Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Hey doc, what's the PC's prognosis? A. Long-term growth below zero

Re: It's always puzzled me.

I think the same thing was said about that new fangled 35mm stuff.

Re: New Hammer

Stanley did design a new hammer. Since nobody uses hammers to knock in nails anymore (they have nail guns) they designed a hammer for all the prying, lifting, nudging, breaking and percussive maintenance tasks that hammers are still used for.

It's been very successful

CIA snoops snooped on Senate to spy spy torture report – report

re:Won't they get into trouble for that?

Yes it just needs a senator and a prosecutor to stand up against an agency that has details of all their secrets and whose job is blackmailing and killing people.

Bitcoin bank Flexcoin pulls plug after cyber-robbers nick $610,000

Re: I believe that a well-implemented cybercurrency would be a good thing...

Since none of the banks 'own' bitcoins it is difficult to have a run on them.

You can only have a run on a bank because it has lent out money you put in, these bitcoin banks are really either exchanges or safe deposit boxes.

Ever get the impression a telesales op was being held prisoner?

Re: But ... but ... but ... jobs

>but only if we stop immigration and EU migrants

Monday Britain stops eu workers from entering Britain

Tuesday France puts a $10,000 fee on each British truck leaving the Chunnel,

Wednesday Germany puts a $10,000 import levy on each car made in Sunderland

Thrusday Britain closes down

>, and we REQUIRE the unemployed to move or commute where the work is.

Good news unemployed yoof in Middlesborough, we have a cleaning job for you in London, it's minimum wage and zero hour contract. You don't mind commuting do you?

US gov claims it spent TOO MUCH on wiretaps – and blames SPRINT

Re: A jury trial huh?

> yet they want to take their chances with a jury?

Remember the government gets to pick the jury.

Plus the government has a list of all the websites each jury member visited and pictures of them naked if they use Yahoo

Microsoft to get in XP users' faces with one last warning

Re: Yes I predict it will be exactly as terrible as Y2K!

Banks mostly dealt with Y2K years before. Sold a 25year mortgage in 1980? Guess when it became due!

Very few avionics systems need to know the date and don't store it as time_t.

> I don't think an ATM, running Windows Embedded (which is not end of support) would be connect to the internet and set to download automatic updates.

And what colour is the sky on your planet?

There are lots of ATMs running off-the-shelf WindowsXP/2000 and most of them are connected to the bank branch LAN which is connected to t'internet. You wouldn't believe how much we saved compared to the old embedded ATMs and all those leased lines.

Cyber battle apparently under way in Russia-Ukraine conflict

Re: so this will be the 550 GCHQ JTRIG'ers doing False Flag?

Except British Intelligence would immediately charge against the wrong web sites, be wiped out but regard it as a glorious historical incident.

Confirmed: New Microsoft strategy boss advised President Clinton, ex-UK PM Blair

Re: Ex Clinton and Blair advisor

Well Oracle actually might have WMDs

But there is no way they could deploy them in 45mins!

Labour calls for BIG OVERHAUL of UK super-snoop powers in 'new digital world'

Re: Okay so this will work like the last election.

Erm... it is the opposition that is proposing this

Re: We need three legal fixes (OK, four)

2, We already do, MI5, National criminal intelligence unit, Special Reconnaissance Unit, Special branch etc etc

Re: I bet most discussions between

Depends which kind of terrorists.

IRA / Al Queda kind of terrorists probably don't use Yahoo chat

Terrorist campaigners against hospital closures, anti-fuel tax, pro/anti badger killing and people who have the temerity to join a union - probably do use webcams

Bill Gates is BACK... as CHIEF RICH human of PLANET EARTH

You don't just give away all the money at once. You use it to build a fund which will support projects well into the future.That's why there is a Carnegie Institute and a Stanford university well after Mr Carnegie and Mr Stanford have gone.

Additionally he doesn't have the money, he has MSFT stock. Imagine if he cashed in all his stock tomorrow - what would happen to the price?

I would give him credit that he is doing something more directly useful than just founding a university in his name. But the foundation is a business, it is going to make some dodgy investments (just like Welcome, Children in Need did) and it needs to be very careful that there aren't any more "links to microsoft" deals

Flying fondleslab causes injury after plane hits turbulence

Re: Could have been worse

No just a heavy fat one that you could never fit into an overhead bin and would crush you flat if it ever landed on you.

It was also a large early portable computer

Re: Typical reg

It was a cheap version of a text-in vote to see how many Apple fans there are !

