Posts by Snowy

$69b Activision deal totally helps gamers and saves them money, says Microsoft

Re: We end up with a Soviet economy when these molochs are allowed to grow further

If they do get broken up they have to stay broken up and not allowed to reassemble themselves like Bell did.

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

It has to be

Musk brother by another mother none other than Boris, he was born for the job.

Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff

I would agree with you if it not for the management saying that the new people (mostly WFH) where the problem rather than "the world financial situation" being the problem.

Re: Productivity vs boss?

Toilet breaks not being logged?

I agree if getting the "job done" is great management (who then are rewarded for it) then not getting the job done is also down to the management.

They should not be allowed to reap the rewards of the hob going well and not have to take the pain when it is not going well.

Intel may delay construction of German mega-fab to cut costs

Re: Idea

One of the problems with Optane is Intel wanted it to be a high end solution, so where not that interested in making it cheaper and ultimately that killed it off.

In a down turn

Could be they do not want to bring too much fab capacity on-line in the original time frame and want it to come on-line when the capacity is needed later on.

Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US city

The company in the mirror.

Maybe they also need to changes their way rather than getting others to do it. https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/19/green_tech_to_the_rescue/

Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money

Re: Scammed Milk

Your milking it.

GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price

Re: A new scale of infringement

Put gaming on the side and triple the price or military and there is no limit to the mark up!

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

Re: North Carolina Rednecks Starting the CIVIL WAR...

Have one of these (or one of the other icons if you like) ---->

Re: North Carolina Rednecks Starting the CIVIL WAR...

If "Trump recently called for the US Constitution to be suspended" did happen then that would suspend peoples right to bear arms?

Taiwan bans state-owned devices from running Chinese platform TikTok

Their device

They should be allowed to say what you can run on it.

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

Also cheaper, no redundancy to pay and no recruitment cost when you want them back.

UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas

No mention of 5G

Given that they want to cover the country in it why not just speed up the roll of of 5G in the not spots?

US chip war could hurt the West as Beijing moves to ramp up its own industry

Re: Disrupting the Buld/Buy tradeoff

China's economy is not doing so great.

Re: Thank you for the correct report

You could add broken up empires only to bring their own in.

May or may not hurt the west

The banks will be queuing up to invest anyway.

UK cuts China from Sizewell nuclear project, takes joint stake

Re: Local generation

Yes the dash for the bomb and discarding any nuclear technology if it did not create weapons grade material

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

Re: The hot coffee lawsuit...

A video where a lawyer talks about the coffee cup case and why it was not ridiculous

Given the length of the cards there is not that much space at the end of the card either.

Going from the amount of press this has got I was under the impression lots of cables had melted rather than just 26.

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

Re: Tricky for the Supremes

Thy still have street lighting?

Re: Tricky for the Supremes

Simple if they can see your house from the street your too poor to matter.

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

Single point of failure

With only one pilot what you have is a single point of failure, it is one of the reasons the pilot and the co-pilot generally do not eat the same food.

<quote>Pilots and co-pilots are advised not to eat the same meals when they are working. If something is wrong with the meal (like food poisoning), the other pilot will not be affected and can take over. The rule is not mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration, but most airlines have their own rules about it,/quote>

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

Re: Catch-22

If Twitter disappeared something will replace it.

Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app

Re: Features

That just a matter of scale, plus photos and videos rarely add much to a discussion :O

Another crypto shocker: Major player actually corrects $400m mistake instead of cratering

Re: Re FTX

Crypto matures like fine wine or raw meat?

Re: 320k out, 285k in

Not from what I read in the article, it was sent to the wrong address rather than the wrong amount.

<quote>

Marszalek chimed in with an answer: it was intended for a new cold storage address, but was accidentally sent to a whitelisted external exchange address instead.

It was supposed to be a move to a new cold storage address, but was sent to a whitelisted external exchange address. We worked with Gate team and the funds were subsequently returned to our cold storage. New process and features were implemented to prevent this from reoccurring.

