Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

It just deletes Firefox and Chrome, sets Edge as your default browser and then subscribes you to O365

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

Re: will of the people...

Democracy, if the people voting for you don't care about the environment then your duty is to not care about the environment.

That's why Blair won such a large mandate, working class voters are really pro middle east wars. While upper class voters preferred wars in the south Atlantic

Re: Hmmm..

I have already doubled my carbon footprint to ensure further sea level rises.

Soon the Dutch will pay for their overthrow of James 2nd

Re: Following the UK governments lead

Have you thought of declaring those emissions to happen abroad and so being entirely carbon free in the UK?

Re: Think of the Grid!

SNP solution, if Scotland got independence it would of course instantly become Norway.

But that would also mean England would get independence and so logically also become Norway.

Then the only problem is how to charge Wales

US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early

Re: Not America Telling

>Only communists want to further arm an aggressive communist power.

But I still want cheap trainers so Vietnam is OK ?

After all, America likes winners

Re: I hadn't realized Washington had jurisdiction over a Dutch manufacturer

Or rather, bringing a bit of Europe into Britain

Re: I hadn't realized Washington had jurisdiction over a Dutch manufacturer

He failed to negotiate a deal with Norway and was responsible for bringing Britain into Europe?

And the USA will say they can't use Cymer EUV light sources, or sell or borrow in dollars, or sell to any customer that wants to use dollars

Or ASML could simply add 10% to the price Intel are paying for their next round of machines

Re: I hadn't realized Washington had jurisdiction over a Dutch manufacturer

That's why we Brexited, so Washington couldn't tell us what to do.

Now advanced British semiconductor machinery can now be exported to anywhere in the empire that needs a new Babbage engine

Driverless cars swerve traffic tickets in California even if they break the law

Re: If Corporations Are People

Yes but you can't expect the constitution to apply to Japanese Blacks Women Muslims immigrants

Re: How hard can it be?

Would be a good way to crush the emerging industry.

We should have done the same with airlines in the 1950s - fining the aircraft manufacturers $bn for each death

That way we would have high speed public transport, except we wouldn't have trains or subways cos we would have fined them all $M/death in C19

Bicycle manufacturers should be responsible for any accident where the bike's engineering doesn't perfectly protect the rider

Horses of course are a massive pollution hazard that would give the EPA and NIH the vapours

Re: If Corporations Are People

>as non-US-citizens are also people

The supreme court and 80M voters might not take that as axiomatic

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

Re: All because of crypto

No but you can take out an easily carriable few million in Rome, walk across the frontier into the Vatican, deposit it and withdraw it in Columbia the same day to fund your 'charitable works'

Re: All because of crypto

>Challenge: find a way to get £10M from someone who has it and is willing to pay it, into your hands without the police identifying you

1, Call Swiss bank

2, Deposit pile of gold teeth and some bars of god with a repurposed Hindu symbol on them

3, Receive elite premier customer status

ps I wonder how drug dealers do it? I don't see many of the folded fans of fentanyl in downtown east-side memorizing public keys

Re: Like horse thieves

We know who the bad guys responsible are, it's posted on a chalkboard outside the DoD

Today we are blaming Russia ISIS Iran China Belgium Cuba Hamas

So we just need to drone strike any of them that don't have the ability to drone strike back

People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous

Re: The Flintstones OP Song

It's a living....

ran oil rigs to find computers

Surely you would run computers to find oil rigs, or at least where to place them

Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China

Re: NVIDIA laughing

At least it's only graphics cards. Imagine if Boeing were allowed to sell jet aircraft to the wily oriental foe

CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results

Re: Shameful confession time:

>or is in a different place on the U.S. keyboard

Special award for the RPI that prompts for a password at the start of install, then asks for the keyboard layout later....

Re: Shameful confession time:

So the best passwd is the keyboard serial number ?

It's long, random, written down so you wont forget it and nobody looking under your keyboard is goign to suspect it's your passwd !

Re: Customers are the security liability

A special red one that you shake to reset ?

Re: Customers are the security liability

Our dear leaders sent out a fairly good phishing email with a login to a fake O365.

I reported it and got told it was a test and I was a good little minion for not clicking. I also suggested that they have an address to forward these so they can be blocked.

A week later a commandment came down that we were all to install a 'report phising' button by downloading and running a chrome extension from some 3rd party site and granting it all these permissions.

Re: Customers are the security liability

>attackers just needed a "10-minute call with the help desk

That's where our corporate overlords win.

To access the help desk you to be on the secure intranet site. To access the secure internal site you need a security token. Instructions to obtain the token are on the secure internal site.

