Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption

Re: I was just going to have a go at

>I am trying to work out if she is incompetent, easily lead, stupid, or evil.

That's unfair, she could be all three

Although Pritti Vacant was calling for hunting immigrants with hounds before she joined the home office

If you made Nelson Mandela home secretary he would be demanding apartheid within a week.

US sanctions fail to get in Huawei as embattled Chinese vendor reports 23% revenue growth

Re: I can't deny it

Hauwei and xiaomi phones are already very well supported by lineageos.

Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

Re: New title?

Before I kill you let me tell you my evil plan... Or better still just do 'git clone'

Re: From the CLOUD ???

I'm shocked to discover American Banks were using computers. In my dealings with them I assumed all record keeping bwas by illuminated manuscript and delivered by snail express

99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised

Ie the 99% of the population that weren't customers.

It's like asking the court to consider the 99.999999% of the world population that weren't murdered by my client

NASA trumpets Orion completion as India heads to the Moon

Re: India is going to the moon with my tax.

>The amount she paid in had nothing to do with it

So it wasn't based on the government putting a percentage of her salary into the scheme each year and so giving her a pension based on years if putting money in and what her salary/grade was?

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

Re: Word of the day

It's French - so the plan is presumably lorry drivers with laser beams attached

Re: Anti-Satellite isn't that hard

>debris is likely to knacker your own kit a few orbits later.

Collateral damage is not my department says W de Brun

Re: Well

If only Willie Coyote physics worked in the real world

Freshly outsourced Home Office project: Overseas student visa IT slammed for delays

Re: The French outsourcer was awarded a £91m contract

They managed to find a French company willing to take a long term contract in Britain priced in £?

The home of the surrealists

UK taxpayers funded Grand Theft Auto V maker to tune of £42m – while biz paid no corp tax and made billions

Re: Development costs

That's hardly the point. The UK government essentially paid for the production of this game, the game was then sold worldwide and the profits all booked somewhere for the US parent to avoid US tax.

So apart from the number of kidney machines (or whatever the normal unit of government outrage) this cost the UK taxpayer, it also disrupts a lot of people's lives and careers.

The production moved to Scotland for this subsidy, next year when Montreal or Wellington or Vancouver offer a better deal, these people will be fired and a similar bunch hired there.

It also makes it difficult for other independent studios, who don't have the government covering their wage bill, to compete.

If Germany announced that it was paying all VW's production costs and letting them pay no tax - allowing them to sell cars for half the price of anyone else, there would be an outcry but movie and games studios expect it.

Re: That's fine, but

>I would set up the programs so at a minimum a corporation can't claim subsidies in excess of actual taxes paid

I'm not sure that works, if a company were making enough to pay corporation tax they probably wouldn't need a subsidy.

You probably just need to stop giving tax breaks to Hollywood studios and massive games companies - but I don't suppose Dales farmhouse cheese makers pay much in lobbying

Re: Cultural

What about an Edinburgh fringe version?

Instead of murdering prostitutes you murder mimes?

Extra points for escaping from theatre troops or hitting well known stand-ups

All to close that shortbread deal

Cultural

Could they at least produce a Britain mod?

With another 40Million quid they could presumably imagine an Edinburgh with drugs, murders and prostitutes

Apple techies analyzing Siri recordings may have heard you unzipping and bonking – plus more

Re: The Need For Speed

>I crunched the numbers...

Assuming it stays off

I used to come home to the TV having been on full all day, or being woken up in the middle of the night - because there has been a momentary power glitch that had restarted it

In the end i had to buy a switched extension cord to switch it off at the wall

Re: This!

>Isn't the future I was promised as a kid.

Didn't you read 1984 in school?

It's exactly the future you were promised

UK High Court rules Snooper's Charter doesn't break Euro human rights laws

Re: This has nothing to do with EU law

>which has nothing at all to do with the EU

Except it does

If a non-Eu country like Russia or Turkey break the rules there is precisely fuck-all the court can do about it

If an Eu country breaks the rules then the rest of the Eu can come down on them like a precisely defined ton of bricks.

The great leveller: Nokia waves magic wand over unfair wage differences, and *poof* they're gone

Re: From afar

Because it's not normally as simple as 'if women; pay *0.8'

Your senior guys hired in the 80s are men, your new junior recruits are 50:50

Your senior woman engineers have been in the company since the 80s getting the same 2% raises as the men - but then you hired a bunch of men from Microsoft and paid them silicon valley wages.

Your male staff have switched job 5x as often, getting a 20% bump each time. Your salary is based on what you were making at the previous job.

GitHub builds wall round private repos, makes devs in US-sanctioned countries pay for it

Re: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and

The USA already does this when it comes to immigration ie. H1-B.

There are different (ie looser) rules for Northern Ireland cf the rest of the UK

Alibaba sketches world's 'fastest' 'open-source' RISC-V processor yet: 16 cores, 64-bit, 2.5GHz, 12nm, out-of-order exec

But we do have "free as in freedom" food and water

Farmers can grow their own crops without somebody half a world away claiming they have the patent on wheat and you can't plant your own seeds

< where's the sarcasm tag ? >

Re: Interesting, but...

And on performance/Watt ?

And at the specific tasks Alibaba need in their data center ?

He's coming home, he's coming... Hutchins' coming home: British Wannacry killer held in US on malware dev rap set free by judge

Is it illegal?

To make a tool somebody else uses in a bank robbery?

Are a Messers Smith and Western likely to be concerned?

Huawei is planning to inject $436m into Arm-based server silicon

Re: Smart

The Chinese will never be able to match those smart people in Taiwan and Singapore to make better semi-conductors.

O2: We've found Huawei of not using you-know-who's kit in 5G rollout

Re: Say what you like about Huawei kit...

