Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NSO Group's Pegasus malware was used to spy on Dubai princess's lawyers during child custody dispute

Re: Is there a Chinese Wall

Or a 3rd way ?

Re: How about Android?

You just need to buy a Chinese Android phone that is banned from any connection to Google and its 3 letter friends - then you know it's only spied on by the Glorious People's Revolutionary Army of Peace and Prosperity for all Toiling Peasants

(sorry my phone seems to do that when ever I try and write anything about The Great Leader )

Middle East peace envoy

Arab leaders buying Israeli weapons is obviously a start to Blair's plan for peace and cooperation

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

Re: Deal done

>The employees you need for a chip fab are NOT in London. Do you even know what employees work in a chip fab?

The employees for a chip fab aren't anywhere. An $80Bn fab would need 1000s of employees, you can't just build this next door to an existing UK prototype-scale fab and rely on locals.

But having spent 30 years concentrating all the well paid jobs in London - you can't open this on a disused steelworks site in Middlesbrough and expect 1000 of scientists/programmers/engineers to move there and just have wifey be happy at home on their new suburban estate like you could when you did redevelopment policy in the 60s.

You could build this at Oxford/Cambridge/M6 but these people already vote for you.

Re: Deal done

Would never work in the UK.

The government would give you a subsidy to build it in some depressed region that they thought might be persuaded to vote Tory.

But all the employees you need are in London.

And no people can't move, they have families. What's the partner of a fab engineer going to do in barrow-in-furness?

Re: Deal done

>rafts of EU bureaucracy and Brussels red tape

The Eu is going to force them to make chips with nanometers rather than proper British piocfurlongs

.NET Foundation boss apologizes for pull request that sparked community row

Re: What a shame

We understand that some minority of passengers were onboard during, although not with, our planes' decision to crash into the ground.

We will be exploring new ways to communicate the value of our MCAS strategy in future.

D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer

Re: "D-Wave claims"

>That only applies to politicians.

That's an experiment I can get behind - anyone got an airtight box ?

Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi

Re: Mini computer

I can do 22 mHz on my fingers.

> It's amazing how well such things have improved in the last three decades.

And yet I could support a teaching lab of 25 vt100 terminals on a single Sun3 while my corporate windows laptop struggles to open a webpage

Facebook far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society, whistleblower tells Congress

Congress far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society,

Says Facebook

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

Re: "my internet is down"

We had a short lived panic that corporate IT had discovered Whatsapp and were blocking it.

UK's £5bn National Cyber Force HQ to be sited in Lancashire beside Defence Secretary's constituency

Re: Lancashire Tech Step-by-Step

Since we won, there is only Yorkshire and the west Pennines.

The current government is going to cancel it in 5months when the last of the consultancy budget runs out and they need another new announcement to placate some other area

Re: Lancashire Tech Step-by-Step

Release t'cyber-ferret down t'intertubes

Re: CS

Or Hull

Re: CS

Obviously you can't employee civil servants so far North.

It will be contracted out to Fujitsu/Crapita/Some-chap-Olivier-knows-from-school-who-runs-a-pub

Who will sub it out to India

Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise

Re: Having just recently been to Rennes

Unfortunately after a bit of un-permitted urban redevelopment courtesy of the chaps with the moustaches. The center was rebuilt by the Americans.

Using their highly imaginative grid system. With the grid running East-West. In a city on the edge of the Atlantic .

I think it is now home to the European storm force winds modelling institute.

Brittainy is basically Wales with decent food and beaches.

And a dislike of the French comparable to the taff's dislike of the English.

>The town was destroyed by our lot in the war and rebuilt in concrete.

With ironically the exception of some large concrete bits built by the other lot.

Which we failed to destroy at the time and the French have been trying to destroy (without taking the town with it) ever since.

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

Difference between the KLF and IMF - one was effective

Re: Reality vs spin

>As a European, I am still waiting for those badly needed doctors and nurses they had promised.

Instructions unclear - have all retrained as a ballet dancer.

Re: Playing with Chemicals that Go Bang

Lithium and oxidiser aren't dangerous or we wouldn't be allowed to take them on aeroplanes - it's not like they're bottles of water !

Re: Depends

>Australia is bewilderingly open to crime

Nice to see they're remembering their heritage.

Re: Pretty much standard

>these days it would attract a charge of possessing material likely to be of use to terrorists

Only on sovereignty island.

Here on the left pond it would be banned because chemistry contradicts the bible.

However you would be able to buy freedom-dynamite at any Walmart.

