Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks

Re: What could go wrong.....?

You are applying logic to a political decision

Juicero does to its staff what your hands can do to its overpriced juice sacks

Re: YouTube teardown

Do not click - I just wasted 3 hours watching his videos ......

Physicists send supersonic shock waves rippling through a lab

Re: not to be pedantic, but..

It only applies in a cloud where you can have a shock wave - so think of it as very very low pressure atmosphere.

In the same way that the speed of sound drops at altitude the example has shocks in space with speeds near the speed of light but only mach 4.

UK spookhaus GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption, claims Australian A-G

so gravity will be easy-peasy

How else does Australia cling on to the bottom of the globe ?

Australian encryption is easily crcked

Shorten everything to the first couple of syllables and put an 'o' at the end

Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts

Re: This is what happens ...

It's what happens when you teach that "critical thinking" can be billed at $200/hr

Re: if cost == 0 then panic

>What happens if a photo is set up so that a ball is released at a random time

That has already been covered lots of times, it is the photographer that setup the shot.

The interesting part of this case is that monkey picked up the camera and framed the shot itself.

>Probably the monkey in question saw its face in the LCD view finder and kept pressing the protruding trigger which made a funny noise.

I think this describes most of snapchat/facebook/the internet

Uncle Sam says 'nyet' to Kaspersky amid fresh claims of Russian ties

Re: Only in Russia

They should.

If I were say Airbus, I would be criminally negligent if I had data on a US server or on a US controlled platform when my US competitors were a major strategic asset to the US government

Re: "whom do you trust?"

>if you regularly handle public data/trade secrets

Even more so, my competitors are far more likely to be American than Russian.

Logically I should only be using N Korean software - since I know they aren't bidding against me.

Only in Russia

Good job there is no evidence of US companies assisting the NSA otherwise foreign governments might have to ban Microsoft/Google/Intel/etc

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

UK Sales?

With a multi-year waiting list in the US and a bunch of competitors to prempt in Europe why would they bother with the right hand drive conversion, setup a maintenance network and worry about next year's trade deals to sell in an isolated little island market ?

Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal

Re: I don't see a problem.

But my open source browser renders the image to my open source graphics driver on my open source hardware - how does the DRM stop me saving a copy of all those bits ?

The only way is for websites to only work with approved signed browsers on approved signed OSes with approved signed drivers

Re: I don't see a problem.

You can't have an open source implementation of a DRM'ed browser without it leaking the content.

So once all sites implement DRM for their content the only permitted browser will be IE, Safari and a new Google propriety chrome

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

>Things aren't helped by the fact that the entire 127.0.0.0/8 range is reserved for loopback.

Don't tell anybody - I sold 127.xxx.xxx.xxx for $10/address to Radioshack

BOFH: That's right. Turn it off. Turn it on

Re: "There are no problems, only users."

If you are sufficiently BOFH then, ultimately, there are no users

Re: Reminds me of an energy management company I used to work for

At CERN it is known as a [REDACTED] switch after a once young physicist who is now a very senior boss.

"An input, generally a multi-turn vernier dial pot, not connected to anything which allows a senior physicist the feeling that they are doing something to adjust the experiment without the risk that they will actually change anything important"

McAfee settles McAfee lawsuit over McAfee name

So is he planning a run for president ?

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

Re: Crazy ideas?

They called Galileo crazy, they called Einstein crazy, but they also called Bozo the clown crazy

European MPs push for right to repair rules

>Can't remember the last time I had an LED die in a product

Wish more would. Why do manufacturers feel the need to put megawatt blue LEDs in everything that you are going to use at home?

I had to go around my bedroom putting black electrical tape over everything so I can sleep

Get the Canuck out: Vancouver vows Airbnb, Expedia crackdown

But last year it was all the fault of Chinese investors and the solution was (surprise) an extra tax on foreign buyers.

This year it's AirBnb

Next year we will be blaming the .....

Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer

Re: Hmm

So you aren't even allowed to use them for real?

Bit pointless continuing to test them then isn't it

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

I thought pointing and laughing at idiots was the alternative to staying sane?

Schools teaching kids to be gay would be the best way of reducing general gayness.

Years of trying to teach me times-tables left no impression - and this was using nuns with rulers.

Re: And ther rest...

So only women can wear earings? You reactionary fascist oppressor !!!

Re: Good luck with that

>hetrosexual path

Is that like a cycle path ?

Probably a good idea, those heterosexuals cause chaos if you let them on the roads

Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

Re: Force and mass

You measure 'g' with a gravity meter. They work by dropping a small ball bearing in a vertical vacuum column and measuring the time taken to fall a certain distance. Since you can measure time and distance amazingly accurately you get a very good (<1 ppb) measurement of gravity.

Since everythign falls at the same rate in vacuum you don't need to know the mass dropped.

They are used in oil and gas industry to find underground reservoirs (oil is lighter than rock) so are a well developed bit of kit

Re: KIbble ???

