* Posts by Dan 55

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Google HQ evacuated

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Googleplex evacuated in record time

Sources close to the matter say Google management decided to drop support for the building and gave the customary notice period to users. They stressed that this was usual company procedure and nothing for to be worried about.

How Remix's Android will eat the world

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Re: Thinkpad... ...ARM apps

Are they really ARM apps? Most are written in Java without any native code.

If Real Racing 3 or similar works then that would be more impressive.

GCHQ is having problems meeting Osborne's 2020 recruitment target

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Re: Bottom line: It's a civil service job.

You mean you don't even get to work at Universal Exports any more?

The threat of not having a work history must be a good way to retain people.

Academics claim Google Android two-factor authentication is breakable

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1. 99.99999%* of gmail users browse the web while logged in. Hopefully you'll not fall foul of a XSS attack or malware.

2. Android apps can autorun.

* FACT.

Field technicians want to grab my tool and probe my things

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Re: An innocent explanation

You were imaging a future in which the IoT repair lady cometh? Perhaps they'll make a series of films about that in ten years time.

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I see what you did there.

TV repair men... got sick of technology repeatedly ruining their careers and ended up retraining as licensed taxi drivers.

As well as enough innuendos for Matron and Dr Tinkle to go at it for half a Carry On film.

GDS has no real strategy for £450m budget pot, internal plan reveals

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Twas ever thus

If you allocate the budget before the requirements are set, what's going to happen?

Continuous Lifecycle: Just ten conference tickets left

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Mushroom

If they give them to me, I'll set fire to them myself.

Google adds Cloud Test Lab integration to new Android Studio 2.0

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Their own devices

Is that all? No selection of devices from other manufacturers?

FBI Director defends iPhone 5C unlock tool that's obviously going to leak into wrong hands

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So it's Mossad then?

Windows 10 with Ubuntu now in public preview

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Re: So problems with pocesses and filesystems

I don't see why it's so specialised, top is just an interactive ps. Hence the question as to if it's just top or if everything's affected, including, say, ps.

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So problems with pocesses and filesystems

... nothing important then.

Is this a problem with userland or the Linux 'kernel'?

I.e. does it need a specially written version of top or would anything that wants a list of processes not work properly?

Google's dream city isn't a new idea

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Re: Damit

I was going to go for High Rise...

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Re: How long...

They'll get tired in about a year and a half, if Revolv is anything to go by.

"As of May 2036, your house will no longer be available. The front door won't open and utilities won't work.

"Our 10 year warranty against defects in materials or workmanship has expired.

"Please feel free to try another Google product, MegaCity One."

Nest's bricking of Revolv serves as wake-up call to industry

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Re: $300?

Speaking about games consoles, it's not as if updates haven't removed features (PS3 Linux) and online services and game servers haven't been closed down. Smart TVs are another fine example of a thing slowly lobotomizing itself as time passes.

People just complained a bit then shrugged and government consumer organisations did nothing so I suppose Google thought they could get away with it too.

They might still be able to. It's very doubtful that IoT companies will supply server-side code in an easily installable package for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Nest kills Revolv

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Google's attention deficit disorder

This is what happens when it affects real things, not just services like Reader.

Like Nest maintaining another API for a product which they took over was going to present an unacceptable hit to their bottom line. Making customers beg for a refund or a Nest equivalent is also pretty bad. All they've done is drag their name through the mud and make people want to buy Apple's version, when it finally comes out.

Iceland prime minister falls on sword over Panama Papers email leak

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Re: Never been accused or charged

If the assets in Panama weren't declared in the country where they are tax resident and in any declaration of interests for Parliament or a company then it is material.

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Re: Didn't realize there were more data dumps to come

If this is what you maintain then Trump's name would be all over it, but it isn't.

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Re: A bunch of politicians lied?

They've been paid back.

What's rather more annoying is that Prudence used anti-terrorism legislation to seize assets in the first place.

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Re: A bunch of politicians lied?

I'm shocked too... a politician that resigns, and it's a PM too.

Once again Iceland shows the way... maybe Cameron could follow his example.

Contactless payments come to in-flight entertainment units

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Swipe your membership card to activate free in-flight WiFi

Yes, I can see that happening. Of course airlines will set up all this NFC stuff with WiFi logins and so on just to let you have what you've probably already got. Makes perfect sense.

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Re: Gotcha

Even better, they'd have to pay you for improving the magazine.

Security bods disclose lock bypass bug in iOS

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Re: Apparently it is fixed

Should they even be able to do that in a secure design?

What happens if you put it in airplane mode?

What's all this? Welcome to The Register's News Bytes

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Re: Can I switch them off as they mess up the front page layout....?

At last, El Reg have found a way to stop us moaning about the new design.

