Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Whizzes' lithium-iron-oxide battery 'octuples' capacity on the cheap

Re: Oh look, another one.

The problem isn't even the mass media - they don't pickup these stories.

It's the University publicity dept that crawl the research labs looking for anything that is potentially commercial-able or even just newsworthy.

The announcement has put the university of wherever in the news, to potential students, to alumni, ro donors, to startup investors - with a bit more spin it could be known as "the" place fro battery research.

Even if this research goes nowhere the publicity is probably worth a few $M

Nvidia: Using cheap GeForce, Titan GPUs in servers? Haha, nope!

Re: Unenforceable.

In the USA it probably wouldn't withstand doctrine of first sale. Global Megacorp Supply Inc buys the cards and agrees to the Eula then sells them to Global Megacorp Datacenters Inc who operate the center - but without the clause.

Proposed Brit law to ban b**tards brandishing bots to bulk-buy tickets

Bands / shows want to maximise their profits.

They could advertise tickets for the market price - but it would look bad if hero of the people Bono sold tickets for £2000. So they sell a tiny fraction of the tickets for £50 - and then run their own secondary market

Now that's sticker shock: Sticky labels make image-recog AI go bananas for toasters

Re: Current AI development reminds me of Internet security

If only it was possible to program some sort of artificial brain to perform these set of steps for itself

UK security chief: How 'bout a tax for tech firms that are 'uncooperative' on terror content?

Re: "terror content"

Like Icelandair ?

Is there any evidence that that has ever worked?

Yes for a mere billion quid you can convert a bunch of terrorist supporting religous extremists into a support and trust partner in government

Re: Tax what?

Obviously open source is itself terrorist so has to be banned

Re: Extra tax on pubs...

Extra grants for pubs and bacon sandwich shops - for the sterling work they have done in deterring Islamic extremism among their customers.

SuperFish cram scandal: Lenovo must now ask nicely before stuffing new PCs with crapware

Re: Removing all crapware

Pretty much the standard for any retail machine

Open-source civil war: Olive branch offered in trademark spat... with live grenade attached

"Freedom"

Ironically in the USA any organisation / think-tank with the word 'freedom' in the title is likely to be a pair of jackboots short of a rally.

Oh good, half of Defra's Brexit projects involve IT

Re: How difficult is it really?

So we subsidise conifer plantations so that in the event of war we will have 20years supply of paper pulp - but all our natural gas comes from Russia ?

Re: How difficult is it really?

"There are other reasons to subsidise farming ..."

I'm sure the WTO and all our new trading partners will see it exactly like that

We subsidise UK farmers so they are cheaper than Canadian wheat or US chicken and they simply tack a 50% import duty on Dutchy Original Oat Cakes and Richard Curtis movies - or whatever it is that the UK is goign to export once all the multinationals move out

How difficult is it really?

1, Subsidy payments to farmers stop

2, Computer system to process them is turned off

Surveillance law slip-up in sight for staff stalking citizens on socials

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear. Only criminals need fear these sensible measures.

Vote local council for another glorious decade of total law enforcement

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear

Does that still apply to spiders ?

UK teen dodges jail time for role in DDoSes on Natwest, Amazon and more

You were taken advantage of by those more criminally sophisticated than yourself."

He worked for a bank ?

I thought it was the North Koreans?

I thought everything bad on computers is North Koreans

US senators rail against effort to sneak through creepy mass spying bill

Re: Eject them

Pity there isn't any constitutional amendment about illegal searches

And so if foreigners == citizens

and it's ok to spy on foreigners then it's ok to spy on citizens - QED

Google Chrome ad-blocking to begin in February – but what is it going to block?

Re: Giving the ad industry sleepless nights?

In the words of the prophet

" if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. " (Bill Hicks)

Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich

Re: Hate much?

Why would corporations repatriate money and be taxed on it - even at 15% ?

At the moment Apple can borrow money from Apple (Bermuda) and pay 15 % interest, which it gets a tax write-off on, and then us that to buy back its own shares.

Somehow this will benefit the average American by $4000 / year

Wages

Finally Apple will be able to afford 1.7% rise in salary for its poor workers

Fridge killed my baby? Mag-field radiation from household stuff 'boosts miscarriage risk'

Re: study highlights major issue

It all hangs on getting comparable cohorts that differ only in EMF exposure.

Otherwise it's one of those classic papers comparing air-traffic controllers and Bhuddist monks and concluding that exposure to CRTs causes stress

UK, US govt and pals on WannaCry culprit: It woz the Norks wot done it

Re: So,

What you are doing is a lot like blaming a mugging victim for not knowing karate.

Or blaming a hospital for starting open-heart surgery in the middle of a hurricane knowing that you didn't pay for the backup generator

Irony's lost on old Pope Francis: Pontiff decrees fake news a 'serious sin'

Would be an interesting day in court.

