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Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

Antikythera

Can you show that the Antikythera was Turing Complete?

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

Re: Still In the Steampunk Era

> we still use water-aggregate transitions to generate power. Okay.

> Question 1: What exactly is the problem with that method in your opinion?

It just seems like a shockingly complicated way to get enough heat to boil water to spin a turbine generator.

Why not just exploit the temperature difference between the surface and deep in the earth's crust? Maybe use thermoelectric generators, rather than turbines.

Or use the sun to irradiate photovoltaic generators*? Distribution cables to move it to the dark side of the globe could well be cheaper than thousands of fusion power plants.

How about putting the same research effort into drastically reducing our energy needs?

* yes, I know we do that bit:)

Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself

Re: ads aimed at you as you drove down the highway

All long foretold by the very wonderful P K Dick!

Bless his prescient soul and please don't revive him as an AI.

DeepSeek's iOS app is a security nightmare, and that's before you consider its TikTok links

DeepSeek wouldn't let me compromise my devices!

What surprised me was that DeepSeek won't let me set up an "account", because it doesn't recognise my email address*.

* The one that uses my own domain.

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

No boiling required!

"Century eggs"* have wonderfully yummy, runny, yolks and firm "whites", without using raised temperatures.

* AKA 100 year old eggs.

FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit

Crazies?

It looks like crazies all the way down for the next 4 years.

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

Asteroids don't do targetting, but I expect that Kim Jong Un has already spotted an opportunity to nudge it* with the latest DPRK rocket.

* but not in a good way.

Re: Makes note in diary

and ear defenders!

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

Re: Rubbish!

Don't tariffs reduce the exports, so hurting the exporter too?

Do the Trumpisti think that you can ramp up US production in days?

Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

How refreshingly simple, It must feel good to live in such a simple mind.

Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars

Re: God is protecting Trump from assassins. Trump said so himself, so it must be true.

Why is Trump so silent on why the dad near him got killed? Was he an evil dad?

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: which way is NATO moving?

I'd add Cuba and the Philippines to that list of invasions.

BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints

My prediction

I'm seeing a big future for boot friendly, petrol or derv powered chargers, with horrific emissions.. They're probably already on AliBaba.

That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

CES? We've heard of it.

Isn't the Big One held in Berlin anymore?

Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung

Re: As an ex-engineer

There have only been a few leaps, most advances are thoroughly incremental and we've mostly been buying prototypes ever since someone discovered how to flake flint.

Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station

Outgassing?

It's hard enough to get "clean" solid objects to stop outgassing in high vacuum apparatus. What instruments will be no go in an outgassing woodensat?

Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service

Re: Is that what you want? Is that what you really want?

'Elo, 'elo!

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

Re: Social Darwinism

It's time to get ready for school AC.

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns

Re: Question.

The 1980 Iran rescue wasn't helped by the mission flight duration being longer than the 8 hour MTBF (mean time between failures) of the Sea Stallion helicopters involved. Does any one know the current MTBF for Black Hawks?

Trust Boeing?

> Would you trust them if they said they could?

Keep up, we don't trust anything that Boeing says or does!

Re: Manpads

I know that raw troops "lose control", but even NASA Diapers aren't that expensive!

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Re: The other meaning of redundant

@diodesign That's probably an argument for using Indian English, rather than USA English. Personally, I love it when we get articles from the Antipodes. Let's leave it as a free for all, or standardise on the original.

Would you do this with units? Let's stay with ElReg and SI units only.

Apart from that, diodesign articles are a model of good technical journalism and I 'm pleased that you read and respond to comments.

Google blocked 1,000-plus pro-China fake news websites from its search results

misinformation?

Who will filter out the USA misinformation for the rest of us?

Qualcomm triples Windows on Arm OEM design wins since May

Re: Most users dont care about X86 or ARM

Snapdragon? £75 million! Don't we already know it's a flower?

NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft

So it seems they want to reduce the sonic boom to imitate the most obnoxious sound in my street?

Although I'm not in favour of adding extra failure modes to passenger cars, motorised car doors would be a godsend. Actually, motion "dampers" aka "shock absorbers" would probably do as well.