Typical reg

Attacking Apple, as if it made any difference what OS the fondleslab was using

I blame Apple

It would have never happened with a tablet based on an open source operating system

Anti-snoop Blackphone hits shelves in June: NOW we'll see how much you value privacy

It's made by a major US defence contractor, it's main customers are US govt agencies who want to drop Blackberry.

The strong message it sends is, there are nasty Chinese hackers out there and we have to double the NSA efforts to protect the motherland.

Pakistan's YouTube ban may end after Google removes anti-Muslim vid

Re: Setting precedence

I suspect the case would be overturned on appeal once Hollywood wakes up.

Google had to pull the video after a court ruled that an actress in it had the right to go back on their contract because the video was an anti-Islam rant, not the movie that was described in the pitch.

So any extra in Life Of Brian could claim they thought they were making a christian movie about JC and get Life of Brian pulled. Or an extra in LotR could get it pulled because it didn't exactly follow the book.

Alcatel unveils 'cheaper-than-Chromebook' Lapdock-alike phablet-powered laptop

Re: This sort of makes sense

If it used some sort of standard interface/prototcol.

Otherwise you have bought this and it doesn't work with any other brand phone, or the new replacement Hero phone you get at the end of the 2year deal. And then these devices all end up costing more than a tablet/chromebook/laptop because they are only made in small numbers.

It's like when X-terms or dump cytrix terminals were all the rage - they soon end up costing more than the "full" PCs they were replacing.

IBM to shutter Greenock x86 line after sale to Lenovo - reports

Re: I'm sure it will be ok even if the plant is shut...

There must still be some outstanding rate rebate or inward investment catapult payments.

Normally the plant shuts the moment these finish

Re: I'm sure it will be ok even if the plant is shut...

The council will send a sternly worded letter to IBM.

After all they are local councillors and IBM merely a rate payer - they will show them who is boss.

UK spies on MILLIONS of Yahoo! webcams, ogles sex vids - report

Re: Or

Isn't that treason?

Revealing the secrets of how to get around GCHQ's protection of our liberties will allow the Russians to invade Ukraine without GCHQ knowing anything

Re: "Undesirable nudity"...

Number of people hospitalised because of weight triples in five years. The Guardian, February 20 2013

“Spiralling out of control": Now 1 in 10 kids clinically obese by the time they start primary school. Daily Mirror, February 20 2013

Secret Service probes possible data-leak hack attack at Sears – report

Re: You can't prevent all hacks

And if you blow up all the bridges - there will be no more trolls

RSA booked TV's Stephen Colbert to give the final speech. This is what happened next

Re: Growing like Topsy

So presumably in the 80s, Mujaheddin would sidle upto young Cambridge homosexuals at sherry parties and persuade them to join the cause. These bright young things then rose to the heights of director of the intelligence agencies while keeping their commitment to revolutionary Islam, and their beards, secret.

Rather like the dyslexic Oxbrige don who secretly recruited students to join MFI

Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony

Re: Why all the fear?

>only those thought to be doing something wrong are flagged.

What about when going on a countryside alliance march, a protest about a new road or a school closure gets you flagged?

Or you get flagged because you have the same name as somebody else, and that gets you on a no fly list, or you suddenly can't buy computer parts from Farnell in Australia because another John Smith is on the OFAC list.

Or you work for a company that competes with a US outfit with better connections and you are targetted. Your employer doesn't get the sale because of the confidential info they found on your phone and you are one of those made redundant.

Pork time! £350m in Health Service mail-etcetera cloud deals up for grabs

Re: Gmail

Well it saves GCHQ having to copy it to a USB stick for them and then leave it on a train

Gmail

Wouldn't it be cheaper, easier and more secure to just sign up all the users with a gmail account?

You could use Yahoo then GCHQ would archive all your x-ray images for you aswell

Tough times in the server market, even though more iron moved in '13

An obvious solution

The problem is that the mainframe is doing the same task as it always was ago and the number of records/customers only increases slowly, so faster CPUs * same work = less machines.

Just launch a new mainframe operating system every 18months that uses twice as much CPU as the previous one to give you dancing bankers int he background. The obsolete the earlier one to force everybody to upgrade.

Apple, Symantec, other tech heavies challenge anti-gay legislation

Re: Guess I'll be the bad guy

And yet every shop and petrol station is allowed a "only 2 school children inside" sign

Re: Guess I'll be the bad guy

So that gets into the even sillier rules of who you are/aren't allowed to discriminate against.

