Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Iconic Land Rover Defender may make a comeback by 2019

thanks to EU regulations

Wasn't there a recent event of some relevance to this?

I welcome our new coal powered British Land Rovers

Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for

Re: Looking for something to blame?

>based on such traits as how one says the letter "H".

I think the Israelites can claim prior art on that one by about 30 centuries

RadioShack bankruptcy savior to file for, you guessed it, bankruptcy

Re: The Living Dead

The canadian part, thesource.ca, seems to live on despite selling nothing but useless in-flight magazine type electric gadgets and overpriced watch batteries

I think they must be a front for something - probably N Korea judging from the level of technology

Re: ☹️

>Used to work for Tandy in the 80s

Can I just get your name and address

US Marines seek a few supposedly good men ... who leaked naked pics of a few good women

Naked WOMEN

Would never happen in the Royal Marines (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4475034.stm)

>For instance, it's the only place I've been where shouting was considered polite behavior.

To be fair it's also one of the few places where you get promoted for killing people (unlike medical school or air-traffic control)

IBM has cloud access to quantum computer 400 times smaller than D-Wave system

Re: This decade's (or this centuries) superconducting mainframe?

Those just offered incremental improvements over the technology in a regular desktop of the time.

If (and it's a big IF) these work then even the toy scale ones described here wipe the floor with supercomputers (for a certain class of problems) so then a supercomputer scale quantum one will be "interesting"

At the moment they are like the first lab prototype hand made transistors compared to established tube/valve technology, but look where transistors went.

Re: How does it work

Alternately toss a coin and you have a 50% chance of being in the universe where you already read the book vs being the one who didn't

COP BLOCKED: Uber app thwarted arrests of its drivers by fooling police with 'ghost cars'

If your wife or daughter was raped by an iPhone owner you would want the police to have their location - so it's vital for all phones to be tracked 24x7 by the police.

Your home view screen should probably record you as well - in case you are doing homecrime

Especially if you are a hedge funded that is shorting them (or their investors) and is leaking these stories to the press

RAF pilot sacked for sending Airbus Voyager into sudden dive

Re: Grounded?

And they spent 500% as much grounding undamaged planes - presumably while checking for DSLRs jammed in the controls?

Re: Grounded?

13 days =

1 day for somebody to write a Corrective And Preventive Action plan for dealing with jamming DSLRs behind the control stick (ie don't)

11 days for it to be reviewed, filed, lost queried, subject to public inquiry, lost again, recycled as firelighters .....

1 day for checking if any of the other aircraft had DSLRs jammed behind the control stick

Pence v Clinton: Both used private email for work, one hacked, one accused of hypocrisy

The question we need answering

Did any of his republican friends offer to send any money when "he" emailed to say he had been mugged?

Passport and binary tree code, please: CompSci quizzes at US border just business as usual

Re: Argentinian art gallery owner Juan Garcia Mosqueda

The last lot refused a visa for Adi Shamir - because returning to the middle east after living in america is a sign of radicalisation.

He is the "s" in RSA. He was to be speaking at an NSA conference. He is Israeli

"2. "Write what the sign on the Statue of Liberty says""

fabriqué en france ?

Re: Once upon a time...

What is your name?

What is your quest?

What is the airspeed velocity of a fully laden swallow?

Jesse Jackson to Apple CEO Cook: Hire black

>They killed the Newton, and I never forgave them.

Americans like the poetic ambiguity of pound (mass) and pound (force)

- I'm not sure if it is entirely Apple's fault

Lure young people into science

Says professional devotee of sky beard ...

Prisoners' 'innovative' anti-IMSI catcher defence was ... er, tinfoil

Re: Wouldn't it be cheaper...

It also depends on the conductivity of the mesh, especially the connections between the bits of wire. Chicken wire manufacture is not optomised for high frequency AC conductivity.

Mobile phones are also really-really good at working with a very weak signal

Re: Wouldn't it be cheaper...

And the extension of slavery to anyone who doesn't have a knighthood

AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world

Re: The Cloud...

Ob xkcd

ps. is there any way to automatically format a link without having to remember html ?

Raspberry Pi gives us all new 'Pi Zero W' for its fifth birthday

Re: Everybody loves Pi

If you need one of them - not being able to order even 10off of most of them is a bit limiting for planning even small projectd

Germany, France lobby hard for terror-busting encryption backdoors – Europe seems to agree

Re: 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed'

It says "arms" not guns, and nothing about conventional weapons.

