Posts by Overflowing Stack

AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it. We're not sure we're happy with this reality

Mona Lisa

I don't know about you guys but I just had to crack one out over that vid!

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

Yey! A software update

They should roll it out mid-air just to make sure it works.

Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches

No need to ground these

Also, software updates (beta or not) have to be delivered in-flight!

Android P to improve users' network privacy

Re: Couldn't they just change permissions on /proc/net?

There are legitimate reasons.

There needs to be a way to uniquely identify devices on a local network.

My Android app can control many household devices like smart TVs and cable boxes, it searches using upnp and mdns.

If someone has two of the same devices on the same network (say two Samsung 43" 2018 7 series TVs) I need to be able to determine which TV they want to be able to control.

This can't be done by IP address as this changes often and although upnp provides a UUID this can sometimes change or be identical across models, so can't be used.

The MAC address is the only way to do this and you can only get this from the /proc/net/arp cache (As far as I know).

Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster

I'm buying one

I'm rarely a an early adopter, I still use my Note 3 that is over 5 years old!

This is a game changer though. My first tablet computer was Sony Vaio U70 that I had to import from the USA (2004 ish)

It was almost pocket sized (although I had a foam padded camera case for it) and was useful as a sat nav on the dashboard of my van.

The main reason I'll get it is to make it play ball with my Android app (MyAV), but it is wildly cool and will surely be an excuse for women to chat to me in bars (my round LG Watch sure worked).

Where's the laser range finder?

Or just laser? I was hoping for this feature.

'Year-long' delay to UK 5G if we spike Huawei deals, say telcos

Re: 9 Months delay?

Yeah, 1Gbps with a 10GB download limit. A limit that you will reach in 80 seconds!

That said I now have unlimited downoiads on three with unlimited wi-fi hotspot.... So I could ditch my landline.

I'd be suspicious of any company with an unpronounceable name!

The Japsters learned a long time ago to make their company names more western friendly.

Matsushita!

Re: Paranoia?

Everyone who writes software always creates a backdoor, right? I do anyway!

London's Gatwick airport suspends all flights after 'multiple' reports of drones

Unless it's a massive professional drone surely the mass is way less than that of a duck, which planes are designed to be able to cope with?

When they find it they should put it on some giant scales next to something of the same mass... say a witch.

I was once one of you, F1 star Lewis Hamilton tells delighted IT bods

Re: What a knob

I'd like to see sharks with frickin lasers on their heads driving the cars

Well, this makes scents: Kotlin code quality smells better than Java

Yes, great, lovely

I don't have the time to learn it....I'm in the pub... oh I do.

I should be attacked with sharks with mini non-lethal lasers

Norwegian tourist board says it can't a-fjord the bad publicity from 'Land of Chlamydia' posters

At 11 quid a pint

I'm surprised anyone has it off

Amazon staffers protest giant's 'support of the surveillance state'

Amazon peeps

Pot calling kettle a muppet

Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space

Doesn't matter what I drink, still don't get laid.

UK military may recruit wheezy, alcoholic keyboard warriors

I'll do it!

Просто дай мне маска акулы, лазер и головной ремень.

Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House, SS7 abused to steal US citizens' data – just Friday things

Stingray? Nah...

A shark with a laser on its head!

MH370 search ends – probably – without finding missing 777

Re: Everything on a plane is designed to float.

Ahhh, well, you see... it was a special toilet made by Andre Geim. When I said floating it was more 'levitating'.

They didn't find him, it was a cover-up. He was actually the pilot of MH370, so good luck finding him!

"You could lose several dozen such planes under your average B&Q warehouse if it got covered by sand, debris, etc."

I lost my car in the car park once at B&Q. Have they checked there for MH370?

Re: Why is it always...

Are you saying MH370 is down the back of someone's sofa?

Live Transponders

"The flight was tracked "live" by 2 transponders which were deliberately turned off."

They weren't turned off, they are actually still broadcasting. If you tune in to the first one using a 405 line set you can see "Singer Presents...ELVIS (68 comeback special)" on a loop.

If you tune into the other transponder using a squarial you'll see an episode of "Up Yer News" from 1990 with Armando Iannucci playing Jack Ruby outside the Dallas Municipal Building.

How do you design a jet engine to float?

Have you actually ever got a jet engine on a set of scales and compared it with a duck to see if they weigh the same and therefore float?

Everything on a plane is designed to float.

Especially the engines, it's why the fan blades are hollow!

On a different note about float...

I did a floater on a plane once.

We all know that this was caused by...

A shark with a laser strapped to its head.

