Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore

Root cause analysis

The root cause of the problem was the other human driven car that knocked the pedestrian down

The obvious mitigation would be for the robo-taxi to be able to intervene and stop the human driven car before this happened

Since this is America, the only acceptable solution involves guns, so equipping all robo-taxis with automatic gun turrets is the way forward.

Re: Not happening in your lifetime

Lorry drivers do it with cyclists and bikers all the time, especially in London

European Space Agency grits teeth, preps contracts for SpaceX Galileo launch

Re: Stupid idea

Of course the A380 is non-migratory

Re: Stupid idea

Couldn't two 747s carry it on a line ?

Re: who would very much prefer their payloads to be launched on European rockets.

ESA don't build or operate Ariane, they are just a customer, they also don't have a budget like NASA to subsidise ArianeSpace

Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car

Re: Wouldnlt be too much of a problem.

Twas more a comment on the ridiculous 'must have N years experience of Windows 11' type job ads

Re: Dumb Project

This is hardy a car.

Anyway I would have no problem with removing the wheels from Northern Line trains and adding rockets.

But much of this money would be wasted paying British workers and buying specilaist components form British companies

New graduate wanted for new rocket car driving job

Must have 5 years experience of driving at 750MPH

Re: Dumb Project

World record for a train is 6500 MPH - this is just the replacement bus service

Re: "The project has moved in stops and starts"

The secret is: start-stop, turn round, start-stop

Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill

The only real argument against inheritance tax is it hurts family owned business.

If Jones+Son, a small precision engineering company is family owned and Jones dies, 'Son' has to sell 50% of the company to a rapacious capitalist Private Equity Firm and the company is soon destroyed when they do the normal PE stuff. The alternative is to float Jones+Son so you can sell individual shares, or borrow against them - but then you are paying $$$/year in accounting costs just to be listed for no real benefit.

For rich companies you just form a "charity" with the family being on the board and collecting a "salary", so IKEA and Rolex are charities and never pay any tax.

UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features

Re: Won't work.

And most of that was fake.

A few Bn euro of collateralised-inter-bank-hydrogenated-low-carb-gluten-free contracts go into a London bank at 5:00pm and out again at 8:00am every night somehow counts toward the GDP and means an ex-steel worker in Sunderland is richer

Re: Won't work.

Why would you want non-British veg?

You should eat patriotic British Turnip-Toast (tm)

Re: Password: ICanStillDoThis

Evidence of el-reg's historical anti-python bias

Re: Shirley

If Turnbull says so, then yes:

Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.

Although as everyone knows the value of pi=1 (in base pi)

It always seems unfair that he has to say "my government...", he didn't vote for it. If anything he should say "your government...." - it's your fault, this is what you voted for

Re: All you need to know

Pity he's so anti-GMO, otherwise we could genetically engineer a monarch-bear hybrid

Compared to Hapsburgs, it wouldn't be the weirdest result

Re: All you need to know

They have bear skin hats. Obviously from the flocks of bears at Balmoral

Re: Shirley

Except in Australia where the law of parliament trumps the laws of Mathematics

Re: Hmmm

>We will however require advance notice before they implement (any?) data security system!

I was think of turning the lock on my box of 3.5" disks - who do I inform before I do this ?

Re: All you need to know

>And that blew up a lifetimes fiction that we have a Monarch "to stop tyranny".

That's why the Monarchy need a constitutional right to bear arms.

Re: Won't work.

So apparently there are 44 countries in Europe (if you include Russia, and the Vatican), you forget all the little balkan states

- So the UK is easily top 40

Re: Won't work.

And cut themselves off from one of the top 30 performing economies in Europe ?

