Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Not to mention the economical fallout

Don't worry the bill won't apply to anything to do with money.

It will just mean that ad-blockers, anonymous browsing and visiting a company's website without logging in and providing their official online id will be illegal

What Facebook? You're suddenly onboard with the idea?

Yes Microsoft, it would mean that local storage and processing of 'potentially terrorist' documents would be illegal and so would force everyone to use Office365 (so long as we get the same access the NSA get)

Re: Last Rites, unfortunately...

But at least their leader is that nice if slightly ineffective old guy not some frothing 'law and order' spouting pretend hard man.

Re: Last rites ... hope not

It looks like we can't get this bill through with the current government, let's drop the encryption bit and add some ambiguous phrase about 'support for technical means' then we can get some judge to rule it means no encryption later

Will that work ?

Yes minister

Re: Last Rites, unfortunately...

Fortunately the other lot are totally sensible, scientifically literate not obsessed with id cards and needing to pander to the same DailyMail readers to win.

Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles

Re: It is a tragedy...

Because science is a climate-change claiming waste of tax-payer money / an elitist anglo-centric patriarchal GMO creating destroyer of the environment

(please delete as appropriate)

Re: The problem with bureaucrats

Photos of politicians not cutting the ribbon on a new bridge, because they invested in adequate maintenance of the old one, tend not to gather much press attention

Re: NASA responsible for its budgets

> I heard of an interesting conversation once where it was suggested that because blades are relatively light, they could be moved by heavy lift helicopter.

It's a standard claim in every Zeppelin startup PowerPoint - that you could carry entire wind turbines to some remote mountainous windy site.

Quite how you land the windturbine on top of a windy mountain site tends to get skipped over

Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to get to the moon before the decade is out.

Your first step is to design a series of buildings that will last longer than your country has currently existed for ?

I mean Christopher Wren's Greenwich Royal Navy hospital is very nice, but perhaps wouldn't have been the optimal thing to start building the day after Dunkirk to treat the wounded

Re: NASA is responsible for it's budgets

It's also congresses fault.

Nasa has facilities in every state where a politician has ever been in a position to veto a budget, and it has to keep all those facilities so long as funding committees exist.

It has a launch site in Florida which it arguably no longer needs once SLS is abandoned.

It has a manned space flight control center in Texas which is there because the flights had to be from Florida but somebody's vote was needed.

Does it need this to rebroadcast a countdown from SpaceX's control center ?

Intel's Tower bid has shuffled off this mortal coil – so what about foundry plans?

China

I suspect that any merger by a US company is going to be objected to by the middle kingdom - which means it will be the patriotic duty of all right thinking regulators everywhere else to approve it unquestioningly.

And since the resulting sanctions on the merger imposed by the mandarins are going to be the same as the sanctions they are going to impose anyway for being round eyed devils - it could be open season.

BOFH: Zen and the art of battery replacement

Re: Danger of escalation alert

> (and I mean proper drag races, not the strange ones with dudes in dresses.)

You haven't seen Dame Edna taking the chicane at Monza in high heels

a non-BOFH related incident

Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin

Is this piracy ?

Home Brain Scanning is Killing Music !

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

Re: Bank of Ireland Incompetent ?

Have they explained how this is all the fault of the Brits ?

Get 'em while you can: Intel begins purging NUCs from inventory

Re: No loss

>Most NUCs have the virtue of only being relatively small. They're rarely fanless, aren't incredibly fast, or noticeably inexpensive.

They are great for building into kit.

We used them for a medical device, small, cheap (for a medical device) and come with a "made by Intel" sticker to wave at CE/TuV/UL

Ironically you couldn't buy Intel branded ones at launch, they seem to have had an agreement not to sell their own brand for a year after the format started - we had to prototype with Zotac and then replace them all with intel for certification

You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

Re: Isn't it seeing triple now?

>join together to set up a central, properly staffed office

But that would allow the enemy access to their data

Re: The data was hidden from anyone opening the files

>to anyone who .... clicked on the 'Unhide' option.

So that would be a hacking charge

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

Re: The smell of desperation

Was that when a week before the election the FBI announced they were going to investigate the leading candidate for a national security leak, but after she lost they decided there was no evidence?

Re: The smell of desperation

>firms not allowed to donate to political parties

We tried that. Independent people can donate upto their personal $5k limit. Mining and oil companies employ a lot of contractors who all got a $5k contract payment before the election

Re: The smell of desperation

>You would see a steady stream of new faces, and new ideas

Or since you couldn't be a career politician you would have the party doners drop in their people for a term. So the cabinet would be GS VPs on secondment for 4 years.

