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Microsoft: Yes, we agree that Irish email dispute is moot... now what's this new warrant about?

Wednesday 4th April 2018 16:00 GMT Ryan 7

Re: US legal position

MS (USA): Hand over the data.

MS (Ireland): No.

MS (USA): You're fired.

EU employment law: No.

MS (USA), to Mr. FBI: Suggestions?

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Sacked saleswoman told to pay Intel £45k after losing discrim case

Wednesday 7th March 2018 12:57 GMT Ryan 7

Re: Legal Costs

Akash Nawbatt QC probably does cost that much, yeah.

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Wednesday 7th March 2018 12:56 GMT Ryan 7

People like Guiney misusing the issue of gender discrimination with false claims is why genuine cases get discredited.

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Brit semiconductor tech ended up in Chinese naval railgun – report

Monday 5th March 2018 17:08 GMT Ryan 7

IGBTs are used to power every modern electric train, from any number of different countries.

They're not a massive British secret innovation, and they have uses all over the world.

The Times article seems like a lot of hot air.

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Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

Wednesday 3rd January 2018 15:59 GMT Ryan 7

Re: POC announced

Specifically, https://twitter.com/brainsmoke/status/948564783527276544

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Wednesday 3rd January 2018 15:47 GMT Ryan 7

Re: Old skool....

They're affected too...

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That was fast... unlike old iPhones: Apple sued for slowing down mobes

Friday 22nd December 2017 12:55 GMT Ryan 7

It's clearly a tool to encourage upgrading

Why else would they have waited before rolling it out to the newer iPhone 7?

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How fast is a piece of string? Boffin shoots ADSL signal down twine

Wednesday 13th December 2017 12:56 GMT Ryan 7

Only if you're 2 metres from the exchange.

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Official US govt Twitter accounts caught tweeting in Russian, now mysteriously axed

Tuesday 7th November 2017 13:58 GMT Ryan 7

"Littman considers it curious...

... that anyone would want a screen name like @ProjectBlueBtn that had been previously associated with a government agency."

Because anything with a PageRank has advertising value, duh.

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OK, we admit it. Under the hood, the iPhone X is a feat of engineering

Friday 3rd November 2017 14:10 GMT Ryan 7

How, though?

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Friday 3rd November 2017 13:38 GMT Ryan 7

Disappointing lack of detail here — I still have zero clue exactly what SLP is or why stacking it is so damn great.

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NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch

Thursday 28th September 2017 12:22 GMT Ryan 7

Re: "how hard can it be..."

Given that the login is already obfuscated by accepting random characters in place of the full string, I can fully imagine this being a separate locked-down system that just passes an authenticated pass/fail flag back to the 'main' server.

Agree that PR need stringing out for such a blatant attempt for a cover-up.

"I saw the problem myself"

"No you didn't"

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Nokia's comeback is on: The flagship 8 emerges

Friday 18th August 2017 12:58 GMT Ryan 7

As a Lumia 920 & 930 owner... wireless charging can jump off a bridge.

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Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond

Tuesday 27th June 2017 16:23 GMT Ryan 7

Re: The next stage

Mathematically impossible.

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Tuesday 27th June 2017 15:57 GMT Ryan 7

Re: That's it

Not going to work, since by default you still have \\hostname shares both on your machine, and available to you.

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Ericsson and Kodiak in Europe WALKIE-TALKIE-style push-to-talk push

Tuesday 18th February 2014 18:46 GMT Ryan 7

Re: GSM-R

It's also mandatory equipment for the new generation of in-cab signalling in ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System). 20 years from now we'll be finishing ripping out all the old traffic lights (and all the thievable copper cabling) on the railways, because all the trains will just be talking to each other over GSM-R backhaul instead.

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El Reg's contraptions confessional no.2: Tablet PC, CRT screen and more

Saturday 7th December 2013 13:28 GMT Ryan 7

Re: Model M

Cherry switches may well be mechanical, but they're shitty plastic bendy mechanical — not the glorious buckling spring.

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Bitcoin value breaks $1,000 barrier in FRENZIED HYPEGASM

Wednesday 27th November 2013 23:39 GMT Ryan 7

"Fundamental questions remain about what a virtual currency actually is"

All currency is virtual.

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Flippin' heck! Magnetic poles of Sun are gyrating: What Earth needs to know

Tuesday 12th November 2013 00:22 GMT Ryan 7

Of course it can't happen overnight...

"night" of course being "when the sun is behind that big rock".

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Air mattress blast blows German man across room

Tuesday 27th August 2013 10:19 GMT Ryan 7

How do you become an expert in matress explosions?

... ooooohhh.

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Yahoo! starts $1.99 'watch list' to recycle old usernames

Tuesday 27th August 2013 00:31 GMT Ryan 7

What's a "Yahoo!"?

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YouTube app returns to Windows Phone

Thursday 15th August 2013 14:39 GMT Ryan 7

The banned May 2013 version, which was still working earlier this week, is now kaput.

Google probably wanted to revoke the banned version's key, thinking that now there will be less bad PR because of an adequate replacement — but silly Microsoft reused the key in the new version.

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Brit Skylon spaceplane moves closer to lift-off

Thursday 8th August 2013 14:06 GMT Ryan 7

Re: AC@14:07

F1 teams can *afford* a lot more than they're allowed to spend by the racing rules.

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Google rolls its eyes, gives Windows Phones five more months to sync

Friday 2nd August 2013 10:15 GMT Ryan 7

"Don't be evil"

If they really subscribed to that sentiment, Google would create a Gmail app for WP8.

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WikiLeaker Bradley Manning found not guilty of 'aiding the enemy'

Tuesday 30th July 2013 20:01 GMT Ryan 7

His plea bargains, based on that rap sheet

add up to a total maximum of 20 years.

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Russia's post-Snowden spooks have not reverted to type

Tuesday 30th July 2013 10:02 GMT Ryan 7

Re: Perhaps it's just me

No, you'll just get Tom Cruise abseiling in through the air vent.

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SIM crypto cracked by a single text, mobes stuffed with spyware

Monday 22nd July 2013 10:37 GMT Ryan 7

Surely this is as simple as not delivering these messages to any handsets

Just put a filter on the exchanges, job's a good'un. Owait, femtocells.

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UK parliament presses for pardon for Alan Turing

Monday 22nd July 2013 10:33 GMT Ryan 7

Lets apologise for

Windows ME, Vista, and 8.

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Texas teen jailed for four months over sarcastic Facebook comment

Monday 8th July 2013 20:57 GMT Ryan 7

Re: Divided

Get over yourself, find a sense of humour, and realise that words on a screen really aren't worth all this fuss.

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Firefox OS starts third-place race against Windows Phone

Monday 1st July 2013 21:51 GMT Ryan 7

The more I think about it,

the more I believe it would be a good idea for Mozilla and Microsoft to team up and go to war against Apple and Google.

Still have IE and Firefox separate, but have Microsoft's financial muscle behind a friendly open-source organisation and switch IE's rendering engine to Gecko from Trident. It'll take that sort of opposition to prevent Webkit from Borg-ing the entire web.

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