Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Surprise! VAT, customs likely to get a bit trickier in a Brexit no-deal world

Re: Bad for business and probably worse for individuals

Yes but once the deal is finalised (about 11:59pm on the day before Brexit) we will be able to implement a new government IT project to solve all this

Re: Can anyone

I don't really like Turkey, can we do a free-trade deal with Chile and the Sandwich Islands?

Re: Can anyone

>China's stopping taking stuff is certainly a problem that needs to be solved

UK leaves Eu, can renounce all Eu environmental protection rules

UK has a large amount of unproductive land from which it is difficult to commute to London (aka the North)

The same land has a large number of unemployed unskillled workers

The UK is a lot closer to the Eu than China is

I think I see a cunning plan to fund Brexit ......

US Democrats call in Feds: There's something phishy going on with our voter database

Re: "This fake website was spam-vertised using bogus emails"

But what if instead of companyname.sharepoint.com it is companyname.sharepoint-microsoft.com as in some of the Russian sites MSFT shut down ?

If it is an email with a from line of [e-mail] but a sender header of evil-russian-hacker.ru goes to everyone in the company I expect the corporate security to notice.

Ironically Microsoft are the worst at doing this themselves. Authorisation on Office365 can be to x.sharepoint.com, x.outloook.com, x.live.com or outlook.live.com. The site for developers downloading official test ISOs of Microsoft OSes was the spammiest url you could imagine

Re: "This fake website was spam-vertised using bogus emails"

Ever worked in a large organisation - or a government one with layers of local,provincial and federal management? One with outsourced IT?

Where you get emails to update your "team foundation customer management experience portal gateway" password every month because of "security". Of course the link to where to change it changes every month depending on which cloud provider is cheapest.

Where because of a bunch of mergers, depts not talking to each and ancient outsourcing deals you have umpteen different accounts and passwords on different bits to do your job.

And you naively assume that if an email gets through all that corporate security and appears to come from your own IT dept it is their job to look through the headers and detect the real origin - not the job of cathy on reception.

Saying it's the "users job to be careful" is like saying it's the passengers job to check the maintenance logs and type approval on their holiday flight's aircraft =- not the airline's

Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

Re: Height measurement precision

The height problem in GPS is because the satellites are much more similar in height than they are in distance to you.

Measuring the height of this satellite doesn't depend on GPS - it just depends on measuring the orbit time (easy and accurate) and knowing where the planet is and how much it weighs (trickier but we do this)

I'm guessing you can nail this to higher accuracy than the LIDAR system, so they will likely use passes over known flat fixed earth targets to calibrate the laser ranger assuming a known orbit - rather than use the LIDAR to measure the satellites' height.

Re: Missing information

Measuring time interval to 0.1ps is easy, measuring a laser return isn't.

You are assuming you send out a perfect square wave and get back a perfect return. At this range you send out a pulse that is a few of micro-seconds wide and get back a tiny fraction of that energy smeared over the pulse width - you have no idea where (in time) in the outgoing pulse the peak return is. It is further complicated because the same outgoing pulse will reflect off different layers in the target and give multiple return pulses.

Re: Err

Raw return accuracy is 15cm for ice, about 1m on ground and 10m on steep ground.

One of the problems/features is that the measuring spot is quite big on the ground (100m) so you average out small scale variations but end up with low overall elevation accuracy compared to terrestrial LIDAR

UK's info commish is having a howler: Site dies amid 'plagiarised' GDPR book scandal

Re: ALL the regulators are useless...

>stores the REAL number at your local exchange for subsequent investigation and prosecution

Banning international calls or intending ICO to have global reach ?

Of course since calls can also route over satelites we really need the ICO to have some sort of forceful presence not just globally but in space - a space force ......

Brit Railcard buyers face lengthy, unexplained delays. Sound familiar?

Re: Everything is getting worse.

Fortunately after Brexit all this will be fixed as we go back to the good old days,

Old steam trains will be liberated from a museum and pushed through the town to beat the bus service run by that scamp of a South African immigrant.

I think I saw a public information film about it.

(there are a whole series of them, one covers how trade will work in a small isolated market with no rules and another how imported freight will be handled in Scotland)

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

Re: Map and Goegraphic Information sites?

Youtube presumably faces a similar problem.

You could implement a H265-speech converter: "red green,green,blue........ HSYNC, red,red,......"

Apple.com is not a public domain. It is a company owned by its shareholders the OP was making the point that it should be a business decision if it wants to spend money to attract blind customers.

The claim was that it was accessible to Apple's own screen reader - but not competing products.

Microsoft: We busted Russian Fancy Bear disinfo websites

Re: Why

They could probably get the onedrive and sharepoint ones handed over on the basis of MS trade marks. I suspect the others were actually shut down by court orders with MSFT providing the evidence - but that is too complex a distinction for the news

Re: Hard to fight the feeling this is just ...

That's the point. All politicians are crooks, all news is fake, all facts are lies - so just vote for the one that claims to be just like you

How things have changed

Russia is the new Evil Empire rather than Microsoft.

London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

Re: no redundancy in the internet link

But each aircraft would contain a branch of sports direct, 3 bars and a raffle for a sports car - so would never get off the ground anyway

>I love that a cloud service has brought an airport to its knees due to a cabling issue.

And the service being managed by a mobile phone company

Re: It might all be in the cloud...

>But it still needs physical cables!!!

If only vodafone had a way of transmitting data without cables, some sort of cableless network

Public transport here solved the problem by removing "delayed" from the displays.

Services upto an hour late show "on time", after that they just don't show the "on time" label

Re: I like Frankfurt Airport's flipboard display system...