And none of the politicians would have the experience or contacts to get anything done so would just do as their told.

Re: The smell of desperation

>Pretty much the entire DNC hated Sanders and rigged the system against him

How unlike a (nominally) left wing party

X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter

Re: X

Also the plan behind my 404.com startup, we found a way to eliminate hosting costs entirely

Re: all at the low, low starting price of $25

Zuck buys the Twitter sign and rebrands Facebook's Nuked-Sheffield themed messaging app as "Twitter"

IBM describes analog AI chip that might displace power-hungry GPUs

Going back to their roots

When they say analog, they mean typewriters

When they say non-human intelligence, they mean monkeys.

Now if only they can reduce the number of monkeys to a finite number, (what's the IBM euphemism for redundancy ?) they can become profitable

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy

Re: the larger the satellite ... the more vulnerable it was

Presumably ICBMs are expected to have a limited time window to hack into them before they disconnect ?

Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely

Useful advice i was given, if locked in a lift at night don't bother with the service number - just call the fire service

They'll be there in minutes and love breaking into things.

They are the Labradors of Emergency Services - hugely destructive but so joyful you just can't get mad at them

Re: Did I miss something?

Because the boss left at 18:14

Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'

Re: 15,000 sq ft central London site??

>Almost like Zoom can't be arsed, or doesn't know how, to build the collaboration tools to support those kind of explorations and mockups remotely.

Microsoft Teams isn't that expensive, alternately you can use the free option on a bunch of other apps

I thought "one ping only" meant you wanted to defect ?

Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns

Although it can go too far.

Our corporate overlords are in the Eu and their reading of GDPR is that anything on an a user's company computer is private, even work email.

So when somebody leaves, IT wipes the disk and archives email away somewhere. It takes a search warrant signed by 2 popes to get details of any work they've been doing that wasn't checked in or stored on a project fileserver.

Re: Outliers have minimal push.

>Ah, the good old 1904.

I think 1904 was the plan, so many of them believe the country has been going down hill since Victoria kicked it. Except for those who think it's been downhill since Agincourt

Re: "and freed them up to focus on more sophisticated tasks beyond the scope of automation"

>a special amazon bottle that will filter/process the liquid and return drinkable

Arakis - a new, off-shore, tax-exempt, fulfilment location

But you'll be an expat, not an immigrant

And he was the risk manager at Barings, before moving to the Barclays LIBOR group

Re: "and freed them up to focus on more sophisticated tasks beyond the scope of automation"

No but it means they have to tell you in the small print before filming you peeing

As the recent Tory explained. If you don't like anything about the country, like the monarchy, you can emigrate.

Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong

You just need to open a window for 5 mins

Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI

Re: Evil you say

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html

>, it's those under him

And with the Vatican Congress and Senate deadlocked and facing re-election there is nothing he can do to deal with them.

It's not like he has the inquisition and a private army, armed with multi-function knives.

If the printing press didn't cause the reformation, it certainly helped. You have to watch these disruptive technologies when you're the incumbent monopoly

Re: Evil you say

Big C is without sin, just believe the holy book of the prophets K & R

Re: Mmmm 'kay

>read the Bible

Isn't that a bit protestant?

With his lot you just have to believe what the man with the big hat says. Which is a problem if you are the man

It's not really AI

It just takes random fragments of earlier things people had written and re-mixes them and builds on them without any fundamental understanding of what the original stuff meant or what it was for.

Now excuse me, because I have to wear a purple scarf today and not eat prawn cocktail crisps because it's the first sunday after the first new moon after the vernal equinox.

TSMC and pals chip in for €10B German fab

Re: Hmm

>The UK has zero capability in this area

On the contrary, in the area of handing out subsidies to industries who fail to deliver and then run away as soon as the subsidy runs out - it's a world leader

4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises

Re: Lifespan

>I have a 13 year old laptop still running Linux today,

Great, what's your quote for doing on-site support for 200,000 of them ?

Famously, Pelican Cases warranty doesn't cover sharks, bears, or... children under five.

It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences

Re: Software cyber resilience and information protection (Orwellian Dept)

>Zelensky’s War on Christianity

Given his success with the war on the AWESOME MIGHT OF THE USSR RUSSIAN EMPIRE - we can only hope !

poker machines,

If you see a bunch of people from BlackHat eagerly playing your Poker machines - then you worry !

Scientists strangely unable to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor

Surprisingly little for HVDC, possibly even less than corona losses on HV AC lines and certainly less than capacitve losses.

The HVDC will only be used for backbone links between grids or across countries, it's not converting to 220v at the power pole