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Russian IT pros flee Putin, says tech lobby group

Re: Wonder where they went

And that is bollocks. Punishing people that clearly do not support Putin,we should welcome them.

Intel eyes subscriptions to grow software sales from 2021's $100m

Accounting and valuation.

Opex is seen as manageable and Capex as dangerous and "needed risk".

By moving the Capex to opex the ratios the investors look at improve, and the company is not only worth more, but the rating is better.

With better rating, financing is both easier and cheaper.

And it makes no sense.

Where are the (serious) Russian cyberattacks?

Re: Cyberattack = real attack

Plenty of the hacks attributed to Russian and Chinese hackers do not originate there. This is well known in the industry.

Where do they originate is open to debate.

AMD confirms Ryzen chips' stuttering performance on Windows 10, 11

Re: Yuck.

Obviously you can't.

Azure flaw allowed users to control others' accounts

Re: Bring back dedicated, on-prem servers!

Infind it way more expensive, but you can avoid both incompetent and sadly brilliant people.

Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told

Re: Goods vs Services

Most modern engines have a ton of plastic parts, even on the lower internal part of the engine.

In 30 years most will be dead, no way to rebuild them.

Also, the electronics are a big issue. The ecms etc are complex, but worse still,maps etc are harder and harder to get, so you can't have them running on other hw with ease.. it is a big issue.

'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues

Re: "Of course you realize, this means war"

Guilty till proven innocent? I can't like that.

'We gave it our best shot' Nvidia CEO tells Wall Street after failed Arm deal

Re: Nvidia are moving on nicely...

And any sane very large non us company should giving it a really good look, if they don't want to be squeezed out Huawei style.

European Union takes China to WTO over smartphone patents

Re: Tit for tat.

They have always ignored the IP.

Then they started playing by the rules, because it benefitred them, and we stopped playing by the rules (see Huawei).

A sad situation where most people don'tcare about fair or the law.

And Chinese courts? well, good luck if you are not chinese.

UK starts to ponder how Huawei ban would work

Re: Why do you keep tip-toeing around the bush ?

We need both the US and China, but more the US.

The situation is ridiculous.

Cisco can't say when long waits for hardware will end

Re: In the world of corporate IT

Plus the "obsolete routers" are almost the same as the new ones.

Cisco just refuses to deliver the sw to old products, hey, you got to sell new kit!

World's top chipmaking equipment maker claims Chinese rival may infringe IP

Re: No one steals more IP than USA

Most of then used to be HDDs back then, a mix of old stuff and stingy company.

Re: No one steals more IP than USA

Several colleagues of mine got their laptops cloned at the airport when I worked for a company in Spain that also designed military hardware.

It was banned to go to the us with a non burner laptop if you worked for the military arm.

So yes, they do steal if they can.

India bans drone imports to help local manufacturers take off

Re: IP concerns

Obvious: ignore ip for local manufacturing, particularly chinese ip.

I don't see it having a big success.

Roads

Roads need maintenance!!

'Boombox' function sparks Tesla recall

Re: Uh

Bureaucrats and that is it.

Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal

Re: 3 9s....

For a certain definition of hours.

Like 6 hours of your work day.

Trio of Rust Core Team members take their leave

Re: Fashions

Hilarious. Way way worse that it would be with java

I gave rust a try, it was nice, but why why another one?

You're fabbing it wrong: Chip shortages due to lack of investment in the right factories, says IDC

Re: The UK is failing

You have to concentrate on what you have competitive advantage, what you do best, and let others do what they do best, this is what has given so much more advancement to the world.

The problem is, with the huge increase in costs, etc etc, we are getting worse at the crucial things..

Re: Sounds like a fine business model

Long term contracts? Ok, as long as the client has to pay for not manufacturing.

The thing is, why sign such a contrac with no warranty? It is not in the interest of the foundry.

They did in the past, and were left holding the bag. They don't want to do it anymore.

As for designing with repleaceable components.. ha! They mostly don't design the cars, just RFP parts of the cars to be designed, squeeze the suppliers and at most put the 3rd party parts together as cheaply as possible.

Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month

Re: Ink?

Buying online is easier than on a b ick and mortar.. at least to most people. And the printer gets delivered!

I got a laser printer with scanner quite cheap, BW.

Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors

Re: I may have missed something, but ...

This being SAP, I would say this is more "victims" than clients.

The plan is to increase revenue and benefit from the same customer base.. that is a good reason to just run.

Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out

Re: Defective?

Is it a bug or did they just do in on purpose so it is faster? I don't know, but looks like a nice way to speed up the processor.

Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations

Re: Low hanging fruit

It is more of shaking people for their valuables. Rich people tend to use expensive lawyers and accountants, so there are both more likely to file taxes correctly and be able to defend themselves. Plus they might be politically connected, so breaking the law to go after them might be risky.

This is why when enforcement increases it is the middle class who suffers the inspections, the malpractices, etc, rich enough to collect, poor enough not to be able to defend themselves.

Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'

Nope

No, it is not.

There are way cheaper tools, that are comparable.

