* Posts by Korev

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Smut slinger dreams of AI software to create hardcore flicks with your face – plus other machine-learning news

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Big Brother

Re: Oh yes!

>> Taking fewer 2D slices, and using an AI to fill in the gaps, will reduce the time taken in an MRI machine.

>Giving my MRI scans to Facebook? I'm not even going there, but taking less real slices will most likely allow to replace that real tumor by some extrapolated healthy tissue. Who wouldn't want that. Less definition is always cheaper - I mean better.

One problem that medical science has is that we know a lot about disease, but not about what causes disease or what it looks like before it's detectable (obviously there are exceptions like smoking causing cancer etc).FB etc have a huge amount of data on 10-15 years of people's lives and it'd be illuminating if they could somehow link it with medical records.

That ignores that fact that no one in their right mind would want to give FB, Google etc. any more data to mine and sell. I wish there was some way that this kind of analysis could be done without destroying privacy.

As porn site pounds hard on piracy laws, Cox pulls out prematurely

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Coat

Re: Sometimes the subtitles just write themselves

I don't think they needed to cox them on very much...

Windows 10 July update. Surface Pro 4. Working fondleslab. Pick two

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Re: This is one of Microsofts biggest failures

>>"Windows 8 got a billion hours of testing"

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>But the most basic usability testing on existing laptops and desktops either wasn't done at all, or the results ignored.

I'm guessing that most of the billion hours were automated tests.

Although, as a manual tester you're supposed to just check that what's in front of you works in the way that it's supposed to and not test usability etc.

Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend

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Joke

Re: Costly? No...

>I was on a VAX tuning course in Reading

You can tune a vacuum cleaner, who knew?

£1 in every fiver that UK biz, public sector spent on software in 2017 went to *drumroll* Microsoft

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Re: Impressive....

Realistically what's the alternative? Apple, Redhat, Postgres, Java etc. are American too.

As a thought exercise, I tried to see how British I could make the IT. I got as far as running a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu for the desktops; but there's nothing really to run on them beyond that. That wouldn't get any servers* or storage either.

*I can't think of any UK server selling servers with ARM chips (happy to be corrected)

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Flame

Not necessarily a bad thing

There are a few things here.

1) Are they paying the right market value for the software and not being ripped off. By which I mean for each SKU rather than if MS Software is a rip off :)

2) If MS software is the best choice, then why begrudge paying money for it. Obviously "best" is very subjective and will be some combination of "best software for the job", cost, "supportability" and what's supported by the vendors of the software that it runs on.

Waits for the flames -->

Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts

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Coat

>Kudos to the guy who came up with assumed name "Timmy" for a mallet story.

I'm just very pleased that there are no pictures of him in a yellow polka dot bikini...

What he probably needs to cover it all up right now -->

Southport: Come for a round of golf, stay for the flesh-eating STIs

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Joke

Re: El Reg's HR department???

By human resource they mean food for Killer Flesh Eating Bugs(tm)

Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

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Coat

Re: I'm not worried...

They are in this plaice

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Pint

Re: Management Headaches! even at NASA

You beat me by a couple of seconds to post this

Have one on me-->

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Joke

I'm not worried...

...until the frickin' lasers are attached to sharks' heads...

Mutant sea bass are a bit more scary though

A third of London boroughs 'fess to running unsupported server software

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Linux

If you've got a team of Windows server admins than that might be the case. Also, for "hosting" some applications the vendor dictates the OS, DB etc.

Running Linux etc isn't always the answer here, I'm sure an equivalent survey would find places still on Solaris 9, RHEL4 etc

Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

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Boffin

Re: Bah!

Some supercomputing sites (eg CSCS) don't have all their systems on UPS. The storage, head & submit nodes etc are on UPS, the other systems will die if the electricity supply gets "bored".

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

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Linux

Re: I'm fine with that

IBM's POWER9 chips are right here right now, no Spectre vulnerability and certainly no licensing agreements like the Intel one seeing as IBM releases everything for the POWER9 chips under a straight MIT / GPL license.

It appears that Power 9 is vulnerable too eg Redhat info on the bugs

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Re: I'm fine with that

At the moment it is looking like you will be waiting for at least AMD Zen 2 then.

Which is slated for 2019 at the earliest.

That's kind of what I'm thinking. I think I'll just change the discs as they're getting on a bit. Hopefully the rumours are true about the forthcoming SSD price crash :)

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Windows

Re: Shrug

The problem is that he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy

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Re: I'm fine with that

Sadly pretty much every modern CPU has been hit with bugs like these...

I'm holding off replacing my system until it appears that the bugs are fixed in hardware too. I suspect it's going to be a long wait.

Whoa, is it Patch Tuesday already? No, just an unexpected critical Photoshop fix

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Gimp

Re: Just wondering...

Adobe's software means that you can do things like work on your photos in different places and the saves will synchronise between the devices etc. In time I've come to quite like this way of working. For example I can load pictures onto my ipad and then have a quick look when I'm on holiday, the photos and edits then synchronise onto my desktop when I get home.

