Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK official LOSES Mark Duggan shooting discs IN THE POST

Re: How long?

No need, they will be shared with various commercial partners in lots of countries with no data protection laws - so no need to lose copies at all.

Let's be clear, everyone: DON'T BLOCK Wi-Fi, DUH – FCC official ruling

Re: It's still a type of jamming

I think they did aswell.

But it does represent an extension of the FCC's scope. If they don't simply regulate the spectrum but also the data and the business model do they get to decide matters of traffic shaping, DNS redirects, VPN blocking and which content is delivered?

Re: Believable

That was their defense - they didn't do anything "RF naughty" they sent perfectly legal packets to everyone's phone.

What do China, FBI and UK have in common? All three want backdoors in Western technology

Re: So what if...

That's easy, the tricky bit is if you want to sell in China or the USA.

Re: Understanding between nations is a beautiful thing!!

So which is safer, a single common backdoor that you give the key to dozens of different agencies in a hundred different countries - or a 1000 separate backdoors each allegedly known only to that agency.

IBM punts cryptotastic cloudy ID verification services

Oh come on it's IBM - they would never had any profitable relations with slightly shady governments.

Does Big Tech hire white boys ahead of more skilled black people and/or women?

Re: Equality ?

> I don't see "equality through qutoa" as worse

You have been selected to get a Windows CE phone instead of an iPhone because we need all phones to be equal.

Bill Gates – I WISH I was like Zuck and spoke Chinese. Yep, I drink poo

>So, we all do half a job, or a quarter of a job and still have a high standard of living but (hopefully) a higher quality of life

Yes, that's why programmers today don't work that awful 9-5 lifestyle of our parent's and grandparent's generation.

A Linux Terminator

That Linus is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. ... And it absolutely will not stop, ever - and when it reaches you it will stuck a finger up and insult you ..

'Super-secure' BlackPhone pwned by super-silly txt msg bug

Re: Yeah...

>Windows Phone 8 beats this 'secure phone' - it is still on zero known vulnerabilities!

Zero users - the ultimate security feature.

Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen'

Re: Google can't win

I find 'geometry' very offensive

ICANN CEO criticizes domain 'hoggers'

Re: Would someone like to explain to me please

A domain investor has more expensive lawyers than the people who want the domain.

A cybersquatter has less (and fewer) expensive lawyers than the people who want the domain.

Re: Jelousy from shakedown artists?

Or inventing a 2week "grace period" where you can register a domain name but not pay anything.

Which allows network of pairs of squatter companies to shuffle registrations for millions of domains between themselves without every having to "invest" a cent.

Re: So it boils down to money and who (in the C-suite) gets it?

The world probably relies more on standard metre, kilogram and ampere than on ICANN but I don't think a team from NIST or the NPL are flitting between plutocrat love-ins on $1m salaries

A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation

Re: I got moaned at...

They did. Unfortunately BBC rules call for any character in a period drama to be played by an actor of appropriate superiority.

Since the 25 year old Turing is an important character he is played by Derek Jacobi who looks 60 (and apparently has done since birth). A pivotal scene has the aging colonel explaining to the young wippersnapper that he should forgot all this youthful sex business and get down to some serious maths. Unfortunately the aging colonel isn't an important character and so is played by a very junior actor who appears about 1/2 the age of Jacobi.

Re: SPOILER ALERT - This is almost exactly the script from the movie.

That might be how the Germans pronounce it - but there was a war on you know !

HMRC fails to plan for £10.4bn contract exit... because it's 'too risky'

Re: £200 a head

>The figure is over £350 per taxpayer.

That's not bad - I would have expected the government to pay more than that for a PC - I expect thy got a good deal at Tesco.

Thailand: 'The nail that sticks up gets hammered down'

Re: 'The nail that sticks up gets hammered down'

<You say the west is different? Where?

Well in the west midlands it would be -

"the tall screw is hammered down"

Re: It is

The British empire was mostly a search for nicer weather and better food.

That's why we gave America back.

How we ended up with Canada is anyone's guess

NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app

Re: Land of the free - not

Surely tracking police 24/7 is the only way to keep them safe from terrorists?

Brits need chutzpah to copy Israeli cyberspies' tech creche – ex-spooks

Re: Lower ranks not on merit.

Whereas in the British Army they become an officer the moment they are put down for the correct public school?

