Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Leftover Synaptics debugger puts a keylogger on HP laptops

Good job Synaptics are American

Or they would now be banned from US government machines

Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?

Re: If you think that is stupid

about inducing a mild hypnotic state .....I found the first few I watched mildly interesting

Anyone know the code word that will cause all these millions of youtube viewers to kill the president ?

FCC backtracks on helping with neutrality fraud investigation

Re: Anyone else? BB? BB?

There's no content in the above that is not mere bile

I'm just worried that the AIs have become sentient and instead of trying to wipe us out they have decided to troll instead.

YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven

Re: They might consider

Whats the cut off?

Playing football on a sunday fills a lot of emergency rooms

Sking?

Skydiving?

Cycling in London?

Road racing motorbikes in Northern Ireland?

Racing rocket powered cars to make a TV program ?

Difference between putting thin layers with the outside exposed to the air and building up slowly and putting your hands into a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff.

The same way it is trivial to pour a 2 inch thick concrete base for a garden path, trickier to cast a dam wall.

Cost-hurling IBM seeks more volunteers for employment bonfire

This is the main reason why I will not purchase anything made by IBM.

No need - the government does it for you. It isn't remotely profitable for IBM to work with customers who are real businesses and demand real results with real penalty clauses. Much better to only deal with governments where the more you fail, the more you get paid to fix it.

Re: Form letter

Ironically that's the actual letter they get because they downsized the last person that knew how to do mail merge

Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires

Re: "Cut the red wire..."

You might wish to have a safe method of disarming the bomb in case your own aircraft has to land again without using it

Re: Those were the days, when a computer was really engineering

tipped over the forklift attempting to put them in the scrap metal skip.

Remove disk A ( using a forklift ) and insert Disk B

Re: Poor service guy

I think a disk seek sought out your fingers, then sorted 'em

But it must have taken forever to update the JVM

Re: Recycle platters from modern hard disks

The field is very narrow and on the surface of the exposed face, the other side of the field is mostly within the metal. It means you have a very uniform field contained between the pair of plates

You don't want a field spilling out over the platters for obvious reasons.

Re: "In WWII the bomb disposal squads never got a do-over when they made that mistake."

>"Cut the red wire..."

>"Now is a bad time to admit that I'm colour-blind..."

You really have to worry if the enemy guy assembling the bomb was colour blind

Rogue PIs found guilty of illegally snagging personal financial info

Re: shocked, shocked!

Or sufficient incentive to make sure that your branch office in Panama deals with this data next time.

The point of using PIs is deniability, they report to your offshore office who creates the report that you read on their remote machine

It's a decade since DevOps became a 'thing' – and people still don't know what it means

Re: Yawn...

I thought dev ops meant developing and testing on the production servers ?

European Commission intervenes in Microsoft Irish data centre spat

"by undertaking acts entirely within the United States"

So hunting Canadians is OK so long as you fire across the border?

Apple looks forward to wiping $47bn off its overseas profit tax bill – thanks to US shakeup

So US citizens (or at least the poor ones) are going to face austerity and cuts to fund the massive deficit, so that Apple can do a share buy back and drive up the values of the pensions and investments of us foreigners?

Three cheers for our dear left pondian cousins , hip hip ....

No, BMW, petrol-engined cars don't 'give back to the environment'

Re: Seeing as it's a BMW,...

And they save the weight of a hybrid system by never braking

It does give back to the environment

It liberates Carbon that has been trapped underground for millions of years and recycles it into a vital food source for plants and trees

Investigatory Powers Act: You're not being paranoid. UK.gov really is watching you

Re: Eat their own dog food

I'm betting that there are 7 MPs that the exemption doesn't apply to

Re: The cynic in me says it's academic ...

or example, a blood stained glove. ... something that the judge can rule on and the jury make their minds up on.

Assuming they are told that the analysis of the DNA match was contracted out to a private lab and the lab was told that their contract renewal was based on how many successful prosecutions were obtained.

Re: If you want to know how much are you watched

Or just txt clash lyrics to a fellow band member

Tech giants at war: Google pulls plug on YouTube in Amazon kit

Re: More of a loss for Google

Because whoever owns the home spy box owns the consumer

This is a war between Amazon Echo and Google Home, Apple aren't even on the horizon

Lap-slabtop-mobes with Snapdragon Arm CPUs running Windows 10: We had a quick gander

Emulation ?

If you can only run MSFT store approved apps you can easily restrict that to .Net

If the app is running .Net bytecode does that really need an emulator or is it just a different .Net runtime for the CLI?

Adding a keyboard to a phone isn't quite the same as adding 4G mobile data to a laptop

Hyperloop founder goes on immediate leave following sexual assault 'smear campaign'

Re: Do you guy's actually read what you write?

