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Posts by tony2heads
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Secure microkernel that uses maths to be 'bug free' goes open source
NSA man: 'Tell me about your Turkish connections'
Arrr: Digital Economy Act tied up, thrown in the hold
NO MORE ALL CAPS and other pleasures of Visual Studio 14
The seven nations where SIM CARDS outnumber PEOPLE
It's Google HQ - the British one: Reg man snaps covert shots INSIDE London offices
Help yourself to anyone's photos FOR FREE, suggests UK.gov
FRIKKIN' LASERS could REPLACE fibre-optic comms cables
Who should do security clearance checks? Did you say 'chat-bot'? This military slinger hopes so
Turing biopic with Cumberbatch, Knightley to premiere at London Film Festival
UK govt threw £347m in the bin on failed asylum processing IT project
Cave pits, ideal for human bases, FOUND ON MOON
That stirring LOHAN motto: Anyone know a native Latin speaker?
Don't put that duffel bag full of cash in the hotel room safe
Friday 18th July 2014 08:42 GMT
Re: Well there is flaw right there....
Yes, but what about using one-way screws? They are common enough around here and, as long as they are counter sunk and used with some Locktite or similar adhesive, are truly hard to remove. You are reduced to drilling them out. That might get the attention of security staff
Writing about an Australian Snowden would land Vulture South in the clink
German NSA probe chief mulls spy-busting typewriters
Elon Musk GIVES UP ON SEX: He'll make do with a 'cheap' Tesla III instead
Crooks fling banking Trojan at Japanese smut site fans
Programming languages in economics: Cool research, bro, but what about, er, economics?
Airbus promises Wi-Fi – yay – and 3D movies (meh) in new A330
Monday 14th July 2014 11:39 GMT
What about the AIR quality
My main problem with flights is the recycled air that everyone has coughed and sneezed in; I have known colleagues who had to sit around a guy with the flu for 8hrs and then (guess what!) they all contracted it.
My wife occasionally blacks out on long haul flights with the low oxygen levels (or maybe it is aerotoxic syndrome).
The final score: Gramophones 1 – Glassholes 0
FBI and pals grab banking Trojan zombielord's joystick
Adobe Flash: The most INSECURE program on a UK user's PC
Exploit emerges for LZO algo hole
Get ready for LAYOFFS: Nadella's coma-inducing memo, with subtitles
Cosmic dust riddle breakthrough: Study tackles stuff of the universe
Journal that published Facebook emoto-furtle study: Proper boffins get CONSENT
El Reg is looking for a new London sub-editor
What do we want? CAT VIDEOS! How do we get them? TOR!
Windows 7, XP and even Vista GAIN market share again
MIT and CERN's secure webmail plan stumped by PayPal freeze
Speed of light slower than we thought? Probably not
Tuesday 1st July 2014 11:43 GMT
Re: Silly question...
Both are affected by gravity but
- neutrinos hardly interact and go 'straight out'
-light will interact with any matter in and around the supernova and will take some time to get out. How long depends on a lot of detailed understanding that we might not have got right.
for example photon diffusion time (getting absorbed, re-emitted in random walk style ) from the sun's core to its surface is estimated to be about 170,000 years, despite its radius being about 2.3 light seconds.
True fact: Your CAT wees ... like a racehorse
HP gets 'Playboy model and the ex-CEO' lawsuit kicked out ... again
BOFH: You can take our lives, but you'll never take OUR MACROS
Android SMS worm punts dodgy downloads... from your MATES
Drone's drug airdrop mission ends in failure for Irish prisoners
US Supreme Court: Duh, obviously cops need a warrant to search mobes
Brit bank Barclays rolls out speech recognition for telephone banking
Tuesday 24th June 2014 17:11 GMT 
What about Prof Hawking? Will his account get emptied?
Voice recognition (as opposed to speech) is really hard -particularly down a crappy noisy narrowband phone line with background noises. Sometimes I struggle to recognise close relatives on the phone.
How it would recognise one speech synthesizer from another I cannot see.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
