Posts by diodesign

Re: Scam adverts served by The Register

I'll make sure the ads team sees this. Sometimes, we'll run ads via a network. We have some control over the ads placed.

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Re: Eh?

Don't look at us - it was MaxMind's decision to do that.

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Re: Re: Found in the press

Here (paywall). Basically, Philip Nye, an IBM security architect, tweeted: "Since Australia doesn’t have mandatory disclosure laws, will we ever find out when Census data is inevitably breached?"

Which ppl took to mean: "Census will be breached." He deleted the tweet, it seems.

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Re: MicroSD slot

Yeah, it's in the article - in the specs.

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Re: Layer 8 is Financial

It's kinda unofficial, really. Up to layer 7 is officially defined, then it gets messy. Typically, layer 8 is the human layer.

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Re: CPU and power consumption?

Check it out - I added it to the story. Couple of ARM Cortex-Ms.

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Re: What if a system call was changed

Never break user space.

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Re: Wow

Oops - yup, an editing error changed m to M. It's been fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk so we can sort out problems immediately rather than when we get round to reading article comments.

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Re: Patches are available from Xen 4.3 (not 4.5 as stated in the article)

Oh, oops - sorry, didn't see those numbers. I'll fix. Please email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong.

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Re: Really?

"each got a copy of that public key and is able therefore to interact securely with the owner of the private key."

Well, yeah. They're all managed by Elite VPN. They are probably all VM clones of the same machine.

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Re: Re: The best thing about Twitter...

Twitter employs 3,900 staff and is based in San Francisco (a 10 min walk from our office). $700m divided by 3900 is $179,487 per head per quarter, which if you factor in server costs and other expenses isn't too crazy.

Sure, not everyone at Twitter works in SF, I appreciate that. Basically my point is, it employs 3,900 highly paid people who burn through cash like it doesn't really matter.

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Re: Anyone read the full story....

Amazing how utter crap suddenly gets signed off as genuine when large amounts of money are accidentally left outside officials' houses in briefcases.

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Re: typo

OK OK – just like software has bugs, articles have typos from time to time. It's fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong, so we can fix it right away rather than after we've had a chance to catch up with comments.

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Re: Why is there no...

We do bad news, not good news.

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Jailbreaking your iOS device is not recommended - it lowers security.

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Re: DougS

Fixed - made it clear the charges are for a trial in Washington. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot something wrong.

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Re: uqrxur

Well, that is half the point of the Reg comments section. People working in the field sharing their knowledge and experience. It's appreciated.

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Re: Possible erratum

Thanks - we've tweaked the article. Please don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot any problems.

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Re: Sir Runcible Spoon

"I've often wondered who determines the policy on the moderation of all comments in AO's articles."

It's a long standing editorial policy. It's basically to stop comment sections turning into "wow, Andrew sucks, you should fire him" because people disagree with him.

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Re: Not a very unbiased report from El Reg

"I'm not sure what's going on here with the Register but there's a lot that has to be accounted for that's missed in this article"

Read our previous coverage then: we've written loads about Pure.

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Re: Not sure i see how this works

You send out an initial message to start the process of mathematically proving that future messages aren't tampered with. You don't route all messages through all nodes.

Basically, you can't hide the fact you're using Tor or Riffle - a snooper can see you interacting with an entry node. However, the snooper isn't supposed to see where you're connecting to. Networks like Tor are supposed to disconnect you from your online activity.

So, for example, snoopers can see you using Tor to reach some kind of system but they don't know which system you're visiting - well, not without some sophisticated timing attacks.

With that in mind, you might as well ping all entry nodes so they can collectively ensure future messages from you aren't tampered with.

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Re: More Eu funding to be renegotiated

All the money is coming from the UK government. The ESA is just on board to oversee the administration of part of it. Like a startup bringing in managers approved by investors. The UK gov bankrolls the project knowing that clever folks at ESA will be overseeing part of it as well as the UK Space Agency.

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Yeah, it's just iOS affected. Still, a lot of people and a silly screw-up.

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Re: DriveByReason

Hi new reader – it's a Bootnotes story. We publish anything we want in here.

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Re: Flocke Kroes

Nailed it.

