Posts by murakh

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Design complications

Curious as to why there are so many suggestions of adding an additional light (colour)

There are already 3^3 options (Red, amber, green. On, off, flashing) shirely it would be much easier to implement one of the existing options onto the existing equipment?

Yes, I've seen counters (not always true seconds though), flashing red or green when about to change, and also amber and red or amber and green. So they are all possible and already in use.

So why the jump to making it even more complicated?

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

Re: Alice (@ AndyS)

If they wanted a catchy name,they missed the obvious one: R-SEX!

Wouldn't that be more suited to missions exploring Uranus?

The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

Re: "A secondary phone..."

these for the long distance calls? (apologies to Paul Simon)

ARM emulator in a VM? Yup, done. Ready to roll, no config required

Re: Just how big are they?

No. This general concept lately in IT of alpha releases that the community must (bug)fix must come to an end.

Of the 4 articles I read today on The Register, 2 had obvious mistakes (one even being really basic that even a basic spell-check should have flagged). Writing an e-mail with corrections for 50% of the articles I read here becomes a job, which should have been done internally or should be remunerated in some way.

Just how big are they?

"Hacking ARM processors just became a little after a researcher" ... so if they became little, how big are they, or were they?

Or is this another classic example of El' Reg proofreading as usual? Nearly every article of late has obvious words missing, or mistakes of some kind.

China to identify commentards with real‑name policy

Re: is this for real?

It is a bit misleading saying "Real Name", in actuality it is "Real Name" AND national identity number. Many of the Chinese apps (chat, social networking etc) have been implementing this over the last few months already.

Apple bag-search class action sueball moves to Cali supreme court

Technicalities

Could this needing to clock off be similar to why one goes through immigration before customs?

If the bag is searched while still officially "at work" and something is found, then it cant be said that the item is being stolen. Officially having finished work, then there is no reason to have company-owned items in your bag.

Whatever the case these kinds of searches (including checks of car boots at one place I used to work) are totally useless as there is no way they know what was brought in to start with!

Taiwan government to block Google's public DNS in favor of HiNet's

China (PRC) vs China (ROC)

"Mainland" China (People's Republic of China (P.R.C)) has the Great Firewall (GF), China (Republic of China (R.O.C)) aka Taiwan as far as I am aware has a fairly open internet policy currently.

China Telecom is probably the same China Telecom in PRC which is PRC owned, if so this does become interesting as it seems PRC may be trying to introduce the GF into ROC.

Also bypassing the GF by using alternate DNS settings or host files with the appropriate IP addresses has not worked for over 2 years and many DNS IPs seem to be blocked.

User loses half of a CD-ROM in his boss's PC

Re: Paper yes...

Does nobody fan paper before filling the paper tray anymore?

Years back there was a shared printer, Mopier, never had a jam after I filled it with paper (and fanned it well beforehand). Nice printer but was soon removed and scrapped because "it always jams", but nobody could understand why my printing was fine and of course nobody would listen since "there is no reason to fan it, that just wastes time"

Mark Shuttleworth says some free software folk are 'deeply anti-social' and 'love to hate'

Always certain of a deeper purpose

This sounds too much like a nice way to justify leaving open source / free.

Anyone else suspect a "new improved" Canonical very soon with closed source parts and perhaps paid software?