Posts by Korev

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

"Clearly it will land in Northern France as predicted by Vitalstatistix."

If it does then they could call it an Obelix.

British military spends more on computers than weapons and ammo

Recruitment

Of course their new Army recruitment system could be a way of lowering staffing costs as they can't get any new people in. Of course it means spending a tonne of money with Capita.

US Army warns of the potential dangers of swarming toy drones on US soldiers

Re: Swarms indeed.

That would not bee nice...

La, la, la, I can't hear you! Apple to challenge Bose's noise-proof cans

Re: More to the point

"I'm at least part Scottish. We are not mean - just poor."

Maybe you need to make a buckfast

Paul Allen's research vessel finds wreck of WWII US aircraft carrier

Re: Paul Allen?

"Is yours the coat with the videotapes to be returned?"

Love it!

Re: Creepy...

Not if "history" is defined as "wars that the Americans think that they won."

Hey Captain why haven't we seen any British soldiers yet?

Ahhh, don't be ignorant, everyone knows that the Second World War was fought entirely by American actors"

Paul Allen?

"Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God; It even has a watermark."

UK data watchdog's inaugural tech strategy was written with... *drumroll* Word 2010

Re: Office 2010 is sometimes preferred over the later versions

Personally I prefer to run Office 2010 myself over the later versions which seem to run endlessly slower on ever faster hardware.

What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away. A bit old, but I'm sure its conclusion still holds.

'A sledgehammer to crack a nut': Charities slam UK voter ID trials

As a student I shared a house with a man and a woman; on the day of the General Election I managed to grab one of the others' card. It was only picked up because it said Miss on it and had been my other housemate's then I'd have taken his vote.

Up to 25% of new builds still can't get superfast broadband – study

Roland6 wrote "Are the Swiss consuming significantly more digital services than households in the UK on FTTC/FTTP/VM?"

A very good question and I have no idea of the answer. One potential data point is that many ISPs bundle IPTV with their services which must increase bandwidth requirements. For my own usage, upload speed is far more important as I have a photography habit and do a lot of backups to the cloud.

"I suggest at these speeds the only competition is in the marketing claims: our network is faster than the competition..."

I suspect that for many home users this is the case. For someone like a graphic designer or videographer I can see how having cheap and fast Internet is hugely useful.

UPC in Switzerland (also owned by Liberty Global) offer 500/50. Swisscom (BT equivalent) offer FTTP with 1Gbs/1Gbs so UPC need to compete.

Apple's new 'spaceship' HQ brings the pane for unobservant workers

Re: Solutions

How would drawing a chicken help?

'Repeatable sanitization' is a feature of PCs now

Re: not intended

If you pop just the chips out then job's a good 'un

Bitcoin heist with a twist: This time it's servers that were stolen

Re: The nation USED TO HAVE a low crime rate.

Probably "why mums go to Iceland"

Reg man wraps head in 49-inch curved monitor

Re: Still only 1080 Vertical

"* No, I've not done the maths. If you want to work out how many of these would really be needed for a 270 degree on two axis, fellow reader, then feel free. Being the Reg, I'm 100% confident somebody will."

I'd say about twelvety

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

Re: Probably my fault for being unclear

Which uni was this?

TigerGraph emerges from undergrowth with 2.0 release in its jaws

Re: 'Scuse my ignorance

I believe that they're the errr SQL

Fender's 'smart' guitar amp has no Bluetooth pairing controls

Re: Jazz 2.0

Nice.

Re: Buffy overflow shirely

You're just stringing us along here, can you try to Marshall some order please it's all looking too distorted...

It might be a vulnerability if someone turns it up to 11 and blasts pink noise through it

Well, she does make an awful racket

Samsung's Galaxy 9s debut, with not much other than new cameras

Re: Continuous improvement is the hallmark of consumer products

"The S7 and S8 '"will can haz" dual sims if you go for the dual sim version, I think aimed primarily at the Asian market but available over in Europe too if you look around."

In much of Europe the EU rules around roaming have lowered the need for a second sim.

Drones replace models on Dolce & Gabbana catwalk

Re: "I asked Chanel to explain itself. The company didn't return my emails"

Strange, they've been covering the Channel for years

Apple: Er, yes. Your iCloud stuff is now on Google's servers, too

At a similar time I was told that they were big Isilon customers. I guess a company that size could use both though.

Re: Bah!

Alanis Morissette? I don't get it...

Mr Byrne’s take on it

Want cheaper analytics? Snub SaaS: Ye olde ELAs might do the job

Usage?

