Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

Re: Just ban third party tracking

So the first party can sell the data to anyone they met at a party

Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates

Re: Groudhog Day at Fakebook

Except for the apology

Re: Shame to feckbook!

Or even worse us, gorillas and chimps are African apes

Re: No "I" in this AI

But it only has to be smarter than the users.

Re: Shame to feckbook!

Presumably Facebook, or the person complaining, doesn't believe black people are human.

Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels

Re: Hopefully...

But if roads were limited to convertibles and aircraft we could increase road capacity and average speed.

Still a more practical solution than HS2

Re: Hopefully...

Shame, would be a great way to beat traffic congestion

GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15

Git errors unclear?

What's unclear about 'foxtrot merges not allowed on forward laterals when Mortimer's rule is in use and the user isn't in nidd'?

Virginia school board learns a hard lesson... and other stories

Re: One reason - internecine fighting

See also the V22 Osprey

Re: "DARPA wants an ekranoplan"

But drag is proportional to frontal area.

Lift is proportional to wing area

And cargo/engine space is proportional to volume.

So looking good for any insane tech billionaires out there ...

Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine

Re: Law enforcement

>The Eu will give in.

Again, the Eu isn't in court. This is one bit of the Irish government fighting a case which, if it wins, will destroy a major part of the Irish government's economic plan.

Of course Ireland being such a beacon of political probity it would never let financial requirements influence any decision

Re: Law enforcement

>I guess you've never actually been to Ireland, have you?

The massive enforcement infrastructure responsible for all complaints against all US software companies in the Eu

Re: Law enforcement

But the Eu doesn't prosecute - the national courts of the country you are HQ'ed in does.

Which is why you are in Ireland, where the DP registrar is a room above a sweetshop, staffed by Mrs Miggins 2days a week.

If Ireland is going to start actually investigating you - then you might as well move the brass plaque to somewhere more desperate accommodating

Confessions of a ransomware negotiator: Well, somebody's got to talk to the criminals holding data hostage

Re: Shah and his team get very little intelligence from the police

>I am interested in why you see Russia as part of the EU ?

Who said anything about the Eu?

Soiuz nerushimyj respublik svobodnykh

Splotila naveki Velikaia Rus.

Da zdravstvuet sozdannyj volej narodov

Edinyj, moguchij Sovetskij Soiuz!

Re: Shah and his team get very little intelligence from the police

>I would be MORE interested in NAILING THE PERPS than getting my data back

If only the bad guys would first move to your local police jurisdiction.

Of course you could be part of some continent sized union which allowed warrants, investigations and even free movement of individuals between countries - but who wants that ?

Alpha adds to tally of exploding rockets, takes out space sail prototype with it

achieve some of its objectives

Comrades, today we congratulate the Chernobyl reactor for achieving it's 5 year plan power output in 10ms

The unit of measure for fatbergs is not hippopotami, even if the operator of an Australian sewer says so

Re: Am I the only one

Obviously it depends on what you're weighing

Re: Gifting

>So be doubly careful walking under the trees in the African evening

In case there is a Hippopotamus nesting in it?

Re: Thinking about Reg Standard units makes me miss some things about classic El Reg

Thinking about the damage that could be done if the members of el'reg were being secretly organized by some shadowy Internet force, like Facebook and Republicans.

Then I realized that reg readers could never be organized. Does not play well with others is our motto

Re: Skateboarding Rhinoceri?????

I didn't think there were enough New Zealanders for it to have a plural?

Re: Pural [sic]

>octopus (ˈɒktəpəs, ɒkˈtəʊpəs). Pl. octopodes (ɒkˈtəʊpədiːz), anglicized octopuses.

How does one anglicize an octopus ?

I'm assuming that after training they can serve tea and cucumber sandwiches with eight arms simultaneously ?

Incidentally there is no plural of Hippopotamus because only a single Hippopotamus exists. But the anti-Hippopotamus travels backwards in time so all observed Hippopotamus are the same particle observed at different points of space-time curve.

This is why its mass can be used as such a stable standard.

Autodesk was one of the 18,000 firms breached in SolarWinds attack, firm admits

No the story is: "Firm was running a vulnerable version of an application and has no way of telling if anything happened."

