Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords

Old windows domain security was trivial to crack, the new standard isn't.

If you control the domain you can presumably enable the old scheme aswell.

Or is there an API for the domain to allow reading input of new passwords before they are set ?

Heck yeah, we should have access to our own cars' repair data: Voters in US state approve a landmark right-to-repair ballot measure

Re: John Deere

But farmers are hard working symbols of the American heartland, they wouldn't take anything as communist as a government handout

Re: wrong focus

Even that is politicised.

They are proposing importing timber wolves from Canada - but if they called them "Canadian Wolves" people would vote no (damn immigrant predators coming over here ....) so they are calling them "gray wolves"

Re: Cars collect some interesting data...

>Was fascinating to see differing RPMs :-)

As long as they average out in the long run - otherwise you have to manually untwist the crankshaft

Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years

Re: ...and funding was passed in Congress by a single, solitary vote.

So nothing to do with making sure that Boeing, Lockheed, Rockwell and their Russian counterparts didn't suffer too much from the end of the cold war?

Big Panda China squishes Ant Group: Beijing suspends world's largest-ever IPO in fintech regulatory brouhaha

Bunch of communists

Imagine a government worrying about a dodgy banks 50x leverage

CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny

Some are:

Need to name the operation to secretly invade Russia? Name it after a famous German king that invaded Russia. Have a Radar system that uses a single dish - name it after a one-eyed God.

Certain other world powers seem to base the names on what gives Generals a stiffy. You have to feel sorry for an officer who has to write to tell a mother that their child was killed in "Operation Thrusting Stallion"

You can't spell 'electronics' without 'elect': The time for online democracy has come

Re: The problem isn't the ID requirement per se

In the USA it's generally on the lines of:

"born in hospital with a $50K bill paid by insurance = birth certificate automatically linked to voting"

"born at home, have to hope the local church where your birth was registered 18years ago is still there, get a copy of the birth registry notarised by a notary and submit that to the voting office.

I can't think of anyway that this could have any racial bias

Re: arguments for e-voting

>Money Laundering is an honest business?

Certainly, if you can't trust your fence - who can you trust ?

Re: Advantages of hand-marked, paper ballots

>compromising the polling place staff. And the polling place watchers. And your departments of state. And their legislative oversight. And the courts

In the USA these are often political posts. It's hard to get your head around a system where the returning officer is a political appointment by the incumbent party.

Re: Why it won't happen anytime soon

I think it's now a statistical fact that in in the USA demographics mean one party should win forever.

The other side can only win by 'strategic' use of boundaries, the electoral college and discouraging certain voters.

>What government issued ID does everyone have?

And is accepted?

It says "Martin L King" on your driving license, but "Martin Luther King Jnr" on your birth certificate = you don't get to vote

You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off

Re: Gun shells

One of the side effects of 9/11 is that a lot of guns now travel in checked baggage by photographers and film makers. If you declare a firearm then your luggage gets put on the plane under armed guard and stored in a secure room at the destination. Much safer than trusting $100K of gear to the baggage thiefs.

If you don't want to walk around with real guns it works for a replica or starter pistol or even the lone part of a rifle with the serial number on it.

Re: Colleague of mine

Had that once on a transit through one of America's squarer states.

The security for the outgoing flight found my Leatherman and demanded to know where I had got it.

Well I obviously forget it and left it in my laptop bag

You can't have - it wouldn't have been allowed through security on the incoming flight

Ok so either they missed it, or I met my secret contact in the secure side of your airport and they gave me this deadly weapon

In the end I lost the tool , and the argument.

Re: Sadly, no international jet-settng for me

>I didn't know there was a ferry from HK island to Dublin.

It's a major part of Chris Graylings post-Brexit trade plan

Re: Sadly, no international jet-settng for me

>I used to fly frequently within the Schengen Area, .....I never got asked for ID.

Did we fight centuries of european wars for nothing ?

Was doing a system for underground mining.

Arrived at the airport in the nation's capital told security that my backpack might have explosive residue, and they took it off the belt and passed it around the scanner unchecked!

"Thanks - if it gets in the machine it tests positive for the rest of the day."

Amazing what you can get away with by being white and nerdy and wearing a corporate logo fleece jacket.

South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet

Re: a less-than-successful hour or two playing Forza

Found the error.

Enable MurrayWalkerMode = True

Well there is that current "Downing St" show by the people that did League of Gentleman. But it's a bit over the top

Windows Server robocopy to gain auto-compression ahead of big file moves

SMB over tcp

Any reason why you can't do SMB over TCP 'to the cloud' isn't the whole point of TCP not caring what you are sending or where?

Why, yes, you can register an XSS attack as a UK company name. How do we know that? Someone actually did it

Re: The license plate NULL and the license plate VOID.

And once more xkcd already did it

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

My wife unplugs the LCD TV - because of that bloody 70s TV ad

<sings> the TV set should be unplugged last thing every night.....

Which means 5mins of it booting and trying to get updates everytime you want to watch it.

She also unplugs it during thunderstorms - we don't have an aerial, we don't even have cable - how she thinks lightning is going to go over the wifi while watching Netflix I have no idea.

What;s really worrying is that she's not an idiot - she's a doctor !

