Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US slaps sanctions on accused fave go-to money launderer of Russia's rich

Re: fave go-to money launderer

Not just any bank, you need one that's so desperate it will lend to customers on its own blacklist to make this Qs bonus.

fave go-to money launderer

Deutsche Bank ?

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

You don't need to redesign the data center, just relocate the housing.

Hot air vents together with a fully recyclable carbon-friendly pre-fab box structure is an obvious solution to providing affordable central London housing

Re: are they heating the homes...

You had a mouldy shoe box ?

Luxury ....

Re: Levelling up

Cos there will be a one off grant to the home owner, or more likely it will only be used for municipal systems.

Especially if the homeowner would be responsible for maintenance.

Re: Intel

The limit on data center space isn't the size of the cpu, it's the maximum power I can put in and heat I can remove from a rack.

I can already fit about 4x as many GPUs in 42U than I'm allowed to.

Re: Assumptions

Of it's a gas/oil/coal boiler then yes.

If it's electrical heating then it doesn't matter, unless it was electricity you were going to use anyway to render cat videos rather than waste in an electric heater.

Obvious solution is to go Cloud^2 and distribute your servers to everyone's house

Re: Assumptions

> then the district heating idea could still be sound?

But the UK occasionally has summers.

What if one day there was 'Wot a scortcher' with temperatures rising to 20C? The data center is running it's AC at full power but your nan doesn't want her central heating on full blast.

Presumably this means the data centers have to build a chiller plant capable of handling the full heat output and spend all the extra to concentrate low grade heat for housing. But with the extra complexity of 1000s of local residents deciding hourly how much cooling capacity they will provide

Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

Worse is when the faut is on the pole transformer outside and the installers, the landlord and the power company blame each other and nobody wants to cooperate or even be scheduled on site at the same time.

Re: The last time I heard a loud noise and things were restarting...

The only thing still running perfectly longer than my Brother Laser is my Subaru

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

I thought Samsung already owned the SK government

Why do they have to pay again ?

New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space

Re: The Universe. Some Information To Help You Live In It

...Infinite number of planets, finite number of inhabited planets, therefore average population of planet = zero

"From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."

Home of the world's longest pleasure pier joins public sector leak club

Re: Excel and FoI basics

For which Oracle would only charge twice their normal consulting rate. But because it's a legal FOI the offshore minimum wage workers should be paidcharged at the same hourly rate as lawyers

Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

Re: Stabby stab

What conundrum? Special branch said he stabbed himself and locked himself in the sports bag -

You going to argue with the police ?

Re: Stabby stab

At least the MI5 ones have the decency to stab themselves to death and then lock themselves into a sportsbag

OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source

Re: Does not compute!

Oracle being Evil vs. Oracle trying to screw IBM

I haven't been following this closely

How did Redhat get around the GPL2 by not allowing customers to redistribute changes ?

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

Re: Does not compute!

I don't think Redhat should be allowed to use opensource software that people have built and maintained without paying them for support

India's lunar landing made a mess on the Moon

Re: "chronic or long-term effects of such dust exposure could be a problem for future missions."

> He wants people to land on Mars and I believe it's a better step to establish a base on the moon first. Clearly he's bonkers.

That's why the first Everest climb started from the top of Annapurna

Re: "chronic or long-term effects of such dust exposure could be a problem for future missions."

Although the Apollo astronauts seemed to have all lived fairly long lives

Buzz Aldrin, one of the first to be exposed to lunar dust, seems to be pretty much immortal

Re: But the best way to keep dust down

Wouldn't work on the moon. You need a vacuum cleaner

"chronic or long-term effects of such dust exposure could be a problem for future missions."

Good job the Apollo astronauts kept their helmets on - otherwise they could have long term health effects

FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

Very few currencies are fungible.

We are nearly at war over the ability to pay for oil in anything other than portraits of Ben Franklin.

Try buying your Chelsea mansion in Roubles right now, or pricing your ARM IPO in GBP

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

Interesting - I assumed all the PCBs now had gold plating because we were paying a fortune for prototype boards with massive FPGAs and GPUs so they add to add a bit of bling to justify what they are charging us.

And super-ironically one of the things he 'invested' in turned out to be such a massive hit (for the sake of my sanity I didn't follow this) that he made have actually made a profit overall !

Which suggests that: 1, There is a wise all-powerful benevolent God, 2, they either take a lot of drugs or are just doing the universe for laughs

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

See also: sports cars, handbags that cost as much as a car, paintings that cost lots more than sportscars (even if not of a sports car?)

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

Exactly, bitcoin as a way to trade without having to pay Visa/Mastercard/Paypal or be beholden to the USD has failed. In the same way gold has, try buying a house with gold.

Bitcoin has become (like Gold) a commodity to gamble on the price changing. So the volatility now makes it worse as a store of value than classic records or baseball cards.

He wasn't robbing little old ladies (they don't have enough money) you had to do a lot of high level money stuff as a US citizen to even be able to invest

Ironically if he was a master criminal this would have been a good tactic. ie. Hey, this stuff is so good the Feds won't let you invest, you have to buy crypto and move it to this secret Swiss account and then burn all your records to get into my scheme.

