Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill

Re: Impressive radio kit....

>communications between drivers and signallers.

Couldn't they use some sort of visual signal like coloured lights or flags ?

Re: TETRA

> Government TETRA deployments use both air interface and end-to-end encryption

I assume that Police / Fire / Ambulance / Transport police all use different incompatible encryption and they aren't compatible with talking to "civilian" systems like the people running the railways and telling the trains to stop

Re: Impressive radio kit....

What ordnance term is used to describe Britain's high-speed rail by the way ?

UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones

Re: How secure is this.. ?

And naturally Police / ICE / FBI / NSA / MMB / Palantir, and a variety of other TLA agency drones don't have ID and it's a federal crime to track them (or be aware of their existence)

Re: Idiocy

>it's built in to newer craft.

But built in in China ?

If only GPS had been invented int he 1940s we could have insisted that Jerry built tracking into V1s

Re: Top Secret

Can we let this brilliant strategy become public knowledge?

What if those Rooskies read it and chose to ban Ukrainian drones from Russian airbases ?

Re: Obviously

At least Blair's government had the good sense to prohibit civilian nuclear explosions = sensible policies for a sensible Britain

Obviously

Everyone in government since the Blair years is a lawyer.

All legal problems can obviously be solved by a new law

IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Re: I don't believe it

Of course in IBM land that would be a reason for this upstart PC project to not be the same as their expensive 3270 terminals

Re: What if

We would be ruled by Apple, PCs would have cost $10K and Steve Jobs would feel like Elon**2

Re: PTSD

At least in the 80s you could tell them that the latest Japanese management fad was trial by combat and issue both managers Katanas

Or you simply hire McKinsey to come in and implement the answer that they think you wanted

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

Simple maths

There are 1Bn people on the internet in countries with an income above $30day/$1000month

All you have to do is get all of them to sign up for an AI service that costs $100/month and you'll make back your 1Tn investment in a year.

Assuming no ongoing costs of actually delivering AI and that you can get the entire population of N America, Europe and SE Asia to spend 10% of their income on AI cat videos

More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

Re: "a higher failure rate"

Not necessarily. With cheap regular launches you build an assembly line of missions based on the same satellite bus with newer detectors rather than spending a decade building a space-grade telescope using decades obsolete 'proven' tech

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Don't worry there will be one built into the new official Apple iVidscreen

Re: Pointless

But if we ban kids from the internet and phones the knowledge can only spread one playground at a time

Re: Internet is not cool

> but i doubt a kid will become a good engine designer if it never changed a sparkplug in its life.

Sparkplugs ? What century are you living in ?

Under the new Properly-British curriculum (I say that word sounds a bit foreign, can we look into it? ed.) children will learn to properly drive steam engines before being sent up chimneys, to Make Britain Great Again

But only terrorists would use DoH

Signed: your friendly local People's committee for Public Safety

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

BolloxGPT hears "blow up the database" ......

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Indeed the biglyist

Is there a dept of "Special operation which we already won before it started and anyway it's all over now"?

Presumably with very long business cards

If they really are Iranian can't they express their views in the proper manner by a stiffly worded letter to the US defense dept ?

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Jeeves wasn't a Butler

He was a valet (arguments about how to pronounce it below)

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Been there done that, but it wasn't me

Poor WiFi in the breakroom so I gave the pimpliest of PFYs a spare home WiFi router I had in the aforementioned pile and told them to try and set it up as a WiFi extender/access point.

Naturally they managed to enable DHCP

Since this was a startup running on wet string and no support it took a while to work out what and why was happening

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

Re: What about the moon nazi's???

Unless they are greengrocer Nazis. SturmBrocciliteilung

Re: Scrapyard moon

Most heavy Earth-Moon missions are going to aim for a fairly central inclination orbit relative to the Earth-Moon plane cos you don't want to waste energy.

But precise orbits around the moon are tricky cos its gravity is rather lumpy. It's not quite the point mass that the equations would prefer

Re: What about the moon nazi's???

