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Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

Friday 29th July 2016 12:10 GMT NP-HARD

Re: What if you don't drink milk?

Whittingstall is an abject bag-botherer who should be physically restrained from doing further harm

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Friday 29th July 2016 11:51 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Never.

Never. Never. Never. Again? Sounds like the voice of guilty experience.

Shameful you did it even once.

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Chinese crypto techie sentenced to death for leaking state secrets

Wednesday 20th April 2016 11:36 GMT NP-HARD

Peeking Doc with secret source

I'm a bad man

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Cinema boss gives up making kids turn off phones: 'That's not how they live their life'

Monday 18th April 2016 11:53 GMT NP-HARD

I'm happy to wait for VCR release for most movies...

A night out at the cinema costing upwards of £20 p/p, where's the incentive not to stream it and pop your own corn?

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How much faster is a quantum computer than your laptop?

Monday 18th April 2016 11:16 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Quanum leap... in PR magic?

"A D Wave system would consider all of the possible solutions at the same time..."

See headline of Scott Aaronson's "Shtetl-Optimized" blog for why this statement is unadulterated dreck.

"...It's more complicated than I'm making out, of course..."

No it's not, it's simply wrong. And the layman still wouldn't understand.

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Home Office is cruising for a lawsuit over police use of face recog tech

Monday 14th March 2016 12:47 GMT NP-HARD

How to train your neural net

"... “hundreds of thousands” of facial images held in the PND belonged to “individuals who have never been charged with, let alone convicted of, an offence.”..."

Supply it with a huge training set. More data doesn't obsfuscate or encumber the plodbot, but makes it more reliable. If I were developer of such software, I would be demanding data - more and faster.

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Linux Mint forums hacked: All users urged to reset passwords

Monday 22nd February 2016 13:31 GMT NP-HARD

A king's ransom

$85.

Aiming for the big league

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Universal Credit: The IT project that will outlive us all

Monday 25th January 2016 11:42 GMT NP-HARD

...the department does "not have a detailed point-in-time breakdown."

Not even a Gannt chart - is this some kind of mutant agile project then?

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2015 was the Year of the Linux Phone ... Nah, we're messing with you

Thursday 14th January 2016 13:34 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Re Linux Desktop

Throw all the kids in at the deep end and see which of them float.

You are my hero.

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David Bowie: Musician, actor... tech admirer

Tuesday 12th January 2016 12:02 GMT NP-HARD

The only fitting tribute...

Rename the planet.

Dave World.

Ziggy Sphere.

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Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech

Tuesday 8th December 2015 13:46 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Re:Atheism is no more rational and theism.

Great that you learned a useful rule of thumb. Here's some others.

- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

- Hitchen's razor

- Falsifiablility principle.

Consult these before equating religious belief with scientific theory.

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Amazon's new drones powered by Jeremy Clarkson's sarcasm

Monday 30th November 2015 12:15 GMT NP-HARD

Prime real estate

Simple really.

The future on Planet Amazon is: everyone moving home to within 16Km of a depot.

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UK govt sneaks citizen database aka 'request filters' into proposed internet super-spy law

Thursday 5th November 2015 13:25 GMT NP-HARD

Signed

You should too.

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Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse

Tuesday 6th October 2015 11:21 GMT NP-HARD

Re: The problem is, usually Linus is right

The problem is, Torvalds quoted in lowercase.

El Reg ought to start putting him in CAPS as standard.

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Yet another Android app security bug: This time 'everything is affected'

Thursday 20th August 2015 15:17 GMT NP-HARD

Frottage

... of flaws

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US senate committee wants Twitter, Facebook to report 'terrorist' posts

Wednesday 8th July 2015 11:44 GMT NP-HARD

Will never work.

Real terrorists use Puffin Party.

(Icon: nearly a puffin...)

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Surveillance, broadband, zero hours: Tech policy in a UK hung Parliament

Friday 24th April 2015 12:37 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Meanwhile, in Brussels they do Good Things..

I have nothing to hide... I liked the music.

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BILL GATES DRINKS 'boiled and treated' POO. Ah, 'delicious'

Thursday 8th January 2015 12:57 GMT NP-HARD

Hmm. Perhaps instead of the FAIL icon, I should've chosen joke. (Dictionary.com) ...

Delicious - adjective

1. highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell:

2. very pleasing; delightful:

Using definition 1: Bill is imbibing, so the reference which is imparted is to the sense of taste.

(Icon - pedantry).

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Wednesday 7th January 2015 12:49 GMT NP-HARD

"..a glass of delicious drinking water."

H2O: Odourless, colourless, tasteless.

So Bill's machine doesn't work and he enjoys the taste of a mouthful of skat.

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Star Wars: Episode VII trailer lands. You call that a lightsaber? THIS is a lightsaber

Monday 1st December 2014 12:33 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Apparently the big meme so far

GOATSE rocks.

That is all.

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Blade Runner sequel might actually be good. Harrison Ford is in it

Thursday 27th November 2014 13:16 GMT NP-HARD

Re: -1 Geek Point

That'll be the Scandinavian space smugger played by Harry von-Fjord.

