Posts by Bonzo_red

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?

Home Office told to stop telling EU visa porkies

So they change the ad to "in most cases". Big deal.

Tesla’s Autopilot losing track of devs crashing out of 'leccy car maker

Re: decades away if we talk driving in a rural Italian village

Then there is the difficulty of programming different driving modes - mode 1: driving like a native to the RIV (driving on wrong side of road etc) and mode 2: driving like a visitor (reversing for miles when bus/garbage truck/local is coming other way and refuses to give way).

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

Never had my phone inspected at US border control. Do they insert the software remotely then?

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

Re: Right ... but perhaps for the wrong reasons

Here's a clue:

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3011108/explainer-used-iphones-guided-missiles-does-chinas-dominance

Ahem, ahem... AI engine said to be good as human docs at spotting lung cancer developing

A good thing?

Lung cancer identification today, mass facial recognition tomorrow.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

Re: WiFi Routers can be anywhere; cell towers are generally in fixed locations

Alkoholfreies Weißbier, if we are being picky.

Wine? No, posh noshery in high spirits despite giving away £4,500 bottle of Bordeaux

Re: I'm wondering about the sensible manager that thought...

Looking at the prices for a 2001 Le Pin, GBP 4,500 is not that bad. Retail is around €3,500 so only a 30% markup.

MI5 slapped on the wrist for 'serious' surveillance data breach

Re: The real probelm is a legal system that rewards illegality.

The German tax authorities were more than happy to prosecute tax avoiders who had been stashing their loot in Swiss banks after the banks' data were stolen and sold to them.

Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

Re: Do they call him..???

Or if female, Nicola.

Oracle asks Supremes to snub Google's Java API copyright protest – and have a nice cuppa tea, instead

Re: Nuff said

Most patent applications are for "inventions" already in the public domain - that is why the patent offices carry out prior art searches. It is not unknown for patents to be granted on such public domain material, hence the mechanism for having them invalidated.

Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed

Re: I would expect a longer process for re-certification

According to the NY Times, the crew would have had 40 seconds to disable MCAS then would have needed to disengage the motors and manually set the tail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/boeing-simulation-error.html

The tech lawsuit of the year: HPE v Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain

Is this going to be a jury trial?

No, it is a civil matter so a single judge snoozin in his high chair. If it goes on appeal there will then be three judges.

Brekkie TV host Lorraine Kelly wins IR35 ruling against HMRC, adds fuel to freelance techies' ire over tax reforms

I've seen pictures of her growler actually

Does she drive a Jag then?

I don't hate US tech, snarls Euro monopoly watchdog chief – as Google slapped with €1.49bn megafine

Re: You had to read the article to the end to get to that bit

No, that is the (wet) dream of Mr. Weber, although why governments around the world should reinvest fines levied directly into the Commission antitrust resources I do not know.

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

Re: Criminal Negligence and/or Corporate Malfeasance? Those are a Rock and a Hard Place

If the US courts have been locking up VW engineers for allowing cars to operate contrary to federal regulations, how many Boeing executives and engineers are going to be spending time in the local pententiary for killing a few hundred passengers?

Holy sh*tsnacks! Danger zone! Edinburgh Uni's Archer 2 super 'puter will cost a cool £79m

Re: Next steps : (1) reinforce Hadrian's Wall

Is the POTUSA allowed to have dual citizenship?

Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it

The same goes for extended warranties. If the cost reflects the expected failure rate, they must be selling a really shit product.

Volkswagen faces fresh Dieselgate lawsuit in Germany – report

Morgan

I think now only Caterham is left - Morgan has been sold off to an Italian venture capital company.

UK Ministry of Justice: Surprise! We tested out biometric tech in prisons and 'visitors' with drugs up their bums ran away

How about "Ministry of Truth and Justice"?

Crowdfunded lawyer suing Uber told he can't swerve taxi app giant's £1m legal bill

These VAT lawyers can earn millions arguing whether a Jaffa cake is a cake or a biscuit though.

