Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims

Cluedo is the least of your worries

Where do the spare parts for your AC or your water systems or trucks come from?

How many of those parts are made in China? How much spare stock do you think the contractors are buying now and paying 145% tax upfront and hoping that nothing political will change in 6 months before they can sell the part and recover their money.

During Covid we had several weeks of "boil water advisory" because they couldn't get a part for our small town's antique water-treatment plant. Since our municipal works dept hasn't gone full Maoist and created backyard foundries and water treatment filter making operations - I assume the supply chain is still pretty remote.

Once local supply houses are out, we are all going to be paying tariffs + whatever the maker demands + express airfreight for everything to keep homes, services, factories, offices, running this summer

Do you need any bits of your PC, outside the exempted CPU/GPU ?

The case and power suppler makers don't have the lobbying power of Intel or NVidia so aren't going to get a deal.

Expect $200 budget cases and $500 PSUs. If you can get them, because nobody is shipping components right now not knowing what the tariff will be in a month when they arrive, or in 6 months when you sell them for back-to-school or Christmas

Re: Damn.

So we've fired all those meteorologists, nuclear weapons engineers, cancer researchers etc - they can spend the winter hand carving chess pieces. In a 1000 years they will be valuable

Make America Medieval Again

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

Re: Butter Males

> It goes without saying he's unqualified for SecDef.

Depends whose side he is actually on

Re: Session vs Signal

The editor of The Atlantic might not have the app installed.

Security through obscurity, we only installed Russian language apps so MSNBC journalists can't use them

Re: Maybe, just maybe

I believe the traditional solution is to simply define those peoples as non-, or sub-human.

Then there is no problem bombing them, except possibly protests from PETA

(It might not work in Britain where defining Palestinians as animals would result in massive popular support.)

Re: Who is to blame?

You don't even to spend the $5.

Just respond to a senior cabinet members' Twitters saying "I bet you're not even important enough to know any secrets, you little sexual slur"

And wait for the inevitable response of Top Secret information posted to the entire world

Re: Who is to blame?

>an end user will invariably make some seemingly trivial error

Such as being the head of the largest military in the world and ordering a private internet connection into your office to avoid the highly secured military ones so you can chat to your political buddies and their friends on Signal / Telegram / some app you found on warez.ru

We've all done it. After I became Emperor of France and became overconfident following my glorious victory at Austerlitz I decided to fight a land war in Asia and invade Russia.

Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry

Re: Cognitive dissonance strikes again

>We should reduce yet we build more

"We" being the customers.

They aren't building data centers for fun, or just to destroy the planet <evil laugh>

If customers will pay more for eco-goodness, then they will build eco-goodness data centers and charge more.

If not, then anyone that builds eco-goodness loses money and goes away.

So either customers demand eco-goodness and agree to pay more, or government forces them to do eco-goodness and prevents customers buying elsewhere.

New Intel boss is all about ‘de-laborating’ the x86 giant – aka job cuts

A cunning plan

Every part of Intel individually lose money, so if they cut them all they will be profitable

Booby-trapped Alpine Quest Android app geolocates Russian soldiers

Re: Very Boring Russian Campaign

>the US president is being “played” by Vladimir Putin

Is it "played" if you are paying him? I think the term is employed, or retained, or owned

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

>Donald Trump story can now be seen as merely a variant on the Trojan Horse.

He's full of Greek soldiers?

Doctors aren't normally trying to kill the patient to save money. (that's the insurance company's job)

Re: He’s just a rich boy

Couldn't he have taken up something less destructive? Like golf or catapulting endangered species into volcanoes

But that's because Tesla had saturated the liberal hippy Portlandia types.

By pivoting to the right, he opens up the whole Oregon survivalist / militia types who are an obvious market for $100K cybertrucks with gun-racks

Assuming Tesla takes crypto, cos they don't use USD cos that's how the government tracks you and gives you autism

Fortunately this does appeal to the far-right electric vehicle buying environmentalist demographic

Sales should be booming across the weirder bits of rural Oregon

Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M

Re: RIP NI Land Registry

That's the cunning and brilliant plan.

Northern Ireland is quite small. But by the land registry constantly 'overdrawing' this area and forcing the locals to pay back any 'extra' missing land - soon they will have expanded into the entire island and, by next quarter, conquered the World

>keep the money in country to some extent and UK jobs active.

Or you could find a small N. Irish company - Belfast has a thriving software startup scene - with a GIS system, a couple of DBAs and a web developer.

Instead of £100M going on executives and lobbying and £20M going to consultants and £5M to some offshore developers

>situations where the legal boundary declarations where for two parcels of land for a single property going back many years....It is simply easier to do nothing, and pass it all along to the next owner

I think that stands as an explanation of British-Irish history

Re: Yes, actually - townlands vs parishes vs sheriffdoms etc

So is this new system going to:

1, not allow different names for certain cities.

