Posts by diodesign

Re: after seeing a documentary about Geronimo

TBH it would make more sense for ASF to stick to it being a patchy web server, with no NA connection.

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Communism

It's humor.

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It's all fun and games...

...Until we make fun of the thing you like. I bet if we wrote a gushing piece saying how Elon is a genius, and it's everyone else who is wrong, you'd be falling over yourself to thank our objective, truthful journalism.

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"Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield"

All right, we've reached Peak IlGeller now.

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Oh it's sarcasm you want

Sure, OK. Here's the story you were thinking of.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/08/03/segway_tenmph_shame/

ur welcom

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No wires

Yeah, basically we wanted to make the point that it's primarily light at work here. We've tidied up that paragraph.

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Not really

"Did ‘accommodation’ include hospitality and bar bills too"

No, just the hotel room. Dinner, lunch, and drinks have been paid by myself or expensed to my publisher as necessary. Qualcomm got me here to attend the summit's breakout briefings, and that's about it.

"Were your flights Business or Cattle Class ??"

I live in San Francisco. My flights were normal seats, so cattle class? It was about a four-hour flight in which I read a (printed) Patrick Hamilton novel. Bonus points if you can guess the title.

I love that you're looking for scandal here but while Hawaii is a lovely place, and I've personally been many times as a Californian transplant, I've been working this week, either critically covering Qualcomm's announcements, or acting as Reg editor from Maui time.

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Arm

FWIW Arm is headquartered in the UK, hence the Britishness.

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'they're turning into web browsers in a glass slab'

Far be it from me to do Qualcomm's PR for them but these chips are basically geared for gaming and photography, with enough oomph for modern apps and browsers.

If your mobile use-case only covers part of that - or the walled gardens of the OSes holds you back - then yeah, they will seem a bit limited. A lot of the 8 Gen 2 silicon is dedicated to things like real-time ray tracing in games (eg) so if that's not your cup of tea, it's a waste of transistor gates.

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Re: Question?

The NASA Orion thing is, to me, an example to highlight and draw attention to the problem. You'd need to get into the craft's network, by some compromised or malicious device.

In reality, it's going to be something less exotic that potentially gets hit by this.

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is this

trolling about trolling?

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"the colour of the owner's car, this is after all an IT site"

What are you on about?

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Smart contracts

Yeah, it's a very good point that we've now addressed in the piece.

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Crumbs, why so angry

"Almost entirely nonsense"

Well, we said it's important but - as the article goes into - not the only thing to do. Education is good but systems in place to block, contain, and detect are also important. I've made that clearer for people in the piece.

Also, as we said, someone may impersonate your IT staff so rate limiting won't help here, but phishing education and other defenses might. Finally, MFA spam really does work. There's been loads of times where it's worked, so limiting attempts and what not isn't a given at orgs.

We just had a load of phishing attempts against us too by someone pretending to be our CEO. The attempts failed but we still did a round of internal messaging/education about it afterwards as well as reviewing defenses and operations to make sure everyone's on the same page.

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Safe mode

Yeah safe mode means: it's only and just doing what's needed to stay intact. Taking it out of safe mode makes it operational.

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Not bad reporting

No - we're reporting exactly what Mondelez claimed. It said damage was done to its equipment and software. Damage in this case is defined as "physical loss or damage to electronic data, programs, or software, including physical loss or damage."

I can add this point to the piece but it seemed obvious to us and others.

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Re: Non-transferable license ?

Arm says Nuvia's architectural license was non-transferable without Arm's permission (and quite likely renegotiation). Qualcomm argued back that Nuvia's architectural license largely overlaps Qualcomm's own license with Arm, anyway. Largely but not fully, crucially.

I've heard that Qualcomm already went through this with Arm when Q bought CSR in 2015. CSR had an Arm license that Qualcomm had to ask for, and got, permission to continue using and its derived technologies. Now this time, Qualcomm thinks it's OK to use Nuvia's license as it has done so and any complaints from Arm are just about greed and bullying.

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'made a mistake'

Do you mean our Simon or the person who started this thread?

I checked with Si and he says he saw the basic Maxtang box priced around 300 USD.

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"This whole article"

By that, i'm assuming you mean DHH's blog post..?

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Concerns

1. You can still call it El Reg. We still do internally and publicly. Myself and TR's senior editorial staff have been at The Reg or with our publisher for ten or more years. It's not like we've forgotten the past.

2. We're constantly experimenting with headlines to find the right balance between being unique and amusing and not off-putting for new folks. Sometimes titles go too obscure, sometimes they go too dry. We've got a sub-headline right now on the front page stating "You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant" and a headline "Why are PC webcams crap?" and boffins and so on... there's no corporate watering down. We're just trying to make our humor and our take on the IT world a bit more accessible for everyone.

If any part of it reads like a sales seminar, shoot me. That's not the intention, and not what we want to do. We want to make stuff that's informed, accurate, and independent.

