Posts by Korev

Cheap, flimsy, breakable and replaceable – yup, Ikea, you'll be right at home in the IoT world

Re: I'm Listening

Oh don't worry, it hears you. It hears every word you say.

I hear that girl Alexa knows quite a bit of gossip...

Oracle doing due diligence on Accenture. Yep, you read that right

Re: They're both literally the best

And maybe Sun / Java. Oh, wait...

That's happening on Sunday, not sure when G4Sday is though...

Re: Whats this GUI thingy?

But wouldn't the companies prefer someone independent to Oracle to audit their systems currently running on Oracle?

As of today, iThings are even harder for police to probe

Speed

Apple* have a habit of slowing devices with successive version of IOS. Any idea if the encryption in the OS slows the phones and tablets? A small hit would be worth it for the increased security, but I don't want my devices effectively turned into a treacle.

* Google too, eg the original Nexus 7

Ubuntu 17.04 inches closer to production

Re: 17.04 inches closer...

The Register already has some superior units of measurement. It ought to be 3.09lg in sane units...

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

I suspect that a RaspberryPi would not be as tough as one of the specialist boards and would have a much shorter lifetime. On the other hand, if it lasts until a day or two after the warranty expires then that's great for the vendor.

Pure Silicon Valley: Medium asks $5 a month for absolutely nothing

The Guardian - quality?

The main reason I have yet to pay the Guardian any money is the continuous decline in quality. If they stopped publishing articles about Thomas the Tank Engine being racist then people might start to pay them money again.

It's not just the Guardian, the Telegraph seems to be in decline too. Really Britain needs as much of its quality media to survive to hold the Government to account.

UK.gov confirms it won't be buying V-22 Ospreys for new aircraft carriers

I believe Seamen Staines is already in the cabin

Re: We should build our own

Sounds like a good idea for A Team to me

DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like

Budweiser

Anheuser-Busch InBev make Budweiser, I wonder if their genetic tests predict if the drinker likes beer that doesn't taste of anything.

Budweiser: nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure ->

Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay

Re: Moral: Life is a terminal disease.

And if you're a boy, the X chromosome is much bigger than the Y

Re: There are going to be a lot of people dying surprised

DNA replication is an error-prone process. Although there are a number of things people can do to "provoke" cancer, some people are just unlucky.

There was an interesting paper that came out recently showing that even in the first division of the recently fertilised egg there are mutations that are detectable for ever. Paper & press release for the people who aren't genomics geeks

Re: Wishful thinking

It's a bit sad that people are downvoting someone who's had a problem with alcohol and appears to be making progress.

Re: Other research has shown...

That would be an ecumenical matter...

Almost looks like Father Hackett ->

I've Been Moved: IBMers in same division slapped with 2nd redundo scheme in 2 months

Re: Just maybe

Maybe El Reg's crack Special Units Bureau can redefine the Gini coefficient to the Ginni coefficient to measure the gap between performance and monstrous pay packet...

Squirrel sinks teeth into SAN cabling, drives Netadmin nuts

Re: Best traps

"Edible dormouse"?

I think there's quite an obvious way of dealing with them.

Lloyds Banking Group to hang up on call centre staffers

Re: For heavens sake

Also my experience of dealing with call centres in the U.K.

Our Sun's been using facial scrub: No spots for two weeks

Sun

But didn't Sun get swallowed by Oracle a few years ago. That'd explain the slowdown between releases.

Cambridge wheels out latest smart city platform, ready for devs

Up the A14?

I'm pretty sure Norwich used to have display board which displayed on late buses in 2000ish. Always handy when you want to "go up the sit-ee"

Re: Hmm...

Is the Van of Life still around?

FYI anyone who codes outside work: GitHub has a contract to stop bosses snatching it all

Re: Interesting, but..

CSCO, JNPR, BRCD, ORCL and MSFT

Who are they?

Dunno, maybe one day they as big as Uber or Slack

Re: It's not just code or tech related IP

The issue is that companies will never allow this to come to court for a precedent because they know they are going to get slapped.

However the threat of the company dragging you into court is enough for many people to be scared off.

'Clearance sale' shows Apple's iPad is over. It's done

Re: Phones are now big enough

In this scenario, I'd rather have security fixes only and stay on an older version of the OS. My ipad 4 suffers from all sorts of slowdowns and is quite annoying to use these days.

Re: Education PC seller says Apple is no good in that market

That would be an ecumenical matter

Yes!

Uber bans 'brilliant jerks', will train staff on Why Diversity Matters

Re: No, you're a jerk.

To me it says "No matter how good you are; if you act like a dick then you're out". I hope that's the case.

