Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Re: Going from FTTC to FTTP? Much less so.

Are they going to generate 1700quids worth of economic gains with that?

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Re: G K Chesterton

It is always possible that limbo is in Gloucestershire

Re: As for ghosts (holy or otherwise) ...

If there were three of them it would be cheaper to drive than buy three separate train tickets

Unless you can convince Network South East that you are one indivisble person

The baby Jesus came on a reindeer to deliver presents to little children and old James Bond movies on TV for grown ups.

Then he died and came out of a chocolate egg as a bunny rabbit

Nobody expects a visit by the Iberianpenisularinvestigativeadministration

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Re: Human rights

>unlike Micro-shaft, *I* put *THE CUSTOMER* *FIRST* !!!

So you are a socialist and therefore shouldn't be allowed to bid for government work.

I promise to shaft the customer, outsource the work to 3rd world children, avoid paying tax and put the shareholders first - so I should get the government contract.

(I have also invested in a functioning CAPS-LOCK key, but I claimed R&D tax credits for that.)

Re: Human rights

At least it's github.

Forcing them to use Sourcesafe would be a war crime

Human rights

Is it fair that ICE agents are forced to use Microsoft products on a daily basis ?

American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities

Did I miss a memo ?

I thought VPNs were only used by criminal terrorist child eaters ?

Re: NSA should be banned.

If ordinary honest people don't have a secret government agency illegally spying on them then only the criminals will have an evil government agency spying on them ....

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Ban pens

There are many more ballpoint pens than drones

Pens can be used to stab children

Pens can be used by children

Children are exposed to pens in schools (or do they all have iPads these days?)

The pen is allegedly mightier than the sword

If you make 42Bn quid by licensing drones think how much you can make by licensing pens !

There is a little bit of a problem of how you fill in the form to register a pen, without having a pen - but we can solve that with the same technological solution we will use for the NI border

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Hong Kong was a banking center offshore of a massive growing economy.

It had a 'light touch regulation' when it came to money laundering and tax evasion

It had lots of intelligent hard working educated people

... Post B word we will have a banking center with no regulation offshore of a large economy in recession staffed by a bunch of Eton wkrs that just got kicked out of government

Well, In the words of meatloaf, 1 out of 3 ain't bad

If there were oil reserves we would hardly have given it back to the foreigners would we?

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

Re: Demand ramping up....

You could always threaten a bigger crisis for next quarter ....

Europe publishes 5G risk assessment; America scrawls ‘Huawei’ on the side of a nuke and goes for a ride

Re: Desicions decisions

>you probably get Finland/French/German/US intelligence agencies

If Finland has an intelligence agency they will be drunk

Nobody has had to worry about the French since Waterloo

Germany has more than enough problems of its own without wanting to spy on anyone

The American intelligence agencies only spying on their own citizens

Re: ZTE

Lenovo and Motorla are also companies subject to evil Chinese Govt (tm) interference

However they both have lots of US shareholders so it would be inappropriate to mention this.

Re: Fair trading

They are standards patents that you need to use to implement 5g standards.

Just like video codecs, everyone involved makes sure that the standard requires that you use their patents, they then all cross license them to make sure nobody new can get in the club

Unfortunately we now have governments who think that they are above industry cartels

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

Re: Whistled passwords

> I could easily have lied and said foxtrot

Amateur, you should have made up Elbonian folk or Mayan freeform or somethign so that when you cock up she wouldn't know

Re: Windows xp

Ntml passwords used a very weak hashing function and iirc only used the first 8chars

It was also trivial to edit the password store and write a null password

Re: Whistled passwords

Biometric passwords in the form of interpretative dance?

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

>You need to make it longer for security. What about prefixing it with “sudo”?

Real programmers are logged in as root,

Re: "who wondered whether Thompson might somehow have used uppercase or special characters"

No just a bigger search space.

The number of possible 8 letter strings of 26 lower case letters is much (6000x) smaller than the combinations of 8 of 95 printable ASCII character symbols

Re: Well, there's your problem

GPU crackers run in parralel there isn't much advantage in using zzzz

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

If your passwd is "rm -rf /" make sure the correct window has focus before typing it....

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Thinking of the future

A multi-$Bn company and they are betting the future on more and more people needing expensive printers as cell phones, tablets and web apps become ubiquitous

Are they also going to start building their own Telex machines ? A must for any modern office now that Fax is going away

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

Re: "flew over to Marshall Space Flight Centre in my T 38"

>-my- supersonic jet

Whose jet?

And why did he have to burn $000/hour for a military jet instead of flying commercially?

Re: Technological advance is not the point here

3, Donny wants to go around saying "space: remember the 60s when America was great and China was poor and women and minorities knew their place? "Vote Donny"

You don't actually have to bother with any details like an actual plan or budget once the tweet has landed

Re: here we go again...

