Posts by RPF

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

Yep, but the CFO keeps his job, while 15,000 get laid off. Standard corporate amorality.

China's top messaging app WeChat banned from Hong Kong government computers

What they actually mean

FIFY:

"Although various government departments have deployed multiple cyber snooping measures, the use of end-to-end encryption technology in services such as personal webmail, public cloud storage and instant messaging may circumvent such measures and make it impossible for us to snoop", it explained.

Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm

Re: Why place physical limits when virtual limits will do

Kids need to buy airline tickets from their phones?

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Re: The Union makes us strong!

Corporate lackeys spotted down-voting your comment!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Speed limits are for safety reasons?

The fundamental principle this is based on is that speed limits are set for reasons of safety.

Here's some news (from a Police Chief Inspector, by the way: in the UK, the lower the speed limit of a road, the LOWER THE STANDARDS OF MAINTENANCE needed.

There are no hard-and-fast rules on speed limits and safety; it is completely arbitrary. However, the maintenance requirements (and the savings thereof) have a huge bearing on the limits set by the authorities.

So lower speed limits are not about saving lives; they are about saving money.

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: Should be given a medal

What an utterly bonkers thing to say.

Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Deliberate pun? "Ad the link"?

Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk's $44.9B payout

Tye 1860s may have been racist, but this has nothing to do with racism. Just because Elon is a rich white guy, that does not automatically make this racist. That is just a nasty little insinuation.

So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters

Re: Best Tablet?

Read some reviews on the TCL Nxtpaper 11 and it seems to be extremely average.

A Chinese crypto farm next to a nuclear missile base? Not on my watch, says Biden

Re: Says Biden?

The President who isn't a convicted rapist, defamer and soon-to-be jailbird, you mean?

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

Re: That was my thought, too.

1 Rouble for you, comrade.

UK Civil Aviation Authority ponders vertiports for flying taxis

Re: Re:Going point to point

Deeply ironic that a glider pilot should complain about other traffic encroaching "their" airspace, when sites like Dunkeswell deliberately infringe EGTE approach path all the time *serious risk to airliners). Most glider pilots are in the "know just enough to be dangerous" bracket.

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

Or brick-layers (99% male), or electricians (97% male)......

Or male models getting around 50% of their female counterparts.

Funny how you rarely hear women up in arms about all those facts.

UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan

Re: Still fighting the last war

Just because drones have proven effective in some roles, that does not mean manned fighters are a waste of money. There isn't a drone around that could take out a Bear turbo-prop bomber, let alone an Su-23 or even Su-31.

Surprise! Email from personal.
[e-mail] is not going to contain good news

Re: BTC price

Bitcoin is designed not to do that, which is why crims love it.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

Re: Re-purposing Already Happening

Despite the downvotes, you are correct. 98.27% of electricians in the UK are male.

https://careersmart.org.uk/occupations/equality/which-jobs-do-men-and-women-do-occupational-breakdown-gender

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

I cannot even being to imagine the regulatory headaches - never mind the technical ones - of bringing in a passenger service like this. I get the feeling Stratolaunch have no idea what they're getting into in that regard.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: I'm actually on Musk's side on this

Don't be so naive. Every company gets the union it deserves.

If the company was run reasonably, there's no way people could be "forced" to pay their own hard-earned money to subscribing to a union they didn't want.

As for Musk not liking organised labour, that's a very strong cue that he has no idea of the positive outcomes achievable by working with a union (making his workforce happier, more motivated, etc.).

UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program

Re: Crabs

Correct.

The UK economy as a whole needs to wean itself off cheap labour. Manual farm-labourers, cheap coffee-shops and cheap foreign-sourced scientists or health-care workers are not going to move the UK forward as an advanced economy.

In this case, home-grown post-doctorate researchers will just have to be paid a fair wage, which is absolutely not a bad thing!

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: Delusional narcissist

Thing is though, you're claiming MM don't have a right to "free speech"; only you and Musk do.

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Librewolf user here; happily not affected by this as of yet.

Also to those affected, there are some good YT videos on how to get around this, hilariously.

Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all

Re: Simple

Hong Kong's tax code is amazingly simple, isn't it? Also, Hong Kong government is very rich. Sceptics might think our tax code is labyrinthine for a reason.

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

I know several companies where all employees use Apple hardware. UX companies.