You can prize my H-bomb from my glowing dead fingers

Re: Godwins law, revised (as it relates to part of this discussion)

But look on the bright side - the last time the Hun tried to do mandatory encryption we got computers as a spin-off

Re: Forgive my ignorace, but...

German government really doesn't have much luck when it comes to encryption does it ?

Revealed: UK councils shrug at privacy worries, strap on body cams

Presumably you would just charge the BBC a license fee for doing so ?

Sponsorship opportunities - eventually people are going to walk around looking like F1 drivers

LUNAR-CY! SpaceX announces a Moon trip-for-two it'll inevitably miss the deadline on

Re: I wonder who the two are?

Where you genuinely don't know who to feel more sorry for

Yes - That's why all new passenger aircraft are flown under remote control around the world before you risk putting people on them.

Re: This is ridiculous

I crew member to recognise the moon and the other to press the "keep orbital mechanics working as we continue in the same orbit" button ?

Do we get to choose who goes?

Could be a good kickstarter opportunity

Post-Brexit five-year UK work visas planned – report

Re: Low wages in the uk

Presumably the hard working educated and precise UK engineers have moved on to more lucrative employment - lets hope the City isn't allowed to hire all these foreigners aswell

Re: Bah!

That's the advantage of digital - it can mean anything you want.

It might be embarrassing to be a politician opening a new AI research lab, next door to the empty nano-material research lab, next door to the crumbing high-temperature superconducitivy research lab, next door to the boarded up 5th generation software lab

But with digital innovation thought leader research research you never have to worry about them failing to deliver

The smart ones will be working for their Guernsey based management company and will only be in the UK for 5 ears for meetings and integration - no tax and no NI

Re: If only..

You mean there might now be smuggling across the Irish border - surely not ?

Anyone else remember the cow barns built across the border with queues of petrol tankers innocently going in and out of each end

NSA snoops told: Get your checkbooks and pens ready for a cyber-weapon shopping spree

Re: "Unique nature" of the job?

No harder than finding people in the 60s who were bright enough to build mach3 spy planes but dumb enough to think Vietnam was a good idea

Pai, Pai, Mr American spy: FCC supremo rips up privacy protections for broadband punters

Re: https

But IIRC only the initial dns lookup for the site - not the actual page url, and not any post/get data?

Re: He's right in one respect

With https everywhere how much do they see anymore?

Oh, irony of ironies: Gov.UK's transparency report reveals... nothing

Re: Tin Hat Optional...

Only if you are a terrorist, they only monitor terrorists so if they are monitoring you you must be a terrorist.

See also VPN users

Classic

Sir Humphrey: How are things at the Campaign for the Freedom of Information, by the way?

Sir Arnold: Sorry, I can't talk about that.

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Re: What interests me

So if you were eg. CEO of a formerly great computer and engineering company and then ran it into the ground, fired all the good staff, split it into competing divisions, wasted $Bn on buying crap data analytics companies , etc

- would you be arrested for criminal damage or given a multi $MM severance package ?

Re: @Ellier ... This will impact others as well

Here it wouldn't be because sysadmin isn't a professional designation.

If he was an engineer and did this he would be guilty of professional negligence. But as a mere nuclear physicist I'm not considered a professional so anything I do that happens to leave a crater is considered just a D'oh moment.

IBM: Voluntary redundo offer? Ticked. Min stat terms? Ticked

It's a good way of selecting all the good staff who plan to get out before the rush,

Except in the case of IBM they all left a decade ago

Radioactive leak riddle: Now Team America sniffs Europe's skies for iodine isotope source

Re: Given the stated levels...

It's a large scale test of homeopathy.

If it works then we will all be dead of radiation poisoning.

Re: Not the best choice

Or you could force them to try and solder with the fscking stuff

Gulp! Drones dodge spray from California's gaping moist glory hole

Here in Canada the term for visiting your lake-side holiday home = eyebrow raising to hear your boss announcing he goes cottaging at the weekend

'Hey, Homeland Security. Don't you dare demand Twitter, Facebook passwords at the border'

Re: Promoting Fear

And to make sure that you think twice before doing anything that may cause you problems later.

Like visiting the ACLU or Democrat websites or forgetting to follow the glorious leader on twitter.

Re: Trips

Well nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition