Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Pizza prankster's prisoner plea plot perturbs police, Norks invading and Uber woes

Re: This error message inconsistency allows attackers to infer

My new secure OS just boots with a single message, "We refuse to confirm or deny we are running"

Re: Please explain

>So it can be hacked - obviously!

So it can run anti-virus.

You can't expect run an antivirus app on something like an 8051 or Arm M3

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

Re: Do you want to be held hostage by Microsoft?

>One of my pet peeves is the use of GDP per capita as a rough proxy of how wealthy / advanced a country is

There are a million people in Chicago.

The Chicago derivatives exchange does > $1 Tn in trades

- therefore everyone living in Chicago is a millionaire.

Re: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

>Didn't we watch this play out at some German city/state recently?

Munich, but to be fair they did it particularly badly (it was after all a government IT project)

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Re: As a Yorkshire lad

No Yorkshireman is going to take E.

Pay for summat as meks thee reet friendly t'other folks?

What happens if you give a Yorkshireman 'E' ?

Presumably just miserable instead of bloody miserable

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

> Why haven't supermarkets and hospital trusts got the message even just this month?

So the supermarkets were supposed to build millions of sq ft of new warehouse space - the buildings to house half a years supply of imports are standing around empty - somehow fill them with 6 months supplies of fresh fruit and veg from europe, all ready for the 1st april 2019.

All to be paid for out of the 350M/wk presumably ?

Re: Middle aged Golfers

>and a lot of working class areas voted to leave. eg Scunthorpe.

Voting to leave Scunthorpe makes sense

Re: First problem, right here ...

Presumably the matrix signs on the M25 just saying "Panic" would have side effects ?

Re: First problem, right here ...

>the agreement requires first and foremost the sign off of the 27 separate countries, which are still above the EC and the EP: each of them can veto the whole thing.

So how did the other 27 manage to "take back control" and "retain sovereignty" ?

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

Vegan kebab isn't bad but they don't have much fat on them and you have to pick out the peircings

Re: Vegan Beer

> most beers are vegan

Unlike cider (the rats give it flavour)

Cloud, internet biz will take a Yellowhammer to the head in 'worst case' no-deal Brexit

Re: Bring it on!

Sorry haven't been keeping up with my Daily Mail reading.

Were barmaid's bouncy lady parts being excessively regulated under Eu rules?

Were we forced to endure Metric German busten

Are other body parts so regulated ? Have I completely misunderstood the true implications of "bendy bananas"

Re: But, but, Sovereignty!

And everyone gets affordable government housing!

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

Re: Mandatory A330 upgrade

And suggested it was the foreign pilots fault for not doing an immediate barrel roll when he knocked over the coffee to make it fall upwards

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

Re: Aren't you forgetting...

>No. They just move the manufacturing to Vietnam

Americans like winners!

Re: Aren't you forgetting...

It's a VAT paid by poor people to fund $T in tax cuts. That's what plebs are for.

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

Re: Its about time....

1st rule of el'reg don't talk about IR35

No politics.

Like single payer health = stalinism

Government paying farmers = capitalism

Re: About time

So what about Hollywood and the music business?

Do we have to go back to the studio system with actors and technical staff be permanent exclusive employees of the studio? Or will they just create a new company for each production and fire everyone at the end of the shoot?

Infosec prophet Bruce Schneier (peace be upon him) is only as famous as half of Salt-N-Pepa

Re: [None of us made it – Ed]

Won't help, whenever you Google something it's Bruce Schneider typing the answer

Huawei thanks Uncle Sam for returning its seized comms kit ... two years later, ya jerks

Re: "breaking export violations"

Or even to allies.

Back in the day we got blocked exporting a graphics board with an ARM processor to the UK.

"Graphics card with embedded processor" = advanced technology

Re: Did they drop the kit on the floor

It fell down the stairs while being questioned = standard police procedure

Apple programs Siri to not bother its pretty little head with questions about feminism

Re: Seems el reg has spent too much time in "woke" San Fran

Yet they insist on making these arguments in the language of the colonial oppressor.

I refuse to listen to any arguments in a language I understand

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

mousetrap

Switch back to round cannon balls and have a series of increasingly elaborate ramps, drops, tubes etc

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

targetted

King's cross is public transport

Most crimes are committed by members of the public

QED

China remains in pole position for electric vehicle uptake despite cuts to subsidies

That's because they are a bunch of ignorant communists.

The free market capitalist solution is for the government to build lots more roads, the car companies to build bigger more expensive SUVs and then the government to bail them out when oil price rises impact their sales

The wheels on the bus go round and... Oh dear. Chancellor Sajid Javid unveils spending review

Re: His father was a bus driver?