3. I'm British. I live in the US after living in the UK. I know Blighty's going through some weird shit right now, and how we're perceived globally is perhaps not quite optimal. But TR switching to US spelling isn't part of that, and your thoughts about the UK being "quaintsy" is something you need to figure out for yourself. TR changing to American spelling isn't commentary on the UK.

It's that the internet sees US spelling and thinks "international or American" and sees UK spelling and thinks "England". Which can be a bit frustrating when we're writing about non-UK things a lot.

4. One day it would be great to translate TR into other languages. An English version is obviously going to be available and prime.

Above all, we're just being honest and open. We could have just not said a thing.

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E-z money

Regardless, she gets to dip into an annual 115k GBP allowance for the rest of her life. She can use the funds to expense stuff if there's a public duty angle to it – police protection, correspondence, meetings, etc.

Past PMs have all used their allowances.

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Re: claims

1. What was the error - we jump on correction emails within minutes if someone's working. We strive really hard to fix issues ASAP.

2. We're not using speech recognition. If you see typos or brain blips like that, it's because we've got something else on our minds, such as technical accuracy -- I'd rather a story is a fair representation of reality with typos than perfectly written but total BS.

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Re: API hashing ?

It's a way to obfuscate the Windows API calls used by malware to make reverse engineering more tricky. It's down at the executable level, where the program imports functions from libraries. See:

https://www.ired.team/offensive-security/defense-evasion/windows-api-hashing-in-malware

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Re: So where's it SUPPOSED to land?

Good question, but it was supposed to go a little further than the 500m it made it from the launchpad.

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Bricklaying, plumbing and electrical work

Kinda irrelevant, no?

Women want to be given a fair crack at getting these particular technical jobs that use their brains and skills, and if they get the job, to be treated fairly and thoughtfully as equals. It's pretty straightforward.

Go talk to The Register of construction about those other careers.

"If you want equity, then it has to be done at every level and every job"

Uhm, why?

Edit: My "why?" meant: why does it have to be all or nothing? Why can't we start with IT seeing as we're an IT crowd.

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Re: Might want to update this article

That magazine article is dated Oct 8, a day before the latest statement we saw from LH (on Oct 9, our story published Oct 10) contrary to that magazine article.

So it's up to LH to clarify what's going on. Last time we saw, LH was saying ATs are too dangerous for checked baggage.

Edit: LH has U-turned mid-flight. AirTags are now allowed, and we've added an update.

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USB

It seems you may not need the extension pack for USB 2, as that's included now in the open source base package, so we've taken that reference out for now. We're double checking.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong.

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Fiat

We're gonna keep fiating the fiat words we fiatingly well want to fiat.

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Re: Chew gum and kick ass?

As much as some of us like IT Crowd, gotta pay respect to the origin of the quote: They Live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du5YK5FnyF4

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Indeed

Yup, that's the dream.

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Just the headline - now fixed

The article's fine - it's about electricity, as the first sentence makes clear. This got truncated down to energy for a shorter headline, and has now been corrected.

Don't forget to email corrections@ if you spot something wrong, ta.

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Er..

If you read the very next paragraph:

> There was an even more pressing priority – which Tkachenko referred to as "priority zero" – the physical security of company team members.

Blows your argument out of the water.

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Shrug

It's pretty clear, right off the bat, this is a code-level issue, with patches for vulnerable apps rather than changes to the protocol.

Yes, the protocol is mentioned, in that, a study of a protocol may not only uncover shortcomings in the protocol design but also may indicate where there will likely be problems in implementations [triv.]

Don't forget to use corrections@theregister.com if you think you've spotted something wrong, please.

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Re: And what if you block JS?

Same if you tried another JS CAPTCHA widget and there was no fall back. You'll get told to turn on JavaScript or you can't verify you're a human.

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Good crypto use

Nah, see Register passim. I stand by it.

Of the high volumes of cryptocurrency transactions, only a small percentage is involved in crime.

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Typo

Yeah, yeah, we know - we were concentrating on making all the technical stuff right in the other 1,499 words in the piece so it could run before the main event on Monday.

It's fixed - don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot something wrong please.

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Not quite sure what you're asking but here goes...

The general-purpose cores in the X280 are 64-bit RV64GCV CPU cores. As the name suggests, RISC-V is quite RISC.

RISC-V uses letters to represent extensions and features. GCV basically means the CPU cores support the base (bare bones) RISC-V instruction set plus support for integer multiplication/division, atomic operations, single and double-precision floating point math, compressed instructions, and vector math, and some other bits and pieces.

RV64GCV is all you need to run an OS like Linux and applications. It's fit for general purpose, and includes vector math support in hardware.

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Chrome on desktop

I think Moz doesn't have much of a case there, but Android, that's a different story.

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"resource action" - outed

Well, we're not including IBM in "places like Meta" ;-)

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