Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Amazon to make multiple Lord of the Rings prequel TV series

Re: Running up stairways of falling rocks

Game of Thrones is wildly succesfull

It has swords and dragons

Tolkien has swords and dragons

... therefore ...

Teensy weensy space shuttle flies and lands

Re: How teensie weensie exactly?

The picture in Reg is not actual size? Aww.

Depends how big your monitor is

Brit cops slammed for failing to give answers on digital device data slurpage

Also a convenient way to deal with disruptive elements and other enemies of the state.

Impound all their expensive electronic devices for analysis for the typical 3 years, wait till they buy more, repeat.

It's common over here to use against producers of "artistic images of the female form". The law says the police can inspect the records that show the models are >18. They interpret that to mean take away any computer that might have the records on it and keep for 24-36 months to check them, and of course cameras have computers and memory cards so you take all those as well,

Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger

Re: This is a discussion about sausage rolls

It was going to be bread and fishes - but then they demanded a gluten free vegan alternative

Re: small minds

I see you lot still find Gregg's bashing amusing

- southern media elite

Computing in schools improved, but still needs major patching – report

Re: Same old same old

Because the ones that don't become software engineers will still have to use computers

And so when some future Amber Rudd says - computers will predict future terrorists from ultrasound scans before they are born - people will have some idea that this is bollocks.

Back when we used to teach chemistry and physics we might have had fewer people insisting on buying cleaning products and food made without chemicals.

Alexa, please cause the cops to raid my home

Re: IT happens

An unreliable clock radio is a bit like a chocolate teapot, useless for its primary function.

If the worst that happens for the rising of the machines is that they decide we need the occasional lie-in ....

NASA reconfirms 2019 will see first launch of Space Launch System

Re: It's Apollo 8... minus the people

Yes, but it provides work for ex shuttle contractors!

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/ESDSuppliersMap/index.html#

Every single state - they even have a component supplier in N Dakota

Brit moron tried buying a car bomb on dark web, posted it to his address. Now he's screwed

Re: er...

The Mafia use carbombs, yet nobody accuses them of terrorism.\

Not twice anyway

Look, ma! No hands! Waymo to test true self-driving cars in US with Uber-style hailing app

Re: Red Light?

Obviously - fit guns

Re: The minimum requirements

They should also include an emergency physical handbrake, just in case the software stop button bugged out.

I think the technical phrase is "an anchor"

Re: What's the point of "truley human-free" cars?

At the moment large numbers of Volvos and Subarus have to be driven around to transport Labradors. With self driving technology these animals will be able to visit their favorite parks without needing human chauffeurs

Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops

Re: Hic!

but once it's blessed it turns into blood of zombie - so they wouldn't be drunk

Of course they might overdose and so be surrounded by hoards of walking lame and healed lepers

Jet packs are real – and inventor just broke world speed record in it

Re: seems a tad obsolete

But you need a way of having the traffic cops for drones

Re: Duration?

In flight refueling

US domestic, er, foreign spying bill progresses through Congress

Re: It may already be too late for legislatures to stand up to security agencies

What the fsck could the FBI have on Trump that he doesn't tweet about himself ?

Could be a problem

"war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"

Sounds like a copyright violation - you don't want to mess with the copyright lobby

You know what's coming next: FBI is upset it can't get into Texas church gunman's smartphone

Re: LOL

We now have a lower murder rate than Somalia!

Making America great again

Re: Something must be done

I don't see why you got down-voted for this, since that's _exactly_ the sort of thing that happens in these cases.

It's a special el'reg trick for identifying British readers.

ie. "Like brassy or goldy but made of iron"

Re: FBI can't unlock smartphone

There is presumably a small logical difficulty in preventing violent killers in the military having guns

Re: FBI can't unlock smartphone

But think of all the poor children who died.

Something must be done, and getting a law passed that the FBI can unlock iPhones is the least we can do

Re: The reports so far with some editorial....

Wasn't the vicar armed?

At least back in Belfast you could have been sure a couple of altar boys would be packing Armalites

Re: Why Do They Want That?

But we already know that the shooter was a Muslim Bernie Sanders supporter so who knows what links to an international conspiracy of Muslim Libertarian Vaccinating Climate Changers could be revealed

Where hackers haven't directly influenced polls, they've undermined our faith in democracy

Re: Candidates undermined voting

Nothing ever really changes.

That is demonstrably false.

There are a completely different bunch of ex-Goldman Sachs people running the Whitehouse than if the other lot had got in

Better filters won't cure this: YouTube's kids nightmare

Re: Revenge of the machines

And the problem is restricted to children ?

China-owned Opera touts big comeback

dedicate to the national strategy and economic development

Imagine if our government had a national strategy of economic development

Re: No thanks

It's handy on mobile because it strips all the js crap and their proxy compresses the data - so I only use it to check how late the train is running.