You Mr YHVH are charged that you did copy almost all of your novel from my client Marduk.

I would like to point out that any floods, plagues of locusts or striking down of first born members of the jury will be considered contempt of court.

Sure it's not all faked, some of it is just copied from other people's myths

Re: Is oral sex ok, as long as it is traditional ?

That's what Belfast needs - more choice of religous extremists.

At least an orange-robe march would be colourful

Re: Hah

The big ones have a single man figurehead but make most of their money from property, donations from the poor and creative banking services to certain Sicilian family businesses

Twitter's not dreaming of a white supremacist Xmas: Accounts nuked

Re: Oh, the monsters!

Presumably they have also banned all alt-left, Stalinist/Marxist-Leninist and Maoist groups from the platform? Any anti-Palestinian as well as any anti-Israel. Sinn Fein as well as the UVF. The Saudis and Hezbollah.

And the People's Front of Judea

Engineer named Jason told to re-write the calendar

Re: New calendar..

As you get older birthdays definitely become lesser.

When I was 5 or 6 they were awesome, they were OK in your teens, in your 40s they are meh.....

No cos he swapped both ends and they were still wrong

We had a server named Dylan, intending the others to be named Hendrix, Clapton, etc.

Someone slightly less cultured came in and named the next one Zebedee

Poor NASA sods sent to spend Xmas in Antarctic ahead of satellite launch

It could have been carried there by a penguin.

or two penguins could have it on a line....

Re: Polar bears live in Africa.

But African polar bears are non-migratory

A million UK homes still get crappy broadband speeds, groans Ofcom

Simple solution

Just kill OFCOM and remove all this regulation and this communist neutrality and the internet will be perfect

We need to talk about mathematical backdoors in encryption algorithms

Re: Bank Vault locks - cardboard doors

The problem is that those who hold the high value secrets might know this but their bosses have a timeline of the next prime ministers questions.

Would it be worth risking a backdoor into AES to get some dirt on the EU Brexit negotators? What about on the DUP - that should be worth a £Bn. Or the 11 rebel MPs ?

It is more likely that a deliberate weakness in the algorithm makes it easier ie practical for a nation state to crack rather than just a magic backdoor key that decrypts all the data.

5 reasons why America's Ctrl-Z on net neutrality rules is a GOOD thing

The plan worked...

Pai, the EFF secret agent trained by Stallman in a secret mountain lair under CSAIL, has infiltrated the FCC and introduced a plan forcing all Americans onto VPNs. The net will finally be completely secure and private,

What goes through someone's head when they do that?

I think it's more a case of what went through their bank account

Murdoch's Fox empire is set to become a literal Mickey Mouse outfit

Re: FOX News not included in the deal

Say what you like about Uncle Walt - he was always a firm supporter of socialism.

UK's map maker Ordnance Survey plays with robo roof detector

Re: Duh

Getting computers to extract and measure features smaller than the resolution element, or below the noise floor is what we have been doing with them for 40years. Of course smaller than a pixel AND below the noise floor is trickier but with good data it is easy.

We are currently taking medical images (CT and MRI) with only 1/10 the resolution and processing it to get the same image as the full res scan - but with a fraction of the patient scan time and dose.

Reminder: Vast majority of serfs toiling away as Mechanical Turks for megabucks Amazon earn less than min wage

Re: Another way that Amazon competes unfairly ...

You do know that these aren't Amazon workers? It is an API that lets you farm out simple online click-box tasks to somebody in the 3rd world, amazon just take a cut.

It's like saying your local paper should pay the wages for the jobs it advertisers in the small ads.

Australian central bank says 'speculative mania' and crime fuel Bitcoin

Re: feels more like a speculative mania

No that was the well regulated and prudent high street banks backed by the prudent and well regulated central banks and a prudent chancellor of the exchequer

UK.gov told: Your frantic farming of pupils' data is getting a little creepy

Hopefully with next year's planned upgrades everyone's barcocde will be unique - at the moment you all have to share a single login and record

why on Earth would this supposedly confidential data be shared with anyone

The Guardian asks how many children have been excluded, and how do their statistics match the whole pupil population. Or can schools continue expelling all the below average students the week before the exam and now claim that any evidence of this is top secret?

Shady US sigint base upgrade marred by stolen photograph

Re: Who knows what we're allowed to photograph??

Presumably somebody runs up and down in front of Buckingham Palace shouting "this is secret don't photograph it" then denying that it exists or that it is secret or there is any list of secret places.

Re: Makes me laugh though

A secret base design using images marked secret base.

That's their excuse. They didn't know it was a watermark but assumed the RAF had mown "secretbase" into the grass for the convenience of Russian spy sats