Re: 10,000 ?
You're welcome to it, since it has a resolution lower than a ZX spectrum ;)
Posts by Tom 64
454 posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
Hello DARKNESS, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again... about a 10,000-pixel alien-hunting camera
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Re: Easily solved
I suggest 'AllLawyersAreVulturesScript', or perhaps 'OracleSucksBallsScript'.
British government to ink deal for yet another immigration database
Re: Usual suspects again
> "after this attempt has turned into a massive failure."
Depends on your definition of failure. If your goal is to spread out taxpayers cash to your chums, the last attempt could be considered a great success.
Mark Duckerberg: Second Congressional grilling sees boss dodge questions like a pro
Patch or ditch Adobe Flash: Exploit on sale, booby-trapped Office docs spotted in the wild
Re: Why does anyone still use this garbage?
> "I doubt that. Flash is disabled by default on Windows 10 except for a small list of trusted websites and doesn't run outside of the Edge browser."
Have you tried removing flash from Windows 10? You can', not without a lot of hacking anyway. There is no uninstaller.
Why does anyone still use this garbage?
Flash should have been taken out back and shot years ago. Why is it still a thing?!?
Oh yeah, because Microsoft took some Adobe money to default install it on Windows 10.
Not one, but 20,000 black holes hiding in Milky Way's heart
Re: I've asked before but...
No. Even if there was one black hole for every star in the galaxy, there still wouldn't be enough mass to explain the nature of the milky way's rotation.
Brit Lords start peer-to-peer wrangling over regulating the internet
But think of the children!
... That argument is getting as tired as an ancient, bald pirelli already.
We sent a vulture to find the relaunched Atari box – and all he got was this lousy baseball cap
Cambridge Analytica 'privatised colonising operation', not a 'legitimate business', says whistleblower
Re: validity of the Brexit vote
> "she'd still be head-down charging forward at the brick wall."
Good point.
Re: validity of the Brexit vote
Are referenda covered by the same laws as elections?
I can't imagine Theresa May backing off brexit now either way, she doesn't want to be seen as weaker than Thatcher.
Breaking out some popcorn, this will get messy.
Fatal driverless crash: Radar-maker says Uber disabled safety systems
Re: "Self driving cars can only only react"
> "Not sure I would have noticed, reacted and braked to a 'safe' speed in that time."
Perhaps not, but you would have damn well swerved in order to avoid taking the life of another human being. Wouldn't you?
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough
2 + 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3... Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers' in scientific simulations
Re: Redlining memory? Buhahahaha! Not a chance.
> "Could you please explain how is this possible?"
Nvidia are known for cutting corners to maximise profits.
Google for Charlie Demerjian vs Nvidia
Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation
Let's Encrypt updates certificate automation, adds splats
Wildcard certs
Not having these was a big pain in the backside before. I can see a much bigger uptake now these have been added.
OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws
Re: Odiferous Rodent
Certainly looks like an intel smear campaign doesn't it. Intel are known to have a big presence in Israel, I wonder if they have recently invested in any 'security' startups.
Microsoft's Teams lights solitary candle, hipsters don't notice
Re: hate it. use it
I've been forced to use it too (it costs us less than Slack does, somehow), and it's actually pretty powerful. Shame about the god awful omnishambles of a user interface.
Work continues on 5G, shame no one's sure what it's for yet
RE: " I'd assume other countries would be similar."
Quite. In England the telcos take the following attitude:
"Aww, you have a signal black hole in your area? Fuck you, pay me."
Even when complaining about sufficiently populated areas, such as a tube train, let alone the countryside.
4G found on Moon
> "we need to develop infrastructures..."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but people need things above 4G networks for even basic survival. You know things like clean, uncontaminated water, fresh food, radiation shielding, beer, etc etc
Amateur astronomer strikes it lucky with first glimpse of a Supernova
Re: Nova GSi?
My mate had one of these. Great little car. Naturally he binned it in a ditch.
The Gemini pocket PC is shipping and we've got one. This is what it's like
Re: Where Gemini's value really lies
Just give me a fullscreen linux terminal, and I'll be very tempted to open my wallet indeed.
Boffins: If AI eggheads could go ahead and try to stop their code being evil, that'd be great
“slightly concerned about AI, but not generally not aware of its rate of progress.”
If that sentence is anything to go by, we're doomed.
I for one welcome our AI overlords.
Year-old vuln turns Jenkins servers into Monero mining slaves
PowerShell?
I'm guessing this only affects windows boxen then? I see no reference to OS on the linked info though.
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Google reveals Edge bug that Microsoft has had trouble fixing
Intel issues
Not so surprising they didn't disclose the intel bugs quickly - all of their cloud runs on x86 intel and they wouldn't want the expense of cleaning up the outright ownage that would result if they disclosed before intel had decent fixes ready.
Microsoft of the other hand have a competing software product, so fuck 'em
Helicopter crashes after manoeuvres to 'avoid... DJI Phantom drone'
Re: It's time...
My suspicion is that this is a case of instructor covering for his dumbass student. There may not have been a drone at all
Crypto-gurus: Which idiots told the FBI that Feds-only backdoors in encryption are possible?
Re: Anyone want to make a lot of money?
