* Posts by PleebSmash

532 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012

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Japanese astro-boffins race to recover pulsar-spotting balloon basket

PleebSmash

Is this project meant to be low-cost alternative to ground-based adaptive optics observatories or is there another good reason for using a balloon to look at a pulsar?

What the BLEEP? BitTorrent's secure messaging app arrives

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WTF?

I don't see how a screen grab defeater is possible. If it reaches the user's eyes in a non-fuzzy or readable form, it can surely be captured in some way (without the analogue hole, even).

El Reg knocks a fiver off 16GB USB stick

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Mushroom

cash out

Rather than waste $$$ on overpriced USB 2.0 flash sticks with the Reg logo, I'd spend that money on one of the mugs, or the glowing export restricted radioactive materials.

SHOCK! Robot cars do CRASH. Because other cars have human drivers

PleebSmash

Re: "so far caused by human error and inattention"

Two accidents at under 10 mph. Chances seem excellent that the automated car was not at fault.

All-Russian 'Elbrus' PCs and servers go on sale

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Re: That's not the point

The US restricts what models of Intel and AMD CPUs can be exported to various countries for various purposes. With the Elbrus, the Russians can ignore the American "chip blockade" and do whatever they want. This is the same reason the Chinese are building their own CPUs based on MIPs designs.

Russian supercomputers will continue to use American chips:

http://top500.org/site/50104 http://top500.org/site/50548

There is no chip blockade for most, and 65nm 800 MHz chips aren't going to cut it for most users (supercomputers, military, or even school laptops).

I expect we will hear more about the Chinese blockade by June.

Google cloud: rubbish at updates, world-class at rapid rollbacks

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FAIL

week++

google_cloud_screwup++

Ding-dong, the cloud calling: The Ring Video Doorbell

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Thumb Up

low attention span reader (LASAR)

I like having the review summary at the beginning rather than the end.

Traumatised Reg SPB team barely survives movie unwatchablathon

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Trollface

The Room transcends filmmaking, turning it into an actual art form.

Spooks BUSTED: 27,000 profiles reveal new intel ops, home addresses

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Alien

MASTERSHAKE?

What about FRYLOCK and MEATWAD?

Sally Beauty Supply breached AGAIN

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Facepalm

hairy situation

Kudos to the Reg reporters involved.

How Groucho Marx lost his voice and found his funny bone

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Re: "And a hard-boiled egg"

Duck Soup is one of my favorite comedies.

ICANN's bill for clawing global DNS from Uncle Sam: $7m and counting

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Flame

Re: When is this farce going to end ?

The hundreds of millions of dollars from gTLD applications and auctions could sustain the ICANN beast for quite some time.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them do it again... after all there are many strings yet untapped.

Whither the PC? Mobes, slabs drive majority of traffic for top news sites

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Megaphone

RSS the best

The right way to visit news sites.

Snapdragon 810 chip doesn't overheat, jilted Qualcomm sniffs at LG

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Holmes

Re: I think phones might be getting a bit over-powered

Qualc should be applauding LG for using one of their hex-cores now that octa-core has been the rule.

Rand Paul is trying to murder net neutrality. Is there a US presidential election, or something?

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Apple Watch HATES tattoos: Inky pink sinks rinky-dink sensor

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FAIL

Re: Hardly a bug, is it...

How could Apple do this to their target market of hipsters?

Oz media belatedly realises 'spook's charter' is bad (for) news

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Trollface

America2free

Close the office and move it to the U.S. where there is freedom of the press. That's what the Granuiad did.

The Apple Watch: Throbbing strap-on with a knurled knob

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Trollface

Re: Your cringeworthy article implies

Bleu's clues

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Paris Hilton

Re: Anatomically impossible?

iPad on the desk, palette/tools on the wrist, could be the ultimate undocked window for tablet artists.

...Or a steaming pile of garbage, I don't really know.

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Boffin

Re: Anatomically impossible?

