Posts by Korev

Google says its latest chatbot is the most human-like ever – trained on our species' best works: 341GB of social media

Not hard

You just need some ideas:

"Did you see that ludicrous display last night"

"Thing about Arsenal is they always try walk it in"

UK energy watchdog to probe National Grid and Scottish Power over fault-plagued subsea cable

Ohm my god, the current sub deserves a pint -->

El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel

>The product is, after all, "PROUDLY made in the UK" so we can't imagine that shipping it in would be a problem.

Like the Blue passports -->

Cache flow problems continue for Intel: Yet more data-leaking processor design blunders discovered, patches due soon

And if you're a customer of said datacentre (including small ones like AWS & Azure) then you might care a bit more. I guess the chances of a Malicious Actor being able to somehow target their VM onto the same host as yours is slim though.

Re: New trade deal

Customers have the Power to buy AMD or other CPUs

How do you like them Apples? Cook drops 'record' 30 times* on conf call as iPhone sales up, services up, wearables up

ElReg's pun bureau appears to have missed the "Stuck Record" puns - they could have used it to iPad out their story a bit more...

Like its Windows-noob-stabilisers OS, Zorin's cloudy Grid tool is Linux desktop management for dummies

Re: Why bother with the Windows look ?

Well, 2020 is also the year of Linux on the desktop...

'Trust no one' is good enough for the X Files but not for software devs: How do you use third-party libs and stay secure, experts mull on stage

Would it end up like the situation with medical software & lab instruments which have "Not for diagnostic purpose" written all over them so the vendor can avoid the hassle of getting them "Validated".

Electron devs bond at Covalence conference: We speak to those mastering the cross-platform tech behind Slack, Visual Studio Code, etc

Re: Try to make them think twice?

It makes me wonder if the conference was sponsored by RAM manufacturers...

Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power

Re: I'm still waiting...

Maybe someone could bubble sort that out for you

In deepest darkest Surrey, an on-prem SAP system running 17-year-old software is about to die....

Between 2012 and 2014, measures included migrating the system to the Surrey County Council data centre and bringing it under in-house operational control; creating a new procurement framework in conjunction with East Sussex County Council that was used by both Councils and resulted in annual cost saving of around 40 per cent for support and maintenance services, according to the council docs discussing the need for new support arrangements.

In 2015, the council contracted with an independent support provider which effectively "froze" the council into its version of the software, with limited options for maintenance, upgrades or patching.

So bringing the system back in-house saved loads of cash so they decided to outsource it again in a way that prevents an upgrade...

A big victory for management there -->

Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

Re: apps ?

Or programmes in the more civilised parts of the planet :)

It's good to talk: Union says IBM failed to consult system support techies as Scottish Power contract nears end

Re: I'm confused

>The alternative is going to work each day, doing your job, knowing in six months time that it will end

Or spending a few months brushing up your skills etc for your CV, taking the redundancy cheque to pay off a bit of your mortgage before moving on?

Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

Re: More blah blah blah

Luckily Rugby Union is a game that's played more or less continuously; American Football and Baseball have lots of pauses that need to be filled up with content.

Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

Piecing together the evidence is important as it helps scientists understand how impact events like the one in Yarrabubba might have affected the atmosphere, oceans, and life on Earth, and what effect future strikes may have.

It's about time that humanity ought to have some kind of plan for when an astroid like this is heading towards earth; if we wait long enough it will certainly happen...

Maybe the only thing we have -->

Sorry to be blunt about this... Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30,000 potheads' privacy go up in smoke

Weed need to look at this breach carefully...

It looks like their security has gone to pot...

Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt

Re: Inventory

Why did the school not have an inventory?

Because it wasn't Turing Complete

Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover

Re: KillBot 2000

What about Sir Killalot?

Or even Sgt Bash?

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

Re: What is this ?

I'm typing this in Vivaldi, it's from the original Opera founders and it's pretty good.

*David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter

Re: Well done IBM!

Don't worry, I'm sure you won't have to wait long for more "resource actions"...

Leave your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things

Re: Netgear are between a rock and a hard place

I imagine that anyone who needs (wants?) to access their router's configuration is already pretty techy - most "normal" people just use whatever their ISP gives them.

Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought by a short-seller'

Oh go back to your kitten BBQ

Re: The Harder I Pressed The Brake, The Faster It Went

Or pedals that are too small, for me I found that a Peugeot 206's pedals are too near each other for my "small for a man" feet.

