Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

The Three Amigos offer sanctuary to cornered NSA leaker Snowden

Re: Three Amigos

>What has been depictable?

That they admitted torture and offered to knock 117 days off his sentence because of it?

>Manning is a traitor

Traitor / Patriot - so like freedom fighter / terrorist

> knowingly endangered his fellow soldiers

By leaking diplomatic cables that suggested the revealed Putin was the real power behind the Russian president, Isreal doesn't really like the Palestinians and is suspicious about Iran's peaceful nuclear energy, and that some people in Pakistan's security service might be unhappy about the US continaully bombing them?

US: We spied on you Europeans but we can still be chums. Right?

Re: >French secret service isn't handing over Airbus's business data to Boeing

I doubt that the NSA deliberately spy on Boeing to give the data to the DGCE,

But I suspect that GCHQ and the UK security services consider the special relationship with America as more important than British industry. So I don't imagine that they filter out interceptions on British companies before handign data over to the USA

Re: Summary of talks

The difference is that I suspect the French secret service isn't handing over Airbus's business data to Boeing - I suspect GCHQ+NSA are.

Re: Clouds - nope!

Ironically it is probably more secure form the NSA in Germany than in the UK. The only thing limiting NSA spying in the UK is how quickly GCHQ can send them the data.

Upturned boat sails to Shed of the Year title

Re: Please help a Canuck out here...

>A place merely for storage and/or tools.

That's what garages are for.

You put a $20,000 car outside in the snow so you can store a $99 broken lawnmower in the garage.

>Curious about the linguistic differences...

I still laugh when Ontario politicians go cottaging at the weekend.

EU crackdown will see tougher sentences for stupid cyber-badhats

Re: Give the toddler a bigger firearm

It's a good idea - as long as it apples to everyone.

Would be interesting to watch German police marching into Westminister to arrest Hague because GCHQ stored data on Germans.

Love in an elevator.... testing mast: The National Lift Tower

Re: Great view

"best view of Northampton" is there such a thing?

Re: Not Orthanc

Which raises the question of what kind of lifts do they have in Orthanc?

Do a group of orcs all stand in the lift not making eye contact?

Do they play cheesy elevator music?

Is there a notice limiting it to 15 persons, 30 halflings, or 10 uraki ?

Patriot hacker 'The Jester' attacks nations offering Snowden help

Hasn't he been caught yet?

Surely with the 100% all seeing eye of the NSA he should have been detected, orange-jumpsuited and be on an unlisted flight to electrode-on-the-scrotum land by now?

Americans attempt to throw off oppressive, unresponsive rulers on 4th of July

Re: WTF...

Having drunk what Americans produce when they try and make tea.

I don't think the Boston harbour thing was a protest, just a misunderstanding of the recipe

Vulns 'like a hacker camped in the server room' all across the net

Until you discover years later that there is also a fixed admin account and the password, which you can't change, is "cisco"

Irish gov refuses to haul Google, Apple into MPs' tax inquiry

End of the eu?

So Ireland makes a few % while ripping off the rest of the Eu by allowing tax scams to operate

Presumably other Eu countries could run their own scams, sorry - revenue enhancement processes ?

I'm trying to get a CE mark for a medical device - it's a lot of work. Now if some "business friendly" new Eu country would rubber stamp it for me I would be prepared to open a branch office there and employ a couple of locals.

Ireland used to be famous for giving asylum to any refugee that arrived - along with the Irish passport they got a ferry timetable and a strong hint in the direction of Liverpool. Presumably in return for say a 1000euro processing fee some poor new Eu country could hand out citizenship to everyone in Somalia. At a stroke solving illegal immigration in the Eu.

Vulcan? Not on our tiny balls. Pluto moons named Kerberos, Styx

Re: pretty obvious really

>Space Shuttle that wouldn't have never gone to space "Enterprise"

Presumably because the engines cannea take it cap'n

Re: Who'd be an astronmer

Actually you do spend a lot of time peering into optics.

You also spend a lot of your time saying;

This fscking mirror is filfthy when was it last recoated?

I can't see the chip - the fsckign filter wheel has jammed!

