Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today

Re: No 5G initiated Zombie Apocalypse...?

We can't even get 5G zombies here. We're lucky if we get 3G zombies most of the time. It's pathetic watching them stumble along, mumble Brai...... and then freeze

>The Secret Gay Jewish Nazi Lizard Illuminati Freemasons.

splitters !

Re: Every fule kno

That's only the Bill Gates mind control chip.

You should see where Oracle stick the Larry Ellison one

US v Sam Bankman-Fried trial begins ... as imploded crypto-biz boss sues his insurer

Remember when buying politicians - always keep the receipt

Tweaked Space Shuttle Main Engine gets ready for final testing

But by leasing the engines back from the project they sold them to and that way, it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account !

(round of applause)

It's not really 111% relative to "full power"

It's 100% = nominal level of the 1st generation engines.

Rather than re-calibrating everything (and potential confusion) they kept this as 100% so subsequent Shuttle missions ran at >100% even though this was below full power for later version engines

Re: For all the rubbish thrown at him

NASA is re-using the rockets

The old ones were built for the Space Shuttle, they are now being "re-used" for this

Then when we run out of the old ones we we build new Space shuttle engines for this project (at only 10x the original cost) - the entire project will then be cancelled and the engines can be take out of storage and "re-used" in a future project

A similar option for HS2?

250kph Intercity express trains are super-expensive

We have museums full of old steam trains

We fit big resistive electrical heaters in the boilers, run form overhead power lines

= cheap high speed locomotives ready in days

Then we decide we can't electrify the entire line and we've run out of old steam locomotives and we need to make it carbon neutral so we invent miniature nuclear reactors to generate the power to run the heaters to make the steam (we then abandon our design and buy the reactors from N. Korea)

Then we decide it's too dangerous to put the reactors on the train.

So we position them every 10miles along the track, the loco connects to power, raises steam, and runs for 10miles until the boiler is cold

Announce massive success in investing billions in clean power, high speed rail and bringing jobs to run down steam locomotive building regions

Airwave a 'license to print money' on legacy blue-light comms contract

Re: Why, oh why?

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to fullfill the ministerial vision form MEGAPROJECT

And make sure the minister appears in lots of positive press releases

Then when the minister gets promoted / fired / resigns after the incident with the Girl-Guide / Labrador / KGB agent / Inflatable sheep - fullfill the ministerial vision for the next minister,

Repeat every 3 months

They get you with the free iPhone

Then add it to the monthly bill for ever

US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors

US State Dept has no idea if it works

How do you know if the State Dept is working ?

Beta driver turned heads in the hospital

Re: Only 2.5 years in the NHS ....

I once proposed that for a physics project (ironically half under Switzerland)

We had £30K in this years budget for a crane we never needed.

Gold was in the stores catalogue, so I suggested we buy some, bury it in the basement and then sell it next year !

In the end we did the logical/illegal thing, we bought a £30K spectrum analyser for another group and they covered our travel expenses next year

FCC plans to restore net neutrality rules tossed out under Trump

Since el'reg started letting Americans in. They really can't be trusted with something as dangerous as sarcasm

t'internet is just TV. You get your internet from your cable company so can have the same rules

That way Newscorp can make sure that you get access to all the internet that you need. While protecting your precious little children from all that liberals

French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe

French former supercomputing vendor Atos

Now finds that Nvidia is choosing not to allocate its over subscribed AI chip supply to French customers

Bids for ISS demolition rights are now open, NASA declares

Re: It's in orbit!

It's in a low orbit around a planet with an atmosphere, so needs constantly kicking just to stay where it is.

To get it far enough away that it will simply drift away would require a rather beefy 'kick'

Re: A better alternative

> tons of experience doing precise de-orbit maneuvers

Although not of such a large fragile object where the parts holding the motors to do the burn, the parts controlling the motors and the communication parts are all going to break apart at different times

The best efforts are going to be 'hit the half of Earth that is mostly Pacific'

Re: Spacebnb

Although it's cold outside and there's no kind of atmosphere

Re: I know it's old, and I know it's wearing out...

But it does cross the channel regularly

Re: Orbital inclination

>your targeting is a bit off

The nice thing about dropping 450 tonnes of stuff at 10km/s = close is generally good enough

Re: Orbital inclination

We were aiming for Belgium

Re: A better alternative

The energy required is more than the energy needed to put put it into orbit and that was done over 20years by 100s of launches

It's counterintuitive but to drop stuff down into the sun means cancelling out the Earth's orbital speed around the sun - which is a lot of energy

Orbital inclination

Of ISS is about 51deg so it only very briefly goes over civilised countries.

So the cheapest option is just to just let it renter and burn up naturally.

In the worst case it hits France

Intel starts mass production on Intel 4 node using EUV in Irish fab

Re: "arguably the most complicated piece of machinery humans have ever built"

But you can't order an ITER off the shelf

How does this work for ASML?