It is possible that the data on train arrival times is being used by the PLA - possibly as a source of random numbers

We're not saying Uncle Sam has lost control on Twitter, but US Embassy in Riyadh just did a shout out for oatmeal

Re: New spin on an old issue

No but typically one is not allowed to buy fbi.gov

More insidious?

I think that promoting another religion is considered quite insidious in Saudi Arabia

Good job it wasn't a picture of prophet brand bacon sandwich

UK Land Registry opens books on corporate owners

How very useful

Oxfordshire - owner Reg Corp 1234 Bermuda

Shropshire - owner Reg Corp 2345 Bermuda

.....

.....

Give us a bloody PIN: MPs grill BBC bosses over subscriber access

how you tie together a database based on house numbering ... and onother with an email address and Pin

You could post the pin to the house number - banks seem to manage it.

Or you could just enter your license number to login to iPlayer. Duplicate "leaked" license get blocked.

Must be half a dozen lines of SQL - so only £200M at typical government IT contract rates

Re: News

Over here on the left pond paramilitary describes any organisation with ranks and uniforms.

We have a paramilitary division (*) that does a paramilitary version of one of our products - for sale to coast guard and marine rescue.

* I always picture them as sitting around in cubicles in black balaclavas and combat jackets.

Google, Twitter gleefully spew Texas shooter fake news into netizens' eyes

Re: Dad's generation

Dad's generation could believe the news.

When the news reported Senator McCarthy saying that there were 3000 communists in the state dept you could believe it because politcians were honest back then and the TV news reported it accurately

If Google are reporting what the top story on Twitter is - is it upto Google to check whether Twitter is right?

Should Google fact check Presidential Tweets before showing them on its site?

Boffins tear into IEEE's tissue-thin anti-hacker chip blueprint crypto

Re: Seriously that sounds like an utterly stupid idea

There is much clever tweakage in the mask layout for modern bugger-me-thats-not-many-nm finfet fabrication. Making a mask clone would give you a roughly feature equivalent GPU clone - whether it would work or not is a different matter. So any customer with half decent incoming inspection would reject you.

Copying an 8um design rule 6502, when tracks were allowed to go round corners is a different matter

How we fooled Google's AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun: MIT bods talk to El Reg

Re: I think I might have AI

Presumably all the other generations that didn't make the mistake will survive to reproduce.

We need to feed more people to partly submerged alligators if we are going to achieve a statistical result

Fat-fingered Level 3 techie reduces internet to level zero: Glitch knocks out connections

Re: WTF Cloud got to do with it?

I use Microsoft's cloud service - I don't have any control over who their backbone is and what the SLAs are. If pre-cloud I had a contract with a specific online service I would likely know where my data was, and who to call when it went wrong.

Instead I find out from el'reg how and why MSFT is fscked - while MSFT's own service page is saying "we are investigating reports of outages"

The cloud

Where the failure of a computer you didn't know existed ruins your day

Where the failure of a supplier to a company that owns a computer you didn't know existed ruins your day

Seldom used 'i' mangled by baffling autocorrect bug in Apple's iOS 11

Re: The most shocking part of this story

No that's just their new out of office reply

No humans allowed: How would a machine-centric data centre look?

Computers will always need people

Until they invent a way of turning themselves off and on again

ATM fees shake-up may push Britain towards cashless society

Re: Link ATM?

Try US petrol pumps.

Insert card,

Do you have an air miles card Y/N ?

Would you like to sign up for an airmiles card Y/N ?

Are you sure, they are very nice Y/N?

Are you really really sure Y/N ?

Do you want a discount Red Bull Y/N

Car Wash Y/N

.

.

Still not as bad as the ones with a screen that start playing daytime-TV at full volume as soon as you lift the nozzle. It's a bit weird to be filling your car and have the pump scream "Hemorrhoids? You should try new xanthitikilax" at you.

I'm feeling better now, just need to have a little lie down.

Paradise Papers were not an inside job, says leaky offshore law firm

Re: Tax avoidance

I'm sure the politicians mentioned in the papers are rushing to draft new laws to stop the sort of thing they have just discovered they are doing

I thought Bono bought Ireland in a bankruptcy sale back in 2008 ?

The old - it must have been a vampire that killed her because there is no evidence of a werewolf - defence

Look out, Pepe: Martha Lane Fox has a plan

Don't websites already do this ?

I thought there was a standard for marking whether internet packets were good or bad ?

RFC 3514 Evil bit in the IPv4 Header

Re: All those acronyms...

If we could just accept the Kinsey scale we could all be numbers instead of acronyms...

If you assigned a real number to amount of maleness and another imaginary one to amount of femaleness then we could all just be a simple point on a complex plane.

With the extra advantage that the rules for multiplication are simple and widely understood

Re: Martha Lane should get a proper job

You facist, you are deliberately excluding PWDWTBL (*) from the list

Post-Brexit economy SAVED: Posh-nosh truffle thrives in Wales

The Welsh desert

annual .... and 107.69mm of precipitation.

Has somebody got a unit wrong ?