If they managed to get hacked, what's the betting that they have no way of detecting what was extracted?

It's like a bank saying, there was a break-in and all the security deposit boxes were opened and were empty - but we have no evidence that anything was stolen.

In space, no one can hear cyber security professionals scream

>an Amateur operator found an old "Military" satellite that turned out to be alive

If it asks whether you want to play a game, may I recommend you select 'no'

Volkswagen to stop making its best-selling product for Wolfsburg workers: VW-branded sausages

Re: But factory farmed meat

Yes. although to hunt them you have to hide up a tree with a large calibre rifle.

This is:

A) rather less sporting than chasing after them on a horse while dressed like an idiot.

B) considerably more likely to lead to the human surviving

(My German partner's father is the official boar hunter for a small village. He has to 'deal with' any boar that make a nuisance of themselves)

Re: Alternatively...

The software at the VW canteen says they are zero calorie, fat free, 100% RDA of all vitamins and vegan

But considering green policies and food miles you would need to harvest locals for VW SoylentWurst(tm)

Re: But factory farmed meat

No merely large Teutonic boars with an attitude problem and unresolved anger management issues (probably just in need of a hug)

Re: But factory farmed meat

There are free range boar near VWs plant - but they have a very uncooperative attitude to being turned into sausages.

>That'll be 50 Wurst per soylent person.

You haven't seen many southern Germans - or you are planning some serious sized sausages

Re: Everything has an end

But the idea is to not make both ends meat

Does that have better emissions than currywurst ?

>Caught with your fingers in the till by the eco-nazis

Not an ideal phrase given that this is the 'strength through joy' car built for noted 1930s German Chaplin impersonator

Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?

Re: i.e. he confesses there is evidence

>And now Texas has banned abortions after 6 weeks for all cases

I hope this doesn't come back to bite the many young women serving on the Texas legislature

Re: Don't you just love it ?

Didn't you see the confederate flags ?

They are obviously time travelling soldiers

Re: Let me remember who started the largest gathering of personal data to "combat terror"....

That's unfair, there is also voter suppression and Gerrymandering

Re: Republicans see themselves more aligned with the Taliban than America

If you never end the war, you've never lost!

Re: i.e. he confesses there is evidence

So the 'hearts and minds' campaign to Americanize the Taliban has succeeded?

We just need them to paint confederate flags on the captured humvee and start racing them in an oval.

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

Re: End of IBM on Dow Jones

Ironic if Lenovo bought IBM just for the stock of old logo'ed laptop bags

Re: I never get tired of saying it

>Fuck IBM.

I think that's their new ticker symbol

Remember nobody ever got hired for working for IBM

Re: Buh Buh Buh Diversity!

>Diversity in leadership ensures a better company, or so we're told.

I hope no-one tells Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, GOOGLE, ZOOM etc

A cunning and subtle plan

Problem:

Having riffed all the experienced engineers and replaced them with offshore call centres working from a script, IBM has a problem with unhappy customers

Soln:

Get rid of all the sale-persons - so no more customers

Triples and bonuses all round !

Re: Just

The ideal salesman is a coke addict with a big car lease and at least 2 ex-wives with support payments.

This drag sail could prevent spacecraft from turning into long-term orbiting junk. We spoke to its inventors ahead of launch

And the LEO number increasing with the swarms of internet platforms.

Plus the number of vehicles where the booster fails leaving it in LEO. It's easy to add this as a range safety feature to deploy and drag a failed rocket back

Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow

Re: Old fart rant inside...

It's not upto WD how much space your OS filesystem reserves for it's own use.

If I install VMS and reserve 50% of the space for previous file versions that isn't really the drive makers problem

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

Re: Responsibility

I'm imagining a city center with self-driving cars/buses/delivery vehicles and being able to cause all of them to do an emergency stop by standing at a crossing and moving your foot in/out of the roadway.

And the effect that this power might have on the typical group of teens

Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth

Re: "British Association for Shooting and Conservation"

Well obviously not if you shoot them in time - before they get too close to you.

Re: No surprises here

Those damn photosynthesizers really screwed up the atmosphere and even did a lot of damage to most rocks.