My mother was once pregnant so I am uniquely qualified to run the NHS's maternity dept.

Re: eastern European counties gained freedom of movement

>You do know which government was the original proposer and main supporter of that policy, don't you?

The USA, the idea was that expanding NATO upto the Russian border and incorporating all their former Warsaw pact allies might be a bit "Cuban missile crisis". However having them in the Eu would make sure that they remembered who their new friends were.

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

Re: correct me 'cause i am sure i am wrong

However, space is big

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is

These satelites are in a VERY low orbit so don't last long and won't contribute to space junk. Any debris from a collision will very quickly decay.

This problem was because the ESA craft is also in a very low orbit to study high altitude weather.

Re: correct me 'cause i am sure i am wrong

>It was my understanding that if you are in the same orbit, you will be travelling at the same speed, and therefore unlikely to overtake anyone

But only true if you are travelling in the same direction.

> It was my understanding that in space most satellites are orbiting west to east equatorially.

Not if you want to provide global internet, These satelites are going at all angles to the equator so that they cover the entire surface. But mostly they are in inclinations that bring them upto the 55-60deg latitude of northern Europe, there isn't much traffic in the arctic/antarctic so no need to have good coverage further than that.

Isn't there a famous dating app that tells you when compatible partners are nearby?

Surely that could be adapted to send a message "hot satelite at your location in 30s, if you fancy a collision"

Raspberry Pi head honcho Eben Upton talks thermals, stores and who's buying the kit

The SOC is normally slightly varied for each customer, which is one of the reasons that it isn't totally open source.- The binary blob sets a bunch of options that control what otherwise identical silicon does.

But the big difficulty of making your own is that Broadcom won't talk to you unless you are already buying a million units a month

How sucessful have they been ?

At what they were intended for - are kids really using them like we used our Speccy/CBM64/BBC Micro (rich kids)

How many kids have them? How many schools have them, and are they letting kids play with them - or are they used to make a powerpoint but using chromium and Office365 instead of windows ?

Bus pass or bus ass? Hackers peeved about public transport claim to have reverse engineered ticket app for free rides

Re: Free public transport in the UK?

Back in my day busses in the Soviet Republic of S Yorkshire were almost free.

They had a fare of 2p/5p because making them free was blocked by the ticket collector's union

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Re: This is stupid

Is SIGABORT still allowed?

Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely

Re: Dark energy

>The Prince of Wales will be in Portsmouth before the year is out.

>Then again, no catapults

Surely we can give him a catapult?

He is getting on a bit but as the last line of defence a few heirs to the throne with some schoolboy weapons is probably still better than an F35

Re: Good for him

Grants for individual researchers are pretty safe.

The ones that require access to UK facilities/funding I would be a little more concerned about

Have the promised matching funds been written on the side of a bus?

Enjoy the holiday weekend, America? Well-rested? Good. Supermicro server boards can be remotely hijacked

Re: Nope.

No I'm in the illuminati, we get a newsletter about lizard people

Unless of course that was just a trick by the Chinese MMB to distract you from this vulnerability. Which is really just there to cover up the real spyware

Devon knows how they make it so steamy: Phantom squatter of Torquay curls one out on bloke's motor

Re: £2000...

>How does one crap on the roof of a car, without standing on it?

Yogi flying?

YouTube's radicalizing Alt-right trolls and Facebook's recruiting new language boffins

That's really stupid.

What it should have done is shown you a video for the brands most often bought by viewers of the British facist

YouTube exists to make money for us shareholders, not to serve the needs of its customers

Ah, this should totally reassure Euro workers: They'll get Brexit EU settled status app on iPhones from October

Re: Silly, but its fine

Is there really a shortage of British apple fanboys that we have to let foreign ones stay?

Following our huge trade deal with the USA, which will be huge and the greatest one ever , we will be able to obtain genuine San Francisco fanboys tax free

Behind time and way over budget, but the James Webb Space Telescope has finally been put together

Re: Segmented mirrors

Hexagons but cut out of small identical normal mirrors. Each focusses it's light at the same position so you get the light gathering of a big mirror but not the image quality.

To make Keck each element is a different off-axis parabola, incrediblly difficult to make

Esa is nothing to do with the EU so yes.

Generally though instruments are built by, and the time allocated to, institutions who invented and paid. Esa is normally just a contractor

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

Or perhaps have a law against watching television while piloting an aircraft?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

Re: About Time

>On the plus side just 9 trade agreements would cover 73% of our exports.

Just 2 would do

One with the Irish and one with the other foreigners

Re: About Time

>You have fallen prey to thinking that the UK is somehow important and indispensible to the rest of the world

And where is Europe going to get its Haggis, Scotch Eggs, Marmite and pork pies from if Britain leaves?