Posts by Bonzo_red

Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict

That is a generalized summary of the patent, not the claimed scope of protection, which reads, for example, "a system for processing information, the system comprising: a memory configured to hold data; at least two processors, each configured to perform operations, and to generate an access request when one of the operations involves access to the data, wherein each access request includes an indication of whether or not this occurrence of the access request is to be performed in a sequential order among other occurrences of the access request and, if so, an indication of a specified order; and a controller configured to receive the access requests from each of the processors, to determine a performance order for the access requests, and to provide the access requests to the memory in the performance order, wherein the performance order conforms to the specified order when the access requests indicate the specified order."

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: Titles not necessarily constant

Wales was not a nation though, it was a principality, and the English took it over only 65 years after Llywelyn and his friends decided to call it theirs.

Driving Test

Not sure about that driving test bit. My mum had a full UK driving licence but never took a test.

CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy

Re: Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back

Strategic gas storage? You mean the two weeks' storage? Hardly strategic compared with Germany's 2 months' but then Germany doesn't have much North Sea gas. The UK's storage was only ever there to smooth out the supply/demand differences.

Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany

Re: This fab is going to require electricity, I assume.

Electricity is one problem but a lack of water supplies is going to be an even bigger one. Elon's Tesla plant had problems because the environmentalists considered it would be extracting too much ground water and this fab is going to need a lot more than Tesla.

Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

Re: Who do I trust?

Can I trust that an unistall has removed all the software without leaving a nasty package or two?

European Commission sticks 'in-depth' antitrust probe into Nvidia-Arm merger plan

Re: The EU?

There is also the concern that the merger will have a negative aspect for customers in the EU.

Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack

True Faith

I guess they put their faith in the 1G and considered 5G was too polytheist.

International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters

Hammer of Thor

Is it too late to send them the 'big hammer'?

Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

Slow Boot

Speed may be one criterion but Firefox is damned annoying at that the moment, taking many seconds to load whereas Edge is near instantaneous. Disabling the two plug-ins has no effect.

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

Re: Carlill vs. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.

I wonder how they proved an influenza infection back in those days - PCR testing was not available, I believe.

Re: print-free-for-life plan was "an introductory offer,"

A printer's for life, not just for Christmas.

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

Re: I thoroughly recommend...

Is the Tesla one on sale yet?

So did the European Patent Office award her the prize of "inventor of the year" for her testing, her book keeping or for her legal defence?

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

Be thankful that the article included K and °C to make it understandable in the light o the use of "colored" and "sulfur".

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Presumably once the recent decision of the EUCJ has been implemented, such crime-fighting techniques will not be available in the EU.

Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents

Lots of Patents

The numbering system doesn't mean there are ten million patents to negotiate. US patent number 1 was issued in 1790, for example.

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Re: Launching

Scolpaig?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/19/shetland_space_centre/

Stock market blizzard: Snowflake set for £33bn IPO as valuation bubble keeps on expanding

With the shares now at around $220, I hope you didn't find a way.

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Citrix VPN

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the crims exploited a known vulnerability in a Citrix VPN product.

GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Re: You have nothing to Fear

Try convincing the family of the woman who died because the Dusseldorf University hospital had been compromised. She had to be taken to another hospital as a result and arrived too late to save here life.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Re: State Aid? Trump??!

"Vote early, vote often" as the saying goes. Thinking about it, that could be Trump's next slogan.

Re: State Aid????

Well since the US has hamstrung the WTO's dispute resolution mechanism, the rules are there to be broken.

Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise

Tick Tock

Just hope that after the acquisition, Oracle does not claim it owns the copyright to "tick tock".

Ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain loses US appeal bid against fraud convictions and 5-year prison sentence

Re: "We rather regard any resort to the privilege against self-incrimination as a black mark."

Or in other words, if you use the time between arrest and trial to dream up some cock and bull story, the courts are entitled to view this with suspicion.

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Re: The DeathStar analogy is apt...

Are his tweets not poetry to you?

Re: The DeathStar analogy is apt...

I see him more as a Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz character myself.

What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible

While his feathers may have been ruffled, at least he wasn't being fleeced.

Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up

Re: He is a pedo ...

I think you are missing an "Actively" there.

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

COVID support flights

Over what timescale were these support flights operating? Evidence that it is a western plot after all?

Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum

I think just "wankers" is better.

The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP

Re: Simple updates to the system

From the screens I have seen, it looks like the software was written in the era of MS-DOS.

Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023

World's Fastest Machine?

What are the chances that in 2023 the Chinese will have surpassed the planned figures for El Capitan?

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

My way

Popped up on my Huawei as well.

Nah, just kidding.

Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin

Re: Performance? Art?

Now if he were to get together with a few mates and manage to map out a traffic jam in the shape of Homer Simpson, that would be art.

Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt

I hope the authorities do not treat her too harshly. She is clearly a view drums short of a bombe.

Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures

Bugs

The bugs are listed in an annex to the decision:

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.image2.pdf

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Re: cognitive skills

I guess the 2WW ships sunk at Bikini Atoll are not too valuable though.

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Re: It's quite clear there will be an ongoing battle on who will control 5G and other networks

Will the EU ban telecommunications with the Faroe Islands until they remove all Huawei equipment, similar to the mackerel ban of 2013?

Alleged Nigerian social engineer wins free flight to the US for business email fraud and love scams

Another Non-Engineer?

I hope he ends up in Arizona - the prison term for misusing the title "engineer" doesn't bear thinking about.

In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support goes up in flames for some Samsung TVs

Samsung tablets affected?

I had downloaded a programme from iPlayer to watch on a flight the other day. Sitting in the plane all I got was a message saying that iPlayer was not available but back home with the wifi back on all was fine. Have the guys at the Beeb included a requirement for a connection to watch downloaded programmes?

Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs

Putin's app

Would it be enough to include a Russian originating app "pin the knob on the donkey"?

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Criminal Damage

How about the Criminal Damage Act of 1971:

"A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence."

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

Re: "prevent the use of digital infrastructure for surveillance"

I would be somewhat concerned if a neo-communist government were to have control of the nation's digital infrastructure.

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Re: 677km from Prum to Berlin

Are the seven hours "driving and recharging" time or just driving time?

Shock! US border cops need 'reasonable suspicion' of a crime before searching your phone, laptop

Re: America has always been weird about visitors

Standing in a queue for over an hour is not "a breeze".

Ever own a Galaxy S4? Congrats, you're $10 richer as Samsung agrees payout over dodgy speed tests

Re: If only I could tell you how much I miss this on modern phones.

How about a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7?

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

What about other forms of wheeled personal transport (non-electric) such as scooters, in-line skates, unicycles etc? Ban them I say!

Behind time and way over budget, but the James Webb Space Telescope has finally been put together

Will UK astronomers be given a proportion of the access allocated to ESA?