Posts by Trigonoceps occipitalis

Tech world may face huge fines if it doesn't scrub CSAM from encrypted chats

Re: Irrelevant really though, isn't it ?

"We, and other child safety and tech experts, believe that it is possible to implement end-to-end encryption in a way that preserves users' right to privacy ... "

Says Priti Patel BA Economics (University of Keele)

Apple's latest security feature could literally save lives

Re: WebKit, anyone?

"Sometimes people are led to browse to a certain page ... "

Dominator combine harvester?

Will optics ever replace copper interconnects? We asked this silicon photonics startup

Re: Wake me up when it ships, which will be about never.

I we're lucky a Linux desktop running on a light based MB will be controlling the local fusion power plant.

Re: The medium is the messenger

... I think I'm right in saying that because light doesn't go through fibre optic in a straight line ... "

And that is why I have Oxygen free audio cables, the electrons don't have to deviate around the Oxygen atoms!

Travis CI exposes free-tier users' secrets – new claim

Re: The Cloud...

Remember folks, clouds evaporate - usually just when you need them most.

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Re: Customers?

I hope not -oops!

Mods, please delete.

EV battery can reach full charge in 'less than 10 minutes'

Re: Still no answer...

I refer you to something I read earlier:

"DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly"

Just avoid the shimmering air as you walk down the street.

DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly

Re: Already seen this movie

No, no, no. What is needed is 10,000 football programmes with shiny covers.

IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

Re: The dog ate it

In the UK juries very seldom sit in civil disputes.

EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

Re: And the UK ?

Germany, France and Italy all use different mains sockets.

No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we will generate power with magic dust

Re: re Fukushima

How does 4000 compare to the deaths caused by an equivalent coal power station?

No axe to grind but I think the casualty rates are roughly similar?

US Copyright Office sued for denying AI model authorship of digital image

Who owns the copyright of amanfromars' posts? That may, or may not, throw some light on the process.

Can El Reg claim the copyright of a bot's post in the same way it (probably) claims copyright on my posts?

Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China

Re: ROTM

"it is invariably the military interest ... "

Er: Rule 34

IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic

Re: What is the actual goal?

"If it truely had AI it would turn around when it realised it was approaching America"

Unless it thought it was on its way to China or India.

UK government having hard time complying with its own IR35 tax rules

Re: Can anyone get it right?

"capricious, inconsistent, chaotic, unfair, incompetent"

A fish rots from the head.

Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op

Re: Sowing Division

Scottish NATIONAL Party. Easy mistake to make.

Millions of people's info stolen from MGM Resorts dumped on Telegram for free

Re: "the masses have yet to be convinced that they need to change their behavior."

"Recipients of phishing calls ... "

And thereby hangs the problem. How do they tell it is phishing and not legit? I know we know. All we can do is try to educate the non-cognoscenti.

Quad nations pledge deeper collaboration on infosec, data-sharing, and more

Re: The quad

"our own track records against African, American and Australian native nations"

Don't forget their treatment of the Celts and Romano-Britons.

Me, I think us Homo Sapiens owe the Neanderthals some reparations.

Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop

"And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?"

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we can.

Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’

Re: Choice of technology.....

@AC

That's very hurtful to those of us who identify as acoustic couplers!

Lawyers say changes to UK data law will make life harder for international businesses

Re: BREXIT was a massive and expensive lie.

May be, may be not. It is just that was not what was written.

BREXIT was a massive and expensive lie.

One thing BREXIT is not is a lie. For good or ill we are out.

On the subject of e-gates, Portugal allows UK passport holders to enter using e-gates so there is no reason, except punishment, for not to allow UK passport holders to use e-gates to enter France, Germany etc.

I believe that EU passport holders can use e-gates to enter the UK. How about a bit of quid pro quo?

Do not assume that I support, or not, Brexit. Just an example of unnecessary friction as a result. Anyone could see it coming and, presumably, those who voted yes discounted the effects.

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

Re: So technology works as intended...

And the next contestant is a_yank_lurker, specialised subject "The Bleedin' Obvious".

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

Re: If corporations are persons with Rights...

BCM!

Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted

Re: Busted

it seems those "engineers" who worked for google have another gig.

Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again

Re: TFTFY :-)

"Volumes in particular were all over the shop, with multiple definitions of hogshead and firkins and barrels and so on."

