Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Japan on track to start testing Alfa-X, fastest train in the world with top speed of 400kph

Re: Well....

Have you thought of voting for independence, then you will immediately get trains as good as Japan.

- all you have to do is paint your wishes on the side of a replacement bus service.

Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?

I thought marketings' job was to keep a cupboard full of company logo t-shirts for:

a, engineers who think a holey Medadeath t-shirt is business casual (in case of visitors)

b, people who bike in and don't want to carry clean clothes

Amazon agrees to stop selling toxic jewelry, school supplies to kids, coughs up some couch change ($700,000)

Re: If I were a betting man...

If mixed thoroughly yes

Re: If I were a betting man...

>And if "they" are THAT concerned about Hg, why is it still used on FILLINGS IN YOUR TEETH???

>Hypocrisy, much??

No chemistry.

Mercury bound into an amalgam in filings is just about perfectly safe, even raw metalic mercury isn't too bad if you don't heat it up and breath in the fumes. Mercury bonded to a bunch of organic compounds where it can be absorbed into the body = extremely toxic.

Sodium Chloride on your chips = no problem.

Liquid sodium metal poured over you or chlorine gas pumped into your house = worth worrying about.

What's that? Uber isn't actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

Re: Efficient Market

The question wasn't whether robo cars will kill more cyclists than are currently murdered by taxi drivers drivers - it was why Uber's share price didn't do the crazy unicorn 100% rise on day 1.

Re: @Kevin McMurtrie - Doesn't work but it was free

>Bring your scooter into Canada, mate,

Robo-moose ?

Efficient Market

Logically the company should IPO at exactly what the market thinks it is worth and so it should trade at exactly that price.

The wild first day 100% rises in IPO were an example of either gross stupidity or being forced to give 20% of the company to the banks underwriting the IPO who withhold liquidity and then immediately sold to bigger fools

With smarter pre-IPO investors, the threat of a direct listing, founders keeping bigger stakes, limits on employees cashing out - you should expect saner IPOs

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

Re: Well...

But I came here for an argument !

Who pwns the watchmen? Maybe Russians selling the source code for three US antivirus vendors

Isn't this good news?

Wouldn't good security products publish source code for widespread inspection and audit ?

You're not still writing Android apps in Oracle's Java, are you? Google tut-tuts at dev conf

Re: maybe that Java lawsuit wasn’t so great after all, huh?

> The Supremes kick that dumbass copyrightable API ruling into the cesspool

I was hoping that they would reinforce it.

Then Oracle get a call from IBM's nazgul about a little thing called S Q and L

P-p-p-pick up a Pengwin: Windows Subsystem for Linux boffins talk version 2

Re: Hypervisor wars

Yep way less than WSL-1 which sort of made sense, te NT kernel was supposed to support multiple user space APIs - making Linux one of them. This is just hidden virtualbox.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils 'Blue Moon' lander, making it way too easy for manchild Elon Musk to take the piss

Re: Blue moon...

Stay off the moor ...

Re: Musk just hates it when someone else gets attention

Blue origin hasn't so far managed to get to orbit. They rely on claiming "spaceflight" to mean going upto 100km and falling back down . Hoping that rich passengers don't know the difference and idiot investors don't see how much harder it is

Home Office cops an earful for emergency network feck-ups - £3bn overbudget and 3 years late

The NAO are obviously a total waste of money, they produce reports on every government project showing that it was a massive clusterfsck and yet nothing changes - just get rid of them.

>But if you gave £1bn to pay for a room of 1000 engineers, £2bn to do it, and the timescales given,

But they couldn't produce £3bn profit - whereas quoting £3bn and then collecting an extra £3bn in overruns will

Re: Shambolic

But power failures are rare, incidents requiring fire brigade are rare, incidents requiring ambulances are rare - so the chance of there being an incident involving a power cut AND fire AND ambulances AND police is microscopic.

The odds of this incident also involving large crowds of civilians with mobile phones is obviously impossibly low

Perhaps new masts could be mounted on large red cast-iron boxes on each street corner ?

In the claws of a vulture: Nebra AnyBeam Laser Projector

Re: "...a pure electrostatic biaxial raster scanning mirror."

Yes but a spinning mirror isn't the expensive part of a lidar

If you only want to scan in a single plane, wheels are really good - and mostly patent free

Spending watchdog: UK.gov must say who will prop up Verify from March 2020. C'mon, you've had six months!

Re: Clusterfuck * 2

1, Universal credit users need access to Verify to get paid

2, Turn off Verify

3, Profit

Login with Amazon

They could make it part of Amazon Prime - at no cost to the government

Airbnb host thrown in the clink after guest finds hidden camera inside Wi-Fi router

Re: MOT

>It's the drivers responsability to ensure the vehicle is legal before they set of on each and every journey.

Checked the software in your car's engine management system recently - to make sure it isn't reporting optimistic values in EPA tests ?

Age verification biz claims no-payment model for 40% of Brits ahead of July pr0n ban

Re: What's that sound I hear?

>I wonder how long that will remain free when it has to start coping with the volumes of video streaming...

It doesn't necessarily have to.

The url to sexy-anne-widecombe.com goes through the VPN but the video download from akamia can go direct to the user. Unless the UK's Gret British Firewall is intending to block all CDNs or do AI video inspection on all video streams to decide how naughty they are.

