Posts by IGotOut

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

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

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.

Eh?

"The over-reliance of TSMC on Taiwanese factories is a concern to US officials....."

There may be a teeny clue in the name.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comany.

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.

NHS contact-tracing app is best in the world, says VMware CEO... whose company helped build it

Re: Test USA Meat for Corona Virus

Not an issue. They'll dunk it in chlorine for a few hours to kill it off.

Re: Nice to see

Dave I've replied to your other post which was pretty much the same.

The reason they bought the PPE from Turkey (which half was crap) was because it wasn't available in the UK. There is a LOT we are buying from UK manufacturers, but we can't make enough, but that doesn't suit the flag wavers.

If that's such a problem for you, take a long hard look at your wardrobe, how much is British made? My guess, very, very little. Then you rant that we are not buying British. Well you, and most of us, are the problem. We don't buy British clothing, so there is no British clothing companies that can quickly switch to making gowns.

So stop blaming the Government (it would make little difference who was in), it's the consumer who is to blame.

Re: Why the heck not a UK developed app?

Dave 15...do you get your tin foil hats from the UK?

You leapt from PPE to Oxbridge to 60 year old political issue in a few short hops.

Not sure where you get half your info from but let's address a few:

PPE...Cost. That was simple. UK made, double the price.

Police cars, Ambulance and Fire Engines? Eh. Well many are made in the UK, and they are most certainly converted here in the UK. One of the companies that do it are on the same estate as I work on.

Sure some navy vessels aren't made here (plenty are), simply because we no longer have the facilities. It's ok building a few ships every 20 years at a shipyard, but how do you sustain that same shipyard for the rest of the time? This may come of a suprise, but most shipyards around the world have shut down, and put simply, the UK is to expensive to build merchant ships.

Microsoft's Family Safety app drills into kids' screen time, browsing habits to help 'facilitate a dialogue'

Re: So...

So can this magic MS one limit access to PlayStation and Linux?

Mac no, but all iOS devices. Yes.

So...

...what Apple have done for a few years now then.

Researchers spot thousands of Android apps leaking user data through misconfigured Firebase databases

Android apps insecure?

I'm shocked I tell you.

Now bugger off, Candy Smash Space Happy App needs to access my contacts, location, storage and photos and must click OK.

From pair to p-AI-r programming: Kite floats paid-for spin of its GitHub-trained code autocomplete assistant

First....

....they came for the assembly lines...

...then they came for the delivery drivers....

Now they are coming for the programmers.

Psst... Wanna buy some stock in a spaceplane company? Virgin would like a word

Hmmmm

500million in share sell off.

Isn't that how much he wanted to be bailed out for?

So he's doing exactly what people said he should do...well part of what people said he should do.

Total Eclipse to depart: Open-source software foundation is hopping the pond to Europe

A logical conclusion...

...with the US sanctions against China and others as well as aggressive,no hostile, immigration and visa controls, software (and hardware) companies could look at this as a way of getting around these issues. Into good having a multinational "team" if half of them are blocked from working on a project because of where they happen to live.

Hopefully software companies will also realise that En-US shouldn't be the default English language version.

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit

Re: Elon Musk isn't helping, is he

"as Musk seems to have the money and determination to do it"

.

"As Musk seems to have the money, arrogance and utter disregard for others to do it"

Tftfy

Penny smart and dollar stupid: IT jobs slashed in US, UK, Europe to cut costs – just when we need staff the most

tldr

Security company does report saying not enough being spent on security.

Meanwhile most of the business world tries to work out if their business will survive another month.

IBM to GTS staff: Not volunteering to leave with a redundo cheque? We'll give you a helping hand

Re: my proudest moment

An old manager of mine had his resignation letter in his back pocket when he was pulled in the office to be told he was being offered redundancy with 6 month's pay.

As you can imagine, hewas very upset at the news.

Re: So, Covid 19,..

"MS have been advertising Teams, and how it is keeping people working together"

Yeah, on that subject....anyone know how much the Met Police have been bribed?

Should the Police be taking money from businesses to promote their products? If so I've a Cryptocurrency business I need promoting.

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

Re: Cue the lawsuits in 3, 2, 1...

"There should be a law against that.."

It's called an unfair contract in the UK. Contracts are pretty weak in UK consumer law, only in business law are they really enforceable, due to the fact b2b are expected to use legal advice before agreeing to a contract.

It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are

Re: Advertising on the pumps...

If it were Fox, it would be denying there is any petrol in the pump and it's a Communist China conspiracy if you have heard otherwise.

Re: Huh?

"the commenter had never before known what that bracket on the inside of the fuel cover was for."

And how many don't know about the Petrol pump symbol on the fuel gauge which tells you the side the filler cap is on?

If you miss the happier times of the 2000s, just look up today's SCADA gear which still has Stuxnet-style holes

Re: Old design old problems

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11311

https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/ICSA-17-255-01

That took me 10 seconds to prove your example is a crock of shit.

