Posts by IGotOut

Ex-missile systems worker jailed for breaching Official Secrets Act after last-second guilty plea

Re: Somebody please tell me....

@jamessmith Unfortunately your view of autism is a quite a narrow one.

My daughter (yes girls have it as well) has extremely violent meltdowns. During these periods she has zero self control and has no idea what she is doing. She has no problem smashing things up (including things very special to her) or attacking people. So I could easily see her getting into trouble at some point.

Even when calm, she doesnt grasp people's emotions or undestand the circumstances, so if it makes no sense why something is illegal, then I'm her view, it isn't.

But I agree, it is tiring seeing it as a defence, when they clearly don't suffer from it.

Apple braces for antitrust woes by letting users select and install third-party apps during setup of iOS 14.3

Re: There was a time.…

That was a lovely incoherent rant.

Thanks.

Intel's SGX cloud-server security defeated by $30 chip, electrical shenanigans

To be fair.

If you have highly secure stuff.

DON'T STORE IT AT SOMEONE ELSE'S LOCATION.

Any one else worth their salt has tamper alarms and cameras. If either these go offline, consider the host compromised.

Tax working from home, says Deutsche Bank, because the economy needs that lunch money you’re not spending

They have a point.

.. therefore I am moving my banking offshore, setting myself up a business to sell my IP to myself at a loss, then buy my own IP as an expense then pay the taxes owed just like the hard done by coffee shop called Starbucks.

Bio-boffins devise potentially fast COVID-19 virus test kit out of a silicon wafer and machine-learning code

Nice idea...

but cost?

Bearing in mind these I would think are disposable, they need to be cheap for mass use.

Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report

Re: Call me Heinz 57

You are David Smith and I claim my £5.

Microsoft warns against SMS, voice calls for multi-factor authentication: Try something that can't be SIM swapped

So a separate token with no security (think dropped or stolen) is better than a phone with quite good security?.

Okaaayyyy.

Google to end free unlimited online photo, vid storage, will eventually delete files if accounts go over their cap

Maybe people are using it...

...because its on by default?

123 Bork? Six-day DNS record-edit outage at domain name flinger 123 Reg enrages users

Had to laugh.

That's it, had enough leaving (Go Daddy owned) 123 to Go Daddy.

India has 1.3 billion people. They bought 3.4m PCs in Q3

Re: Economics matter

So you are saying having high taxes to support a unaffordable product is a good thing?

Would it not make more sense to buy in the cheaper product, allow the population to become better educated, more informed and more literate THEN worry about expensive own grown kit?

Apple suffers setback in epic Epic Games games fight: Federal judge zaps damages counterclaim

Re: That's gall

Not quite.

More like charging NGK commission if fitted by the Ford dealership.

The real issue is the fact you HAVE to use the Ford dealership to fit the NGK sparkplug.

Try to avoid thinking of the internet as a flashy new battlefield, warns former NCSC chief

Is it only government bodies

That still refer to it as "cyber"?

I don't ever recall it being used by anyone else the last ooo 15 years?

Microsoft emits 112 security hole fixes – including the cure for a Google-disclosed kernel vuln exploited in the wild

Re: I have a dream too...

Nope. Never.

The more complex, the more issues are hidden deep down.

Europe clamps down on cybersurveillance exports, pushes human rights focus

So the UK...

will carry on.

Saudi Arabia still needs it arms and we need the cash.

Mr President? Donald?! Any chance you can actually decide if Oracle can buy us or do we have to leave?

Well...

..have they tried phoning the golf course. Its where Sulky McSulkFace seems to be these days.

Samsung asks New Jersey court to sink class action suit about Galaxy S7 waterproofing woes

Re: Standards

If you notice, they are trying to get out on a legal technicality, rather than the facts.

Ericsson warns investors: This Biden fellow coming into the White House may look to resolve China trade dispute...

Re: Hint:

So who does control the military if not the head of the military?

Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed

I see OVH and think...

... Firewall / Block.

Them along with Digital Ocean.

China’s competition agency floats Internet-age anti-monopoly law upgrade

If you read the details...

... Its what we should of had here years ago.

No exclusivity contracts

No loss leaders to kill competition

No data sharing with 3rd parties

Using data to offer different pricing to different buyers.

Sure there is more to it, but we need these laws.

Apple now Arm'd to the teeth: MacBook Air and Pro, Mac mini to be powered by custom M1 chips rather than Intel

"Seriously though, it's going to be years before you can do actual laptop tasks with these."

I would think 99% of "actual laptop tasks" are filling out forms, using letters or accessing databases in some form.

The word of the day for you "narcissist".

Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud

Wow.

That's like 99.9999% of all money "spent" in Microsoft store.

