Posts by BebopWeBop

Assange fails to make skipped bail arrest warrant vanish

Re: How tall is he and what does he weigh?

Well hopefully they are not. But past behaviours don't give me great confidence.

Re: @macjules A Flagrant Rotten Denial of Justice and a Blot in the UKGBNI Landscape

If memory serves, two of the charges have past their statute of limitations. If only Sweden allowed to be charged in abstentia... then all would be right in the world.

For those readers from the US or other jurisdictions

In the UK limitations on criminal acts are very limited (and to magistrates courts)

a magistrates’ court shall not try an information or hear a complaint unless the information was laid, or the complaint made, within 6 months from the time when the offence was committed, or the matter of complaint arose.

Unless the prosecution made a very big blunder, which does not appear to have happened here, there is no apparent limitation. In addition, the director of public prosecutions can override a time bar on any offence. And limiting bail in this way would be a 'get out of jail free' sticker for too many crims.

Re: A Flagrant Rotten Denial of Justice and a Blot in the UKGBNI Landscape

It'ds the Assange variant of Mornington Crescent

Here's why online social networks are bad for humanity, the nerds who helped build them tut-tut

Re: The Center for Humane Technology

I always favoured the B-Ark being programmed in the same way as 'Hotblack Desiato’s' spaceship'. The inhabitants would lurve the all black controls.

‘I crashed a rack full of servers with my butt’

I have lost count of the number of people to whom I have given PCs - and usb back up drives which they never used. Muggins was then expected to recover their data when they had a problem.

I can be smug here - I did buy the kids USB disks - and then made a royal pain in the arse of myself b buffing them to use them! Paid dividends in one (of three) who has evangelised ever since...

Just can't catch a break, can ya, Capita? Shares tumble 40% amid yet another profit warning

Re: A company that will never learn

While I understand and appreciate the sentiment, don’t think that just by appointing women things will change. They can be just as good acting as money grabbing bar stewards (see the sainted Dido) as their male equivalents. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/18/mps_grill_dido_harding_over_suitability_to_chair_nhs_improvement/

Re: domino effect?

but then, it takes more than two to domino...

Actually one is sufficient to get them all falling in a nice line.

EU hitches its cart to the blockchain bandwagon

Not quite (headline)

It has some momentum, and even a little money behind it - and consequences. I'm just surprised this was not happening already (OK it was - just not with overpaid individuals :-) - surprised Farage has not got his nose in the trough yet.

F-35 flight tests are being delayed by onboard software snafus

Re: Bombs away

In close air support role (which this POS is supposed to take over too you know)? After you have exterminated the troops you are supposed to be supporting?

Provided they are not voters and the act is not recorded and broadcastt guess the USAF does not care. (And even then...)

Re: Still, one day...

I take your point having been involved in three extremely difficult projects - we were using a relatively formal approach to their mathematical analysis don't all boo - it proved its worth many time over (and we were well paid on the results), typically does so when used appropriately) but so many concurrent versions in the field - that is never going to be a good idea if you expect some convergence/learning.

Twilight of the idols: The only philosophy HPE and IBM do these days is with an axe

Re: East India Company Marx

A genuine question - posters use East India Company and abbreviate it to EAC - why?

RIP Ursula K Le Guin: The wizard of Earthsea

The Left Hand of Darkness, a trek across a freezing snowy wasteland with an unthinkably alien companion, is not just a good science fiction novel; it is simply good literature. It is spare, compelling and mesmerising – like a weird, wonderfully savoury, perfectly made soufflé.

My first experience of her - at the age of 12 (I think, my children started with her 'Dragon books but did not finish there) it took a lot of reading, but well worth the effort.

Stripe in Bitcoin hype flight while fans blindly gobble up crypto-cash

Re: Peak cryptocurrency

Just wait until some speculator decides to invest in the development and promotion of a peculiar little infection (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/africa/banana-panama-disease/)

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

Re: You do know that Moore’s law says nothing about speed?