Photobox ditches Amazon's Redshift, cuddles up to Snowflake

Photobox said it flirted with the idea of migrating data to Google's BigQuery, but the idea of moving huge volumes between Google Cloud Platform and AWS was considered a non-starter.

Cloud data egress charges or in other words vendor lock in...

Fly me to the M(O₂)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis

Re: Now that the O2 problem is solved ...

>... let's figure out how do we get large enough quantity of kitchen salt to the Moon.

Maybe they could use some water from the Sea of Tranquility

Re: Now that the O2 problem is solved ...

>Moon cheese already has sold added during preparation

You dropped some errr Clangers there...

Globo PC sales up for first time in 7 straight years – but market still 25% down on 2011

Re: Desktop PCs will be around for long time yet

Almost everyone here has a laptop which connects to a screen or two. It's only data scientists who now use a desktop (workstation really) in addition to their laptop. As the likes of Jupyter and RStudio are advancing I can do a huge amount on my laptop in a web browser with the heavy compute done elsewhere now. If it wasn't for doing the odd bit of image processing in GUI-driven tools then I could lose the Linux workstation all together.

AI of the needle: Here's how neural networks could detect nighttime low blood-sugar levels using your heart beat

Re: A bit out of date

I've had to call an ambulance twice for a friend who over-relied on a similar system.

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

CO2 from Amazon?

Amazon in both its goods and AWS arms causes a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. 1mAUD probably doesn't even begin to start compensating for the damage

Re: Much jealousness here

As the article says Amazon has donated, not him personally.

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

Re: Viral eh?

So making sure that the main tenets of the gpl are maintained to the benefit of all, whilst stopping people and organisations getting a free lunch from others' work is a problem for you is it?

Yes and no; see the open source software vendors getting rather annoyed by the hyperscalers making money from their software and then paying nothing in return. See MongoDB and Redis for examples.

UK data watchdog kicks £280m British Airways and Marriott GDPR fines into legal long grass

He opined: "It's worth remembering the ICO is a relatively small regulator (although large compared to its European counterparts) with a limited legal budget."

Britain is part of Europe and will remain so after Brexit.

There's something fishy going down in the computer lab

>Want some vinegar to go with that chip on your shoulder?

Nah, they've got bigger fish to fry...

Re: History

Not forgetting the other hooks into the operating system and net-work...

Yes, hopefully ElReg can line up some more details

If these fish puns carry on then I'll batter someone...

Apparently his later "indiscretions" were off the scale...

Readers will be unsurprised to learn that he was later invited "to stop attending" the school following further, er, indiscretions.

You can't write that and not go into more detail. Inquiring minds need to know!

Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency

My work got a bill from a company for >$40billion last week, apparently their software had a 2020 problem. The oddest thing about this is that the supplier was only formed a little over a decade ago...

Eggheads have crunched the numbers and the results are in: It's not just your dignity you lose with e-scooters, life and limb are in peril, too

Thanks for the explanation John -->

I'd always assumed that the front wheels of wheelchairs were bigger than the ones on the scooter; is that not the case?

(Not wanting to doubt your experience in anyway, I'm just curious)

Tea tipplers are more likely to live longer, healthier lives than you triple venti pumpkin-syrup soy-milk latte-swilling fiends

Re: Tea won't help

Isn't Trump Teatotal?

BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

Re: Learnings

>"learnings", makes me shudder to read it

Me too, have an upvote and a Friday pint

Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage

Re: Punishment seems too extreme

Or "let go" or "outplacement"

Re: Why did they do it?

Personally I'd prefer the CCTV footage to be backed up externally in case my NAS gets pinched.

I wouldn't want to grant access to the typical vendors because of the events in this story though and/or they'd use the data to help advertisers to sell junk to me.

Shhh! It's us, Microsoft. Yes, it's 2020. We're here with a new build of Windows 10

Completly agree, it's only the Americans who persist in such oddness...

Google and IBM square off in Schrodinger’s catfight over quantum supremacy

Re: So we're up to 56 now

>Now the question is : are 56 qbits enough for everyone ?

Only Bill Gates

AMD rips covers off 64-core Threadripper desktop monster, plus laptop chips, leaving Intel gesturing vaguely at 2021

We tend to compile most of our stuff with the open source (GCC, BLAS etc.) as most software doesn't seem to expect ICC, MKL etc. It's only for when we want to get it really fast that we'll go for MKL.

'Buyer's remorse' drove HP's legal crusade to go after Lynch, High Court told

Re: Slightly disappointed

But it's no longer Xmas, so Christmas films are banned until much later in the year...