Posts by IGotOut

BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam

So...

Who's going to pay for this

Oh yes. Us plebs

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

Credit Monitoring

Is available for a small upgrade charge.

Mind your language: Microsoft set to swing the axe on 27 languages in iOS Outlook

Re: Thank dog it’s iOS

"How many corporate users have Apple kit anyway?"

They make device called an "iPhone"

I hear it's going to catch on at some point.

Bionic eyes to be a thing in the next decade? Possibly. Boffins mark sensor-density breakthrough

Re: Wonderful development in tech

It's fine. It's going to fall under the IoT banner, so an update is going to be close to zero

Berlin's renowned nightclub scene is showing signs of life. Just one problem: No dancing

Re: Sounds like nerdvana

And those dancing looked like they were trying to audition for "America's Next Dancer'

But....

How do I recreate the blokes having a punch up, the girl crying on the steps and and two others...one puking up and the other holding her hair.

Oh forgot the guy telling everyone how he fucking loves you.

To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it

Re: Not bad

EDIT: Mildly surprised they were able to send realistic looking phish from a fake domain via GApps

The domain was real. Just not the correct one.

DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline

Re: Level 5 - Critical. So severe, even Apple will respond to enquiries from El Reg

Shouldn't it be a reverse scale. So an Apple rep actually talking to El Reg, would be a 1 as in DefCon 1.

Campaign groups warn GCHQ can re-identify UK's phones from COVID-19 contact-tracing app data

Re: Thank you

Still yet to see a solid answer to a simple question

If someone I may of briefly passed in the street gets Covid19, then what?

Do I self isolate because of that 2 second interaction, where the chance of catching are close to zero. Or do I just ignore it?

If the former, expect cities to grind to a complete halt in a few days.

If the latter, what is the point of the app?

Hey Siri, are you still recording people's conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?

Re: I don't know if Apple is still doing this or he's reporting what they did back in 2019

It depends on the wording. Does it say it's going to take conversations even when not in use?

Think it as a sign in a bank saying they will video for security, but then follow you down the street and into your house.

Of course, everything you are doing on that tablet is being sent back to Amazon. So you stopped them listening, but everything else is going back home.

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

Re: Missed the Boat

They are saying OTA updates, but depends on who pushed them out.

Hopefully they go the Winphone method, when you could pull updates direct from MS rather than relying on the carrier or in this case, the manufacturer.

International space station testing Wi-Fi links with incoming craft, with an eye on autonomous docking

Please tell me....

....it's made by Huawei.

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

Thats going to far.

So I get it USA. Your worried about China spying on you, stealing your IP and generally taking over the world. But genocide by Kan't Find the Chicken; that just going to far.

Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs

Pah...

I've got one with BILLION GPU's and a gazillion CPU's.

Its the NO1! In the world.

You just need to trust me.

OK.

DirectX comes to Linux (via WSL2): Microsoft unveils tricks needed to flash a GPU at a penguin

@Tom

How do.you know? Have you asked every single Linux user? No you have not.

You have PRESUMED because YOU don't want this no one else on the entire planet won't either.

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

Indeed a medieval castle is a robust defence against attack, but the still fell.

You misreading it. They are not ENFORCING it at the moment. Doesn't mean they are ignoring it. Deferring is better wording. Companies will still get find, but courts are not running fully, their staff will be reduced and you could be building a case against a company that may not be around in 3 months time.

Besides, better to hit them when they have some cash

Microsoft promises big things for Edge... and they'll be ready for folks some time before universe's heat death

You do realise it just yet another Chromium don't you?

OnePlus to disable camera colour feature with pervy tendencies in latest flagship smartphone

Re: Much ado about nothing

You can convert old DSLRs to "infra red" by nobbling the filter.

It's a whole field of photography in itself

That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme

So not...

not the Chinese hacking for for coronavirus info, or nuclear info, or climate change or...or...or..as was reported last week then?

Pick foreign baddie of the month, point the finger of blame without evidence.

Just a good old fashion money grab.

Magecart malware merrily sipped card details, evaded security scans on UK e-tailer Páramo for almost 8 months

Re: Wait

It's seems they may of doing the right thing and employing an outside company to check out their systems.

So the question is why didn't they pick it up?

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

Why bother?

The current US government's record on sticking to treaties is not exactly reassuring.

India opens its space industry to private companies

You implying that two accounts created just to post the same comments on the same day be linked.

I don't believe you.

Huawei's defiant spinning top says Chinese vendor can cope with renewed US sanctions

Mixing up policies.

I feel there is no issue saying "Buy British" "Buy Made In USA" or whatever the French version is. No problem at all with that.

The issue is when you make up bullshit, stoke unfounded fears and spout xenophobic crap, no matter which country is involved.

Promoting yourself. Good

Demonising others. Bad

You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit

Re: Chinese technology ...

" I have no trouble distinguishing between peopoe of other races who I know well"

Palm, here is my face.

As I pointed out, familiarity reduces the issue.

And it's fuck all to do with "Trumpism"

Go on use a "search engine" and go discover this thing called "science" for yourself.

Part of learning, is discovering things for yourself.

Re: Chinese technology ...

You joke, but it is a well established fact, no matter what race you come from.

If you grow up in a very single race environment, it is much harder to tell differences between individuals of a different race.

Exposure however reduces this

Re: Lookie likey

You're way behind.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/evercoverhelmetcover

Of course selling a celeb image in the USA is likely to get you sued...even if it slightly resembles them

Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts

Re: No need for a trial

You missed the bit about a court order. And please explain how you get some dodgy person in China, Russia or the US to kindly pop to the UK and face trial for flogging a USB charger that bursts into flames 5 minutes after being plugged in?

