Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

First, servers were deep-fried... now, engineers bring you wet ones

Re: Indeed, it's a great idea

Until summer and you have to dump more heat because the incoming air is hotter and the school next door suddenly doesn't want heating to 50C and you can't dump the heat into the air because it's too hot

SHIELD Act proposed to make patent trolls pay

Re: Just remember...

The problem then is who decides if the "troll" rule applies?

I invent some new computer gizmo, I patent it and show it to IBM/Samsung/Apple

They copy it and I sue them.

They claim that since I am not making a computer/phone/tablet then I am an NPE and to sue them have to put up a bond to cover their costs.

They claim that they are using 1000 company lawyers at $1000/hour so if the case will take a year - I have to put up $2.5Bn bond, I can't and so they get a default judegment against me.

Remember just like how Patriot Act and RIPA were only going to be used against terrorists - it will be upto the big corps to decide who is a troll

Nominet tosses plan for shorter .uk domains in the bin (for now)

Because it's the standard technique for getting a survey answer you want.

Do you think children should be protected from zombies and do you think that the congestion charge be increased?

Becomes = 97% of people think the congestion charge should increase

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

Re: Not socialist..

Yep that's exactly what I think when I look at Tony Blair or Peter Mandleson - there goes a secret Maoist

A socialist dream?

> If you tell people how to live their lives right down to the smallest detail it crushes their self esteem and will >and they become little more than robots with whom you can do what you like.

Definitely a socialist idea - now just wait while I cut the end of my dick off, never cut my hair, don't eat shellfish, don't carry keys on saturday, hate gays, not use condoms .....

EU web chief: Europe's slow on 4G, but 5G GLORY WILL BE OURS

Re: Smokescreen and mirrors

Or to put it another way. British Telecom, Duetsche Telecom, France Telecom and everyother national monopoly telecom get $M in back handers to "invest" in this new technology which will be standardised across europe.

They will then introduce data roaming charges that make it 100x as expensive to use your european standard phone 1km across a border.

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

Re: It's an improvement......

>Keep this up and we will end up with a lizard sporting a bouffant.

That's most of Fox's 'news' presenters

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

Re: *sad*

Proper British CPUs don't need no flimsy valves - they are built from brass gearwheels.

As long as you oil then they are fine.

India launch puts Canadian microsats into orbit

Canada

Surely the country with least to fear from asteroids?

Given its ratio of "places you would care about a rock hitting" to "places the size of wales that you would never notice if they disappeared"

It begins: Six-strikes copyright smackdown starts in US

"While no ISP wants pirates"

Of course, because ISPs sell 100Mbs download/512kbs upload and 500Gb/month packages to people who are just really into facebook

UK distie boss: My brush with death in rapper's drive-by killing

Re: Usual 5am Run?

If you were a boss at HP you would practice running away as well.

In other news, a rising young music star was in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a disgruntled HP customer attempted to gun down the HP distie manager

Re: Range Rovers

A proper hoodlum should drive a green series II land rover and then leave the scene at a sedate 35mph

Nokia opens Maps to rivals, flogs uber-budget €15 phone

Re: Puzzled

It's 5 maps and I can't see Google fixing it. If you are offline they aren't selling ads or your location - so what's init for them?

Microsoft brings Azure back online

Re: So how to customers get refunded?

No "acts of idiot" are specifically excluded from the SLA

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the 787 battery debacle

Review: The ultimate Chromebook challenge

Re: "but the Acer has Caps Lock"

PRESS CTRL-SHIFT on the samsung and you get capslock, but it cancels when you press a none-letter key

Re: Of course Samsung innovates...

shiny aluminium and rounded corners aren't an Apple invention

In fact I think deHaviland should sue Apple for copying the comet

Re: Ah....oh dear....

There is a slight difference between "press reset, log back back in and have all your documents synced"

vs,

Run Windows reimage utility on a laptop, wait an hour, reboot a dozen times, find the drivers, run 37,000 windows updates, reinstall office, call India to get the key recognized because you already installed this copy, download and configure all the other bits of software you need for a useful Windows machine

Then copy all your docs from a backup

Build your own 180TB NAS for $US1,942.59 (plus disk)

Re: (plus disk)

>No data on redundancy method though.

They run raid 6 (2 parity drives) on each box and the data is replicated over at least one other box.

The server part to distribute customers data as efficenctly as possible accross different hardware, is their secret sauce

Chip daddy Mead: 'A bunch of big egos' are strangling science

Re: The last I heard

Reducing R&B budgets is a problem in science.

I woke up this morning...... my oscilloscope was gone ... that Textronix gone and left me .....

Mach's principle

Although as a general rule, when anybody mentions Mach's principle then everything else they say can be ignored as lunatic ramblings.

BBC: Monster cargo ship delivers '863 million tins of baked beans'

23.5 knots = 72 692.4362 furlongs per fortnight

Re: Too many eggs in one basket

Doesn't matter.

Big ships are needed when you have to go a long way, China-Europe cheaply.

Smaller ships are efficent enough on the shorter China-Canada route

Then you have to do something with the cargo. If you offload 10,000 containers in Felixstowe or Rotterdam you can have the stuff anywhere in Europe quickly and cheaply.

If you unloaded all of that in Long Beach it would be expensive to truck it to Chicago - so multiple routes with smaller ships going to more cities makes sens for a bigger low density continent.

