Re: So, plays tunes you own, alarm clocks stuff you set and listens to everything you say 24/7
Sounds like you're describing a pebble time without the speaker.
Posts by James 51
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The Google Home Mini: Great, right up until you want to smash it in fury
Storms blow away 2017 Solar Challenge field
Monday 16th October 2017 07:11 GMT
The reason why they chose the middle of Oz to drive through was to avoid this stuff and I say this to every idiot who laughs at solar powered cars today. Compare what the Wright brothers flew in to a Spitfire or a modern jet. We'll never get solar there if we don't travel the pot hole filled path that leads there.
Dear America, you can't steal a personality: GDPR godfather talks privacy with El Reg
Ex-Autonomy CFO begs court to toss out US fraud allegations
Wednesday 11th October 2017 13:42 GMT
Re: Extradition
If someone hacked DOD computers in the US and they were in the UK at the time I could see the connection to the US and why the DOD might want the trial there. On the other hand the person was in the UK when they committed the crime so I would argue they should be tried in UK courts and to avoid double jeopardy being spread across jurisdictions, not handed over if the UK finds no case to answer. That is not what happened in this case. No one directly involved in the sale was in the US and US companies weren’t directly involved (i.e. autonomy wasn’t US owned and it wasn’t selling it to a US based company). If the people who owned autonomy committed a crime, they did so in the UK.
Wednesday 11th October 2017 08:43 GMT
I remember reading an article a few years ago and the ghist of it was Autonomy set their books up the way UK based companies normally do and HP read them as if they were setup the US way. This lead to HP over paying but that the management in HP weren't up to scratch in other ways too. From what little I know it does look like a company trying to sue their way to victory when they failed in the market but the UK or the EU courts should be handling this. HP just want it in the states cause they think the process will be tilted in their favour.
Apple's iPhone X won't experience the joy of 6...
Video games used to be an escape. Now not even they are safe from ads
Monday 9th October 2017 11:46 GMT
A survey for game engine developer Unity Industries found that 62 per cent of gamers would regularly interact with ads for an in-game reward
I had a zombie game on my phone. Some times you were forced to watch ads but it was quicker to quit the game and reload than waiting for the ads to end. Other times, you could choose to watch an ad and get in game rewards. What I'd do is hit the watch ad button, turn the phone face down and then a minute later I'd rinse and repeat. Got a lot of rewards and watched not a single ad.
AMD comes out swinging, says: We're the Buster Douglas of the tech industry!
Hollywood has savaged enough sci-fi classics – let's hope Dick would dig Blade Runner 2049
Microsoft shows off Windows 10 Second Li, er, Mixed Reality
Wednesday 4th October 2017 08:46 GMT
I can see the uses of AR in an office. I could have lots of floating windows with consoles, code, contents of stacks and debuggers and other stuff just there. All the cool interfaces I saw in university many moons ago might actually make it out of the lab. VR is just too anti-social for the office or even at home if you have other people who expect to be able to interact with you. However there is no getting around the fact that the keyboard is still by far the best way to enter large volumes of text into a computer. Even if voice recognition was 100% can you imagine writing large amounts of code that way?
White House plan to nuke social security numbers is backed by Equifax's ex-top boss
Wednesday 4th October 2017 08:53 GMT
This topic has been around for a long time. I can't remember the article now (probably on the BBC given this quote) but an expert said that the situation in the UK wasn't as bad as the US as companies did not use NI numbers as an ID field, therefore it was less useful for collating data from various organisations/hacked databases. Like biometrics though these are IDs and should never be passwords.
Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?
Tuesday 3rd October 2017 10:52 GMT
Re: Techies will continue to sneer.
The TSA (aka the theif support agency) beat her to that a long time ago:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/18/keysforge_will_give_you_printable_key_blueprints_using_a_photo_of_a_lock/
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-luggage-keys-leaked-photos/
Bad news! Astroboffins find the stuff of life in space for the first time
Brit prosecutors fling almost a million quid at anti-drone'n'phone ideas
Musk: Come ride my Big F**king Rocket to Mars
Nokia updates classic comeback mobe 3310
Helium's for balloons and squeaky voices, not this 10TB Toshiba beast
Google's pay-to-play 'remedy' is warming Eurocrats' hearts
Smartphone SatNavs to get centimetre-perfect GNSS receivers in 2018
UK Home Office re-bans cheap call gateways because 'terrorism'
Tuesday 26th September 2017 14:44 GMT 
"This direction is necessary to ensure that those charged with keeping families and communities safe have access to relevant and accurate information when they need it and when they have the appropriate authorisations in order to do their job."
So people who are single and live in the middle of nowhere are on their own then?
AI in Medicine? It's back to the future, Dr Watson
Monday 25th September 2017 11:00 GMT 
If Drs feel threatened by the system what's their motivation to use it? If they disagree what will happen in court if something goes wrong? Will the people producing the system sue critics or gag people who buy their stuff? In the long run I can see this being a big help (as long as it's fast, accurate and easy to use) but we are a long way off on all three points.
If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck
Monday 25th September 2017 08:52 GMT
The fairphone 2 got 10/10 on iFixit tear down so you can easily replace any broken component, swap out batteries etc etc. They avoid conflict materials which drives their costs up and the volume sold means they don't get the discounts that big manufactures get. There's a number of OSs that can be installed too.
Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned
Falling apart at the seamless: Inside Apple's LTE Watch fiasco
GNOME Foundation backs 'freedom-oriented' smartphone
Manchester plod still running 1,500 Windows XP machines
BoJo, don't misuse stats then blurt disclaimers when you get rumbled
Tuesday 19th September 2017 13:30 GMT
Actually AC, as a sovereign nation with control over the money supply this is exactly what the UK has. What would happen if we used it is another story. Of course if companies like Google and Amazon started paying tax at the rates they'd be paying if they were based in the UK and not in magic money island just off the shore of far, far away the funding gap would be much smaller.
Tuesday 19th September 2017 11:19 GMT 
The only thing that Gove ever did that I was greatful for was stabbing Bojo in the front and the back at the same time. I know it's hard to believe but he would be even worse as PM than May is. The problem with lying your way to the top is that sooner or later you encounter a situation were the lies make things worse and he won't be able to change tac when that happens.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+
Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims
UK attorney general plans crackdown on 'trial by social media'
DoJ: Look! Google is giving up overseas data for warrants outside Second Circuit
Friday 15th September 2017 14:16 GMT 
You would hope the arguement 'We intimidated these people into breaking the law for us, now tell the hold outs to do the same' would convince a judge to do what they want. The US could get all this data if it wanted by cooperating with the countries the servers are in. For some reason they'd rather strong arm their own companies rather than ask for help no matter how willingly it would be rendered.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