Ah, the firkin:

The imperial Unit of Excess, always used in pairs, as in "two firkin much" and "two firkin heavy".

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

Re: Popcorn time

So nearly a whole post without a stuck caps-lock. Good effort, keep trying.

Could a leaky capacitor be at fault on ESA's Sentinel-1B?

Re: This particular capacitor is part of the main and redundant regulators

Perhaps "particular capacitor" is a reference to the type, ie one of the type in each regulator as opposed to one capacitor bridging both regulators? Not clear writing.

YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government

Pikachu (aka Lee Ka-chiu)

There's another fictional world joining Pooh in limbo as far as China is concerned.

Apple geniuses in Atlanta beat New York to the punch, file petition to unionize

The Register has asked Apple for comment.

Isn't madness defined as continually doing the same thing and expecting a different result?

Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD

Re: reinventing the wheel

Yes, but what colour will it be?

Apple stops censoring terms it etches onto iPhones in Taiwan

Re: "Engrave Danger"

"Is there any other kind?"

In my best Colonel Nathan R. Jessup voice.

Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia

Re: Hire a few hundred thousand biplanes.

Gloucester Gladiator

Plus many others such as the Fairey Albacore and the Polikarpov I-153.

Govt suggests Brits should hand passports to social media companies

Re: It's ID cards again isn't it?

"trusted private sources"

As in "Show me the money!"

or "Give me the data you hold."

Pick one, two or both.

National Registration Act: Repealed 21 Feb 1952. The National Registration number persisted, being used within the National Health Service, for voter registration, and for the National Insurance system.

The records created under the National Registration Act are held by The National Archives but were not freely accessible to the public for many years. From 2010, subject to restrictions to safeguard the privacy of people who are or may still be living, information could be obtained from the NHS Information Centre about specific individuals for a fee.

The National Archives has now entered into an agreement under which the original documents for England and Wales have been digitised and scanned and are available (subject to privacy restrictions) on the subscription-based Findmypast and Ancestry.com websites.

"subject to privacy restrictions" - see top of comment.

HMG is supposed to be on our side.

5G masts will be strapped to lampposts and traffic lights – once £4m project figures out who owns them

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.”

Jonathan Swift

Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish

Re: Wouldn't work in England

If I told you I would have to shoot you.

Re: Mind boggling

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

Douglas Adams

Re: 160 bits per second...

Hand speed Morse (@ 25 WPM) is about 700 bps - still a bloody good show.

US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea

Re: Sunk costs

May be Vanguard Storage (no connection etc) can use it to replace their Hunter on the A40?

Re: Probably similar to the experiences of some Tesla drivers.

I do hope that somewhere serious mathematicians are passing their side rules (remember them?) over the numbers. If an activity is automated there is statistical evidence that the results are better than allowing a human to complete it?

Of course, having human monitoring, even allowing for the shock and awe induced when the big fucking klaxon goes off, will be factored as an advantage in the sums.

California's net neutrality law dodges Big Telecom bullet

Re: Codify national rules for an open internet.

"Cough up the gigabit fiber we've paid for or we'll nuke your asses from orbit."

I do sincerely hope that Robin Hood Airport doesn't have a Register account.

Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost

Re: Hive

@Jake

Please don't drone on, leave some hive related words for the rest of us.

Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees

All together now

"Daisy, Daisy ... "

UK government tool to monitor its legacy application estate is… LATE

Re: Late?

@ leadyrob

More complex:

3) Column 1: Project Name

4) Row 1: Date

5) Fill rest of cells with "Delayed"

Stretch Goal: Add "Double Budget" at every anniversary.

Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims, insists Home Office

Re: I would like 100 upvotes for Christmas please.

Hi, I have 38 million upvotes after my uncle, Mr Delfango, was killed in a car crash. If you help me out by allowing me to use your Register account to regularise them you can have 10%.

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US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

Re: Aren’t most weapons brain controlled…

"we tried that years ago and it cannot be done"

One of the ten good ways to kill an idea, along with:

"It must have taken you all night to think that one up!"

"No one has tried that."

"There is no market for it."

etc

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

Re: Acceptable ads?

So 1 sym = The Donald's IQ?

The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day

Re: Lack of comprehension and imagination ...

@Ian Johnston

Yes, just give me ten years.