Much as they do delight in dropping bombs on people,

I think you may be operating under a misapprehension about the current administration's attitude to Nazis

Re: "seven times the speed of sound"

For a spherical sheep in a vacuum?

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Re: Grapheneos

Only to the extent it can with browser fingerprinting etc, which it can do with any desktop browser on any OS

Just to clarify, Grapheneos doesn't require any Googlyness and where an app requires Google APIs it does everything it can do restrict it

Re: Grapheneos

It can use Play services if your app needs them, but they can also be in a separate user and it doesn't require you to login to a Google account

Grapheneos

Take Google hardware, remove all Google's software = own your own secure phone

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Re: Scarey ride eh?

Someone once described Linux as "everyone turns up at the airport with their own bit of the aircraft which they assemble, get in and take off"

With a postsctipt that it then flies faster and cheaper than any commercial aircraft

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Re: captcha tests?

Perhaps that's the solution?

Replace the test with captchas.

Click on the speed limit sign that means you should drive at 20mph

Click on the traffic light colour that means you should stop

Re: That old one.

127.0.0.1:80 works for me, have you tried that ?

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Re: Sure was nice being able to read the screens in the sun.

No, they just let really "cool" Apple designers do the UI

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

Re: First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

Reasonably likely that the next MSFT product is a Chromebook like box for people to just connect to a cloud instance of Windows

First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

So everything Microsoft do that makes them money, all the behind the scenes cloudy goodness, is Linux

Why do they persist in having 100,000 SDE in Redmond cranking out desktop Windows versions?

The only market the shareholders care about is monthly per-seat $$ from corporate clients. The half-dozen home users buying a $99 shrink wrapped copy of W11 in Bestbuy are irrelevant.

Corporate users don't care what OS they are using, so long as the shortcuts in Excel are the same after each update.

So port Office to Linux for the handful of Wall St power users that insist on local Excel. The Windows security central management tools work on Android so are probably already available on Linux. Offer an improved version of Wine for all the CAD tools etc that are local and Windows only - should be easy if you have Windows source code.

Then just make $$$ per user per month from all those online accounts for ever without having to think of a justification for Windows12

Re: Fans! Fans! Fans!

>the least they could do is give us a funny moment on stage.

So Balmer and Musk on stage throwing chairs at each other?

Not sure what it would achieve - but I'd pay to watch it

On some level I almost feel sorry for Microsoft

They need to produce an OS that works in a corporate environment with 10,000 desktops in a regulated industry where every key stroke of every machine needs to be centrally managed.

But they also need to work on a kids laptop to just play CandyCrush and a pensioner who just writes the parish newsletter.

And support those in-house DOS apps somebody wrote in 1988

It's as if Linux had to run on everything from a 100,000 CPU supercomputer cluster to a smartwatch

And they need to introduce enough new features every 2 years to persuade people to update and buy a new copy to pay for all the engineers adding new features

Re: Hate it

Win2000 is just NT4 with USB support

Perfect !

And Apple are shocked why $500 Neos are sold out and people don't want to buy more expensive Windows11 laptops

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

I posted in .co.uk, that should have been sufficient

Re: do not deserve to be treated with this level of suspicion

That's unfair, there are 1000s of officers in the Met. By shear chance, one or two of them must be innocent

But if they have done nothing wrong why should they fear 24x7 Police surveillance?

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

Re: Unofficial github status page - the one MS don't have

No this is Microsoft - they would just redefine the year to be 390 days

Re: Unofficial github status page - the one MS don't have

But how long will it take it to work out what the actual question was?

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency

re-education and rehabilitation rather than prison time.

Putting him/her/it in charge of IT security for the agency might be a good "community service"

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005

Re: 43% - seriously?

87% of statistics are made up, the other 63%are from Gartner

Re: I predict

So sharing corporate security credentials with Honest Ahmed's used cars and IT training ?