Posts by Chris 15

UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

Re: How about FTTP for urbal locations, OpenReach?

14.4?? Is that kilobits? What modem standard from last century is that again?

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Re: Tracking

Laws, like, say, the GDPR (UK GDFPR for us brits), which say that data controllers require permission, and which setting do not track clearly signals to the website that we do not grant permission for the data dragnet to be used and clearly fall within the gdpr meaning for witholding consent??

This is a poor move by Mozilla and I'm hoping an addon quickly adds it back in.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

Re: I read through

Switch the beancounter off then back on again with a defib pack? Cattleprods being somewhat frowned upon..

Re: Thermostats

Sorry to 'well Aktuwalleee' but I don't know of any internal combustion engined car that does not have a 'heater core' for cabin heating..albeit fed heat via the engine coolant loop which will send most of the waste heat to the radiator once the engine is at proper operating temperature

So you are kind of correct, but not technically correct.

Have a beer anyway ---------->

Brits think AI in the workplace is all chat, no bot for now

what a load of tripe

I love how organisation like this claim nebulous things about what a large group of people 'think' based on a ridiculously small and selective sample size. Talk about desperately trying to gin up publicity about themselves!

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

that makes me think

We should unleash amanfrommars1 on spammed-in as a 'thought leader', he might get a cult following!

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Re: 'lessons learned'

Yes, that would be truer, however this is West Sussex County Council you're talking about. They're frankly appalling

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

Re: Hasn't the left been saying for quite a while that free speech is not free from consequences?

No, and neither have you. Because you are being disingenuous and spreading lies.

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you're 16... or X, Instagram and Facebook

Now the UK should do the same. We can all live without these known cesspits full of lies, hate and exploitation

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

'Exit interview'

ugh, that hoary old chestnut.

Let's force someone with (now) no stake in the business to have to sit through a grilling and lecturing session because Galloping Corporatitis!

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

Re: "Russia doesn't lie to deceive you. Russia lies to insult you."

Introduce him to window skydiving more like- obviously no parachute

Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns

Re: WOT! Amazon screws over customers?

Surely you could go down the criminality route. Commercial copyright infringement is usually a criminal offense in most jurisdictions?

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars

Re: FOUR YEARS?

Indeed, this is unbelievably weak. Considering the cash this guy has no doubt squirreled away it's pathetic

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

Well surely Cow-orker works in this case..

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

Re: Questionable resolution

Oh do give it a test with the ad hominem fallacy silliness

Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature

hey look!

An addons (i guess you mean browser addons) are bad strawman!

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

Re: Three point one pints please

Aussie beer isn't really better chilled so ..

US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation

my suspicion?

They have a geosynchronous satellite continuously watching them concrete cows. That's the only thing to worry about...

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

Re: But surely

I'm sceptical, without a load to increase resistance surely the increase in max amperage should have had no effect? Absent some type of short the only way to overload would surely be to increase voltage?

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Odd tone here

I find it interesting that El Reg is ignoring the lack of actual privacy in this" 'Privacy' Sandbox" falsely titled Personal Data Grab update

Rather than just being able to disable third party tracking cookies like in any browser that doesn't treat you, the user, as the product for their advertiser customers, Google decide to make it so that only they are able to sell you the the highest bidder.

The alternative to not being tracked across the web via third party tracking cookies is NOT to be tracked across the web by Google instead.

Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

Re: Am I the only one that read the article?

You may have read the article, but I did too, either I'm going blind or you are hallucinating when you allege that she was using 'arm' logos based on what the article said.

Also there is no allegation that 'other things to give the impression it was associated with Arm.' were present on these domains.

Perhaps you were reading a different article?

Perhaps you have further verifiable information that would add to this story?

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

As I understand it only counts if you marry a cousin though...

China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium

Re: Middle Kingdom

So your riposte boils down to 'How dare you say they are persecuted, hey look at the fancy trains (which they would need special permission to use- but we'll gloss over that)'

Just to clue you in a few massively over-budget rail projects does not mean great infrastructure

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Drivel

Do try harder next time though

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

Re: I think I get it...

A police roadblock for a suspect wanted in connection with a crime is not the same as a dragnet by the xenophobe squad

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

odd one

You would have thought that the BOFH and Kelvin would have a long-standing understanding, or else it would be all out war, possibly involving armed autonomous death robots equipment delivery devices.

That's assuming the PFY doesn't take matters into his own hands before Simon even considered it...

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Nice bit of neutral reporting. Not

Shove your inane blathering where the sun doesn't shine, sunshine.

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

Whilst I wouldn't put it so crudely, I came here to say the same thing. There's a war going on, and one side has shown it has very little in the way of morality.

Surely it's common sense to consider security ramifications of allowing potentially compromised or actually bad actors or their accounts access to modify and possibly compromise n different software sources? Risk mitigation is a prudent course of action

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

BAH

VoiceOfWinnie, stop talking.

Here's something for you to ponder:

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

Go away and think about your life choices maybe?

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

ooookay then

By the way, are Elmo's boots good lickin'?

User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

well, maybe..

