Posts by BebopWeBop

Now here's a Galaxy far, far away: Samsung stalls Fold rollout after fold-able screens break in hands of reviewers

Re: Need better testing

Correction - may tell you much but not who stole the cookies

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Re: Could be worse

He is just warming up. Not that I sympathise with Godwins law being broken......

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Its to compensate the sods for no longer being able to shoot peasents on their British estates.

Strong-willed field support op holds it together during painful customer call

Commendable. My own story - NOT IT based, is as a stripling being sent back to a chinese restaurant to collect the sauces that had not been delivered. My friend and I wandered in and asked and they denied ever doing that sort of thing (providing take out sauces). But I insisted. And after a little muttering they went into a back room and emerged with an enormous container of sauce.

I got it home to much aclaim. But it turned out I had gone to a completely different restaurant who did not even do take aways.

Needless (?) to say I did write a letter apologising to them and explaining my mistake and thanking them for their courtesy. Not that my parent insisting I did it had anything to do with my response......

I suspect I was the butt of their jokes afterwards - but my parents did then use them for restaurant meals for years afterwards.So every good deed and all that

Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years

Re: Other escalator laws

Or a single boot?

Re: Other escalator laws

In my experience, Border Collies would be over qualified, but with suitable training (electric cattle prods?) MBA grads might siffice at a pinch.

Re: Other escalator laws

Corgwyn is Welsh as I believ are the origins of the breed - just to be pedantic :-)

Google rolls out Android Easter Egg for Europe – a Microsoft antitrust-style browser, search engine choice box

But nice to see Qwant a choice at least.....

Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it

Re: Target practice

You are relying on his marksmanship - an organisation I worked with favoured dismantling and the application of a welding torch. Perhaps opther parts of the British establishment should learn from this example?

That requires an Oxford PPE in the UK - MBAs - so lower class.

Re: What a fucking idiot

Ummm - the only problem that MBA morons frequently do destroy property

Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

Glad I bought a good popcorn supply. The analyst appears to have been on the right tracks - BUT - his clients are pissed off because HPE did not take his advice and lost money (in the short term, provided they did not immediately take their money and run).

My hear bleads, bleads I tell you for the sensitive snowflakes on both sides (although I could think of better ways to use my time than as a jusicial assistant, if that is I had any relevent expertise).

On the side, The Reg is obviously (or maybe has already) prepared for some jucy comments...... To be moderating in this way.

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

Re: Do they even have a clue what's wrong with this?

Possibly a good 'honey trap' for the cops wanting to up their arrest rate......

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Re: Why would a layer you aren't supposed to remove

Actually, my bar of solid stainless steel does pretty well - it attracts fingerprints but is reasonably easy to clean... And I am sure two of them could be put together with a decent hinge.

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Re: makes some sort of sense

Or occasionally doing something that is contrary to current understanding - through thinking about options or simple ignorance

I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

Re: Executive Decision

Probably the only reason it got an even halfway decent rating on IMDB! Well, who can not have some respect for a film in which he dies.....

Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

And in a clear poke in the eye to Facebook, the code insists that user are provided with "'bite-sized' explanations about how you use personal data at the point that use is activated" and those explanation be "concise, prominent and in clear language suited to the age of the child."

So suited to the mental age of most Facebook users?

Re: Facebook's response makes a good point

It depends on how they use that information (and explain it) not the up/down action.

Either Facebook is building yet another massive bit barn in Iowa, and doesn't want you to know about it....

Residents start demanding actual benefits for their community, rather than empty platitudes about the transformative power of the digital economy and jobs for out-of-town engineers

Quite - they don't like it up em.....

My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court

I've read a number of patents that have been lawyerised. The operative, of course, being read. I find them wordy, sometimes making claims for extensions of purpose that are only barely possible. But I did read them, they were just dressing to my key technical case.

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored

Re: Flat Earth

Well until global warming really hits

I understand the maths involved in the reconstruction to create a virtual telescope, but what boggles me (and betrays my real experience) is the sheer scale of the organisation and admin needed to get all of this together and functional.

Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch

Re: "The exact cause of the fault is still being analyzed"

But would that be exact enough?

Re: crashed minutes before landing?

I heard one of the Israeli engineers discussing the flight. I paraphrase but part of his comment was 'of course we are going to land, we just aren't certain in how many pieces'

Re: Budget limits time

Testing is part of the Agile 'methodology'?

when the vehicle crashed minutes before landing.