— Kris | Crypto.com (@kris) November 13, 2022

Now that's a big oopsie.

</quote>

It is not clear if they where due to pay some later to that address and reduced the returned amount to cover that but it is unclear if that was the case.

Re: 320k out, 285k in

That is quite a "fee" for returning the money.

Twitter, Musk, and a week of bad decisions

Re: For a Comparison

Quite a lot of it is not his own and of his "own" money quite a lot of that was government money paid to his other businesses.

Re: "turning Twitter into a fee-speech platform"

"turning Twitter into a fee-speech platform" hahahaha!!!

Love that line in the article :)

Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that – trust us – won't take your jobs

Re: Everytime

The Post Office has at least started to pay some compensation but I would like to see some of them who where responsible for the following to face some jail time.

<quoue> These were largely private prosecutions by the Post Office relying on IT evidence alone, without proof of criminal intent. Public prosecutions also occurred in Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the Crown Court. Some SPMs were persuaded by their own solicitors to plead guilty to false accounting, on being told the Post Office would drop theft charges. Once the Post Office had a criminal conviction, it would attempt to secure a Proceeds of Crime Act order against convicted sub-postmasters, allowing it to seize their assets and bankrupt them. According to press reports, these actions by the Post Office caused the loss of dozens of jobs, bankruptcy, divorce, unwarranted prison sentences and one suicide. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal]</quote>

I think I have used the Post Office once in the last 2 years.

Everytime

I see Fujitsu I think the horizon post office scandal. So much so I am actively never going to buy anything from them until they face some punishment for their actions and maybe not even then if the punishment is little more than a tap on the wrist.

EU set to sign internet satellite deal, as UK frees up spectrum

Re: I assume that

I thought that was at the ass end of Britain?

This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all

Star size

A nice video about stars and how big they get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnSDifDSxQ

Chipmakers cripple products to dodge US China ban

Re: Halt

With increased quality binning of parts overclocking is largely dead.

Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering

Both bad and good

Bad they pushed out a patched that broken things, good they are not waiting around to be told they have to do the recall.

Given the patch was on the 11th of October they should know where all the car that go the patch are.

China conflicts prompt chip manufacturing battles in Europe

Found down the back of the sofa

<quote>The warning was made after Taiwan announced an investment of $3.5 million in Lilit, a Lithuanian startup focused on ultrafast laser technology, the news agency said. The investment is the first of three planned investments totaling nearly $10 million in the European country's high-tech industries.<quote>

When Fabs take investment of Billions a few million is pocket change?

SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action

Re: and yet....

They buy insurance and they are then not held accountable.

Unless they have insurance cover for this in which case the insurance would pay it?

A quick search would indicate yes you can buy insurance to cover "Inaccurate or inadequate disclosure"

https://www.agcs.allianz.com/news-and-insights/expert-risk-articles/d-o-insurance-explained.html#:

NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth

12%

Of global Methane is from the growing of rice.

NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

Re: This is never going to work...

Sounds like good odds as that happens 9 times out of 10!

If you think 5G is overhyped, wait till you meet 5.5G

Re: Progress?

Mobile progress is like a shark if not swimming it dies.

GM: Seeing as all y'all like our electric cars, we'll double output next year

Not very many

GM sold about 2.2 millions cars in 2021, going from 44,000 to 70,000 is still a tiny part of their business.

Chinese carriers collectively claim to have cracked a billion 5G subs

I do wonder

How much power all this 5G to useing.

AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Just stop oil protesters.

Are they all going to stop buying anything from anyone who uses any part of Amazon now?

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Incorrect measurement

You mean "Let's eat the cake!, all of the cake!, no cake for the poor!, just cake for me!!"

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

There are no

Nice billionaires!!

Apple remembers it makes iPads, updates fondleslabs

Re: Remind me

All of them I think.

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: She walks away with a beautiful Pension for life...

Seat in the house of lords too?