Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: Sometimes HR can be too efficient

Everyone else in the office was presumably called Bruce

Re: Unique keys

>UK treats full name, date of birth and place of birth as a reliably unique identifier

Fortunately people's chosen name is totally uncorrelated with family cultural background and people with similar ethnicity are randomly and uniformly distributed geographically

Re: Unique keys

>It takes no time at all to guess people's CPR number.

That's a good thing - it stops the idea here that your SSN is some secret key that somehow verifies that it is you

Re: Unique keys

>which was in the name of... John Smith NULL

One of the Gloucestershire NULLs ? Very fine family

Re: Unique keys

>What prevents me from making a new key every day, walking in with some identification, and having it verified?

It wouldn't match the barcode tattooed on your forehead

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

Re: There is an article

>First iPhone: $499

>Current iPhone: $799

>I can't say I understand where you get that "future versions will be cheaper" idea :)

The iPhone was always a 'mass' consumer market device.

The first Apple laser printer was $7000 in 1985 = the price of an average car.

Re: There is an article

>Like the Mac Pro they are not really aimed at consumers are they?

Like Apple's first laser printer, or first color screen. These are for specialist use and flash bastards early adopters, but if people think of a use for them then there will be future versions that are cheaper for a wider audience

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

Re: Seems Legit

>Refresh my memory please. Which political party happily went to war on a lie?

But that was just to keep the American government happy.

This party aren't going to give American health care companies all this data so they can bid for the privatised NHS.

UK cyberspies warn ransomware crews targeting law firms

Re: Widespread adoption of hybrid working

GCHQ wouldn't spy on human-rights/immigration lawyers - except in those few cases where they admitted spying on human-rights/immigration lawyers

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

Re: Pathological guesser

But if the user has actual inteligence then they might realise that "make me a painting of my dog in the style of a heavy metal album cover" or "write me a python socket server class, that works like all the examples you've found on the web" or even "considering all the billions of example images you've seen - does this picture of a mole look like a cancerous one?" are good uses of AI.

Tell me when the next train is leaving X for Y or tell me all the real court cases that are relevant to this one - aren't

Re: The lesson extrapolated

Paralegal / Legal Corpus Search Engine

Re: It's not a GOLUM, either.

Unless your database is correct and not full of errors:

"a fund that averaged a 71.8 percent annual return, before fees, from 1994 through mid-2014." - Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund:

Re: Pathological guesser

Remember pathological liars are sometimes what you want.

I doubt Wordsworth really Wandered Lonely As A Cloud and most of Shakespeare's reports about tragic deaths in Verona was about as accurate as Fox News

BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI

Re: Its a cunning wheeze

It does sound like the opening salvo from HR in an interview with the BOFH

Re: Quite ironic

"their excuse being that the "What 3 words" was not accurate enough"

It's a good attempt though.

Here in the rural bits of HRH's overseas dominions 3/4 of the roads are unnamed logging roads, towns are called things like "100mi house" (or presumably now "161km house"), even the roads with names are often called something different on the government maps, the signpost and by the locals.

So having an accident halfway up a mountain and being asked for a street address and postcode by a remote call center isn't very useful. There is even a single official "Rural Area" postcode which covers close to 1M sq km and several islands.

Reading a lat/long to an ambulance is probably more error prone than W3W - you did remember that your rural map is probably NAD83 and your phone's GPS is WGS84 didn't you ?

Re: Useful for staging accidents

Seems a bit tame for farm accidents.

This one went through a combine after falling into a silo and being attacked by a bull

Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments

I was hoping for a miniaturised Raquel Welsh

And we get one of those curl-up cellophane fish you used to get in Xmas crackers

Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff

Re: "If this "god" thing is so all powerful and all knowing..."

But presumably also knows in advance if you are going to repent

Re: Another job at risk - why confess to a priest when you can confess to God directly?

>Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

I always wondered about ducks.

Sharks might have been mildly discomfited by the seas suddenly turning to fresh water with all the rain, but ducks presumably laughed it off.

So all the anti-antediluvian evil ducks all survived the vengeance of JHVH

Today's Canada geese are the descendants of these evil ducks

Re: Another job at risk - why confess to a priest when you can confess to God directly?

>God is really terrible with names

Given how tetchy he gets when anybody tries to use his own that's understandable

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

>This is one of the big problems with the Americanisation of The Register,

Americans are persons too

(well some of them)

>I'm intrigued how they were able to identify the drives as belonging to SAP

The top level folder contained "SAP secret business stuff.pptx", "Copy of - SAP secret business stuff.pptx" "Copy of - SAP secret business stuff - final.pptx" "Copy of - SAP secret business stuff - final copy .pptx" "Copy of - SAP secret business stuff - final, - review.pptx" Copy of - SAP secret business stuff - final - review - please use this one.pptx" and "SAP secret business stuff - Print me.pptx"

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

Re: Cant imagine

>crew hatch is bolted from the outside

Presumably in case it ever went to a negative depth ?

