Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Scrap London cops' 'racially biased' gang database – campaigners

And a jail bird sir

"I know he's a jail-bird, Savage, he's down in the cells now! We're holding him on a charge of 'Possession of curly black hair and thick lips."'

Re: Aspiring

Simple political solution. Have a separate black ghetto police force purely for the black ghetto, have its chiefs chosen by the leaders of the gangs and have the gang leaders carefully control which gangs this police force targets.

Works for the city of London police - you never hear of any financial crime in London

I think the previous AC is claiming that this $(ethnic) bias is because all the crimes are committed by $(ethnic)

Australian prisoner-tracking system brought down by 3PAR defects

Cruel and unusual punishment

Make the prisoners work at HPE

My PC is on fire! Can you back it up really, really fast?

Re: How to get folks out of the office

You need to refresh your fire procedures.

In case of fire, access the emergency response portal of the intranet web site

Logon and read the fire procedure appropriate to your dept and clerical grade

Click to state that you have read the fire procedure and so completed your fire procedure training

Click to say that you accept that you have been fully trained and any death due to fire is entirely your own fault

Head for the fire escapes (do not grab your coat)

Re: How to get folks out of the office

At CERN (before they got the fancy biometrics) there was a mine tag system at the lift down to the tunnel.

What are the brass tags for asked a visitor ?

So that if there is a fire (in an underground narrow concrete tunnel full of nasty stuff) they know how many people the memorial is to.

worked fine aside from losing the ability to have a refresh rate over 120 Hz

That's because you didn't spill RedBull on it !

"What should we do if the printer is smoking?"

grep dmesg for "lp0 on fire" to confirm printer is actually on fire

Re: Prohibited from using extinguisher

By the same argument how do the Sussex Fire Brigade know its safe for them to attend the fire until AWE and Porton Down have confirmed that it isn't a nuclear, biological or chemical attack?

They shouldn't deal with any waste paper bin fire until it has been confirmed that it isn't a hidden thermonuclear warhead

IT systems still in limbo as UK.gov departments await Brexit policy – MPs

Re: Who smashed up the house?

Good luck with you lot getting those jobs filled next year.

Same as the Gulf states, we allow large construction companies to bring in unlimited numbers of cheap Indian/ Bangladeshi workers to do the job, live on site, be paid a pittance, and shipped home at the end of the job. Obviously to make it profitable we will have to relax health and safety and workers rights a little - but that's why we voted to be free from euro-justice meddling.

The British people will love it - Auf Weidersehen Pet meets Bridge on the River Kwai

LLVM contributor hits breakpoint, quits citing inclusivity intolerance

Re: The only valid form of positive discrimination

Providing extra teaching support is one thing.

Requiring that your school admits people by quota of colour is another.

Demanding that the exam results match that quota is problematic.

Re: Hey!

Persecute the heretic....

Kill the unbeliever ...

And fscking emacs users.

And those who use tabs in python code, they are first up against the wall

Blighty: If EU won't let us play at Galileo, we're going home and taking encryption tech with us

Rumour has it that GPS actually works quite well over the north pole, for some reason.

But only for one night in the year when they launch an extra sleigh.

One of the justifications for Galileo was improved coverage in the North, but since it is only 1degree further north than GPS (56 instead of 55) it is still pretty useless. EGNOS (the Eu version of WAAS) is still geostationary so not good above about 70deg.

The real reason Galileo is any use at all, and the reason Norway are involved, is that they are installing a set of ground based augmentation in the arctic - but these could be made to work equaly well with GPS

If it was confined to the British Isles there is no need for it to be a satellite navigation system.

Your phone can already navigate from the location of nearby Wifi transmitters.

I propose a national network of Wifi hotspots, constructed in metal boxes about the size of a server rack, but made of cast iron and painted red. These could be fitted with some sort of non-mobile phone handset so you could make calls.

Re: NAVIC

NAVIC is geostationary - it only works if your country is near the equator.

Once Britain leaves Europe we could move it to another continent, but if it is too near the equator the British people might become sun tanned and that would annoy the Daily Mail.

Re: Fucking Brexit

The Ukraine, Morocco, Norway & Switzerland are involved with Galileo so why should the UK be excluded ?

The Eu isn't proposing that the UK isn't involved - just that it doesn't have access to the encrypted military channel if it isn't part of the Eu security apparatus.

The countries listed are supplying money or components (like the UK) but also don't have access to the encrypted signal.

Really it's all political willy-waving. The Galileo encrypted military channel doesn't offer any better accuracy than GPS in home territory where you can install ground based augmentation systems.

if dev == woman then dont_be(asshole): Stack Overflow tries again to be more friendly to non-male non-pasty coders

Re: It's not gender or colour

Been to Expertsexchange recently?

Yes and I'm much happier with my new body than when I went to Amateursexchange

Re: Whiners too busy whining

Gaurdian C++ interview Q: Whats the difference between shared_ptr and unique_ptr?

Improvise a role play about how they can overcome their differences and live together in a mutually supportive society

Re: "whether we’re a site for 'experts' or for anyone who codes"

Most of the help vampire questions I close seem to point to a lot of schools in the Indian sub-continent selecting C++ for the first intro-to-programming class.

Re: Might the very thing that makes it so successful

In most cases* there is one recommended way and style of doing things

That's the typical techno-chauvinist answer that permeates eg. physics.stackexchange and math.stackexchange and makes them particularly unwelcoming to questioners who have their own perfectly self-actualised theories of the universe.

