* Posts by diodesign

3495 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win

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Re: Patrick R

The point we were trying to make is that although Vettel was ahead of Hamilton, the Ferrari driver had yet to pit so wasn't really 1st. However, due to the timing cockup, Vettel was able to maintain pole position anyway.

I've tweaked the article to make it clearer.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything you think is wrong. We see those instantly, whereas we don't have time to read through every comment - there are thousands a month.

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NASA stalls $8bn James Webb Space Telescope again – this time to 2020

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Re: WillC

"Didn't they remember Mister Scott's secret?"

Spock, it's a joke.

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New Forum Wishlist - but read roadmap first

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Re: Re: Feature request: Mod rejection reason

Generally not a great idea to state without caveats that a company has stolen IP from another company when they settled out of court.

99.99% they are not going to sue over an article comment, but it's always the ones you least suspect that end up triggering a legal headache.

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FCC boss to block 'national security risk' companies (cough, Huawei, ZTE) from US's $8.5bn broadband pot

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Re: Used to, as in...

"I used to do drugs.

"I still do, but I used to, too."

–– Mitch Hedberg

The Register Lecture: The Secret Spitfires

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Re: Adolph Hitler????

It's fixed - please email corrections@theregister.com if you spot any issues. Sometimes typos and whatnot slip through.

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Prof Stephen Hawking's ashes will be interred alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

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Re: 'Physics ace'

Black-hole brainiac? Cosmic connoisseur? Battery-backed boffin?

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The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

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It's been fixed! Sorry about that.

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Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian

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Re: bike or not

"Why is there a broken bike at the scene?"

Not sure at the moment - it could have nothing to do with it, and the reporter on the scene assumed it was.

Edit: She was walking her bike across the road.

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Re: bike or not

An initial report said it was a cyclist, but then the story was updated to say pedestrian.

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It's begun: 'First' IPv6 denial-of-service attack puts IT bods on notice

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"an IPv6 project team is brought in or created specifically to do an IPv6 project"

Yup. IPv6 is hacked on as an afterthought. Not at all orgs, but quite a few, it seems.

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Equifax peeks under couch, finds 2.4 million more folk hit by breach

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Re: elvisimprsntr

From the linked-to statement:

"Equifax was able to identify approximately 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and partial driver's license information were stolen, but who were not in the previously identified affected population discussed in the company's prior disclosures about the incident."

HTH

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Martian microbes may just be resting – boffins

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Re: TDahl

Cool, but the story's not wrong FYI.

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Virgin Media's Brit biz broadband goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Upset People

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Leased lines

Given it allegedly involves a corrupted database, used to authenticate subscribers, I'm not surprised it affects non-leased lines.

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Stunning infosec tips from Uncle Sam, furries exposed, Chase bank web leak, and more

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Re: furries

I think you're nitpicking a little - or reading too much into a simplified description, simplified for brevity.

I've tweaked that part to try to keep everyone happy.

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Re: El Reg published, "...shit down."

We really need to lay off the Friday martinis :(

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Re: Amos1

Argh, ok. Apologies. It was a case of a missing word "not" from the article's sentence, rather than deliberate misinformation or someone not reading the doc.

It's fixed. Thanks.

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Re: Re: Perhaps someone needs to read the 2018 SEC guidance a bit closer...

"I feel like this article is not quite up to the Reg's usual bar of quality, what with the copious spelling and grammatical errors and misinformation."

Argh, ok, we'll go back over it. It was a Friday afternoon piece - but that's no excuse.

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BBC Telly Tax heavies got pat on the head from snoopers' overseers

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Re: Sam Therapy

It's fixed - by "uses a television," we meant watching live telly.

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Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X

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Re: Phil W

Just like software written by professionals has bugs, articles written and edited by professionals have errors from time to time. It's fixed.

As for the Intel U/M thing. It's a Kaby Lake R Intel Core M part, but has a U in the part name. Because Intel.

From the official spec sheet, the 8550U is a Kaby Lake R part as opposed to a Kaby Lake U or a Skylake U.

Chipzilla's naming of stuff drives me bonkers.

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Re: How do they do it ?

