Posts by BebopWeBop

Apple programs Siri to not bother its pretty little head with questions about feminism

Blow Halo, Red Dwarf was at least one offering that got there earlier.

In Hemel Hempstead, cycling is as bad as taking a leak in the middle of the street

I agree with much of your post, but I know of no cyclists who would welcome 'anti cycling laws'

Re: Pointless exercise

No enforcement of the law might prevent 'accidents' that require witnesses.

A bit like many, not all 'anonymous posters'?

Re: At werdsmith.

Assaulting people is not the answer.

Re: At werdsmith.

That will get you at least a suspended sentence and a criminal record, possibly more for assault amingst other things.

As a keen cyclist (my daily transport) I deplore people who ride in areas reserved for pedestrians or who ride recklessly but assaulting them is stupid.

Full of beans? Sadly not as fellow cracks open tin at dinner to find just one

Very good - but reaching for you coat is appropriate

Oh no you don't - again as a penniless student, cold beans eaten out of the can were a frequent staple depending on cash.

But upvote for the line.

To be fair to Heinz, typically their beans do appear to be worth paying for vs. 'generics'. (even as a penniless student I knew that).

In past times, getting to be King on the bean count was bad news for your future.

Red flag: Home Office inks £45m border tech extension with IBM

Re: The HRMC.....

The numbers indicate that they probably will not even be able to do that.

I suppose that if you are in the habit of throwing public funds into a black hole, it is difficult to kick it.

Welsh police use of facial recog tech – it's so 'lawful', rules High Court

Re: How in the name of sweet beJesis is this legal?

But will it make things worse?

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

Musk: Honest guv, And our cars autopilot abuses the same quality assurance processes as well. So it must be kosher

Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely

Re: Good for him

Not yet as I understand it from (ex) colleagues, but any project that has the UK as the primary or which is reliant on the Uk for a core part of the project is being looked at very heard. EU based collaborators are also treating invitations to UK centric proposals with care.

Last one out, hit the lights: UK energy supplier SSE to axe 115 bodies from tech department

Re: Welcome to becoming America

The UK has been doing it for almost as long

The top three attributes for getting injured on e-scooters? Having no helmet, being drunk or drugged, oddly enough

London a cyclist death grinder trap - I don't see that.

Re: In other news ...

Very very very close to 100%. And don't ask about drivers.

Gov flings £10m to help businesses get Brexit-ready with, um... information packs

Re: Govt. Leaflets...

I declare that a tissue of lies

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

Re: First thing

You mean you turned it on to begin with?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

As pointed out above, you will have no option of wielding anything if she does a proper job with the sword.

You must be joking. The ‘Royal’ family just want free handouts, nothing else concerns them

Russian spacebot stranded outside the ISS as Soyuz fails to dock

Re: revenge

OK Dave, cocking gun (given previous reports)

Beware the developer with time on his hands and dreams of Disney

Re: "Phone" on VAX/VMS

Just as well it was not output to a teletype.

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

A lawyer acquaintance of mine mentioned that he knew people in London who were planning their pension plans on this case.

Re: Dead Parrot?

That's Norwegian software houses for you.

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Re: But...but

Can they get around that by mounting a Grizzly on the drone?

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Re: Petunias, anyone?

maybe attach the cameras to a bowl of petunias - if they can be trained.

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

"We are delivering industry leading innovation across our portfolio, and I am confident we are taking the right actions to position HP for the future."

Standard bullshit phrases from the playbook - but what future are they preparing for? Methings the decline and death of HP but convenient golden lifeboats fir the execs.

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Re: Alternatively,

Yes my sister had a pony who was partial to a bit of impromptu veg (garden) harvesting - my mother hated that animal

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

Re: At the funeral

Didn't Jonathan Swift write about the conflict between the big endians and the little endians?

Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores

Re: Ethically and Linguistically Challenged Lawyers

Those at least who have to face their rivals on the road.

Re: $deities have a sense of humor

Given the costs of the fitting, we put them South, East and West - looking at differential generation levels they also appear to be a decent if longish term investment (in Southern Scotland).

Re: $deities have a sense of humor

Snap (but 4kw) - generating very nicely and as (virtue signaling I am sure :-) it charges a car during the summer as well it is a not oo bad long term investment.

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

Re: Why

HP actually used to be very generous - as I believe IBM were, in the past. Paid for a house refurbishment in my case.

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

Re: Wait, what?

Well, they appear to have fooled to have Farcebook for long enough, or maybe they thought it was cheaper? Prior art appears to have little or no effect on US patents - precedent?

Re: More Blockchain...

I upvoted you, but I think you will find that a number of 'boffins' are quite happy to study non reality as well.

Re: "could lead to biased decision-making"

I have a suspicion you might be lonely amongst Reg reading facebook users. I have used it - initially as an experiment 10-15 years ago and more recently writing some analytic tools on posts and their links (so not quite a user). But I suspect many readers use an infinite length spoon ti sup with that particular devil.

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Re: Admin woes

See The Lost Continent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Continent

The xxxians were well ahead.

Re: It’s gets better...

Don’t tell them your name Pike

An Army Watchkeeper drone tried to land. Then meatbags took over from the computers

Re: Call that a drone?

And don't mention the redesign in public at an MOD procurement office

Plot twist: Google's not spying on King's Cross with facial recognition tech, but its landlord is

I have seen some interesting work that demonstrated useful recognition based on physical profile and more particularly (walking) gait.

Mines the one with spare orthopaedic shoe inserts in the pocket.

Tor pedos torpedoed again, this time Feds torpedo four Tor pedos – and keep how they unmasked dark-web scumbags under wraps

Re: What about the good users of TOR? Are there any?

Not unless you use a great deal of other obfuscation. I would assume that anyone in that position would have some monitoring on their activity anyway. Certainly, people with SC+ clearances in the UK do (as was demonstrated to me on one of my reviews when I was in a similar position - that is that level clearance and access to documents, not being accused of shifting any on).

Some interesting work, but the reviews are pretty thorough and hard work for all involved.

I was asked to act as an independent expert to look at phone and IP data in such a case. Just to confirm that the data presented was reasonable and very probably generated by the individual charged and the device under their control (it was pretty damning and the volume of data would have been difficult for someone to forge consistently).

My conversations with one of the CEOPS officers involved included a brief discussion of how they go about examining the sites addressed. 2 officers at a time, frequent counselling, and frequent shifts to other work, I believe the strain on all officers viewing this type of material are extreme.

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

Mobile phones for all of your ID - what could (will) possibly go wrong?

One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego

Re: Heavy...

Maybe because we intend to drop it on his lap - from a height.

Re: Been there, done that...

We got 4 of them for development -wonderful.

A capacity issue I am sure.

Re: ORLY?

Upvoted, seen several of those, but then I believe that people also seen C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate

Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities

Re: Brexit bollocks

well actually the sentence is ambiguous - grammar does have some value