Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK terror law reviewer calls for expanded police powers to imprison people who refuse to hand over passwords

> these powers are used against paedophiles, drug dealers etc; on a more regular basis.

And terrorist dog fouling litter droppers and nursery school pupils

Re: the use of section 49 by CT Police is likely to be rare indeed.

I'm the same with racism. Some races are just naturally superior.

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The TT is the best, except for the late lamented 'group B' , Le Mans is great and F1 used to be good, NASCAR sucks

Re: the use of section 49 by CT Police is likely to be rare indeed.

I think it is a badge of honour on el'reg to write a sarcastic post that only gets downvotes

Re: Protect?

1st millennium, no anti-terrorism laws, loads of viking attacks

2nd millennium, anti-terrorism laws introduced, fewer viking raids

3rd millennium, use of strict anti-terrorism laws against Icelanders, no viking raids

Re: Re. Passwords

>Good luck trying to extract information from someone with MCI, caused by (for example) a stroke, heavy metal exposure (eg Hg, Pb) , traumatic brain injury, Alzheimers etc.

You just send them to the same white collar open prison as the Guinness guys, then they will be miraculously cured and able to remember.

Re: Do I go down for that

I hope none of those drives fail and become unreadable, possibly leaving random errors in any block.

Funnily enough one of our compliance rules is that drives with financial data should be overwritten with random data a certain number of times (I know, but the rules were obviously written in 1980 and nobody can change them). Then we have a bunch of apparently encrypted drives marked as financial data that we can't provide the key for.

Re: Plausible deniability

And of course any message of length N can be 'decrypted' into any othe rmessage of length N by supplying the correct key.

So just remember to XOR your terrorist message with "Boris is the one true leader, all praise Boris" and keep the result as your key to hand over.

Re: Clarify something for me.

Yes, and IIRC it doesn't even have to be "encrypted" you just have to reveal the meaning.

So if you text "the eagle flies south in winter", you have to tell them what the secret meaning is.

Heaven help you if you have a copy of Finnegans wake or Gravity's Rainbow and they demand you tell them what the real meaning is.

Re: the use of section 49 by CT Police is likely to be rare indeed.

>Explicitly tag it if you mean sarcasm

what site are you on ?

the use of section 49 by CT Police is likely to be rare indeed.

And yet it's the only thing which is protecting us from a massive terrorist attack every day

Ship stranded in Suez Canal shifts, but not before spawning some choice tech memes

Re: Hah

Importing foreign fire is clearly dangerous, which is why we need locally produced fire.

I think the channel tunnel found out that fire exports by truck are even worse

Re: Hold my beer moment?

This is the real $$$ problem.

The canal is really too small for the biggest ships, but makes most of its money from the biggest ships.

The route from China to Europe is economical for the biggest ships, which is why they get bigger - currently only really limited by the canal. So if you increase the size of the canal you will increase the size of the ships. If you limit when they can use it because of weather you lose $$$

Re: Hold my beer moment?

It has 4 x 5600HP auxiliary 'backup' generators.

Unfortunately it's a very big sheep in a very narrow shallow canal.

It's a ship, so can only steer when it's moving - except for a couple of tiny (2500HP) bow thrusters,

It's in a narrow canal so when it's moving it gets sucked toward one side by hydrodynamics stuff,

It's in a shallow canal so when it's moving it gets pulled down at the stern which affects the steering

It's the size of a small town, has flat sides the height of a tower block and it was a touch windy.

On the whole, like reversing an articulated trailer down a hairpin bend on ice in a hurricane

Re: Dual redundant canal jokes?

If they were big enough for containers, and extended to Shenzen ...

I don't think a Microsoft covid chip will have containers - you will need at least 2 full cpus and CALs for each person (one per dose)

Re: Nobody saying...

This is OVH's new data center. They worked out how to stop fire getting in - surround it with water!

Re: Dual redundant canal jokes?

>Well they did put a bit of dual carriageway in a few years back

Could they just double-deck the existing canal? Then no need for any extra land purchase

Re: Dual redundant canal jokes?

You can't build another canal right next to it - that's not really redundant

You should build a separate canal on the other side of Sinai, say from Aquaba to Gaza.

Re: Dual redundant canal jokes?

With a line of floating cones?

Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10% globally – and it's going to get worse

Re: Altitude affects the duration too

Yes they are only an issue for a very small set of astronomers which look for variable objects near sunrise/sunset. This doesn't affect most 'deep-space' astronomy.

Some of this is that the complaining groups aren't the 8m+ telescopes on remote mountain tops, it is local amateur astronomy groups. What complaints there are from professional astronomers is partly "slippery slope" and partly "noblesse oblige" light pollution is something that should be campaigned against.

Radio astronomers are really screwed - but they don't have such pretty pictures, Andrea Ghez aside, so nobody cares.

Re: It doesn't actually get dark here.

Councils also replace yellow sodium streetlights (which can be filtered out) with white lights - because it looks more modern

Bad news for automakers: That fire at the Renesas chip plant was worse than expected

Re: This is why...

I think the new state of Facebook-land will cede a bit of San Diego

Re: This is why...

The water will be delivered in barrels, previously containing pork.