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Re: Rejected? Then please fix the link then Reg team...

Click the link, watch the video. Iain was supposed to appear live on Twit.tv but couldn't due to a Windows 10 update.

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Re: Excellent article, aside from inaccurate/misleading title

Hi John - thanks for the feedback. I wrote the headline, not Kieren as you suspected.

With honestly the greatest respect, judging from your suggestion, I think this is why journalists should write headlines and not CEOs :-)

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Re: What a lie!

Thanks for the feedback. We've revised the article - take a look.

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Re: Econonics

FWIW Oracle reckons the S7 is on a parity with commodity x86 in terms of price-performance, but then, it would say that.

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Re: jzl

We haven't run a climate story in a long while.

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Yeah, it should be TFLOPS not GFLOPS - sorry.

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Thanks for the top tip!

Re: steogede

We here in San Francisco published the news hours and hours before the BBC did by listening to the Assembly meeting. At the time we couldn't reach DRS for comment and went with what we had for the UK early breakfast time.

It looks as though the BBC got more info out of them during the day, and really the extra info is that they used a spreadsheet to count up the totals. The main problem, that their software was broken and they had to manually query the database, was broken by us hours ago.

So, OK I'll add in the bit about the spreadsheet. We strive to get all the techie details into stories, but sometimes we have to call time and publish what we've got.

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Re: Doctor Syntax

Can't you even email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong, so errors can be fixed up straight away, or do you like your comments sitting buried unread for hours?

Edit: Actually, I think it's OK. The article linked to says: "The name is said to derive from one Ned Ludd, an apprentice weaver, who some years earlier smashed a loom in a rage at his master who had beaten him."

So... they did smash looms. They may have smashed other devices, but they also smashed looms - so the article's right and you deserve the down votes.

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It's fixed - can you please email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong so we can fix things right away. Ta.

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As the article says, it's off to the House of Lords next. When exactly isn't clear - that has to be scheduled.

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Re: anonymous crazy person

Can't you take this to a blog or something? I could do with less crazy around here.

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Re: The M-series aren't blades

Yeah sure - we know. Typo in the sub-head. It's fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot any problems.

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Re: Any ueful info / links about this?

The link is in the very sentence you've quoted.

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Re: anoco

"he is here to be the one writer pushing the balance to the right "

The Register is a broad church; Andrew's articles are not our only coverage of the Oracle-Google issue. It's good to air opinions that might otherwise be suppressed because they are unpopular.

FWIW, my personal opinion is that there are pros and cons to not extending fair use to APIs, I just don't want to live in a world in which software interfaces are not covered by fair use. If you want a world with strong control over API ownership, be my guest. I don't want to be on that planet.

For one thing, no fair use means discouraging common interfaces to databases, operating systems, web servers, networking devices - it'll be chaos with no sign of any interoperability.

Sure, you can potentially pay a royalty for using an interface, but then you're at the mercy of whoever is licensing the tech to you. If they play fair, perhaps it'll work out OK. If they play nasty, then you'll refuse to use their interface, come up with or use something similar, and get sued anyway for infringement.

Just make APIs fair use - make it OK to reuse function names and call/return definitions - and then may the best implementation win.

Having said that, I respect Andrew's opinion and I don't see why it should be squashed because it's unpopular in some quarters.

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Re: Adam 52

Makes perfect sense. Oracle is so convinced it's going to win, it's already threatening a malicious prosecution suit.

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Re: Irvine and Santa Ana

Jeez, fine. Fixed.

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Re: "From scratch"

" know the article mentions this, but the headline and the PR department claims still rankle a bit."

Yeah, yeah, all right. I did point out it's based on the A17 and the opening line says "more or less from scratch" – I couldn't really squeeze it into the headline. The A73's microarchitecture borrows a lot of the A17's structure, but various crucial parts have been rewritten like the branch prediction and memory system... if you take a broom and change the stick, head and bristles, I don't think you've got the same broom.

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Re: How much?

No prices yet - they're not on sale for another month or so. The article even says so in the final paragraph.

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Re: Re: Optional

Update: We'll run the follow-up on Friday because everyone's distracted by this afternoon's Oracle-Google news.

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