Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Buy a household 3D printer, it'll pay for itself in months!

Re: I wanted one for years.

The formlabs 3d printer looks like it could be the first affordable (well if you don't have a wife to explain it to) one with decent quality

Re: You're all missing the obvious!

Tolerance and material strength are nothing like good enough for lego bricks.

Google the engineerign tests on them - amazing

Re: 20 ways to save even more money

How dare you sir - this is el' reg

If we stopped buying shiny toys we didn't need where would the IT industry be?

Tick-tock, Apple: Obama has just days to stop US iPhone iPad sales ban

Re: Wouldn't it be better

>but he's a lawyer by profession

No he's a politician by profession - which means he just has to decide whether Apple or Samsung contributed most to his campaign

Gmail, Outlook.com and e-voting 'pwned' on stage in crypto-dodge hack

Not safe to use roaming data - they could spoof the cell.

If you go abroad it's safest to unspool your own fibre - and don't drink the water

Happy 20th birthday, Windows NT 3.1: Microsoft's server outrider

Re: Security

Trouble with NT was that you could do bugger-all as an ordinary user.

You had to be admin to open the network settings dialog to find your own IP address

And with no "sudo" the only way was to log off and back on as admin

HALF of air passengers leave phones on ... yet STILL no DEATH PLUNGE

Re: Phones off during taxiing??

British airports obviosuly use an amazingly volatile version of jet-a which can be ignited by a cell phone inside a plane taxiing 1/2 a mile away

Every other airport uses the normal kerosene based Jet-a which wouldn't burn if you drop a match in it.

Quite how these planes manage to run on these two different fuels is a mystery

SO why are we allowed them at all?

I assume the risk from 2.1Oz of liquid is similarly miniscule

A couple of other questions:

How does the government manage to cover up all the crashes due to phones?

How come an airline that fits a pico cell (so it gets a cut of the calls) can suddenly certify every phone as safe?

It costs us about $50k to do EMC testing for CE on a single device and suddenly virgin have managed to test every phone on the market?

Am I going crazy ?

Just landed after a flight where I was shouted at in security because my toothbrush/paste were in a clear plastic bag travel kit. I had to place this clear bag inside an official airport clear bag.

And then in boots in duty free I can buy a razor - not an electric razor - a proper set of blades razor

Asked the cashier if I could really take this on the plane - "yes of course, it's been checked".

Re: Never any danger

It did always strike me as rather odd that such a clear and present danger to the aircraft was on the honour system.

Perhaps airlines in Texas should announce, please keep the safety catch on your assault rifle while the seatbelt sign is illuminated

MPs get secret squirrel dossier of 'lawyers, megabiz hiring hackers'

Re: Breaking news

You'd think they would notice while reading all his email and phone calls

Apple kept us waiting while it searched our packages every day, claim shop staff

Re: Surely the problem just moves...

You seem to be applying logical thought to this - remember it's a "management policy"

Re: Shame their first recourse was "the law"

The punchline being it was the "museum of tolerance"

Re: guess

But most of these thefts are staff loading a pallet of coffee/chocolate/cigs back onto the truck with a nod to the driver - not slipping a slipping a few frozen pies down their pants

Ha ha, Osborne, these Gov 2.0 web wranglers have wiped out UK debt

HMRC

So is this outgoings or cashflow?

Shouldn't revenue and customs take in more money than they spend?

If you have a tax office that pays OUT 50Bn quid perhaps you have a few sign errors in the maths

Microsoft to Google: Please remove us from internet

IIRC Google did end up suing itself. It owned a patent troll who sued Android handset makers, including Motorola who Google own

Re: I thought

Or a company acting on behalf of them. RealID run infringement tracking for content owners

Jurors start stretch in the cooler for Facebooking, Googling the accused

re: enforced slavery

And what if it was a fraud trial that might take 3, or 5 or 10 years?

And comes down to 10,000 different cases of whether a withholding under section 5678987654 constituted a legitimate payment under section 87656789876 or was a transfer subject to section 987656789

Re: Juries

True, but the "probabilty jury will convict" is a major part of the CPS calculus irrespective of the evidence.

If that means let the rich white fraudster go because the trial will be long and expensive and the jury don't like paying tax so it's unlikely we will get a conviction, while a black teenager on a drug charge is a guaranteed win - then you may as well replace the whole criminal justice system with a phone in vote on the Daily Mail

Re: Why we have juries ...

>It's rare for the court briefing to actually tell the jury they can decline to return a verdict.

And presumably illegal for you to research the fact that you can

Re: Juries

> whilst thousands of other trial go without a hitch.

You mean where the white middle-aged middle-class jury members decide the black teenagers must have done it

Of course it may be that juries are perfectly unbiased and the reason the conviction rate is so much higher for young black defendants - is that the cases the police bring against those who look like members of the jury are all obvious fit-ups

Wikileaker Bradley Manning's court martial verdict expected today

A second secret court has already rejected the appeal before this one gave its verdict

Not quite - he gets 120 days off his sentence because they admitted torturing him

Re: This is about a Soldier under an Oath of Fealty...How bout equal Justice!

>I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;

That sounds like the subversive sort of statement that could get you on your president's new enemies list

Irish watchdog won't probe Apple, Facebook over PRISM... but COULD IT?

Re: That's all very well but ....

YOu really think the US intelligence agencies share any product back with the Irish suppliers?

Why? To ensure that Ireland supports the war on terror? To guarantee the use or Ireland as a nuke missile base ?