If you're appy and you know it: The Huawei P40 Pro conclusively proves that top-notch specs aren't everything

Re: In a world, where smartphones aren't shitty PCs

I had NokiaWinphone. Best OS out there.

So much so the others ripped off some of the features.

Best feature was Bluetooth profile switching.

Get into the car and the home screen would completely redesign with huge icons for Maps, Music etc. In fact cortana actually had a use in the car as you could ""phone" cortana, pull up Here Maps (still the best Navigation system) and navigate....all without removing my hand from the steering wheel.

Openreach boss denies BT selling stake in UK's national broadband plumber

Re: So it seems BT *can* separate out Openreach assets and liabilities

WTF are you on about? BT has been a private company for decades (yes I know The Reg makes out it was last week it was sold off). If I'm not mistaken, it was one of the first Nationsl monopolies to be sold off.

If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam

And China stops exporting Rare Earth materials.

And chip production grinds to an almost complete halt around the world.

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

Re: Pasteur is turning over in his grave

It still goes off. Just like you wouldn't drink 12 month old pasteurised milk

Re: Unpasteurised milk

You can buy unpasteurised milk in UK, quite easily if you are in the right places. But you can also drink water from your local stream.

The question is why would you?

Re: i need to get out more

You've solved it. Sell the out of date Carling and Fosters as "Aged Craft Mature Lager". Stick it in a bottle with a label printed at home, and charge a fiver (ten in London) and the problem is solved.

They'll even brag how much better it tastes than pub beer.

As a kid I used to go to the Off-sales at the local to get my dad's 5 pint keg filled up. It was just a tiny side room off the bar.

Re: Milk consumption?

Coffee and tea, plus milk products used in meals....cheese, cream and milk itself.

Just think how much Starbucks and Costa alone use. Those two probably use 10,000s of litres per week.

Re: Note

Is that the devolved nations subsidised by England?

Wonder how fucked up Scotland would be now if the poisoned dwarf had gotten her way? Considering her policies were based on oil at 3x current price, I think the Scots dodged a bullet there.

Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts

We know what this means...

"Elexon later added that it had identified the "root cause" "

Lack of patching?

We're going underground, and this time it's not an inebriated banker crapping themselves, but Transport for London

Clearly...

It's having trouble keeping up with the price hikes.

Google says it'll pick up the tab – and stick it in a lovely colour-coded Chrome group

Multiple Tabs in Chrome.

Is that some sort of stress test to check that the PC can cope with 100% CPU and memory usage?

Better late than never... Google Chrome to kill off 'tiny' number of mobile web ads that gobble battery, CPU power

So what about...

the crap, slow JavaScript this ads run?

Less than 4mb...check

Not much bandwidth..check.

CPU resourcesiw...check

30 seconds to report back to mothership, match those IDs, track , locate and then serve "enhanced user experience"....yeah we'll ignore that.

If you're going to spend $3tn, what's another billion? Congress urged to inject taxpayer dollars into open anti-Huawei 5G radio tech

Re: Huawei presents two big problems

"low R&D costs. In the case of the first"

They spend more on R&D than several of the top US tech companies combined.

The Chinese also educate way more people in STEM than anyone else.

Re: Only themselves to blame

Nortel networks was Canadian...

Just saying.

Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant

And your VPN logs?

Ah you presume the VPN company is who they say they are?

"We don't keep logs". No but maybe they are siphoned off to another place first

See plenty of ways around that.

Re: This just goes to show...

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll catch up. At the moment though, we're still catching up with the Chinese on facial recognition monitoring, so give us some time.

Uncle Sam courting Intel, TSMC to build advanced chip fabs on home soil – report

Re: Missed Opportunity

@John

You're kidding right?

The US couldn't beat a few million in Vietnam & Korea.

How do you fancy taking on the world's largest standing army

Russia didn't beatthe Nazis because they had the best tech, but because they were willing to lose 10 to 1?

Sure kill a few million "just in case", but soon as a few thousand are killed on US mainland soil, things would seriously change.

"The Red Communists of North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, until they were bombed"

So as you see "Red" in a phrase, you know what you are up against.

Can I suggest you go and study the Vietnam War in a little more detail, especially the pre war history.

Hi Chi Min (as he was later to become) just wanted to have a country free of the imperialism of the French. The US originally supported his cause, but then changed their minds and sided with the French. He was not a die hard "commie" but just wanted freedom for his fellow countrymen, a thing the "north" and "south" both wanted. The US propped up a corrupt puppet government, so you then had the true "reds" team up with Ho's forces to try to overthrow the corrupt regime.

If the US hadn't supported the corrupt regimes, the war may never have happened and the country wouldn't have been so hard line communist.

As for 9/11 again do your history and find out who put the Taliban into power in the first bleeding place.

The US has a good history of meddling in foreign affairs and making the situation far worse for their people.

As much as I dislike Trump, the way he is dealing with Iran is better than others would of done (bomb and invade). Don't get me wrong, it's not a good way, but better than others would have done.

Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows

Those figures don't add up.

So 91% of Business Applications have out of date software (which is going to be a bullshit figure to start with).

Then....

"Ninety-one percent of the audited applications had components that are either four years out of date or have exhibited no active development for two years."

Well that means 100% of "out of date" programs have components that are four years out of date or abandoned.

Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things

Suprise

Rich Brat throws toys out off pram when he doesn't get his own way.

He's in good company on Twitter. Ironically, another Rich Brat also says he is above the law.