Posts by Fungus Bob

Tor-forker Joshua Yabut cuffed for armoured personnel carrier joyride

Re: I'm curious..

"Do you want anything to drink with that?"

No, ma'am

Tech giants! How do you know Jim in accounting isn't Putin moves on you

Re: Yep - I'm one

*I* am Anna Toley in sales...

DIYers rejoice: Hitting stuff to make it work even works in space

You are Stephen Fry and I claim my 5$.

Calm your conspiracy theories, latest glimpse reveals Planet Nine may just be a pipe dream

Made perfect sense to me without drugs. Does that mean I'm trippin' all the time and don't even know it?

Qualcomm buddies up with Ford, Panasonic to punt connected car tech

Re: Will the Haynes manul

The current Haynes manuals don't tell you how to block GM's On-Star, so probably not.

Ex-US pres Bill Clinton has written a cyber-attack pulp thriller. With James Patterson. Really

"wheres the tech angle?"

It's the obtuse one...

You should find out what's going on in that neural network. Y'know they're cheating now?

the neural network classifies it as cat or not-cat

This is very useful as one can classify everything in the universe as either cat or not-cat.

Facebook stockholders tell Zuck to reform voting rules as data scandal branded 'human rights violation'

"If privacy is a human right, as stated by Microsoft's CEO..."

WTF?! Relying on a Microsoft exec for human rights guidance is a bit like trying to order pizza with a lawn mower - there just ain't a logical connection.

Un-bee-lievable: Two million Swedish bugs stolen in huge sting

Re: Poor guy

So... Metric bees and not Imperial then...

Mine's the one with the nize hat

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gilgamesh_Nice_Hat.jpg

From Russia with(out) Zuck: Popular Facebook boss gets another invite to turn down

Re: Very (un)Popular at the moment

"Shirley? Who is that?"

Nobody knows - Zuck is hiding her.

ZTE can't buy chips from America – but can still get sued for patent infringement in the US

Re: So, let's suppose for second

It's a little thing we like to call... Freedom.

Freedom to be screwed coming and going, in one orfice and out the other.

Foolish foodies duped into thinking Greggs salads are posh nosh

"frying in batter is strictly for fish. And spam!"

Spam is best enjoyed raw.

Like an Acura is just a Honda with lockwashers, then...

A Reg-reading techie, a high street bank, some iffy production code – and a financial crash

The reader, who requested anonymity and so shall be called Bob

Wasn't me.

Honest...

Lessons learned from Microsoft's ghosts of antitrust past: Step up, Facebook

Re: They can't blame any of this on the antitrust

To expand further...

Chrome's dominance has nothing to do with Microsoft's antitrust battles and everything to do with Microsoft and Mozilla losing the plot.

'Autopilot' Tesla crashed into our parked patrol car, say SoCal cops

Re: Hmm

"If the car can't find the centre divider and clear lane markings, perhaps it should refuse to allow Autopilot?"

This is all part of Musk's cunning plan to sell more cars.

Smut site offers VPN so you don't bare all online

"the mobile version of VPNhub is free, but if you want to browse on a Mac or Windows desktop you'll need a premium app store subscription"

Aaaaand, the Linux users are fscked...

Is your smart device a bit thick? It's about to get a lot worse

Re: Better Option

"Why on earth do you need an IoT device to track your girlfriend's/wife's monthly cycle?"

That's a bit like asking why we need tornado warnings.

Microsoft gives users options for Office data slurpage – Basic or Full

Re: Basic or Full ?

Still worlds apart. You can *completely* opt out of data collection in Ubuntu. The information collected is easily readable by a human. You cannot opt out of data collection in Windows and the information collected is not easily human readable - the screenshots of the data viewer look like something only a programmer could decipher. Hardly understandable by Grandma.

Worlds apart on what data is collected too. Ubuntu would collect this:

*Ubuntu Flavour

* Ubuntu Version

* Network connectivity or not

* CPU family

* RAM

* Disk(s) size

* Screen(s) resolution

* GPU vendor and model

* OEM Manufacturer

* Location (based on the location selection made by the user at install). No IP information would be gathered

* Installation duration (time taken)

* Auto login enabled or not

* Disk layout selected

* Third party software selected or not

* Download updates during install or not

* LivePatch enabled or not

* Popcon would be installed. This will allow us to spot trends in package

usage and help us to focus on the packages which are of most value to our users.

* Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption.

The list of stuff Windows collects exceeds the word limit on Reg comment posts.

Re: Basic or Full ?

Erm, yes.

The link you posted was for something only available to "Windows Insiders", whatever those are.

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Re: SatoshiPay...lumens...Kraken...?

And if the Financial Times is behind their own paywall, I pay them and not you. If I value their content enough to pay for it ahead of time.

Or is SatoshiPay supposed to be some sort of alternate universal paywall for sites that charge for access? If so, the same problem exists for you as for every site behind a paywall - they are too much bother.

Re: SatoshiPay...lumens...Kraken...?

What's in a name? Absolutely nothing.

Unfortunately, there is nothing (of value) in SatoshiPay, just like there was nothing of value in flooz and beenz - you have no unique selling point, you solve no problem, therefore, the inconvenience you add to a simple financial transaction gives me nothing so I am unlikely to even consider your service. Your oft repeated example of buying one article instead of the book is a non-solution to a non-problem as I can simply go to the Register and print the article a lot more easily and with less expense than the jumpitty-hoopity nonsense I'd have to go through to use your payment service.. Having all the Geek Guide to Britain articles gathered together into a book which may be paid for easily using existing payment methods is something of value as it is more convenient than collecting the whole series myself.

