Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

GE goes with Apple: Not the Transformation you were looking for, Satya?

Such as? Worth investigating, as that's an area we haven't looked at yet.

Solidworks, CATIA, whatever-ProE-is-called-today, Arcgis - the sort of things a General Engineering company might need

Is this only for MS-Office only jobs?

There isn't a lot of support for engineering software on mac.

If this only works for Powerpoint+Word+Outlook users then just give them a Chromebook and Office365

Didn't install a safety-critical driverless car patch? Bye, insurance!

Re: Safety-critical updates?

Logical conclusion - as soon as manufacturer is aware of a flaw that will require a safety-critical patch..

This is exactly the current system with aircraft.

The manufacturer can order immediate grounding until the fix is applied, or it must be applied within n days or at the next service interval - depending on the severity.

If there is a recall on your current car it doesn't mean you need to be constantly on the NTSB's webstie and screech to a halt as soon as a safety notice is published.

Like Uber, for socialism: Chinese leader calls for more use of AI, big data and sharing economy

Re: State capitalism, not socialism

Capitalism is where the roads, police, fire, military, environmental protection and child education are the province of government.

Communism is where the roads, police, fire, military, environmental protection, child education and health care are the province of government.

Banning fake news?

Who does he think he is? A democratically elected leader of a free country or something?

You can yacht be serious: Larry might be planning his own version of America’s Cup

Re: Oooh, clever..

It's called the Americas cup - why are these foreign boats allowed to compete?

First annual review of Privacy Shield gives it a resounding... 'adequate'

Re: So,

But when they make the ombudsperson's job permanent then he/she will have total power over the US intelligence agencies

Watchdog slams HMRC, Amazon over 'dismal' response to UK biz hurt by online VAT fraud

Re: Simplify taxes and make fair

My nice country house in Oxfordshire? Oh it's in the green belt so it's a farm, so I don't pay tax. And I get 400K back in tax-rebates for the trees out back. Your flat in London? Oh we added 8K to the rent to cover the 6k in land tax that the "landlord not the tenant pays".

Brit intel fingers Iran for brute-force attacks on UK.gov email accounts

Well if we have the backdoor key then the nasty foreigners obviously don't have it and so we are safe.

It's eastasia - we have always been at war with eastaisa

Please replace the sword, says owner of now-hollow stone

Re: I prefer the more mundane explanation ...

This is in wales. Have they reached the iron age yet ?

One historian's description of anglo-saxon warriors, based on the things they were buried with = psychopathic peacocks.

Re: If he really doesn't want it to go walkabout...

The bugger who can push a sword INTO a stone - he's the one you need to watch out for

No, the FCC can't shut down TV stations just because Donald Trump is mad at the news

He's right

You can't use the FCC to shut down political opponents - that's what the IRS is for

Neutron stars shower gold on universe in big bang, felt on Earth as 100-second grav wave

Re: Get it right.

And a few seconds after that they detected a phone call saying "have you been injured in a neutron star collision that wasn't your fault? you may be entitled to compensation"

Supreme Court to rule on whether US has right to data stored overseas

If the US won't extradite terrorists over-enthusiastic users of N. Irish cultural weapons, I can't see them handing over a sysadmin obeying a US warrant

A US court could order the parent to order the Irish subsidiary to take certain actions.

What if the US parent has direct technical access?

Can the US court order a US sysadmin in the USA to access the servers in Ireland in contravention of Eu law? The US employee wouldn't be breaking any US law if they complied but might be breaking US law if they refused.

Equifax's malvertising scare, Chromebook TPM RSA key panic, Cuban embassy sonic weapon heard at last – and more

Re: SMPS

But this is Cuba, a global technology superpower that has held the USA in terror for more than 50years. They are hardly likely to have crappy 3rd world florescent lights

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

Re: How is it different

Obviously, drones shouldn't be anywhere within a mile of an airport in the first place.

Here they are banned within 5km of an "airport".

But the definition includes the harbour because seaplanes use it and any hospital or office building with a helipad on the roof.

So they are banned from downtown, the entire occupied area of the city, the agricultural land zone, the mountains, the ski resorts and the bulk load terminal stockpiles.

Meanwhile traffic news, commuter and rich-yacht owner helicopters buzz the city all day

Beware the GDPR 'no win, no fee ambulance chasers' – experts

Re: Sweet!

I put that all complaints have to be filed at our office in Mordor

Re: Dwarves???

Who cares how you spell it, bunch of B'zugda-hiara !

Dear America, you can't steal a personality: GDPR godfather talks privacy with El Reg

Re: Actual result

It's easy enough to make it so that the data has to be collected to make it work.

If I choose to make my home assistant collect all your audio and process it in the cloud and have small print telling you that I do this - then I'm compliant.

The law doesn't say that I HAVE TO re-engineer the device to only transmit after a keyword, or to process the audio locally.