From what I remember, many of those dimensions are a wee bit small.

Aut-doh!-pilot: Driver jams 65mph Tesla Model S under fire truck, walks away from crash

Re: of course you could

Premiums on my X have not changed much since I have had it (OK only one renewal so far). To be fair, I live in the countryside but it is used for business.

Re: anti-collision

Yes I was sent on a 2 week (abbreviated) Police course and the advice was - wall or tree - always go for the wall.

Re: 2018: "But it was on Autopilot!"

did he/she open the bottle - if so, well impressed. My grandfather used to dose some of his cattle with stout mixed in with the bran during certain parts of the year. Swore by it, although my grandmother was convinced it was simply a way of allowing him to get a swift Guinness or three while out in the shed. Cattle looked good though (and happy).

It's 2018 and your Macs, iPhones can be pwned by playing evil music

Re: "....HomePod, a $349 smart speaker...."

Well while I like the idea of using someone uses device (especially if you don't like them) a quick correlation of voice signatures across multiple devices, coupled with a little correlation of social media will probably identify you anyway :-(

On a somewhat tangential note, one of my acquaintance's partners has an 'Echo' and the house has been blackballed by a number of us unless it is unplugged and powered down when we are in the house. He has a thick skin and am curious to see what some alternative social pressure might persuade him to do.

Nominations open for comp restoration gong, the Tony Sale Award

Re: I'm just not sure what award they should qualify for...

Lifetime membership of the Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things, for, well, having put impressive numbers of Things on top of Other Things.

shurely life time membership of the Queue Society (a broad church incorporating the LIFO and FIFO societies)

The Reg visits London Met Police's digital and electronics forensics labs

hey CSI (in its many incarnations) tells us that

'The capacitors exploded, showering the lab in flaming confetti'

Doing physics as well, and having 'hear rumours', we built a couple of very good 'spud cannons' that powered by the rapid discharge (ahem) of a very large capacitor - 1 Farad (if I remember 39 years later) we could engage in duels over quite a distance.

Why did I buy a gadget I know I'll never use?

I feed mine into the composting bin - I'm sure they tasted fine as well.

.UK overseer Nominet abandons its own charitable foundation – and why this matters

Re: Freudian slip

My partner tells me that she never feeds her horses Lasagne (disgustingly pampered brutes though they might be)

You may not be a software company, but that isn't an excuse to lame-out at computering

Re: Anchovies

Quite - and although it *might* sound interesting, hot pineapple is curiously tasteless, leaving a slightly disquieting texture behind.

Crypto-cash exchange BitConnect pulls plug amid Bitcoin bloodbath

To use a much overused (but still apposite) analogy, it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck (in bad camouflage)

M&S extends customer support contract with, er, Capita

Re: It doesn't look good...

I should say that their socks (once their wool socks were very fine if mildly costly items) have also gone pants.

Hehe, still writing code for a living? It's 2018. You could be earning x3 as a bug bounty hunter

Re: Worth it?

or the median?

France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry

Re: Bof!

Ahhh speet on yore fart and throw elderberries in your general direction

This was just the Vikings - having another go!

Customers reporting credit card fraud after using OnePlus webstore

Re: Walmart may have a similar issue

If you know report it - or are the US authorities dragging their feet? - in which case name names please

Feds may have to explain knowledge of security holes – if draft law comes into play

The remainder, the NSA said, are either fixed by vendors before disclosure or are retained for national security reasons.

The4 NSA have been generous and shared or made available vulnerabilities to other countries security service as well as countless entrepreneurs as well

Russia claims it repelled home-grown drone swarm in Syria

parts and lack even landing wheel

Not needed!

Indian data leak looks to have been an inside job

Might be low - but if the volume works (and all those high value European users must be worth something) then money will change hands

1980s sci-fi movies: The thrill of being not quite terrified on mum's floral sofa

Re: Not just technology...

