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New flashpoint: US may ask Chinese tech firms to bin Russia

Charles my boy, how's it going at the foreign office?

We've finished painting the west side and we start the front on Monday

So no chance of a job inside?

No sorry father, far too dim

This is a total win for China

America has to start being nice to them to keep them onside for sanctions. What Russia is allowed to export can now only go to China who are presumably now 'negotiating' a 90% discount.

Russia's army has demonstrated it is totally crap. The next map redraw is going to be Russia east of the Urals becoming China

Re: No way, José!

>While sanctions against Russia were applied there is exemption for luxury goods.

That would be the trade where Russian Oligarchs give the last of their scarce dollars and euros to you in return for handbags ?

That might just be brilliant.

Re: re: Territorial integrity

The west would go totally monkey poop and China would gain nothing as the fabs were all destroyed, the engineers asylumed and ASML turned off updates.

But China can happily wait a century as its GOP rises and Taiwan's fortunes perhaps reverse when somebody else takes over as cheapest place to build semiconductors

Gradually it becomes China's Guam, then its Philippines, then its Puerto Rico then its Hawaii

Maxar Technologies: The eye in the sky tracking invasion of Ukraine

Re: Crytome.org

Have you noticed how long it takes the Matrix to restart these days ?

Re: Why has the last week reminded me

>Touting guns while advancing on Moscow has failed twice[0] already.

But those were government projects

This will be a gig-economy, Web3.0, private-sector invasion and so will be much more efficient - (like Hyperloop)

Re: Why has the last week reminded me

Musk presses the red Software Update button in his secret Bond villain cubicle and all Teslas sprout a gun and begin self-driving toward Moscow

Re: What's the problem?

Just a note on the sensors.

These aren't cameras taking a picture as you would think.

They are linear sensors that sweep over the ground, like a scanner on a document each capturing a different colour.

So you get a red image slightly ahead of the green image etc and then stitch them together. That's why you sometimes see a rainbow image of some fast moving plane, because it has shifted relative to the ground between the captures.

It also means the point on the ground each pixel is imaging is moving quite fast, it takes about 90mins to do a lap of Earth at LEO

MDA - Canada Arm

Not really it's space robotics arm

MDA is a Canadian Satelite company that does similar RadarSats

It got blocked from a lot of US military business cos Canadians are a bunch of no-good-commie-hippies but the Canadians wouldn't let MDA be bought by Americans because they are a bunch of pickup-driving-redneck-Nazis

So there was a deal where they sort of pretend-merged so they could each wave the right flag to their prosepective governments.

They then untangled when everyone came to their senses (and sensors)

Volcano 'shredded' submarine cable, vastly complicating repair job

Re: Dumb and/or ignorant question

The cable probably makes a bunch of drops in other countries, you don't want to disturb those to replace the entire cable. You think 60km of cable is pricey, but 1000s km is a lot more and the time for the cable laying ship. Then the bits going ashore at all the other stops are a lot more expensive to build and lay.

Then you have a bunch of repeaters that cost $$$$$$ and aren't exactly next-day delivery.

You might pull forward the business case for the next upgraded cable but you aren't going to rip and replace a working one

Re: Turbidity currents

Oh and the cause of the earthquake - ... - is very poorly understood

Insomniac Kraken ?

Cables in deep water aren't necessarily more difficult, the conditions on the seabed are much more important.

The problem with a cable in shallow water is the seabed is closer to the surface, where all boats with anchors and fishing nets live.

ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

Re: There is no such thing as a prototype

You laugh but... I have an app that uses Numpy, the customer requirement is that everything is built from source (cos security) so I'm trying to get a FORTRAN compiler added to the approved list to build BLAS

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched

And distance from Edison's (inventor of film sprockets) patent lawyers

Funny how Hollywood was built on piracy

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

>bunch of arseholes who literally hate the people they are elected by

No, they like the people they were elected by (subject to a certain latitude qualification)

Those people own houses

Those houses will go down in value if the government builds more/cheaper housing

That will make those people poorer and sad

They might not vote for you

Re: They've been talking about the varsity line since before I was born...

>But the value of a house is determined by what someone will pay for it n'est pas?

You would think so - but somebody here paid $2M for this

Re: Silicon Valley?

So after Silicon fen and Silicon Glen we get Silicon Trossachs ?

Re: They've been talking about the varsity line since before I was born...

That was the idea.

A bunch of Oxford students were being oppressed by the people of the town after a tiny little murder

So they thought, we will move to the arse end of nowhere, that way nobody will ever come after us.

Re: They've been talking about the varsity line since before I was born...

@keithpeter

You may be confusing real estate prices with reality.

Brummie estate agent: "House for sale, train to London = £££££££"

Brummie home owner: "Yuppies can buy my house? I'll put it on the market for ££££££"

You don't need anybody to actually commute to London, just the justification that they could

Re: They've been talking about the varsity line since before I was born...

>I'm not against HS2 per se, but I always felt that upgrading the east west routes would of been far more cot effective

The point of HS2 was to make Birmingham a London commuter town.

That increases house prices in Birmingham by 100%

That makes everyone (well proprty owners) in Birmingham rich and therefore will vote Tory.

