Posts by diodesign 3261 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Nice of you to give Russia the benefit of the doubt but it's been dubbed the "slapping law" even by Russian media. Rather than faff around with burden of proof, it reduces the punishment of family-on-family abuse, so that it becomes a minor matter kept out of court. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that family conflicts do "not necessarily constitute domestic violence."
It sends the message that it's OK to beat your spouse or kids: at worst you'll get a $500 fine or a 15-day arrest warning. Meanwhile: porn is bad!!1
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"If this is the case, then I can fully understand why Intel is behaving like this."
Extremely strange that Intel won't explain this or say this. And some of the affected components started shipping in 2014. If you bought an Atom-powered NAS in 2015, would you want to start 2017 knowing it could die after the next reboot? It's crappy quality.
"Intel wants to control the situation before everything gets to 'chaos' mode."
No shit. Sorry, we don't do Intel's PR. Happy to set the cats among the pigeons and get some real answers out of vendors, rather than suppliers hiding behind NDAs while people's devices mysteriously fail.
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The net neutrality debate is exactly that, a debate. There are shrill and moderate voices on both sides. We've written heaps about net neutrality amid Comcast et al screwing over subscribers. Andrew's writing from the other side, the side that argues what the FCC was dong was flawed.
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Well, if you compromised someone's FB account, you can then compromise their GitHub - just like if you compromise someone's Gmail, you can compromise their GitHub by reseting the password. This is why you have two-factor auth on your GitHub account. And all accounts.
The point of this is: who is better at writing and maintaining a secure account recovery mechanism - you or Facebook (or Google etc)? If you, then do it yourself. Otherwise, use someone else's working system instead.
Also means you don't have to store personal info stuff like mother's maiden names in your database.
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Fun fact: one of my bosses from my UK newspaper days was a news editor on the Sport, and he says he was involved in that WW2 bomber story. Or was the London double decker bus found at the North Pole?
Anyway, at least the Sport was obviously spoofed. If you read Stick It Up Your Punter! and similar books, you'll hear about real hacks putting together made-up "special investigations" for years. Sad, really.
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We published 40 stories yesterday, four of which were about Donald: FBI+AG picks who want backdoors; IBM swinging its axe despite promising to Trump it will hire more; Trump admin using private email; Trump admin silencing scientists.
These involve technology, did not dominate the news list, and are a hot topic right now. So, sorry you're tired of the new president already: 90% of new El Reg content on Wednesday had nothing to do with Donald, though.
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Thanks - we've clarified the dates in the story. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong.
Also, discussion about Wine 2.0 is continuing over here on our earlier story. I've closed this topic to keep all chat about the software in one place.
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"Why are you trying to demonize "legacy"?"
Because (as the article says) you're left with technology that few people understand. This is on top of the fact that you're missing out on recent/modern updates. It's called technical debt for a reason.
Blame management, blame the developers and architects, blame whoever. Blaming doesn't fix the problem. Fixing the problem fixes the problem.
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"Sorry, I'm going to be a stickler"
Look, Hood is on record claiming Google may be selling students' info. We've quoted him as such. The lawsuit accuses Google of breach of contract. We've said as such.
The lawsuit accuses Google of misusing students' data for "any" advertising purposes. Hood, outside the lawsuit, says this includes marketing/selling data to third parties. So there is a gap there, but the article makes that distinction - Hood says this, Hood says that, the lawsuit wants Google to open up.
Essentially, Google is being accused of potentially breaching a contract in which it promised to respect kids' privacy. That's the gist of the story however you look at the above. Google, FWIW, declined to comment.
Please, try not to nitpick us to death and accuse us of fake news. It's tedious.
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> I can't find any other website claiming that Hood is accusing Google of selling data to third parties
This is literally what Hood said on the record, and is quoted in the story saying: "Through this lawsuit, we want to know the extent of Google's data mining and marketing of student information to third parties."
If you read through the lawsuit (eg, G 52-53), you'll see the AG accusing Google of potentially breaking promises not to share students' info to third parties, such as Google's advertising partners, without disclosing it to parents.
You guys are trollin' me. Stop it.