Put a stop to these damn robocalls! Dozens of US state attorneys general fire rocket up FCC's ass

Re: AT&T

It's difficult for ATT to block scam calls when their business depends on the fees from scam calls. It's like asking the post office to do something about junk mail

Re: No change

>The thing is they provide the data connection on mobile devices.

For now. With 5G/wimax/etc and satellite swarms you might be getting your internet direct from Facebook/Google.

The result will probably make us nostalgic for the customer service ethos of ATT/BT

Re: No change

Upto the point that people stop answering ANY calls and just use slack/whatsapp/iMessage or whatever it is the cool kids use these days.

Then it won't matter how much the phone companies make off scam calls because there won't be any phone companies

Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right?

Re: Evading traditional content filters

>, invent a computer that can't be compromised by clicking on a link!

Like the special iPads we give management with the two trackwheels that can be only be erased by shaking them?

Tractors, not phones, will (maybe) get America a right-to-repair law at this rate: Bernie slams 'truly insane' situation

It's not necessarily just about the cost.

You are a farmer in the midwest, you need to harvest a crop this week (before it rains/snows/price drops)

Your local dealer (a day's drive away) can't be there until next week to reset the hours limit error code on the air filter or is waiting 4-6 weeks for a part without which your tractor shuts itself down.

The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows

Device drivers

Is the device driver interface emulated or are these native Linux drivers?

How does it manage having WSL2 kernel and WNT kernel running eg. the same graphics device at the same time?

Re: MS SOP: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

In full paranoid mode ?

1, Azure only supports special-microsoft-version-Linux

2, Somehow Azure becomes the leading cloud platform (don't laugh...)

3 ....a miracle occurs

4, Cloud computing is now Windows-Linux only

I suspect Microsoft have now separated their plan for world domination from worship of the NT kernel. If adopting Linux is necessary to crush Amazon/IBM/Oracle then they will be prepared to hug penguins - doesn't mean that have suddenly become FOSS fans

UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

Re: Time to get a Theresa May face mask

Not sure how highly regarded Ms May is among the police.

I suspect wearing a Theresa May mask may involve a few "accidental" shootings

Re: 100% false positives"

Isn't that ideal?

The facial recognition says you are the villain with a 100% certainty of the match being false - that proves you are innocent !

Cool story, brew: Utah karaoke crooners receive cold, refreshing shock as alcohol authority refuses beer licence

Re: me no understand

But God v1.0 gets a bit annoyed at anybody using his name, and obviously has some serious anger management issues

So nobody mention Yahweh ,.... shit ...

Re: me no understand

> the Church of Mormon is a pretty close ripoff of Islam.

They ban coffee - no Arab would do that

Re: me no understand

Although why a technicality should be needed to get a round a ban which should be unconstitutional is another question.

The USA isn't a theocracy - G*d shouldn't be a factor in licensing laws.

Re: me no understand

No it couldn't get a bar license because it was too close to the God botherers.

God is so powerless that he needs the state liquor board to protect himself from booze

Or the church thinks people will accidentally go to the bar instead

Hey, those warrantless smartphone searches at the US border? Unconstitutional, yeah? Civil-rights warriors ask court to settle this

But many of these people

Aren't even victims of crimes, so why are their phones being downloaded ?

Apple, Samsung feel the pain as smartphone market slumps to lowest shipments in 5 YEARS

Re: Xiaomi is missing a bet, I think

The global versions work on US/Canada LTE bands at least

I suspect the USA isn't really worth it, by the time you have bribed the networks and resellers to carry your phone then bribed the politicians not to ban you - there are more profitable markets in Asia.

Re: Just one question

>When older devices still work so well and can run most of the apps available there is less incentive to upgrade

Time to add a few more noop loops to the next forced OS upgrade

Woke up on Wednesday, expecting a SpaceX launch? Surprise! It got postponed

Re: but have the Americans got any unused Soyuz credits left?

You would think that by now they would have enough frequent flyer miles

They don't have Amazon prime?

Huawei, Huawei. Huawei, Huawei. Feeling hot, hot, hot: US threatens to cut UK from intel sharing over Chinese tech giant

Re: BIOT

>Who exactly has the most to lose here?

Ironically America's farmers.

Sanctions against Chinese kit are a tax on US exporters to China which goes toward subsidising Huawei's Taiwanese competitors

Re: Not Ireland

I don't think the the US special security relationship with the UK is based on the size of its navy - so much as its willingness to roll over and do whatever its masters in Washington demand

I'm sure Ireland could learn to adopt a similarly compliant attitude.

The US will just relocate to Ireland - replace one tin pot little client state with another

Daddy, are we there yet? How Mrs Gates got Bill to drive the kids to school

Surprised that either of them take their kids to school.

I live on the edge of a "good school district" in startup land.

A colleagues kids had their friends over - one of the friends announced that the nanny had crashed the Range Rover again

Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names

Re: ICONN

You can always move to .eu

Re: Protection Racket

>increasingly competitive market.

Competitive between all the competing companies to run the .com registry ?

Ok Google, please ignore this free tax filing code so we can keep on screwing America

Re: Amazing (in a bad way)

>that's not free market, that's milking the serfs

That's what serfs are for

Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G

Re: 700 MHz is supposedly the best

>If lower is better, why not move all the way to 60Hz?

Twitter over morse is possibly an improvement

Jocasta? Jocasta! Don't ram that trolley into the man: New tech promises an end to this scenario

So some sort of autonomous drone capable of identifying the little crotch-goblins and applying a slipper would be the solution ?

A sort of Kindergarden Terminator ?