Nest cameras can be easily blacked out by Bluetooth burglars

Re: Well, duh..

Or "jammed" with a can of spray paint

Safe, staffers? We'll let you know

Re: a dedicated HR support team

Only thing that could be worse is having to deal with recruiters again...

Murder in space: NASA orders astronauts to KILL cripples – then fire bodies back to Earth

Headline

Please change the headline, it's very near the language used by the nastier end of the animal rights groups

Like a BaaS: IBM offers Blockchain as a Service

Unblockchained melody

I saw an IBM presentation on Blockchain last year. The talk was remarkably content-free, although Blockchain will end world hunger and stop all wars.

I was the only one in the room not in a suit so you could argue that they'd tailored their talk well though...

Norfolk County Council sent filing cabinet filled with kids' info to a second-hand shop

Re: All that's missing is a sign saying : "Beware of the leopard"...

Upvote for the NFN

Linux, not Microsoft, the real winner of Windows Server on ARM

Re: I have a good product name: "plus leg"

Do you have any Intel on how much ARM the platform is doing to the established vendors?

Intel reveals Optane SSDs: 375GB to start, at surprising speed

Re: Microsoft will be working weekends...

Maybe they're trying to make O365 document loading times competitive...

Re: Competition at last?

I meant more that we have AMD boosting core count (for normally priced chips) and Intel are releasing the combined memory/disc. It'll be very interesting to see how they perform in the real world and whose system is faster.

Competition at last?

With AMD's Rizen chips and Intel's Optane could we finally have some competition in technologies again? Yes or no, it looks like it's looking better for consumers than it has for a while.

Face down in a Shoreditch gutter: Attack of the kickstarting hipster

Re: Yikes

To answer my own question: A quick google suggests that a smoker died after having some put on him. I guess being teenage boys we were incompetent...

Re: Yikes

We tried to set fire to some of my E45 on a Scout camp many years ago and never managed it! Any idea what they did?

National Audit Office: Brit aircraft carrier project is fine and dandy... for now

Just send fisheries protection vessels to escort Russian ship, can't see any problems with that at all!

http://navaltoday.com/2016/09/08/hms-tyne-escorts-two-russian-vessels-off-british-isles-in-a-month/

Re: So not enough planes to fly off the carriers, not enough escorts to protect them,

"Could they do AWACs duties too?"

The RN use helicopters for SeaKing out incoming aircraft

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

Re: Illegal advertising to children in the room

Can you get CBBC and/or CBeebies where you are? No adverts as the channels are paid for by the UK TV Licence.

BOFH: Don't back up in anger

Saw it coming...

I have to admit that I saw the end coming; but I'd be lying if I didn't enjoy it!

Pint for Mr Travaglia and anyone else from down under who have finished for the week ->

Manchester college swaps out disk for rackful of hybrid flash

Advertisement?

Shouldn't articles like this be marked as an "Advertisement"?

Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

Re: Husband

100% agree. Upvoted.

Re: Online backup?

Your idea of ShedDrive intrigues me.

Would it use Shed or Attached Storage?

Fire brigade called to free man's bits from titanium ring's grip

Re: That image

He does look like a bit of a cock though...

Re: just slide off without doing the job.....

You make that sound like a bad thing!

I was at a colleague's [gay] wedding a few years ago, the fire alarm went off and two engines worth of firemen arrived causing mass excitement! The firemen had a complete sense of humour failure though.

BT's Openreach to hire 1,500 engineers

If I were a BT customer* I'd be much more willing to pay for better network infrastructure and the people to run it than on buying the TV rights to football matches.

*Directly or indirectly via another ISP.

IBM could have made almost all the voluntary redundancies it needed

Re: Loyalty

The ones that makes me cringe are when they describe employees as "talent" and pay as "reward".

Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure ->

Re: Around eight in 10 services staff will be based in these areas

I don't understand people who work for a bad company after say they are 40 or so. Speaks more to their bad judgement or poor life decisions than the quality of companies out there.

Often people would have to move or take on a large commute, so there are a few things to bare in mind.

Kids?

Single parent?

A partner with a decent job in the area?

Age discrimination?

Decent pension at $CURRENTJOB compared to some crappy "money purchase" scheme at another place

This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers

Re: Brows raised...

So these mighty brows can handle a man every three minutes? Either there will be an awful lot of women sailors making up the numbers, I'm misunderstanding things, or there is mighty sorcery going on...

Does Roger the Cabin Boy count as a man for this or does he join Sea(wo)man Staines on the lift?

Where's the icon for rum? ->

60Hz Vs 50Hz

Sounds like they're putting a Pentium CPU in rather than a 486 SX2 - I pleased to hear that they're thinking of the floating point performance