Posts by IGotOut

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

To be fair...

...it's about time other countries / continents broke up currencies.

As well as the Dollar, US payment systems such Visa, Mastercard, Paypal.

About time these became less dominate.

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Guess what.

If lazy or "I'm so important" types actually got of there arses and checked they haven't kicked out the plug, checked the printer has paper in it, rebooted the pc, checked the network cable is in, checked there is a power light on, rebooted the router, and on and on....then they may be able to a better response to real problems.

I always found the more remote a branch from the IT department, the less trivial issues they had. Waiting two days for an engineer to arrive on site made them actually check as well as each other.

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

Simple answer.

Make the Directors and Airlines that want to rush this through sign a contract that they will be liable for murder for any deaths caused by Aircraft malfunction due to design issues.

25 years and $10million per death. 50% for injury only.

Then we'll see how happily they will pass it off.

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

Slag of Bing...

but a least it doesn't rig image searches when you don't use their own browser.

Hint: Do an image search with a n other browser on Google, then compare with Chrome. Note the lack of filtering options when not using Chrome?

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

"Not that I trust anything to do with it from Gates, who of course is in it for the money."

The same Gates that has little to do with Microsoft these days and donates billions to eradicating disease and improving education?

Or do you mean the gates that your mates at Qanon believe in that he implanting a non-existent technology into our veins to track us for err...not sure why...5g?

Revolutionary.

It can detectbwe people are approaching dangerous machinery and warn them.

As they gaze at their mobile phone ignoring the barriers, hazard tape, coloured floooring, flashing lights, sirens and trip sensors already in place.

Re: WTF

"Or, it could be set to trigger an alarm if anyone has been standing in one place - such as a checkout queue - for more than five minutes."

Wow, in the human world, we call them eyes.

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

Dip switches.

Luxury.

I used a 1p coin to factory reset crashed dial-up RAS hardware. State of the art 33k stuff mind.

Can we send Bob one?

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Really odd.

I've, until recently, had paperless payroll for close on 20 years.

Moved to a new job and got a wage slip. I was stunned and didn't know what to do with it....make a paper plane?

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Re: $21,999 85-inch jumped-up whiteboard

"Or maybe that BMW X5 M I know I can't afford."

Just put a condom over your head. That way you get to look like a dick without spending a fortune.

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Re: At least ... IE

"I was trying to get updates and converters for Office 2003 and Office 2007."

You were trying to get updates for 13 year old software and seem surprised you can't find it?

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Re: No way to stop it

Yes, but we had the design ready before WW2.

One Word.

Cadbury.

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Re: Five years - Not Enough

"He sounds like a nasty piece of work who's been in prison before for similar offences. "

The same offences. He was prosecuted for the UK crimes then extradited for the same US offences, we just used different laws to get him.

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

It's the land where the cuckoos live.

Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests

Didn't show in testing

Odd that a mainly white male test team* didn't notice these issues.

* Based a biased view of who was doing the testing.

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

Translation....

Because Chrome did it, why not us?

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Re: I Dunno

Please point to the part of the article where the Reg "sneered" at them?

The snark appears to be aimed at the agencies having to be told to patch.

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

Wow...

...those Trump bribes, sorry donations, must have been REALLY steep thus year.

Still, it got them TikTok, so keep on giving them backhanders. It ain't cheap blackmailing companies after all.

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

Re: hydrogen engines?

There are a couple of small car companies that make them, not sure if you have heard of them.

Toyota

Hyundai

Honda

Mercedes Benz

And some other called Audi and Kia have them in testing phases

Re: “four times more voluminous"

Bob, maybe you missed the memo about clnate change.

Oh I forgot, it's you.

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

I hear

the next version will be a combination of Silverlight running top of Adobe Air.

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

Translation

We want shiney. Doesn't matter what, just shiney.

Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy

I'm still using an ancient WYSE.

Must be one of the first USB ones they did, and I'm very happy with it.

Makes a heck of a noise mind.

Online fraud prevention biz fails to prevent CEO's alleged offline fraud

Re: Slap on the wrist

And so it bloody well should be. Pointing a gun at someones face is far more serious than defrauding someone.

Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time

Re: Nice, but?

"BT rather than reliable USB for keyboard and mouse is a mistake?"

Ties up a USB port, and I have to say, never had a problem with my BT keyboard with tablets in the past. Beens using them for I guess, close on a decade.

Just bear in mind the keyboard, mouse and Pi are only a few cm apart, where as on a pc it could be almost a metre, through a desk and around the back.

Pakistan to smartphone-makers: Come for the low tax, stay to create your replacements

Re: Dear Pakistan.

Incorrect.

China set up 5 enterprise zones, creating low cost high volume industries.

At the same time they spent billions on educating children in STEM subjects. 15 years ago I attended my Ex's graduation at a top UK university. I'd say 80 to 90% of those getting Phds and Masters in Maths and Science were of Chinese decent. This is still the case today.

