Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Pro-Linux IP consortium Open Invention Network will 'pivot' to take on patent trolls

Re: Fundamental Question

The problem with copyright is that I can take you code, change all the variable names by one letter and I have created a new work.

Copyright sees it as taking a song and changing all the notes.

Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras

I remember a Judge Dredd story back in the mists of time where there was a fashion for surgery that made your face look like a smiley.

Of course this means that criminals can't be identified - so people were forced to have barcodes tattooed on their foreheads

Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins

Re: Were previous medical reports wrong?

But Cuba is a terrifying military threat if you believe America's reaction to the place for the last 60 years

Re: Were previous medical reports wrong?

Brain scans are inherently unreliable

Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon

WTF? Apple iPhones shrank by more than $22bn in fiscal '19

And this is before

The USA puts a tarrif on imported iPhones

Before China retaliates or 'suggests' to people that using an iPhone is unpatriotic

Or the EU start to look at store monopolies.

Cyber-security super-brain Rudy Giuliani forgets password, bricks iPhone, begs Apple Store staff for help

Re: I love it when a plan comes together

I'm sure a political opponent would pick up on that and base some of campaign around it

Re: It's incredible...

It's a true democracy.

Instead of jury service everyone will chosen get to be Whitehouse press secretary eventually.

Boffins blow hot and cold over li-ion battery that can cut leccy car recharging to '10 mins'

Re: A reason why hugh asda/tescos/otherones is here to stay.

Remember they only need 2MW while being used - which isn't 24x7

The highpower DC fast chargers here supposedly use the battery pack from the BMW i3 as a buffer

The infrastructure is impossible

How are you going to get oil out of rocks a mile under the north sea, transport it to land, refine it and then deliver massive quantities of highly flammable liquid to the center of London and then have the average consumer/moron safely pour it into a car.

The idea of widespread internal combustion engine use is a silly pipedream - it will never replace the horse!

Re: A reason why hugh asda/tescos/otherones is here to stay.

They are all rushing to do that here.

Especially after they discovered that EV owners are likely to be richer than average and more willing to buy expensive/eco products than the typical arriving by bus shopper

Re: Motorway charging

Or they could make the charging free.

The markup on food/coffee/gentlemens' special interest magazines, is way higher than on fuel.

If service station A charges 10x the home rate for electricity while station B has free charging and I have to hang around their gift shop and cafe for 30mins - who is going to make the most $$$$$

One of local supermarket chain has a free DC fast charger, guess where I now shop 2x a week ?

Re: Don't hold your breath, though

So does the BMW i3

Euro competition chief mulls forcing tech giants to prove their actions aren't harming market

Only American tech companies?

Bastions of moral proberty like VolksWagon or Deutsche Bank will be fine then

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

Re: Well now we know

Presumably Twitter must also have an algorithm to decide what is a political ad in order to ban it?

'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)

Re: Not new

Wouldn't a furry earworm be an earwig?

A massive benefit for those young hipster who don't have the same fabulously luxuriant ear fur that us oldies have.

UK ads watchdog slaps Amazon for UX dark arts after folk bought Prime subs they didn't want

Re: Amazon 'Black Friday Deals'

>Where do you buy your bent nails from then? Do you use them for doing DIY around corners?

There are still artisan makers of specialist DIY products you can't get in big box stores

Pre-bent nails, stripped screw heads and plasterboard with hammer marks already included.

It's a great time saver for the clumsy, yet busy, diy-er

Re: In the interests of balance

>What about the Monster Raving Loony Party?

Least accurate - given the competition in last few years they may have to rename themselves "sensible and moderate party"

>I reported the Liberal Democrat advertisements anyway, as their very name is false advertising.

Conservative and unionist isn't looking too good either

So how well did you block fake news, Google? Facebook? Web goliaths turn in self-assessment homework to Europe

>more surprising is that per person there were a lot more ads shown in Austria.

Austria has a bunch of "not-at-all-alt" right parties , I suspect a lot of Trump-esque clickbait ads aimed at their followers

Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks

Re: Ok that's it.

>Have you seen Westminster recently?

Even Boris didn't declare that he was above the laws of maths

Re: Ok that's it.

Oh great, so we invent another sport and have the Aussies win every time ?

It's dangerous to go alone! Take Uncle Sam and the Netherlands: Duo join naval task force into China's backyard

> that's over half the Navy!

No we have at least 70 admirals still here

The South China sea is British

It's obviously named in English

If it was Chinese it would be named something unreadable and unpronouncable

Huawei with you! FCC's American Pai proposes rip-and-replace of scary Chinese comms kit

So why doesn't this also apply to Lenovo and Motorola gear ?

Because they have millions of US shareholders or simply because they don't sound as foreign ?

Re: Shop Local

>"Why would you want your tax dollars to be funneled to Japan so that the cops can drive Camry's?"

Value for money?

And if you are a tax-payer in Detroit should your money go to a "US" non-union plant in S. Carolina?

Should every city have their own car plant?

Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer

Or for deciding for you that you are building 2-3 new data centers

Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform

Re: I recommend Ronald Coase

His conclusion was that firms avoid the friction and administrative costs of dealing with separate suppliers for each task.

Now we work for companies where it is 10x more expensive in time and money to get an official pool car than to take an Uber. Even worse if you work for government and double if you work for military/security

Re: Fines ?

Followed by a massive increase in paperwork and costs.

If I can get fired/fined/imprisoned for popping down to staples for a printer cartridge then I'm going to have 400page policy on terms and conditions for printer cartridge supply that only Capita can meet

And I'm going to be paying 100x as much to cover all the lawyers signing off on this

Like the Death Star on Endor, JEDI created a ton of fallout and stormy weather in cloud market

>For over 40 years, Microsoft has delivered innovative, proven and secure technologies

Flight simulator

Re: Legal action ?

When Bezos becomes the technology czar under some future democrat administration

We can go our own Huawei! Arm says it can flog chip blueprints to Chinese giant despite US trade embargo

Re: Unintended Consequence

>Intel-based mobile phones?

It is winter up here, I wouldn't mind a combined phone/hand warmer

Remember that competition for non-hoodie hacker pics? Here's their best entries

Are we still talking about wearing a suit?

I'm not Boeing anywhere near that: Coder whizz heads off jumbo-sized maintenance snafu

There's an old saying in aviation. When the documentation weighs more than the aircraft it's ready to fly

Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos

Re: Popcorn'd be a nice change from the bully beef and bathtub gin ...

With slightly less chance of waking up in the shower and it all having been a dream

Re: Article about JEDI shows picture of Spock

It's the reg's way of hinting that Star Wars was all faked on a sound stage - wake up sheeple

Re: It's just a coincidence of course...

More that the owner of Microsoft doesn't own a newspaper that criticizes the glorious leader

Could come back to bite them though:

Employees protesting working for the IBM of the next final solution

NGOs and foreign customers switching away from Microsoft

Retaliation from the next non-Trump government (assuming we ever have one)

Every windows security issue is going to be a much bigger story

Aviation's been Boeing through a rough patch: Software tweaks blamed for Airbus A220 failures

Re: Just wondering

So exactly the same process as Boeing's software ?

Just wondering

Which federal agency supervises the testing of US built aircraft engines?

Republican senators shoot down a triple whammy of proposed election security laws

More that the ratio of white non-college VS black/Hispanic/graduates is against them and accelerating

Of course the dems have to learn that black men can be religious anti-gay and anti-abortion aswell

No extra bank holiday for 75th VE Day, but the pub will be open longer

Bastille Day

Don't the French have a big holiday to celebrate the peasants storming the palaces of the mighty and killing all the entitled inbred nobs that ran the place?

Could we do that ?

(have a holiday not storm westminister and behead a few old Etonians - that would be incitement to something or other)

Tor blimey, Auntie! BBC launches dedicated dark web mirror site

>I dont even know where to begin..

The point of Tor is that 'they' don't know where you end

One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers

Time for an update

So many of their sites are seriously out of date

Not as bad as English Heritage, many of theirs don't even have roofs

Would you open an email from one Dr Brian Fisher? GP app staff did – and they got phished

Re: Do you use one of these popular passwords?

>some people just can't comprehend password security.

Many can and don't bother having a 64 character password containing upper+lower case elvish runes for when a site makes you create an account just to download a bios update

I suspect there are a lot of "fsck-off"s and "password" on a bunch of sites

Unfortunately they seem to be repelled from Apples

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

Re: Here We Go...

Our Japanese colleague reckons that toast is the reason.

They had to invent insanely complex 5th generation fuzzy logic AI Zojirushi rice cookers while making toast is just burning bread.

(He believes that toast is the height of British cuisine)

Re: Here We Go...

Tea leaves are injected through a pressure lock.

Tea is brewed as specified in ISO3103

Pressure is released once it has cooled to proper pouring temperature

Making a bone China pressure cooker is the tricky part

Fed up of playing Whac-A-Mole with network of SoftBank-owned patent holders, Intel hits court

Re: Not an Intel fan...

1, patents (or at least provisional filings) can be a very good way of proving priority before a meeting - compared to having to argue a bunch of unsigned lab notebooks in court

2, NDAs offer no protection if you are up against a MEGACORP with more lawyers. Neither are patents but they are a little better.

3, Global MEGACORP won't sign an NDA. Simply there is no way that Mr X at an IBM/Samsung/Google can know if there isn't a Mr Y in another office working internally on the same thing you are going to talk about. So signing an NDA before a meeting puts them into a world of conflict.

US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink

Re: Get a laser

>2) Down-vote as colour lasers are great for many other colour uses

Handouts of Powerpoint slides - with coloured backgrounds

Extra points if the presentation is about saving money or being green

Re: Get a laser

>I don't know why anyone would buy an inkjet printer.

Photos

I don't know why anyone would buy a color laser- just to have that email printed out in with the address in blue font?