Posts by computinghomer

Sex is bad for older men, and even worse when it's good

Re: I call bull.

U a Yank ??

Pixellation popped: AI can ID you, even after PhotoShop phuzzing

Yet another fear my magic article. Horsepucky. The pixelation destroys fundamental information from the image. Even knowing the algorithm used to perform pixelation will not allow full recovery or even ensure significant recovery.

Three quarters of Oz science grads can't get science work

yeah but engineering sucks

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

What about the stinker last movie. In the first five minutes Kirk jumps off a cliff and Spock is lowered into an active volcano. That's as far as I watched.

Sadly 2001 A Space Odyssey would never be made today.

Utah sheriffs blow $10,000 on smut-sniffing Labrador

My name is Earl

Never overlook the entertainment value provided by the good ole USA.

On her microphone's secret service: How spies, anyone can grab crypto keys from the air

Re: 4096-bits in audio bandwidth

Exactly. There is a lot of space between a hack that can be make to work if all the conditions are right and something that would actually work in say 50% of random setups. Somehow that info never makes in through.

Brits don't want their homes to be 'tech-tastic'

Re: If a multi-billion company can't produce safe mainstream code

Your making sense, we'll have none of that interfering with our good work as marketers of dreams.

Bank in the UK? Plans afoot to make YOU liable for bank fraud

Re: Grey area

Just ask yourself why you are responsible when a bank loans money to someone who merely has your identification number. Why isn't that the banks fault. Why don't they have to PROVE that I borrowed the money.

The underbelly of simulation science: replicating the results

Wouldn't it be of scientific interest to develop specialized CPU's with much larger floating point units for simulation.

Google-backed solar electricity facility sets itself on fire

Ah but the real purpose of the facility is as a weapon for zapping satellites. At the touch of a button the mirrors can put that beam into the path of an oncoming satellite.

Boffins achieve 'breakthrough' in random number generation

How about combining multiple random sources with XOR operations.

Stop resetting your passwords, says UK govt's spy network

write your own excel macro to keep your passwords

I too cannot install software at work, but I do have good ole excel with VBA. Wrote my own password keeper that encrypts the file with a stream cipher.

Who you callin' stoopid? No excuses for biz intelligence's poor stats

How can you conclude anything from one set of numbers for sales. I would think a series of sales figures would be required for both male and female to make any conclusion.