It's leave your conscience at home day! Lets take a shitton of public funds and line our pockets!
Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google
> "Google is preferentially boosting AMP results"
More likely targeting teenagers who have never seen a PC get owned by email
You won't ever be able to convince me...
... that running any kind of code in an email isn't a horrible security risk.
I'll stick with plain text thank you.
UK PM Theresa May orders review of online abuse laws in suffrage centenary speech
Re: 'edge' Lord,....
> "After a while you start to believe what's being said about you."
I hope so. Hopefully Mrs. May will eventually get the hint that she is in fact a useless PM and should go.
Sadly she has been doing rather well at ignoring this kind of comment.
Billionaire bros Bezos, Buffett become bonkers bio brokers: Swap W in AWS for H for healthcare
Re: America Fuck Yeah
Nope, remember these 'founders' are capitalists. I doubt they'd be in it if they didn't think they could turn a tidy profit.
Timeout everyone. Y'all know that Musk's $500 'flamethrower' is literally a Boring blowtorch?
Astroboffins say our Solar System could have – wait, stop, what... the US govt found UFOs?
Re: Credulous or corrupt?
> "UFOs are just rich kids breaking the rules and buzzing the natives for a laugh."
In that case, we're probably doubly screwed if they do decide to make contact.
Investigatory Powers Act: You're not being paranoid. UK.gov really is watching you
Re: sort of confused ?
> "the likes of Google et al"
Classic misdirection. Are you perhaps a Tory party member?
Royal Bank of Scotland culls 1 in 4 branches, blames the interwebz
Re: Mortgage negotiation
> "Lately, most has been pushed to exploit customers as much as they could"
This.
Last time I went into a high street bank was to change my registered address and change my account type. I was told I had to come back for an appointment at the bank's convenience to do the latter, during which I had to endure the attempted upsale of all kinds of rubbish I didn't need.
Considering moving my banking offshore for the better service /joke
Dawn of The Planet of the Phablets in 2019 will see off smartphones
Re: Pocketalypse
I for one welcome our new phabetising overlords, always misstype on my Sony Z5 and would welcome something bigger...
Paris because she probably would too.
Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Siemens tease electric flight engine project
Re: Greenwash?
>" lithium batteries are heavy and are a fire hazard"
And aviation kerosene isn't either of those things I suppose?
What's that fresh, zesty fragrance? Oh, Linux Mint 18.3 has landed
Re: Up to date updates
> "Not forgetting the frontends 'synaptic' and 'aptitude' if you need a finer search than apt-cache search."
Something wrong with grep?
While you're preparing to carve Thanksgiving turkey, the FCC will be slicing into net neutrality
>" ensure that we continue to lead the world in mobile wireless services"
... someone hasn't been to east asia recently.
Arecibo spared the axe: Iconic observatory vital to science lives on
Re: Welcome to 21st Century USA - How about an unbiased source?
>"Oh, it WAS unbiased once,"
@Big John, luckily political bias doesn't affect scientific results.
Kaspersky: Clumsy NSA leak snoop's PC was packed with malware
Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it
Re: This has been tried before
Useful comment, thanks.
I still don't understand why I need another currency. If they simply pay me in bitcoin, I'd probably use their browser. As it is, they can take a running jump.
Imagine the candles on its birthday cake: Astro-eggheads detect galaxy born in universe's first billion years
Gravitational Lensing
>"The research team also used gravitational lensing ..."
This paragraph makes it sound like GL is a neat tool an astronomer can pull out of his box for better results.
The reality is that an astronomer cannot simply move massive galactic clusters around, and GL is likely the ONLY reason that this galaxy was observable at all.
Check your science, El Reg.
IBM's Phase Change Memory computer can tell you if it's raining
"boffin bunch"
@El Reg
Please use the correct collective noun for boffins. 'baffle'. e.g The baffle of boffins ...
Osama Bin Laden had copy of Resident Evil, smut, in compound
Malware
He obviously had a net connected PC, hence steam and halflife (a not inconsiderable download on a shit connection), so I wonder if the malware had a role in fingering him.
Hey, you know why it's called the iPhone X? When you see Apple's repair bill, your response will be X-rated
Re: In shock news today...
>"But you can buy an iPhone 5SE for £349."
True, but it is a gimped piece of garbage, which Apple will obsolete after a couple of months of ownership.
HMRC boss defends shift to AWS, says they got 50% knocked off
Re: tax dodging
>"Thanks withheld. They did enough damage when they were running the country."
Oh and the tories have done so much better on the economy in the last seven years? Wake up!
http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-economy-q1-gdp-third-estimate-brexit-2017-6
>"AWS took a large loss on this?"
Nope, they simply have economy of scale and don't pay any tax. Not even to Uncle Sam.
tax dodging
indeed.
HRMC, a tax-payer funded government department for the purposes of collecting tax, is paying a tax-dodging foreign company for their IT needs over a British one, who have been pushed into bankruptcy. Welcome to Tory Britain.
NSA bloke used backdoored MS Office key-gen, exposed secret exploits – Kaspersky
Re: Oooooh, really?!?!?
> "Microsoft also like copies of any files that crash any of their software, along with the memory dumps."
They must have a lot of copies of their own software sent back to themselves then.