Re: Why are sockets switched?

Will admit to checking equipment here by brushing the back of ONE hand (the other safely in my pocket) - on 110V to check which wire is live.

Re: Why are sockets switched?

>I'm assuming that left-pondians do have high-amperage kettles:

No they don't. The solution is to only put one cup of water in them.

Unless you have a partner who insists on always having the kettle full of 2 litres of water

>I've lived in Germany for 20 years and never found them funny,

Possible side effect?

Re: Do I have to put my hand through the flames

Unplugging it is a job for "facilities", who have now been outsourced - so you need to fill in a request form

Over here in the land of the treasonous colonials they have the top and bottom socket in an outlet fed from different circuits. So you blow a fuse, carefully check that the socket is dead (using a known good lamp) take the cover off and get sock from the other pair of still live wires.

Fortunately their electricity is, like their beer, pitifully weak.

Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first

Re: Low Paid Workers

But it isn't the workers giving the kickback.

If I'm small tech business willing to pay $250K for that one specialist I can't find in the USA, then I'm less able to kickback as much as a 'consultancy' that is paying 100,000 workers $50K while billing them out at $2000/day

Re: High Pay != High Skilled

High pay = high return / scarcity (or at least that's how capitalism is supposed to work)

If each stem PhD adds lots of new income and they are hard to find = they get paid lots.

So what's the catch

In theory this sounds ideal.

You can hire semiconductor design PhDs without being beaten by Tata hiring 100,000 minimum wage 'consultants'

So how will they fsck it up?

I'm guessing Tata will claim they are paying $250K but hold $200K of that as a bonus and then charge a $200K processing fee at the end of the employment

Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net

Re: 4 sides and a spare

When the Pentagon was built Virginia insisted on separate facilities based for black and white bottoms

Re: 4 sides and a spare

>Far in the future I expect archaeologist will dig it up and describe it as the highest holy temple to military bureaucracy.

Including having twice as many bathrooms. One set for men and women and one set for non-people

Re: Wot, no Huawei? Not to mention...

>I guess the Pentagon decided to get rid of the NSA's backdoors.

The NSA is probably a bigger enemy to the Pentagon.

The Chinese aren't a threat to the DoD unless you start a shooting war - the NSA are a threat at the next funding round.

Re: 150,00-plus wired ethernet switches

You need one switch per user, then if they are doing something secret you can switch it off - that's why it's called a switch.

(Selling to government chapter 1)

FCC puts final nails into net neutrality coffin. In a week, America will vote on whether to bury or open it up again

>I still don't see what net neutrality is supposed to mean,

That your cable TV company that is your only choice for broadband - isn't allowed to block Netflix that is destroying its business.

Machine learning gets semi conscious... Waymo, Daimler vow to bring self-driving trucks to American highways

What could go wrong with a 20T vehicle driven by Bubba on Truckers-Brand(tm) amphetamines with a couple of beers busy texting

Re: Autonomous defence

Time to join the elevator operators and strike

Can't afford an AI-accelerating Nvidia Jetson Nano? Open-source emulator lets you prototype Python apps for it

Re: Wow

The python calls CUDA functions, the calculations happens on the GPU, the data stays on the GPU

President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds

Re: Be careful what you wish for.

If anything it's worse in the USA than in India = Our CEO is brown therefore we aren't racist

Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner

I think the treatment of Gartner should be closer to that meted out by Joey when the_girl_whose_name_I_cant_remember got stung in Friends

Upcoming Linux 5.10 release will love you longterm, pushing support out to 2026

"Which kernel feature turned my beard that grey?"

Judging from the sidebar picture Greg is looking a lot better

Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery

Re: Why not...

>Instead of 5G, .... why not a bigger battery

Because 5G will allow you to actually talk to people using your phone

Re: Just curious

5g battery life is probably great since the only 5g signal is in Apple's labs

Re: The Iphone 13 will come quicker than the 5G

But if Apple install 5g antennas then only fashionista liberals will get it.

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

Re: Portland

You don't have shires, why do you need reeves?

Re: Portland

Same solution to all bloated civil servants - Privatize it.

With the proper incentives it would open up a wide ranging employment among the disaffected urban youth to compete against traditional Italian-American family businesses outside the limited market of retail pharmaceutical sales.

It might even speed-up pizza delivery (obligatory obscure Neal S. reference)

UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey is heading into gaming territory with £6m tender for dev team

Most of the actual topographic/cadestral data is from government sources (outside the UK the taxpayer often owns the IP that it paid for) .

Most of the public contribution is tagging names/locations and unofficial routes such as footpaths and hiking trails.

They do if you want to pay $$$$$$$ (or £££££) but 97% of the OS work appears to be preventing other people using the data or you using data you paid for in ways that aren't explicitly mentioned on the license which appeared to be written in 1745

Except it's the other way around.

Openstreetmap - start straight away with a bunch of existing code that devs all over the world are already using in game engines vs. hire a bunch of lawyers to negotiate with OS about the specific uses and licenses for their data and then develop on their API using only the 3 devs in the world familiar with it and have a product that only works in the UK.

Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78

re:Do not ever buy a Samsung appliance.

Why do their appliances all play tunes at you all the time?

Are they aiming for "share and enjoy" ?