Re: And the point of the article...
... seems to be just outside your grasp?
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Law Commission pulls back on official secrets laws plans after Reg exposes flawed report
Toshiba conglomerate: Can we keep going? We don't know
Google fumes after US Dept of Labor accuses ad giant of lowballing pay for women
FCC kills plan to allow phone calls on planes – good idea or terrible?
Internet Society tells G20 nations: The web must be fully encrypted
Tuesday 11th April 2017 03:55 GMT 
"... Politicians and law enforcement called for a backdoor (or even a frontdoor) to the latest encryption efforts ..."
Me, I'm waiting for someone to suggest a locked side door as a compromise.
But seriously, getting the message across that bad (= no or "backdoored") encryption is bad for business is our only chance... which is a little bit sad in itself.
(Mine's the one with the cereal-box decoder ring in the pocket.)
Radio hackers set off Dallas emergency sirens at midnight as a prank
Tuesday 11th April 2017 03:42 GMT
Obligatory: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (12" mix). Play loud.
Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies
Mark Shuttleworth says some free software folk are 'deeply anti-social' and 'love to hate'
Monday 10th April 2017 16:33 GMT
Re: Arguments
"It became a political topic as irrational as climate change or gun control..."
Nope, the topics are neither rational nor irrational. They are just - topics.
Now, some of the people debating those (or indeed any other given topics) ...
... and while I'm at it: Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!
Apple’s premium TV plans – the hobby doomed to stay that way
Monday 10th April 2017 14:36 GMT
Re: The second coming?
Well, it's almost easter, so the timing would work out nicely... unless it turns out to be Zombie Steve.
Hey, on second thoughts, that could make a great mini series - late CEO comes back from the grave to haunt his successors that mess up his company. Yeah, I'd watch that.
Sex robots and Radicals set to gatecrash Reg lectures
Boeing 737 turns 50
Monday 10th April 2017 11:10 GMT
Re: Is aviation progress grinding to a halt?
Flying wing isn't for passengers really. Unless you put them into suspended animation (which, admittedly, would do wonders for space efficiency) or give them some really nice drugs, and lots of them.
( "After the barley sugar injections you won't care!" - Verrifast Plaine Co. LTD.)
Unless you're a hardcore roller coaster enthusiast, flying tube makes for a much, much more comfortable ride.
Eric S. Raymond says you probably fit one of eight tech archetypes
Monday 10th April 2017 03:53 GMT
PS: archetypes can be useful, as long as you don't overdo it, if you know what I mean. Few people are that onedimensional, they usually are a combination of types. (Yes, both the article and the source already mention this.) But concentrating on the dominant traits in a limited frame (like work roles) can work.
Personally, as far as archetypes go, I have found the six archetypes handy that Cynthia Heimel postulates in her book "Sex Tips for Girls" (which is a title that is a bit misleading, but probably didn't hurt the book's sales figures).
OLE-y hell. Bug in MSFT Word allows total PC p0wnage
Facebook's 'delightful' AI Clippy the Paperclip creeps into Messenger
Dieting cannibals: At last, a scientist has calculated calories for human body parts
Sunday 9th April 2017 12:15 GMT
Re: NTNON plane crash. "It was our only chance"
Since we're doing acronyms today, MPFC had the topic pretty much covered as well.
Graffiti 'dying out' as kids dump spray cans for Instagram, Twitter etc
Boaty McBoatface sinks in South Atlantic on her maiden deployment
Overcharge customers, underpay the serfs. Who else but Uber (allegedly)
Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...
Reg lecture exposes the radicals intent on remaking your society
Thursday 6th April 2017 17:39 GMT
"What is your point of view?
Are you a hedonist, a relativist, a materialist?
Are you devoted to Camus, to Marx, or to Einstein?
What makes the most sense to you?
Physics, yoga, LSD?
...LSD?!"
Aviation regulator flies in face of UK.gov ban, says electronics should be stowed in cabin. Duh
Outsourcers blamed for cocking up programmes at one in three big firms
Thursday 6th April 2017 15:31 GMT
"Clearly you need to a team of expensive consultants to write a report to confirm this and proffer suitable amelioration strategies."
