Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030

Re: Data centres

Although with fewer crushed orphans presumably.

And in 100 years obsolete data centres can be repurposed as high end luxury loft living, with artisanal kitchens fitted into 19" racks

Re: Ironically

Always thought it would make a lot more sense (at least in the south west USA) to have air-conditioners directly solar powered.

Isolated window mount DC AC unit, pair of cables to panel on roof, sun shines, pump runs, air cools.

Instead you have AC connected to the grid, panels also connected to the grid. Then a whole bunch of electrical safety approvals, permits and zoning requirements then to pay for that a bunch of subsidies, feed-in tariffs, carbon-credits etc

Re: Use of grid power

USA air-conditioning is 10% of total generating capacity (about 254 billion kilowatt-hours) and nearly 20% of domestic usage

If they would all "man-up" and stop being some pampered, wimpy little cry-babies they could save this and have nearly 2.5 times as many data centers

If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs

Re: When they invent a Rampant Rabbit that can get spiders out of the bath.....

Biggest killers are normally horses / cattle / dogs, depending on how rural you are. After that it gets a bit more antipodean with kangaroos, crocodiles etc.

There is a (possibly urban myth) story that the most dangerous spider in Oz is the huntsman. It's totally harmless but is the size of a cat and likes to hide from the sun in cars, under the sun visor.

So you drive off, flip down the visor and the creature from Alien lands in your face and you crash.

Re: correlation does not imply causation

But the study says that pregnancies across the whole population fell after iPhones - not just among iPhone users

Re: 15?

15 years ago was the 90s

Re: Well ...

TIL the band "Steely Dan" are named after an oscillatory accessory in the novel Naked Lunch

Re: When they invent a Rampant Rabbit that can get spiders out of the bath.....

>Australian spiders whose bites are often deadly to humans

There hasn't been a death from a spider bite for 25 years, the most deadly spider in Australia isn't venomous

It's the drop bears you really have to watch out for, and the number one killer - my little pony

Re: Well ...

AKA your plastic pal who's fun to be with

Re: Wait… what?

But not from scurvy

Re: Wait… what?

I took a statistics class which caused me to believe that.

Re: It’s obviously because of the lack of pirates

Ramen

Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear

A new el'reg unit

"with up to 25x higher sycophancy rates than in-context baselines."

What's that in Mandelsons ?

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

Shades of Stalin

What happened to the astronaut in the middle that they air-brushed out ?

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

Won't someone think of the shareholders ?

Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response

SIAAS

Strategic incompetence as a service

Do you have embarrassing / illegal / compromising data ?

Do you worry about a warrant ?

Let us store your data. Our incompetence assures you that nobody, including us, will ever be able to reveal (or indeed even find) your data

We guarantee no logs, no backups, no maintenance. In fact we might not even have a database. Who knows ? Not us !

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

Your developers

were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Re: As usual, the problem lies with French intransigence

That's just silly, why don't the MEPs just buy a house in each city and claim them on expenses ?

>essentially a big airborne weapons platform

Ideally one with global reach, the ability to operate away from fixed airfields and with a kitchen onboard to make a cup of tea.

Gentleman, the Short Sunderland flying boat.

Re: Nervous pilots.

The history of European fighter aircraft projects all seem to involve the French demanding changes which slow down the delivery and increase costs until they eventually pull out and announce their own aircraft for sale that they've been working on all the time.

They should call the next one OS2

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

Re: he did learn from bankrupting casinos

Specifically he loaded the casinos with debt, had them pay a fortune to his other companies for the use of his name, transferred the casinos and all the liabilities to another company and had that go bust.

This was back in the days when he was only a crook - before the dementia and Twitter kicked in

Re: "the feds have invested $20.9 billion"

But the poors will just gamble it away on scratch cards.

While businesses will invest it in credit default swaps and derivatives

Re: ho hum

State funding of capital = capitalism

State funding of society = socialism

Re: Please give Trump a ticket on the Titanic

>Vance has no control over the Republican party like Trump does

I assume his billionaire will give him the files on them

Re: UNO reverse card

So we start with a corrupt kleptocracy, then a gerontocracy, then a mad dictator, then we achieve true communism ?