Re: Might the very thing that makes it so successful

Perhaps they could have most upvoted answer AND most empathised with answer ?

Techies! Britain's defence secretary wants you – for cyber-sniping at Russia

Well what kind of naval cyber warfare leader could you be with an eyepatch and only one arm ?

Re: Journos and info wars

You cannot play this game without appropriate defenses.

....So what do we do instead?

Introduce laws to secretly track cellphones and website visits of 60M UK citizens and use the results to track school applications.

Dedicate undercover police officers to infiltrating families of victims of police killings to get some dirt on them.

Re: Journos and info wars

it was better to try to stop an arms race rather than ratchet it up

But this is one where the UK has a vast advantage.

The UK relies a fragile infrastructure with security cobbled together by the lowest PPI bidder, a government totally free of STEM minds and a plea for anyone technical to volunteer for a sort of digital dad's army to defend it

While on the other side you have China, N. Korea and Russia (and if we are honest S. Korea, Japan, Israel and the USA)

Re: Journos

Wipers times

DRAM makers sued (yet again) for 'fixing prices' (yet again) of chips

Re: Artificially restricting supply to jack up prices

It's not just DRAM makers, Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rolls Royce and the one that I can't spell. All of these have artificially kept prices high by not building the same number of cars as Volkswagon or Toyota

AI boffins rebel against closed-access academic journal that wants to have its cake and eat it

Re: Blood suckers

Unfortunately this doesn't create any profit, so it won't ever happen

If only there were some public funded bodies that already employed the researchers who write, edit and review the papers?

Perhaps these universities and learned societies could go back to publishing their own journals - like they used to before the publishers convinced them that running their own presses was too difficult

Mannequin Skywalker takes high ground on Bezos-backed rocket

Re: Yawn

it's a glorified carnival ride for suicidal rich kids. Besos is just filling a niche

nicheditch

Re: Mind Boggles

One will drop a note on you saying, "we tried to nuke you but you were out - please collect your bombing from a depot 20mi away open only between 2:00am and 2:15am on the 3rd thursday in Lent"

US citizen sues France over France-dot-com brouhaha

Re: Reasonable

So following the Oracle CEOs next lunch with Trump - we know which Indonesian island the US is going to seize.

Re: What are you going to do, bleed on me?

I was going to say that http://cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys.com was available - but it's taken !

Javid's in, Rudd's out: UK Home Sec quits over immigration targets scandal

Re: Rudd: You've been played

John Major

Lackey of all Lackeys, the Lackey to which lesser Lackeys aspire.

Making John Major PM was just trolling the writers of Yes Minister

Re: "I don't know what they put in it but it seems to turn every entrant into an illiberal,

authoritarian Home Secretary in short order."

It turned Gerald Kaufman into a fascist. Blunket always wanted to be Beria - it would be entertaining to elect a Green party home secretary just to see what happens.

Re: Rudd: You've been played

the only reason that May backed 'Remain' was so that she could poison the campaign from the inside

The only reason she (claimed to have) voted remain was that her boss was for remain and with the assumption that remain would win, any cabinet minister that voted against it would have to start their own party to get back into government

Re: Diversity in action ...

Oh well, got to be better than Rudd.

Give him 6months and he will be invading Yorkshire

Double double, soil and trouble, fire burn and heat shield bubble: NASA cracks rover, has dirty talk with ESA

Re: get those rocks back to our home world.

Tintin managed a tail landing reusable rocket so it must be possible. "Explorers on the Moon"

The moon is easy, no atmosphere = use all the rocket power you want.

Landing on Mars is a pain, enough atmosphere that retro rockets stir up a lot of dust but not enough to slow you down.

Re: I think I heard this one before....

The chances of getting stuff to Mars isn't looking much better

Re: No news here ...

It has to fly into space. Making every part 700% stronger, and heavier, than it needs to be isn't really an option

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, oi oi oi! Tech zillionaire Ray's backdoor crypto for the Feds is Clipper chip v2

Re: obligated

At least it wasn't obligatorized

Re: 'assume a lock nobody can break,'

is who does everyone trust to hold such a key?

Hardly matters when the lock is made in a fab owned by the Chinese army

Re: "the next step will be to make non-possession of phones a crime..."

What was worse was that the Government Dept of Starbucks (GDS) that invented it, only tested it with their latest flagship phones. Unemployed and not using iPhone X - tough.

Re: "pushing the problem backwards"

Remember that physical access to the phone would also be required,

Version 1 - but then the FBI need access to all the messages of a suspected political opponent terrorist who is out there somewhere - so we need access to the online data of all citizens suspects

IBM turnover shrinks $28bn in 6 years but execs laugh all the way to the bank

The RFQ only specified a crust - it didn't say anything about the base. A base could be implemented in a future stage for a mere aditional $Bn

"Were are 130,000 people just up and going to find new jobs ?"

Delivering hot food?

Can you imagine if IBM delivered pizza?

Delivered 3 years late, costs $1M/slice and the only flavor is pineapple and anchovie

James Webb Space Telescope + luck = long distance astrofun

Re: Avoid using Musk!

it needs to fly on a rocket that is depressingly free from inovation and change,

Don't worry it's flying on one that blew up on its maiden flight

Windrush immigration papers scandal is a big fat GDPR fail for UK.gov

Re: When I was a kid

I doubt if any of my family could have *proven* they had the right to be there to the standard now being asked.

They probably could - it's a very simple paper based test.

If your skin is the same colour as a piece of paper you are ok