2, allocate same land in Stroke city to different people

3, not allow names with apostrophes

4, not allow diacritics in names

9, all of the above

Developer scored huge own goal by deleting almost every football fan in Europe

Re: It never gets old

I remember when the Garbage Collectors were hard

Re: Deleted nearly every football fan in Europe

DELETE FROM football_fans WHERE passport = 'UK';

leaving only Man-U with any followers

Re: Ah, production databases

Oooh look at you with your fancy "off the production server" server.

We didn't even have a production server, we had to type responses live, from memory

Re: XMLT

because if you wrote all that nasty C++ code in nicely formatted XML which could be used to generate pretty inheritance graphs then you wouldn't have any of those annoying software bugs

Re: XMLT

XSLT - the successor to the famous "you have a problem, you decide to use AWK, now you have 2 problems"

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: Science is now settled

The UK court accepts the existence of women now ?

Re: Typo alert.

We need to get tough on economics and their equations

Re: Institute for Pure American Physics

As long as we get rid of al-gorithm and his al-gebra

Re: Institute for Pure American Physics

Yes that was the "last arms race" when the country that discovered nuclear fission lost out in the build a nuclear bomb competition to a bunch of foreskin-negative Hungarians

Institute for Pure American Physics

Won't be doing any of that decadent $ETHNIC physics.

How did that work out in the last arms race?

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

Re: LOL

Fortunately Europe are our closest friends and allies, we would never do anything to drive Europe into the arms of China.

Who themselves stole millions of published books from libgen.

Time to report to your job at the t-shirt factory.

Re: Unreasonable Assumption

It isn't the US government, it's only Congress.

Touchingly quaint that you think Congress still has any role in government beyond being a retirement home for insider traders.

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Re: If you can give a dictator credit

But it's not clear that any other developed country worships ignorance in quite the same way as the USA

Re: Grok transcript

I really do not need the image of Trump + Musk playing "Edward II + Piers Gaveston"

Re: Grok transcript

Don't Americans care at all about history ?

What about guillotine or an axe ?

Or even the classically fitting, if potentially messy, pouring molten gold down the emperor's throat

But what if the well organised Militia are "monarchists" ?

Re: Trump et al

>No one inside the US seems to be prepared to go up against him.

Except the bond markets

"never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!

But the 1st law is "do not piss off the bond markets if you want a political future"

Re: America isn't a democracy any more

But Eisenhower was a woke commie DEI hire

Re: America isn't a democracy any more

It was really just a mistranslation.

Faced with a Royal Navy blockade of coal imports there was a national plan to shift steam engines to run on native bushes and shrubs.

Mussolini wanted to make the trains run on Thyme

Re: America isn't a democracy any more

Except, nobody makes the trains run on time

Dems wrote a stern letter

To be followed up by a major tut-tutting and if that fails it may be escalated to a severe pursing of lips and perhaps a frowny face

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Re: Coordination between USA and EU

It's a big advantage to corporations to have a fractured system.

You are required to disclose any attacks or vulnerabilities publicly.

But we did. We posted to the (checks notes) Azerbaijan ZX81 User Group Vulnerabilities list server

It's like the local newspapers in Bumfuck-Nowhere USA which are full of small print ad announcements of requests-for-tender which have to be "published" before you give the contract to your favourite political donor and only bidder

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

Cos Open Source

It's an often overlooked benefit of open source - the kid in the bedroom is learning the systems that run the world.

Back in the early Cretaceous when I wor a student I was pretty expert on the University's own mainframe, which ran whatever half in-house OS GEC mainframes ran back then. I even had some "practical" VAX-VMS experience from doing projects in the grad student labs.

But I couldn't get jobs cos all this was irrelevant for any office that was running some DOS or Wang or Banyan Vines app that nobody else had heard of.

By the early 2000s I could hire sysadmins that left school at 16 but had half-a-dozen years of experience of building Linux system and would configure sendmail (it was a different time, we didn't consider it child abuse back then)

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Or at client site

Bad news if you work on Mars Rover software

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Re: Damage done

Yes I wasn't critical of the guy that was persuaded to jump.

But if there is fatal political pressures on security companies then they are no longer trustworthy

Damage done

Why should I now trust SentinelOne anyway?

Presumably to keep their security clearance they have to abide by the Presidential line. So if they announce that China-very-very-bad is responsible for an attack or that an ongoing attack from Russia is fake-news, why am I paying them if they are just a replay of Trump's Twitter feed ?

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

Re: "I think this is a realistic fear nowadays"

Although you can't trust the OS on those servers isn't phoning home,

If you really cared about your Tea shop's data you would build you own machines

California sues President Tariff

Re: No Power

> If SCOTUS ordered the arrest of Trump and the Department of Justice said NO then there would be nothing that SCOTUS could do

Other than by doing this they end the United states as a going concern

If there is no rule of law other than what the president says - how do you do business, how do you run courts, how do you do trade?