You mean like Holland, Canada or many US states? Because we are so close to winning the War On Drugs, and the government does not need all that pesky tax, it's much smarter to put that money in the hands of criminal gangs where it can do some good.
Posts by Clive Galway
501 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2007
UK government's war on e-cigs is over
His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3
Nokia touts future of virtual reality ads... but who's the audience?
NHS WannaCrypt postmortem: Outbreak blamed on lack of accountability
Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide
Apple, LG, Huawei, ZTE, HTC accused of pilfering 'find my phone' tech
Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht denied bid for new trial
Utterly mental drug equivalencies in that document
§2D1.1
Level 38 offences:
90 KG or more of Heroin;
450 KG or more of Cocaine;
45 KG or more of Amphetamine
You fucking what?? Speed is 10x more of an offence that Cocaine?
Twice as much of an offence as HEROIN??
Sounds like someone is spending too much time in the evidence room...
Proposed PATCH Act forces US snoops to quit hoarding code exploits
Male escort forgot pregnancy protection, scores data protection instead
Shooting org demands answers from Met Police over gun owner blab
Stickers?
"The force press office admitted that its main idea with the Smartwater initiative for gun owners was about deterrence, thanks to the stickers that Smartwater sells, rather than identifying stolen guns"
And where, exactly, are you meant to put this sticker?
On your front window? Announces there is a gun in the house and makes you a target.
On the gun? WAY too late by this point - if you have broken in and have the gun in your hand, are you REALLY gonna put it down because of a sticker?
Honor phone for paupers goes upmarket, assails flagships
Astroboffins stunned by biggest brown dwarf ever seen – just a hop and a skip away (750 ly)
Re: It's quite a small object
"Rather than trying to prop up the existing theory with a new layer of epicycles, a new hypothesis should be developed based on observations. Those observations tell us that our understanding of gravity is incomplete."
And what do we do while that new hypothesis is being worked upon? Delete the theory of gravity from the textbooks?
No, you triage it as best you can with a big fat warning "We don't really know what this fudge factor is, we're working on it"
Amazing new WikiLeaks CIA bombshell: Agents can install software on Apple Macs, iPhones right in front of them
Re: Beware strangers bearing gifts
"Think about it: why go to all that bother when you can send someone an infected birthday present?"
How common do you think it is to get a birthday present of a computing device worth thousands from someone who is not a family member or personal friend?
If it is a business associate, then aren't there bribery laws on giving personal gifts?
It just does not add up. An expensive wine or tickets to an event maybe, but businesses do not generally give iDevices to each other.
User jams up PC. Literally. No, we don't know which flavour
Frustrated by reboot-happy Windows 10? Creators Update hopes to take away the pain
Just WARN me that you are going to update, dammit!
It's not windows rebooting when left alone that winds me up, it's windows installing updates when I reboot with ZERO warning.
If windows is going to update when you reboot, it needs to explicitly state it - ie the restart option should be renamed to "Reboot and update" and it should offer you a "Reboot and don't update".
We had an evening utterly ruined by this while on holiday the other week - 4 of us in our holiday apartment, using the laptop for entertainment - we rebooted after installing an app, then it installed a massive update which took all night with no warning whatsoever.
The Psion returns! Meet Gemini, the 21st century pocket computer
BlackBerry's comeback: El Reg gets its claws on the QWERTY KEYone
Google to cough up $20m after Chrome rips off anti-malware patents
Litigation from beyond the grave?
The patents [...] were awarded to former Lucent engineer Allen Rozman, who died aged 52 in 2012, and Alfonso J. Cioffi, both of Texas*, who filed suit [PDF] against Google in 2013.
Allen Rozman came back from the dead to patent troll Google?
I thought the patent situation in Texas was bad, but not that bad.
Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high
Congratulations – you're looking better than ever this morning!
Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke
I smell bullshit
"Besides, he noted, if he had failed to put it into park, the car would have rolled forward – not gone into reverse."
Look at the pictures. The front of the car MUST be pointing out of the garage, otherwise how else would he have gotten in? Therefore, the last gear he used was reverse, not forwards, so his statement is patently false.
The top doc, the FBI, the Geek Squad informant – and the child porn pic that technically wasn't
I call bullshit
"To be clear, our agents unintentionally find child pornography as they try to make the repairs the customer is paying for. They are not looking for it. Our policies prohibit agents from doing anything other than what is necessary to solve the customer’s problem"
"the image was pulled from unallocated space on Rettenmaier's hard drive"
Unless the customer is paying for file recovery, these two statements are fundamentally incompatible.
