Posts by Korev

QNAP NAS user? You'd better check your hosts file for mystery anti-antivirus entries

Re: Source of the NAStiness?

This is why my Synology has none of the remote access stuff enabled...

Source of the NAStiness?

Any idea how the Malware got onto the boxes in the first place?

Hungover this morning? Thought 'beer before wine and you'll be fine'? Boffins prove old adage just isn't true

Beer?

Using white wine and lager beer

Surely "Lager beer" is an oxymoron?

Re: Drinking advice

...morning...

OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

Re: All the best music was written before 1988 anyway

For me the things about the current generation of music is the bloody OTT autotune on every song.

You mean they've done a song apart from Buddy Holly?

Leaky child-tracking smartwatch maker hits back at bad PR

Pantu the dog

Having read this, I'm thinking of getting the Brass Eye DVD out this evening

Accused hacker Lauri Love to sue National Crime Agency to retrieve confiscated computing kit

The data could be the most valuable thing to him.

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Windows

Hang on... Isn't Internet Explorer an integral part of Windows?

It's 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can

Re: Oh well

Ditto for my MotoG 6 Plus...

Wells Fargo? Well fscked at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down

Re: Hardcore admins

We had a GPU used for MD calculations overheat and catch fire!

Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request

Re: Fine

The article suggests that this is now covered by the GDPR which has much higher fines.

Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage'

Re: Not pants, knickers.

You're sounding a bit (under)wired there, have you drunk too much coffee?

WeWork restructuring bites El Reg hacks where it hurts as afternoon brew delayed

Re: Bloody Vegans

There's someone at my work who is a vegan and does Crossfit - tedious doesn't even begin to describe him!

Re: "..as a friendly reminder, please reuse your mugs.."

Maybe "Name and Shame" them by putting the mugshots up

Yay, we got a B for maths. Literally, a bee: Little nosy nectar nerds smart enough to add, abstract numbers

Re: Grade

Hopefully you're not making a beeline to HR to report harassment...

Re: Grade

Very good, honey

Grade

I heard they weren't very good at subtraction, they only got a B-

Congrats, Satya Nadella. In just five years, you've turned Microsoft from Neutral Evil to, er, merely True Neutral

Re: "GPL is cancer"

>Linux offer a business model which can't work for desktop commercial software, there's no way to make money, so nobody is interested in investing without any chance of a return.

We have global software licences costing over a million running exclusively on Linux desktops.

London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial

Bodycam?

The Met's account of the event was that the man "was seen acting suspiciously" and "became aggressive and made threats" to officers after they stopped him. "He was issued with a penalty notice for disorder as a result."

A bitter irony would be that if the cop had a bodycam then it would be very easy to see who's correct....

Not cool, man: Dixons spanked over discount on luxury 'smart' fridge with wildly fluctuating price

Re: You would have thought ...

Nah, I thought it was pretty cool

I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt

Re: This story makes no sense...

Don't worry, you'll cotton on soon

Re: Really? A shirt?

I used to live with a primary school teacher, any free shirts were given to her for her pupils to paint in

It's 2019 so, of course, you can now (kinda) play Pictionary with dead Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's AI bot

Paul Allen, isn't he handling the Fisher Account?

Apple solemnly agrees to pay France $570m in back taxes, turns to camera, gives us a wink

Apple, aren't they Mavericks?

Cheap call? Hardly. GSM gateway judicial review to settle whether UK Home Sec can legally push comms watchdog around

Re: "eye-wateringly high per-minute rates demanded by telcos back in the early 2000s"

Back in the 90s mobile phones didn't do data, just calls and texts.

How AI can help halt human sex trafficking – by identifying victims' hotel rooms from pics

The then Mrs Korev lived in a house at university that was occupied via a load of druggies which had been cleaned up and turned into a student house*. They had huge problems getting utilities etc sorted, the worst of all were the banks who refused to send card there. I assume that if your place had been incorrectly flagged by this then you'd have all sorts similar issues.

*After a few months I'm not sure how big the difference would have been

British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing

Re: Bias in, bias out

>Chance of them fixing it? .. about the same chance of stop and search targeting being modified to reflect actual "race" distribution instead of having a huge bias to targeting "non white" folk

Would a couple of cops wandering along the street saying "We need to search three more Chinese females today to meet the distribution quota" be progress?