I think the key to supersonic travel is evacuated tunnels under the oceans.

New Jersey man admits shipping sanctions-busting tech to Russia

Re: " ..military-grade spectrum analyzer."

Isn't "military grade" another way of saying "robust but unsophisticated"?

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

Dumped? There must be some money to be made!

I'd expect this to turn up, with a shedload of would be immigrants, floating off the French Coast. (When a Southerly breeze is forecast.)

Meta spruiks benefits of open sourcing Llama models – to its own bottom line

Re: Ozbureau Model of Language?

Bonzer spruik, mate.

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Worth a Cheer?

Isn't this the first sane act by the Russian authorities in a very long time?

If they can put Google out of business, they may gain a little respect from those of us who remember the Internet, pre-enshittification.

Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow

Ageing sewers?

What kind of high pressure sewage system did they install 50 years ago?

Thank goodness we haven't upgraded our 150 year old Victorian sewers in the UK!

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Re: Leave the clocks alone

> So all the daylight we've saved over the years - what happened to it ?

Wasn't it used to keep a lettuce alive while our economy collapsed?

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

Good on you Huawei, it's time that more gizmos followed your lead.

With one small exception*, Harmony OS works fine for me in the UK.

* BBC Sounds App doesn't work, but I can just access BBC Sounds on the Web.

Flying taxis cleared for takeoff under new US aviation rules

Re: Fairey Rotodyne?

Those were the days! Did the FAA ever certify a Rotodyne?

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Re: I have one problem with USB C

Which 'phone sized power socket would overcome that problem?

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

Dabsy?

Is his your new nom de plume?

Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around

Monopoly?

Is Airbus about to become a monopoly, or are their any viable alternatives to Boeing on the horizon?

Lockheed? Embrarer? Bombardier? What's the Chinese aviation industry up to? Is India developing anything?

After 27 years, Tcl/Tk 9 finally arrives with 64-bit power and Zip file magic

O'Reilly?

Can we expect a 4th Edition?

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

Re: Not in kitchen >you need sprinklers!

Yes, but then you need sprinklers that avoid chip pan fires.

Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order

Xeeting!

That's a great verb, I presume that I say it as if it starts with a "Chi": cheeting!

Chinese boffins advocate nuking nearby asteroids – it’s the only way to be sure

Nuked on both sides?

That way will keep more of the debris on the same course as the original asteroid!

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

Re: Reminds me of ...

When I was about 8, I can remember drawing, then cutting out letters from a card, stencil style, then cutting the card and folding it into a box. We were given safety razor blades that we slipped into a holder that covered one edge. I don't remember any blood, but I do remember proudly taking a cardboard box home that had the word "EXIT" on the front.

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

How long before the inevitable collisions make low Earth orbit useless?

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS

Photo? What photo?

NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers

Re: No Mention Of Latency........

Errm, isn't the law 186,000 miles per second?

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation

Brick Lane Datacentre?

Just curious, having lived close for many years, what is the Brick Lane data centre disguised as?

A French restaurant?

A subterranean sweatshop?

A beigel shop?

A shisha café?

A hipster hangout?

....

Surely not a singara kitchen?

Are you literally from the USA?

Re: Try to keep it culturaly correct please

Isn't the proper English word: PRIVY?

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

Re: UnDeadly to Whales or Wales

> What a Hobson’s choice for Americans.

Are there really no other parties and candidates in the USA anymore?

I remember when the Communist Party of the USA used to field candidates, perhaps they still do? Are there other parties?

Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub

Re: What a useless product - Rabbit?

Here in the UK, I guess that the youth of today wonders why so many old houses have Octagonal aerial enclosures at roof level! They probably think it's some relic of the Cold War.

Glass rain, supersonic winds, and Eau de Rotten Egg – just another day on HD 189733 b

Re: sounds like a lovely time in Iceland.

Iceland is better, because you also get snow, earthquakes, dead calm and sunshine, usually all on the same day. Besides that, I bet the beer is better in Iceland.