Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

Hey if Ronnie Biggs tells you that your train is vulnerable to theft.....

So they restricted SAP usage to China, driving them to madness and bankruptcy?

Re: You think that ?

How's your Gran for soap?

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

Re: Reasonable Compromise

The real cost though is that every standalone office costs them the $10-100/month they can charge for Office365

Unless they can charge $$$ for every new standalone and everyone renews every coupe of years and there's no piracy - they lose money however cheap the development

Re: That explains it

Still don't understand why, if they hate cloud so much AND made us migrate everything to github - they didn't just self-host git ?

Anyone with experience of self-hosting git for a major evil-corporation bent on world domination, with perhaps 100-200 devs ?

That explains it

Our corporate overlords at Cthullu International used on-prem Atlassian. They demanded we move off when they went cloudy - but moved us to cloudy Github ?

Wondered why we had a sudden rush to move to a cloud - when they are paranoid about having all our data in R'lyeh

It's all about the money !

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

Re: Fork lift trucks

The USA reduced the age that children can work in factories. You can't have 14 year olds working with forklifts see something like this !

Re: OOPS!

Cos if it's on fire you don't want to have to do all the whole self destruct sequence scene in Alien to shut it down

Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited

Re: I'm losing track

Well you know how you had to update a 64bit OS?

Ericsson sues Lenovo over 5G patents, accuses it of stalling talks

Re: ‘the '893 Patent covers "shift values of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes’

But they have a patent on the business model of getting a patent on 60 year old mathematical discoveries

Obvious solution

Lenovo are Chinese, Iike Huawei, so we can just ban them ,like Huawei

Tell me Huawei: Chinese giant wants to know what made EU label it high security risk

Re: I guess they can't just say the real reason...

How unlike the home life of our own Home Secretary

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

Re: Hard to dispute?

Unless you photographed a print of the modified image with an Apple/Samsung etc phone

Re: They have it backwards

Doesn't that only work for pictures of apes ?

Re: They have it backwards

There is a lot of AI between what comes off the sensor and what comes out if Apple/Google's image processing chip.

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Or it will force companies in the Eu to use Windows instead of Linux because their lawyers will be afraid that they are responsible for fixing Firefox bugs in their point of sale system, while Microsoft will (for a fee) handle bug reporting in Edge.

Re: The usual quality of EU news reporting....

>So pay me $1m a day, and I'll follow the legislation.

That's why open source is so concerned. SAP can say this , I can't say this if I add to some GPL software and you use it. The GPL says I give it to you and you can give to anyone else.

But I'm responsible for reporting any security that affect you, and anyone you gave the software to and anyone using any derived work and possibly for any flaws in any work I derived from that affect my work.

Re: “… that program you wrote in 2019”

Has there been a court case creating an opinion on that ?

Re: Seems like a simple fix

That's surprising. It's almost like there are a number of large car companies in the Eu with a lot of lobbying power.

Strangely electric cars are also exempt from the repairable / battery replacement rules that apply to phones

Re: Unpopular opinion: The act isn't that bad.

Or maybe he's one of the crazy people that likes using gas chromatograph to see if the food he's eating includes arsenic or heavy metals."

That's ridiculous. For heavy metals you would use HPTLC or ideally, plasma coupled mass spectrometry

Re: I see a LOT of software developers

And as long as you aren't using any other software with a different licence. I can't take GPL software, add my bits and say 'GPL but not for use in Eu'

Until a court rules on what the standard for 'becoming aware' means.

Boeing can't claim it didn't know about 737max crashes because it only checks an accident loss once per year.

For a medical device sold in Europe we have to have an official notifying body with contact details that we have to put on every product and in every manual. Don't know what their rules are about being staffed 24*7 and having backup phone systems but they aren't cheap!

Re: EC <> European Council in this context

That's like saying 99% of Holywood is in English, so the global cinema market is basically down to the innovation of Oxford University Press

Re: EC <> European Council in this context

Are you typing this on a phone with a US OS or are you using a Nokia 3310?