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Why did it take antivirus giants YEARS to drill into super-scary Regin? Symantec responds...

Wednesday 26th November 2014 13:05 GMT NP-HARD

Out for tender

"...a state-level team could comfortably engineer and deploy."

Why aren't these guys working on the Universal Credit programme?

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The IT Crowd's internet in a box gets $240k of crowdcash for a cause

Friday 21st November 2014 13:40 GMT NP-HARD

Yes, but is it slightly cheaper than Encyclopedia Galactica?

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Sealed with a kiss: Er, 80 MILLION BACTERIA

Tuesday 18th November 2014 12:14 GMT NP-HARD

So.

It's giving nanny a big kiss that causes potty-mouth

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Bouncy bouncy: Comet probot Philae landed twice

Thursday 13th November 2014 11:56 GMT NP-HARD

"Despite the unorthodox landing..."

I guess the orthodox one is smashing into the comet at huge speed.

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The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning

Wednesday 12th November 2014 12:48 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Do...

Was thinking much the same thing.

I'd be stuffed at work if I couldn't run up a target emulator/VM along with an IDE.

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Greeks best in the world – at, er, breaking their mobile phones

Tuesday 4th November 2014 11:27 GMT NP-HARD

Okay, I'll bite...

Could Greece-y hands be a factor?

It's the one with the doner kebab stains on the collar...

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Coming to a theater near you: the TETRIS MOVIE

Thursday 2nd October 2014 11:21 GMT NP-HARD

I'm looking forward to actors applying 'the method' in this one.

Imagine Liam Neeson getting 'inside the block'. Or Hayden Christensen 'being' the hard-to-fit, evil s-shaped block.

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EE buys 58 Phones 4u stores for £2.5m after picking over carcass

Tuesday 23rd September 2014 11:52 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Looking on the bright side...

Nail bars, tanning shops. These are harbingers of a town's doom.

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Microsoft's new 'Adam' AI trounces Google ... and beats HUMANS

Wednesday 16th July 2014 12:42 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Simulated Annealing

I think what's being described (asynchronous approach) in the article is more like a population-based hill-climbing metaheuristic, rather than simulated annealing. Vanilla SA implementations work with only one solution at a time, making them 'synchronous'.

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Snowden journo boyf grill under anti-terror law was legal, says UK court

Wednesday 19th February 2014 17:15 GMT NP-HARD

Godwin's Law

Speaking of laws unbroken... Has anyone seen those Nazis mentioned yet?

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IT'S ALIVE! China's Jade Rabbit rover RETURNS from the DEAD

Thursday 13th February 2014 16:56 GMT NP-HARD

Dropped a Clanger lander

...Jade Rabbit rescued by Soup Dragon.

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Apple and Samsung STILL in bitchfight over banning ancient mobes

Friday 31st January 2014 17:05 GMT NP-HARD

Re: I wish ...

Valid point, poor example.

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/frozen-greggs-products

[Nuke icon because radiation is only marginally worse for you than a Greggs diet]

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Clink! Terrorist jailed for refusing to tell police his encryption password

Thursday 16th January 2014 13:37 GMT NP-HARD

Re: The Golden Thread

+1 for Rumpole ref.

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Samsung Nexus S beats Galaxy S III – at detecting GAMMA RAYS

Tuesday 14th January 2014 12:32 GMT NP-HARD

That's all well and good but...

which mic is best at detecting whale-song?

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Two million TERRIBLE PASSWORDS stolen by malware attackers

Thursday 5th December 2013 13:10 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Password Scheme

According to https://howsecureismypassword.net/

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

would take 345,000 years to crack. Add another 'a', 8,000,000 years.

Forgetability problem solved....

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What's wrong with Britain's computer scientists?

Tuesday 26th November 2013 17:53 GMT NP-HARD

Re: Functional programming and shift registers

On an (almost) daily basis I find that all the 'interesting' stuff you mentioned is crucial to the software I develop.

Domain knowledge is an important background to effective problem solving.

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US soldiers preparing for civilian life taught coding skills by Microsoft

Tuesday 5th November 2013 13:04 GMT NP-HARD

They've got it the wrong way around.

Surely they should be training Microsofties to be soldiers?

Assuming they haven't shot themselves in the foot already...

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Ohh! The PRECIOUS! Give it to uss. We WANTS it: Shiny iThings coming in 2014

Wednesday 30th October 2013 10:24 GMT NP-HARD

Oooo. The anticipation.

Eagerly awaiting Apple to define me further.

In the meantime, another facial piercing, tribal tattoo and a more sandals...

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The importance of complexity

Thursday 24th October 2013 09:27 GMT NP-HARD

Vehicle Routing Problem, Biclustering, Travelling Salesman Problem

And a few others.

PhD work is focused upon Biclustering for gene-expression data, with side-orders of Vehicle Scheduling. My MSc project involved solving the hoary old TSP with a variety of algorithms.

The question of the importance of complexity is really the importance of finding decent metaheuristics which generate decent solutions to intractable problems. Currently, my results show that Quantum Annealing is a promising alternative to Simulated Annealing, and is also very competitive with other population-based approaches such as genetic algorithms.

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