Posts by Emo

IBM Watson offers $5m for an AI to save the world

Why have $5 beeeelion

When you can have *little finger to side of mouth* $5 meeeelion.

That's cute, Germany – China shows the world how fusion is done

It's that black orb in the field I'm worried about..

Who would code a self-destruct feature into their own web browser? Oh, hello, Apple

Excellent Friday morning rant!

AMD to nibble the ankles of Nvidia this summer with 14nm FinFET GPUs

Missed opportunity?

I can't help thinking that AMD and nVidia missed a trick by not incorporating silicon that could do bitcoin/litecoin etc calculations. Think of all the coin farms they could have sold GPUs too.

Or even a separate line of low watt high power *coin chips to really worry the competition.

GPUs lost out to FPGA and ASIC due to power/performance per watt a long time ago. If they could nail the low power and have massive giga/tera hash products people would be queuing up to buy.

A sideline of their engineers working on this could surely pull off something amazing.

I guess its too niche.

Boffins teach cars to listen for the sound of a wet road

Who's driving cars on the pavement?

Surely they should be listening to cars driving on wet roads..

Cortana Android beta goes public

Permissions as per Google Play:

This app has access to:

Device & app history

Allows the app to view one or more of: information about activity on the device, which apps are running, browsing history and bookmarks

Identity

Uses one or more of: accounts on the device, profile data

Calendar

Uses calendar information

Contacts

Uses contact information

Location

Uses the device's location

SMS

Uses one or more of: SMS, MMS. Charges may apply.

Phone

Uses one or more of: phone, call log. Charges may apply.

Photos / Media / Files

Uses one or more of: files on the device such as images, videos or audio, the device's external storage

Microphone

Uses the device's microphone(s)

Wi-Fi connection information

Allows the app to view information about Wi-Fi networking, such as whether Wi-Fi is enabled and names of connected Wi-Fi devices

Device ID & call information

Allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active and the remote number connected by a call

Other

download files without notification

receive data from Internet

full licence to interact across users

view Wi-Fi connections

HAM IN SPAAAAAACE! ISS astronaut contacted by Gloucestershire bloke in garden shed

Kelly has no HAM license

Commander Scott Kelly was asked this the other day if he used amateur radio - no license.

https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/627560438620778497

There's gold in dem hills: 1000s of two-byte domains hit market

el.reg?

Want to find LOVE online? Make sure your name is high up in the alphabet

Did anyone else read this and think it wasn't only his feet he got wet?

UK.gov mulls three-point turn on three-point turn thanks to satnav. Weeeeeeee. THUD

Re: Old Style?

Maybe instead they'll teach how to do a Scandinavian flick before applying the handbrake to turn the car around?

They probably will, in a round-about way.

Nexus 7 fandroids tell of salty taste after sucking on Google's Lollipop

Nexus 7 2012 & Nexus 4 Sideloaded with Lollipop

The Nexus 4 runs beautifully, this update has breathed new life into the phone, I have moved on to a OnePlus One though, and seeing Lollipop on the N4 I can't wait for it on the OnePlus One :)

The Nexus 7 2012 runs like a dog - it improved slightly by wiping the cache from the Bootloader>Recovery menu but still frustrating to use, unless you are very patient!!

Time left and time to charge are great additions to the OS.

Forget WHITE BOX, it's time for JUNK BOX NETWORKING

Last year I got a WatchGuard XTM8 (810) 10port/1Gbe port firewall/VPN appliance for £50 off eBay (normally £12,000) but with no PSU and no g'tee it worked.

Replacement PSU £40.

pfSense (free) installed with help from some of the forum members as it is a bit finicky having no COM1 but has COM2 on board.

Works like a dream, Intel Quad Core CPU and 2GB ram as standard.

£11,900 saving.

I've still yet to figure out why I need the ability for 500k connections to my home broadband, but at least I'm covered ;)

OnePlus One cut-price Android phone on sale to all... for 1 HOUR

Awesome phone, even if I had to wait a week to get an invite :)

Get NAS-ty: Reg puts claws to eight four-bay data dumpsters

Or pick up a HP Microserver, FreeNAS/Nas4Free/Windows Home Server and 4 drives for about the same as these without drives.

Gigabyte Brix Pro: You don't need no steenkin' Xbox... when you have 4K-ing amazing graphics

I've SteamOS running fine on a 320gig hard drive, I'm sure it will be happy on a smaller one too.

Why can’t I walk past Maplin without buying stuff I don’t need?

Try living near scan.co.uk!

