Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US Navy runs into snags with aircraft carrier's electric plane-slingshot

Re: We all need less stress...

Thank you - it's so difficult to keep track of the mental deficiencies of US presidents

Re: We all need less stress...

He was famously described as having "played too much football without a helmet"

UK can be a 'world leader in 5G', you say? Er, our 4G still takes a beating from Peru

Re: Lets hope

5G contains incredible compression technology which maximises use of the radio spectrum

It allows for upto 5 different messages. Including LOL, OMH, WTF, smiley face, and [CENSORED] - that's one more than 4G !

Then we will become a world leader in 6G.

NASA taps ESA satellite Swarm for salty ocean temperature tales

Re: Tweety Twump has promised to prevent NASA doing this kind of research.

Although possibly more concerning is appointing a General Relativity denier to head the FAA

Re: Tweety Twump has promised to prevent NASA doing this kind of research.

So they just shoot down the satellite - problem solved

You have the right to be informed: Write to UK.gov, save El Reg

>but what's wrong with just making the loser of a case pay?

Because giant companies could spin their legal bills to astronomical numbers so if you lost they could claim you owed them $MM. They could demand that you paid some sort of bond upfront to cover their costs if you lost - since you can't afford this you can't sue any company that has in-house lawyers

Top cop: Strap Wi-Fi jammers to teen web crims as punishment

The battery pack would also be attached to the ankle

For safety, in this post-Samsung world, the battery would be encased in a spherical protective enclosure made of iron Power connection would be via a short metal chain

Re: Top Cops

It's not a union, there are lots of laws about unions.

It's a privately held corporation that the government happens to listen to.

Re: Why would this happen-

vegimite for terrorist offences

FM now stands for 'fleeting mortality' in Norway

Well you still had smoke signals

Re: Satellite Radio

>BBC WS. Except when they get too graphic

That explains CBC radio - it's BBC WS without the filth ......

Re: Considering that most digital radio is utter crap in quality...

Anyone old enough to be listening to t'wireless is unlikely to hear beyond 15Khz

But that is just because of traitorous dereliction of duty by the world service

Now that a post-Brexit Britain will once more bestride the globe like a colossus then hopefully proper radio will be brought back to the empire. If the Chinese and Americans are going to be taught to play cricket then we need R4LW

Not sure it's really worth giving over Radio4 LW spectrum to the internet, unless you are into Morse code.

But since any radio other than Radio4 LW is unnecessary I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Elon's SpaceX gets permission to blow up another satellite or two

Presumably why you prefer Thatcher to May ?

FBI let alleged pedo walk free rather than explain how they snared him

Re: Scumbag Olympics...

There is no suggestion that he molested anyone - just that he had pictures supplied by the government.

Possession of a copy of Das Boot does not make you a war criminal

Ex-soldier pleads guilty to terror crime after not revealing iPhone PIN

Re: Really didn't know his PIN?

Interestingly here in His Majesty's Former Colonies they can't force you to divulge a password (some hippie rubbish about right to silence) but they can make people unlock with a fingerprint - the police claimed this is the same as their right to take suspect's prints.

Re: WTF!

But at least you no longer have to worry about any european judges telling you that this is wrong

Banned! No streaming live democracy from your phones, US Congress orders reps

Re: Much Ado about Nothing

and they can appear to themselves every day

on closed circuit t.v.

to make sure they're still real

it's the only connection they feel

Bitcoin breaks US$1,000

Re: Bitcoin - asset or currency?

Depends on your country, in most places capital gains would apply whether it is an asset or a currency.

Buy some foreign currency and sell them later when they have appreciated (or the pound drops) and you are liable for capital gains, same as if you buy gold.

IIRC the US government ruled that it was an asset, no different from art, gold or beany-babes

Re: Some questions...

>It is attractive as an investment at present due to its volatility, not its eventual long-term slow & steady increase.

To some people, but if you are the type of person who today owns a few bitcoin you are unlikely to be a starving 3rd word peasant. You are likely to be able to afford not to sell it for $1K when you have the chance in a few decades of owning 1/20Million-th of the major word currency.

Re: Some questions...

1, They disappear, exactly the same way as all those people in the Japan Tsunami who had millions of Yen in their homes because they didn't trust banks.

2, They are lost - it's not a problem anymore than all the gold coins lying on the bottom of the atlantic in shipwrecks

3, Yes, you will just trade fractions of a bitcoin

4, If you don't have a backup yes. Fortunately it is a lot easier to backup a wallet than backup a vault

Xmas software update knackered US Customs computer systems

Re: Timing?

Best time to roll out a new system, when everybody is out of the office - otherwise it can interrupt vital meetings

Re: Nope, your terminology is wrong

But with that system how were people able to just walk in off the street and take your luggage while you waited at immigration ?

