brit firm abandons 'frustrating' crim-tagging contract

Not a surprise

Yes, from the same civil service that brought you the NHS IT cockup (and the one before), Universal Credit which cost nearly quarter of a million per registered user and more!

Oddly enough there are consultants on all of these projects getting (if I remember correctly) £3,000 a day! The same ones again and again.