I think the point is that in Silicon Valley everyone joins a startup because it guarantees you will be a millionaire by 25 ;-) In the UK, or US east-coast there will be a queue of big corporations offering you a technical job, and a bunch of banks offering you a loads-a-money job. In France you will be given a government job for life.

In Israel I think the choice is much more limited to army, start your own company, leave.

Re: Don't worry, it will never happen

It works both ways. Back in the 90s I was trying to hire super-computer modelling experts on fixed civil service pay scales, so every new graduate got hired as a senior scientific officer. Then to pay them more we had to up their grade even further. It meant that high level meetings were a bit bizarre - because meeting attendance was by rank there would be a single 50/60 year old veteran from each other division and 20x 25year olds in T-shirts from computer modeling.

A friend in the army made Lt Colonel very quickly for the same reason, he was a communications expert and everytime he got a job offer from industry they would promote him to up his pay.

Hoaxer posing as GCHQ boss prank-calls PM Cameron

I assumed the caller meant that Cameron was ...

Welcome to Spartan, Microsoft's persuasive argument for... Chrome

>It is supposed to be standards compliant and should therefore not need any hacking to get it to render correctly

So it won't work with office365 then?

So now I have chrome for web browsing.

New IE for office365 and sharepoint

Old IE for all the legacy stuff form when IE integration was the once and future way.

SUPERHANDS! Fossils of early human ancestors reveal a GRIPPING development

Re: hand shandy

Although juveniles will still try and remove a nut with a torque wrench

ATTACK of the FLYING MOUNTAIN: 2004 BL86 goes by like a BULLET

Re: One for the budget fetishists

>It's not that "we" can't handle more than one problem. It's the media can't.

Do giant space rocks cause cancer or cure it ?

Will a trillion ton asteroid impact affect house prices?

Was Diana hit by an asteroid?

Are giant asteroids caused by climate change?

Instability on metals markets as trillion tons of iron-nickel delivered early.

Oi, Aussie sports fans! Take that selfie stick and stick it

Re: I don't watch much TV.

> a pair of Crutches despite the use having a huge plaster cast on one leg.

I assume anyone with a crutch would be immediately targeted by an airstrike - haven't you seen "Day of the Jackal"?

Re: Wouldn't this problem take care of itself?

Forgive my ignorance (I always rely on the paparazzi to take my photograph) but wouldn't the point of a selfie in such circumstances be to project your own head out into the path of high speed cyclists and have the stick pointing back toward the crowd ?

In which case the resulting decapitation would seem to be an automatic self solving problem .

Ex Machina – a smart, suspenseful satire of our technology gods

Re: Actually...

>An AI will not have much in common with a young lady's behavorial logic.

Obviously, one is a sometimes quasi-human being with occasional flashes of rationality which most scientists and mathematicians will never understand.

.....and the other is one of their valued colleagues

Uber isn't limited by the taxi market: It's limited by the Electronic Thumb market

Re: Economy

Uber creates value if there are people who want to pay for a ride but can't find a cab and with Uber they can and do. In the same way that deregulating telecoms allowed people who wanted to pay for a phone to do so without waiting 3months for the GPO.

If all it does is create an arbitrage market for 100s of resellers undercutting each other to offer a specific ride then it might be good for some users but it's not clear how much value that creates in the economy.

Re: Still don't believe the Uber valuation

And when Google's driverless cars work then you click on the Uber app and a car will turn up, you will pay the same as now but Uber doesn't have to give any to the driver.

Google are a big investor in Uber, Google didn't get to be that rich by being completely stupid.

Landlines: The tech that just won't die

Re: BT bashing

> having both a line and a telephone outlet box on the wall marked "BT".

Offer to connect a mains cable upto it and ask them if they can see it at their end.

That's what I suggested to NTL when they claimed they didn't serve my postcode - in spite of an NTL box on the wall with a bit of coax sticking out

Apple's Beats, Google, and Sony hammered with unpaid royalty claim

Sony

So Sony of the "$25,000 per song downloaded hunting down of kids" is now going to be sued for $25,000 * 10,000s of songs * 1,000,000s of downloads.

Someone should call Alanis Morissette

Sly peers attempt to thrust hated Snoopers' Charter into counter-terror and security bill

Re: The whole fast-track process is flawed

We do have supreme leaders on this side of the pond and MPs.

