Posts by Korev

Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

Re: Its the updates

The usual problem we see is authors writing software on bleeding edge Ubuntu or Fedora and then not compiling / installing on a more stable Linux due to glibc errors.

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

I'm sure the turnover would be greater than 1% if that was the case...

This is grim, Vim and Neovim: Opening this crafty file in your editor may pwn your box. Patch now if not already

Re: So, dump vi(m)

Yes, it's all over in a flash though...

Apple and Microsoft's odd couple collab on iCloud for Windows is more Hall & Oates than Walter and Jesse

Apple and Microsoft's odd couple collab on iCloud for Windows is more Hall & Oates than Walter and Jesse

What does this mean in English?

Nope, we're stuffed, shrieks Apple channel as iPhone shipments enter a double-digit spiral

Re: Quality

I find the alerts are much better on Android too. The BYOD "Work" profile is also pretty good (I don't BYOM, it means you can use >1 WhatsApp number on the same phone).

Going back the other way... I do miss iMessage (or rather the people who won't use anything) and also the "Wallet" feature when on my iPhone. I find some of the nagging for reviews and photos of places on Android infuriating (until it all got turned off).

Re: "(alongside Tag, Omega, etc)."

try with Vacheron-Constantin, Patek Philippe... oh yes, they don't advertise.

The latter advertise on the back of The Economist all the time...

I wanted to buy an iPhone last year as the XR has (almost) dual sim, I took one look at the cost and bought an Android phone... I'm sure I'm not the only one.

An unscientific look at my FB feed last year would show people complaining about the lack of a "SE2" in addition.

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

I loved the article

A pint for Mr Currie -->

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

Re: Too deep ...

That's exactly what They want you to think...

Re: Damn!

Don't be a Mars Hole...

Wondering where that upcoming meeting with 'Cheap Viagra' came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics...

Re: Does anyone still use GMail, or Hotmail?

I got screwed over by another host buying out my old (good) provider and then screwing up the transition so I had no email for weeks... I'm no longer a customer of theirs for some reason.

Re: "we scan content on Photos for spam"

To be fair the tins are a nice blue colour

Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'

Wait...

Didn't flares go out of fashion years ago?

Re: 10^36 erg per second

I know Joules, he can't be trusted at all...

Salesforce shells out $15.7bn for data viz biz Tableau

Re: for $15.7bn

Do they provide analytics to the car industry?

Re: Overpriced

That's good for analysts with Python knowledge, but Tableau, R Shiny, Spotfire etc. all provide nice visualisations for non-programmers.

Give my regards to Reigate: Print biz Canon to up sticks in the sticks

Commute

Google thinks a commute from Regiate to Uxbridge tomorrow morning will take from 50 mins to almost two hours, with public transport taking sightly longer. That kind of commute is no life so I guess they'll either have to move or take redundancy... Poor staff.

Have I Been S0ld? Troy Hunt's security website is up for acquisition

Re: I tip my hat

100% agree, apart from you forgetting his pint :)

You won't guess where European mobile data was rerouted for two hours. Oh. You can. Yes, it was China Telecom

Culprit

Was it Ping who did it?

You're responsible for getting permission from subjects if you want to use Windows Photos' facial recog feature

By which I mean the public places, your response to someone uploading a picture to FB would be fairly clear and definitive...

How would you enforce this?

Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil's playthings

Re: BTDT...

Not to mention the "Please remove my email from the mailing list" storms

What's big, blue, and hands out pink slips? IBM on Thursday: Word spreads of job cuts

Re: "trying to get money out of its dying businesses and into emerging areas"

Larry? Is that you?

DXC Technology exec: What should our brand be known for?

I enjoyed that, a pint for Scoured Frisbee...

What first attracted Ofcom boss Sharon White to the near-£1m salary offered by John Lewis Partnership?

Hopefully she'll be worth the Waitrose

Wholesome: Waste heat from coal power station turned data centre to help grow veggies

Re: wonderful concept

I had a tour around a Swiss University's shiny new datacentre. Apparently they asked the architects to reuse the heat, they responded by asking if they could guarantee that the computers in there in a couple of decades time would be similar and they had to answer no. Sadly the heat now just warms the local city...

But of course the US and China's trade war is making those godDRAM oversupply issues worse

Re: Shoot foot, then head

Historians will look back in the future at marvel at how the West built up the Chinese industry to make a short term increase of profits.

Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year

Re: issues we seem to be having

Your comment was off the scale...

She's just a Cosmic Girl but UK.gov is dangling £20m to have Beardy Branson's 747 launch satellites from Cornwall

The A39 is also pretty awful. They even semi admitted it as they route traffic to Falmouth further to the west of Truro.

They also seem determined to eliminate any traffic movement going west of Truro on the A390 with a billion traffic lights and roundabouts...

Not to mention electrifying the railway in the south west.

To members of Pizza Hut's loyalty scheme: You really knead to stop reusing your passwords

At least one traumatised punter has seen their rewards points spent on free pizza, according to Money Saving Expert.

At least it was only points and not some dough...

Re: Yes, but...

Hard Cheese old chap

Apple strips clips of WWDC devs booing that $999 monitor stand from the web using copyright claims. Fear not, you can listen again here...

Gaffer taping a monitor to your serf is a bit cruel isn't it?

Re: Streisand Effect

Why the downvotes? Not knowing something and asking to find out is a good thing surely?

Google may have taken this whole 'serverless' thing too far: Outage caused by bandwidth-killing config blunder

Re: ""Google’s engineering teams detected the issue within seconds..."

When I did more systems stuff we setup all kinds of alerting systems, not one of them was quickly than a scientist called Clive...

Re: focused engineering sprint

You mean "Let's fix this before we get a P45/Pink slip"?

HPE's Spaceborne supercomputer returns to terra firma after 615 days on the ISS

Supercomputer in Space? That'd be Cray-zy

Re: Yes, but...

Yes, but it was a terraflop....

BT to axe 90% of its UK real estate, retain circa 30 sites

Exchanges?

Does this include the telephone exchanges too?

Re: What are the odds ...

To me that office looks quite unattractive anyway.. It just looks like they'll cram bodies in and then it'll be really noisey

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

Re: 1.4kW???

1.4KW is a lot, but a the render farm that this machine would be able to replace would have pulled a lot more power.

Re: Grand stand

Nope, they should stand up for the profit margins...

Re: 1.4kW???

Am I to run nuclear fusion simulations in real time or something?

It wasn't long ago that 24TF would have been the fastest computer on the planet... Even just a decade ago, that would have put your machine in the Top 250 computers on the planet

Can't quite cram a working AI onto a $1 2KB microcontroller? Just get a PC to do it

Re: And I do wonder how this would work on a Pi Zero

Were the data saved in WORM storage?

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way

Re: Up with this sort of thing!

Obligatory Mitchel & Webb

Re: Up with this sort of thing!

Well, it's not exactly rocket science...

...Oh, well it's not exactly brain surgery...

IBM accused of pumping staff retirement funds into a tanking stock... IBM's to be exact

Re: Pfft... stupid

You could measure the difference between the Plebs' and the Directors' fund using the Giini coefficient.

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

Don't just do maths on the plane, someone might report you if things don't add up[0]...

[0] Pun intentional

Supra smart TVs aren't so super smart: Hole lets hackers go all Max Headroom on e-tellies

Re: Not impressed with so called smart TVs full stop.

My Samsung "Smart TV" is made smart with a Chromecast...

Ready with the 'welcome neighbour' fruitbasket, retailers? Amazon opens Manchester pop-up shop

Re: Jelly?

This punter is