Somehow making everyone's house twice as expensive increases GDP as so makes the country richer (no I don't understand that either)

Cambridge is in the North

Well it's North of London's (Stansted) airport

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

>Same for pig farming at the moment, where pigs are being culled rather than eaten.

I generally prefer my pigs to be culled before being eaten.

I like bacon as much as the next man but I think live pork sashimi is a bit much

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

>ps I think you'll find sales are generally better paid than the rest.

Yes have always believed that sales commission is the easiest cheque to write.

Except if you are 'selling' software to local hospitals/GPs that some NHS digital program has decided everyone has to have. Its like getting a commission on selling F35s to each RAF unit

The problem is when the most (only) profitable enterprise is getting on some government contract - you start to look like one of those 'less developed' countries.

ps also realised 2006 was more than 15years ago. I can't be old - the 70s was only 25 years ago!

Re: Silicon Valley is a destination for immigrant tech workers

Massachusetts had/has notoriously strict non-compete enforcement that together with the highly secretive nature of the defence focused industry in Boston - compared to the (for some reason) much more open Californian attitude

Re: You can't "build" silicon valley

> Remember all the money pumped into Concorde

But Toulouse became the center of an international aircraft manufacturing superpower - I think we got quite a lot out of Concorde.

Les Anglais on the other hand - "bof"

Re: They've been talking about the varsity line since before I was born...

Yes the network would have been much better if it had been planned by the central government in London for the convenience of MPs in the 1830s

So ARM's low power design was all due to the 1984 miners strike ? Brilliant

Re: has anyone told those that are building the line?

Yes the only problems with it are at the ends where it goes into Oxford and Cambridge and starts going near "nice" houses.

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

I left the UK for the West Coast 10 years ago.

UK developer salaries aren't bad - as long as you are working in finance, in London.

Outside that - forget it.

I was chief dev / R&D / CTO for a company making high tech off-shore stuff. Not a bad salary for oop North, can buy a house etc (although to be fair you could buy a house on a credit card there)

Our receptionist had a boyfriend, spotty 20 year old with no qualifications who worked in Software Sales to local government - he earned twice what I did.

In the UK a techie is never going to get paid more than a saleman, who is never going to be paid more than a manager. If your only good jobs are worthless finance and government contracting you are not going to be creating silicon valley.

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

>Slight delay envisaged while sufficient horses are produced to move the barges.

We don't need horses, we just make the canal downhill - both ways

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

Waiting for Rees-Mogg's plan for one of these new canal links

Good: People can spot a deepfake video. Bad: They're not so hot with text

Re: Skewed?

>Are ALL Americans either Democrat or Republican?

Yes that's why they are all getting so upset about pronouns.

In the good old days you could tell if a person was Democrat or Republican, without having to ask them.

Now with the kids you have to ask them whether they chose to identify as Dem or Rep

Re: Or more accurately...

Read:

Experiments conducted since the early Bronze age show that people will happily believe any fake text written on a couple of tablets

Intel selects German city for EU semiconductor plant

Re: Good Luck

There are advantages, especially with high skilled staff. Since they know they have a job for decades you can invest in them and they can get a deep knowledge of your business.

Here where a developer can, in theory, just not come back after lunch. You don't invest in employee training or development and no employee with any sense is going to waste time learning any skill that can't be traded for a higher salary somewhere else.

So you are always rebuilding your stack on the latest buzzwords because that's all you can hire/all your existing devs will work on. If you need any "legacy" (ie >10year old) skills you are going to be paying through the nose for a consultant.

Re: Good Luck

>Nordic countries also with strong labor laws earn more per capita than for instance the British

And principalities (Monoco) earn more per capita then Britain

So all we have to do is not crown Chuck and we'll all be millionaires

Re: As we say in Germany

As opposed to "Gluten Tag" which is the day where children hit each other with baguettes

IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

Re: Not new

>have older workers potentially accrued higher salaries?

The problem with firing the most senior workers on the highest salaries - it inevitably makes highly salaried senior management nervous

FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s

In conclusion

It appears that air may interfere with Boeing 737s

US imposes sanctions as Russia invades Ukraine

Re: Winter is nearly over

It will also make it a lot easier to build pipelines to the Canadian east coast to ship LNG to Europe.

Obviously Putin is just a puppet of Albertan oil men

Re: Freezing Russian assets is the way to stop Putin

>A pile of money is only as good as what you can spend it on.

You can still buy politicians, you just have to pay cash

On the other hand I'm all for giving the Danelaw back to Denmark

Re: Freezing Russian assets is the way to stop Putin

I think it's fair to assume that any Russian citizen that has substantial assets and got to keep them is fully cahooted with Vlady

You could always reopen the pits.

AI really can't copyright the art it generates – US officials

Does this mean

That the scripts of most superhero movies, generated as they are by an Excel sheet and a cliché dictionary, aren't copyrightable

Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold

Re: Skills shortage

So if everyone paid an extra 50k then they would all

be able to get all the SAP experts they wanted ?

Re: There is no skills shortage.

That's completely unrealistic. HR would simply hire the first three devs who would accept 56k

Re: Skills shortage

>Training? What is that?

For SAP its quite easy, the applicant is just dressed in a robe placed in a pentangle and have their soul removed

Top chipmakers ignore India's semiconductor factory subsidies

Re: Infrastructure....I think this comes into it somewhere....

And yet we manage to build stuff in Texas