Microsoft: SORRY for the BORKED Xbox One disc drives, here's a free game

Mircosoft are doing door step swaps on faulty kit, however this requires a £600 security deposit which is refunded once the Xbox One is received in Prague and confirmed not to be a household brick in a box.

Peugeot 208 GTi: The original hot hatch makes a comeback

What I would like to do is to pop one of these engines in to replace the 1.6 in my 205 GTI.

Now that would be interesting.

Pulsars: the GPS beacons of the cosmos

Re: @Thesheep (was: @jake)

It was only the 486DX onwards where the math co-pro was incorporated into the chip. 486SX no math co-pro.

386SX was a 32bit chip with a 16bit data bus - no math co-pro on board.

386DX was a 32bit chip with a 32bit data bus - no math co-pro on board.

387 Math co-pro's were separate chips.

The math co-pro was quite a bit dearer than the cpu back in the day.

Wonder substance pulses QUADRILLION lasers per second

Did anyone else think of Q or was it just me?

NYC attorney seeks mobe-makers' help to curb muggings

Or owners could protect their kit by using preyproject.org.

IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME

Scrubber

I'd be interested in some sort of Reg Tutorial on putting something low cost together and configured, even if only for home use.

Spotted: Android 4.2.2 update for Google Nexus devices

Re: Using Nexus 10 as USB drive from XP

Try Dropbox.

USB 3.0 speed to DOUBLE in 2013

LightSpeed?

RidiculousSpeed?

LudicrousSpeed

Nailed it.

CERN rushes to install new anti-matter hunter

Looks like they have top men working on it. TOP MEN.

Acer dishing out 16,400 cheap OLYMPIC laptops to schools

No doubt they will all end up on eBay..

New electronic labels squeal to spare you from food poisoning

Bah

No doubt some pen pushing council operative will decide we need another fucking recycling bin to put something into.

Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all

Re: I'll get it in first

Shouldn't it be:

All your face belong to us..

Google Nexus 7 price, details confirmed in pre-I/O leak

*Throws money at screen*

Google Plus plus Meebo equals Google minus $100m

It said: "With the Meebo team’s expertise in social publisher tools, we believe they will be a great fit with the Google Plus team."

I'm amazed the word 'synergy' wasn't used.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Blu-ray

Re: Film grain vs compression

It's called quantisation.

Ten... crowd-funded games from veteran devs

Re: Multiplayer ELITE - where are you?

You could try Eve Online ;)

VeriFone takes on Square with cheaper iPhone-friendly kit

Come back when you can string a sentance together.

Ten... two-bay Nas boxes

Re: I went down the DIY route

Me too, HP Microserver N36L £129 after cashback, 2x2TB Samsung F4 drives @ £70each (week after the floods just before they rocketed up) and Windows Home Server 2011 - £40, and 8gb of Ram for about £40.

Hooked up on gigabit ethernet - 109/mbs all day.

Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros

Re: Mattel Aquarius

Well I had one, it was the first computer I learned to program on.

Don't forget the plug in joypads, double cartridge expansion - for RAM and games!

Mowerman was my fave as was the spy shooter I cannot recall.

I feel you pain also :(

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

Fixing the nations roads back to pre-pot hole times.

Chain gang style.

Google founders, James Cameron, go asteroid mining

Lets hope they get Fleet bonus's too.

When asked what he thought about the collaboration, betweem film, internet dotcoms and ex NASA boffs, astronaught Tom Jones replied 'It's not unusual'.

Speaking in Tech: Forget G-Drive hype, try Dropbox-for-Big-Biz

Dropbox starts at 2gig free, and now goes up to 16gig if referrals join :)

Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats

'In addition to Sony’s Internet TV platform, you can use this TV as a DNLA receiver to watch content from your PC or Mac.'

Did anyone else read this as 'In addition to Sony’s Internet TV platform, you can use this TV as a DNLA receiver to watch porn from your PC or Mac.'??

Parents shocked by priestly PowerPoint pr0n

It should read:

"The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the PSNI who indicated that would be an ecumenical matter."

Carmageddon

To the old peolple with zimmers

Shoot the moon!

'Kill yourself now' - Torvalds throws openSUSE security tantrum

He should totally write his own OS.

Elonex to set up tech fab in Coleshill, create 400 jobs

Re: Re: Coventry Pie

Easier for the crystal shortage too ;)

Silverlit Spy Cam

'Live long and prosper' is what the girl on the left is saying ;p

A Farewell to Oates: Adios, El Reg

Good luck for the future

May the Vulture be with you always.

Gamer claims complete console collection

Missing Consol #1

Polycon

Nowhere to be seen.

But I do have one :)