Or you could put the phone on a desk.

Junk in your trunk is Amazon Germany's new delivery plan

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Windows

I don't need a home anymore!

Spotty dwarf Ceres BARES ALL in NASA's SHINY CLOSEUPS

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Alien

the good stuff

I've been confused about when the good pictures will appear. Here's when:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)#Ceres_orbit

Orbit...Dates...........Altitude..Orbital....vs. Hubble

RC3.....April 23–May 9..13,500km..15 days....24×

Survey..June 6–30.......4,400km...3.1 days...72×

HAMO....Aug 4–Oct 15....1,450km...19 hours...215×

LAMO....Dec 8–end.......375km.....5.5 hours..850×

You ain't seen nothing yet.

BuzzFeed: We don't pull 'articles' due to advertiser pressure VERY OFTEN

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Coat

Re: So is the moral of the story...

Depends.

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Mushroom

Sometimes we criticize El Reg

Then we get reminded why it is good.

BuzzKill's "serious journalism" couldn't handle Pepsi Next.

BLAM! Valve slams brakes on Steam flimflam with $5 spam scram plan

PleebSmash
Pirate

it's foolproof

It costs money for an employee/mechanical turk to look at and ban a spammer. Steam gets $1.50 when the spammers have to buy a $5 copy of Barbie Princess Equestrian Fairies or whatever. If the anti-spam crusader can ban 10+ spammers in an hour, they can get a $15!!! minimum wage and everyone goes home happy. Except the spammers, who might eventually have to quit.

US Navy's LOCUST DRONE CANNON is like death SWARMED up

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Gwyneth Paltrow flubs $29 food stamp dare, swallows pride instead

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Pint

Re: eat this

You can meet the $10 challenge (quid a day) using tortillas... especially if you cheat by using bulk rice and beans and dividing the cost. If you can afford to bring in kale and eggs, you can have a breakfast tortilla. I am also a big fan of the chickpeas.

Anybody with the tools necessary to cook, the patience to look for deals, and a larger budget can eat reasonably well. The savings can go directly to beer.

PleebSmash
Mushroom

eat this

I think she had a good start. Ditch the kale, peas, 3 of the limes, eggs. Get 5 lbs of rice, not 2. Get more beans. Combine the wettened beans, rice, and flour tortillas (corn won't hold up). Add flavor (pick 2 of sour cream, lime, hot sauce, cilantro, cumin, or lemon pepper). Just keep eating that for 7 days. If you run out of tortillas, eat it out of a bowl. Add a daily multivitamin (expired, 10 years old, found in the neighbor's trash).

Here's another top shelf idea: Soylent Hummus. Just make your standard hummus in bulk, add some groundup multivitamins (that's a thing, right?) and slather it on crackers for a week (you can't afford pita).

ICANN banked $60m from dot-word auctions. Just what exactly is it going to spend it all on?

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Badgers

$60 million is only the beginning. There are more auctions, as well as annual TLD renewal fees from what I recall.

PleebSmash
Mushroom

Just whitelist the originals.

Slack raises $160m from investors, gets mega $2.8bn valuation

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Welcome

Re: Hmm, looks interesting

No way is Slack worth $2 billion. Round it up to $3 billion.

Google: Go ahead, XP stalwarts, keep on using Chrome safely all YEAR

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Windows

Last I heard Google is not in charge of making sure Windows users have the latest operating system.

Samsung's PCIe flash card: Slim, speedy, and just nibbling power

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Mushroom

Re: @1980s_coder

Downvote these two posts now if you dislike facts.

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Boffin

@1980s_coder

If we're going to be pedantic, 1 Tb = 125 GB.

Revealed: The AMAZING technology behind Apple's $1299 Retina MacBooks – a lot of glue

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"Sir Jony's juice"

paycheck earned

Google’s plan for WORLD DOMINATION takes shape. And it begins with a patent

PleebSmash

Re: New paradigm

It's novel. Your autonomous Uber needs to yield to other droids in order to receive proper maintenance.