And with the dame amount of money you can build way better systems.

Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits

Compete

The new machines allow you to be way more productive. But are also designed to fleece you.

So you are at the mercy of the qctual owners of the machines, Deere.

Nope

The machine says no. Thats it.

And then, the field technician comed with the proprietary sw and the machine tells the technician the actual problem. Not you.

So you local out of work tech would be as clueless as you, as a combine is extremely complex and you only get a "pay now" light.

Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them

Re: shared medium

Worse, collisions.

This is a horrible idea, now devices will use 3x the channels.

This should never have been approved, wifi frequencies are few, and shared.

Big shock: Guy who fled political violence and became rich in tech now struggles to care about political violence

Re: Doh!

I did.

And I got a LPG car as it pollutes next to nothing.

Was awarded administrative hurdles and mockery.

So after that one I got a diesel.

Autonomy founder's anti-extradition case is like saying Moon made of cheese, US govt tells UK court

Re: Buyers’ remorse

Sue them in the Uk. It is absurd thet they get sent to the us.

Singapore monetary authority threatens action on bank over widespread phishing scam

Re: Avoid all online accounts

Seen that happen.

North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report

Re: cryptocurrency

Crypto is in general the opposite of untraceable. The ledger is public.. that is the whole purpose!

what you don't know is who is who.. unless you do some analysis.

Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

Re: I'm shocked, shocked I say!

If you received a shock, Slimy and Assoc are leading a class action lawsuit against them!

Re: Firefox and uBlock

They don't even care about scam ads.

If scam ads are reported and they don't do anything about them they should be on the hook.

Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements

Re: Oracle is like ransomware

This is why people are running away from them.. but for legacy software, it is not soneasy.

Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes

Re: I should sue Canon

Quick, we need a class action. Fire the lawyers.

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

Re: Spotify for open source?

Wrong incentives there.

But having a nominal payout for pay for projects would be adequate.

Like "we would like $XX per YY use, we won't enforce it". That would be quite sustainable for everyone, expectations would be clear for everyone.

Nvidia promises British authorities it won’t strong Arm rivals after proposed merger

The new Intel

Nvidia wants to corner the market.

The shift to ARM is obvious, and most portable devices seem to be going towards ARM.

The GPU market is essentially owned by Nvidia, at least mid market upwards except consoles, that is owned by AMD on value, but Nvidia is behind the switch (it essentially is an Nvidia design).

Whoever owns arm looks like will be in control of the the computer market in the future.. that is why they want to own it.

Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

Re: Why didn't Google

Look at the patents. They patented obvious stuff.

Apple custom chip guru jumps ship to rejoin Intel

Re: My cynical side thinks this is no accident.

That is how I see it.

He demonstrated what he probably was not allowed to do at Intel..

India says: Xiaomi the $88m in missing import taxes, please

Re: "the company could remotely enable censorship tools"

Meanwhile google and apple will scan your files "for security and think of the children".

While yes, the Chinese are among the worst offenders, I don't like where we are headed, privacy and liberty wise.

Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved

Re: Still Skeptical

They can live with the US market alone.

The plan is to fleece rich countries and get some extra money from poor ones.

And by fleece, I mean what looks like reasonable in the US.

Re: The problem with ... most American companies is they see the world as their "market"

Outside of cities it does make sense.

What India is doing seems odd, I get that you do need a license, but strikes me of defending the local companies and making sure traffic is logged, etc.

IBM bosses wrongly sacked channel salesman after Tech Data joint venture failed, tribunal rules

Re: Justice is slow

Remedy will be very low, the law seems designed for this.

In this case, the fair thing would be to receive a lot of money plus the option to get the job back.

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

The car companies did it to themselves, by leaving the foundries holding the bag and cancelling the orders, as they always do and screw their suppliers.

Well, this time the foundries found other clients quite keen on using spare space.

When the car companies realised their mistake, the foundries were not happy with their clients, having put them on a critical situation for a second time. Can't blame the foundries for not giving the car companies priority.

Online retailers delaying sales of Raspberry Pi 4 model until 2023, thanks to a few good chips getting scarce

Re: all eggs, one basket

Yes but worse. We did not want factories, we wanted the products.

So plenty of the design, industrialization of designs, and the factories themselves, all offloaded to China.

Now they are the ines that know how to build stuff, and we know how to support it, and more importantly, do the marketing.

The problem, of course, is that they know they just need marketing... And this is why we are on the beginning of a cold war with them, because we cannot compete any more. I mean, we could, but the marketing and beancounter team says "no".

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

Re: Remember folks

That is even more annoying.

Our old, almost unsupported software is fine. The new stuff is what is affected.

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Re: Wait for Windows 12, I guess

W10 wasn't this bad when released.

Yes it had issues, but not so terrible.

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

Donations

Not bribery, "they just put them innthe radar".

The same with legislation giving car companies subsidies if they have unions.. certainly not bribery after the support he got from them.

MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer

Re: Moved to MariaDB

Is it primitive? Yeah.

But also runs on anything.

For a small ddbb a few reports, etc, it is fine.