If you have any problems just raise a ticket, on the secure intranet page.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

Re: Did something crazy

But that kills music and (checks notes) funds drug dealing and terrorism

Re: UK: Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Chapter 3 - Digital Content

One does not simply walk into Apple HQ

Although apparently lots of workers do walk into the stylish glass walls and concuss themselves

Re: UK: Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Chapter 3 - Digital Content

>As may be expected, American-based companies are usually operating well outside European law

Although the Apple hardware you buy in a shop on Oxford St is actually sold in Ireland, the software sales all legally take place in Narnia and disputes must be lodged with Apple's customer service dept in Mordor

Re: At which point....

>If I write a bestselling book, I don't see why my great-great grandchildren should be entitled to royalties from MY work

Yes that's ridiculous, only the publishing company should still be getting money in the next millennium

Re: To remove DRM, you'll need the open-source library, libdvdcss

>At just ten years old she was already on the "watch list" ... What kind of useless milquetoasts are her generation going to become, anyway?

Perhaps don't let her get a white cat or order a monorail for the shed - just to be on the safe side.

Re: insult to injury

Tutti-Frutti only just resurfaced after the big mans' death because although the BBC had the rights to the songs, they didn't have the rights to make new recordings sung by Coltrane

Re: To remove DRM, you'll need the open-source library, libdvdcss

No the T-shirts were free speech and so protected by the constitution.

Interestingly with the Met police arresting people for having blank signs at Chuck's kingification, would they arrest you for wearing a plain white T-shirt ?

Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court

Re: Stolen tech

And then the filing fee would be $1M to cover the costs and liability

Also the future of your invention would be decided by some faceless bureaucrat rather than the honest yeomen of an East Texas jury

Re: Stolen tech

>We're in America now.

Didn't Apple buy America ?

Apple's market cap is several times the USA's defence budget - couldn't they just create their own army (only slimmer and with rounded corners) ?

How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip

Plan implemented - staff all eaten by polar bears

Please send more staff, and a plan to remove polar bears

Re: Carrying 1,000 amps

That's why half the pins (or rather balls) are now power and the other half are clocks. Don't know how they get the data in or out - probably magic (or Bluetooth)

Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims

Re: Fight! Fight!

My CEO could beat up your CEO (Unless Dr Su knows Karate)

China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA

Re: We have to thank the USA

With a bit of luck they will even force innovative new solutions - like how Britain blockading Germany in 1914-18 led to artificial fertilizer or French sanctions on America led to the invention of cheese in a can.

Southwest Airlines lands $140M fine for that Christmas IT meltdown

It's more a legacy issue. Every airline, airport, atc region and aircraft manufacturer would love to implement new improved operation software features as soon as everyone else in the system does so that they can use them.

Re: It was horrible

That's the advantage of flying with a major airline.

You might pay 2x as much for the tickets but that's because they have an empty spare plane and crew following each flight to make sure that delays never happen

You also gave to allow more consolidation. Only UnitedAmericanDelta can make the investment in IT to give an optimum customer.experience

I thought this was America ?

The government fining companies for poor customer service is communism

If people don't like how they are treated by airlines they are free to drive

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: Improvements???

And cloud. Linux made compute at scale free

Back in the 90s we were building clusters of Sun workstations but the cost of HW and OS licenses were impossible for anyone not in a University lab

Early 2000s we were building Beowulf clusters of PCs with cheap Athlons and free Linux - but still juggling getting enough HW from Ebuyer delivered and installed fast enough (and ideally getting the customer to pay before the credit card bill came in)

Now we just have all the compute we need in the cloud, scaleable on demand

UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan

Re: Late

>Tempest is fully fly by wire capable as part of the requirements.

Wouldn't wireless be more suitable for an aeroplane ?

Re: Amenities

>I bet they were even more amazed that the grog ration had been abolished

One hopes that the other two pillars of naval tradition are still going strong

Re: Amenities

I understand that when the treasonous colonials were allowed to fly their aeroplanes onto HMS her maj and HMS our kid, they were amazed that there were bars on board.

Re: Late

Do the drone pilots have epic mustaches ?

No ?

Then sir, I rest my case

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

Re: All those other exceptions

Writes "round objects" on a report

Report comes back "who is round, and to what do they object?"

ObYesMinister

And it probably was

Re: Please speak to George

One in a million errors occur 9 times out of 10

Damn, even the Pope thinks AI and autonomous weapons need reining in

Re: Hmm

>South American socialism hardly has a glorious history

Although probably better than the last wearer of the big hat, and his more Teutonic National version