Actually, you do. Because, IME, management will always rather listen to what an external cunsultant says than to their own expert staff. Even if it's exactly the same.
The beast is back: Reborn ekranoplan heads for the Arctic
Thursday 6th April 2017 11:19 GMT
Should be flat enough if you ride some 5 m above it... however, I recall Hovercraft rides in the 1970ies between Ramsgate and Calais. Pretty fast, so a good option for day trips, but I wouldn't call them comfortable. Very loud, and very bumpy when the waves hit the rubber skirt.
BTW, Dornier also had a few prototypes in the 1970ies / 1980ies for smallish ground effect craft flitting around on Lake Constance, but the project never really took off.
Riddle of cannibal black hole pairs solved ... nearly: Astroboffins explain all to El Reg
Thursday 6th April 2017 11:04 GMT
But, but - that would mean that Anne Elk was wrong and her theory about Brontosauruses is false... surely not?
We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?
Facebook's going to block revenge porn with AI. Or humans. Or both
Thursday 6th April 2017 04:02 GMT
"While we applaud the objective of the program, The Register is concerned about the process."
Quite. What are the odds that in effect they'll just tag the person in the image (as a subset of the collected data that is supposed to remain for internal use only). Tagging as such comes bundled with its own set of problems already, and once something is out there and in FB's heap of data in any way it will never be private again.
Sorry eh? Canadian mounties own up: Yes, we own 10 IMSI-catchers
Declaring war on Powerpoint?
Wednesday 5th April 2017 22:19 GMT
From the linked article: "It seems that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, a voracious reader like Jim Mattis, understands that cogent reading and writing improves thinking, which in turn yields better strategies."
This. Although I'm all for visualising data - my background is in civil engineering, and we draw plans of stuff for very good reasons - you have to have a clear idea what the end result of whatever you are planning to do should be and how to get there. It's all about the thinking, and writing can improve thinking a lot. Which is where language enters into it. Used and maintained properly it's a very powerful tool.
As an aside, IMO that's the real point of Orwell's 1984. The surveillance stuff is essential, no doubt, but also at its core it is essentially trivial. It's got to be there for the system to work, but it doesn't matter by which means it gets done. Shaping the way people are able to think by manipulating the language they use is something else, and much, much more powerful. If you feel that something is wrong but lack the words to formulate it, you are unable to voice any dissent.
Which is why, for example, a stupid, trivial pop song (or a good novel or a play etc etc) can move you deeply - because it formulates exactly what you vaguely feel. Which is also why autocratic regimes try to control the arts very strictly.
ICO fines 11 big charities over dirty data donor-squeezing deeds
Londoners will be trialling driverless cars in pedestrianised area
Everything's fine, says Cylance, as workers given the boot
OK... Red wire or black... *Clickety* You've emailed the schematic? Yes, got it! It's opening. And... WHAT? NO!
McAfee is McAfee again, promises security with kum ba yah
Pong, anyone? How about Pong on a vintage oscilloscope?
Baidu teaches AI 'baby' bots English by ordering them around a maze
It's not just Elon building bridges to the brain: The Internet of Things is coming to a head
Goodbye, cruel world! NASA's Cassini preps for kamikaze Saturn dive
Wednesday 5th April 2017 15:50 GMT
Re: First / Second / Third law
Thing is - the three laws are a (brilliant) plot device that only work in conjunction with another neat plot device: the positronic brain.
That being said, Victory Unintentional is one of the best stories ever.
Manchester pulls £750 public crucifixion offer
Wednesday 5th April 2017 14:32 GMT
Alternatives
Would £750 buy you a ticket to the Phillipines? They do that sort of thing there every Good Friday.
Webcam sex blackmailer faces extradition to Canada to stand trial for bullied teen's suicide
Wednesday 5th April 2017 10:55 GMT
This. It's easy to forget this as a technical person* , but a lot of people out there have no clue about the dangers they are facing. I wonder how long it took people to learn that it's a good idea to lock your doors and close your windows when going out, way back when.
* By which I do not want to say that I'm technically a person, I'm not an "AI" chatbot.
Mac Pro update: Apple promises another pricey thing it will no doubt abandon after a year
Startup remotely 'bricks' grumpy bloke's IoT car garage door – then hits reverse gear
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