SatoshiPay...lumens...Kraken...?

Reminds me of flooz and beenz

Within Arm's reach: Chip brains that'll make your 'smart' TV a bit smarter

Re: Now you know why Zuck tapes up the front-facing cameras on his gadgets.

Register this as the user (NSFW)

https://www.amazon.com/Loftus-International-Inflatable-Judy-Doll/dp/B001BXZTDS?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-vivaldi-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001BXZTDS

practically every device in future will include a camera

Why in Hell's sphincter do you assume that?

Re: Weight Decoder ??

"I'm not sure the human body can burn them as fast as I can drink them though."

Perhaps you should trade your puny human body for an inhuman body...

German IKEA trip fracas assembles over trolley right of way

"And spending an eternity in Hel would be a bad thing because?"

Because of her fiery pit...

NASA’s new exoplanet-spotter survives sling past the Moon

Would be fine as long as Gary Larson did the liner art

Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed

You also can't tuna noodle casserole.

Wanted that Windows 10 update but have an Intel SSD? Computer says no

Re: Looks like we have an MS fanboy

Not the QC team, just SatNad and Gates.

Can't wait for Linux apps on Chrome OS? And you like stability? We'll see you in December, then

Re: Why????

ChromeOS *is* Linux with a locked down user interface and app store. This is how Crouton allows you to run ChromeOS and Ubuntu simultaneously - you're just switching user environments.

Of course its 'command limes' - no lemons in the open source world...

NASA boss insists US returning to the Moon after Peanuts to show for past four decades

Re: PLEEESE go back, just for our sanity.....

The B Ark...

Re: NASA returning to the Moon? Again?

Do you want Space Cats? Would Space Cats make you happy?

How 'bout Boris Borisov?

Social networks have already violated the spirit of GDPR

Re: Next-gen to the rescue

If you use Facebook, then *you* are the Facebook generation...

Microsoft reckons devs would like an AI Clippy to help them write code

Re: Ah the good old days of Microsoft

Not going to be any new versions of Bob. Writing Code is Serious Business so the new product will be Microsoft Robert...

Adobe, 'hyper personalisation' and your privacy

Re: "People are buying experiences, not products"

Union Jack is sexist without a corresponding Union Jill...

Microsoft's most popular SQL Server product of all time runs on Linux

Re: Microsoft will truly endorse Linux...

"While most people only use 10% of the features, they don't all use the same 10%"

People keep saying this but they never ever back it up with anything concrete.

New Monty Python movie to turn old jokes into new royalties

Re: Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

What else floats?

Microsoft wants serious, non-gaming developers to make more money

Re: Math Is Hard

A five percent smaller value of zero.

NSA sought data on 534 MILLION phone calls in 2017

Now *that* would be useful...

Silicon can now reconfigure itself with just a jolt of electricity

Nothing new here...

Ever since the invention of the transistor one could always reconfigure silicon with a jolt of electricity. Granted, it was usually transformed into a very, very teeny, tiny micro-miniature slag heap, but it was still reconfigured!

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update downs Chrome, Cortana

Re: And how is this MSFTs fault?

Windows ain't done until Chrome won't run...

Texas residents start naming adopted drains

I'm surprised nobody suggested

Alligator habitat

UK Parliament roars: Oi! Zuck! Get in here for a grilling – or you'll get a Tower of London tour

Re: And some 40 million citizens using your thing

My thing would wear out long before that...

Irish High Court slams Facebook's conduct, smacks down bid to drag out data probe

Re: Getting the feeling

Why are you feeling dot com billionaires?

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata

Re: Of course they'll come back

"how do you feel about Barrack Obama doing exactly the same Facebook mining in 2012 during his reelection campaign, and bragging about it too?"

Because the Obama campaign did not do *exactly* the same thing. A couple of excerpts from an article on politifact.com:

"The Obama campaign created a Facebook app for supporters to donate, learn of voting requirements, and find nearby houses to canvass. The app asked users’ permission to scan their photos, friends lists, and news feeds. Most users complied.

The people signing up knew the data they were handing over would be used to support a political campaign. Their friends, however, did not.

The people who downloaded the app used by Cambridge Analytica did not know their data would be used to aid any political campaigns. The app was billed as a personality quiz that would be used by Cambridge University researchers."

"Obama operatives used Facebook data to get users to send their messaging for them, according to Eitan Hersh, a Tufts professor who wrote Hacking the Electorate, a book on Obama’s microtargeting strategies.

Facebook friends lists, tags and photos allowed Obama operatives to identify a person’s close friends, which they then matched with offline public records. (Was this person likely to vote for Obama, but unlikely to get out to vote?) They then told the app users which of their friends they should send campaign messages to.

Cambridge Analytica dialed up what Karpf called the creepiness factor. They combined the survey results with the Facebook data to create psychological profiles they then sold to campaigns. The idea was, if the firm could discover how these people thought, they could target ads toward them.

Cambridge Analytica then sent targeted ads to the users on their database as well as users with similar profiles, identified by Facebook’s Lookalike tool. The friends of the app users weren’t being targeted by their friends, but by the campaign itself. In other words, the consenting middle man was gone.

In his research, Hersh found that neither tactic was greatly effective at persuading people to vote."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/22/meghan-mccain/comparing-facebook-data-use-obama-cambridge-analyt/

No top-ups, please, I'm a millennial: Lightweight yoof shunning booze like never before

Re: IT angle?

"photos of me with an inflatable sheep sellotaped to my crotch, a double-D bra tied around my head, a stolen policeman's helmet jammed up my arse and -- most embarrassing of all - a pink hotpants cocktail in my hand"

Three words - foe toe shop