Posts by Korev

Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you

Re: Cornish 2 for 1

"Trago mills - Cornwall's favourite place to shop."

Mmmm I think not.

Have they got planning permission yet?

Leaning tower of NASA receives last big arm

"Contractors have been keeping a close eye on the tower after it began to lean slightly towards where the SLS will stand"

If their leaning tower is successful will they go out for Pisa to celebrate?

MIT boffins build rubber robot, invade privacy of unsuspecting sealife

Management

Do they manage the robot using a conSole?

IBM claims its machine learning library is 46x faster than TensorFlow

Optimised hardware vs commodity cloud

It's not surprising that tuned HPC-type hardware running on bare metal will beat some virtualised systems in the cloud. It would have been more interesting to have compared Xeon/GPU Vs Power9/GPU Vs Xeon/Phi etc.

You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding

What are you rabbiting on about?

Re: Calories?

"I'm expecting close to 5 figures."

You're already making excuses to chicken out of eating one

Re: Interesting....

Is that the bucket with the wings

Re: Cost?

Thinking about it, they may just give them away for free(range)

Cost?

All those puns and you don't say how much we'll have to shell out for one...

British Level 4 driverless pods are whizzing along ... er, a London path

Cyclists

In reality, as everyone knows, people and cyclists alike go wherever they please.

You're implying that cyclists aren't people!

What's going great for Oracle? Cloud. What's not great? Just about everything else

Re: Can't see past the cloud

The funny thing about Sun and the cloud is that they had a cloud-like product which was arguably ahead of its time.

Breaking up is hard to do: Airbus, new bae Google and clinging on to Microsoft's 'solutions'

Data leaks

I wonder how long it'll be until someone send/saves something confidential through the Google suite instead of the on-prem MS Office. I suspect a low number of days...

Seems appropriate for Airbus -->

Nest reveals the first truly connected home

Re: Nonsense detected

"Yeah, because yelling "HEY ALEXA, PLEASE ADJUST THE ROOM TEMPERATURE TO 72 DEGREES""

But 72c will cause burns

Neural networks whip fleshbag butt at identifying craters

Yep, some people are lunar-tics

Hello, Spotify? Are you on? Perils and pratfalls of own-brand hardware

Re: How many

Yep. And they have their own streaming services too.

Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

Re: "Has a foreign body caused you grief?"

"Oh you're so funny."

I said "Yeah?

Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.

cos there's no rum ad coca-cola icon -->

Taxpayers chuck burnt-out Bongs* millions of pounds to 'decelerate'

Certainly Mr Barley...

That's well weapon -->

OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws

Re: Odiferous Rodent

Don't forget the significant funding from the NSA, Mossad and all the other usual suspects who just love, really love backdoors.

If this is the case then why would they publicise the flaws?

Samba settings SNAFU lets any user change admin passwords

"My coffee is cold" - "it's because of linux"

Well Java on Linux isn't that great...

It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?

Yep. Their blog claims 315Mb/s which is still thrice the speed of the previous model.

Dates

"assuming you live in a country that insists on writing dates in the frankly barking mad MM/DD format"

A pint for the author -->

Uni IT man stole £22k of Macs to pay for smack

Sounds like he was a hardCore addict

Finland government buys a slice of Nokia

We'd all sing "Hard Rock Hallelujah!" with happiness

IBM thinks Notes and Domino can rise again

Language

Modern languages/tools like Node.js? Pah, surely C# is the only thing you should programme Notes in

Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs

Re: Coming soon...

"Can you ride tandem?"

Yes, NonStop

Re: What goes down...

"How about going up instead of down? No messy tunnel boring, no slow lifts to wait for. You could call it ... an Airbus."

Love it -->

Developer mistakenly deleted data - so thoroughly nobody could pin it on him!

Re: That's not how that works

It basically scans the file system and then creates a whole chain of rm commands. If you try to run it on too many files then it bombs out with an error.

You can ask me how I know this, but now how that many small files were written to the filesystem in the first place...

Won't somebody think of the inodes -->

Re: Never edit the fstab table on a production system...

Yep, fstab, a /bin, /etc

Re: Never edit the fstab table on a production system...

Maybe someone would make a fstab at guessing why...

Millionaire-backed science fiction church to launch Scientology TV network

Adverts for holidays

Does anyone think the station will have adverts for Tom Cruises?

Good news: Apple designs a notebook keyboard that doesn't suck

"Apple designs a notebook keyboard that doesn't suck"

You mean they've put the " on the 2 on their UK keyboards at last?

Server sales dead? No sir, not in Q4

"Branded vendors made hay while sun shone"

Sadly not since Oracle bought them...

DVLA denies driving licence processing site is a security 'car crash'

Would this lead to...

...Drive by attacks to the browser?

Will the defendant please rise? Utah State Bar hunts for sender of topless email

Re: "to the breast of their knowledge"

A cup of tea for them!

Administrator PwC chops Maplin staff

Yep, I'm feeling wired now...

IBM's homomorphic encryption accelerated to run 75 times faster

Re: Am I the only one who read that as

"Strangely, I read it as "homeopathic."

I remember an edition of AbFab where Eddie's mum called them that :)

Mine's the Gucci one, darling -->

Re: Am I the only one who read that as

You've raised the gay bar with that...

More please IBM

This is the kind of research that used to make IBM great; please do more of it.

And don't let your salepeople muck it up by trying to force Bluemix / Power on everyone...

Sci-tech wants skilled worker cap on PhD and shortage jobs scrapped

Re: I wonder....

£55k is roughly twice the UK average wage and would put a person in the top 10% of UK earners. I suspect that most people in the UK don't realise how low the salaries actually are especially once the high living costs have been taken into account.

£55k

For instance, MP Stuart McDonald said in parliament last month that in December 2017, people essentially had to have a salary of £55,000 or above to qualify for a certificate.

Which pretty much rules out most science jobs; not to mention other useful people like teachers, junior doctors etc.

Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take

Netflix as a vendor

The idea of Netflix as an IT vendor is weird, but you could say the same about a certain bookseller....

Ethernet sales growing, but routing's been routed by software

So you're saying that people are making the switch away from hardware because of software, it's good to have that on the routing table...

VMware's cloud migration play beams down whole data centres

Re: Can it migrate it back?

A very good question

Ocado to stock cannabidiol-infused water

Partnership

Is it a joint venture between Ocado and Love Hemp?

I guess it'd be good for their canabusiness

Suspected drug dealer who refused to poo for 46 DAYS released... on bail

Re: Ah well...

It saves on the paperwork, I suppose.

Of the Andrex variety?

Pasties in SPAAAAACE: Cornwall hopes for slice of £50m spaceport cash

If they keep going a bit longer then the Bloodhound will "launch horizontally" over Watergate Bay

Re: "delicious, meat-filled pasties"

You're being let off lightly... Hell hath no fury like when a Cornishman has his pasties contaminated...

There's a reason why the Americans don't keep any of these in Cornwall any more -->

Re: Remind me

I think putting the cream on second would jam everything up

Half the world warned 'Chinese space station will fall on you'

Re: WEEEE

Or weee weee weee all the way home