India launches Google antitrust probe and Google mostly shrugs it off

Re: Something is not right

Well Google Fibre was a disaster, so Plan B, buy the competition.

Hyundai announces its own OS for Nvidia-powered smart-ish cars

Re: I want

So you'd like to go back to the days of calibrating your carbs, fiddling with your points, changing your disy cap, sticking a matchstick under the choke so it's in just the right position, tapping on the fuel gauge to see if its correct, correcting the steering because you hit the brakes a teeny bit hard in the wet, getting a screwdriver out because the tape melted in the cassette deck on a hot day....and on and on....

Ahh the good old days.

Yes some of it is excessive, but you're not the target market.

Hint, if you want a "drivers" car, get a 7 style kit car.

Paging Doctor Blue: Attaching a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD can make Windows 10 poorly

Re: I'd wish to know why my home desktop was forced to install 2004 (being on 1909)

I may be wrong, but isn't it only Enterprise that is exempt from forced updates?

Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of end-to-end encryption that didn't exist

The same reason people don't think they couldn't possibly be operated by, or be proxies for, law enforcement or intelegence agencies.

Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs

Re: Mitiations?

"suggest that the user upgrades to Firefox?"

Don't inflict the "New" Firefox on those poor souls.

Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early

Re: So a piss poor service

Oddly, Giffgaf with almost no customer service, is the best to deal with.

So a piss poor service

to another piss poor service, but cheaper.

Alibaba Cloud on the cusp of turning a profit after growing 60 percent in a year

Another Trump winner.

Whereas some of this may of gone to the Big Three in the US, customers have looked around and gone MCGA.

We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox

Re: Confusing

And it was Win 95, 98 the 98 SE.

HINT: SE stands for Second Edition.

It was basically 98 with all the service packs rolled in.

No, GitHub's source code wasn't hacked and posted on GitHub, says GitHub CEO

Re: Fundamental Transcendental Relativity :-)

Holland and Spain have ready done this sfor the same reasons.

Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious

Ah that explains it.

They get rid of the catalogue and force you to use their bloody awful app / website, then close several hundred stores, all to save upgrading XP.

India, UK strike tech co-operation pact and plot deeper links once Brexit's done

Video on Demand?

Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in

Finland in winter...

at least the roads don't grind to a halt when 0.1mm of snow lands.

The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB

Re: But where about inside the vehicle will this storage live?

I'm sure it with have it's own little partition somewhere.

They are not autonomous.

You are mixing up a basic sensor with "doing itself". They react to a condition that has already occurred.

A car does not go "" in 1 second I will crash, deploy airbag" or "the brake pedal will soon be slammed"

Now SOME is coming in, such preemptive braking or self parking, collision avoidance for moronic Volvo drivers who reverse out of your large drive without looking (latest TV ad) but your examples do not meet that criteria

Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant

One word

Rain

With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one

To be fair...

this Brexit thing has only been know, what a couple weeks? Wait what?

Was that November's Patch Tuesday? Already? Oh, no, it's just Adobe issuing 14 emergency security fixes

Acrobat.

The document format that wants to be an OS

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No, I don't want to have a video in my text viewer, or active webpages, or music or fucking dancing kitten live streams!

None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales

It's OK

"Whatever data was slurped from users came from their devices and not from Facebook, said Haltas"

That's ok then. Nothing to see. So long as it's only THAT information you stole, then there is no problem.

Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog

So Google...

would rather break things rather than let them be reduced in importance.

Yet when it came to Android, it's taken a decade for it even start to resemble a OS that doesn't rely on 3rd parties to update.

Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry

Re: Not a great day...

I see...downvotes by the ignorant.

Let me explain by posting this little article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

Not a great day...

11th of the 11th.

Can't think why that could be seen as completely inappropriate in Europe, especially the UK. Let me guess, it starts at 11am?

Next idea, a fire sale on the 11th of September.

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

"if your business can't pay a competitive wage to staff then it's not a sustainable business. You're welcome."

So you have no issue with raising the minimum wage to $50.

It depends on what you class as competitive.

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

You know you need coffee when..

..you read the headline and think "How did they upgrade the ariel on Voyager?'

CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny

Oh help us...

Based on it's source, how long before

Nazi Jew, Happy Slave or Vaccine Murderer.

Google's plan to make User-Agent string even less useful breaks our device detection tech, says NetMarketShare

Re: Prior Art

I read that and think "sheez, what a dick".

Re: Well

Good luck with FF android.

Re: We expect this change to improve compatibility...

Agree.

Webp anyone?

Vodafone bets big on OpenRAN as it replaces its Huawei estate in rural Wales and South West England

Translation.

They are just a bunch of country bumpkins, so doesn't matter if the service is crap, they are used to it.