Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

She's just a Cosmic Girl but UK.gov is dangling £20m to have Beardy Branson's 747 launch satellites from Cornwall

Does anyone really believe that the project will succeed and actually create those jobs after spending an amount equal to Spacex's tea money?

BT to axe 90% of its UK real estate, retain circa 30 sites

Re: Exchanges?

That's round 2.

The senior management have identified that offering telecom services is terribly expensive and means you need to buy equipment and employ expensive people who know what they are doing.

Instead BT2.0 will concentrate on their core competency of charging you without the legacy baggage of running phone lines

Tech lobbyists turn on Trump over Mexican tariffs, then quickly try to smooth the waters

> How about paying US workers a fair wage (funded by agricultural subsidies)

Why not just collectivise the farms Tovarishch ?

Re: China and IP

>The problem is that unless you are Chinese a patent cannot be filed by non-Chinese.

That is not true

>Generally, most countries do recognize patents from other countries. The Chinese do not.

Generally countries do not "recognise" other countries patents - except in special cases such as Eu wide single filings. You file in every country you want protection from anyone making OR selling copies. Certainly some countries make it easier or harder for you with respect to translation and local agents.

However the real problem with China is enforcement, rather like say Huawei going up against a US company in front of a East Texas jury. Try suing a Chinese government owned national champion in a Chinese court.

Re: Trump is not right, he's useless

>Ford and Chrysler and General Motors will all have to pay the tax

Not necessarily, he could exempt them from the tariff - for national security reasons - and only require say BMW, MB, VW to pay it

Re: Trump is right

>That suggests that enough businesses have shifted to Mexico to materially influence US policy.

No that suggests that a percentage of potential Trump voters in swing states believe it.

Remember this is an election campaign not a foreign policy

Re: China and IP

Just because Trump says it doesn't automatically make it wrong.

China has knocked-off equipment for years, from factories running an extra shift for themselves to deliberate offensive hacks.

But the way to deal with this is concerted effort with the WTO and with your allies, not to first attack all your friends and then randomly target competitors for personal political gain

Re: Trump is right

But most food imports from Mexico are fruit and vegetables, the sort of food eaten by hippy communist democrats. If these are blocked the country will eventually only be populated by burger eating patriots.

Re: Trump is right

Thank you dear patriotic American, please report to your local farm at 4:00am to pick freedom vegetables for less than minimum wage.

Devs slam Microsoft for injecting tech-support scam ads into their Windows Store apps

Re: "Avoid Redmond..."

I understand some chaps in Cupertino make a jolly nice fruity computer

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Re: Wondering

Just remember to have this shadow profile follow the great leader.

Of course that means you can't visit once the great leader is deposed and the new great leader takes over.

IEEE says it may have gone about things the wrong Huawei, lifts ban after US govt clearance

Re: This has all gotten Huawei out of hand

But shouldn't you also ban Motorola, Lenovo and supermicro? What about any Chinese made chips in Dell, Apple, Cisco etc?

Re: Security concerns?

>The finding of several lines of server mainboards with camouflaged spy chips embedded

The alleged findings on a stock price 'news' site with no evidence of any chips ever being found. And this applied to a range of chinese MB makers but not Huawei

> But don't do it just because the IEEE says they are "A-OK with us"!

The IEEE didn't say they were A-OK it just said you were allowed to talk to scientist who their employees.

Remember an outfit that tried to build an atom bomb without using any "Jewish science"? How did that work out for them ?

You go that way, we'll go Huawei: China Computer Federation kicks back at IEEE in tit-for-tat spat

Re: Redacted from Muller repoet

Conclusion: The Onion interfered with the US election because they believed Trump would be the best candidate to saterise.

Re: Yay more standards

There's only four three things we do better than anyone else:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery

Re: Yay more standards

Don't they write a lot of things in Latin?

Ok so it's a legacy language but at least the environment is stable you don't need to rewrite everything in the latest fashionable slang every millennia

Re: Yay more standards

Thinking of a nation that is likely to be around for the long run, doesn't respond to political pressure at home or abroad and never changes it's policies whatever the public demand

Should the Vatican by the new home for both ICANN and the IEEE ?

Planes, fails and automobiles: Overseas callout saved by gentle thrust of server CD tray

With 5G would it be possible to podcast the entire singles chart to millions of cars at the same time on saturday morning ?

I just got a nearly newer car and it has a USB socket on the dash, if you put MP3s on this you can play them through the radio (my previous car had a cassette player)

I pointed out this cool new technology to the millennial PFYs at work who claimed it was so retro - having actual physical music

Useful product idea, a USB connected servo powered arm with a flag.

It can be set to wave to identify the server or send any particular fault condition with semaphore

Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp?

Re: S.H.A.G.-13

>If it takes more than 3 minutes I'll want my money back.

Remember the turbo button ?

Re: Dabsy, not just you

Art is anything made by an artist that sells

We ain't afraid of no 'ghost user': Infosec world tells GCHQ to GTFO over privacy-busting proposals

Re: Food Standards Agency...!?

Plus any tabloid journalists they meet in the pub.