I can't believe that I'm defending Adobe and their attempts to screw more money out of people -->

Apache's latest SNAFU – Struts normal, all fscked up: Web app framework needs urgent patching

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Coffee/keyboard

Get your equifax right

Paging Equifax: Time to update again, fellas

This -->

SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors

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Re: Don't get it

That's very true. I don't know him very well, so I don't know how he ended up in the job.

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Headmaster

Re: Don't get it

I have an acquaintance whose job appears to be flying around the world tutoring kids of the obscenely rich to prepare them for Prep or Public* school. I believe he's seen the inside of a fair few private jets and super yachts. I'm pretty sure that he's not on the sites in the article :)

Kind of a teacher -->

*"Public schools" in the UK are the most expensive private ones

Dell EMC stumbles into composable systems late waving MX7000 box

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Coat

Well, that veg was looking a bit scsi

.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently

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Maybe hoping developers will use .NET on mobile phones where MS has almost no market share?

Brit Railcard buyers face lengthy, unexplained delays. Sound familiar?

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FAIL

Britain's ticketing is antiquated

Here in Switzerland, you can buy tickets via their website or an app. You can then print it or just show them your phone. They even have the "halbtax" (half price) card linked so when the guard scans the ticket your photo appears on their phone so they know it's you. You can also buy an integrated bus/tram/train ticket.

I haven't travelled in France as much, but I've also happily bought tickets on my phone before.

I don't know why the British trains hold on to such old and nasty systems for most of the country.

Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers

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Joke

Re: Lustre specialist?

MPI dunno

Python wriggles onward without its head

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Joke

Re: Now seems like the perfect time...

I'm still holding out for Perl 6

London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

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Joke

Well, it's certainly disruptive....

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Gatwick Express recently got its knuckles rapped for misleading adverts as their service is frequently slower than advertised

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Joke

Or they could do a TFL and not specifically state that everything is on time, but instead, just running normally.

That'd be a sneaky, underground thing to do...

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

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Pint

900 years

eagle-eyed Register reader Philip Coakes found evidence in a security advisory that Windows is with us for the long term.

Another 900 years, to be precise.

A pint for Mr Coakes for brightening our day -->

Amaze your colleagues, confound customers and perturb partners with your encyclopaedic storage news knowledge

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WTF?

"Interestingly, he was part of the Nixon White House's legal defence team during the Watergate investigation."

And Chief Ethics Officer you say?

The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

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Holmes

Re: Crikey! This is still a thing?

>I thought people got over the whole Pokemon Go thing. Kind of like me and Ninja Turtles in the 90s

You don't need to be Leonardo (devinci) to work that one out...

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Joke

Re: The ball's gone flat

Sounds like an excuse for battery...

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Re: Hmm

Just wondering, would something like this be of use?

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

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Joke

Does that mean he's being promoted to Technician, Second Class responsible for the soup vending machines?

DeepMind AI bots tell Google to literally chill out: Software takes control of server cooling

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Joke

>Unless they're using a rat's brain in a jar

And we were wondering why Java programmes were so big

Techie's test lab lands him in hot water with top tech news site

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Alien

And leave Victor to the err Vultures?

Et tu, Brute? Then fail, Caesars: When it's hotel staff, not the hackers, invading folks' privacy

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Terminator

This year was a stroke of genius: the badges contained a retro roleplaying game you could access via USB, 30 LEDs, and other IO ports. You could unlock new RPG levels if you connected your badge to another badge types – human, press, speaker and so forth – with the lights telling you if the link was successful.

Baring in mind the target audience, wouldn't many of them just "help themselves" to the extra levels?

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Staff cost reductions maid

the hotel promotes skipping maid service to save staff costs

fixed that for you...

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

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Coat

Re: Of course it has potential

>they applied voltage to it.

Did they resist it?

Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

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Joke

Re: Insert smutty joke here...

Your computer might be floppy, but mine's got a big hard disc...

Arm debuts CPU roadmap for the first time, sort of

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Joke

Re: ARM not Arm

Oh come one, it's Armless...

Brit banks must disclose outages via API, decrees finance watchdog

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Re: Obligate!

This ^^^^

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

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Re: thunderbolt - not thunderbird

FAB

Linux 4.18 arrives fashionably late while Zorin OS shines up its Windows

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Pint

Re: not sure if I want to fork over money...

>What business model did you expect from Zorin Industries?

Have a virtual beer for that one, shaken, not stirred -->

We've Amber heard a NASty rumour: Marvell man touts private cloud box

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Re: I expected something completely different...

Amber (or any other female name) is probably also something that I wouldn't want to google from work...

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Not old fashioned at all... I was about to post exactly the same thing.

Boffins get fish drunk to prove what any bouncer already knows

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Coat

I'm about to eel over these puns are so bad

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Coat

Re: How to get

Do you know some Plaice to get them from?

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Please Cod, make it stop....