Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

Re: Laws

Why? It's the core of American values: one share - one vote !

Re: Daemon and Network

fmri isn't as reliable as you would think, not even for dead salmon

Re: The two biggest threats...

So you're saying one guy really wanted the job and proactively went for it by dynamically empowering his supporters while the other one just sat around waiting for the government to sort it out?

Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman

I wonder if human driven cars would be allowed if they were invented today?

I can't imagine anyone would look at the task of extracting gunk from under miles of rock under the North Sea, getting it to shore, chemically breaking it down into a volatile, explosive and carcinogenic liquid, distributing that to billions of ordinary people and expecting them to drive around sitting ontop of a can of it feeding it into an engine where is explodes and dumps the fatal-if-inhaled waste product onto the street - and conclude that is was a practical proposition

>God bless the United States of America.

But which one?

JHVH hasn't exactly been a major source of love and peace.

Cthulhu I suspect has given up on them as a bad job

Re: "We've always sought to give users helpful, accurate, and unbiased information in our products"

She was Greek and the result of a bunch of a couple of centuries of Greek inbreeding - she was about as likely to look sub-Saharan African as Jesus was to look blonde, blue-eyed and Nordic.

Re: "We've always sought to give users helpful, accurate, and unbiased information in our products"

>The facts .... our ancestors were just fish starting to walk on the beach more than 500 million years ago

Possibly if your ancestors were cockroaches. Otherwise the great fish navigational error was < 400mya and is now widely regarded by fish as a bad idea.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

Re: Why?

But the last time the Germans used mil-grade encrypted comms it also went rather badly.

Although if there is one outfit that should have learned the lesson of not trusting your military comms is secure - it's the chaps in Berlin in pointy helmets

Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam

use about 20 million gallons of water a day

A chip fab, unlike a data centre, doesn't really use up water. The water comes in and goes out, generally pretty much drinking water standard.

The reason they 'use' so much is that it's generally easier to super purify a regular water supply and then afterwards clean that to the point it has some safe level of solvents rather than purify out the solvents for reuse

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

Re: Still not as stupid as our British "Official Secrets Act"

When Snowden's revelation of America spying on Americans was on every new outlet, military personnel were told not to watch TV news in case it revealed information about activities that they weren't cleared to know about.

Re: Its his own fault

It's your right to be tried by a jury of your peers and a judge you appointed

Its his own fault

He should have demanded his constitutional right to be tried as a rich white politician

Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon

Re: Buy Altera? Not freaking likely!

You mean you wouldn't bet your own company on the future development of an FPGA line that was bought by Intel, ignored by Intel, spun off by Intel then given a puff of AI fluffiness ?

Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

But that's OK cos we are about to replace the evil incumbent authoritarian government with the new enlightened freedom loving people-friendly opposition.

This statement does not have an expiry date

Re: Similar mistakes not limited to public sector

Just must be done. If the recipient of the justice matches the perpetrator that's a bonus

Re: "thankfully these data errors are incredibly infrequent"

There's no point in arguing Mr Buttle - the TV Licencing Agency never makes mistakes

Re: Plus ça change

We made serious £££ (well €€€) with a notable Celtic-Tiger financial institution that had been doing really well adding new accounts - until somebody noticed they had several times the whole population as customers. And this was before the 2008 meltdown

In my small office of 20 people I have two "A. Singh" and would have two "M. Wang" if one didn't spell it Huang

That's why we need ID cards - to protect the children

Re: Plus ça change

In same early 2000s era I was building a data deduplication system for banks to deal with OFAC and all the terrorists under the bed hysteria after 9/11.

Demonstrating it to the MET we were shown their in-house system that had a bunch of DB scripts to automatically match Alistair=Alisdair=Al=Ali

Great for matching 60s E London gangsters, not so great against Al-Qaeda, or Alistair-Qaeda to the boys in blue.

Re: Not the first time...

I'm assuming Raster weekend wasn't a politically incorrect 80s term for the Notting Hill carnival?

Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content

Re: "traffic to Stack Overflow has steadily dropped over time"

So stackoverflow starts to find ways to hide public generated content behind a paywall. Only question is his you make a suggestively named URL from stack overflow

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

Re: Who Is Listening In To Cars Phoning Home???......

Fortunately we have a wide ranging national security plan to prevent this - known as Canadian cell phone coverage

Re: Came to say the same thing

The USA decides it doesn't want the millions of Chinese electric cars owned by Americans sending back audio/video recordings of everything around them

The Eu, China, India decides it doesn't want the same thing with Tesla

The difference is that Telsa actually have sales that can be hurt by this

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

They have locked-in government contracts and own congressmen facilities in every state so those contracts aren't going away

If you fire half the workforce, costs go down and profitability, therefore shareprice, goes up

Somebody playing with a spreadsheet discovered you can keep dividing by two indefinately.

