Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Florida man slams 'tyranny' of central bank digital currencies in re-election bid

Re: Sigh

Pie = Stuff on top of pastry

If the pie only has pastry on top then you are in some pretentious gastropub that can't do proper pies.

Re: Sigh

I think we need a CAPTAHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Americans and Humans Apart)

Click on all the boxes that contain a pudding

I just spent a meal trying to define what a "pudding" was to a French colleague = a Yorkshire pudding is a pudding, and a blood sausage is a pudding and a chocolate cake is a pudding?

Re: Hilarious

>Anyone who wasn't the Aryan ideal was an enemy of the state according to Nazi ideology.

Always wondered how they squared that with having Japanese allies?

Nazi1: These Japanese are small weak inferior asiatics

Nazi2: Yes but they are viscous little racist bastards as well

Nazi1: Ok we can be friends

Re: Find a new joke

You forgot to also blame George Soros 3/10 C-

> who don't know if a woman has a penis,

"Every Prime Minister needs a Willie" - I think a former Conservative PM had a collection of them

On the other hand, if there is something you would think is a bad idea, but the cameo from Home Alone2 (and very stable genius) also says it's a bad idea = a conundrum ?

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

Re: Late stage capitalism

It's all been downhill since 1600 and the VoC

How many ?

How many people does an online jumble sale need?

A few BOfH, a couple of PFYs, some heavies to go round and deal with anyone who complains, some lawyers to deal with aftermath of previous

Certainly not (100/9) * 1000 employees

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

Re: Trigger-Happy Cops Must Take Some Blame

It's just a translation issue:

English: "Please go and take a look and make sure these people are OK"

American: "Go to this address, shoot the dog and then pour automatic fire into the house before ringing the bell"

Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.

The tree was coming right for us...

Re: Trigger-Happy Cops Must Take Some Blame

Seems a terribly labor intensive and expensive process.

Judging from all the impressively accurate artilalry systems being demonstrated in Ukraine couldn't some much more cost-effective Shooting-As-A-Service be implemented?

Simply enter the coordinates into a local police website, put in your credit card number, and have 155mm of constitutionally protected bared arms delivered to your special friend

ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth

Re: Dutch rules

>We all know that shifting manufacturing to Asia (out of sight out of mind) has massively backfired and undermined development and prospects of the EU economies.

Yes ASML would have been much better off if Intel and TI had been forced to manufacture chips at home with their own US built steppers and Japanese makers had been forced to use Canon and Nikon

Then ASML could have profitably supplied Philips alone

Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases

Re: Apple in Russia?

So if things really get bad and sanctions get serious we are going to have SAP move into Russia ?

Re: “Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service”

At least they have a federation of anti monopoly services, there is still only one monopolies commission

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

Re: No real surprise

The now moderately discounted Pixel6a works very nicely with GrapheneOS,

AFAIK they are only supporting Pixel devices from now on

Re: Shoe Event Horizon

Judging from most High St = we have gone beyond the cellphone horizon and are now in the cellphone cases and accessories aftermath

Tech bros are playing God, Catholic Church's AI priest complains

Re: notions of fictitious gods

The man in the big hat doesn't believe in about 300 million G*Ds

Atheists don't believe in 300,000,001 G*Ds = the difference is a rounding error

(G*D because that Yahweh chap can get a bit indigent if you use his name)

as a representative of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons - I may (or may not) agree

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

What's the point of us staying up all night arguing if there is, or is not, a God and this thing gives you his phone number in the morning ?

We want it turned off and we want it turned off now!

Wanna run Windows on an M-series Mac? Fine, buy a license, but no baremetal

They sell the hardware but make the profit on the Apple store. Charging you a 30% fee on all your software/music/avocado-toast buys on non-Apple hardware might be appealing

Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

Re: Will not?

Leaving the impeccable IBM and Capita left to divide up the remaining contracts between them

Unless Capita are blocked for the MoD recruitment fsck-up

That would leave IBM as a monopoly and the trouble with monopoly government suppliers is that they don't need to offer bribes consultancy paymnets to get the business

US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050

Re: MW vs MWh

>Yes, it was a typo.

But this is el'reg so you have to expect the response !

Just out of interest is that around 2000W of capacity and say 1000 hr/year of full sun ?

Re: London is a similar latitude to Calgary

>Last calendar year, they generated 2.14MW of power.

That's a big roof.

A 300W solar panel here is about 66x40in = 18sq ft so 2.14MW is 128,000 sq ft or 12,000 sq M

Perfect timing... US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets

>Insurance will buy another plane [well, most of it].