You can now install Linux on even M1 Apples. You can install Linux and Windows on older x86-chip ones, too.

TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B

Re: Amazon misleading!

VERY misleading. Zero corporation tax in the UK 2 years running....on a turn-over of billions.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

Re: Taken in bits it need not be too soul destroying

https://bgr.com/tech/app-privacy-labels-facebook-messenger-vs-imessge-signal-whatsapp/

Meta's Oversight Board wants a prime minister banned from Facebook and Instagram

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

Hun Sen is Cambodia's Putin.

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

Also Putin-bot.

M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout

Re: Falling

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-finally-authorizes-windows-11-on-apple-m1-and-m2-macs/

Ads for lucrative jobs in Asia fail to mention chance of slavery as crypto-scammer

The Cambodian government are possibly worse than the gangs. They basically kidnap foreigners and then extort release money from them, as well.

Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns

Re: it's control is going to be entirely beyond the ability of a human to manage in the first place

Trouble is, your signal can be jammed.

Twitter blocks Pakistan government account, boosts state-run media from Russia and China

Re: The only policy that means a crap in twitter these days...

Also pro-Ukrainian posts are being de-prioritised.

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Re: Sshhhhh!!!!!

Diet and lifestyle.

Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

Wonder if "snow-flake" is a gendered term?

Re: I, for one, would be honored!

Seriously different generation now than the E.W Brown era.....

Google: Turn off Wi-Fi calling, VoLTE to protect your Android from Samsung hijack bugs

Re: Wifi calling on? Really?

Or perhaps you live somewhere with no/poor signal, like 5% of the UK.

Perhaps - like me - your house was build in the 16th century and has 3-foot thick walls which block mobile signal.

Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live

Good piece, well done.

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Re: Nazi invasion...

Your figures are of course wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)

"About 14,200–14,400 people were killed in the war, the vast majority of them in the first year: 6,500 pro-Russian separatist forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,404 civilians on both sides of the frontline"

Your narrative is also - of course - wrong as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

"The next day, 22 February, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office by 328 to 0 (about 73% of the parliament's 450 members).....Russia condemned the events as a "coup". Pro-Russian, counter-revolutionary protests erupted in southern and eastern Ukraine"

So there were no "Neo-nazis", no "attack on Russian speakers" and far fewer civilian casualties. Russia also had no responsibility over Ukrainian territory, either.

Seems you're the ignorant one.

Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet

Sadly not.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/21/ai_beats_f16_pilot/

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

Re: What's wrong with the old encrypted Excel file stored locally?

Syncing across 3 devices all with 3 different OSes is quite tricky with this solution.

I've dumped Data Guardian AES256-bit encrypted files + DropBox for BitWarden because this was just too damn hard to keep working/using.

Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery

Re: Incompetent IT leaders in GSTT

Bet they're far from alone, especially in the NHS world.

Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets

Re: Can be done - small boys doing it already

Totally different requirements for that type of aircraft.

Re: An step in the path to reduce the number of pilots needed to fly commercial.

Because "SAFETY is our first priority" (TM)?

Re: An step in the path to reduce the number of pilots needed to fly commercial.

A stall is a stall. Those AF guys messed up hugely, sad to say.

Re: reducing the crew cost of operating the plane

GPS-only autoland is now possible. Regulators still being cagey about it, though.

Five British companies fined for making half a million nuisance calls

Those fines are at least 2 orders of magnitude too low.

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

Pilots are THE LAST LINE OF DEFENCE for when systems break down.

Accidents very rarely just happen because the pilots mess up; there will be systemic (poor maintenance, Boeing MCAS...) and circumstantial factors such as weather, fatigue, etc as well.

So while it may appear that pilot errors cause a lot of incidents, pilots head off HUGE numbers of potential incidents every day.

This single-pilot thing is purely economically driven and as a very experienced military and civil aviator, I can tell you it's total bullshit safety-wise.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: The Hospital versions..

Correcting a factual error is not insubordination.

Hong Kong hopes to trawl the world for tech talent to build IT city

Re: Good luck with that

Or even have criticised the regime in the past!

Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal

Re: those further away than geostationary orbit tend to depart (eventually).

However, without the Moon, the Earth's axis becomes totally unstable, which would cause huge problems, such as permanent Winter for some areas, permanent day/night for others, or just huge variability worldwide.