It's been fixed - drop corrections@theregister.com an email if you spot anything wrong.

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The YouTube crackdown on fake news: Promoting bonkers Florida school shooting conspiracies

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Re: Re: Robert Mueller is a neo-Mccarthyist

"For which he quickly apologised."

Well, it was a load of corporate spin.

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Re: Robert Mueller is a neo-Mccarthyist

"The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election"

Yeah, something like 56% after, 44% before.

Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive’s Comments on Russian Interference

A Reg reader falling for a SV exec's spin? Oh my days.

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Hot NAND: Samsung wheels out 30TB SSD monster

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Re: nate1981

Yes - it's a 3.5" drive.

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James Damore's labor complaint went over about as well as his trash diversity manifesto

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Re: controversial bro-grammer ?

"Is there a way to filter out all SJW insanity that comes from San Francisco based The Register team ?"

Yeah, stop reading us.

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Re: DainB

Nah mate. As we'd say in the engineering/math world...

Damore's essay was idiotic [triv]

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Hyperoptic's overkill 10Gbps fibre trial 'more than a clever PR stunt'

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Re: GreenReaper

All right, GrumpyReaper. I think you're being overly pedantic. Half the article stresses that home hardware can't handle the high-speeds, and that 1Gbps is more than enough let alone 10Gbps.

We assume all Reg readers are smart enough to understand that YMMV when discussing theoretical maximum data transfer speeds. Since you're being so pedantic, consider this: we didn't say anything about _writing_ the data to disk, merely fetching it. So yes, you can download a 25GB game in a few seconds over a 10Gbps line - writing it to storage is another thing entirely, which Reg readers know all too well.

I've tweaked the piece to make it crystal clear.

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Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google

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Re: Who cares

Thanks for that insightful observation, anon.

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Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

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Re: Cupertino's highly secretive idiot-tax operations

I dunno man, I spent 80 bucks on an Apple wireless mouse for my work MacBook Pro, and I sure feel like I've been taxed like an idiot. Same goes for the RAM and other accessories I've bought for my home Mac gear over the many many many many

many many many many many

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many many many many many many many many years.

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(Yes, El Reg hacks use Macs. That's part of the joke. We also have a new rule that you have to split your time between macOS / Linux and Windows, so we get the same daily experience of crap technology our readers face.)

What did we say about Tesla's self-driving tech? SpaceX Roadster skips Mars, steers to asteroids

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Re: It was never going anywhere NEAR Mars

"So the fact that it now happens to go a bit further is no problem, and not an error"

Who said it was a problem? We're just pointing out that it's overshot. Musk tweeted the final burn was going to send the thing "to Mars". It was heading to Mars. It's going to miss Mars by a much greater distance than expected.

Christ, it's a flying PR st- car. A flying car in space. It's funny as fuck.

Jeez, tough crowd! ;-)

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MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)

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Re: Don't know if posted already?

At the time of writing, it was suspected the engines ran out of "fuel." We weren't invited to the press conference. Can't think why. Anyway, SpaceX later clarified it ran out of ignitor fuel.

We've tweaked the article, and another piece is coming.

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Re: Ran out of igniter fuel

At the time of writing, it was suspected the engines ran out of "fuel." We weren't invited to the press conference. Anyway, SpaceX later clarified it ran out of ignitor fuel.

We've tweaked the article, and another piece is coming.

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Re: Core stage failed to land when it ran out of TEA/TEB ignitor, NOT fuel.

At the time of writing, it was suspected the engines ran out of fuel. We weren't invited to the press conference. Can't think why. Anyway, it ran out of ignitor, so... close enough, ish. We've tweaked the article and another piece is coming.

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Monday: Intel defector touts Arm server chip. Wednesday: Intel shows off new server chips

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Re: Meltdown and Spectre

All modern Intel x86-64 chips are affected until further notice - this is a Skylake part so it's vulnerable. I've made that clear in the piece.

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LISA Pathfinder sniffed out gravitational signals down to micro-Hertz

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Re: too many hertz

Ah yeah, pico, not peta. It's fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong.

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Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP. Of course

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"bored"

Funny way to spell banned.