Ryanair (and the USAF) will take it out of your salary

Re: P-8 sub hunters

Does this mean the subs are winning ?

Ryanair and Easyjet are by far the busiest airlines in europe and neither have had a crash.

Ryan wrote off one aircraft after an over weight emergency landing after a bird strike collapsed the undercarriage - 737s can't dump fuel and they took the decision to get down safe rather worry about the plane.

I wonder if Mr O'Leary can explain to them the benefits of capitalism ?

I mean it's all very nice in theory having the state support incompetent workers at failing state companies making failing goods - but at some point you have to accept that communist central planned industries don't work and look to modern hyper-competitive advanced economies such as Eire

Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs

Re: It would be ironic...

But, except in certain US states, you have to pay them. And even in Florida you probably have to feed them - that gets expensive at scale even for child labour

Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens

Re: Brexit ?

>Google LLC for users of Google services based in the United Kingdom, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.

You wanted to be free of Brussels - at least you got a vote there.

ps. Don't bring up 'no taxation without representation' in the USA, they are still a bit touchy about it

Re: Google had no presence

>Yeah, and that large office complex next to St Pancras Station in London is nothing more than a mirage.

No just terribly inefficient compared to the 2chaps and a brass plaque in Ireland that are responsible for all sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa

Re: Brexit ?

I thought Google had no presence or commercial operations in the UK ?

Or at least that's what they used to tell the Inland Revenue

Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation

Re: More than enough blame to go around

It sounded Pratchettesque but I couldn't place which story. Thought it might have been Tom Holt

Re: More than enough blame to go around

>you will understand that Sisyphus had it easy

There's a story where Sisyphus is punished by having the elf-n-safety regulations for pushing boulders read to him for all eternity

IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

Re: Summarised perfectly

And because the case will be used as a precedent a centuries later. Or do we assume that all modern juries know who a musical hall star from 1830 was

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

Re: 40 years ago

>Excuse me? Late 80s and much of the 90s had the best dance music.

The union of el'reg readers and rave goers = NULL

Re: 40 years ago

No it's at least the 90s, there's no good music anymore

Re: 40 years ago

The 80s were only 20 years ago !

JPMorgan exec claims bank repels '45 billion' cyberattack attempts per day

No, they count each separate byte in each portscan packet as an attack

Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims

In other news Intel CEO announced they were selling the FPGA division they bought for $20Bn for $10Bn, were abandoning their new $10Bn chip R&D center and firing everyone in the company without an MBA

Intel's share price rose on the news

Re: The West didn't invest

It's just the long-term view that is more common in SE Asia

Instead of short-term leasing of individual politicians for a single election it's really much more cost-effective to own the whole system freehold

Re: Investment

Taiwan's government went "what can we do to move on from making cheap T-shirts"

They found one of those lazy immigrants that had moved to America to tek our jobs run Texas Instruments and had recently been downsized.

Offered him the job of creating a national semiconductor company - on a government salary with no share options !

He saw that they couldn't create chips, but could manufacture other people's designs

There is a great episode of the generally excellent "Acquired" podcast on Morris Chang and the founding of TSMC

Re: The West didn't invest

>Does anyone know how much TSMC and Samsung get from their respective govts?

Samsung = nothing, they own the government outright

TSMC = I'm betting the initial investment from Taiwan is less than Intel got in tax write-offs for their corporate jets

The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers

Re: 2010 bug

But they came up with a better solution that worked right upto 2020-01-01

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

Amazon are the worst, despite having the best data.

I buy stuff for work, presents on behalf of less-than-techie parents, and geek toys for me.

Amazon are currently recommending I buy contractor grade trash bags, Duct tape, power saw blades and baby booties - I hope the FBI aren't watching.

Re: So, just who is tracking me ?

>atheist blogs, the sites are full of ads for Christianity related shit

2 possibilities:

1, you cynically use Christian ad spend to fund your atheist blog.

2, you start an atheist blog just to attract Christian ad-spend. (I assume el'reg is full of Apple ads trying to convert the readers to the cult of rounded corners - Between Brave and piHole I never see an ad)

Re: Are the kids still using Facebook?

No, but worse the government is.

I was just stuck for 24hours in an "extreme weather event". To find out when the state planned on re-opening the major freeway - I was directed to check their Facebook group !

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

Re: An alternative

So all we have to do to make this commercially viable is to increase the population of Icelanders ?

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever

Re: As the updated saying goes...

>"There's lies, damned lies and AI generated shit!"

Indeed I saw a youtube clip of Mark Twain saying it