(Eventually you are going to end up firing fractions of people but that's a problem for later)

Gemini Image?

Cos that doesn't represent the age/gender profile of IBM firing workforce de-emphasizing subjects

Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Re: According to Portage...

7 floppies ? Luxury

In my day you got a space qualified industrial grade hardened realtime OS with a windowing system and web browser on one floppy

Splitters ,......

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

Re: Safety culture from the top down...

But did they get new ID card lanyards with the new safety motto on them?

Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side

Re: Failure is an option

To be fair the space part went great, it was the being on the big rock part that went a bit oopsy.

Big Rock Science is obviously harder than Rocket Science

Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

Pot Kettle

Doesn't the USA sell M1 Abrams tanks to Egypt?

Obviously tanks could never be used to violate human rights

FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again

Re: Moon landing

>Given the height of the thing, and a large number of engines that would probably not be very happy eating moon dust

Have you told them this? They might not have thought about it as deeply as you, they aren't exactly rocket scientists

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Re: "longer necessary to prioritize computer science and coding education"

It is probably true that any old CS degree/3 week boot-camp is not going to lead to an automatic highly paid job in the ways that is has (occasionally) been for the last 20years.

There is still going to be a demand for a different kind of software engineer, probably higher paid and more specialised.

And there probably should be more exposure to coding in schools - not because 90% of kids are going to be C++ devs, but because everybody is going to be dependent on computers and people shouldn't' think they are magic.

Re: "Jensen Huang believes"

On the other hand you could have said in the 60.70s that all these computers are going to need millions of people to become electronics engineers to build them.

There was even a scare in the 60s that if computer use took off at the current rate more than 100% of the population would be needed to do PCB layout ( then done by hand)

I can see the armies of in-house programmers all producing the same sales forecast and inventory reporting routines in SAP/Oracle being the first to be replaced by AI.

Unless you think there is something ineffably spiritual in Birmingham city council-tax operations that can only be done by a human.

Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not

Re: "replete with AI-based noise cancellation"

Mostly cos they completely covered your ears. Modern ear defender safety headsets are pretty good.

You can't expect battery powered wireless IEMs to block 100db

Re: @Omnipresent - well, he's half right.

>The fact that you are paranoid does not necessarily mean they're not out there to get you.

That's what they want you to think....

Every PC is going to be an AI PC

Dell support: Have you tried turning it off and on again ?

Yes,It says "I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"

With over 600 CHIPS fund applicants seeking over $70B, don't get your hopes up

Your mission as a politician

Is to cut the ribbon on lots of impressively large looking projects while claiming that HongSang LuckySemi are a totally proud American company and vital to national security.

So long as $ to your state is greater than 0 you won.

Re: Think different

Fortunately in Blighty we can buy any chips we need for the city cheaply in Asia and we have a large group of industrial nations on our doorstep with whom we have free and frictionless trade.

Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

I don't know how to change the clutch on my old car, but I do know that VW didn't fit a chip to stop me

I don't know how to change the battery on my new EV but I know that the maker does block replacements

So if some evil mob of faceless unellected bureaucrats in Brussels were to force the makers to allow you to replace the battery yourself ?

Re: Mmmmmm

GrapheneOS won't support older devices - it relies on the core firmware blobs being updated. This is perhaps a case of over-caution but that's the point of GrapheneOS

LineageOS tries to support just about every old devices, although some might not get the latest Android\

Re: Mmmmmm

That's true. My Pixel 3XL cost $60 but it's web browsing is limited by the speed I can read el'reg, the podcasts are limited to only stereo and a pitiful range of human frequencies and the phone connection is terrible - it's audio only and limited to about 8Khz, no smell-o-vision

Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be

root/door = my phone's autocomplete has become self aware but is an idiot

The 737 exit root is its own legal entity and if it decides to leave the aircraft and 30,000ft that's nothing to do with the airline

Rivian decimates staff to put a brake on spending

Re: Gosh: proper use of the word "decimate" !

Well in a mature commodity market like EVs it's only natural that the traditional market incumbents would be cutting staff as future growth and demand for new products drops off

That's more than 2.5 skateboarding rhinos

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

Re: Peace and Quiet at last!

>we shouldn't have to have to mess around like this for an essential service.

That's why I rely on a beacon fire on the mountain.

YAANC calls for aid .....

Re: ATT user here

>I am very curious to hear what the problem was.

Somebody pressed all the wrong keys.

Or pressed all the right keys but not necessarily in the right order