Germany tells America to verpissen off over Huawei 5G cyber-Sicherheitsbedenken

Re: This makes me not want to check your other claims.

You mean like the claim that "almost all Volvo cars are now manufactured in China buy Chinese owners"?

Autonomy trial: Key HPE witness might not testify, UK High Court told

Re: All I know is as taxpayers, we are paying for this farce

As a money claim, HPE will have paid court fees of GBP 10,000. The parties will be paying their attorney costs so I don't see how the tax payer is lumped with a bill.

Lenovo ThinkPad P1: Sumptuous pro PC that gets a tad warm

Does this Lenovo have their wonderful hinges made of soft cheese which when they break refuse to consider as being covered by the guarantee?

Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request

Re: So how much for the vicitm ?

"Her Majesty" in this case being the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not to be confused with any other majesty, such as the Queen of Canada with whom she shares some similarities.

Using WhatsApp for your business comms? It's either that or reinstall Lotus Notes

Re: Troos?

As favoured by a certain Alex (cough, cough) Salmond, when First Minister

If at first, second, third... fourth time you don't succeed, you're Apple: Another appeal lost in $440m net patent war

Re: Are VirnetX actually Trolls?

Maybe both are correct - the patents were invented by Short when he worked for SAIC and when this company had no interest in them anymore, he formed his own company which bought the patents off SAIC because he thought they had value.

Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate

The Sapper

I guess Rudyard Kipling would get locked up:

WHEN the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,

("It's all one," says the Sapper),

The Lord He created the Engineer,

Her Majesty's Royal Engineer,

With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

Talk in Trump's tweets tells whether tale is true: Code can mostly spot Prez lies from wording

Re: Ignorance can be very powerful

If the tweet was him wishing a happy thanksgiving to all, then it could be classed as in accurate since he would never, ever wish a happy thanksgiving to Hillary.

Fancy Bear hacker crew Putin dirty RATs in Word documents emailed to govt orgs – report

Re: Sigh .... those Russians

I dare say that a number of women and girls living in eastern Germany at the time would have said that he was right to have had concerns about Russia.

Cheeky cheesemaker fails to copyright how things taste

There aren't many artisan products shown in that "roundup".

Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ

Maybe people of interest to GCHQ were using Belgian telephones.

European Commission: We've called off the lawyers over Ireland's late collection of Apple back taxes

Wasn't the point of the escrow fund that the money would be paid back if the case against Ireland was not upheld? If so, I guess Apple now get a nice fat cheque.

Early experiment in mass email ends with mad dash across office to unplug mail gateway

Re: Let me try

Not in Germany it isn't. If you want Lea & Perrins with your tomato juice you need to ask for Vor - Chester sauce.

Big bimmer bummer: Bavaria's BMW buggies battered by bad bugs

Bugs überall

I thought it was VW which sold bugs.

Zookeepers charged after Kodiak bear rides shotgun to Dairy Queen

Re: Sense of humor

Who mentioned dogs?

Ofcom to probe Three and Vodafone over network throttling

I can fully accept that Voodoofone does not restrict the service to customers. I just find it strange that when I visit London, my phone with a German sim is not able to connect to a 3G network, let alone a 4G one.

US docs show Daimler may have done a Dieselgate – German press claims

I think they are talking about the SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) aspect where urea is injected to reduce the NOx with the help of a catalyst.

Unlucky 13 collared by cops hunting cyber-crew who stole up to $2.2bn

Medvedev, ...Medvedev - I am sure I have come across that name somewhere, I just can't for the life of me put my finger on it.

Basket case lawsuit: Fancy fruit florists flail Google over rotten ads, demand $200m damages

Strange. If I put "edible arrangements" into google, up pops "Edible Arrangements (R)"

All aboard the warship that'll make you Sicker

All sounds German to me

Presumably "mac siccar" is derived from the same origin as the German "mach sicher".

Secret UN report finds against controversial WIPO chief

Correction

Slight correction - the US committee hearing is on the 24th