There is fscking ice on the inside of this dewar window!

Whose fsckign fingerprint is this on an interference filter?

Although if you work on an interferemeter with 100s of optical components linking 4 telescopes you can get a little frustrated with peering into optics - and your language coarsens a little.

Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL

Re: I quite like the train noises

You forgot "station stop"

As opposed to random stop for 20mins,a quarter of a mile outside the station when we are already 20mins late ?

US State Department coughs up $630k for Facebook Likes

Re: Blocking

In most government departments allowing the staff access to anything OTHER than facebook would lower productivity across the nation

The safest thing to do with all government employees, and especially military/security services - is to sit them at a desk with facebook/angry birds/tetris to distract them.

Home Office opens up anonymised crime data API

Re: it all adds up

Westminster - anytime

Fraud, theft, perjury, sexual assault, drunkenness .....

Fitbit Flex wristband: What to wear out when wearing yourself out

Re: What a worthless toy.

DIY version:

Get yellow Lance Armstrong wristband (should be lots available)

Write "put down that pastie you fat bastard' on it with marker pen

Profit

Apple's new data center to be solar powered, 100% green

Re: Oh look, the anti progress brigade turned up in the forum

I'm always amazed at the number of readers on el'reg with a sound understanding of physics/maths/economics who can see through cheap publicity stunts.

Re: Stunt

And presumably they get to sell to the grid at 5x the price they pay to extract. So their data center gets paid for by the poor people trying to heat their homes

PRISM leaks: WTF, you don't spy on your friends, splutters EU

Re: Show them you mean it

Or the more paranoid, cynical and probably accurate conspiracy

The NSA wanted this information out there because it has a chilling effect. You might think twice about clicking on the EFF/Peta/GreenPeace link if you think it's going to get logged by the government.

Pot kettle?

Didn't Maggie brag about how MI5 had bugged the Eu commisioner Mr Fischler when they were negotiating some UK deal on agriculture or something tedious?

A short, sharp tool kit to get you to the top in financial IT

Re: BA?

A Bullshit Artist is always useful aren't they?

Brit fantasy artist sues James Cameron over Avatar world

Re: Good artists copy; great artists steal.

However the cover artist seems to have stolen the idea for a world encompassing tree from Norse myth. If you thought Apple's lawyers were bad you haven't been up against Odin

3-2-1... BOOM: Russian rocket launches, explodes into TOXIC FIREBALL

Re: No auto destruct ?

The rocket holds a hundred tons of kerosene - exactly what sort of auto destruct could destroy that quicker than it burning?

Presumably the former USSR has a few 1000 such devices lying around but putting them onto rockets might seem unfriendly

Gone

Re: The one built by a competent admin

>Windows 8 because it has built in on-by-default AV and firewall.

And it has free automatic cloud backup of all your emails/website visits and IMs

Dubya: I introduced PRISM and I think it's pretty swell

Re: erm

The difference is that Americans thought they had a Constitution prohibiting this sort of thing. Brits just assumed that they have always lived under fascism - albeit it one that couldn't make the trains run on time.

Re: Come on you lot...

In which case there are a lot of people in the West due to be shipped back to the USSR - who were merely criminals for spying on it.

REVEALED: Google's GINORMOUS £650m London Choc Factory

Inspired by the coffee cart on platform 3 of St Pancras

Re: If they are clever...

Unless you are renting the building from yourself and billing the UK operations $1000/day for each of the staff who are actually employed by Google-Venus, their new off-planet tax haven.

It was one of the few tax scams for small businesses. You were allowed to invest in real estate tax free as part of your pension. So you built a factory and rented it to your own company for well above market rates. The company paid less tax because it made less profit and all the extra money went into your real estate company which you got tax back on because it was a pension fund investment

Re: Oh well...

Although it may appear to be in Camden, for tax purposes the building is actually in another dimension.

Also due to Google's advanced inter-dimensional engineering, the interior of the building is actually smaller than the outside - so they will only be liable for tax on the 1sq ft inside space

Yorkshire police lose 9,000 guns in rogue BOFH database blunder

Re: Actually there *is* a use for this register.