Re: bit dubious about 18,000

18,000 teu is how many they could stack and be within the height and sight line limits

15,000 teu is how many they could hold at typical average container weights

If next years christmas popular present is made of lead it will be lower, if there is a big craze for bubble wrap it will be higher

Sony flogs off more assets in scramble for full-year profit

Re: broke?

Handing over position of "coolest consumer gadget" maker to Apple then starting a decade of leaderless internal corporate infighting nearly broke them.

Meet the stealthiest UK startup's app Swiftkey - and its psychic* keyboard

Re: Hmmm

LOL

Apple and world HACKED by Facebook plunderers

Re: Practice safe browsing

They don't make it easy though.

Disable Java in chrome

Click the little iching symbol on the toolbar - well the three horizontal lines that means 'heaven' or settings

The select settings

Then click the show advanced settings link

Then click the content settings button (hint this is the one that is a heading not a link)

Then scroll down to plug-ins in the popup window

The click the disable individual plugins link (we are back to links now)

Then find Java and click disable

To quote Douglas Adams .... Have you ever thought of going into advertising ?

Next HP CEO is already working at HP, says Meg Whitman

old-fashioned "HP way

Was also to produce outstanding kit and stand behind it, supporting it for ever.

Not a combination of printer ink banditary and government IT 'consulting' projects

Agile development may be taught in Australian High Schools

Re: Vague Goals

Still better than GCSE ITC = "students will be able to underline a word in Word using the underline button on the toolbar"

And for A-level they have to do it using the f***ing ribbon

Strange accent

"Develop systematic techniques for acquiring, storing and validating quantitative and qualitative data from a range of sources considering privacy and security requirements”

sounds just like "education"

Software update knocks out Space Station communications

Re: backup

Or they can just tie a message to a rock and drop it out of the window. That will probably get noticed

Re: Lesson learned.

I entirely agr......

Dutch MP must cough €750 for hacking into medical lab

the judge was just annoyed because it's the same combination he had on his luggage

Re: Punishing whistle-blowers??

You're new to this planet aren't you ?

Tesco dials 999 after Clubcard vouchers are 'nicked' online

Re: There's another issue

>A database of Tesco shoppers names and addresses can be sold for a fair wedge too

Presumably though it's the "value line" of online databases

Now a list of Waitrose customers on the other hand

Amazon ditches 'neo-Nazi' security firm over alleged harassment of workers

UK warehouses

Surely not, I'm confident that everyone working in the UK's private security industry are paragons of virtue.

Most of them are vegetarian Guardian readers just doing a vital role helping in the community.

The black outfits? well it's so sliming - and the 6D maglite holsters are just there in case there is a power cut aren't they?

Baby-boulder bowling burglar breaks Boulder Apple Store's $100k glass door

Re: Moron thieves

these days it would be a $4M fine for ripping CDs he owns to MP3

Re: Read into that comment what you will.

As the great Nelson Muntz commented, Ah Ah -

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/microsoft-campus-hit-by-thieves-only-ipads-stolen

Nursing watchdog fined £150k for confidential unencrypted DVD loss

Re: Thats the real issue..

And it wasn't - the fine was because nobody in the organisation had even bothered to give any thought to protecting the details of the people they are caring for.

If they had sent a regular DVD of the video footage but kept the identifying details and names/addresses encrypted or anonymised they would be fine.

The need for security isn't exactly unknown in medical data. We generate test files for CT scanners and have to anonymise the "patient info" in the DICOM file of a density wedge before the hospitals will accept it!

Burger King's tweets fried after hijackers pimp Big Macs

Re: A confused old fart writes....

they just forget a field for "species=cow"

Cameron to ink cyber deal with India, protect Brit outsourced data

Re: Right we get the point but

I think you're forgetting who a conservative PM works for

Obama says patent trolls 'extort money', pledges reform

Re: Or we could try to fix it

Software patents aren't always bad:

I invent a mechanism and implement it in cogs and gears = patent no problem

I implement the same thing in analogue electronics = patent

I do the same thing in a DSP or FPGA and that's software - without software patents anybody can copy it.

Re: A good place to start

Prior art can be anything, there is even a famous case of a Donald Duck cartoon from 50years ago invalidating a patent.

The problem is that the USPTO only checks for prior art in its own patents before granting. They take the view that it's upto the court to deal with any arguements. Although the rules change next month.

The trouble with going to court is that if you lose - you lose big. RIM (blackberry) lost in court to an obvious patent troll who claimed any push messaging to a mobile device. It cost them $$$Billions and meant that any responsible CEO had to settle with a troll or risk losing the company, and a shareholder lawsuit.

Newegg recently refused to settle with a troll who claimed shopping carts - but they could only do this because they are owned by the CEO and he can say "screw patent trolls"

Apple design bloke Ive finally honoured properly - with Blue Peter badge

Re: Apropos of aluminium

However the IUPAC says 2 i's

They do however bow down to the forces of ignorance and suggest spelling sulphur with an "f" - filistines.

Own a drone: Fine. But fly a drone with a cam: Year in the clink

Re: Its the USA isn't it?

So just fit a gun to your drone and the Oregon politicians will be falling over themselves to defend your right to it

Silicon Roundabout worthies in £2m UK.gov cash battle royale

Re: So now we (the taxpayers)...

I don't think the money will get as far as the people making the fart app.

There are a lot of creative consultants and PR people to pay first

re: close to customers

That was my problem with a web based startup

establishing an office in everyone's living room