Gaze in awe at the first ever movie of a solar eclipse from recording long thought lost forever

Re: Request from Mrs Tim Foil-Hat

It's fake, the moon doesn't really exist that's why they had to fake the landings in a studio.

For this shot the Victorians had to launch a giant disk into space to block the sun

Re: Really great stuff

>I was surprised to find so many Nevil Maskelynes listed in Wikipedia and indeed to find more than one magician among them.

That would explain how he did the vanishing trick

Truth, Justice, and the American Huawei: Chinese tech giant tries to convince US court ban is unconstitutional

Re: Tariff cash cow

You have to admit that whatever AI is secretly controlling him is brilliant.

Getting millions of poor people to pay extra taxes on their dollar store crap to fund a $Tn in tax cuts for billionaire hedge fund managers and then have them thank you for being a great patriot for doing it

Re: China the bully...

Funnily enough that's exactly what Britain said about America a century ago

Re: Deepest pockets?

This is possibly what Huawei are banking on. If the ban is for reasons of national security then it has to extend to all Chinese companies, so police/fire/paramedics are going to have a lot of Motorola radios to replace and a lot of federal offices are going to be forced to dump a lot of Lenovo PCs

Wen the $tn bill and years to replace all this public service kit comes in - there will be a lot of political pressure to drop the ban.

Re: They put a tariff on Canadian steel as a security threat

But then they put a tariff on all foreign steel from allies - so could "reasonably" claim that they were doing this to support domestic makers in case they needed steel for tanks

If they had put a steel tariff only on Mercedes because Trump thought that his voter base hated Germans, then it might be a little trickier to defend in court.

So only Huawei is a Chinese spy ?

Motorola and Lenovo are as American as when they were American?

If this is a national security ban then it applies to all Chinese phone makers, not just ones that Trump thinks have funny spelling.

Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

Re: Freedom gas needs big ships

Or the hyper capitalist real estate tycoon whose money all came from his father's receipt of government housing grants and is now borrowing money to pay farmers - funny old world

Re: Also...

It was only fast food - it wasn't like they renamed their royal family

Don't worry they will all be dead from measles, sorry "freedom spots"

Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works

Re: why not?

>you get into politics in Bavaria

Are they banning beer halls to prevent extremists?

Re: Das Boot?

We all assumed that this was what "amanfromMars" is doing

Re: Mystified; how will they force it?

>How will the Germans force it?

They won't and that's the problem.

If they actually tried it widely everyone would see how ridiculous it was.

Instead it will be saved for those special cases, such as where a journalist is embarrasing a politician, and then they can be threatened with ludicrous sentence anti-terrorist law unless they cooperate.

Re: More madness

"asdgljhn125098efg;kljn2445698regthsd8756q24t8dsf6h9sdgjdfsgj78sg4s"

I think that might actually be the German word for a one time pad !

Re: Mystified; how will they force it?

Just require citizens to use Enigma machines for secret communications and then ask the Brits for the plaintext ?

Re: why not?

Unfortunately German politicians are only normally stupid, not totally Turnbull

It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes

Re: "...by pulling access to Play Store..."

Most users in China already use other app stores, if those were offered globally on all hardware and they charged developers less than the 30% Google takes.

Google could block competing app stores, cue class action lawsuits in the USA and eye-watering Eu fines.

Re: How much money is flowing in the markets that saw the sharpest drop?

You will borrow money to buy the latest phone and then eat out because there is a deal on McFastCrappyBurgerKing

Re: Marketing

>If you're concerned enough that the U.S. and U.K. have backdoored phones, you should at least give thought.... China

I would prefer China to having my phone backdoored than the UK/USA.

I don't live in China, I don't intend going there and I don't give a damn about their politicians

However I don't want the bloke next door that works for the police canteen to be able to look up all my browsing history at lunchtime for fun. Or the local council to be able to get all my emails if I complain about potholes.

Or if the Orange one ever leaves and I go back to the USA on holiday - I don't want the guy behind the desk to refuse my entry because of my visits to the Onion website or because he doesn't like my Netflix viewing history.

Interesting to see if the ban extends to other Chinese companies.

Apple and Dell are going to get a bunch of orders if suddenly Motorola and Lenovo and Supermicro are also banned

Re: No Google? That's tempting.

You can do a phone that is Google free, install lineageos and skip GApps, load apps with Fdroid.

The problem comes when some app, like our local transit tap-to-pay, needs Google maps - then you have to install the whole Google services bundle.

Marketing

So I can buy the one phone that I'm sure the US/UK government don't have backdoors to?

With an open source OS and alternatives to the Google spyware?

And it has the same premium hardware as Apple/Samsung but costs half as much

And all this is the gift of the US government - isn't capitalism wonderful

Stay frosty: Google to fork out another €600m on bit barns in Finland

Re: €1.4bn in a town of 20,000

Except you are buying the servers from Google-Bahamas for €1bn so there is a big tax break for all that R&D expenditure

Coverage concerns dog UK Emergency Services Network as boss admits scheme too ambitious

Re: What do you call a duck in a microwave.

All you have to do is implement it without putting up any masts or letting those evil radiations near anyone's school

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

Re: I didn't even have to do it myself.

>and he was still holding the axe, so I just nodded and got to work swapping the router.

Always best response to an idiot with an axe