It's worth a try

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

>Waiting for ODF to be reliably implemented would simply delay things and would only really benefit Microsoft.

So expect a call for an independent Euro-Standard office document format, to be decided by a committee to be formed after the committee to determine the members of the committee has had it's terms of reference approved by the committee to determine ..

Zawinski’s Law - surely git commandline can read mail by now ?

Splitters ....

How untypical of an open source project to attempt to torpedo a useful imitative over a purity test.

Anyway, what can you expect from a project that uses $GUI_TOOLKIT/$BUILD_SYSTEM/$SOURCE_CONTROL that is different from the correct one I use

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Re: Captain, there's a Codeberg right ahead!

"never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"

England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

Re: what is the point of exams?

Yes AI vibe coding an exam is pointless, but so is a closed-book exam for a subject where you are going to be working in front of a computer all day.

A CS exam, or worse interview, which comes down to having memorised the order of parameters to some API call makes about as much sense as a maths exam where you need to remember a dozen obscure integrals or a 1000 digits of pi.

But it does still annoy me, working in a safety critical field, how much doctors reject checklists and references because they "know it all"

Re: what is the point of exams?

Would you live in a building designed by an engineer that didn't look up the structural standards or the material strength but relied on remembering a value he (or she, but realistically he) crammed for an exam where they were 21, 40 years ago?

That's why airline pilots have so many accidents, they rely on "cheating' by reading checklists compared to doctors who would never dream of looking up anything when they can definitely remember what they learned in a lecture at 18.

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

Re: In your mind you have capacities, you know, to telepath messages through the vast unknown

But with climate change we don't have to worry about that kind of murky weather

Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class

If only the telegraph lines extended to Kent, millions of people wouldn't have to commute into central London to work on the business machine at the business factory.

Mobile connectivity

I think the problem is obviously the "mobile" part

The new stationary train system will not only offer much better connectivity but will reduce noise, emitting much lower levels of CO2, while greatly increasing track utilisation and passenger customer density.

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

Re: Scargill for the win

Good job that current UK energy prices have made the UK a global manufacturing power house.

Scargill for the win

Wonder what Maggie would have thought of Trump's "Support The Miners"

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

Re: I'm Mostly Harmless

Or it could have been a way to rob the office at the cost of a couple of movie-prop police car rentals and a few uniforms

Re: "I need a bulletproof vest and a fully automatic rifle..."

>Fully automatic rifle? So you've recently passed your armed response training cert?

This is a BOFH, when he says Fully automatic he means something "Fully" automatic.

With, obligatory-IT angle, a Grid laptop

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

Turn slave over and check for tattooed password hint

The only secure way of sending a password us to shave a slave's head, tattoo the password and wait for their hair to grow back.

I just make my password my username so I don't even need the file.

Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node

Re: Do they have a Plan B?

Yes, plan B is that they are now 10% owned by TrumpCorp (tm) so they have infinity money and a guaranteed customer who will buy whatever they are told at any price.

Welcome to your new Federal mandated Freedom chips

'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'

Re: Just effective enforcement?

Might I cynically suggest that had the targets been an American oil company, the full force of Russian investigation might not have been so forceful

Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

Re: Another win for the Chinese

Perhaps it's because they used spy chips made of ferrite, or certainly something close to iron that Americans are unable to detect.

Re: Another win for the Chinese

>Given the same was said about Huawei with ZERO evidence

What part of "undetectable" embedded secret spy chips don't you understand?

Re: Another win for the Chinese

But its made with Australian copper so the emus can spy on the wires

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

I was thinking 1491

I miss the days when US government contracts weren't the reserve of a few US mega-corps who owned politicians.

Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers

Re: Irish call centres

There was a survey of which were friendliest / most pleasant, but also which most trusted (with money).

IIRC Scots and Yorkshire were most trustworthy - a win for the stereotypes