Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

Re: Perhaps Ofcom will take inspiration from the Home Office

He's a pompous bellend of the highest order, and he's a Tory MP - but I repeat myself

Re: Really? "precludes private communication"/

>All they will get out (even if Signal give them a "backdoor") is more encryption.

And all you will get is 5 years

Re: Seems you can fool most of the people

There's no evidence but it is scientific fact

Re: Usual political meaning of "sending a message"

The Tories: tough on crime, tough on magical solutions to crime

Re: Poor, deprived Americans

I think Polymathery is only allowed in Utah

Boris as Lord Protector ?

Re: Perhaps Ofcom will take inspiration from the Home Office

No, this labour leader is the one that had all-night courts to deal with protestors

I call upon the government to go further

This must be blocked at source and so ARM must be forced to ensure all their processors block material harmful to girls, Tory ministers or small cute animals the Mail on Sunday readers like.

Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic

Unfortunately then you would have to take it apart and assemble it in Alabama for Americans to buy it

Re: What happened to .....

And why Airbus got to buy the Bombardier competitor to the 737 for $1 after Boeing got it banned from the USA

Re: What happened to .....

"Who should I believe?

Some rando on the internet, or a company that generates renders for press releases of projects that will never materialise beyond an annual report and the first search for "Airbus + environment"

Re: Lift??

But this ship is designed to carry a bunch of massive aerofoil 'sails'

Simply mount the A320 wings vertically on deck on turntables and zoom across like an America Cup yacht

Re: What happened to .....

If I were Airbus, I'd spend my innovation budget on bribingincentivizing US politicians so I didn't have to build planes in Alabama to get them accepted in USA

They just have to find a cargo for the return trip,

something produced in Alabama that is in demand in France.

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

Same thing could be said for having a boy/girl friend if you were a boy/girl

Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds

Re: Pure rent

>Batteries good for 2 years

Don't worry - it's CISCO

6 months after you buy it they will find a security hole and EOL the product rather than fixing it

NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms)

There was a Crew Rescue Vehicle - Experimental for the Shuttle which allegedly got cancelled because it's acronym was too close to a lady-part for NASA's bosses

Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine

Perfect security

None of our employees have the faintest idea what we do, why we do it, who the customer is or how it works -

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

There were also a bunch of crooks organizing illegal raves during lockdown who got caught by their private messages

As an occasional visitor to the Greatest Nation on Earth I would like to commend the diligence of the majestic INS under the benevolent leadership of this, their greatest ever president, matched only by the previous one, and/or the next one (delete as appropriate)

Spacewalk turns into spacework as cosmonauts grapple with ISS leak

Re: Space age technology.

You try getting a bowl of soapy water, big enough to dip the ISS in, up there

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

Re: Lazy kids

Undoubtedly cheaper and more easily replaceable than a explosive sniffing dog, but probably less effective.

Re: History kinda goes full circle

Seems an unnecessary requirement, but that's government for you

Hey Elsie I'm hungry. Hope the Luftwaffe pops over tonight so I can get some jellied eels delivered ( or whatever it is that Londoners eat)

Isn't that why the IRA (who we now know were not terrorists but just a misunderstood Irish folk dance group) had agreed code words ?

- leaving the interesting question of how they agreed them. A senior special branch officer covered in silver braid meeting an Irish gentleman in a black Balaclava on a park bench ?

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

Re: Imagine an HP phone, or a IBM phone

My first professional paying gig was fixing these.

Once they failed at being the vital desktop accessory for a dynamic executive's vital desktop - they were used by Bingo halls to run a nation-wide synchronised bingo game.

They were basically a Sinclair QL + phone, and since I was one of the only two people in the world that bought a QL (I think the other guy went into PC give-away software) I got paid to fix them by a local chain of little-old-lady casinos

Re: I'll be happy when they bring back the Windows phone..

A Windows reskinned Android phone with Microsoft approved branding and Microsoft sales organisation behind it and a few golf trips for CIOs - might convince them that it's the only safe and secure option for their workforce

Re: Failure

I think Apple was very good at threatening patents on design elements without the risk of ever going to court

A little like how Microsoft threatens every manufacturer of Translucent Wall Opening Inserts for copyright and hopes they give in without ever goign to court

Re: I beg to differ

>The focus on phone-like interfaces managed to really ruin their OS releases

Had Windows8 for a very brief trial.

