Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

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

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

Re: Response

I know the feeling.

What did I come up this branch for ?

Also didn't take off because the vast array of Windows software didn't run on them

Now 'the vast array of Windows software' is Edge running Office365

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 !

French IT behemoth Atos facing calls for nationalization as it tries to restructure

Does this mean Frexit ?

I was reliably informed by a bus that only escaping the jackboot of tyrannical Brussels would permit a British government to protect British industry

(or allow it to be sold to India / American businesses rather than French ones)

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

creating job opportunities in people's backyards

the UK is offering funding for upto 31 regional sheds to create opportunities in backyards

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Re: No corruption here.

I assumed the reg's Tories were the ones upvoting

Re: No corruption here.

Hopefully the Tories will get in at the next election and save us from the years of this woke Corbynist government

Re: How many meter-reader-person hours

It's expensive to send out a meter reader every 15 mins when you change the price of the leccy depending on supply market

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

Re: Makes a change

Down with this sort of thing. Careful now !

Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now

Re: Republicans would change their tune

Except they own the ISPs, or rather the media companies that own the ISP own the Republicans.

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'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion

Re: Hey Musk, you're doing it wrong!

I would expect that 99.99% of the components on a Tesla are a 1000x more accurate than that

- assuming you count every transistor in the chips individually, it's only the panel gaps and leaky roof panels that's 0.1" out of spec

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

I came here for an argument !

No you didn't

Yes I did ....

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

>Don't the male equivalents like 4chan prove the same thing about men?

Very few government policies are based on 4Chan posts.

Re: Why bother?

I thought Morrissey would be a fan of Twitter

Re: Hmm

>"Big Snake Oil"?

Jörmungandr = ever wondered why the Norwegians seem to have so much oil ?

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

>Elon wants X/Twitter to embrace payments and banking then trying to satisfy regulators around the world

That's the nice thing about being a dynamic hyper move-fast-and-break-things Silicon Valley company with a cool name = you can ignore regulations

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

Re: Excellent!

So rather than remote-desktopping into your work computer you have all the company data, software , licenses, keys etc on everyone's laptop to be left in a bar

Tell me you work for the security services without telling me you work for the security services

Re: Geolocation Matching Address?

Yes but he's very strict with himself

Re: Best code ever!

From an old ALEX cartoon

I hear Jenkins at $MEGACORP lost £ 100M yesterday.

They did a drug test

Oh, how did it go ?

He was clean so they had to fire him. They're having a big crackdown on stupidity

Re: Techies get drug tests in the US

But at least you kept the ghosts of C17 religious extremists happy

And look on the bright side, you might have lost a valuable contribution to shareholder value to a competitor but you avoided hiring a no good liberal hippie

Re: Surely one possible technique...

Cos the first rule of spies is they aren't allowed to lie to you if asked a direct question

Re: Techies get drug tests in the US

But imagine how dysfunctional the government would be if the senior politicians weren't subject to the same drug testing as a postal worker.

Can you imagine a congress where they were all on drugs?

That's why the banks all have boxes on their forms to tick if you're a North Korean spy

Look ma, no fans: Mini PC boasts slimline solid-state active cooling system

Re: How is it solid state?

They do PWM to set the grey level (the mirror can only be on/off) so have to run at 1000s of times the frame rate.

I'm a bit NDA on how fast the fastest can do but you can work it out.

Re: How is it solid state?

>moving (vibrating) parts which will wear out at some point.

Not if it's well within the elastic limit. A video projector chip has millions of little mirrors moving at 100khz for years

Re: is that good?

Really this is more solving the problem of heatsink as much as fan.

The challenge is to get a lot of heat in a small space (the CPU) into a lot of space at lower temperature (the room)

Instead of metal finned heatsink to get the heat into the local hot air and then blow that air away with a fan - this takes the hot air very close to the cpu and blows it far enough away that it dissipates.

It would probably still benefit from a case fan, otherwise you just end up with a bloom of hot air near the magic fan

Re: Counter productive

Ant powered would work - if only we could get enough bugs in (GNU pterry)

Re: Counter productive

We need to get away from this solid state technology and return to proper brass gears.

No more cooling concerns, so long as you keep everything properly oiled

'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election

Re: Darwin in action

laws apply equally to everyone .....even ex presidents who commit criminal acts

Do you have any evidence for that?

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

Re: Experts

A stack of post-it notes with the doctor's name and score would have worked.

Then they would have just had to find an NHS manager who could count upto 24 on their fingers (might need 2 managers and half an assistant)

NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle

Re: Spaceship

But if he hadn't we wouldn't have a cheap source of labor to undercut China

Re: Spaceship

And the Nasa director from Utah who wanted Morton Thiokol to make the giant fireworks which meant they needed joints, which needed O rings....

Re: Spaceship

Design by a committee is OK, there are very few space programs entirely designed by a lone bloke in a shed

The problem was that it's requirements were created by a bunch of competing agencies, some of which later dropped out once their compromises had been implemented. (see also any European fighter program involving the French)

Fears China could trash Broadcom's VMware nuptials as revenge for sanctions

>Can someone explain to me why a merger between two US companies (I presume) has anything to do with the EU/UK/China??

How could Apple buying Google and leaving you with a choice of iPhone or "2 tin cans + string" as a choice affect anyone outside Cupertino ?

UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

Re: So the way for the UK Government to spy on its subjects

No, the government gets to ignore the law anyway. This is a way for UK companies / local authorities / some bloke down the pub - to spy on UK subjects by just using a website in Jersey

CIA exposed to potential intelligence interception due to X's URL bug

Re: El Reg Style Guide needs an update

But like paying for TSA vip line it's part of the US belief that being able to pay makes you not-criminal

What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court

Re: The lesson to be drawn from this:

If you don't use Google, don't have a Facebook account and use Linux you are probably a terrorist.

Re: Don't use Google.

>Eventually someone will end up ticking enough boxes that they'll get individual attention

And many of those boxes will be name=foreign, skin=brown. Alongside the same search terms about recent events

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

Re: My experience so far

>I have come to the conclusions this is linked to the silent Teams updates

On Android teams updates remove the ability to call 911 so you're ahead just losing desktop audio

Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

>Besides, installing Linux these days is nothing special

ThatWasTheJoke.jpeg, I've been installing Linux since SLS and the boot and root floppies and you had to write your own xorg.conf modelines and hope you didn't blow up your CRT getting phase correct

Nothing was as opaque as that list of Windows instructions

Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

Wow, good job I only use Linux. I'm obviously not smart enough to install windows anymore

Re: Maybe it's the installer

Virtual box works very nicely on modern CPUs and if you can live with the "please take my firstborn" Oracle license, even USB3 works

One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe

Re: Fork lift trucks

Sorry that wasn't true, they were 11

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-young-11-operated-forklift-employed-kentucky-distribution-center-rcna120997

Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts

Re: El Reg strikes again..

A few million people die because their country becomes uninhabitable, but the costs of defending against migrants coming here are small compared to having to the cost of being forced to drive smaller pickup trucks