We should have paid them unlimited amounts of tax-payer cash to keep making products nobody wanted at prices nobody would pay?

And then force all government agencies to buy from them?

Or force everyone in the country to use them exclusively?

I suspect some commentator in Moscow is saying the same thing about Lada

Re: Say what you like about Huawei kit...

And the woosh wasn't the sound of Canada geese going overhead

Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours

Re: "...need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours"

It should reboot before 'Exactly' 149 hours.

I'm not sure I would fix the bug. This is a known feature, the planes all go through a maintenance schedule more often than this. It may be safer to make a reboot part of the maintenance rather than introducing a software change

BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout

Re: Ubuntu

20 years ago we found DEC Alphas running Linux could wipe the floor with Suns.

For reasons we never understood - DEC would sell you andAlpha with WindowsNT, which you could reinstall as Linux, for 25% less than they would sell the same hardware with their own VMS install.

A decade earlier we had switched from microVax+VMS to Suns for the same performance boost

Boeing's 737 Max woes trigger BEEELLIONS in losses – and that's just for the latest quarter

Re: Will the 737 MAX ever be safe?

>"What do Airbus have in this area?

A multi year backlog of orders for the A320NEO

Man arrested over UK's Lancaster University data breach hack allegations

State sponsored ?

Obviously an attack by t' People's Army of Yorkshire on the hated Lancastrians

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

Re: Labour Party has 'self-destructed'

>When the Conservative party fragmented over Brexit, it was an opportunity for Labour

Labour are even more divided over Brexit than the tories.

The Blairites love it because you can get some wonderful cheese and the wine in Tuscany is so reasonable.

The left hate it because it's all a zionist conspiracy run for big business

Any London MP with immigrant/educated voters love it (or so their focus groups tell them)

Any Northern MP with a constituency of Sun reading ex-miners hate it (which is easy cos they're foreigners)

Re: Disaster

>Just wait he aims for the king role...

He was natively born in the United States .........

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

Re: Worked Too...

Better to use alcohol or (artificial) blood

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Re: Prehaps I've become overly cynical

It's obviously cheaper to sell your building to a profit making property company and then rent it back from another profit making property company after hiring a bunch of profit making consultants to manage it all.

The fundamental theory of the firm is that if can you insert enough profit taking intermediaries into any business process it becomes cheaper and more efficient.

Re: If only

Yep worked somewhere once where we had "cost centers"

Using our own IT dept became so expensive that engineers were running their own network cables and managing their own unofficial Linux servers

Then came down a proclamation from on-high "thou shalt not use unapproved system"

So now we had expensive engineers managing a parallel IT system in secret to get any work done,

While the official IT no doubt increased their costs by adding cyber security people to track down their own employees that couldn't afford to use their official services.

If only

There was some way of communicating with workers at a distance, then you wouldn't all need to come together within shouting distance of each other in an expensive building in central London.

What's Greek/Latin for distant communication ?

Tech jocks headed for White House powwow on 'economic matters' (read: Huawei ban)

Re: Outrageous!! How dare they?

Its going to make your phone a lot cheaper.

Instead of Broadcom, ARM, Apple/Google having a monopoly on the important bits - China and S. Korea are going to be forced to build their own version of all the key parts - which you are going to be able to buy from aliexpress for 1/10 the price

Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry

> They may even have applied the brakes gently as a precaution and to alert following traffic

If you did that here you would be stationary.

Would you drive past a bunch of schoolkids pushing each other around on the pavement?

Should the city totally grid lock because someone is walking looking at their phone?

Re: Human error.

Or an app that monitors where you are and flashes a message that you are about to walk under a bus.

They are the size of minivans, the idea is to use them as small rapid transit around a city center = horizontal elevators more than double deckers

Re: Pixel moments

That's the problem with a bunch of the current systems, the authorities are so scared of being the first to cause an accident everything must be set to stop at the first hint of danger.

Re: 9mph!!!

Now hop-on robot sofas cruising the capital's streets is an idea I could get behind.

Except they would be taken over by our cat overlords

Re: Bus v Pedestrian or Pedestrian v Bus

One German city actually fitted pedestrian crossing light sin the edge of the pavement for people looking down at their phones

A hole with spikes would have been better, but it's a start

Re: Physics will still be applied

>if a bus couldnt move for legal reasons unless everyone was belted up bus services would grind to a halt

You aren't thinking like OSHA/HSE.

The solution is to make everyone wear a cash helmet, and fireproof race overalls on a bus - so forcing them to drive a car instead.

Brussels changes its mind AGAIN on .EU domains: Euro citizens in post-Brexit Britain can keep them after all

Re: Domains based on citizenship?

> residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence

Yes that makes sense. Registering europe-tours.eu for my company in London that does tours in the Eu makes equal sense, but demanding that the register-er be a Eu citizen to do it - does not.

Domains are owned by corporations, corporations do not have citizenship they have jurisdictions.

Is it ok if I hire an Irish intern to fill in the form?

Am I ok having doing it myself as long as I have an Irish grandparent ?

Domains based on citizenship?

So they would welcome .com only being available to US citizens?

Or Prime Minister Farage taking away .co.uk from anyone who wasn't judged sufficiently British

UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity

That's fine but how do you prove that the public key belongs to the John smith who owns this bank account or the John smith that we want for murder?

Obvious solution is to only ever identify people from birth by their public key. It is going to make children's birthday cakes a little larger to contain their 'names' and doing the register in school is going to take a while longer.

Hi I'm b8284650440a8e32b5189e1bcb3e94d8 but you can call me d8 ....

Re: Le solution

>Bar codes tattooed on the forehead. You know it's coming...

But that wouldn't work for people with black skin so the home office would have to deport them