Cache flush: AI poker bot to compete against top players in tourney
Starcraft?
Surely an AI could gain a significant advantage over a human in terms of speed of play.
No human could issue orders as fast as an AI (Top SC players are blazingly fast, but not *that* fast), so I do not see this as a fair match - the decision making probably would not need to be that good, as the AI could micromanage every unit everywhere on the map simultaneously.
Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'
Hackers electrocute selves in quest to turn secure doors inside out
TfL to track Tube users in stations by their MAC addresses
Tesla to charge for road trip 'leccy, promises it will cost less than petrol
Tesco Bank limits online transactions after fraud hits thousands
It's ALIVE: Juno back online after reboot
Vodafone rapped with RECORD £4.6m fine for failing customers
The Regsitter proofreader strikes again
What is it with El Reg these days and mangled opening sentences in articles?
For a rag whose stock in trade is poking fun at companies who fail at the most basic of tasks, you sure do seem to have a serious problem with this most basic of tasks.
"Vodafone has been fined £4.6m for failing customers for mis-selling to customers"
Uber's robo-truck makes first delivery of ... Budweiser in Colorado
New Brit Hubble analysis finds 2,000 billion galaxies, 10x previous count
Heard of this new thing called Proof-reading?
I have heard it is rather good.
10x previous count.Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is Douglas Adams was right. Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is
Plus messed up HTML at the end.
BT Yahoo! customers: Why! can't! we! grrr! delete! our! webmail! accounts!?
Yeah, cos forwarding is gonna help you
"The customer said BT/Yahoo! had also made it impossible for BT customers to configure the forwarding of emails to a third party address from their BT Yahoo addresses."
If you think all the emails are being read, then exactly how do you think configuring a forwarder is gonna help you?
The mind truly boggles.
Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs
"To improve system performance, Lenovo is ... adopting RAID on the SSDs..."
From the Reddit thread:
"I got a reply from Lenovo on my Best Buy review about why the BIOS on my Yoga 900 ISK2 UltraBook has been set to stop people from using Linux."
Specs for the Yoga 900 ISK2:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/900-series/yoga-900-13/#tab-tech_specs
It's a laptop with ONE DRIVE BAY.
So what possible benefit would putting SSD RAID on a laptop with one drive bay bring?
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
EU ends anonymity and rules open Wi-Fi hotspots need passwords
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's... er, Graphene bubbles – 200 times stronger than Superman
Ekaterina Khestanova, a PhD student who performed the experiments, believes the pressurised bubbles could be used to prevent liquids from freezing.
"Such pressures are enough to modify the properties of a material trapped inside the bubbles and, for example, can force crystallization of a liquid well above its normal freezing temperature," she said
Eh? Isn't she saying the exact opposite? Sounds to me like she is saying you can get it to freeze at a higher temperature.
The Internet of Cows is moo-ving fast … no bull!
Five-storey Blue Screen Of Death spotted in Thailand
Re: It sucks when it's your bank's ATM...
And how are you in any different a situation to keeping your money buried?
At least if you keep it buried, you can withdraw 100% of it (Assuming nobody else found it that is). If the economy is that screwed that there is hyperinflation, chances are you wouldn't be able to get all your money out of the bank quickly enough (Too many queues, banks don't actually have everyone's deposits).
League of lawsuits: Game developer sues cheat-toting website
You simply cannot do all checks on all users at all times.
It is generally totally feasible to do SOME checks on all users all the time, and if those checks turn up something fishy, then increase the logging level for that account. Hell, you could even have human-initiated logging (Reporting of users).
Hell, you do not even need software to do this - a player gets reported via email, then an admin watches that player in a game, maybe even sends them messages ("Please respond to confirm you are actually at the keyboard")
So saying "We cannot solve this problem because it would impact performance for everyone" is a cheap cop-out.
Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens
SentinelOne's $1m ransomware guarantee dismissed as PR stunt
Not a good marketing technique.
It encourages ransomware authors to infect any customer of SentinelOne, because they know the likelihood of getting paid is significantly higher, and they know exactly how much they can extract out of you.
It paints a huge "GET YOUR MILLION BUCKS HERE" shaped target on the back of all your customers.