It's even funnier when you reallise that GiffGaff run on O2's infrastructure....
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O2 admits to throttling network bandwidth for EU data roamers
Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient
Re: Here are some free ideas
6. You're going to have to get energy out of the reaction at some point. Have you figured out how to do this? I suggest making the reaction happen inside a cavity within a large tank of water [aka 'boiler']. Steam systems would then attach to it. the rest is kind of obvious.
It still surprises me that nuclear power generation still relies on steam technology. Has there been any research on improved methods for converting energy into electricity? We got ride of steam trains for a reason.
El Reg Topic Forum Layout Problem
El Reg Topic Forum Layout Problem
On the index page to the El Reg articles (forums.theregister.co.uk/section/forums/vulture/reg_stuff/), the table list of topics overflows to cover the right hand panel.
UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age
Watson AI panned, 5¼ years of sales decline ... Does IBM now stand for Inferior Biz Model?
@tony2heads Re: Eat this, Dorothy Dietrich
I really think that a CEO's pay should be directly connected to growth in income of the firm.
That, and other metrics such as share price or profit, typically encourage short-term gains over longer term growth & stability.
Something like X years profit/income/etc could be a better metric as it would make short term fudges less rewarding.
But CEOs won't go for it as they won't get their quick buck/pound.
Thanks for U-turning on biz-killing ban, Ofcom – now cough up, say GSM gateway bods
Dell and Intel see off IBM and POWER to win new Australian super
New Column Width
Nearly three-quarters of convicted TV Licence non-payers are women
UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks
Man facing $17.5m HPE fraud case has contempt sentence cut by Court of Appeal
Re: This used to be how commerce worked isn't it?
According this previous El Reg article, HP are claiming that Peter Sage fraudulently obtained discounts from HP and then sold the kit on to entities who weren't entitled to the discount.
Automatic halving of sentence
Section 258(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 states that anyone committed to prison for contempt of court must be automatically released after serving half of his sentence.
So if you're automatically released after serving half your sentence, why not just halve the sentence in the first place?
Confused.....
(Clearly, IANAL!)
ESA trying to 'bake, rattle and roll' gravity wave space probe
What did OVH learn from 24-hour outage? Water and servers do not mix
1Password won't axe private vaults. It'll choke 'em to death instead
Seagate SNAFU sees Cisco servers primed for data loss
Openreach kicks off 'rebrand' by painting over BT logo on vans
GSM gateway ban U-turn casts doubt on 7.5-year prosecution in Blighty
Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs
CPU Types
Within a few years, every computing device of consequence - supercomputer, desktop or smartphone - will be driven by architectures and operating systems that center around the GPU.
GPU or a highly parallel vector processor?
I think you'll still need a general purpose CPU to glue everything together, but you'll undoubtedly have various special purpose chips to assist.
Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash
SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row
Re: BBRs are go!
I suppose it depends on whether the customer is willing to use a cheaper, second hand rocket. One careful owner....
Being serious for a minute, I think SpaceX are waiting for the Block 5 Falcon's to roll off the production line. The design tweaks of the Block 5 variants are supposed to make reuse much easier.
Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid
Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty hyper-threading bug
@sarahhart Re: This is gonna suck.
I think the most important point you missed is that disabled people* generally don't want to have to depend on other people. Independence is something very powerful and precious to them.
*Not sure what the correct phrase or terminology is here, sorry. No offense intended.
Software glitch led to London Ambulance Service outage – report
US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics
India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet
Microsoft recommends you ignore Microsoft-recommended update
Cheeky IT rival parks 'we're hiring' van outside 'vote Tory' firm Storm Technologies
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, says report
Re: "de-toxing its culture"
I was on a management course a while back, and the instructor quoted various management gurus who all said that changing a corporation's culture is not a five minute job, but a multi-year process. I think he mentioned one example where a new CEO estimated it would take five years to make significant change to culture.
Virtual reality audiences stare straight ahead 75% of the time
BA passengers caught in crossfire of Heathrow baggage meltdown
Ye Bug List
@Drew Re: Spurious Blank lines at end of comments
Not sure how to link to individual comments, but I'm seeing a couple of comments on this page alone.
Also, take a look at the first couple of posts on this article https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/06/14/uber_waymo_legal_battle_latest/
Judge holds Uber's feet to the fire over alleged Waymo tech theft
PCIe speed to double by 2019 to 128GB/s
DUP site crashes after UK general election
Forcing digital forensics to obey 'one size fits all' crime lab standard is 'stupid and expensive'
Missing Graph
The second pie chart showing that 70% of companies have only spent up to £10K to become compliant could make people believe that compliance is fairly cheap. Instead, it could be that these companies have become compliant as it was cheap to do.
What would be really useful is a chart showing how much companies, who are not compliant, think it will cost them to become compliant.
HPE ignored SAN failure warnings at Australian Taxation Office, had no recovery plan
Ex-MI5 boss: People ask, why didn't you follow all these people ... on your radar?
Change
I've heard various politicians saying we need radical change... because once there is a crisis [there are calls for] radical change... but probably what we need is gradual change.
No. What you really need is to be flexible and adaptable. It's much easier to cope with the unexpected if you're not set in certain ways.
Going to Mars may give you cancer, warns doc
Class clowns literally classless: Harvard axes meme-flinging morons
Re: Bah!
Kicking out the students involved was not an intelligent way to go about this
Harvard's first priority is its reputation. If it doesn't have a good reputation, donations, rich parents sending their darlings there, etc. will soon dry up. Allowing students with such views in, would be a very brave (or foolish!) thing to do.