Posts by Bonzo_red

Cambridge Analytica

Zero investigations? I would call the Information Commissioner's report an investigation even if it came to the conclusion they were not involved.

Re: Reddit was started in 2005

At a guess the tech concerned is some form of video codec which wasn't around in 2005.

Re: Such a stupid system

Has Masimo offered to license the patents or would they rather sell their own blood-monitoring smart watches in greater numbers?

The tariffs were brought in because Uncle Sam refused to let cars from the EU have the same rebates as US built cars - they were intended to catch Teslas but ended up hitting domestic industry.

That is a generalized summary of the patent, not the claimed scope of protection, which reads, for example, "a system for processing information, the system comprising: a memory configured to hold data; at least two processors, each configured to perform operations, and to generate an access request when one of the operations involves access to the data, wherein each access request includes an indication of whether or not this occurrence of the access request is to be performed in a sequential order among other occurrences of the access request and, if so, an indication of a specified order; and a controller configured to receive the access requests from each of the processors, to determine a performance order for the access requests, and to provide the access requests to the memory in the performance order, wherein the performance order conforms to the specified order when the access requests indicate the specified order."

Re: Titles not necessarily constant

Wales was not a nation though, it was a principality, and the English took it over only 65 years after Llywelyn and his friends decided to call it theirs.

Re: Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back

Strategic gas storage? You mean the two weeks' storage? Hardly strategic compared with Germany's 2 months' but then Germany doesn't have much North Sea gas. The UK's storage was only ever there to smooth out the supply/demand differences.

Re: This fab is going to require electricity, I assume.

Electricity is one problem but a lack of water supplies is going to be an even bigger one. Elon's Tesla plant had problems because the environmentalists considered it would be extracting too much ground water and this fab is going to need a lot more than Tesla.

Re: Who do I trust?

Can I trust that an unistall has removed all the software without leaving a nasty package or two?

Re: The EU?

There is also the concern that the merger will have a negative aspect for customers in the EU.

Re: Carlill vs. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.

I wonder how they proved an influenza infection back in those days - PCR testing was not available, I believe.

Re: I thoroughly recommend...

Is the Tesla one on sale yet?

Be thankful that the article included K and °C to make it understandable in the light o the use of "colored" and "sulfur".

Lots of Patents

The numbering system doesn't mean there are ten million patents to negotiate. US patent number 1 was issued in 1790, for example.

Re: Launching

Scolpaig?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/19/shetland_space_centre/

With the shares now at around $220, I hope you didn't find a way.

Re: You have nothing to Fear

Try convincing the family of the woman who died because the Dusseldorf University hospital had been compromised. She had to be taken to another hospital as a result and arrived too late to save here life.

Re: State Aid? Trump??!

"Vote early, vote often" as the saying goes. Thinking about it, that could be Trump's next slogan.

Re: "We rather regard any resort to the privilege against self-incrimination as a black mark."

Or in other words, if you use the time between arrest and trial to dream up some cock and bull story, the courts are entitled to view this with suspicion.

Re: The DeathStar analogy is apt...

Are his tweets not poetry to you?

While his feathers may have been ruffled, at least he wasn't being fleeced.

Re: He is a pedo ...

I think you are missing an "Actively" there.

I think just "wankers" is better.

Re: Simple updates to the system

From the screens I have seen, it looks like the software was written in the era of MS-DOS.

My way

Popped up on my Huawei as well.

Nah, just kidding.

Re: Performance? Art?

Now if he were to get together with a few mates and manage to map out a traffic jam in the shape of Homer Simpson, that would be art.

Bugs

The bugs are listed in an annex to the decision:

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.image2.pdf

Re: cognitive skills

I guess the 2WW ships sunk at Bikini Atoll are not too valuable though.

Re: It's quite clear there will be an ongoing battle on who will control 5G and other networks

Will the EU ban telecommunications with the Faroe Islands until they remove all Huawei equipment, similar to the mackerel ban of 2013?