Posts by frank ly

"Once damaged, the robot becomes like a scientist,"

It puts a white lab-coat on?

Sends text messages to you

Does it share your mobile phone number with anyone or store it in the supplier's servers? That would be great for sending you 'helpful' messages about new products or letting a salesdroid call you to check your satisfaction level.

I had a scary vision of Optimus Prime

"Which Optus ..., transformers, ..."

How does it work?

I can see how they've put lots of surface area into a small volume, to achieve energy density, but what kind of battery is it? By that, I mean what is the physical or electro-chemical principle on which it operates?

"The firm is the brainchild ..."

You mean 'brainfart'.

"... integrated premium lifestyle services ..."

I need a personal trainer/explainer/translator to help me understand the modern world.

If it was Newcastle/Sunderland

They'd have to work hard to stop them saying "Huawei the lads".

Hello, I want to complain about my download speeds

"... a necessary part of the process of making Internet Australia more easily recognised and understood in the wider community that we seek to influence and assist".

So the first thing they do is a name change that makes them sound like an ISP.

re. title

Wow and fluffer?

Meh

"Are you prepared to finger the "delete" button on images of genitalia or breasts? Bear in mind you will need to go through tens of thousands of images a day so that means no lingering ..."

No lingering while fingering? Sounds like a cheap and rushed production.

“Government as a platform”

I'm sorry; your payment fell into the GaaP.

Hmmm

"... the service is often used by the security services and law enforcement when they wish to use the internet anonymously. "

Ha! If they weren't doing anything wrong, they wouldn't need to be anonymous. Isn't that the argument governments (and their agencies) use?

I can't wait

"... LTE-A Cat 6, which theoretically offers 300Mbps."

That would use up my monthly allowance in 27 seconds.

Phew

"Email addresses, usernames, postcodes, dates of birth and IP addresses of 3.9 million members have been exposed."

'Junk' email address, not quite true personal details, VPN - I'm safe.

German Law?

"Those conditions did not include being inside a brothel, said Die Polizei."

Everything that is not permitted is forbidden?

Does anybody know ....

.... what battery technology they use for the very cold environment of space?

Procedures

"... some ransomware will quietly encrypt and decrypt data on-the-fly for months in a bid to spoil backups."

Regular sample recoveries are a good idea.

Extrapolation

"As to whether parents should ban the mobile phone at home, Prof Beland told us: “I cannot answer this question with our data.”

Meanwhile, a Daily Mail columnist and wife of a senior UK politician has made the obvious connection that seems to have eluded these so-called scientists.,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sarah-vine-says-allowing-under-16s-to-use-smartphones-is-just-as-toxic-as-underage-drinking-sex-and-illegal-drug-taking-10262894.html

IoT as GoT

Will there be any controversial sex scenes?

"Wijgergangs also highlights another advantage of the Z-Wave spec - by using the 900MHz frequency, rather than ZigBee's (and WiFi's and Thread's) 2.5GHz frequency, the spectrum is less cluttered. And that can translate to significantly less power usage as it reduces the number of retries needed to send data."

So, if every (future) device uses Z-Wave, there's your messy orgy right there.

It 'got up again' quite a few weeks ago ....

.... but it's sailed away from .se and took some time to mend its sails.

It is both

"... some feel it is a long-needed reflection of the actual internet; others that it is a money-grabbing scheme with little real value."

Help

I'm now desperately trying to find that spoof WB cartoon that makes fun of censorship. Can anybody help? It's well made and funny!

I've raised this point before, but ....

"This would switch the blocking on by default, targeting Google, which the mobile networks want to encourage to share revenue."

Imagine if the Post Office demanded a percentage of the value of goods shipped from Ebay purchases, because "ebay and its sellers are making a lot of money and we should have some of it".

Not sure about this

"To make the calculations, the client’s data is loaded into the secure hardware in the cloud, where the data is decrypted, processed and re-encrypted."

Doesn't that mean giving the 'cloudy box' your encryption keys? Or maybe the cloudy box sends you a key that you use to encrypt your data first, before sending it off. Anyone?

re. 1688.com

Is this of some significance in the Chinese belief of the meaningfulness of numbers, or have all the 'cool' dot-com names been taken already?

. "Interestingly, Chinese consumers are even buying tea from the UK."

Ah, the cultural imperialist spearhead force of Tetley Tea Folk. The Chinese have no idea what they've let themselves in for.

an executable file with a double extension.

Otherwise known as an executable file with a name that might fool people who don't have a clue, such as those working in government, military and other nationally important organisations. How much effort would it take to train people about this?

I though I was ok with names

I worked for four years in a department where a colleague was called Terry Collins. The next job I had, there was a man called Colin Terry. That really threw me.

Call me cynical

"... a cache of 18,000 Social Security numbers was found on one of the infected PCs."

That sounds like the university was storing Social Security numbers without much security.

The fly among us

I saw four of them in a tree as I was waiting at traffic lights in Houslow (west of London) about ten years ago. They also seem to have a large colony in Kew Gardens, especially noticable in the summer.

I'd assume that the low genetic diversity is because they originated from a small population of escaped pet birds many years ago.