It's one thing stealing IP, but if your country is barely literate, what good does it do?

Dear Pakistan.

This is not how it's done.

Improve your education system. Then you can improve all your kids futures and improve your outcomes. You can use these companies as a stop gap to bring in the cash while you do this. Its what China did very successfully.

Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind

Autopilot should be banned.

The problem is it's half arsed stop gap.

It's not good enough to perform often simple common sense operations, yet makes driving so uneventful, so boring and mundane, that it is inevitable that drivers will stop paying attention.

If you have to drive for two hours, but for 1 hour 59 minutes you have to do nothing, human nature takes over and you will doze off or become less responsive.

iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail

Ha ha ha...

"Engineers at Google are similarly upset that the Cupertino idiot-tax operation just happened to kill off everyone's preference for third-party browsers"

Hi Google, there is black kettle over here.

Research into deflecting potentially world-destroying asteroids is apparently not a 'national priority' for the UK

Re: "the dinosaurs couldn't"

those animals with no "known" technological advancement.

All the smart ones built a giant flying saucer and took every bit of evidence with them. They pop back from time ton time.

The remaining ones had a huge international dance party using their telepathic powers to chat each other up while off their tits on mushrooms.

It's true unless you can prove it otherwise.

We're British. We'd simply politely wait until it moved at of the way.

As a bit of fun, take a look at IMDB and see how many of his films you have actually heard of.

Works both ways. Russia got hit with one that would of wiped out Greater London and hardly anyone noticed.

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

Amazon gets its tax excuses in early amid rising UK profits – but leaves El Reg off the press list. Can't think why

There is a possible way of getting tax out of them.

This would work for other online sales such as AO as well.

If a product is bought online from a company with a turnover of £X, then the dispatch point is taxed as shop would be. I.e. no longer a warehouse, but a retail outlet.

Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II

20/20 vision is just "normal".

Just saying.

8k TV's are available in your local Currys at the price 4Ks were 5 or 6 years ago.

But I still have a 1080p...so I'll wait until the 4k's are £150.

Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British

Re: It's not so much spellings...

@Jake give up now.

Calling someone a wanker can be abusive or a term of endearment. Then you have other divides, some parts of the UK calling someone a twat can just mean they are being a bit daft, other parts it is likely to get you punched.

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

Re: The amount of ads for this crap...

Are these the "actors" are of oriental descent, with dubbed US accents and you can earn £150 then the next bit it is showing €10,000, all in 5 seconds of playing?

You'll be glad to know you get them on Apple as well. Unity Ads is the scum agency that pushes these.

Surprise! Apple launches iOS 14 today, and developers were given just 24 hours' notice

My Kids Animal Crossing by Nintendo has said it won't work.

Fighting an insurer over lockdown payout? UK policyholders just won an important COVID-19 test case

Re: I can imagine this will ultimately be a phyrric victory

Or you won't be able to get cover at all.

Just look at people who have had flood damage as example, even if it was a once in a 200 year occurance.

'Work is an activity not a place' got tired on LinkedIn about three months ago, but Citrix just based its new logo on the idea

Is they an online course...

...to learn how to talk marketing / artist bullshit?

I need to earn a lot of money for essentially doing fuck all.

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

Re: Dystopian future

The president is dead? Wahooo...oh I mean "my thoughts and prayers etc. etc."

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

Bloody Hell.

Apple have noticed the EU.

Several months ago.

EU. Standard connectors and no chargers please.

Apple: Waahhhhh have to make a special EU edition....more cost....consumers kose out...wahhhh (feet stamping)

Roll on several months

Apple: Look how eco and consumer friendly we are....no wasteful chargers and consumer friendly USB-C. Aren't we great.

My wireless headphoned also have USB and 3.5 mm connectors. A fraction of the price and far superior quality to most fanbouy brands.

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

And this ladies and gentlemen...

Is why you don't have the letter "O" in UK number plates.

The fines are not the issue, but the idiots that came up with the number plate scheme.

'Mindset reset' contributes to £1bn extra costs and another delay – 2 years this time – for Emergency Services Network

Re: Actually, it's all working rather well...

It's about 5 grand a year (rural) and due to be substantially reduced. So a nice little earner,but not the huge amount you may think (city landlords get far more).

Brit MPs to Apple CEO: Please stop ignoring our questions about repairability and the environment

Easy way to get a response.

Send a tweet out that the UK Goverment were considering they may make it law that vendors have supply spare parts to any 3rd parties at cost price.

I'd reckon you'd have a response in about oooo 30 seconds?

Take your pick: 'Hack-proof' blockchain-powered padlock defeated by Bluetooth replay attack or 1kg lump hammer

Security Devices don't stop theft...

...they simply slow the person down.

And that is what you aim for. If the time taken makes the risk of getting caught to high, then it's worked.