These plants have very-very good water recycling systems. If you need millions of litres of ultrapure water, it's easier to start with the ultra-pure + known contaminants water you have just used, rather than throw that away and start purifying the city water containing deity-knows-what.

Another alternative for is to use seawater, desalination plants produce water with very low mineral content and it's much easier to purify. There will need to be some minor redrawing of state boundaries to give Arizona a coastline - but anything is possible in the name of 'investment'

Vegas, baby! A Register reader gambles his software will beat the manual system

Re: Always be careful with what you do

Only two places I've seen an elevator operator whose job it was to watch you press the button.

Moscow in the USSR days when there was an escalator operator in a booth on the subway and a service elevator in a New York skyscraper with a union.

Re: Print Union

The sketch with the dead employee being paid overtime and the others getting extra pay for working with a dead union member aren't too far from print union rules of the time

Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

Re: Who is the most disgusting?

>"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

It's very easy for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, same way as a billionaire can.

Just Google "Byford Dolphin" (other search engines are available)

Re: Who is the most disgusting?

Which corporation was it that spent more on billboards announcing its Covid relief donations than it actually donated?

Re: Who is the most disgusting?

Indian govt, we are switching all govt services to open source

Gates Foundation. Here is a vaccination program and the opportunity for Mr politician to be photographed cutting the ribbon.

Indian govt. We are rolling out Windows10 in all govt depts

Brotherhood of Evil villain henchmen Local 102

We demand:

Casual jumpsuit fridays

Safety rails around shark tank

Sick days in the event of a James Bond attack

Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return

Re: Consistency

Yes but that's just an IBM-DoD contract to bring Chinese business to its knees.

If it doesn't then we use the nuclear option - SAP

Re: Well, what do you expect

They are probably confused by anyone over the age of 30 not being RIF'ed

Have they asked him to train his replacement ?

‘Radiation upset’ confused computers, caused false alarm on International Space Station

Re: A pound of water

In a way that the plane didn't - woosh !

Re: Has somone been taking...

The problem is that this piss is government property and somebody has signed for it - so they will need to launch some more up there so that the books balance.

Re: Cat Reactor?

The problem with cats in space is that you constantly have to open the airlock to let them out and then they immediately want to come back in.

Re: A pound of water

Here in Canada we use metric except for aircraft fuel which we use pounds, unless we are in Quebec when we use Kg, unless we don't feel like it and so use pounds - the difference doesn't really matter anyway

Re: A pound of water

Confused about the difference between mass and weight?

Then just use the same unit for both and don't worry about it !

Diary of a report writer and his big break into bad business

Re: I hate Adobe, but...

But then they write their comments on it in green ink, scan it (or these days take a picture with their phone) and email it back to you to update - still better than Office365!

'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries

The Watchkeeper had a problem with it's altimeter on landing IIRC

One advantage of aircraft carriers is that they are pretty constantly at sea level (plus a bit)

Apparently they were 'pleasantly surprised' at the idea of having a bar on warship.

Will they understand our banter?

ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch

Re: That's a wad 'o bucks!

>Now winter in Newcastle is bitterly cold.

Naw, T-shirt weather, man

UK prime minister Boris Johnson reluctant to reveal his involvement in the OneWeb deal

Re: When is he going to build a bridge

>Have Canadians taken over the NI chippies?

Canada managed to take a traditional NI delicacy and make it 'less healthy'

Re: Clueless

>"We've had enough of so-called experts"

>UK Minister for the Cabinet Office

At the risk of being fair to the slithy Tove, he actually said this about experts from economic 'think tanks'.

I think we have had enough of 'experts' from the "Heritage Foundation of Liberty, Freedom and Market Forces" saying that tax cuts are needed to fight covid.

Re: Clueless

The UK is a major international destination, London probably already had 1000s of cases before anyone had heard of Covid.

This govt naturally managed to make everything worse, but simply blocking all travel and putting a few dozen returning nationals in hotels for 2 weeks wasn't really on option like NZ.

Here in Vancouver everybody listened to the science, everyone wears a mask (half the population wear a mask in winter anyway) the health minister is an international poster-person of "doing the right thing" but we have the same rate as every other developed country and are 2-3 months behind the UK in vaccinations.

Re: When is he going to build a bridge

>"The Irish sea often seems to act as a funnel to concentrate storm surges running up it."

Could this be solved by cutting some sort of relief channel, like a massive ship canal, from say Dundalk to Sligo ?

Re: UTC and BST

Which as a proper British compromise will be 1/2 an hour from GMT all year round.

Re: When is he going to build a bridge

The bridge is operation "Look Squirrel!"

When you have some bad news about Brexit and you can't immediately arrange a royal wedding you can give the tabloids a silly story to distract them

China added 300 million 5G subscribers and a million 5G base stations in 2020

Re: Conspiracy

But they got covid first and then got 5g, so covid causes 5g

Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

Re: Magnanimity

>It wouldn't surprise me if chemical castration and persecution caused depression and lack of motivation.

Yes, was just pointing out that when suicide is still a major cause of death for men of his age. The govt saying: well we aren't publicly beastly to gays anymore and we remember to put a rainbow flag on our twitter feed once a year so we have solved this!

A bit like dealing with PTSD in the military by pardoning long dead WWI shell-shock victims