Do they make the next generation machine for Intel only, and then the gen after that for TSMC only - so they switch who has the latest "nm" lead?

Or do they make the same fundamental machine for both and then Intel / TSMC decide how far they push the envelope on it ?

Intel facing worker shortage for German chip plant

Capitalism

Fortunately the free market means they simply have to raise wages until supply balances demand

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

Re: Well, as long as the IPCC and their syncophants have accounts

That's a cyclosynchrophant, it's not very popular for extremely heavy hadrons (such as elephants) because of losses.

We look forward to the new High energy Pachyderm Collider

Report: CIA eyes building AI chatbot to rival China

Buttle / Tuttle

The computer is always right

Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions

3D printing of titanium, which would be something almost no one is doing -

Titanium is one of the most common metals for 3d printing. Got one of the machines here.

Ti is element 22 which is nearly twice as good as Aluminium (no Google, do not underline that)

Pity that 15 is Phosphorus, or we could have an entire periodic table based iPhone range

Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset

>I'm afraid we have some bad news for you and the other villagers.

Obviously we only consider the old queen. We can't be expected to rename the city every monarch

And you had your own coal mine in the back garden?

The cable companies out here in the desolate wasteland of Her Britannic Majesties northern dominions will sell you a voip line but have to provide 48hr of UPS backup and the local cabinet has to do 48hours without power.

Getting a cell signal means climbing the local 'mountain' (well it's only 700m but the tourist office likes Mountain)

US Space Force wants hotline to China amid rising tensions

Re: Disorder

>As actor Bob Hoskins once said,

Right... it's up to you. Frostbite or verbals...

Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid

But it does mean none of those $ethnics appearing in the backgrounds to your training PowerPoints

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

Re: Ah, ATM

I thought the 48 bytes was because the telecoms people wanted 32bytes for low latency and the data people wanted 64bytes for better throughput - so they compromised

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

Re: Sovereignty

Wasn't that the whole 'logic' of Brexit for the Rees-Moggs ?

The Eu would bend over backwards to keep all existing trade freedoms with the UK because ... something... something... German car makers

And the government would bend over backwards to do anything the USA wanted

So any data flows, money laundering or corporate acquisition that the Eu blocked would simply flow through Britain and they would take their %

Re: A Joke....surely......

All those companies would argue that the US law is significantly enhanced for them compared to the Eu

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Re: 23x6x364

Remember, like the benefits system, this is designed NOT to work

After all it's only used by foreigners who try to visit this Sceptic Isle and traitorous Britains who have the temerity to wish to re-enter having visited foreign lands

Re: Tourists

>But apart from the foreign exchange and creating new jobs, what have the Tourists ever done for us?

Raised the standard of customer service?

Well yes. I'll give you that.

And the coffee - Remember what the coffee on the High St used to be like

Yes the coffee is one thing we'd really miss if the tourists left

And the food !

Well yes obviously foreign food goes without saying

Part of the hostile environment

Bloody tourists, coming over here, spending their foreign money, creating our jobs

It's their new AI based citizenship system

If you accept that the e-gates are all broken, the queues are long and uniformed idiots are shouting contradictory instructions - with at most a quiet 'tut' = you are British

If you think this is unaccaptable and complain you are probably a filthy foreigner

Get you picks for the "how will they screw this up" lottery

1, It will be an app that only works on the latest model iPhone. The Digital Govt Imagineering team in Shoreditch tested it and didn't find this a problem

2, Payment will require a UK credit card registered to a UK address

3, It will send an SMS confirmation, but only to a UK mobile number

4, It will be valid for 10years but will require the address of the hotel you are staying in. the address must be in the precise form in the Postal Address File but it won't tel you why it's rejected.

Re: Current problems

>I'd suggest that maybe 13 years of cuts have resulted in the quagmire we find ourselves in.

That's the problem with right wing governments. their refusal to spend on law and order, border control and public order

Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips

Re: TF support, anyone?

NVidia went all in on CUDA, the libraries and tooling are way beyond any of the alternatives and you can hire experts in CUDA.

Intel and AMD paid lip service to OpenCL support but only as a minimal box-ticking.

There are cross platform tools that will compile to CUDA or OpenCL but if you happen to need massively parallel GPU compute for anything requiring high performance you are going to end up tuning the resulting code, and only NVidia have decent tooling

Amazon 'protects' against junk AI e-books by limiting author-bots to three a day

Re: There is a solution

Great advice for the latest "Great American Novel" but if you need a book on "Configuring the CISCO XYZ" tomorrow, then you probably can't wait for the TLS to do a piece on it.

Or you could rely on the bot generated reviews to the bot generated books. But the only ones that are actually human are the ones saying things like "I bought it as a gift but haven't read it = 5stars" or "The greatest story ever told, but delivery driver left it outside = 1 star"

Re: in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits

Good job Barbara Cartland isn't still around

GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake

Re: RMS contribution

NT is a microkernel except that a few little things like filesystem, graphics etc are in the kernel