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"Qualcomm is only offering to license their CDMA patents based on a percentage of the cost of the entire phone"
That is something Qualcomm does (Register passim) and has got it into trouble around the world for its, er, unorthodox approach. It typically asks for a percentage of the phone cost in royalties.
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"It is a pity the Reg could not make it that clear in the first place. They seem to have lost all their science-qualified writers who could examine critically a press release or abstract rather than just copying the words."
Are you kidding me??? We used the correct term in the correct context, and we're the ones who screwed up?
So you're saying we have to caveat everything we write in case someone doesn't understand. You want articles that read like: "The board has 4GB of RAM – that's readable-writeable memory not read-only ROM - and an ARMv8 CPU - that's CPU not GPU..."
Get outta here.
PS: The article was written by someone with an astrophysics degree and edited by someone with an engineering degree.
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I remember when ironic headlines lampooning the bonkers Brit tabloid culture weren't called clickbait, they were just Register headlines. This is back before the kids ruined everything with their Upworthies and BuzzFeeds.
Oh well, if you want boring, ZDNet's that way ----->
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Full disclosure: p4jbw is a perforce.com employee.
Thing is, Splunk was not using Perforce Helix, they were using pre-Helix Perforce, but you're talking about Helix, so.... ?
Also, you say your software is not "strictly centralized" but your own publicity reads: "You are probably quite familiar with Perforce’s centralized architecture." So... ?
And you say your software is not "strictly proprietary" but parts of it are closed source. So... ?
Normally the words "factually inaccurate" are the sole factual inaccuracies. Thanks for showing our readers the kind of tedious nitpicking-to-death journalists go through on a daily basis with vendors.
Thanks for calling.
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You can put the pitchfork down - it's super clear in the article what's happened. And from Microsoft's own people, quoted high up in the piece:
"In an effort to bring the best command line experiences to the forefront for all power users, PowerShell is now the de facto command shell from File Explorer.
"It replaces Command Prompt (aka 'cmd.exe') in the WIN + X menu, in File Explorer's File menu, and in the context menu that appears when you shift-right-click the whitespace in File Explorer."
Don't forget, Microsoft is a huge company. It's a classic case of someone announcing one change and then another part of the business yelling "WTF? NO!"
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It would be nice but we get the feeling it's a customized package of ERP products being phased in gradually - the best we can determine at the moment is that it's a suite of tools running on Oracle Cloud Financials and Oracle Cloud Fusion.
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It's been fixed, thanks. Our production desk has been light in the run up to Christmas and New Year's Eve due to illness, people taking time off and paternity leave. We're gradually getting back up to speed.
Having said that, I disagree that our editing has dropped like a stone: we're doing our best against operations like the NYT and WSJ that have armies of editors and still screw up. You're welcome to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong. The volume of mail to that address is reassuringly light. When it gets a flood of messages, we know we've screwed up.
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No, the arrow is correct - look up the chip. The TXD pin on a CAN bus transceiver is an input. Don't take any data/commands from the internet, basically. By cutting off the pin or not connecting it, you don't allow malicious packets into the CAN system.
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Oh it's real. From your legislature's .gov website:
"A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 5 TO CHAPTER 15, TITLE 16 SO AS TO ENACT THE "HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION ACT", TO REQUIRE A BUSINESS, MANUFACTURER, WHOLESALER, OR INDIVIDUAL THAT MANUFACTURES, DISTRIBUTES, OR SELLS A PRODUCT THAT MAKES CONTENT ACCESSIBLE ON THE INTERNET TO INSTALL AND OPERATE A DIGITAL BLOCKING CAPABILITY THAT RENDERS OBSCENITY INACCESSIBLE AND TO SET MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BLOCKING CAPABILITY"
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It fixes the DHCP issue, according to Microsoft. See our story here.
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Bill, stop being tedious.
Snowden was asked if Trump could get him imprisoned. One very obvious way that would happen is if Snowden is deported from Russia and obtained by the US where he, right now, faces treason charges. Snowden said it was possible he could be locked up as a result of pressure from Trump but he wasn't worried about it. The article doesn't say it is likely to happen. That much is clear.
Don't accuse us of fake news.
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