Re: Transponder

"Utter woke stupidity"

Unlike rockets, it would seem that hiring Nazis to design your submarines doesn't have a good historical track record. So going woke is probably OK.

Re: Lots of things are possible

Always wondered why modern spacecraft Shuttle/ISS/Mir operate(d) at 1atm STP ?

The Apollo 1 fire might have made people nervous of pure oxygen but that's because they tried it to 1.2atm (how they managed to have a team in Florida who had never been Scuba diving ?)

Even if you launch at 1Atm you have plenty of time to vent the onboard air and refill to 0.2bar O2 on the way up.

I assume a Nasa weird safety rule ? We need people to be able to bail out of an exploding Space Shuttle at 20,000ft without worrying about the bends !

Re: Transponder

>What organisation would regulate/register/approve?

Atlantis

Re: So the ghouls who want to look at where 1000+ people died

And they can make a movie about it.

it's wrecks all the way down

Germany to subsidize Intel €10B for 'Silicon Junction' fab

Re: Infineon

>Why doesn't the German government subsidize a German company (Infineon for example) rather than a US one

You are aware that different companies make different types of chip ?

Re: If nowadays value-creating factories are only established if the community finances them...

>I'm curious to know whether the employees in that shiny new German fab will also have to bring money in order to be allowed to work there.

Not in Germany, but in certain capitalist countries you would have had to spend >$100K to prove you can work there

Will the US tariff Intel ?

If they are receiving state aid in Europe

Palantir's deals with NHS England top £60M – without competition

Re: they still dont get it

>The FDP opt-out is not compatible with GDPR

If you don't like what the government is doing with your data you can just complain to the government or ask the government if you can take the government to court

Good job we don't have any foreign busy-bodies telling our government what they can do anymore !

One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers

Re: "Bring Me to Life", as the nice lady once sang

>still has some battery life left

Not necessarily, a lot of home users never unplug the laptop.

It's a lot easier to have a laptop on a little desk in the corner than a monitor + keyboard + mouse - especially for those people with more scatter cushions than servers

Reddit confirms BlackCat gang pinched some data

"we have no evidence to suggest that any Reddit information has been ... distributed online."

Isn't that what we are currently complaining about ?

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

Re: Reddit's CEO doesn't realize

Amazon are charging assuming you are going to have an ongoing usage. Charging the same amount for a AI to scrape all your data once isn't sustainable.

It's difficult, what would Netflix's monthly price have to be if your only intention was to download all their content once to watch later ?

1. Steal Underpants

2. Fire all HR, fire all developers, stop paying office rent

3. Profit

Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls

Re: How many veterans are there ?

VA does lifetime government health care for anybody who was in the military and their families, it's not just dealing with combat casualties.

Ironic really, the only people in the USA receiving communist government healthcare are the people who were defending us against communism

Guess what happened to this US agency using outdated software?

Thinking smart

The only way they can get into the IRS and VA is if they can find people who know COBOL and MUMPS - good luck hackers

No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons

Re: A well regulated flying militia

We've tried more guns and it simply isn't working.

The only alternative is to try bigger guns.

Re: Facial recognition restrictions?

Consult the book of armaments.

All chant, "My God, it's coming right for us!"

Fire the official police issue bazooka at the nursery school

Re: Can armed drones shoot straight?

>You don't need to put an aircraft .50 machine gun on it. A light 22 (or a 9mm) is more than enough.

You're suggesting the police use small calibre weapons against dangerous school children?

What are you, some sort of commie hippie homosexualist ?

Re: Can armed drones shoot straight?

>cause a permanent injury .... it would open the state to lawsuits

So it will be fitted with 50cal machine guns. No 'injury' guaranteed

Re: Can armed drones shoot straight?

>Taser maker Axon last year proposed arming drones to protect school children,

Schools are relatively poorly defended, wouldn't simple artillery be more cost effective?

Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector

Re: Planetes - "In space, even a bolt can screw you"

And a documentary about the forerunner of the Space shuttle Salvage 1

EU boss Breton: There's no Huawei that Chinese comms kit is safe to use in Europe

Re: So, the Commission is looking to ban Huawei on security grounds

So the USA will now be reliant on a couple of Scandinavian countries for all their telecoms ?

Not just backdoors

What about all the phones made in China by European and American companies or with Chinese components?

We need to open up the strategic Nokia 3310 reserve

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

Re: Tennessee

>She will be allowed to bleed out in the parking lot of the Tennessee health care facility of her choice.

No of course not.

Only at health care facilities in her provider network and covered by her insurance

Re: How many wasps does it take to change a light bulb?

How many Wasps to screw in a lightbulb ?

3 - two to screw in the lightbulb and another to wonder how they managed to get in there

Re: Women in Jobs?

>Also, there has been this new invention, the day-care center.

If it costs less than the total income of the working partner then it's communism

Re: Women in Jobs?

>We (Britain) didn't exile our religious nutjobs to the colonies. They self-selected to leave because Britain was too tolerant

A cunning plan worthy of Mr S.O. Baldrick himself