I did enjoy the original book though. But then it was a good short novel, not the bloated groanfest of the film

Wait! Before you fire up that HP lappy, check the battery

Re: HP doesn't make the batteries

As much a victim - no I don't think so - unless C level managers have also been burnt and inconvenienced - beyond their bonuses.

Jocks in shock as Irn-Bru set to slash sugar and girder content

Re: How to be English in Three Easy Steps

Having lived in Glasgow* I can confirm that the people that hate the Scottish most are the Scottish.

I used to just think it was a Glaswegian hatred of Edinburgh dweller - and then I was going out with a Glaswegian and witnessed the Rangers-Celtic match aftermath.

Re: Lateral Thinking

Yes I remember a favourite trick from School - having selected an unwitting victim, open their (plastic) bottle, drop a small mint sweet into it and then close - quickly. Move well away before it is opened.

'Twas the night before Y2K and a grinch stole the IT department's overtime payout

Re: Merry Christmas everyone

I assume here ? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/bofh_twas_the_night_before/

Sorry I was really asking which AC!

Which one?

Merry Christmas, UK prosecutors: Here's a special gift... a slap from the privacy watchdog

Re: "GDPR will happen irrespective of Brexit, this is essential to maintain the UK's Adequacy

Or the US (at least there is a hypothesis that suggests so)

Nest's slick IoT burglar alarm catches crooks... while it eyes your wallet

Re: Way overpriced

While I can believe it, internet connected wotsits - say camera - have a very poor reputation for vulnerabilities. Opening the system to BOT usage is bad enough, other issues that will probably follow on :-( Not a great number of security audits appear to be available - possibly these companies should invest in some independent testing?

It depends on your use model. Working in and out intermittently, frequently being away, and generally living on my own with regular bursts of visit from friend and family, the Nest system is significantly better than a traditional system and saves money *while* keeping the house appropriately warm and given in is out beyond the sticks it matters

'Please store the internet on this floppy disk'

Re: Brings back bad memories

I've resorted to videos showing exactly how something can be done

Tried violence - or stopping short of that the threat of extreme unction (have been tempted mysellf on more than one occasion - and that is just supporting my own family!)

Facebook: Who needs millennials? The cops love us more than ever!

Re: At the A/C, ""It's a mystery why it's failing.

No, no working with vulnerable individuals, no SC-related gumpf, no sensitive fin data ...

Never been asked for that for SC clearance. I have been for a higher level security clearance, and while they were not nonplussed when we were reviewing it (in one of the interminable meetings), I was asked whether I was sure :-)

UK reaches peak Bitcoin as bin firm accepts cryptocurrency

Re: It's just money

And if you feel really bad after losing all your money, you could always kill yourself by eating the bulbs. Shame it does not keep the badgers away from mine!

Telly boffin Professor Heinz Wolff has died

Re: Helen Sharman to become the first Briton in space.

Difficult to miss him but she did get there first (if one is obsessed with nationality) - preceded by British born NASA astronauts who decided to emigrate to be eligible.

Well I don't think they could be described as concentration camps, even if life in an internment camp would not have been a bundle of fun for an 11 year old. He did go to school in Oxford, so I would be careful about your assumption until you know the facts (I don't)

Peak smartphone? iPhone X flunks 'supercycle' hopes

Well I am very happy with my iphone SE, and might in the future go for an updated version (mainly for the camera and oodles more memory :-(0 If I needed to the 8 would not have worried me with its lack of a headphone socket (I always use a bluetooth headset anyway), but the lack of the fingerprint sensor and the somewhat dodgy face recognition, let alone the flipping cost would never persuade me.

UK.gov delays biometrics strategy again – but cops will still use the tech

Re: Simple solution:

I don't believe the poster was claiming any such thing. Merely that ANPR as a digital technology that relies, in this case, on image recognition, was a good example has been rolled out and the powers that be have allowed the plod to carry on without oversight of any value.

If you seek to wilfully misinterpret - or are just dumb, then that is your problem.