Re: Unfortunately...

Plus a lot more who don't want to ever go to the US but have to because the US don't understand in-transit

Apple sued by parents of girl killed by driver 'distracted by FaceTime'

Re: Sad

Or sue Toyota for selling a off-road vehicle that is designed to ride up over other cars in the event of accident, for use on the road.

Elon burning to get Falcon back on the launchpad

Re: Oxygen is not flammable

Which is why you generally use a maximum of 70% oxygen for bottled breathing gas - in 100% oxygen almost everything burns rather enthusiastically

How Google.org stole the Christmas Spirit

Re: But this is the 21st century .... isn't it ??

Indeed, if those experts had only thought to Google "what is the mass of the Higgs boson" they could have saved a fortune on the LHC.

Of course they wouldn't have known it was called the Higgs boson because Higg's paper would have been written in DecWriter format and they wouldn't be able to read it.

Re: Chromebooks

The evidence is obvious. We have gone from film strips in the 70s, VHS in the 80s, overhead projectors in the 90s and now online interactive multimedia experience - every year test scores get better.

Next year when all kids have a Google Glass(tm) augmented virtual reality transdimensional learning experience (tm) I predict they will all get at least 10 gradeA A-levels

Trio charged with $4m insider trading by hacking merger lawyers

Re: Lawyers lose small change behind the sofa

>They traded using non-public information. That is the definition of insider trading.

is it? If you overhear a conversation in a lift and trade on it that famously isn't insider trading.

It is apparently a favorite game of nerds visiting law offices to chat loudly about imagined take-overs of their company by Google or Facebook whenever suits might be around

Re: Small sample

It would be interesting to see if anyone in the Trump organisation or the RNC made any big shorts on Lookheed-Martin before the tweet

A vintage year for snoopers and big state-ists

Re: IBM and the Muslim DB

I hope they got paid in advance and they probably didn't get much in the way of follow-up contracts from the new management

Meet the Internet of big, lethal Things

Re: IMHO, any modified vehicle should become immediately unfit for the road...

But you shouldn't be forced to lose your entire year's crop because your harvester won't start because a sensor says an airfilter is due for replacementand it will be 6 weeks before an authorised service center can get you the part

Did EU ruling invalidate the UK's bonkers Snoopers' Charter?

Re: "access to retained traffic and location data is extremely useful to the police"

> that the vast majority of terrorist attacks in the EU in recent years have been carried out by people who are "known bad guys".

Exactly so if the police and security services had been able to monitor all communications in the UK for the last 40years they might have been able to determine if there was any link between the IRA and Sinn Fein

Re: On usefulness

Having everyone handcuffed to their own police officer isn't just necessary to reduce crime but is a vital safety feature in case of flooding or hurricane force winds - I can't see why everyone bleats on about their freedom.

Except that membership of the EU requires membership of the ECHR/ECJ. If you aren't in the Eu and merely happen to be geographically in Europe then you can drop them.

Russia and the UK are both in Europe, neither are going to be in the Eu anytime soon, their attitude to what foreigners tell them about human rights might become more similar

Virgin America mid-flight panic after moron sets phone Wi-Fi hotspot to 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7'

Re: So

I'm planning on setting mine to "Donald Trump" next time I'm visiting the former colony

Re: Two things

Didn't iPhones used to burst into flames as well?

I don't remember them being banned - although possibly they will be banned on flights in Korea since that seems to be how things work now'

What gifts did ol' kitten heels May get this year?

Re: fiver++

To be fair they have done their best to try and reduce the value to below any threshold

China gives America its underwater drone back – with a warning

Re: Nukes? Psshaw!

No T-bills are what come in t-brown envelopes in Yorkshire

>And Jackson practiced genocide and forced relocation, yet he is on US money.

But not of white people so it doesn't really count

I would hope the Navy is also carrying out surveys inside Chinese waters - that is what we pay them for. Given that they aren't allowed Rum or the Lash anymore they need something to do.

Something about fighting a land war in Asia?

Microsoft scores nearly $1bn non-compete contract with US military

Non-compete does not mean what you think it means

Unless Microsoft are being paid not to compete with the DoD (by not using their death star) that is a non-competition bid, not a non-compete agreement

Non-existent sex robots already burning holes in men’s pockets

>Since my first wife kept reminding me 'Never let your man forget he can be replaced with 7" of plastic and 2 batteries' I think we already are.

Well the battery life on those cheap 7" Android tablets probably isn't upto playing all of "Love Actually"

Re: Not in the UK ...

A reference to Bike bonk bloke lands on sex offenders' register

Build a sex robot that cries, plays Richard Curtis movies and dispenses calorie free Red wine and men are redundant.