In the UK there was a series of rulings on who is a race vs a religion - since races were protected and racial discrimination was illegal, but religious discrimination wasn't. IIRC Jews and Sikhs were classed as races (and so protected) Muslims and Hindus were ruled religions and not.

Ultimately you get into discrimination top-trumps, is a black lesbian allowed to refuse service to a disabled native america? Who wins on points?

Re: Easy

Apple is probably being paid several times the cost of the glass factory in incentives and tax breaks to open it there. As soon as these incentives are paid/expire the factory will be closed anyway

Re: Guess I'll be the bad guy

>"because they're Black/Jewish/Muslim/Christian/disabled/gypsy/Native

So by this logic a Jewish restaurant couldn't turn down a Neo-Nazi group's booking for Hitler birthday party?

US Senator lobbies feds to BAN BITCOIN

Re: Isn't that factually incorrect as well?

i think you are confusing the truth with the beliefs of a US senator

Re: "the currency helps facilitate criminal activity"

Obviously cash should be banned and only traceable credit cards and bank transfers should be allowed - then there would be no criminal activity, would there HSBC?

MtGox boss vows to keep going despite $429m Bitcoin 'theft'

Re: And people still don't think bitcoins are a scam?

A little bit more like the London stock Exchange or Nasdaq going bust and losing the record of who owns all those shares. Could happen and there is no Bank of England guarantee to refund all the shares you, or your pension fund, own.

Bitcoin exchnages are a lot more reliable than modern stock exchanges which frequently have to cancel huge number of trades because somebody's high frequency trading app sold MAX_INT shares of Google for 1p

Australian car-share biz GoGet working on autonomous vehicle

Was suggested, trialed and failed for exactly that reason.

You got black marks for every time over the speed limit, every sudden braking.

The trouble was it didn't know what street you were on, so it let you go 70mph past a school and penalised you if you ever stopped for a yellow light or a kid that ran into the road.

Elon Musk plans GIGAFACTORY to feed his thirsty Tesla motors

Re: Danger Will Robinson

Yes having Yakusa/Panasonic build/operate a plant and Tesla pay for it is a good idea.

Deciding to build your own battery operation from scratch is trickier

Danger Will Robinson

Making batteries is a little more complicated than cars - and a lot less well understood.

A lot of entrenched makers of Lithium batteries are entrenched makers because their product works, you change anything and it stops working, or occasionally burns your new Boeing to the ground.

It's a lot like building a chip fab, it looks like it's all engineering but there is a lot of black magic - it works if we do this but we don't exactly know why.

Dropbox erects sueball shield with new T&C and privacy legalese

Re: question

That's a little different.

that case said you couldn't jurisdiction shop for libel. Where somebody sues an American magazine in Britain because the libel is easier.

Here dropbox are offering a product in the Eu they have to obey Eu rules. I can't make a drug in Liberia, sell it in Britain and claim that if there are any side effects they can't sue me because it meets Liberian safety regs

Wot a COCKUP: Poorly NHS websites spawn SPAMMY VIAGRA ads

Re: To be fair to the HSCIC...

So when it was split up from being a socialist 60s era dinosaur into a number of dynamic independent key performance indicator focused business groups all striving to leverage synergies - wasn't it supposed to get better, more efficient and less prone to cock-ups?

NHS England tells MPs: 'The state isn't doing dastardly things with GP medical records'

Re: Fine then.

The fine is for the company doing the dedupe, so you simply dissolve the company after you have sold the data to yourself.

The fine only applies to companies doing the dedupe if they are under UK jurisdiction, simply run the server in Boratistan and you are safe.

There is no fine for buying/selling/using the data afterwards

China in the grip of a 'NUCLEAR WINTER': Smog threat to crops

Re: Economics Chinese Style

What they need is a proper British leader who will close all those smelly manufacturing industries and allow China to build a profitable and stable economy based on hedge funds.

As a bonus you get all your coal mines closed

Sandisk breaks 128GB barrier with new $199 MICROSD card

Re: Is it just me?

>I just have a problem when a card of twice the capacity has more than twice the cost.

Better than cars. 120MPH Ford Fiesta for 10grand, 240MPH supercar for a million

Microsoft: NSA snooping? Code backdoors? Our hands are clean!

Re: Guru here, I SAID A GURU HERE!!!

Or any foreign company with a US office/subsiduary, or any British company who is subject to a "friendly chat" from the chaps at MI5/GCHQ.