* Posts by James 51

3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009

Fraught 'naut who sought consort's report says: I was up to naught, I will thwart fault tort

James 51

Re: Jurisdiction?

Now I know why there were stories on the BBC about space law over the last few days (they didn't make any mention of this story in them). As a US citizen, it falls under US jurisdiction. Beyond that, not a clue (federal, criminal, civil etc etc).

A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet

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Gimp

Re: Interesting

Are you talking about the pi tablet or the gemini/cosmo?

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

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Gimp

Fairphone 3 then?

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

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Re: 17.6 hours

Recently bought a x270 for the same reason. Of course my wife ended up appropriating it for her small business (ironically because an old but vital bit of software is too fuzzy to use on a HD screen and the suppliers have been promising an update/new version for several years...

Can Amazon's AI really detect fear? Plus: Fresh deepfake video freaks everyone out again

James 51

That process could also apply to people with autism. Having difficultly detecting and understanding emotion in others doesn't make you a psychopath:

a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.

Or even a sociopath:

a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

We all know what you meant but given how the how the law is being and abused for things like the hositle enviroment were law abiding people are being illegally hounded out of the country, best to nip such misunderstandings in the bud.

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FAIL

How many people the system was trained on had depression, neuropathy or autism, down syndrome etc etc.

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

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Angel

Re: "I saved the Christmas!!!"

Okay, this is John the Baptist but:

'John answered, "Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same."'

Lets not forget the overturning of the market stalls in the temple and healing people for no money either. Rich men find it difficult to enter the kingdom of heaven. The efforts of those who have few resources matter more than those who have plenty to spare. He doesn't say take from Peter to give to Paul but he does say that's what Peter needs to do if he wants to go to heaven.

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FAIL

Re: 'preventing further unfair transfers of American technology and intellectual property to China'

You are assuming that I am American or Indian and I am neither.

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FAIL

Re: 'preventing further unfair transfers of American technology and intellectual property to China'

Just because the US and India did it does not make it right.

James 51

Re: 'preventing further unfair transfers of American technology and intellectual property to China'

For a long time China was not enforcing IP laws on its own companies so they could steal or reverse engineer technology and sell it cheaper (with little to no R&D costs to recoup and with a lot of the tech being made by Chinese factories, they had plenty of samples to examine, or simply make more of the same and stick another badge on it). Foreign companies could complain but nothing was done. Then the communist party, wanting to climb the tech ladder told foreign companies, give your technology away for free to local companies and we'll let you have a piece of the pie. This is the crux of the problem. Give away the technology you’ve invested in to get something or hold on to it and get undercut anyway. It’s market manipulation and protectionism on a vast scale and is a form of extortion. This is in part what is so maddening about Trump. He’s right about the communist party abuses of the market and companies, it’s just that he’s so incompetent and petulant that it is very doubtful he is going to be successful in doing something about it.

WeWork filed its IPO homework. So we had a look at its small print and... yowser. What has El Reg got itself into?

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Go

No one else spot the Weird Al reference?

It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors

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Boffin

There's an interesting example of innovation inside the NHS on inside health:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006ls6

A Scottish trust developed new ways of automating tests with the equipment they already had. Invest the money in stuff like this (and hopefully money to roll it out as well).

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Big Brother

As long as it is as good as they say and it's not phoning back to the mothership...

Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?

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FAIL

This is why I opted for a secondhand x270. Replaceable batteries.

UK parliament sends snippy letter to Zuck and his poodle Clegg as it seems Facebook has been lying again

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Alien

Re: Quantum Truth

amanfrommars1, is that you?

Sailfish OS given a Jolla good buffing as version 3.1 bobs gently into port

James 51

Hmmm If the Gemini version had app support I'd be very tempted to reach for my credit card. Maybe 3.2.

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

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Gimp

I really like my Q10 as well. If my infant son hadn't used it as a teething ring and drooled into the microphone it would still be my main phone (was in contract at the time but Vodafone just kept playing support pingpong until the contract ended). The amazon app store still works, that's what I use overdrive on. Some of the websites do come up with your browser is too old message now.

James 51

Sounds like a business case for BB10 (or even BB7).

It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze

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Re:AC, and the murder and organ harvesting of prisoners is 'alive and kicking' in Chinese prisions:

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/index.html

Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

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Big Brother

If you type in Nancy Pelosi's name into google in the top five results is her 'drunken' speech. Not the articles showning it is clearly a fake, the lie is more popular than the truth. You also see the footage that was altered of a reporter in a white house press conference to make it look like he was trying to shove someone. Fakes are already out there and the people that want to believe they are true are taking it in uncritically and ignoring anything that counters their world view. Stuff like this has consequences.

Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks

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With the text over 'procced with this nonsense at flank speed' in my choice of icon I would have dodged Poe's law but apparently not. However, if neither Chinese nor American companies past security muster, who else could do it?

James 51
Gimp

Re: Fail Huawei, Fail Huawei, Fail Huawei

Not quite close enough to sail away (Orinoco Flow) for it to spring to mind.

James 51
Go

Why doesn't everyone agree to use Nokia and Ericsson 5G kit, shake hands and head over to the nineteenth hole?

The A in AMD stands for 'Aaaaannnyway...' Q2 is gonna be good, chip biz vows, after dismal Q1

James 51

Here's hoping they put in some fast RAM and a bus wide enough to take advantage of what they're getting.