After a lot of fuss about Hadoop/Spark at my work (drug discovery); almost no one uses it any more. In which industries is it widely used?

Data science before algorithms, declares Bosch's new top techie

Bosch culture

We had a meeting with some Bosch people a few years ago. They all turned up in blue suits, white shirts, red ties and each wore a little Bosch badge; they also referred to each other as {Mr,Dr} $SURNAME. It was quite interesting to see their culture in action.

Intellisense was off and developer learned you can't code in Canadian

Re: I also considered the lazy / efficient option...

"Gifted" is the one that currently annoys me. It even takes slightly longer to say than "gave" or "given".

Re: I've never quite understood

The Ggplot2 visualisation package for R spells colour correctly, but color[sic] also works.

I make sure that use the British spelling wherever possible; I never tyre of it

Hubble Space Telescope one of 16 suffering data-scrambling sensor error

Re: Generation X

Yep, it all began to slide once cameras went digital

Voice assistants are always listening. So why won't they call police if they hear a crime?

Liability?

You could also imagine a scenario where $VENDOR implements this and something bad happens and no Police are called. The victim's family could then sue Amazon, Google etc.

Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X

Re: Looks good

Maybe they could use two cameras and use the same technology that they use in Rugby matches to move the "virtual camera" so it appears that you're looking at the other person.

Some Boffinery needed by much smarted people than me -->

DropEverything! DropBox DropsDocs to DropStocks

"Also, why is this needed for a zero knowledge data storage silo: https://spideroak.com/dmca-takedown-notice-submission/ ?"

Maybe if someone's sharing a file to the Internet that breaks Copyright.

Stunning infosec tips from Uncle Sam, furries exposed, Chase bank web leak, and more

Word attachments

The Word's Online Video function instead opens an Internet Explorer window and plays the video that way.

The downside of this is that a canny adversary can use this window to run a coin miner. It's a bit limited, in that the user has to be actively watching the video for the coin miner to work, but it's a good example of how sneaky these digital thieves are getting.

If your staff are already opening Word documents from outside of the organisation and then following links then you’ve probably already got a bigger problem than someone mining coins.

Perusing pr0nz at work? Here's a protip: Save it in a file marked 'private'

Re: Perusing pr0nz ?

“Unless, of course, your job is to do digital editing/enhancement of porn. Then your machine should be full of the stuff!”

I used to vaguely know a guy whose job that was. Apparently he went from being an avid consumer to “meh” very quickly!

I also know someone who went to work for a well known smut emporium* who loves his job (tonnes of data, busy websites, security etc).

*They have a “castle” in San Francisco, so many of El Reg’s SF office are probably “familiar” with it ;)

If you’re doing work on an unauthorised PC then that could have legal ramifications.

I wonder which platform he'll train on next

Re: The real story

Love it!

Cali cops' Clue caper: Apple technicans, in an iPhone repair lab, with the 1,600 silent 911 calls

Knowing 112 meant I could call out the cavalry to help a badly injured guy in France a few years ago. I was put through to the Police initially but they got hold of the ambulance.

Should you ever need it the number for an ambulance in France is actually 15.

Maybe the wanted to listen to their iPlod

The Great Bulgarian Streaming Scam may well have been scummy, but Spotify got paid

Re: He did not break the rules

Yep, very much a “Why didn’t I think of this” thing

Batteries are so heavy, said user. If I take it out, will this thing work?

I wrote

"in Notepad (or whatever the equivalent was in 1992)"

Probably edlin..."

BinkyTheMagicPaperclip wrote

'92 would be edit.com, shipped with DOS 5.0."

I think you're probably right, have one on me -->

"in Notepad (or whatever the equivalent was in 1992)"

Probably edlin...

...which I don't miss -->

Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course

"And Berlusconi is moving back into politics."

You mean he who sued the Economist for saying that he "is unfit to lead Italy" and then lost? :)

Re: Does this course incur a fee?

Please stop, we'll have nun of these puns please...

Amateur astronomer strikes it lucky with first glimpse of a Supernova

Re: A flash in the pan

It's like he'll disappear into a black hole...

He's cheesed it! French flick pirate on the lam to swerve €80m fine, two-year stretch in the clink

Historical?

With the rise of legitimate and convenient video streaming sites like Netflix; has the bottom fallen out of this "market"? Is the "very clear message" a case of shutting the door after the horse has bolted?

A dog DNA database? You must be barking

Re: Anti-pun police

Are all the 1 downvotes for the various puns all from the same person?

Yep, we’re being hounded

Choice of database engine?

Will they use MongrelDB?

I don't know, but hopefully they'll be able to collar some criminals