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Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years

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Re: The sky is falling in

"Get a life."

Get another site to comment on.

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Cox blocked! ISP may avoid $25m legal bill for letting punters pirate music online

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Re: headline

Hmmmm, I thought it was pretty obvious - but happy to make it more clear.

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Tech biz boss slipped Detroit's IT chief bungs in restaurant bathrooms to bag software deals, prosecutors claim

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Re: Democrat Run for over 50 years!

match story.subject.politics

{

Republican => "Biased lefty commie Bernie Killary morons!!!",

Democrat => "Wow lol u guys slipped up here covering this up!!!",

_ => "El Reg sucks"

}

1 out of 10. Failed troll.

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You can't ignore Spectre. Look, it's pressing its nose against your screen

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Re: apologist

"True, I suspect security was pretty low on the list in the '70s when the original 8086 was designed"

The security hole was introduced way after the 8086. Basically, Intel and others screwed up. They're trying to spin this away as a design side effect.

Like a plane crashing mid-flight is a side effect of a substantial fuel tank leak.

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Re: Jonathan Schwatrz

"Well, to be fair to Intel, they perfected prefetch as a performance boost..."

I think you missed the point of my post. I meant Meltdown/Spectre reveals an embarrassing cockup in Intel's processor designs (and Arm, AMD, etc for Spectre). Yeah yeah, prefetching and speculative exec and branch prediction speeds stuff up. That wasn't the point of my post.

The point is that chip engineers left security in the glovebox the day they parked up in the company lot and walked in to design those parts of the pipeline.

It's like a manager told them: "Speed. Security. Price. Pick one."

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Re: croky

>"Secrets" ? Who wants those "secrets" ? Does the "other end" even know I've got any "secrets" ?

By secrets, I mean: passwords and personal information. And yes, you have them in your computer. This is why it's good to patch - when good patches arrive, natch.

>Show me proof people are being attacked, left and right, thanks to Spectre and Meltdown.

No one's said people are. Relax guy. You're overreacting.

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Re: croky

"I mean, what's the probability for me to become a target ?"

Spectre is irritating because it's hard to fix and lets software read stuff it shouldn't. This means JavaScript in the browser can sniff out secrets from the kernel and other tabs. There are PoC exploits for this out there. It's important for ppl to update their stuff, hence the attention on the flaws.

Likewise Meltdown: malware will be along to lift stuff out of the kernel.

PS: For us, the biggest thing about it is the embarrassing design cockup and the messy fixes, rather than this being the total end of the world (because it isn't).

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When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa

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Re: On the topic of ultrasound...

"More likely the suppression is happening in the amplifier stage."

OK, I've slightly tweaked that.

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If you've ever wondered whether the FCC boss is a Big Cable stooge – well, wonder no more

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Re: Big John

"I'm saying this article is written specifically to attract haters"

Well, no. It was written to highlight failings by a federal regulator's chairman. Scrutiny. Press. You know.

"That's evil."

Don't be so stupid. Why do you hang around here?

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Can't login to Skype? You're not alone. Chat app's been a bit crap for five days now

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Blergh, we walked into that one.

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Elsewhere in the media

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Re: Elsewhere in the media

Yeah, we reported on it in 2016 (Just search El Reg for 'DressCode'). Seems the thing is still around.

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Google slaps mute button on stupid ads that nag you to buy stuff you just looked at

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Re: Nice PR

Show us on the doll where Google hurt you.

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It's 2018 and… wow, you're still using Firefox? All right then, patch these horrid bugs

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Re: Seriously, whoever wrote this title...

...was me and I respectfully suggest you:

# apt-get install senseofhumor

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Look on the bright side, Pebble fans. At least your gizmo will work long enough for you to get beach body ready

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Re: Mark 85

> Old story that is now surfacing or doesn't the company know what year it is?

No, it means it committed to supporting Pebble in 2017, and now into 2018.

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FYI: There's now an AI app that generates convincing fake smut vids using celebs' faces

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Re: Too much Daily Mail for my liking

Mate, you're the one obsessing about it. Chill, or maybe seek help?

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