Posts by SP2000

Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then?

Deny, delay, doom laden dark crofts

Let’s be honest. Many of the voices “chicken littling” that a phase out of fossil fuels will doom us all to a return to scraping a miserable living in candle lit, dark crofts are the same ones who denied the existence of anthropogenic climate change for decades, and threw out spurious “but the science isn’t settled” delay tactics. Now that the clock is close to midnight on us actually doing something to save our sorry arses they shout “too much, too quickly, too much disruption”. Yeah well, guess what? If you hadn’t spent several decades delaying action and feeding the fossil fuel beast we wouldn’t be facing such a high and steep cliff and worrying about how to get down quickly and safely. 1. Get on the YIMBY wagon for renewables large and small; 2. Stop whinging about the cost and instead actually learn how much direct and indirect financial support governments give to the fossil fuel industry (hint: as well as direct subsidies there’s a

Reason your tax dollars fund defence presence

In the Middle East and it ain’t because we just love watching camels from an F35 or the deck of a warship); and 3. Suck it up princess.

Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report

Dinner Dad Joke (Groan)

All those execs lining up to dine with Xi know which side their bread is buttered on.

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

Re: I can see two cases here

I think the other thing about #1 is that if you dispose of a computer etc you can fairly trivially and irrevocably erase your data, or destroy or replace the drive. From the little documented of the technical detail as to where Honda et al are storage all this harvested data I’m confidently betting you can’t do the same if disposing or selling on your vehicle.

And furthermore, just why? Has there been some previously unknown backroom agreement with law enforcement that was the genesis of this sniffer-tech? Or with the insurance industry which wanted onboard data on phone usage in the event of a crash? Have the manufacturers got some plan for getting value out of the data? Because you just know it’s odds-on that this doesn’t exist and operate this way just on a whim.

Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools

Is a hammer an appropriate or an inappropriate tool to ‘fix’ a Windows server? Asking for a friend…

Apple pushes first-ever 'rapid' patch – and rapidly screws up

This RSR also reintroduces the iOS 16x black wallpaper problem that was supposedly fixed. Turn the phone off and on and your custom wallpaper reappear but as soon as you open and minimise an app or two it’s back to black. “RSR is the new black”

US pressures Asian allies to join crusade against Chinese chipmakers

Re: Good to see the US is keeping the pressure on ....

China has already retaliated, but there’s more to the story than this one El Reg article tells. China, or shall I say “Chinese registered companies that May or may not be loosely coupled extensions of the government” have a track record of stealing the IP of major companies in the chip supply chain. For example the Chinese company Jinhua managed to get details of Micron’s IP regarding DRAM design and manufacturing, which they subsequently applied for their own patents over. Micron sued Jinhau for IP theft and patent breach. Jinhau countersued in the province of Fujian (where they’re HQ’d), and the Fujian court promptly found in Jinhau’s favour and imposed a punishment of barring Micron from selling 26 products into GRC. There’s other examples. Using trade and security controls to stop Japanese, Dutch, and US chip manufacturing equipment is an attempt to stop China capitalising on their already conducted espionage. Advanced chip design and manufacturing are strategic military advantages whether for the US/NATO alliance or GRC, or any other. There’s a big game being played here that goes beyond P&L for any of the individual companies involved.