We also have MPs that are happy to be in parliament while demanding that their bit of the country should be another country. Our supreme leader also talks to God, will do anything the oil companies tell him and loves following the US into wars in the middle east.

We also have the Queen on our money - but our money is plastic

Re: The whole fast-track process is flawed

Our supreme leader went one better. His party now simply rolls all "interesting" legislation into the budget, on the grounds that if government money is being spent it is a budget matter. His back benchers have a simple choice of approve everything with no discussion or vote down the budget and force an election.

He also invented the clever trick of starting the holidays early everytime an opposition MP gets up t speak.

YOU. Your women are mine. Give them to me. I want to sell them

As a God

I naturally claim copyright on the whole of my creation and I demand that everything on youtube be turned over to me. Presumably YouTube would oblige?

I also rarely reply to requests from my creations - and usually only in rather ambigous terms of burning bushes and stars in the east.

The only perjury part is that you must be the copyright owner (or their representative) for the work you are claiming is copied. It isn't perjury to claim that the wrong thing is a copy - you simpyl allege that they copied it and it's upto the courts to decide.

So it is naughty for me to claim to represent the Beatles, it isn't for the Beatles' record company to demand that Das Boot be removed as it is a copy of the yellow submarine.

China 'upgrades' Great Firewall. Oh SNAP! There goes VPN access

But it is necessary to protect the freedom of expression of chinese satirical newspapers - David Cameron said so.

Panicked teen hanged himself after receiving ransomware scam email

Re: Sad, and not good enough

But presumably the account the money is being sent to isn't quite so easily spoofed.

If it is too difficult to trace where money from scams like this is being sent, then presumably it's also too much effort to trace money being sent to terrorists by the same method?

(Like the money that I'm supposed to send to fund terrorism everytime I watch a pirate VHS)

Re: This is sad.

Because a public information film would actually concentrate on not-accessing the web sites. Especially since a new UK bill has made an awful lot of soft porn web sites now illegal.

It bombards people with "you wouldn't steal a car" ads on DVDs and dire FBI warnings and official statements how video downloads fund terrorism.

All this makes it rather more likely that if you received an email noting that you had watched copyright content on youtube you would soon feel the long arm of the law.

Seagate's spinning rust most likely to crash, claims backup biz

Re: Warranty is key indicator

I would probably recommend that most consumers don't try and cram 45* 7200rpm drives into a singe case

Facebook worth more than Portugal? Hell, it's worth a LOT more than THAT

Re: Congrats to Tim...@YAAC

Everyone commits criminal activity. The person most recently illegally killed by the NYPD was selling individual cigarattes on the street - hardly a clear and present danger to the people of NY.

Suppose the same broken window had applied on Wall St. Everyone over claiming a home-office deduction, putting more than 3 meals a day on expenses when travelling or claiming mileage for a visit to a client starting from home instead of from the office - had been arrested, subsequently lost their job and possibly been chocked to death. then there might have been a different opinion on it's "success"

It might also have reduced the level of financial crimes. After all if you claim tax back on a coffee you might be willing to rig the libor rate!

Re: Congrats to Tim...

Some did, the ones who owned windows. For others whose only interaction with the police was continually being hassled since childhood for minor events it has created an attitude which now requires the police to buy armed personnel carriers to carry out community policing in many communities.

Of course the "no broken windows" attitude to economic/white collar crime did prevent Enron, Madoff and the financial meltdown

Notorious skin-flick master Max Hardcore goes limp over namesake dot-com

Interesting precedent

So if wikileaks was convicted of something in the US the govt could seize the domain?

Or Greenpeace or Al-Jazeera, or eatwisconsincheese, any other group that are "a threat to democracy"

Penguin high-flyers: Andrew Tridgell on the Linux autopilot

Re: but when...?

You going to launch a bear with you ?

That's pretty impressive - unless it's just a playmobil bear

Give ALL the EU access to Netflix, says Vince Cable

Re: Politicians

It's eminently practical and easily achieved using existing laws.

Try telling the Germans that you can only use French cars in France and see how far you get with the Eu commision.

If you want to use the single market to pay corporation tax in Ireland, VAT in Luxemburg and not have to apply for a business visa to visit each customer then you also don't get to discriminate by country