Surprise! Magic Kinder app could let hackers send vids to your kids

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Re: I inadvertantly ate a Kinder easter egg last week

Unfortunately now that Cadbury's tastes like Hershey's, there's precious little real stuff left.

Mobe and Wi-Fi firms flog your location data to commercial firms, claim reports

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Yet the Opt Me Out site says that you have to opt out of tracking for Vodafone, not opt in.

Call 191 or 03333 040 191 to opt out of marketing including location based marketing and text OPT OUT to 68808 to be removed from their location analytics only

Somebody's wrong somewhere, and it's probably not the Opt Me Out site.

AI, VR, bots and YOU? A survivor's guide to The Future™

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Re: Am I the only one....

The first rule is don't connect them to the Internet, obviously MS know better.

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Wrong kind of photo

Try searching for "weird image" or something, upload some of the results, and see what it says. It's rather poor at identifying photos.

Brexit: Leaving the EU could trigger UK science patent law rejig

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Re: Brexit bites

If there's a sector known for not suffering globally I'd have thought it would be "big pharma". It's everywhere, like a disease...

UK Home Office seeks secret settlements over unlawful DNA retention

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They do care, which is why they really don't want a sentence against them in court.

Automic lets big firms play with DevOps in private sandbox

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Re: Hmmmm

The article doesn't even bother to ask if your clients would want to upload their crown jewels to "the cloud", or even be legally able to.

(We need an "old man yelling at cloud" icon.)

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DevOps buffer overflow?

Three million satellite snaps now free for all

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Re: Government UI

The data and use cases are pretty different. Even so, if you'd have said this a few years back when Google Maps' UI wasn't bollocks you might have had a point. However now it is.

Android gets larger-than-usual patch bundle as researchers get to work

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Re: Original Nexus 7 tablet is crap...

CyanogenOS phones seem to be regularly patched, although at the moment my Storm is at 1st January 2016. Hopefully that means another patch is around the corner, not that that's the end of that.

Bloaty banking app? There's a good chance it was written in Britain

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Re: It is literally like this

I had a problem so I thought to use Java... Now I've got a problemFactory.

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I don't know if you're referring to using IBAN only in the back office or customer facing too, but if you're referring to customer facing, banks in Spain still happily accept the old format two years on.

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Er, every UK bank account does have a corresponding IBAN.

Also, how did you think other countries did it? They put together their own bank numbers, branch numbers, account numbers, and so on to get the IBAN. Just like the UK.

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They apparently appear to be under the impression that the more stacks the better. They are also comparing one country with the rest of a continent.

I think this one can be safely filed in the round filing cabinet.

April Fool decries Blighty's dodecaquid

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Re: "12-sided muppet"

It's about as thinly-disguised as an obese Coco the Clown.

Your pointy-haired boss 'bought a cloud' with his credit card. Now what?

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"IT-by-magazine slowly becomes the consensus of the uninformed"

I know... Have you seen the avalanche of articles pushing DevOps recently?

FreeBSD 10.3 lands

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Re: Compatibility Layer

When Red Hat catches a cold, everyone sneezes.

Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry

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Re: That hockey puck mouse

I've never known any mouse from Apple after the turnaround (puck, mighty, magic) to be actually usable. Is it so difficult to bundle something that works and lasts like a cheapy Logitech?

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Re: Newton

Worth noting that Apple killed Power PC in 2006 but it seems much earlier in the article. Jobs returned in 1997 so he took a while to get round to it.

Microsoft cracks open Visual Studio to Linux C++ coders

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Re: "Linux has had a fully functional development environment since day-1."?

If you're wondering around any medium or large-size project with vi, emacs, or ed then that way lies madness. You need to be able follow tags, get declarations, get call hierarchies, and so on. Split screen editors, compiler errors taking you to the right file in the editor, debugging using the editor windows, and SVN browsers are also extremely useful. That is why people like using IDEs.

Also, are people actually compiling on the Pi instead of using cross gcc?

Tesla books over $8bn in overnight sales claims Elon Musk

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Re: Delivery dates for innovative products that haven't gone into production yet

Allow 28 months for delivery?

Is Microsoft's chatty bot platform just Clippy Mark 2?

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Meh

It's not Clippy/Cortana

Plugins for different chat sources, works with Exchange, an API, and so on but you can't get it do something for you, it just parrots back words. In short, it's an over-engineered Eliza which is a 50 year old program. Not exactly cutting edge.

Google tried to be funny, cocked it up, everyone thought it was a bug

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Re: Prior Art IP

Here's a better quality version.

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Especially the black hole where the replies go.

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Re: I am angry

It sometimes sent this even if you used the normal send button. Probably brought to you by the same people who did Android's UI.

Myself, I think I'll stick with Thunderbird and K9 Mail.