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I love disruptive computer jargon. It's so very William Burroughs
Saturday 14th October 2017 09:21 GMT
"The French, of course, had a proper committee to organise technical terms [...]"
Fun fact: so does the Vatican.
There is a Latin term for all the modern stuff around us. Poke around a bit, it's fun. Plus, you find a lot of fancy words for mundane stuff that you can use in presentations, reports, job descriptions, job titles on business cards... And as Latin is an officially recognized language in the EU, at least there no one can fault you for using it.
BOFH: Oh dear. Did someone get lost on the Audit Trail?
Top of the radio charts: Jodrell Bank goes for UNESCO World Heritage status
Microsoft is Putin a stop to Russian-sanctions-busting IT resellers
Thursday 12th October 2017 20:44 GMT
Re: Won't work Redmond
"MS is being very stupid (not new there then) if they think that they can stop it."
MS isn't trying to stop it, and MS is anything but stupid here.
MS, as an American company, is trying to show that they are complying with official US policy. The US government is a) a good customer and b) can make life difficult for MS if it chooses to do so.
El Reg was invited to the House of Lords to burst the AI-pocalypse bubble
Give us cash and think about the kids, UK tells Facebook and Twitter
Dumb bug of the week: Outlook staples your encrypted emails to, er, plaintext copies when sending messages
Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox
North Korean hackers allegedly probing US utilities for weaknesses
To Russia, with love: Greek court now says Bitcoin fraud suspect could be tried at home
Sniffing substations will solve 'leccy car charging woes, reckons upstart
Thursday 12th October 2017 11:53 GMT
Yes, so far just some promising lab results (and we all know how that can work out IRL), but still interesting:
Adding a bit of asphalt speeds lithium battery charging by 20 times
Charging fast(er) would make things easier.
Concerns raised about privacy, GDPR as Lords peer over Data Protection Bill
When Irish data's leaking: Supermarket shoppers urged to check bank statements
Dell makes $1bn bet that IoT at the edge can kill cloud computing takeover
Q: How do you test future driverless car tech? A: Slurp a ton of real-world driving data
Apple's iOS password prompts prime punters for phishing: Too easy now for apps to swipe secrets, dev warns
Et tu Accenture? Then fall S3er: Consultancy giant leaks private keys, emails and more online
European Patent Office staff rep blames prez for 'slipping quality'
'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US Deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto
Ex-Autonomy CFO begs court to toss out US fraud allegations
Wednesday 11th October 2017 11:25 GMT
"I remember reading an article a few years ago and the ghist of it was Autonomy set their books up the way UK based companies normally do and HP read them as if they were setup the US way."
That's actually a possibility with a certain probability... Anyone remember when Daimler Benz got listed on the NYSE, some 20 years ago? That year, they had to present two business reports - one done by German accounting standards, one by US accounting standards. Version 1: 2 Bn DEM profits. Version 2: 0.5 Bn USD losses.
New coding language Fetlang's syntax designed to read like 'poorly written erotica'
Star Wars: Big Euro cinema group can't handle demand for tickets to new flick
Tuesday 10th October 2017 17:47 GMT
A comment on the trailer = spoilers situation:
Tuesday 10th October 2017 17:36 GMT
Re: "I'll make time for the original trilogy" / Why?
Nostalgia. Pure and simple. I watched the first one when it came out overe here in Feb 1978, on the big screen, at a very impressionable age, and it was simply two hours of WOW. It's nice to re-live that once in a while, and the prequels and sequels and whatnot can't simply pull that off for me.
Three words: Synthetic gene circuit. Self-assembling bacteria build pressure sensor
BAE confirms it is slashing 2,000 jobs
Hitting 3 nanometers to cost chipmaker TSMC at least US$20 billion
Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work
Tuesday 10th October 2017 09:21 GMT
Re: FB strips data so photos effectivlely C M. Zuckerberg for the next 70 years. Accident?
"[...] you've no idea whether it's even possible to fully turn this stuff off anymore."
Off the top of my head and without any further research on the matter I'll just assume that no, you can't fully turn this stuff off; at least not without a jailbreak.
Australia launches critical infrastructure security reforms
Zuck shows Virtual Empathy by visiting storm-wrecked Puerto Rico in VR
Fast Forward Labs CEO: 'If every idea on the roadmap is a good idea, that scares me a bit'
Video games used to be an escape. Now not even they are safe from ads
Fending off cyber attacks as important as combatting terrorism, says new GCHQ chief
1,000 jobs on the line at BAE Systems' Lancashire plants – reports
UK spy oversight body updates rules to include right of appeal
Let's go live now to Magic Leap and... Ah, still making millions from made-up tech
Monday 9th October 2017 12:52 GMT
Re: Well, yes, but ... and ...
"Reminds me a bit of a little-known scam where a movie production company came into existence just to get its hands on a load of government / EEC grants and funding [...] (can't remember the name of the movie ... anyone ?)"
Sorry, no idea. But it reminds me of a stunt that Joe May alledgedly pulled off in WW1.
Already working as a director in Germany, he had to return to Austria for military service. He managed to get posted to a propaganda unit and talked the Austrian military into investing in a brilliant scam: he would develop a projector that could make images appear in the sky, using clouds as a screen. His pich was that he would use images of his wife, acress Mia May, made up as an angel. This was to be used on the eastern front, convincing the Russian footsoldiers that God was on the side of the Austrians, scaring them away.
May used the time and the money to produce a couple of conventional films and get ready to set up his own production company after the war, which he did in 1919. As the Austro-Hungarian empire was gone, so were his investors.
This story is not in the Jimbopedia article linked above; I've read it in Billy Wilder's biography by Hellmuth Karasek (Billy Wilder, eine Nahaufnahme, Heyne, 2002) - which is based on a series of filmed interviews with Wilder that Karasek made together with Volker Schlöndorff called "Billy, how did you do it?" If you like films and are interested in how they are made, this is a very interesting series to watch.
Monday 9th October 2017 11:56 GMT
Re: Not fake, do your research and stop hating
I did some research, kind of - namely checking your account history - and finding that you seem to have signed up just to post your praise of MagicLeap.
So while I'd like to welcome you as a new fellow commentard, please excuse me for doubting your credibility regarding all things concerning MagicLeap.
Storage pizza from The Register's wood-fired oven
FCC gives Google's broadband balloons 'experimental license' in Puerto Rico
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