But the space program diverted all of our brightest graduates into science and engineering for 20 years.

It was only in the late 90s and mid 2000s once they switched to Wall St that we saw the amazing gains when you have all the brightest people competing to sell shares to each other faster and faster.

Because the soviet union was also faked.

Have you seen the footage of anything built in Russia in the 60s/70s/80s?

It was all such low budget crap it was obviously knocked together on a backlot for cheap.

Do you know any friends / neighbors who visited the USSR? No - because it was all faked....

Re: Another Option

>Either way, a trip to the Moon would be genuinely useful.

Not necessarily, if it just developed throw away technology to meet some arbitrary time/budget deadline.

Making a single use Concorde which could fly from London to Ireland where it would crash land after jettisoning its single use rocket engines wouldn't be a useful first step in making transatlantic flights routine.

Re: Let's start with the basics and then work forward from there.

Clean drinking water in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd world comes from the invention of concrete - and a reduction in wars which allow you to build and keep the pipes

Apollo's water purifiers (electronic ion release) doesn't have a big role in an African village

Re: "To simply go and come back and say that we've been there again is highly unsatisfactory,"

>While fitting within the time that Trump hopes to be in office -- no prior landing test of the lunar module before it's full of astronauts...

So Trump wants the glory of going to the moon,

We have a rocket that will probably blow up or crash.

A solution presents itself.....

Re: "To simply go and come back and say that we've been there again is highly unsatisfactory,"

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is hard

but because it is easiest and will maximize media attention while fitting within the budget model

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

A lot of the nicer fluffy alternatives to nasty power generation are a bit inconsistent.

If you had a way of say 'storing' the electricity for when it isn't sunny or windy - then you might be able to use a lot more nicer fluffy electricity

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

We are now choosing our enemies based on how the photography will work out.

Although it does mean California is more likely to be attacked by the USA than Scotland

Wales was always safe because nobody can pronounce the targets

Although it probably has a single .22 bullet onboard, because that makes it a fighter - which allows you to get funding from the RAF.

You're new to defense procurement !

It would have an explosive charge which would ensure that all the ground support equipement was also destroyed

Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US peeps? Well, guess what…

Re: That's terrible

I thought that's why they had guns - to protect them from government.

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

An unguarded inspection-free border between the Eu and a UK with multiple 'quick and easy' free-trade deals with the rest of the world must provide some opportunities for small businesses with a flexible attitude to bureaucracy

Re: "There are over 200 roads that cross the border."

So the solution is to make the border an Indian reservation ?

I was thinking of a deal where we swap the population of NI with say Gaza

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Re: This is all very fine, except for one thing.

You can't work in tech in New York and be ignorant of the date of Yom Kippur anymore than you can work in electronics assembly and be unaware of Chinese New Year.

Ironic for a company founded by a very out gay Jewish guy

Spain's Cellnex snags Arqiva's telecoms unit for £2bn to become the UK's 'largest' wireless infrastructure operator

Re: People power

You only have to worry about foreign control if it's Huawei, any other chinese companies (like Motorola and Lenovo) are fine.

European companies are completely fine because you are a member of the various courts and elected bodies that control their operations.

Do you run on a cloud Down Under, where data's shared and governments plunder... Oz joins US, UK in info search-warrant law

Re: Not sure we're "likeminded countries"

>Because at the moment it seems awfully one sided.

Security deals are not one sided- they are simply weighted by the number of aircraft carrier battle fleets one has at one's disposal

Re: Not sure we're "likeminded countries"

>Almost a violation of sovereignty.

I don't think British people are all that bothered about some foreign court have over-rulling jurisdiction over their own national instituions. Certainly nothing to get all worked up about

And if it meant a trade deal that reduced the 25% duty on Scotch I'm sure they would be happy to roll over

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Re: Sea level rising

Sea level is rising

South of England is sinking

South of England is mostly low lying land

I dinnae see any problem !

Re: I can think of one.

>Scuba gear. Stops people from inhaling liquid every day. Keeps them breathing too.

Although it does work by ensuring that the pressure inside your lungs is equal to the pressure outside your body.

At the point where the pressure outside your body is zero, as in the proposed unpressurised space suit - it is apt to get rather untidy.

Re: You won't see the bunny hopping and falls like those seen in the Apollo videos.

Not even in the blooper reel on the special edition DVD ?

>There's probably a million reasons why this won't work in reality,

Because there is no way you are going to get USA Space Command (tm) to smear KY jelly all over the bodies (*) of their intrepid USA Space Command (tm) Space Heroes before they boldly go doing whatever it is that USA Space Command (tm) Space Heroes do

* the USAF on the other hand .....

Geordie Astronauts

No need for spacesuits - just a T-shirt

It's not that cold in space