Are you just responsible for your own flaws or for security flaws in your app due to other components?

So if you accept a € donation for your little utility but it uses Log4J you are responsible for knowing about, reporting and fixing the Log4J security hole as well?

Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

Re: If you are pissing people off you must be doing something right

If you want to know who the good guys - just look at who the Mail On Sunday hate

Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production

Re: “ a mask imprinted with a circuit design”

Obviously they imprint it from the same revolutionary Canon nano-something-something machine

Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations

Boeing vibes ?

(Intel) backed out of the latter amid a restructuring of the division and cost-cutting measures.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

> I have people that mill around like sheep with a coyote around when a printer runs out of paper.

I have people that will just resend the print job another dozen times, then email it to a secretary to print from their machine

UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

Re: £108k

>Actually, it's 0.3 m per startup.

So a foot in the door for British semiconductor success stories

Re: describes itself as an "unconventional computation company" that is still in stealth mode

Also avoids that confusion about which way round to put it in socket

Re: describes itself as an "unconventional computation company" that is still in stealth mode

All conventional CPU dies are square and have limitations.

Our new CPU is round, therefore unconventional and therefore logically doesn't have the same limitations

Re: £108k

And by 2 again, typical overhead for engineering staff is 100%

Re: £108k

Or to put it another way.

London to Birmingham = 100mi / 160km

Cost of HS2 = £56bBn

So at £350M / km, this is funding of 3m / startup, or in el'reg units 21 linguini per applicant

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

Re: This is not an IT failing

>Just take a look over here and see what THAT bullshit gets you.

Rich shareholders?

Re: This is not an IT failing

But all this brings the "efficiency of the free market" to healthcare - right ?

Re: EuSpRIG horror list

I wonder what tool they use to catalogue these reports ?

Re: This is not an IT failing

>Ideally the IT systems should be built in house by NHS employees

That's the clever bit, there is no "N"HS, there are 1000s of regional authorities and hospital trusts - all refusing to cooperate with each other. So none would pay another for a national solution

Odd really that decades of governments, all deeply committed to the NHS as a beacon of Britain, should have arranged for it to be so ideally divided up as if for privatisation?

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

Re: Five vulnerabilities uncovered in TETRA?

Including speaking Welsh ?

Re: "used in Europe, the UK, and other countries"

You haven't seen the new map?

We are now in the new continent of Great Britainia

Re: They were kept secret ... why ?

But back then you were normally keeping them secret to hide the deliberate weakness

Re: They were kept secret ... why ?

I see you are attempting logical reasoning, while encrypted communications is a matter of security

Starlink starts advertising Direct to Cell satellite phone service as coming in '2024'

Re: Best of all

>Gates & Musk will join with Bezos, Ellison, Soros, and the zombie corpse of Steve Jobs - move to Mars before the asteroid hits in 2042.

How do we arrange for the asteroid to hit Mars?

Re: Best of all

For free ?

Re: Tinfoil

Cell phone antenna are already multiple element. I thought 5G REQUIRED beam forming to work at all - but apparently it's an R&D level thing in the actual phone at the moment

So at the moment you really need a tinfoil turban to protect yourself from the relatively wide beam satellite rays. Once the beam forming technology gets better you will only need a tinfoil beret, and ultimately just a small tinfoil Yarmulke

Re: Umm?

I can barely see a cell tower a few km away through the buildings and trees - and yet I can see objects in space that are many leagues yonder

Re: Tinfoil

You don't need to wear the hat when making a call, the 5G antennae uses a steered beam to tightly focus the radiation from the phone to the satellite.

The tinfoil hat only protects you from the rays the satellites beam down onto the top of your head.

Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst

Obviously they should just start wars among themselves.

Last time we did that we got radar, computers, space rockets, atomic power and powdered eggs out of it

Indeed, if only we could return to the centuries of liberty, egality and equality in Europe before the industrial revolution

Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data

Re: Fortunately

Possibly an anti-money laundry or KYC requirement. Or for one if these rules about blocking problem gamblers who have registered as wanting to be bocked