Posts by Forget It

Flying on its own, Thunderbird seeks input on new look

Ain't broke:

Don't fix it.

pls

(Paris: dumb it UP don't dumb it down)

Android snoopware Skygofree can pilfer WhatsApp messages

Can we know the location coordinates of interest please?

Firefox 57's been quietly delaying tracking scripts

about config options described here:

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/21/firefox-57-delays-tracking-domains/

Ia there an about:config option to switch this experiment off ?

Another AI attack, this time against 'black box' machine learning

artificial intelligence

real dumness

Creepy Cayla doll violates liberté publique, screams French data protection agency

Beware of Geeks

Bearing Gifts

Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

Re: Orbit

So Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system for sure.

What the EU and all?

AI taught to beat Sudoku puzzles. Now how about a time machine to 2005?

It's all well and good for an AI to solve Sudoku

But can it:

1) Explain the whys and wherefores

2) Enjoy the process

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/01/sudoku-3920-hard

That 70s Show: Windows sprouts Sets and Timeline features

> .... we’re still in the computing Stone Ages, only with 64-bit colour stone.

> A kind of neo-Paleolithic age. ®

Paleo Alto

perhaps

Hey girl, what's that behind your Windows task bar? Looks like a hidden crypto-miner...

Firefox remedy via addon (WE)

https://poperblocker.com/firefox/

Tom Baker returns to finish shelved Doctor Who episodes penned by Douglas Adams

Now that's what I call Time Travel.

'Water on Mars' re-classified as just 'sand on Mars'

To see a World in a Grain of Sand.

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand.

And Eternity in an hour

or something like that

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

I was skeptical but it's much much better now.

Most addons and tweaks still work - if you go looking for them.

El Reg assesses crypto of UK banks: Who gets to wear the dunce cap?

Dunce Cap tip

Isn't it security-101 to not store passwords on the server - but their hashes instead?

How come then does the NatWest server know individual letters of my password

when it prompts me for a random selection of them at each login?

39 episodes of 'CSI' used to build AI's natural language model

Re: natural language model

I agree it is highly unnatural to speak so fast in turn without anyone ever um'ing or erring.

Mozilla devs discuss ditching Dutch CA, because cryptowars

Re: I was going to...

Till I have the possession of everything she touches

Till I step on the brakes to get out of her clutches

Till I speak double dutch to a real double duchess…

New Amsterdam, Elvis C.

NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch

Obscurity through Security

perhaps

Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license

Nice one WordPress

It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower

Hey Team

they are looking for the buttons!

Let's put Ads on the buttons!

P≠NP proof fails, Bonn boffin admits

P = Pudding

NP = No Pudding

The proof is in the Pudding.

QED

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

It's Elvis's

Our day with Larry Page: Embedded with one of the world's richest men

Echoes of Mr Logic

http://viz.co.uk/category/cartoons/strip-cartoons/mr-logic/#content

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

Irfanview has a mini-paint substitute F12

DeepMind says it's given AI an imagination. Let's take a closer look at that

Creative sub-editor?

Creativity - word used in title but not article.

Creative sub-editor then?

Creation is one thing

- pushing boxes around's slightly less

imo

Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection – ICO

deep mind

long nose

Mozilla dev and Curl inventor Daniel Stenberg denied travel to USA

I guess they do the same for anyone leaving from Sweden - Assange perhaps.

UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism

Why not just send a squad of Assange look-alikes to the embassy. then he can walk out with them while the police dither trying to guess which one to arrest - See Pale Fire by Nabokov or I was Sadam's double, etc.

We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?

Feynman diagram here

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Double_beta_decay_feynman.svg/375px-Double_beta_decay_feynman.svg.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_beta_decay#Neutrinoless_double_beta_decay

UK to block Kodi pirates in real-time: Saturday kick-off

Conflict of interest

anybody?

Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto

Cyber-Jesus ?

Q: Who is my neighbour?

A: I'll google that for you.

Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

Oh no!

Someone in the NHS

used Reply_All

to the whole of GMail

Cassini sends back best ring-shots yet en route to self-destruct dive

Q: Why is the bath in a student flat like Saturn?

A: Coz it's got permanent rings around it.

[No Uranus replies please]

Google launches root certificate authority

The biggest self signed certificate in the world, then?

Meet 'Moz://a', AKA Mozilla after it picked a new logo

Reducing the browser to a protocol? browser://

Shouldn't dinosaurs still be on the attack?

Why the UK is unlikely to get an adequacy determination post Brexit

I know we are talking about privacy issues here

but who is the "I" referred to in this article?

Credit Kudos etc to the "I" - the author!

I don't find the name of the author

anywhere here

nor on their original blog.

TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next

subliminal advertising all over again?

What's the first emotion you'd give an AI that might kill you? Yes, fear

Step one?

The Naughty Step.

Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview

ConEmu is your friend

https://conemu.github.io

British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen

Re: Eat the rich

> If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

> George Orwell

To die hating them, that was freedom.

The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers

Have you ever heard of a neural network

explain their reasoning in court?

Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'

Just let Obama continue while they sort this out

if it goes on for years

all the better

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

A real dogs' brexit

if you ask me

Non-doms pay 10 times more in income tax than average taxpayer group

What is this

here for?

Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

Well could Adam ever get back in to the walled garden

to take another taste of the Apple?

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Milton 1667

Blink and you missed it: Asteroid came within 90,000 km, only one sky-watcher saw it

I guess you were between a Rock and a hard place then.

Jovial NASA says Juno flyby a success

just love it

Spooky all this happens at the very time

Jupiter is in conjunction with Venus (just love it)

that made their combo very bright in the

sky at sunset.