Actual result

Checkbox added to EULA saying "can use all my data" before you can install the product

Politiian is happy - they have "saved the consumer"

Manufactuer is happy - it gets the data anyway

Laywer is happy - fees for the small print meant they could get the AMG upgrade

Even the intern who implemented the extra tick box is happy

The same way that the Eu protected us from cookies

Beardy Branson chucks cash at His Muskiness' Hyperloop idea

Virgin has been known for disruption

Truth in marketing !

Top of the radio charts: Jodrell Bank goes for UNESCO World Heritage status

Re: what is Unesco?

... and the BBC won't be able to film Doctor Who at Jodrell Bank ?

Isn't Doctor Who a world heritage site ?

Re: UNESCO World Heritage (minus USA)

USA 'heritage' ?

Harold: What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?

Capita goes to Jon Lewis for CEO

And if he doesn't work out

They can at least take him back and get a refund instead of having to pay a multi-million golden parachute

Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs

Dear editor

I would like to point out that Euclid was european and following our glorious Brexit we no longer are forced to abide by some foreign elements.

We invented the game and can make the ball any shape we please.

Your etc

Col Mustache (retd)

BAE confirms it is slashing 2,000 jobs

Re: Calling Mr Kim!

That's why we need a civil war.

You can hold it at home, so no worries about the range of the Eurofighter, you get to sell the same weapons to both sides so double the profits and whatever happens the country wins.

And it's still less destructive than Brexit

1,000 jobs on the line at BAE Systems' Lancashire plants – reports

Re: How to solve Brexit.

What the fuck has this got to do with Brexit?

Because we can sell the planes to the new East-India company for use in re-taking India

Re: The unfortunate thing about this

Remember BAe is basically an American company.

It relies on its partnerships with American aerospace to get the plum contracts. Mostly its job IS to get the MOD to buy Lockheed/Boeing etc so that it can get a part of those Lockheed/Boeing sales in the US

Re: Funny...

But the deal for developed countries buying aircraft is that you build them in some marginal consituency in their country. So the Netherlands will buy Typhoons to replace F16s if you build some bit of them there.

Blade Runner 2049 review: Scott's vision versus Villeneuve's skill

Re: Against the law of nature...

You mean the original 1980s remake of the original 1950s movie?

Re: Pan Am Logo

It's "the curse of BladeRunner" - all the companies featured in the original have since gone bust

US Senate stamps the gas pedal on law to flood America's streets with self-driving cars

Re: A dangerous hands-off approach to hands-free driving

US is the country is big and people travel long distances by car.

Which should make their fatalities lower.

Driving long distances on freeways is very safe compared to suburban/city commuting.

A Houston/LA commute of an hour on a 12 lane freeway should be much safer / mile than the school run in London or Paris

Re: A dangerous hands-off approach to hands-free driving

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Dropped from about 45,000 to 35,000 over the last 10years. Mostly multi-stage airbags which can save you if you are too "free" to wear a seat belt

White House plan to nuke social security numbers is backed by Equifax's ex-top boss

Re: Once Upon a Time

You also had to be white, male and belong to the same church and country club as the local bank manager to get a mortgage.

You also had to pay the costs associated with all this personal attention, which is why only white male breadwinners were worthwhile as bank customers

Web uni says it will get you a tech job or your money back. So our man Kieren signed up...

I forsee the return of the eternal september

Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

Hollywood has savaged enough sci-fi classics – let's hope Dick would dig Blade Runner 2049

Re: Here Is The News

androids DO dream of electric sheep?

With GPUs and map-reduce you can count all the sheep at the same time so it doesn't help

Re: Call me grumpy...

You have $300 to make a movie and then you have to spend on marketing.

How much is the marketing budget to sell "Hotel du Lac" to a market of Indonesian teenagers vs "Iron Man 11" ?

Re: Hollywood being moribund

Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) would make a great TV series too.

Drum roll: Amazon is making a Snow Crash TV show

Better than the string of "Alien 7 - Muppet babies go on spring break" sequels

Re: Hollywood being moribund

Except in a few years you will be able to do Lord of The Rings CGI battles on your laptop.

So a TV miniseries of Banks/Simmons/Brin type novel becomes more possible every year

Amazon told to repay €250m in 'unfair state aid' from Luxembourg

Re: Just out of interest...

Luxemburg government - which will in a small way change their GDP and so eventually their Eu payment/rebate

NetApp scraps first day of Insight conf talks at Mandalay Bay after terrorist guns down 58

Re: Terrorist?

You can bet the headlines would be "terrorist" if he had been a little more tanned.

Guns would never have prevented either of these attacks

But stinger missiles would.

If the band's security team had the ability to blow up the 32floor of the hotel they could have responded.

Terrorist?

But his name sounds so white !