Ironically I think he was really just a twat = the rules don't apply to me cos I'm brilliant so I have to go to a dodgy off-shore tax-haven where I don't have to worry about rules. He broke the law, but not in a Bernie Madoff way, more in a "I have an infallible system to beat the casino" way

Re: There you

1, Don't fight a land war in Asia

2, Don't go up against a Sicilian of death is on the line

3, If you are going to do crime - don't pick victims who are rich and well connected in the country you live in

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

Your Reichsmarks / confederate dollars / Japanese Invasion currency worth much ?

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

Crypto has nothing to support >

- except user demand.

i can sell an original Beatles single for a lot more than a Venezuelan / Argentinian / Turkish note - in spite of having no government behind it.

Of course i can also make up a crypocurrency, and have about as much success selling it as my own original unreleased Karaoke single

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

About 8% of Gold is used in technology. Most of that in electronics - but it's generally internal bond wires where you want the high conduction and ductility to make ultrafine wires.

Nobody was replacing lead solder with gold bond wires, and it certainly didn't boost gold price or production

Re: Whats wrong with crypto

And Bernie Madoff, or the GFC shows what's wrong with dollars

Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs

Re: I remember when

>But the schools in the UK have all got computers in already

That was the problem rPi was trying to solve.

Schools had networked windows PCs, managed by some outsourced company who charge $$$$$$ to 'fix' anything so the PCs are locked down to prevent the students 'breaking' anything, and to prevent Mumsnet getting upset if a child plays a game, or access any web site not approved by the DoE.

So kids get threatened with expulsion for 'hacking' ie using the command prompt - and then arrive for Comp Sci undegrad with highschool experience in opening Word.

The pi was cheap enough to have a computer each and probably had one at home, they were encouraged to 'break it' cos a fix was just a new SD card image away.

>I still would have thought that they would have used a more recent processor.

Why?

Unless you need a lot more processing power you use the part with a proven 10 year in space test

IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer something else instead

The only people still at IBM are those waiting out their pension. This only affects young people with years of contributions to be matched.

Anybody starting their career and betting on IBM deserves everything they get

UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia

Re: More ££s wasted instead of…

From university experience you can always appear to save money by reducing admin staff.

You just end up with professors doing a lot of general office paperwork

And postdocs spending a lot of time trying to learn how to sort out complex customs documentation for an imported part, cos there are no experienced office staff.

And people waiting around for weeks to get a part ordered because ordering is now outsourced to 8 layers of service provider

And expensive bits of kit standing idle because you got rid of the techs and so a PhD student from years ago who used 50% of it explained that to a student that used 50% of that function and explained to a student ....

But on paper we have cut the wasted admin "overhead" - while somehow paying $/£/€ to management consultants to say how efficient this is

Re: Computer say

Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.

Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”

“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a plan to win the next election?”

The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.

KERNEL PANIC

Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.

(Answer by Fredric Brown, 1954)

Re: Lucky they built it in Bristol then, otherwise it would be confusing

Because people kept assuming we were in Bristol, not Uxbridge!

Surprised they didn't rename it Brunel Uxbridge University in the hope of getting a few international students who didn't read closely

Lucky they built it in Bristol then, otherwise it would be confusing

Re: You can't fight in here, this is a Moore room

GHC scientists => Supercomputers

∴ Supercomputers => GHC scientists

Since we want to have fewer GHC scientists than China we must have fewer Supercomputers

Re: Rankings

But these supercomputers would be used by scientists ( who are Godless Heathen Commies) to try and invent Vaccines or to suggest the Earth isn't at the center of the universe and is >4000years old.

That's why China (also Godless Heathen Commies) are building them,

Gentlemen we MUST let a supercomputer gap develop !

UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities

Re: Hmm

We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the asylum centres

We shall preserve the pure white christian British race for ein tausend Jahre ..... ?

European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal

>Assume we shall get an update story in roughly a few years time telling us how over budget, a quarter implemented and not fit for purpose it is.

That's the good option - I'm expecting something more on the lines of the 9 Kings of men who accepted the gift of rings.....

The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy?

Re: Northern Powerhouse, levelling up, etc

>Bring back the Stuarts!

Bloody Normans, coming over here with their filthy foreign castles

Bring back Deira - the original Northern Powerhouse

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

Re: Wait, what?

No it was the actor who was later in "Neighbours" in a Wallaby suit

Ironically all the other parts in neighbours were played by Wallabies in human makeup

Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

Re: What else do you expect

You pay $$$$$/year to attend Harvard.

They (claim to) only take the most brilliant and innovative students

But somehow anything you brilliantly invent while paying to be there - belongs to them ?

On which basis, presumably the 30% of European children who are (allegedly) conceived in an IKEA bed are a slave army for the Swedish Meatball Empire

FAA is done with Starship's safety review, now it's over to the birds and turtles

Re: No doubt in my mind

Unless Boeing/Lockheed Martin took a senator for 'drinks' and 'convinced' him that the lesser spotted newt is a vital part of the American ecosystem

And he has a word with his colleague on the oversight committee

NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away

Re: Don't take away my chemtrails!

But they're being replaced by invisible stealth chemtrails which activate the secret 6G virus transmitter

You've not heard of 6G? That proves there's a cover up!