A lab not taking food is misbehaving

Re: "discovering an increased value for Planck's constant"

Not if have discovered that Planck's constant has increased .....

The 'DUP' joins El Reg’s illustrious online standards converter

Re: Welll . . .

> . I'll be buggered!

Not if the DUP have anything to do with it - Save Ulster from Sodomy

Linux 4.12 kernel lands: 'Go forth and use it' quoth Linus Torvalds

And with the linux system I had to waste time encrypting my own files, losing the key and then paying for them to be recovered.

Exposed pipes – check. Giant pillows – check. French startup mega-campus opens

Re: startup accelerators in general are not a foolproof path to success

Out of ? No, Into? Yes

After the years working in the basement then the cheap office above the car parts store we moved into a former incubator space once we had customers visiting. Started at great expense by the government to promote startups in a specific "section of society" it had closed within a year.

But it's a really nice building filled with fancy chairs and standing desks (we threw out the meeting cushions) the espresso machines are nice but you have to live with the pop-art walls.

We don't have teddie bears but we do have dogs

Shock: NASA denies secret child sex slave cannibal colony on Mars

Re: It's not that Trump listens to these sort of people..

That would make a great new motto for America:

"Warning may contain nuts"

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Re: Compromising passengers safety

>Lithium battery fires are known events

So Boeing powering parts of the aircraft with them would seem to be especially "special needs"

Re: Just a thought

By an international terrorist group that can fake an operational Macbook air well enough to fool a TSA expert in an x-ray.

But can't manage to get one of their supporters a minimum wage job ramp side where they can put the bomb in the truck they are allowed to drive through with no checks?

Re: Shelley Berman knew how to do it

>Or any inhabitant of Brixton in London without a pale skin in the 1980s, 1990's and noughties..

And how many bombs were planted / politicians blown up by Afro-Caribbean teenagers? None.

Shows how effective the SPG was !

US airlines have the technoloy

So the new rule will be if you fly to the US on a US carrier you get to take your laptop. If you chose to fly Emirates, Etihad, Singapore you don't.

I remember the days of flyin tp the US pre-911. At Heathrow you would have to get your US checked baggage x-rayed separately after checkin. They would then put a "security scanned" sticker on it and give it back to you so you could take it back to the baggage drop! Not even security theatre, more like security pantomime

Re: Anon

I think a no-arseholes rule when travelling to America may be difficult to implement

Search results suddenly missing from Google? Well, BLAME CANADA!

Re: Does this mean...

> demands from Saudi, Iran

Ironically bans on Canadian bacon and Canadian Club whisky adverts

A minister for GDS? Don't talk digital pony

Re: 2 DUPS / year

You're right. How could anyone spend 20DUPs/year on IT ????

Still it does save the cost of repainting the current 350M/week bus

2 DUPS / year

That's more than 35M/week - quick paint it on a buss.

Ride-snare: Lyft ruse helps cops cuff suspect in tech CEO murder case

Re: @LDS, Would that be a MITM attack then?

That's why you need to check if it is a genuine London taxi driver by asking them the secret passphrase:

"so what about all these immigrants?"

Pwned UK SME fined £60K for leaving itself vulnerable to hack attack

Re: OK

What if the attackers were a foreign inteligence agency using zero day exploits that your own security service hadn't published?

If I got hit by a N Korea ICMB would that be my fault for not securing a proper ABM defence ?

Blunder down under: self-driving Aussie cars still being thwarted by kangaroos

Re: What about wombats

Not to mention the drop bears ,,,,,

Obvious solution

Self-driving Kangaroos.

Replace the unpredictable dangerous marsupials with predictable reliable robot versions

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Re: A luddite writes... @scatter

>"That's a whole day saved on the round trip - definitely not insignificant to me."

Unless the added security takes longer than the flight

Re: A luddite writes...

>Who will use a supersonic airliner?

Nobody, this isn't about making an airliner

Nasa has to beg for money each year. This year it has to beg for money from republicans who think Nasa is full of godless commies who do science and global warming.

this shows Nasa is really about making America Great Again and therefore deserves funding

Northern Ireland bags £150m for broadband pipes in £1bn Tory bribe

Re: Racial slurp

>The "Irish people only eat potatos" slur only applies to Southern Irish catholics"

Is gravy-chip still the height of N Ireland cuisine ?

Re: Remember it's not a "Coalition" it's a "No-alition."

>And only £100m per seat in support.

Suddenly those expenses don't look too bad do they?

Couldn't they have just bought each DUP MP a duck island ?

Re: Be very afraid

>And thats before you look at the DUP's role in the recent and very expensive dodgy renewables scandal.

That's the good part - it shows that they are modern politicians that we can do business with

>for 1.8m people it's only £250/head per year.

Although I suspect it might be targeted at roughly half off the heads.

I'm guessing that not a lot of this infrastructure spend is going to the Falls Rd