Posts by Ringo Star

Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

Change the font on the app every few months.

Seriously this is a bit stupid, there are tons of apps that function 100% perfectly but are no longer maintained. As long as there's no security vulnerability , what's the problem ?

UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'

Re: No

Hi

There are other methods instead of proof of work. Proof of stake for example uses way less electrical energy. You can also just create the coins already and not require any computation to be done by the user and just exchange the existing coins via the blockchain... again, no no energy spent on mining.

It seems to have been just a passing fad in Estonia. It seems odd they're looking at a launch date some time in the late half of the decade, the technologies and other implementations by governments are already out there. I'm not sure what they plan to discover that hasn't already been discovered before they actually go out and do it.

Huawei's new Mate X2 foldable phone costs almost $2,800

Bahahah 2 grand and no play store...

Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop

cool. can't wait to pay £600 for a 4 port desktop switch...

Welcome to the splinternet – where freedom of expression is suppressed and repressed, and Big Brother is watching

like the UK isn't heading down this path already .

got a loicense for that encryption do ya ?

Transport for London data pilot: We want to keep tabs on dockless bikes and e-bikes

the only people against scooters are old.

I have yet to see a 20 year old complain about 'dem scooters.

calls me out for calling people "names" (since when is geriatric a "name") but is entirely condescending in reply. doesn't' really help your moral case here. enjoy your echo chamber

oh stop it.

More people end up in hospital because of bicycles, especially the spandex types that do their fast n furious stuff. I'm so tired of all these anti-scooter people. You were probably against mobile phones too when they came out.

old people shake fist at new technology

waah scooters evil, them kids on the pavement, blah blah blah.

i hate listening to geriatric people complain about the future of transport.

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

meanwhile our work place is putting weird css/js hacks in so that people on Windows XP and IE7 can browse us ...

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Re: Launching

Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Re: European Union

typically you don't say FU to your biggest trading partner.

Server buyers ask Lenovo for made-in-Mexico models instead of Chinese kit

But why? It's still a Chinese company. I doubt they have people manufacturing the boards, making the silicon, doing the pick and place on the boards in Mexico, or do they? Surely they are just assembling Chinese made electronics but in a factory in Mexico, so what's the difference?

When Huawei leaves, the UK doesn't lead in 5G, says new report commissioned by... er... Huawei

We've never led on 5G. We installed two or three masts in a few cherry picked locations and said look the UK has 5G.

Next we'll be telling ourselves we have some of the fastest broadband in the world (oh wait, certain people already say that).

our telecoms are worse than 3rd world countries.

Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release

Snaps suck.

EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service

Re: WW III

I know im late to the party (I just found this article)

What about the NSA then. They "built" or helped build DES and then stuck weakened "S boxes" in it that was essentially a backdoor (in so far as NSA had the computing power to brute force it). That weakness wasn't found by cryptographic experts for a very long time. So yeah, if you helped build it there's a possibility you know it's weaknesses or even help design weaknesses into the system which can go undetected at least for a while.