I think it crashed while landing - however crunchingly. Unless he was intercepted by the Soup Dragon.

Motion detectors: say hello, wave goodbye and… flushhhhhh

Some things are better left without a video greeting

I struggle to think about what things are made better by a video greeting.

The engineers never heard about timed hysteresis?

Re: "less reliable delivery companies than Hermes"

I believe they claim to. But operating might imply working?

The prewash by a smart loo?

Re: "the smartphone will need to install and run a specific scanning app and media player"

Aaaand that is where I start looking for how to return the bloody thing.

The bin is close by I assume?

London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

Re: In other news...

It is claiming asylum in the UK having been kept against its will by Assange

Re: International Law

Unlike Wikileaks

Re: final straw?

While I agree that he should be jailed and then sent back to Oz (if the Swedes don't want him) I don't consider anyone who disagrees with me as either a government stooge or an imbecile. Glass houses and all that.....

Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000

With the appropriate permissions of course.....

Uncle Sam wants to tackle bias in algorithms by ordering tech corps to explain how their machines really work

Re: So the regulations start

And I would give you an extra update for the Mark Twain quote if I could.

Here's what Lynch, Hussain and HPE are saying about Autonomy pre-buyout due diligence

Reading the evidence so far, it would appear that, and not for the first time, HP were not even sure what the ball looked like.

Someone is telling porkies - probably both sides, but HP seems to be getting a beating.

Town admits 'a poor decision was made' after baseball field set on fire to 'dry' it more quickly

On par with the guy who burnt his (parents?) house down trying to get rid of a spider with a blow torch, mentioned in the Reg a while back - http://time.com/2991835/man-tries-to-kill-a-spider-and-ends-up-burning-his-house-down/

Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech

£1.3m-a-year gig won't do much more than whet Capita's

So what is it a 1.3M payment (article) or a 13.2M payment (headline)?

Re: All about the money

Ahh so the operative adjective is crook?

Prince Harry takes a stand against poverty, injustice, inequality? Er, no, Fortnite

Re: Harry is getting a little preachy about this stuff.

They are up for it, the only requirement being a horse, hounds and some small dog.after all if you can’t afford that then you are worthless. I. Other news some people use public transport

Re: Fortnight

There are bette4 ways to find amusement

Two Arkansas dipsticks nicked after allegedly taking turns to shoot each other while wearing bulletproof vests

Re: Nope, Florida Man was still first

Well this is one of the reasons, being a largely humanitarian society (with exception in the Conservative party) we attempt to limit bozos access to both.

Not so fast AI Doctor, the FDA would like to check how good you really are at healthcare

Re: Fundamental disconnect

Just like Boeing did (oh whoops)

Fundamental disconnect

On the face of things, the FDA recommendations make a great deal of sense. There is a disconnect however between many of the people developing these technologies who frequently rely on the mark 0 eyeball - does it appear to provide 'better' performance than what came before and those in the hard real-time development community who demand a little more than that - just because some addition to (say Boeings flight management software) looks superficially better and possibly for trivial reasons, does not remove the responsibility of proper analysis and testing. Difficult to achieve with many 'learning' techniques.

I would hope the latter prevail.

Mystery of the Chinese woman who allegedly tried to sneak into Trump's Mar-a-Lago with a USB stick of malware

I am sure that Trump can pass on far more 'interesting' malware given his habits

Finally, after years of dunking on Magic Leap, El Reg's Kieren tries out the techno hype goggles. And the verdict...

Spectacle frames and lenses are dominated by one manufacturer in Europe. I am sure that many of these are identical across price ranges. Many people seem to be fooled by the 'high price = best quality' for glasses as in many other areas. I can understand (but would hope not to buy into the illusion) but at least cars are an example of conspicuous consumption if that is what turns you on.

Autonomy's financial reports? I didn't even read KPMG's due-diligence, says ex-HP CEO Léo Apotheker

Re: Sticking it to his old bosses?

Lynch might not be an admirable individual, but HP's behaviour appears to verge on the malicious. Get the popcorn in for the expected slew of investor law actions.

Autonomy was a 'pure-play software company', testifies former HP chief exec Léo Apotheker

Re: HP...

Let's face it, HPs execs have been pretty useless (except when they were feathering their own nests) for man years now. I left a few years after Lew Platt that the rot was setting in.

Re: Leo's summary so far

Given that before the takeover Oracle ruled out bidding as it was over valued, one has to wonder, double bluff from the red yin’s or just incompetence in a hurry?