Microsoft cramming free stuff into Galaxy S6es? Not so fast – US telcos

PleebSmash

Re: If you can't beat them ...

20-30% has to beat however low Windows Phone's market share is.

Google research bods hope to lick battery life limits – report

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Welcome

welcome

Google X likes to make things 10 times better. How are they going to make a lithium-ion battery 10x better?

Videogame publishers to fans: Oi, stop resurrecting our dead titles online

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Stop

Re: I feel this won't end well because not enough influential people care about old games.

It's not really about old games, but making something free so g**

This has to do with modders and archive.org, not Google.

ICANN urges US, Canada: Help us stop the 'predatory' monster we created ... dot-sucks!

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Mushroom

Re: Or, in other words.

$184,750 is enough for anybody.

Google wants Marvin the Paranoid Android's personality in the cloud

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Unhappy

Google on the right track.

Douglas Adams may have written satire, but at least Marvin was easy to handle. Plus you can replace its personality.

Comcast: Google, we'll see your 1Gbps fiber and DOUBLE IT

PleebSmash

Re: sarcastic comment...

Split the traffic 400 million ways (~11% of all Internet users in 2018), and that's 125 KB/s (in 2018). It's meagre.

PleebSmash

Re: sarcastic comment...

Ok, so CERN, Square Kilometer Array etc. have their own big traffic numbers, clearly not counted in Cisco's numbers. It still seems like the backbone can't take on too many gigabit users anytime soon.

And if you manage to saturate your gigabit connection, you're temporarily representing 1/50,000 of the global IP traffic circa 2018 (key word being temporarily).

PleebSmash
Boffin

Re: sarcastic comment...

Am I doing the math wrong or is there a lot less throughput for traffic than we think?

Cisco: By 2018, global IP traffic will reach 131.6 exabytes per month.

131.6 EB / (30.4375 * 24 * 60 * 60) = ~50.04 TB per second.

Which is ~40 million saturated 10 Mbps connections.

Or ~4 million @ 100 Mbps, or 400k @ 1 Gbps.

So in 2018, about 40 million people globally can get 1.25 MB (roughly a floppy) in one second. That's an average for the whole month (actually derived from 1.6 zettabytes a year) so it could be higher at times, but it still seems very constrained.

Also, there will be about 3.6 billion Internet users and 7.47 billion global population in 2018, so 40 million is ~1% of the world's Internet users. If 25% or 900 million are online, they are using 55.6 KB per second average.

Cybercrim told to cough up £1m or spend years in chokey

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Found guilty last April, Oshodi is serving an eight-year prison sentence for his part in a phishing attack which netted a gang of eight cybercrims almost £1m of a woman's life savings. According to the Met Police, the gang blew the stolen savings on items from "cheeseburgers to high-end computers and gold". As George Best might say, the rest they just frittered away.

I don't get the feeling Oshodi has £1m sitting somewhere.

Netflix teams with AWS to launch VHS-as-a-service

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Mushroom

REAL

VERY REAL CONTENT

Firefox hits prime time as version 37 manifests

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Black Helicopters

Re: Even more phoning home?

I'm running the developer edition, 38.0a2.

about:preferences#advanced

I'm assuming it's the checkbox labeled "Enable Firefox Developer Edition Health Report". It seems to be unchecked by default, so it could be opt-in (I don't recall changing any defaults since I installed this version). If you check that, you can also check "Share additional data (i.e., Telemetry)". Under that is "Enable Crash Reporter".

The links in this post are the "Learn More" links in the browser's preferences.

Intel boosts low-end PCs, laptops with Atom-powered 'Braswell' SoCs

PleebSmash

Re: Interestingly...

That's probably the correct move for these SoCs.

AMD opens kimono on chip futures a little more

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Re: *tips kimono*

Even if all this heterogeneous computing fails to deliver, you still get a monster graphics card!

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