Boffins bash out bonkers boost for batteries

Re: Energy

Can't wait to get home and try this. Just at the petrol station now.... Going to get that wide deep container later.

Hopefully those frickin' sharks can swim for longer and kill more frickin' people

with frickin' more efficient laser diodes on their frickin' heads.

Or am I missing something?

Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat

Fly-tip, no. Sharks with lasers...

They must be to blame, surely?

Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet

Re: Hero ?

I agree, hero, pah! It's not like they were flying in shark infested waters, sharks with lasers on their heads.

Project Lightning, you say? Virgin Media's fibre rollout is pretty glacial

Re: Same here, maybe cancelling

I've got the FritzBox dishing out static ip addresses to other routers... can't remember how though. Took me ages.

App devs bewildered by last-minute Google GDPR klaxon

Just charge for it

I've got many apps on Google Play and the paid for ones generate more money than identical ad funded ones.

I'm simply going to convert the ad ones into paid/subscription apps.

Last attempt to find MH370 starts this week

Sharks with frickin' laser beams I hope!

They aren't looking on the moon

Everyone knows that it was hijacked by two agents for the CIA, Elvis and Jack Ruby as co-pilot. It was then flown to the moon as part of a conspiracy to cover up the truth about 9/11.

No doubt that this post will be deleted, I can see the black helicopters coming for me now!

Ex-ZX Spectrum reboot man threatens sueball over unpaid invoices

Sharks with lasers

I think they need to bring in the sharks fitted out with the finest laser attire to this one!

The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

Lasers

Surely this could be done with laser beams? What? No? Oh, Frickin laser beams!

Nest reveals the first truly connected home

There are companies linking all these things together from different brands.

MyAV is one example in the smart home entertainment side of things.

Please, Hammond ... don't hurt 'em: 'Suggestions' time for UK digi tax clampdown

Re: help roll out full fibre to local areas

Yeah but VM's network can't handle static IP addresses without breaking packets in half. Useless for a lot of businesses or home workers.

Sneaky satellite launch raises risk of Gravity-style space collision

Re: Can't they just use lasers to vapourise them?

Binoculars

Can't they just use lasers to vapourise them?

Really big ones

Your manhood is safe, judge tells ZX Spectrum reboot boss

If he's worried about his safety...

Hire a chopper to go to court in!

Android P will hear no evil, see no evil, support evil notches

No preview for the Pixel C!

Buggers!

New algorithm could help self-driving cars scout out hidden objects

Re: Vibrations

Just mount the LiDAR on a drone that flies above, gyroscopes will keep it stable.

Even better... have the drone fly on ahead, then you can see on ahead. Hang on...

BBC presenter loses appeal, must pay £420k in IR35 crackdown

Surely IR35 is irrelevant, surely the main issue here is.... how much more would she have been paid if she was a man?

Another way to avoid eye contact: 4G on the Tube expected 'in 2019'

Sorry... thought I was on the Daily Mail website.

Bring back hanging!

From Vega with love: Pegasus interstellar asteroid's next stop

Cigar shaped or rocket shaped?

Digital minister: We're still talking to BT about sorting crap broadband

If I were the minister.

1. BT should be forced to sell Openreach, the quasi-breakup still has a conflict of interest and Openreach is badly run. Too many contractors for day to day jobs, rather than its own workforce. The job of upgrading this country's infrastructure is huge and hiring contractors makes no sense at all.

2. The people in charge of Ofcom should be fired, they are hopeless, it's proven itself to be completely ineffective and inept .

3. All new build property should be FTTP by law, no new copper, it's nuts (further proof that Openreach is badly run, everything is short-term sticky plasters, nothing is long-term).

4. Openreach should be given 6 months to start using its "dark fibre" or lose it, letting other people use it.

5. Openreach should be forced to share the exact reasons why it hasn't upgraded exchanges and cabinets in a completely open and transparent way. Currently, it not only lies to and misleads the public, but also local authorities and councillors.

6. A complete ban on network and traffic shaping, filtering and download limits. There is no point having a 1000mbps connection with a 1GB a month or day allowance and 512kbps at peak times just won't do. If the network cannot handle it, charge more and upgrade the network.

"xx speed Broadband for £20 inc line rental" is misleading.

Ofcom should have sorted this out 15 years ago when NTL introduced the first data cap.

I travel to France, Germany and Spain and regularly stay in Airbnb properties where they have fibre, proper fibre. This country is a joke. 5th biggest economy in the world, pah!

Teensy weensy space shuttle flies and lands

What next?

Brewery making a space plane! Does it have an optional hipster beard?

UK waves £45m cheque, charges scientists with battery tech boffinry

Re: Nurture

urm.. you just described the tax system.