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

How high is it?

The kids would be interested in riding it, given the fact all the park equipment is unusable.

Re: The important questions...

Will its owner say "it's just being friendly" when it knocks a toddler flying?

Will the owner look suprised when you kick the "friendly" dog 10ft across the park to protect your kids from the "friendly" dog?

Fancy some post-weekend reading? How's this for a potboiler: The source code for UK, Australia's coronavirus contact-tracing apps

Am I missing one huge thing.

What is the point of this app?

They say has no location, so that means the government can't target resources to where it may be required.

If I've been pinged by someone who has said they have had it....then what? Am I supposed to self isolate for 2 weeks because I MAY get it, even if the odds are actually very low (you don't get it just walking past someone)? For me in the country this could mean patient X only pings 100 people in the 2 weeks before symptoms, but in the city, that could be thousands and thousands. Do all those isolate? And if so, do those 5000 alert another 100,000?

Or is it simply just to gather numbers? If so why not just have an app that reports back "I have it".

I just see no point at all in it.

Apple owes us big time for bungled display-killing cable design in MacBook Pro kit, lawsuit claims

Ahhh a good old class action...

Lawfirm $50 million dollars.

Affected customers who actually had the issue, 33 cents each.

As coronavirus catches tech CEOs with their pants down, IBM's Ginni Rometty warns of IT's new role post-pandemic

Re: Middle management

My last teams reporting line:

Team leader

Technical manager

Business manager or customer manager

Section manager

Department manager

Department manager

Group manager...

Then four directors.

Not bad for a team of two....who 9 out of 10 times bypassed the lot in order to get anything done.

FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

Re: It's the microphone, not the browser

And the app is?

American tech goliaths decide innovation is the answer to Chinese 5G dominance, not bans, national security theater

Well of course they have to innovate....

....for years they relied on suing everyone for even remotely resembling a patent infringement.

The problem for them is now is the Chinese have the patents.

O2 be a fly on the wall during BT and Vodafone's video calls: Telefónica's UK biz, Virgin Media officially merge

And the losers are...

the customers.

This has to be paid for after all.

Re: Cellnet

Bet BT are maybe regretting getting rid of BT Cellnet/O2 now...

You missed the bit where they own EE.

Nope they will give you a FREE upgrade, then bump up the price.

Re: Ha ha

"O2 with a network that's way behind anyone else and expensive too."

All the customers on GiffGaff, Tesco and many many more will disagree. In fact 02 MVNO's are amongst the cheapest. Add to that I have a choice of a decent O2 4g or a barely useable signal from the others, for me coverage was the main decider to go with Giff Gaff

Virgin Galactic takes another step towards blasting Richard Branson into space

Re: Priorities?

"Mandate that airlines must use biofuel. "

Not until biofuels are FORCED to only source from environmentally friendly methods.

It no good saying "we're using biofuels" if that has come from a sugar or palm oil plantation that was once part of the rain forest or was for food agriculture.

From these sources it's hardly any better than oil.

Re: Priorities?

Or do what the French are doing. Want a bailout? Sure, no more domestic flights then.

It's crazy that in many countries domestic passenger flights are thing. Yes there are exceptions, such as island hopping, huge countries or where there is no alternative e.g Alaska, but London to Manchester? Really?

If there are to continue, increase airport duty to £100 each way and use the money to improve rail.

Re: Priorities?

Help, I need cash for my (49% US Delta airlines owned) airline company from the British Company. However my pet project for the Ultra rich is still OK.

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China's cyber-attack dog

Russia and China...

Could become closer and closer.

Well is that because

A) they are both former Communist states, despite having quite a hostile attitude towards each other or

B) the west being hostile to both those, therefore making them look to other markets and working on technologies together.

Hmmmm....

China successfully launches its biggest-ever space truck to fire up its space station ambitions

"To be accurate, Werner von Braun didn't actually murder anyone"...

He was present when thousands slave labourers were beaten, shot, starved, poisoned and worked to death. He was a key player in that scenario, he may not have done it directly, but he should have been held accountable.

To be fair, they didn't steal a mass murdering scientist, they just offered him a job and then promoted him to the top position.

Fake crypto-wallet extensions appear in Chrome Web Store once again, siphoning off victims' passwords

One word.

Money.

Anything that gets in the way of that for Google is an inconvenience.

Now we know what the P really stands for in PwC: X-rated ads plastered over derelict corner of accountants' website

Re: Really?

In what universe do people regard PWC as "trustworthy & prestigious?"

The same one where Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" is seen as guide to who you should spend your money with.

We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere

In other news....

66% of people think password policies on websites are a joke, the worst offenders being banking.

I reuse the same password on loads of sites, such as here on the Reg.

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

Re: The elephant in the room (or should I say home?).

To be fair, they already have that info, and so do Google and Apple