Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

>The sooner Uber goes under the better.

What we need is an app to allow ordinary black cab drivers to report people they suspect to be undesirables

>A bunch of corrupt cowboys desperate to meet their productivity targets at any cost

And uber is enabling them

Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home

And a Star cat-flap

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Re: A Long Time Ago It Seemed So

But the Scimitar comes with 4 stacks of bricks for free

Re: "testing the limits of what's possible"

You misunderstood - the mouse controls you through thought

It's all part of an experiment to find the question

Re: Like...

" Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a virus that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself."

Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

Re: Pull my finger!

>4cm monoblades under the fingernails

Also a bit limiting. With 10 fingers I want the full Swiss army knife, including a multi-bit screwdriver with torx bits

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply

Re: Several Problems Caused This

>Trying for the "scarcity sells" tactic

You can accuse Nvidia of a lot of things but I don't think artificially restricting the number of GPUs to create a buzz is one of them.

One good reason for not buying just now is that somebody is going to be leaning on the QC dept at TSMC and anything that comes out of the fab the right way up is going to get packaged and sold.

>The problem is getting them to define what the wrongdoing actually is

Oh Oh please sir,I know this one sir

It will ban blind screen readers and password managers that paste stored password - while doing nothing about high frequency traders front running pension fund stock buys

He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended

Re: Static

TSMC just announced prices for its new 5nm wafers

One of the figures was 680MTr/$ = I learned that transistors/dollar is a unit and they are now literally too cheap to measure !

GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Re: Password security?

>write them somewhere, something that should be radically forbidden.

Not convinced about that. Having a secure online banking paswd written in the back of your diary in your handbag is probably a better defence against N Korea hackers than memorising "Passw0rd$"

Ps don't write "my XYZ bank password is" in front of it!

Re: Password security?

And the reason for changing your password regularly is ?????

It used to be that brute forcing your password took months so the assumption was if you changed it every 3 months is was secure. Nobody is currently taking 3 months to brute force a hashed /etc/passwd

So forcing you to change it every month just means lots of "my_dogs_name_N+1" passwords.

GCHQ says protect yourself

But don't use encryption; because only terrorists, people-traffickers and (looksup list of today's official daily hate) Eu Brexit negotiators use encryption

Amazon gets its tax excuses in early amid rising UK profits – but leaves El Reg off the press list. Can't think why

Re: Not the fault of Amazon

>rather than how tax law works in the UK.

Tax law in the UK says that payments to overseas subsiduaries purely for tax avoidance ARE illegal.

So Starbucks paying £50/lb for coffee beans from Starbucks in Switzerland

Microsoft UK paying £100/copy for Windows to Microsoft Grand-Cayman for the rights to use the Microsoft logo - have all been found illegal.

Amazon claiming all it's sales happen in Luxemburg or Apple claiming that a phone bought in Oxford St was really bought in Eire should also be investigated

Oracle hosting TikTok US data. '25,000' moderators hired. Code reviews. Trump getting his cut... It's the season finale

Re: I wanna cut

> a US president would model himself on a street tradrr from Peckham?

I think he's modelling himself on Marlon Brando in the Godfather - unfortunately he has achieved Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now

Re: My head hurts

President wants to look tough on Jina

Advisers point out that turning off the favorite cat video habit of 100M addicts just before the election might not make him look like Santa Claus

China was going to block the sale anyway, Oracle could't afford it and would fsck it up

So Larry donates a few $M to the Don, gets a few $100M contract to run some servers for TikTok and suddenly security is not a problem

It's just like the deals for restaurant services in New York by certain Italian-American family businesses

One down, two to go: Astra's first attempt to reach orbit scuppered by iffy guidance

Surely the oldest ones should have retired to their sheds ?

How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired

Re: Hmm

Would love to but I'm currently training for one of the highly rewarding careers in the turnip picking industry - now that the Eu no longer forces all these cushy jobs to go to foreigners.

Re: How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit?

Although it's a much harder job when the "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" you are rounding up to put in cages are all blue-eyed blonde English speaking europeans.

Might need some software updates

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

Re: Dystopian future

>Some bloke tried to demo his system at Gatwick. It wasn't received well.

I don't know, an invisible to police drone that can be at targets 30mi apart at the same time seems pretty effective as a weapon

Re: Oooooh! I think know the answer to this one, is it...

It does seem a little like the government saying "shipping army explosives to Iraq is expensive, here is a grant to come up with a way of making explosive using only items readily available in a Middle Eastern supermarket"

Re: Why does new technology always seems to be developed for death and destruction?

Once all the porn uses have been exhausted

Net neutrality lives... in Europe, anyway: Top court supports open internet rules, snubs telcos and ISPs

>This decision puts Ofcom in an interesting position

But Ofcom is now only answerable to The Cummings, not the Eu

Re: Europe that terrible overbearing beurocracy

" Europe’s top court decided that money does not come before people’s rights"

The very definition of totalitarianism - damn Brussels burocrats

Re: A thought

In the US you can benefit from using the VPN to watch Netflix if your ISP is also a cable company who is losing TV revenue to Netflix and totally coincidentally happens to degrade Netflix bandwidth for totally innocent technical reasons.

'Mindset reset' contributes to £1bn extra costs and another delay – 2 years this time – for Emergency Services Network

Re: Who was the priority?

>get them off the shelf from your local Motorola

Alternately can we think of any other literally "front line" services of the British state who need reliable secure radio networks and perhaps copy those?

