Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Unfortunately...

I suspect, that like 98.7% of statistics, it was made up.

Re: Unfortunately...

Fortunately in this country we have a natural experiment, where for 1000 years we have been selectively breeding for superiority and leadership until we achieved the House Of Lords

Re: circular history

Ironically Prions are about as close to nanobots as we have got and they are fscking scary

Re: Prey

His Great Train Robbery novel (ie the Sean Connery film) is very good if you like that early Forsyth; Day of the Jackal/Dogs of War sort of journalistic fiction where every detail is gone into.

Re: Unfortunately...

>40% of UK medical students are creationists.

In my experience 40% of medical students are idiots. Idiots on the level of: if you need to work out the dose and you have mg/Kg you need to multiply by kg to get mg.

Seriously you don't need to memorise this for each drug - it's always the same, just look at the units and cross them out.

Re: Screenshots

Normal business procedure would be to print out the spreadsheet, put it on a wood table, take a phone photo, email it back to themselves, reducing size, and then insert the picture into Powerpoint

Re: At Gene Cash, re: wrong error message.

Unless you are a double jointed gymnast with arms like pipe cleaners the easiest way to change the right hand side headlamp on my Subaru is to keep the headlamp and just swap the rest of the car

Re: When is the same not the same.

Initial passwd configuration box accepts all characters

Login box sanitizes inputs and removes "dangerous" characters in the passwd without telling you

>(eg. a 25-way D RS232 connector rammed in upside down!)

USB plugs inserted in Ethernet sockets

Good tip, if the USB plug fits the right way up first time - it's in the wrong type of socket

Re: Elementary perhaps

Unless it's an Agatha Christie, in which case the 10 people are in on it with Mr Red

Re: At Gene Cash, re: wrong error message.

To be fair on a Subaru it's normal to remove the engine to refill the screen wash

Re: Hey Rob!

On a bike it's normally a faulty alarm/immobiliser

Britain might not make unreliable oil-leaking bikes anymore, but we do still make unreliable current leaking alarm systems.

Re: Hands On

There is a "miner's wrench" a 3ft long adjustable spanner with a hammer head on the fixed part of the jaws.

Even better for "user problems' is a "spud wrench", same thing but the handle ends in a steel spike for aligning bolt holes in girders.

Re: Alternatively...

This idea could be extended. If the fire brigade were equipped with flame throwers they could determine which houses were flammable and rapidly incentivise the owners to improve

Re: ASIDE: 'Footage'

We still use "colour timing" for adjustments to the colour balance of a movie scene done on a computer.

Because you used to change how long the film was in a particular chemical bath.

Re: Phun and games

“your engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Re: Because companies like Samsung

Except this isn't a business, it's a plant. It doesn't make profit, it costs money.

Samsung will save by not paying property taxes, so no schools for the children of workers, minimal fire/library/social services - although the police will be well funded. There is no state income tax, so Samsung can pay workers proportionally less and they have the same take home.

The big difference is that this is an isolated plant, it will create (or relocate) a few well paid jobs. But when this nm is no longer cutting edge, the next plant will open somewhere else. This fab, or a Dell assembly plant, doesn't create the permanent local Silicon Valley they seem to think.

Re: Epic line

Don't worry it will be entirely staffed by Korean immigrants (except for security guards and janitors)

Re: Military / Encryption / Stone Age / SWIFT

>Hard to send China to the stone age when I think they have enough talent and knowledge on how to grow their own technology base.

But remember China are both ignorant peasants merely trying to steal western ideas that they will slavishly copy and cunningly miles ahead of us with Hypersonic Stargates and so we need at least another 3 aircraft carriers to protect ourselves

Lenovo doesn't sound chinese to voters

Re: How did this happen?

Funny, that's what we said about Japan in the 80a

Re: Military / Encryption / Stone Age / SWIFT

To be fair all countries do the same. We invested $1TN in tax cuts for billionaire hedge fund managers and now we lead the world in them

Re: "an Apple spokesperson told The Register"

Fake news, it was just Dabbsie in a black polo neck

You still get it in tins?

eNuff can be streamed directly to your device

Re: Competition

Saskatchewan doesn't exist it's a conspiracy to try and stop people from Toronto reaching Vancouver

Tried buying SanDisk memory cards on Amazon

You can see Apple's point. Apple own Beats, if they choose not to sell.on Amazon, or to be the only seller, you know that if you buy Beats in an Apple store or from Apple's Amazon store they are genuine.

If every Dell Boy is allowed to sell Beats on Amazon then 90% will be fake, and even if you buy from Apple, Amazon will co-mingle stock so you are likely to get fakes

Re: Maybe

Sounds familiar - should have used Ada

I think it's let as in lettings

Young languages today can't afford to buy variables in desirable memory locations and have to rent them

>why on Earth does the language have "let" as a keyword?

It signifies that we are allowing the variable to take on the value it feels comfortable with.

Nobody is going around forcing a variable to have the value it was assigned.

Re: A shame...

We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...

: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...

: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--

Re: Offensive Researchers

But the Iranians didn't accept the terms and conditions before installing Stuxnet - so presumably the USA could sue Iran for pirating their software

Re: There is a big difference...

>Between searching for flaws and responsibly disclosing them compared to using them to sell to high bidders

Yes one enables people to search for vulnerabilities as a full time job.

If you ban selling exploits then Apple/Google/Facebook can just offer 1c rewards for each exploit, and threaten to sue anybody else.

As a result only criminals have exploits. No exploits are ever made public and so all computers must be secure.

Re: Offensive Researchers

And of course Apple/Google/Facebook/etc won't use any NSO decision to prosecute people who find vulnerabilities in the future - because they are all such nice friendly companies.