I think the trade is more like; here is all the data on everybody in europe Mr NSA. Well ain't that cute Ireland, have a baseball cap

Texas students hijack superyacht with GPS-spoofing luggage

Re: WAAS

WAAS is used to improve the accuracy in commercial receivers but its original requirement was data integrity - although I think back in the day, that was assuming software/transmission errors rather than deliberate attacks

WAAS

Wasn't the purpose of WAAS to prevent GPS spoofing so that the FAA could use it to replace nav beacons without having to give every aircraft a military recv?

Anybody know how WAAS (and presumably EGNOS) prevent spoofing? Does it look for different doppler shifts from the stationary GSO satelites ?

Re: Answer: INS

And the INS drifts which is why you regularly reset it from the known GPS position.

So all you have to do is drift the GPS and nobody notices.

China Labor Watch gumshoes uncover TOP SECRET PLASTIC IPHONE

re: taiwanese

That's because china is a big bad evil communist country and so until recently it was difficult for US companies, that relied on the smiling benevolence of the military-industrial complex, to do a lot of business there. It was also tricky to export advanced semiconductor equipment there despite putting a note in the manual saying "not to be used to build nuclear weapons to point at us"

Taiwan as a beacon of enlightened capitalist freedom was rather easier to do business with, and if the work was actually done in china nobody cared as long as the god fearing consumer never found out

Now that China and Russia are friendly (albeit with nukes pointed at us) partners in the war on terror it's all ok.

Work with Microsoft's stuff for a living? Its reorg will mean NOTHING to you

Re: Deck Chairs, Titanic

>why is there a need for any more than one version?

Because you can!

You extract the maximum amount of money from each market segment. More can be extracted from people buying $100k worth of servers than those buying $200 netbooks

Re: There you go...

When you are making more profit from investing the $Bn in the markets than you make from selling software - shoudln't you just axe the software arm and become a full time hedge fund?

BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

Re: That's why they put WEEE recycling symbols on them

I was trying to get a new grad to write a gcode parser.

Tried to explain it was just a plotter language for CNC machines - blank looks

Like HPGL - blanck looks

For a pen plotter - blank looks

Searched wiki for a picture of a pen plotter = amazed look

'Nearly 1,350' HP Enterprise Services staffers strike over redundancies – union

Enterprise

The nice thing about enterprise staff is you have an automatic slave copy of them in a geographically remote location able to spin up and take over

With consumer staff you have to go down to PC world and pick up whatever junk they have workign their to replace them

One month on, Edward Snowden cleared to leave Moscow airport

Re: This does not make any sense

Just because you have been spying on each other for nearly 100years, have supported every terrorist and dictator that opposed the other side, and have 20,000 nuclear warheads pointed at each other - doesn't mean you can't be friends

Re: Where does he go to next ?

So Russia and their new American 'partners" will invade Europe for the gas?

Well it is one combination that hasn't been tried yet

One month on, Edward Snowden cleared to leave airport

So they improved immigration queues at Terminal 5?

Chromecast: You'll pop me in for HOT STREAMS of JOY, hopes Google

Android

So what does this do that the $40 mini android machines don't do ?

New Kiwi spook law allows domestic prying

Re: About time

It's New Zealand - what else does the government have to do all day?

Royston cops' ANPR 'ring of steel' BREAKS LAW, snarls watchdog

Re: I always wondered...

That happened in New York (IIRC)

They had windsheild mounted transponders to pay the toll on a bridge/tunnel/freeway

They sent the transponders out by Fedex

The Fedex truck went through the bridge/tunnel/freeway multiple times on it's route

Drivers were receiving fines for unpaid trips before they even received the transponder

It took a long time and a lot of lawsuits to work out why !

1984

In the 1984 miners strike the police had to hang around in cold laybys looking for any car with 4 big blokes in ti so they could stop possible miners from travelling around the country.

To save money on overtime they needed to automate the process of detecting possible striking miners moving freely around the country.

Admittedly it took a few years to get the system up and running, and they got the wrong Royston, and Royston colliery closed ...

Divers nearly DEVOURED by HUNGRY SEA BEASTS

Re: Whales knew they were there ...

Translucent means you can partially see through the surface to see the underlying structure.

Pretty good analogy for a bag of water with bones in surrounded by water

Virgin Media hangs from traffic lights, hands out free Wi-Fi to Brummies

Digital Birmingham

I preferred the more mellow sounds of the older Analogue Birmingham

Jackboot dangled over NSA's throat for US spy dragnet outrage

Re: God I love the Justification....

That's the reason for the increased use of metal detectors in public buildings

If you can fit your gut through the gates AND you aren't carrying a gun - you obviously aren't a true American

ANPR could have stopped the 7/7

It would have allowed the police to detect that possible northerners were entering the Southern Co-Prosperity Zone - and they could have been herded back to their northern hovels.

ISPs: Relax. Blocking porn online won't really work

Re: Just get the filters installed and everyone shut up.

> ***us, is that you again?

With the new system

Re: Just get the filters installed and everyone shut up.

I hope there is mission creep.

If the filters are running on kit with a backdoor to the chinese communist party - perhaps we will see less Royal Baby crap

Re: Deja-vu

Because it makes little baby Jesus cry

and makes Daily mail readers vote for the other lot

MYSTERY of 19th-century DEAD WALRUS found in London graveyard

Re: Wait, what ?

No that's if a LIVE C19 Walrus was found in a London graveyard

Secret ROYAL BABY birth VIDEO leaked! (And other malware scams)

Re: Inbreeding?

Er yes

If we weren't all descended from one women we would be separate species which - with the possible exception of US talk show hosts - we aren't