The message should have read "Software update in progress - PLEASE WAIT"

with "Do not attempt to shut down or restart this PC until this message dissappears" underneath it.

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

Re: Do be evil

I was imagining a robot from Sirius Cybernetic Corps with a Genuine People Personality to be fair

'Have a Great Day' at the end :)

Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth

hahahahahahaha

Sorry, just killing my self laughing.

I can imagine the scene now:

Senior manglement phb: 'These maintenance costs for the new nuclear generator are far too high! Sack the maintenance crew!'

Cowed underling: 'yessir'

Cue miniature Chernobyl's all over the place

No, just no

Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up

Re: Hmmmmmmm

Try having all of the facts.

The Tesla reportedly cut suddenly across 'multiple' lanes of traffic and then braked.

Kind of unreasonable to expect people to leave a safe braking distance to a car that isn't in front of you at that point ...

Re: Hmmmmmmm myxipix2

Did the party about the Tesla crossing multiple lanes of traffic just before slamming on the anchors not cross your awareness?

Bit hard to maintain distance from the car in front of you when it has just appeared there suddenly a moment before...

With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

Re: Gotta love management speak

Euphemisms, surely?

Like this wonderful bit:

>>Rob Shuter, who runs BT Enterprise, will “step down from executive life and spend time with family and on his personal interests,”

Sooo... paid off to sling his hook then?

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

Re: Oh boy

Those on the receiving end will be worrying about the reaction, whether it's a chemical or atomic reaction on that warhead they're receiving is probably a moot point if they're the ones expected to play catch...

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

Meh

Go back to your vegemite ;p

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

Re: Supermarkets do this to people already.

The big difference in the supermarket is that it is a public place... With no reasonable expectation of privacy.

You could order your Pappa John's cardboard circle whilst stark naked (best to don some type of clothing when you accept the delivery though...)

Can't do that in a supermarket

Airbus auctions off bits from retired A380 superjumbo jet

Ahem

"A pair of crashes that killed everyone on board in 2018 and 2019 grounded the 737 MAX until last year, with flaws in its MCAS software ultimately found to have contributed to the fatal accidents."

(Emphasis mine)

Have to say that's putting it rather mildly guys.

Florida asks Supreme Court if it's OK to ban content moderation it doesn't like

Re: Sauce for the goose...

Has'Troof' social for 50 million fools to sign up then?

Another though here is this: doesn't the minimum 50 million subscribers bit fall afoul of the equal protection amendment thing? ("We're treating you differently to these other folks because, all else being equal, this arbitrary number means we want to")

Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

Almost

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines Leafblowers

(to try and keep these beasts cool)

Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

LOL hell no

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu... 'far'left', just stop it with the 'the left creates monsters too' bs. People who use the 'communism' schtick to justify why they should be dictators are not 'far left', they're simply opportunist thugs. Similarly Communism isn't 'far left', its just another way of hoodwinking the masses. I'm surprised you left Hitler out with his National 'Socialism' in your tripe.

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

evocative subject, a few thoughts though

Firstly I think the article is remiss for not listing the Windscale/Sellafield (not letting a name change hide it is important) nuclear incident. Also lacking is coverage of some of the contamination caused by previous poorly though out adventures in nuclear power (in my opinion driven mainly by decisions taken more with an eye to production of nuclear weapons then with power production)

With that we clearly need more nukes, just a safer kind and one that can also use the by-products of earlier nuclear projects as fuel, without enabling more weapons production.

The problem as I see it is both that that we don't have the technology mastered, and the political will is lacking both from a Greenpeace contaminated pr standpoint and vested interests in the nuclear industry wanting nothing more than a rent seeking (for them) solution. See for example the quite ridiculous attempts to finish the current nuclear power projects underway in this country.

China's IT minister under investigation for violating law

Indeed

This article is rather credulous in stating both of those lines. As what tends to play out in the system of government that they use in the larger China means that Xi will have 'allies' and 'friends' to whom he is beholden.

This is without mentioning the ultimate beneficiaries of all the factories overseen by their military.

This is also overlooking the endemic corruption that their system is 'lubricated' with.

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

Re: "but I would not report the damage back to my head office"h

Ahh idiot manglers who won't back down even though their idea is proven to be useless.

The world is full of them, and sadly full of idiot manglers higher up who fall for their nonsense despite those at the sharp end telling the truth....

September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job

HOWEVER

This still cost alot of families alot of money, and did economic damage which further negatively impacted their finances.

The revisionist lie that this did not affect real people in real ways does not wash.

An international incident or just some finger trouble at the console?

Re: Sorry...

Well he'd 'know' how to write them i guess...

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

False

Just because it precludes free lunches by people taking and redstributing it without granting the users of the redistribution the same rights as the person redistributing it does not make it a problem for interoperability. you can have your cake and it it with the gpl, just no cherry picking. :p

RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel

Re: Less about world domination...

I would have to agree. Intel are unsurprisingly in the Risc-V game only for what they can get out of it. I suppose the fact that they are not a charity and want to maintain long term dominance of at least one sector of computing is all the explanation they need.