You're think of chair legs

Re: “We are in a situation not of our making,” said Chf Supt Odell

Well they fired the one with glasses who could read.

Since then they have tried kicking, punching, truncheoning and even dropping the machine down the stairs but can't get it to say anything.

HP Enterprise scores major win with $3.5bn Navy network contract

Re: Interesting

They will fill the desktop, start menu and icon tray with so many add-ins to; order supplies, connect your HP whatever to facebook and download updates that a user will never be able to find any classified documents

Schwarzenegger says 'I'll be back' for Terminator 5 reboot

Re: Hollywood sucks

Friends in the industry claim it's due to the death of DVD.

To approve funding on a film you need guaranteed money upfront. DVD sales with a 50% (to the studio) margin were enough to cover the cost, cinema audience with 5% profit are really just advertising.

With no DVD on the spreadsheet the only upfront money is foreign sales. So Hollywood is green-lighting pictures on what they know will sell to Australian TV or S.E Asian theatres - which means familiar titles/franchises/stars

Microsoft partners seriously underwhelmed by Windows 8.1

Re: Windows 7?

"If I made what my customers wanted, I'd be making faster horses.""

Instead he makes a car but only 2% of them have wheels

And the only way to buy a horse is to buy a wheel-less car and then trade it in

Live or let dial - phones ain’t what they used to be

Re: 999

The dial came first, 999 was selected because it sent 9 pulses so was unlikely to be sent by a short

If the phone dials went the other way 111 would be the emergency number

Obama says US won't scramble jets or twist arms for Snowden

Re: Note:

So any Brits or Canadians called Snowden better watch

Re: Normal

If it really was Obama's volunteer IT ninjas that won it over the Republicans disasterous big business consultants. Then after Aaron Schwartz and Snowden he's going to have a hard job finding developers to help the democrats next time - in fact he may have a hard job paying anybody who is any good

Re: empathy and feelings of a cold blooded lizard

That's a very hurtful thing to say.

Just because some of choose to be environmentally sensitive and use the sun's heat to naturally warm our bodies - rather than waste 90% of our food trying to heat our surroundings to 37C all you mammals get all superior

re: What’s gone wrong with my country?

At least you started with Ben Franklin and honorable intentions

We started worse than we are now and need the Germans to force us to obey a human rights act - and half our 'leaders' are campaigning to get out of that

UK sitting on top of at least 50 years of shale gas – report

Re: But, but, but....

If you look at the map, most of it is well above sea level -except for Lincolnshire .

A petrochemical rich independant Yorkshire and a rising sea level flooded south east doesn't look to bad.

Re: Sinking houses

Nothing

Coal is what we call a rock. Remove rock and the roof falls in. Especially with the mining techniques used in shallow coal mines. Gas is a gas, most of the rock isn't held up by pressure - remove the gas and the rock doesn't change much.

Sounds familiar

Didn't we used to have 300years reserve of fossil fuels under the north before?

Labels to get, count them, 0.13 cents per play on Apple iRadio

RIAA are you listening?

0.13c per track for Apple - $250,000 per track for pirates

First quartet of low-latency broadband satellites now in space

Re: Also...

Those are all in GSO so are also over the equator. You can put a geo-synchronous orbit at any other inclinition but then it only passes over a fixed point once per day

Play the Snowden flights boardgame: Avoid going directly to Jail

Re: Yet Another Anonymous coward Pen-y-gors I would be very worried...

I meant if the UK decided to force down a civil Russian airline.

We might have jet fighters but we don't have any coal mines

Re: Pen-y-gors I would be very worried...

In which case Moscow just turns a tap and all the lights and heat go off in Britain

We might be a US client state politically - but the USSR (sorry Gasprom) owns our energy.

Re: Airspace

Yes, and in addition the US doesn't have transit lounges - so if your plane needs to refuel in Miami going from S America to Europe you need to have a US visa.

It's one of the selling points of the new Boeing 7E7 that it can do most of S America to europe/middle east without going through the US.

It's had to consider yourself part of the new BRIC economy if you have to ask the old economy's permission to travel.