Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Furious gunwoman opens fire at YouTube HQ, three people shot

Re: Of all places

However the strictest gun laws just mean the seller has to say 'no massacres please' while handing over an AR15 and 20 magazines

Law's changed, now cough up: Uncle Sam serves Microsoft fresh warrant for Irish emails

It can expect its laws to apply to all corporations registered in its jurisdiction.

If foreign laws prevent you complying then you don't do business in those countries.

This law simply says that MSFT now can't legally work in EU, in the same way it can't operate in cuba, N Korea, Iran etc

Re: "They should have called it the : Amuricah World Police F*ck Yeah ! Act..."

Not just if you want your data secure.

Don't deal with American companies if you don't want your users to sue you and your directors to go to jail

Re: Cloud Act ?

Or the "American companies all banned from operating in Europe" act

One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools

Re: To paraphrase Mark Twain...

Bill S actually - henry VI pt 2

Citrix opens its third cloud region, this time in Australia

Oops

So Microsoft achieve special oz super secret squirrel status on the day the US issues its "all your (data)bases are belong to US" act?

Doomed Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 crashes into watery Pacific grave

Re: re. The radar picture

The picture is from the German Fraunhofer institute.

Yes, Emergency Service Network will be late and cost more - UK perm sec

Re: Bodes well for NI border

What if NI was renamed "Ireland" and Eire was renamed "Great Ireland" then everybody would be happy

IIRC from a previous el'reg story - one of the 'features' that was was currently unsolved was 'use with a vehicle' which seems like a pretty major feature fro a police/fire/ambulance system

Re: we're all going to die!

eventually ...

Re: Bodes well for NI border

Personally I think replacing all the signs near the border with Welsh and hoping everybody in NI is too confused to find it - is an innovative and agile solution.

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

Re: That's Yorkshire fucked then

Except that Scunthorpe is in Lincolnshire.

Wait till t'anschluss

Privacy activists to UK plod: Wanna slurp folks' phone records? Come back with a warrant

Re: Section 20

what other legislation is lurking and being used nefariously?

OOh, OOh I know this one.

How about Henry VIII orders to allow the PM to pass any law they like without bothering with parliament?

Seriously

"Cops should need a search warrant to slurp information from peoples' phones"

SHOULD? Why is this even a question?

Fatal driverless crash: Radar-maker says Uber disabled safety systems

Re: Human-To-Vehicle communications

The answer is to fit not just bicycles, but all persons with human-to-vehicle CIWS

Phalanx is nice but I don't think you can beat goalkeeper for pure ludicrous mode overkill

Re: "Self driving cars can only only react"

but you would have damn well swerved in order to avoid taking the life of another human being.

If it was a Volvo driver an the human being was on two wheels?

NASA stalls $8bn James Webb Space Telescope again – this time to 2020

Re: Long, Not all that pretty, History

Adaptive optics is already a winner over this, the mirror is far too small to compete with ground based AO or interferometry - but that's not its role.

It will do some IR windows that you can't do from the ground but you can do a lot from the ground and its not clear that in a free choice you wouldn't rather spend the $10Bn on 5-10x VLTs or ALMAs or SKAs

IBMers in TSS: How WILL we support customers after these latest job cuts?

A cunning plan

Reduce service quality - so customers stay away

Reducing demand for services - so saving more money

Repeat

Skip-wrecked! Boat full o' rubbish scuppered in Brit residential street

Re: Entertainment with boats

AKA the most expensive thing to buy is a cheap/free boat

Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win

Re: Follows old adage...

Inclined to agree - except that it would allow the rich teams to build a different car optimised for each circuit, or (cough 1980s Renault) a car which would only last one race.

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

Re: The Swiss are in it

A vote is a statement of your will and intent.

Not in the UK it isn't

The majority of seats are safe, your vote only counts in a few marginal constituencies. When people vote in a by-election they do so to give the government of the day a kicking. Knowing that it will have no effect.

This was the mother of all by-elections and for most, the only chance of a real democratic vote in their lifetime.

Re: Train has not left the station

There are also uncomfortable questions unanswered about who will control the switch for denying the various capabilities

The USA, that was the agreement for their promising not to simply jam it or shoot it down.

So the Europeans will be refunding what we’ve paid so far?

If we refund the amount that was paid for work done in the UK.

These projects are all pork-barrel, you pay X% you get (X-bit)% of the work, small countries get the %bit.

Overall it costs a lot more because some system that makes up 50% of the budget has to be built by 5 different 10% partners, small parts are normally just duplicated.

Re: "Hopefully not a sign of things to come for the UK space industry"

Well it is clear to me that the EU wants to take over European Defence from NATO.

Given their unwillingness to spend any budget on defence, unwillingness to co-operate with the UK or USA and a process that allows a parish council in Walloonia to veto any decision - pass the popcorn

FCC boss to block 'national security risk' companies (cough, Huawei, ZTE) from US's $8.5bn broadband pot

The point being that the Eu, Japan, Korea can now ban US kit for exactly the same - and the US can hardly complain to the WTO

This time, it's personals: Craigslist dumps lonely-hearts section, blames anti-trafficking laws

Re: This'll backfire

will achieve what, exactly?

Get you an approval rating from the US equivalent of Mumsnet / Daily Mail / WI when you run for re-election.

Allow you to brand your political opponents as promoters of child sex trafficking

Provide the first step to banning anonymous comments, then anonymous use of the internet

Re: I wonder

She's always 2.7 miles away,

She's stalking you

Re: I wonder

Sure you dont mean child sex trafficking narco terrorists?

Illegal Immigrant cyber muslim North Korean ones?

Re: I wonder

Has this law been thought through?

Yes very carefully. How can anyone object to laws fighting sex-trafficking?

That's why we also need to ban anonymous email addresses, and VPNs and free wifi - because of terrorism sex-trafficking

Huawei wins patent injunction against Samsung in China

No Detroit is where they used to make cars without paying Dr Benz using steel made without paying Mr Bessemer

Re: Chinese courts are capable of making reasonable decisions

Better than foreign firms fare in S. Korea again Samsung

Corking story: Idiotic smart wine bottle idea falls over, passes out

Re: Should have done it with beer instead ...

You've heard of pico-brew?

The internet-linked wifi-enabled block-chained breadmaker for beer, yours for a mere $$$$$$

Re: To be fair...

huge collection of tat they bought then never use

Which if you can persuade them to keep buying, or a sell a subscription, is the basis of a lot of healthy businesses.

Re: My solution

I think it would be frowned upon, even in California, to include a bottle of wine in your kid's packed lunch.

UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good?

Re: I suspect

So if software isn't a good, and the trade agreements only covers goods, and your country was about to start relying on WTO rules on export of goods - your software industry might be getting a little worried

Re: So....

Especially since theft is "to permanently deprive the owner" which is why the need for "taking without owners consent" offences

2 + 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3... Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers' in scientific simulations

Re: Probably fine for scientific computing

Rocket dynamics - not fine.

Depends on the trade off.

Would like you to use a mainframe with duplicate processors checking each result - but only enough power to model your combustion chamber with 1m^3 cells

Or a bunch of cheap GPUs where you can do 1mm^3 but some small percentage of those cells have incorrect values?

Classic report I once got back from our supercomputer center. "The cray detected an uncorrected memory fault during your run. Please check your results" . If I could check the results manually why would I need the fsckign Cray?

Probably fine for scientific computing

In the real world there aren't exact answers and very questions involving integers

If the errors are small and/or rare enough - that's fine.

Out experiments give bad results all the time - we understand that, it's the whole point of experimental physics.

Leaning tower of NASA receives last big arm

Mobile launcher

Would be ideal for carrying the SLS from its new factory in Pennsylvania, where it will bring vital jobs to a depressed coal region, via West Kentucky (see above) and eventually to Florida *

(*) final launch from Florida will be dependent on how they vote in future elections

Telegram still won't hand over crypto keys it says it does not store

Re: Can you stop repeating Boris shite

"Polonium-210 is just yet another agricultural poison"

Only way to get rid of moles ...

Leading by example: UK.gov's secure server setup is patchy at best

Re: Bumpkins

Wait till they get electricity - then they will become vulnerable.

If they ever get a phone line

Trump blocks use of Venezuelan Petro cryptocoins in the US

Re: An opportunity here

There are enough Cuban refugees in Florida to be worth pandering to.

You don't mean the US would put mere party political concerns ahead of a sober rational appreciation of strategic global security?

I didn't expect to find such cynicism on the register.

Re: An opportunity here

I'm not quite clear about how either of these countries is an existential military threat to the USA.

Then how do you explain the US obsession with Cuba for the last 50years?

An opportunity here

for Venezuela and Cuba (the remaining existential military threats to the USA) to launch a series of increasingly bizarrely named crypto currencies so that the Trump has to stand up ad ban them.

"Today I am calling on congress to ban the Cuban "flobbilly donkey dick" and introduce legislation prohibiting trade in Cuban flobbilly donkey dicks. Vote yes on the flobbilly donkey dick act and make America Great Again

We need to talk, Brit Parliamentary committee tells Mark Zuckerberg

Re: About time

Can't we send a gunboat?

UK's London Gatwick Airport boasts of driverless vehicle trial

So what's the point of the trial? We've had toys smarter than that for many years.

Because these vehicles would be electrically powered from a conductor buried in a slot under the yellow line.

The real breakthrough is the giant robot hand to put them back in the slot when they take a corner too fast.

1 in 5 Michigan state staffers fail phishing test but that's OK apparently

Re: about right -- Monthly Phishing Exercises

Wet ware is the hard part of InfoSec. It just is.

You have to consider phishing delivered by personal communication aswell.

That's why we introduced "simon says" to confirm an instruction is genuine

People think it's stressful being an air traffic controller - but these little games make it fun

Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian

Re: YAAC offered, "UK official stopping distance at 30mph is 23m"

The biggest risk for a small child isn't impact but getting caught under and dragged, which can be fatal at any speed.

Hence the universal switch to massive SUVs and pickup trucks outside schools that a small child can walk under. They are just thinking of the children