James 51
Gimp

At least there are decent AMD chips in laptops now. Forget about the A6/A9 (even saw an A4 though god knows how slow that is), the Ryzen 2500u with at least 8gb of decent speed ram (at least 2400 MHz) and you've got a good alround machine that can handle most tasks (even some light video editing and gaming). AMD in terms of technology is in the best position it has been in for years. If levono had one in a 11" or 13" thinkpad with a removeably battery, I probably wouldn't wait for my current laptop to die to get one.

Don't be Russian to judgement but... Bloke accused of $1.5m+ tax filing biz hack, fraud

James 51

That covers just about everyone in the UK doing business with companies in the US.

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect's iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

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Big Brother

Re: Forced password entry not possible

Except in the UK were it will get you five years in jail.

We know you all want to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine. And that's exactly where it's going – detecting prostate cancer

James 51

In the UK MRI capicty is going to have to be greatly expanded to use it as a prostate screening tool. This is putting the cart before the horse and screening is best targeted to at risk populations or you risk over treatment. Lots of men die with prostrate cancer rather than because of it.

Europe, Japan: D-Wave would really like you to play with its – count 'em – '2,000-qubit' quantum Leap cloud service

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Go

Re: Quantum barrier

If you don't look they can be there and not there at the same time.

James 51
Joke

Perhaps we could tell Donald Trump the border needs a quantum wall that could be everywhere at once and direct $5 billion into developing it.

HP deployed 'Truth Squad' in post-Autonomy PR blitz to defend Meg Whitman

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Big Brother

Aggressively work with reporters to breakdown and explain complex aspects of the write-down news

Antyone else read that as aggressively breakdown reporters?

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

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Re: The only conspiracy

Private eye had a spoof, the da vinci highway code which was the story retold using the signs from the highway code. It was harlious and much better written than the real thing.

Azure thing at last: Windows Virtual Desktop takes to the cloudy stage

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Gimp

Does this mean I'll finally be able to get my old blade runner game up and running again?

Apple bestows first hardware upgrades in years upon neglected iPad Mini and Air lines

James 51

It would be interesting to know how it compares as an e-reader and note taking device to the likebook muses and onyx nova pro.

UK Ministry of Justice: Surprise! We tested out biometric tech in prisons and 'visitors' with drugs up their bums ran away

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Re: Can't help but be reminded the Soviet Science sucess of increase wheat yields.

Epigenetics isn't quite the same thing. The DNA isn't being altered by the efforts of the parent (or grandparent (see the evidence of grandchildren of famine survivors apparently having genes to better survive famine being active)), it's different parts of the existing genome being activated or deativated by stimuli.

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Big Brother

Can't help but be reminded the Soviet Science sucess of increase wheat yields.

Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles

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Alien

Won't there be problems if the wavelength the IR is showing up as is also present? How could you tell the difference between IR and green light? Might be obvious once it's tried in humans but then everyone could end up looking like an Orion.

Vodafone exec dons tartan tam-o'-shanter, clutches bottle of Irn-Bru, in snap shared with firm... just before Glasgow staff told of redundo dates

James 51

Wouldn't be drawn on a time scale when I asked.

James 51

I currently can't receive calls on my Vodafone SIM because they're testing 5G in my area (at least that is what I was told when I called to get it sorted). They had no clue when I would be able to get calls again.

Demand for HP printer supplies in free-fall – and Intel CPU shortages aren't helping either

James 51

That's why you don't see more printers like the eco-tank. Ink is less than 1/10th the price of my previous printer.

Nokia 9: HMD Global hauls PureView™ out of brand limbo

James 51

I wish this had a user changeable battery. Would be enough to tempt me with my current samsung dies.

There's no 'My' in Office, Microsoft insists with new productivity hub

James 51

Re: Meh, who needs this?

Actaully my Sony PRS-T2 (which is over ten years old at this point) makes a pretty decent pdf reader (as long as the files aren't huge). There are more modern ereaders with better screens, more ram and a more powerful cpu.

Europe-style 5G standards testing? Consistent definitions? Who the fsck wants that, asks US mobe industry

James 51

I assume then that if the EU pours funds into Nokia and Ericsson to have a source of 5G network technology independant of China (in the name of international security of course and not illegal state subsidies), they'll be happy to get on board?

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

James 51

Wasn't old enough to have money/buy software then but I do remember having Scribble and being impressed.

James 51
Gimp

Going to fire up my Amiga 600 and see if Scribble is all that I remember it to be.

Iceland starts planning for new undersea internet cable to Europe

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Joke

Re: Mainland Europe

Hey, if you live south of the wall then you're a southerner.

You think election meddling is bad now? Buckle up for 2020, US intel chief tells Congress

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FAIL

Re: Karma

It's bad no matter who is doing it.

Fujitsu says UK Foreign Office can't count in lawsuit over loss of £350m comms contract

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Pirate

I wonder if the Japanese prime minister sill bring this up during the next set of trade talks.

Dear humans, We thought it was time we looked through YOUR source code. We found a mystery ancestor. Signed, the computers

James 51

Re: So, have I got this straight?

Various studies have shown that there is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined but it is better stirred in the rest of the world. Would post links but my phone browser doesn't like multiple tabs.

Cops told: No, you can't have a warrant to force a big bunch of people to unlock their phones by fingerprint, face scans

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Black Helicopters

Re: So does this also invalidate all facial recognition installed everywhere?

The law hasn't been in effect long enough for rinse and repeat but if you look at the history of seven day detention in northern Ireland, or what happened with the Birmingham six or even Hillsborough or the undercover investigation into Stephen Lawrence’s family, that’s one hell of a power for the police to have. The best way to approach such things is power will always be abused. The person in the post today might be good and honourable but there’s sooner or later, there is going to be someone untrustworthy in that position.