Amid polar vortex... Honeywell gets frosty reception after remote smart thermostat tech freezes up for a week

Re: Holiday Homes

Poor you. I hope your area has managed to maintain some local facilities. As an exiled Cornishman, it's painful to return and see areas that are dead for most of the with nothing left for when it's busier.

BT's outgoing CEO: He's officially gone, but he'll score £1m in pay, pension until Oct

Re: BT

For £3-4 million I'd be willing to risk it. Even if I completely sucked and I got fired then I'd still enjoy spending it....

Now where's my copy of the FT's How To Spend It...

Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. *control-F* master-slave... 2,000 results

Re: Oh S-H-one-T

Surely this is much more important about spec writers "not getting the memo" about master-slave terminology

I'm triggered by Oracle databases

Kwik-Fit hit by MOT fail, that's Malware On Target

To be honest I'm feeling a bit flat...

Do you think they did a rehearsal to kick the tyres?

This LAN is your LAN: Storage world still keen on high-speed Ethernet, luckily for Mellanox

Omnipath

The earnings call was revealing about Intel’s competing Omni-Path InfiniBand products, with Mellanox president and CEO Eyal Waldman saying: "We're not seeing demand for Omni-Path almost at all ... So InfiniBand is gaining momentum and taking big market share from Omni-Path.”

A failing Omni-Path product tech would help explain Intel's interest in acquiring Mellanox.

I guess it's in Mellanox's interest to talk down a rival's technology. I hope Omnipath sticks around as its death would lead to there only being one type of HPC Internet available on machines that don't say Cray on them.

Ouch, Apple! Plenty of iPhones stuck in tech channel. How many? That's a 'wild card'

Re: Apple boredom

What? I'm board of the iron puns already...

For those with short memories, Apple experienced challenging channel inventory dynamics last year after releasing higher margin handsets, the iPhone X.

That means they're asking for too much; why not write in English?

Even Windows 10 can't save the PC market as chip shortages, Brexit uncertainties bite

Re: Chip shortage?

Heathen!

Maybe you should move to Paris if you don't like Marmite -->

Iceland starts planning for new undersea internet cable to Europe

New Internet link? That's why mums go to Iceland...

The Six Billion Dollar LAN: Intel hopes to gobble network kit biz Mellanox 'for $6bn'

Monopoly?

With Infiniband and Omnipath wouldn't that give Intel a near monopoly over high performance interconnects? I can see the regulators* forcing Intel to spin off the IB part if the rumours turn out to be true.

* Perhaps they could call the regulators the OFEDs in this case

Sad relics of UK launch capability returned to Blighty while NASA fiddles with Boeing crew

Galileo

Don't worry, once we've taken back control, Britain will soon have to launch satellites again to replace Galileo

Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

"You don't have to be super-rich to pay £20k for a cancer operation."

£20K is about a person on the average salary's income after tax, NI and pension contributions. To most in the UK, 20K is pretty much unaffordable.

Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain

Then how does he smell?

Amazon's titchy robots hit the streets, Waymo starts a self-driving car factory...

Re: Scout

I take it that you've bin disappointed by where they left the parcel

NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 15 years on Mars – by staying as dead as a doornail

Some of them might get a bit cross about that....

I can hear the light! Boffins beam audio into ears with freakin' lasers

Re: Oh great, laser headphones...

Audiophiles? What's in a Naim?

Sprint subscribers: What do your updated iPhone and Tonga have in common? Both are cut off from the world

Re: Break?

Thanks vtcodger, that was fascinating.

Nothing 'unites teams' like a good relocation, eh Vodafone?

Re: At least they are not "uniting them" abroad.

At one point I did VIP iPhone/Pad support in addition to my normal role. One senior guy was deeply unimpressed that I couldn't get data going on his new toy and didn't regard Vodafone support being slow because of the Arab Spring as a valid excuse!

What I was on the receiving end of -->

By gum(stick): Samsung speeds up 970 EVO Plus drive

Re: Oh fsck

Moving from SATA to PCIe SSDs is the only compelling reason to upgrade my CPU (Intel 3750K) and MB.

Straight outta Blighty: Readers, if you were a tech billionaire, what would you do?

Re: Where is the poll option for

Good idea

Loose leaf tea only - I'm no savage