Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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.

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

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

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.

LEO, the British computer that roared

But

HR still wanted 5years experience of LEO55 before hiring them

They were managed by somebody who couldn't work a slide rule and kept asking them for help to change a typewriter ribbon

The whole project was cancelled by a board that couldn't see any future in this computer stuff and were putting their money into a new Broccoli flavoured cream cake that marketing said would be a hit with the children

Barnes & Noble sheds Nook tablet albatross, will focus on ebooks

Re: NST

Advertisers like colour.

Magazine publishing is all about ads.

Magazine publishing is where the money is (what little there is left of it)

Microsoft: Half of all organizations will use 'Facebook-like' tools

Re: I call bullshit .

Well now everytime I go to download and expenses claim from our sharepoint site I get little popups asking if I want to join/share/fondle this site with all my friends.

The only explanations I have is that they know filling in expense claims is boring and they believe Facebook is fun - so they want to make filing an expense claim more like Facebook.

Or they are "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,

Microsoft: Someone gave us shot in the ARM by swallowing Surface tabs

We made lots of money in the past with a monopoly on desktop OS and Office.

So if we don't change we will continue to make lots of money with a monopoly on desktop OS and Office.

After all, the same logic worked for DEC, Tandem, SGI, IBM ....

Freed LulzSec hacker banned from contacting Anons, wiping data

Good job he wasn't Japanese and wasn't guilty of "several MILLION counts of conspiracy to do an unauthorised act with intent to impair the operation of a computer" - then he would have faced ... nothing

Or perhaps a fine that could be paid in vouchers to buy more stuff from Sony

PlayStation 4 is FreeBSD inside

Re: FFS - It's a development kit, not a prototype or manufacturing sample

Yes, The years of development going into openGL were mostly comittees trying to balance the needs of CAD makers on existing Unix workstations with games makers.

It's quite easy to produce libs that are faster for a typical 2d shooter on your own custom hardware than a general purpose graphics library.

Most games engines will spit out whatever you want on the back end anyway.

PRISM leaker strands hacks on booze-free flight

International law?

" we have transferred seven prisoners to Russia that they wanted"

And 1245 flights to Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan and other countries

Re: the press had to endure a long flight with no alcohol

No booze - on an Aeroflot flight?

Telly psychics fail to foresee £12k fine for peddling nonsense

Re: Does this mean....

No - but economic forecasts do

Privacy expert dismisses PRISM-busting typeface as 'art project'

Not an 'entirely' stupid concept

There was a series of fonts developed at the computer lab in Cambridge to stop electronic eavesdropping on monitors http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/R08/work/slides-ykrt2-videorf.pdf

Of course it doesn't help if the evil boffins at the milk marketing board are tapping your internet rather than hiding in the bushes

Snowden dodges US agents in Moscow, skips out on flight

Should have flown to Britain

Then Aeroflot could have refused the police permission to enter the plane to arrest him and Jack Straw would have apologised to them for trying

Media phone-hacking? Tip of the iceberg, says leaked police report

Re: New Laws

Can we have new laws to control the police then?

And what about insisting that juries in police corruption trials consist only of ex-miners and black teenagers - that should add some unpredicatability to the normal "medical leave on full pay" outcome of any investigation.

The classics are the best.

Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that phone-hacking is going on in here!

[a croupier hands Renault a pile of disks]

Croupier: Your IMP records sir

Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

That enough, folks? Starbucks tosses £5m into UK taxman's coffers

Re: Hard to get excited

Since they are vital to the nation's economy ( the city would grind to a halt if people couldn't get their espresso) and yet they lose money they should be nationalised

The shop in the Caymans doesn't even need to sell you the bananas - it can just hold the trademark on your greengrocer's misuse of the apostrophe.

Re: I never pay at Starbucks

They claim a net outflow of money from the country - I claim a net outflow of liquid at Starbucks.

The amount I take in from a cup is less than the amount I flush down their toilet.

I never pay at Starbucks

By also having a pee every time I go in I make a net loss and so don't have to pay for the coffee.

Shoplifiting is illegal but "advantageous purchase planning" is all part of my duty as a Yorkshireman to pay nowt.

'The Decider' quits Twitter to become White House deputy CTO

A lawyer as chief TECHNOLOGY officer?

Well at least it's an improvement on putting Baptist preachers in charge of the science and technology committee

Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't

Re: Google lightens the image to reduce detail

Further complicated by the fact that Scotland only appears once every 100years

Leaked docs: GCHQ spooks secretly haul in more data than NSA

Re: Uses of intelligence data ..

Presumably, one who can read, one who can write and 848,998 to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals.

Nice to have an opportunity to recycle an old stasi joke.

Re: TL;DR

Nice Botticelli alterpecee you've got there - you're knicked you perv

Re: No bureaucracy

But they do keep us safe from tigers.

Since the introduction of this program there have been very few tiger attacks on Britain's streets

Cuba bound? Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong

Re: Obama is due to meet Mandela soon

That's a ridiculous comparison to draw.

Mandela was actually the leader of a genuine terrorist/freedom organisation, he had a civil trial in public for and wasn't tortured.

Re: Don't want to be in Ed Snowden's position, right now...

It will be interesting to see how the US responds to China's request for en. Keith Alexander's extradition

El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

Re: Yorkshire Gold! - Hard or Soft blend of bags?

But do they do a version for soft-southerner water?

Tesla unveils battery-swapping tech for fast car charging

Re: In other electric car news...

Almost every other car company only makes a profit on their investment arm and car financing deals.

Others like GM have only ever made money by threatening to go bust if the government doesn't bail them out regularly.

Just about every airline has been in chapter11 since it was founded - that doesn't mean flying is impractical

Nissan to enter 300 kmh electric car in Le Mans endurance race

Re: Knee-Jerking...

No they have ernie - the fastest milkman in the west

US DoJ: Happy b-day, Ed Snowden! You're (not?) charged with capital crimes

Re: Death? Pffft. 10 years isn't death,,,,

There is also the small print that says we can just send a drone round to kill you if we don't like you.

Not all data encryption is created equal

The guarantee is inter-service rivalry.

The CIA wouldn't use an encryption that the NSA could break - the secret service wouldn't use something the CIA could read and so on.

NORKS harbouring 3,000-strong cyber army, claims Seoul

That's the problem with starting an war on the interwebitubes.

If everything in S Korea is wired up and internetted it's rather easier to do some damage.

However many times more skilled hackers the south has - it's unlikely that the N Koreans have very much vital equipement connected to the internet waiting to be attacked.