Time for some pedantery... IIRC, CCC campaigned against the use of biometrics in combination with ID cards, in other words ID cards including finger prints - not ID cards per se. Germany has had ID cards 'since always', just like most of the rest of continental europe.
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Biometrics not a magic infosec bullet for web banking, warns GCHQ bloke
Cyberthreat: Learning to live with the risk
Sunday 20th March 2016 22:36 GMT
Re: Silence can be extraordinarily revealing and terrifying .....
Nope, just really busy with having IRL fun over the weekend. Besides, the article is such a compilation of the obvious and the well known that I simply could not be asked to comment on it.
To paraphrase DNA, the internet has become truely a foreign country - they do things exactly the same. Just like our ancestors in the neolithicum we need to be careful and watch out for the ravenous beasts with claws and fangs.
Microsoft will rest its jackboot on Windows 7, 8.1's throat on new Intel CPUs in 2018 – not 2017
A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech
Apple engineers rebel, refuse to work on iOS amid FBI iPhone battle
Flying Scotsman attacked by drone
Saturday 19th March 2016 22:55 GMT
Re: Clearly impossible
*sigh* You messed up the 'sense of humour' settings again, didn't you?
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” - Terry Pratchett (Mort)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)
Thursday 17th March 2016 15:41 GMT
Re: Police have a good description…
That could just as well describe the official stalker of one of the high-profile train spotters, or a camel spotter.
Microsoft's equality and diversity: Skimpy schoolgirls dancing for nerds at an Xbox party
Saturday 19th March 2016 08:50 GMT
"CEO Satya Nadella was forced to apologize last year when he told attendees at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event that women in the industry should trust karma when it came to getting pay equality rather than demanding fair pay."
Maybe he should put his trust in karma that people will want to switch to Windows 10 on their own accord instead of ramming it down their throats.
Hand in glove: Google and the US State Dept
Astronaut trio blast off to space station with ... er, rearview mirror toy?
Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can’t even spel propperlie
HERE: We're still, er... HERE
Friday 18th March 2016 21:56 GMT
Re: Alternatives?
I run HERE on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A, both in the car and on the motorbike*, works just fine and I enyoy the big display. Tried it out just for fun, but liked it better than the Garmin Quest I have.
*It fits neatly in the pouch intended for maps on top of the tank bag**. It's also in an Otterbox.
**Is that the right word? PONS online kinda let me down on this one.
Ben Nevis embiggened by a metre
Domino's trials trundling four-wheeled pizza delivery bot
Top rocket exec quits after telling the truth about SpaceX price war
Symantec warns of serious security holes – in Symantec security kit
New Indiana Jones movie
One in five PCs will be a tablet with detachable keyboard by 2020
Friday 18th March 2016 10:39 GMT
Re: Incoming rant
"...might as well be trying to build a helicopter that also doubles as a four wheeler, a steamship and a fishing rod..."
Like this? IMDB entry / Episode 1
Countdown to beer o'clock starting now... have a nice weekend everyone!
HTTPS is not enough: Boffins fingerprint user environments without cracking crypto
IBM wants to harden your 'data centre on wheels'. Yes, your car
Apps that 'listen in' to your mobile get slapped by US watchdog
Brits seek rousing name for polar research vessel
Mighty Soyuz stands proud at Baikonur
Jump aboard our load balancing Maglev, Google tells devs
Hackers demo prototype security scanner that thinks like a human
Big data boffins crunch GPS traces, find altruistic route planning is good for everyone
Silicon photonics boosted with UK fabrication research
Thursday 17th March 2016 12:43 GMT
Re: 10 Years only?
So you wouldn't put it on a space probe. Plenty of other applications where 10 years is just fine. And 10 years ist just for starters anyway.
The bigger question is, will this actually lead to some widget or other that will be produced in the UK?
(Pro tip: bulid something looking really cool for the minister to stand in front of. Doesn't really have to be related that close to the actual product. Or claim that it could be weaponized, maybe. Remember: "Funding makes this thing go up. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.")
Woz: World-changers to Apple Watches, why pay for an overpriced band?
Thursday 17th March 2016 11:30 GMT
Re: Who actually wears a watch anymore, and why?
I don't. There are so many clocks around me* AND my daily life doesn't depend on to-the-minute scheduling. Also, after I while you develop (or possible rather re-develop) a feeling for time. At least I did. I usually 'know' the time, accuracy is around 15-20 minutes. give ot take.
About that other thing: no surprise there - why would you pretend to be Dick Tracy when you are jake?
* BTW old cheap POS tablets make wonderful clocks, especially if you run a Nixie tube clock simulator
NASA celebrates 50-year anniversary of first spaceship docking in orbit
Thursday 17th March 2016 08:31 GMT
Re: OK, I'm a pedant
Yes, I see what you did there - you missed the opportunity to use superfluous, unnecessary, bombastic, de trop, diffuse, extra, extravagant, inessential, inordinate, iterating, long-winded, loquacious, oratorical, padded, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, reiterating, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus, unwanted, verbose or wordy.
See me after class.
Thursday 17th March 2016 08:22 GMT
Re: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous docking
No biggie. Not only did they come in peace and for all mankind - they also brought duct tape and biros.
As long as you have a swiss army knife, some duct tape, a can of WD-40 and a handful of cable ties you can make it home somehow.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140725-the-five-greatest-space-hacks
http://space.gizmodo.com/astronauts-have-done-so-so-much-with-duct-tape-and-ele-1711503831
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/NASA/
As to politics and the funding of space programs - it was true then and it is true now: wars are bloody expensive and leave little in the budget for constructive things.
As to the hopes we had for the year 2000: I didn't get a jet pack or a trip to the moon - I got one of those silly little kickboards.
"The future is now, but it's all going wrong..." - The The
Apple tells iPhone court 'the Founders would be appalled' by Feds
Oops! Microsoft says its 'Bitcoin ban' was a bug, not a feature
Want to kick butts? Go cold turkey
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