Innocent until proven to have links with Uber

La La La, I can't hear you: FCC responds to net neut concerns

Re: Regulation?

if the federal government wants any respect from people, they need to earn it.

"Elections have consequences"

ie. they don't and they won't

An IPO ?

If you simply float the FCC and FTC then the free market can decide - without having to pay all these lobbyists.

Report: Underwater net cables are prime targets for terrorists and Russia

But once we "take back control" of the Med and Suez ....

Re: old news

If you want to protect cables - ban idiots from owning JCBs !

Re: Ar**

Don't need to - you can drag a trawl across the path of a cable, eventually you will cut it

Brit bank Barclays' Kaspersky Lab diss: It's cyber balkanisation, hiss infosec bods

Re: WTF?

Downloading cracks for illegal copies of MS-Office in this case

Re: ARPANet survivability wasn't the initial goal.

The concept of packet switched routing was invented by the GPO for this reason and then later used by Arpnet.

Re: "Definite no no"

And the virus companies get to discover new viruses how ?

In fact if I "discover" a new virus on my computer I should own the rights to that code base and all derived cell lines.

Did you unwittingly support the destruction of net neutrality rules?

Re: Strange pattern

Listening to an old Mock the Week sketch: suddenly President Schwarzenegger doesn't sound like "the worst thing you can hear form the Whitehouse

Re: Strange pattern

If you're going to cry 'false flag', why stop at one level?

That's what Hilary said to the Belgian Illuminati when they arranged to put up a joke Republican candidate to ensure her landslide

Re: Strange pattern

Or the ones wanting to keep net neutrality generated millions of obviously fake messages in support of Pai so that they could claim the entire process was rigged.

UK government bans all Russian anti-virus software from Secret-rated systems

Re: AV - Can we really trust any of them?

Why would you need AV on a system processing secret data ?

Surely if the system can possibly get a virus you have a bigger problem than the origins of the anti-virus software?

Re: I guess NOFORN doesn't apply anymore?

I wonder if this extends to foreign operating systems running on foreign CPUs wioth foreign secret remote management engines

Drone collisions with airliners may not be fatal, US study suggests

Re: What goes up...

But fortunately the clouds of drones seems to block all the laser pointers that were crashing 100s of plane crashes in the imagination of the Daily Mail last year

Re: How can this be?

A bit of metal sucked into an engine at take-off can destroy a concorde

No litter bins should be allowed within 5km of any airport / helipad / hospital

What do Tensor Flow, Caffe and Torch have in common? Open CVEs

Re: Dependable mistakes rise again

Is it a mistake?

OpenCV is an image processing package. It works well on tiny hardware, or doing intensive tasks on big hardware. Do I really want its speed halved to protect every call from malicous arguments and buffer overflows?

If you are a public internet facing services at a bank then you want security to be the main priority, but if you are an AI research project inside a private server I want a library to be fast and efficient. In the same way that I want my travel laptop to be light and fast, not to be waterproof, radiation hardened, explosive atmosphere safe and rated for Ptarmigan security

Russia threatens to set up its 'own internet' with China, India and pals – let's take a closer look

Re: Gedankenexperiment

The real chaos could occur when they start offering the service to other countries.

The US isn't going to hand over .ru to somebody else, but it might hand over .yemen or .qatar to say Saudi Arabia. They did this with Iraq's TLD and US politicians have been calling for the govt to take over Libya and Syria

So the Russians offer alternate DNS for .ly which conflicts with the other .ly and your ISP has two choices for which cute-millenium-name .ly social web app to send you to. Both with official https certs

Microsoft to rebuild Redmond campus, including cricket pitch

Re: A Cricket pitch?

Pity it wasn't Blamer - I wonder what a chair-putt track looks like

Oops: LinkedIn country subdomains SSL cert just expired

Does this mean that linkedin could be hijacked into some spam slinging / identify theft/ scam operation?

Or could the expired certificates simply be safely snapped up by crooks

Want a new HDMI cable? No? Bad luck. You'll need one for HDMI 2.1

Re: how many people buy the new cable before...

Because the cable difference between 5e and 6 is negligible - what makes it a certified cat6 installation is the quality of the connections . So unless you followed all the cat6 guidelines for connection length, cable routing and plugs/sockets - you have cat 5e anyway (if you're lucky)

Re: I'll wait

contacts? Wire wrap cables and boards only please

Re: Desire...

The new special edition Blade runner on 8K is an improvement.

Deckard shoots first and then it's 90minutes of CGI spaceships exploding, they removed all the robots and their wordy speeches.

Re: the convenience of getting quickly where you need it instead of waiting.

Ha. I was in a PC World earlier in the week with about £100+ of stuff. .... Checkout person was trying to find a till/card reader that worked.

So when the IBM salesman told them that they needed a £100 Monster gold-plated directional ethernet cable to connect the POS, they should have listened