Obligatory: Perry's Perspectives
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UK ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers
HPE buying SimpliVity is like a 'unicorn barbecue' – HCI boss man
Trump's FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption's getting backdoored
After promising Donald Trump jobs will come home, IBM swings axe
Using LinkedIn will land you a shiny new job – like, er, CTO of Microsoft
Wednesday 25th January 2017 06:17 GMT
And so it begins. Generation Kevin is starting to take over. As it has been foretold.
US govt can't stop Microsoft taking its Irish email seizure fight to the Supreme Court
'It will go wrong. There's no question of time... on safety or security side'
2014: El Reg booze lab proves Bluetooth breathalyzers are crap. 2017: US govt agrees
Biz claims it's reverse-engineered encrypted drone commands
How Lexmark's patent fight to crush an ink reseller will affect us all
Tuesday 24th January 2017 21:44 GMT
Re: Um...so Lexmark's long term plan...
So you are the guy behind this:
We've found a ‘vaccine’ for fake news. Wait! No, we really are Cambridge researchers
Oh, the things Vim could teach Silicon Valley's code slingers
Machine-learning boffins 'summon demons' in AI to find exploitable bugs
Shocked, I tell you. BT to write off £530m over 'improper' Italian accounts practices
Tuesday 24th January 2017 12:09 GMT
Given that the Italians pretty much invented modern accounting during the renaissance...
Anyway, could be due to different rules of accounting. If so, not so much illegal practices by the subsidiary, but a big blunder by the parent company. (It is BT after all.)
Example: when Mercedes Benz got ready to morph into DaimlerChrysler and to get listed at the NY stock exchange, they published two financial statements in parallel for that year; one drafted as per the German rules of valuation, one drafted as per the US rules. Version one: 2 Bn DEM profit. Version two: 0.5 Bn USD loss. No, accounting is not like engineering.
"Next week on show and tell: California divorce law - how to hide your assets." -- (Christopher) Titus
Nuclear power station sensors are literally shouting their readings at each other
Tuesday 24th January 2017 11:41 GMT
1) It's not strictly necessary to have "line-of-sight between sensor [sic] and receiver" if there are adequade surfaces to reflect the IR beam. I used to have an IR sender-receiver contraption to plug into the centronic ports in my PC and my printer that actually worked quite well. (Still have it boxed up somewhere in fact, if somebody is interested?)
2) In theory, could I release trained bats from my secret underground lair to mess up the Chirp systems with their ultrasound shrieks?
Boffins explain why it takes your Wi-Fi so long to connect
ZuckerChan cash dump seals first biz gobble: A research paper slurper
It's official: Ejit – sorry – Ajit Pai is new FCC boss (he's the one who hates network neutrality)
VXers gift their mates an Android bank-raiding app's source code
Furby Rickroll demo: What fresh hell is this?
IBM stuffs visualization tech into its bulging, uh, security portfolio
Lloyds Bank outage: DDoS is prime suspect
Head of GCHQ Robert Hannigan steps down for 'personal reasons'
Government to sling extra £4.7bn at R&D in bid to Brexit-proof Britain
Mozilla wants infosec activism to be the next green movement
Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures
Sunday 22nd January 2017 12:47 GMT
Re: HARRY LIME
Harry Lime didn't just get the thing about the cuckoo clocks wrong (they are from the Black Forest) - the Swiss had a couple of wars in ther time, the last being the civil war of 1847. Which, as far as wars go, was comparatively polite.
Nadella calls for AI sector to move beyond 'worshipping' a handful of companies
Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers
El Reg drills into chatbot hype: The AIs that want to be your web butlers
Saturday 21st January 2017 11:32 GMT
Re: Two Ronnies
Just the one Ronnie, but yeah, it will be some time until any kind of software can handle something like Four Candles.
You know how online shops love to keep tabs on you? Now it's coming to the offline world
Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher
Valley techies to protest outside Palantir – Trump adviser's creepy citizen database biz
IBM, Microsoft, US Govt all to blame for globalisation backlash: Jack Ma
Lord of the Dance set to deliver high kicks at Trump’s big ball
Korean boffins vow 1,000km-an-hour supertrain
My hole is a private thing – see for yourself
Friday 20th January 2017 16:21 GMT
Re: Optional
IIRC, one of the albums by Throbbing Gristle came with a set of stickers that said "Assume This Phone Is Tapped".
Friday 20th January 2017 16:15 GMT
I'm more into National Cream Tea Day myself.
Anyway, someone should make a Prog Rock version of Paint Your Wagon, that'd be quite enjoyable.
Or maybe Nick Cave could do a cover version of Wand'rin' Star.
Have a nice weekend, everybody, I'm off for the pub.
Elementary, my dear IBM: When will Watson make money?
Toshiba may sell silicon biz to contain fallout of nuke plant problems
Well, that sucks: China's Tencent so sorry after vid emerges of faux blowjob office game
Boffins link ALIEN STRUCTURE ON VENUS to Solar System's biggest ever grav wave
RIP Eugene Cernan: Last man on the Moon dies aged 82
Tuesday 17th January 2017 16:26 GMT
Re: It's called compassion
Compassion may or may not enter into it - he's passed on. This astronaut is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. Soon, he'll be pushing up the daisies. His metabolic processes are now history. He's off the twig. He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN EX-ASTRONAUT!
Yes, it's sad. But he made it through a shedload of stuff that just as well might have killed him 50 or 60 years ago. He drove a smeggin' car on the smeggin' moon! He joined a very, very exclusive club and he put in the work to do it. He achieved a lot, and by all accounts he did it without turning into an asshole. He died an old man, after a long and interesting life, surrounded by family and friends. Trust me, this is as good as it gets. I raise my glass to salute him.
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