But the advantage of cloud-based is that if you ever had to move Gatwick airport to a new location you wouldn't need to re-locate the server

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

Re: Selling tea to China????

>Dare I ask where Yorkshire Tea get their tea from? PP

From t'tea plantations on t'slopes of t'three peaks

Re: The shape of things to come?

>Is this preparation for when the running of the UK is handed over to AI?

Magic 8 ball - what is our Brexit strategy ?

>Nothing is going to make it less boring.

I don't know, I can think of few things, mostly involving vicious wild animals, that would liven up the room

Re: Hologram you say?

> Pepper's Ghost as a 'hologram'.

So they found a tory minister who has a reflection in a mirror ?

The lib-dems are looking at using a pair of mirrors to make it look like there are more of them.

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

Re: 1 atom switched junction <> 1 atom wide junction.

>means no more than 2cm between any 2 points that have to talk to each other at that speed.

Only in DC, busses are transmission lines.

We 'talk' across oceans at GHz with light that takes 30ms to get to the other side.

Re: Scaling up the manufacturing process.

Unfortunately it only rotates once - unless you put energy into re-magnetise the magnets

Who was it that hacked Apple? Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, boy boy boy!

Re: So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong…

>rather than obsequiously courting my next prospective employer I should graffiti on HQ

If the employer is a bank, and you graffiti inside their vault and you apply for a job as security - I think you would warrant an interview

What happens to your online accounts when you die?

Re: My carefully curated online presence

>The fuss being made about people's 'online presence'?

Imagine if Ansel Adam's photos were all deleted once his Google Pixel account closed, or if Dickens had published in the form of a blog, or the Goon show was a podcast - and all were deleted because the service provider 'owned' them ?

I suppose the solution is for all of us to incorporate and have our steam accounts own by YAAC Ltd

Most staffers expect bosses to snoop on them, say unions

Re: Legal Requirements??

>And over here, in Germany, ....

>Keyloggers would definitely fall in the illegal category.

Insider trading is going to be a dream when all finance moves to Frankfurt

Juno this ain't right! Chinese hackers target Alaska

Tsinghua IP

They used their own network?

Surely they couldn't be that dumb - so it must be a false flag

Unless they thought of that and used their own IP - to convince everyone it was a false flag !

But perhaps that's what they want you to think !

Unless it's all a double bluff?

Google risks mega-fine in EU over location 'stalking'

Re: "I love when I open maps at home, it automatically centres me on a place in wales"

It probably puts you in the location of your ISP's exit point. The site only sees the ISP IP4 address, not your individual NAT endpoint

Rejoice! Thousands more kids flock to computing A-level

Re: Good luck to em

>After furrowing my brow a little at the need to have ICT and computing as 2 seperate subjects,

Same reason that pure maths and book keeping are two different subjects

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

Re: Extraordinary claims—

It needs to be more than just superconducting, "details" like critical current, flux pinning, quench resistance and engineering practicalities of forming it into wires can still make it useless.

That's why HTC has almost no practical applications compared to traditional low temperature metal superconductors

Re: It's dead, Jim, but not as we know it

>Also, quantum computing will never work because you can't turn it off and on again as it's not on or off.

Quantum computer works precisely because everytime you look at it - it turns itself off OR on again

Pouring scorn is precisely why science works. It's like software testing or security audits, going in with an attitude of "they seem like nice chaps, we don't want to cause any trouble" isn't terribly effective at finding flaws

Faxploit: Retro hacking of fax machines can spread malware

Re: Probably not that common

>are never plugged into a phone line to use them as fax machines

Or when you do, because some government dept insists on a fax, you discover that no modern phone system can handle faxes

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices

Re: Hmm 'permanently'...

Presumably they could make the wake word NULL, once it is "woke" it sends everything back to the cloud for recognition

Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing

Re: WinRT?

There aren't many ARM chromebooks left. I tried to get one to replace my original Samsung X5

Now they are pretty much equivalent to all the other 2G Celeron cheap windows 10 home machines

Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking

Re: Rofl

So with MI5 the CIA and NSA and presumably every Eu intelligence agency (except possibly the French) trying to rig the vote for remain and the Russians (and possibly the French) trying to rig it for leave - it was still close.

Does this mean the Russians are 2% better?

Re: Rofl

The lead Brexiter is a foreigner called Boris - what more do you want ?

Why is my cheapo Android red hot and switching off Wi-Fi?

Re: Environmental footprint

But if you buy fancy "designed in california" smartphones they have a policy which says that they buy from middle men who have a home-made certificate that says they only source free range organic Tantalum from mines owned by nice people in the DRC

Re: To think...

> But now the problem is: which model will give you monthly updates?

lineageos.org - no spyware and weekly security updates on 5 years old devices

Combined with a $50 Motorola phone

Especially if you are charging for the HW and the punter is paying for the electric

Google Spectre whizz kicked out of Caesars, blocked from DEF CON over hack 'attack' tweet

Re: Bah!

Probably not going to show up on Google search anymore when he gets back to the office on Monday

Phased out: IT architect plugs hole in clean-freak admin's wiring design

Re: Never trust the back of an envelope

>Trust...but verify!

Never Trust....

Re: "NEVER assume the architect knows best!"

Cough - Berlin airport - cough

Re: Reminds me of a time...

>. the problem turned out to be the "4 gang" adaptor was plugged into itself....

Of course if you can make it work you are in the money

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

Re: They need a lesson in grammar too.

Nouning verbs is worse - we have the learnings to take from that

Re: Obviously a printer installation error.

Hey for a 6year old in a N Korean outsourced sweatshop it isn't bad