Re: Password: ICanStillDoThis

>"U2FsdGVkX185WSn42PIqjIEiRYpf8M2qpeb+tnTPaat3hikN4Z//LAEyF8A5hPAznOnRyYMitPmbUizJFqrnVWizwS7yDqr4M2dmWzu0Gyqn4wVR50xKHINzabgz+xJ2"

How dare you sir ! My mother was a saint

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

But the GPU that you can't afford and get stock of, is now so much more powerful because of this

Re: Discount

Given that he will be charging them a per-seat licence * the total number of Windows machines in the world * number of CPU cores = I hope so

Re: Forget speed of searching, improve accuracy first

There is a certain very good browser that uses Bing for $ome rea$on - the summary to any technical search is just an AI generated word-salad of randomly named config files and command options with your search term wedged in

Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop

Re: Moving towards an Apple methodology..

When it works, but if it doesn't you lose the whole point of FOSS.

1, My XYZ doesn't work in Ubuntu

2, Google error mesg

3, Find post telling you to add some magic gibberish to a config file / install a specific version of xyz.lib

Does this just say, "I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that", just replace it with the Ubuntu approved version of XYZ / buy an official UbXYZ peripheral ?

At which point I might as well buy a Mac

You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

Re: Talking about personal data

So we need to encourage ISIS to wear Apple watches and sign up for strava ?

Perhaps some sort of cross-branding initiative ?

Re: Talking about personal data

Especially since it was No-such-Agency forces in places where we have no declared operations

Why is there a bunch of guys called "Chuck" on Strava whose profile pictures have a buzz-cut, jogging around the same square somewhere in Yemen ?

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

Re: "too stupid to pour piss out of their boot"

Can a rhetorical boot contain piss ?

And is this a real question ?

But with more limited armour-piercing capability

>And if you're active (bicycling, for an example) an off-body carry in a bag is more convenient, at least for me.

https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Columbia-Military-Pneumatic-Safety-Bicycle-Machine-Gun-1600x1129.jpg

It would certainly give you an edge against BMWs without indicators

There's also a Billy Connelly song about the Orient Express with slightly NSFW lyrics

Re: The Man who was Thursday

That's the one, I thought it was 'wednesday' so Google failed me

That's how you know they're a FED

Do they have a business license, liability insurance, trades ticket, credit reference, OSHA etc

Re: As George Carlin remarked...

The curve is in no-way Gaussian, there are way more than 50% of people below average intelligence

Isn't there a classical novel about an underground group where every member is an undercover agent from a different government agency - ?

There are parts of the former colonies where you would need a permit to have a handgun concealed in your backpack but nothing to have a bazooka over your shoulder

Re: duck taped over her reg plate

Part of her fowl plot ?

If Extinction Rebellion aren't entirely Special Branch I'd be amazed

Always book tradesman by personal recommendation.

Re: Rugar handgun

I'm line with the ever increasing size of US pickups we introduce the 308" handgun

Remember, unless your gun is mounted on railway tracks you can't protect your family.

UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters

Re: are they heating the homes...

On top of the Motorway ?

You don't know you're born ..

Re: Assumptions

>Nowhere in Scandanavia is socialist. They are Social Democracies

They don't have slavery = they're communist !

Re: Assumptions

>Where have you been for the last 13 years?

Compared to PM Suella, the last 13years is going to look Corbynist

Re: Think of the rhubarb

For just a trifling amount of money

Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President

Re: So is it 'open' or mot?

>If it's legal in my jurisdiction, then it's legal, end of discussion.

True if your government has an army capable of intimidating the USA. Or doesn't need to trade with the USA.

Otherwise, try selling weapons to Iran and see how long it takes for your democratically elected leaders to hand you over, or go live on a couch in a 3rd world embassy

Re: So is it 'open' or mot?

Yes that's his whole point. But if a US maker contributed to a RISC-V project that was subsequently used in China they get a million years in prison, so safer to just keep buying ARM

Now extend that to Linux. You contribute code to Linux that is used in China/Iran or other enemy superpowers like Cuba, you get extradited to the USA and go to jail for breaking sanctions. Better stick to buying approved Linux from your friendly neighborhood RHEL/AWS/MSFT

I wonder who could possibly be paying for such a bill?