Re: Pretty much standard

>Hehehe, which is fine if you are dealing with 0.2 grams or less. ;-)

LD50 is 20mg/Kg

'Nice' thing is that apparently contact hurts like fsck - so at least you know to get treatment.

Re: Ignition!

" a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen itself,"

" it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks."

" the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

Re: You can just ORDER ATMs???

>Don't places like strip clubs have them? Apparently

Covid restrictions mean you now need to use the tattooed QR code to Apple pay him/her

Re: Explosives? Really?

Can't get JCB drivers anymore since we told all the foreigners to p**** off.

And you can't get a visa for a Dutch ATM exploder.

And no British criminals want to do it, not with IR35 meaning you can't claim for the shotgun.

By Christmas we will all be living in Sherwood Forest robbing any Tory MPs with Norman names using bows and arrows.

No you're thinking of bankers

Re: You can just ORDER ATMs???

>ship them back to Calgary

That's where they keep the reader , ie the employee who can read

Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

Re: Only 100km altitude?

It's less than twelve parsecs

Former SAP leader's lawsuit claims she was canned for pushing corporate diversity

We split off the female-heavy HR/reception/admin services to a sub-contractor.

That also has the advantage of reducing inequality between men-women average pay

Redistributing human resources along another axis is a pretty simple optimisation process. Assuming you don't care about the resources.

That 'anti-NSO Pegasus spyware' download is actually a Trojan – so don't touch it

I'm losing track here.The NSO spyware is used by the NSA/MIB

So a message claiming that Anti-NSO spyware is a virus must also be from the MMB ?

Now just waiting for coporate IT to roll out an anti-anti-NSO spyware to counter this trojan and then an anti-anti-anti-NSO spyware to block the original NSO spyware

UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?

Re: There's a reason why large rockets are launched from out of the way places

>that is also why J.P.L. was parked way out in the boonies.

It was in the 1930s, it's now the nice suburb of the very posh Pasadena suburb of LA

Why the USA chose to host its Nazi rocket scientists in Alabama is less of a mystery

Re: There's a reason why large rockets are launched from out of the way places

> I can't think of anywhere in the UK that's suitable as a launch site...pose a danger to a densely populated area or annoy the neighbours

Surely there must be some remaining Labour voting areas, perhaps in the North ?

Re: the space sector is "worth" over £16.4bn per year, according to the document

The art lobby tried the same claim here.

The "arts" are worth umpty billion to the local economy = they added up all the cable TV / Netflix / Amazon subscriptions and that was more than they wanted to build a new art gallery.

So obviously a profit for the taxpayer

Re: Galileo

> ones that generate lots of sustained praise for him are likely to get long term funding

That's just not true.

None of them are going to get long term funding. Those that do generate praise will be mentioned repeatedly and the same phrases used in the next announcement.

This government is just a Markov chain spam generator.

Re: "Space is worth billions to us"

I welcome the Prime Minister's move to conquer the Galaxy but call on him to go further, Britain must maintain access to the whole observable universe

Give put-upon infosec bods professional recognition to keep them working for you, says chartered institute

Re: Keeps on giving

Employer gets in a 'trainer' to show you a PowerPoint on not clicking on spam links.

If you leave you have pay back the 10K worth of cybersecurity training you have just received.

Result - employees never leave.

If only some southern gentleman in the cotton agriculture business had thought of it

Computer shuts down when foreman leaves the room: Ghost in the machine? Or an all-too-human bit of silliness?

Re: How the hell does someone become foreman w/o a sense of cause & effect?

Cause and effect doesn't apply to computers if a corporate IT dept is involved.

It's one of those universal whats-names

Anonymous: We've leaked disk images stolen from far-right-friendly web host Epik

Re: Oops - I thought I was at the Register site...

That's what they want you to think !

Is it a bridge? Is it a ferry? No, it's the Newport Transporter

Re: "Decline and...

Visio Goths - are these the ones with the flowchart tattoos?

Re: Wind Strength

>Force 6 is technically a strong breeze.

Unless you are dangling on a large steel YoYo above a river

Danish artist pockets museum's cash and calls it art... and other stories

Radio4: Absolute Power

The money will be quietly given back at the end of the tax year, after the artist, the museum and a bunch of publicists have all got millions worth of PR out of this ?

'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids'

Re: "Why not include critical thinking as well?"

>For a particular value of the word "average"

The most common first name is Mohammed

The most common surname is Zhang

Therefore the most common name is Mohammed Zhang (and not Ford Prefect)

>Teach linear algebra and probabilities?

You don't need to teach maths any more - everybody has a computer with them all the time !

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

Re: Safety

Child porn / human trafficking / illegal immigrants (delete as applicable)