Installed visual Studio and my desktop was instantly covered in tiles to give me direct access to all those "vital components" that shipped with VS, like the Foxpro connection debugger

Ironically if they had done this - Windows Phone would have won

For "security reasons" only Windows Phone is allowed to connect to Exchange server or Teams or O365 and we aren't launching Outlook / Teams / Skype etc on Android or iOS.

If it also integrated nicely into AD and was the only option with remote wipe and security.

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

Re: You Can't Buy Something Not Available

The warm glow when you woosh a fellow el'reg

So long as the trenching was done with excavators made in Britain, from British steel, made from British iron ore, smelted with coke from British coal

Re: Only cheaper for the buyer

>China not only has a large domestic market -- the country is the size of Europe ... The UK is an insignificant customer.

So if the UK were to band together with a few dozen other nearby countries that shared a similar culture, political and financial system - would it be possible for its industry to compete on a world scale?

Re: You Can't Buy Something Not Available

>Most of our poles are long since gone. I can remember when there were miles of them festooned with dozens of pairs all over the country.

I think it was something to do with Brexit. Although it does seem a labour intensive solution I suppose it's cheaper than getting planning permission

Fiber subscription is a good idea, I don't want to have to keep going out to buy new fiber.

I want a month's worth of fiber delivered every month, ideally in a range of new flavours

Re: "a length of approximately "5.7 million kilometers" in 2021 alone."

We aren't in the Eu anymore - That's 28.5 Million furlongs !

Yours in green ink

Disgusted , Tunbridge Wells

Did any of that actually materialise ?

Or Yorkshire tea trying to compete with India and China

Re: Only cheaper for the buyer

Although this is a small case. Imagine the £bn saved when the government buys all its software and computer systems from small UK suppliers instead of giant US firms

Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal

Re: Paying Off

The legal minimum in Canada is a week/year of service.

However - the courts order a "reasonable amount", which includes how senior you are, how specialised your skills, how difficult to get another job locally, etc etc

So if you are offered 1 week, you get a lawyer to write a letter saying 'see you in court' and wait for their next offer

ULA's Vulcan Centaur hopes to rocket into Christmas

Re: Space burial?

GNSS are in a highish orbit (20-25,000km ?), so there is a lot more space in space than for LEO, where all those new 10,000 internet satellite constellations live,

Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market

Re: Incentive

Windows on those, old, expensive, heavy, hot, poor battery life x86 laptops

MacOS on these new thin, all day battery shiny M2 gadgets

"I don't know what an OS is but it does Teams / Outlook, Web and Facebook", super cheap, super thin laptop running some sort of ARM SOC and has mobile data

"Windows: the choice of the VAX generation"

Re: Interesting

>where you basically have 80%+ of the performance at about 20% of the power consumption.

With M2 Macs I'm not sure you don't get more performance for less power - everyone I've heard running Linux on them seems very impressed

Re: Interesting to point out

I would have thought Intel would be more concerned about ARM in the data center.

Instead of buying those super-expensive, super high-margin XEON chips, the GPU-filled rack you just bought for all that AI stuff now also contains a few 1000 ARM cores for free.

Re: Response

I know the feeling.

What did I come up this branch for ?

It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI

Hybrid Cloud AI bendy Smartphone

Bingo !

The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available ... if you pre-ordered

Re: Missed opportunity

>Imagine youngsters learned how to do it.

I think the USA is ahead of us in allowing young children to learn manufacturing skills directly

>Business loves the stable form factor and OS support

It's also a nice solution below the level where you hire an engineering team and spend a year spinning up your own board and porting Linux, but above the level you are buying dev-kits or having to use USFF PCs

Brits sign Axiom Space deal for human spaceflight in name of science

I thought we had a law banning UK public-funded manned spaceflight ?

Biden admin reveals 31 R&D tech hubs, with $500m up for grabs

Re: Choice immigration.

All the y need is land, cheap labour, water, a compliant government when it comes to tax and regulation, and not having a nuclear armed historically belligerent neighbour just across a small strip of water

Ex-ASML worker accused of stealing chipmaking secrets for China is Huawei to a new job

Re: It won't make any real difference

It still saves a lot of R&D effort in not going down the wrong paths and knowing which bits need to be built to what tolerance

You can't run our source code without having our proprietry interface cards - but we still aren't open sourcing our algorithms !