Surely they can be repainted from green to plod-blue for less than a billion quid?

(couldn't remember what the army's current radio system is called - but if you type "british army radio fiasco" into the internets you get a list of all them)

Re: Extensive use of euphamisms

Project Moonshot

Project Moon Perigee

Project Impact AKA sub-surface orbit achieved

Project New Crater

Re: Extensive use of euphamisms

Good new excuse though.

I still haven't finished that bit of the bathroom floor for 3 yeas because of "mindset reset"

Is Little Timmy still enthralled by his Leapfrog tablet? Maybe check he hasn't sideloaded an unrestricted OS onto it

Re: kid's toy turned into a proper tablet computer

They just work(tm) and tend to last quite a long time, both build quality and SW updates.

Bought SHMBO a MacBook-Air about 5 years ago and haven't had to touch it - best $1000 ever spent.

Used to get them for salespeoples. If it breaks, walk into a iStore in pretty much any city in the world, get it fixed or swapped, data automagically iRecovers from iBackup and they are back out on the streets.

Wouldn't have one myself of course - but i like spending weekends trying to get Linux running on obscure hardware.

Take your pick: 'Hack-proof' blockchain-powered padlock defeated by Bluetooth replay attack or 1kg lump hammer

Re: Social engineering and pick sets

> I still have that key, but the buildings are long gone,

<plod voice>Good evening sir, we would like to talk to you about some missing buildings .....

Re: Confessions of a bolt cutter

>Well I know they are somewhere in my house. I just don't know where :)

Then you need my new Bluetooth(tm) lockpick finder app

It uses blockchain, IoT, cloud and object-orientated magic pixies to locate your lock picks using your phone

Re: Sounds familiar

>Indeed. In fact Bluetooth would only work if you were nearby the lock, in which case just give them the key.

Not if you designed it properly (ie employed a 5 year old or reasonably intelligent Labrador)

The lock has a key generator synced once to the app on your phone, you can generate a valid key and email to your mate. The lock recognises the key code and opens. Extra points if the code is only valid once or for a certain period of time.

Bad apples: US customs seize OnePlus earbuds thinking they're knock-off AirPods

Or Germany seizes a boatload of Lexuses (Lexi ?) as fake Mercs

Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive

Re: AI? Aiaiaiai!

Ironically Nvidia are currently on the naughty step for telling the finance boys that they WEREN'T selling much for cryptocurrency

Re: AntiTrust

>How come they came up with such a deal?

Does it raise the SP500 before the election? Since ARM and Softbank aren't listed then selling it to a listed company will inevitably increase NVidia's price in the short term.

This government's only priority is that everyone's retirement account statement looks good by November

Re: Softbank wasn't a good match as an owner?

>Why couldn't Sun just continue as they were.

Sun was pretty much dead once we could run free on Linux on cheap x64

A lot of Sun users ran Oracle. Oracle were afraid that a lot of IBM HW salesmen visiting ex-Sun customers might have a DB2 salesman in tow

>Why didn't ARM stay as an independent company?

Because an idiot with more money thane sense (judging from his other investments) offered the shareholders more than the current market price for it.

US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?

Re: computers will be used for low-priority work

>Well at least they can't drink.

So journalism will be the last stand-out against AI

Except in this case the UK is probably paying the tenants

Wow, you guys have so much in common: Oracle hotly tipped to power TikTok’s operations as Microsoft deal rejected

>Oracle, on the other side, I have no idea why they would want that; but I'm pretty sure TikTok won't like it when they know.

Conspiracy says it's a back-hander from Trump for Larry's support and a commiseration for the Generals (Traitors/Losers) not giving him the DoD contract.

Cock-up says he is doing it because they have to do something not to become totally irrelvant

Typical '80s IT: Good idea leads to additional duties, without extra training or pay, and a nuked payroll system

Re: whoops - wrong disk

Windows NT raid which numbered the disks in a different order to the physical disks. Disk failed, and I did a rebuild of the bad drive over the top of the good one.

I think everyone has done this

What an IDORable Giggle: AI-powered 'female only' app gets in Twitter kerfuffle over breach notification

Re: AI?

>Seems like a GDPR breach to me

If only they weren't so far away in Australia the Eu would be rushing to prosecute - but it takes along time to organise an expedition to the southern oceans.

Re: Twits

Obviously the best way to inform an online business of an urgent and critical vulnerability would be a registered letter to their registered business address.

Cops called to Singapore golf club after 'wrongdoers' use scripts to book popular timeslots

Re: Tell them they've got their tee time...

But what if this is basically a CAPTCHA?

You turn up to arrest 2 terminators, a cyberman (sorry cyberperson) and that cool 2 legged robot with the machine guns from the original Robocop .

Bork, Beer and Breweries: Three of our favourite things

Re: Sad omission

I don't think the problem was for the woman appearing in the photos.

Nothing wrong with my paper printing pictures of people beating up $ETHNIC, the actors were well paid and enjoyed it

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Re: SCCs

>without a valid warrant (i.e. no FISA, Patriot Act or NSA letter interference),

Until the men in suits with dark glasses tell you that the super security act letter is a valid warrant.

Since you have total trust in your own governments legality and the supreme court and attorney-general you believe them and hand over the data.

Re: Shocked I tell thee...

No the Eu ordered it, whether the Irish DPA ever get round to enforcing it ....

Re: About time too

>None of my close friends on FB.

Ah-ah I don't have any friends so I win