Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

School for semiconductors? Arm tries to address chip talent shortages

Sounds like ARM might need their customers to be able to hire people to make chips.

Re: But surely, technology is the most dangerous thing ever.

Well this whole ARM thing is ultimately the BBC's fault anyway

FBI boss: Congress must renew Section 702 spy powers – that's how we get nearly all our cyber intel

Re: Who you gonna call - GCHQ

>why the spooks spend more time spying on their own citizens that any foreign enemy?

Cos the enemy an only damage you in a war, your own people can damage you at the next bi-election

Re: 702 "vital"?

Because it would be deeply embarrassing and humiliating to the proud FBI agents to have to go to a judge to explain they want to spy on the guy their wife is having an affair with

Even US senators,

Would probably all be safer if they only spied on politicians

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

Re: Damned if you do. Damned if you don't

>Oil, Rare Earths, Wheat, Fertilisers, Gas

OH, Canada......

Re: Checkmate?

But slavery was good because it gave the slaves opportunities to learn new skills

> SLAVE LABOR and/or CHILD LABOR like the way they mine for cobalt in AFRICA.

That's the problem with China, stealing our IP

Re: Hmm.

admittedly one of the very few accurate statements from the puppet president

I fear sir that your web navigation has been slightly in error. FOX news comments are probably to be found at fox.com

Re: Damned if you do. Damned if you don't

>the UK has been importing..... non essential ones for much longer.

So we just send some redcoats to China to 'offshore' the country?

Crooks pwned your servers? You've got four days to tell us, SEC tells public companies

Re: Odd this

So it will become a box-ticking exercise.

Once somebody posts a "we detected a possible attack and are investigating the impact" statement and it's accepted by the SEC it will become precedent and so everyone will just submit the same statement every time there is a hit on their firewall

It's like how after 9/11 banks were made to report suspicious transactions and so just flagged almost everything because there were massive penalties for not reporting, but no follow-up if they did

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

Re: Dodgy cabling

>It was well over 100m, so we added a small switch (PoE powered) somewhere near the middle, wrapped in a plastic bag to keep it dry.

I believe a similar system is employed to send telegrams to the colonies across the Atlantic

Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months

Re: 19 billion??

The same employer that refuses 5% raises, buys reports from Bullshit Surveys Inc 'proving' that replacing key staff costs you a year of salary

>Why would I wait five years to be “eligible” for a promotion when your top competitor is offering me that promotion right now?

what are you - some sort of capitalist ?

Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

>A fair % of the water evaporates and is lost to the atmosphere

You mean "recycled into the environment" according to their press-release

Re: someone please explain

We looked at it for our rural location here in the colonies, where most people have under-sink UV+filter for well water anyway

Could the town filter but not fully purify the municipal water supply, and have people sterilise just the kitchen tap supply ?

The problem, apart from legal liability, was that even water for flushing the toilet, or showering can get aerosolised. Surprisingly this isn't too bad if it's only "toilet droplet cloud" (!) but is rather nastier if it has legionnaires or similar. We ended up with a supply that is chlorinated to cheaply kill all the nasty stuff, but still requires your own in-house filter system if you want to drink it.

>It comes in as drinking water and leaves as foul waste.

Only if you don;t flush your buffers

There are evaporators, they look very much like giant AC fans on the roof but they also blow enough air through that you don't get the condensation you would see from a power-station cooling tower

Re: Usual rip off

> I should only be expected to pay what *I* use, nothing more.

The problem is that the cost of supplying you with water is >90% fixed costs whether you use a drop or not

So if there is no standing charge the rate/volume is going to be really high - screwing anyone with families.

Fortunately it benefits old people living alone, who vote, so expect the standing charge to go away.

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

Re: X to top off the search engines ?

They are re-thinking the X branding to a more serif-fed font, just adding a little right angle tail to the each end of the X

Re: So he's moved on to blackmail

It worked by giving opponents to high speed rail an 'alternative' to rally around which was only tangentially paid for by a car company

Re: Watching Musk run this into the ground...

Unfortunately it IS a good method of communication - if only it wasn't owned by a fsck-wit

Traffic alerts, forest fires, train / ferry delays, lots of applications where you want potentially millions of people to be able to subscribe to a lot of information services in a single app with low bandwidth and some level of authentication of the sender - not really anything to replace it for the general public

Re: Define Extortion

So he's currently facing a $Bn lawsuit from Eli Lily after an 'approved' post said that they were making insulin free - Twitters defense is that the 'approved' blue checkmark doesn't mean approved.

He's now saying that unless they pay $1K/month then Eli Lilly's approved gold checkmark (which presumably does mean approved) might go away, leaving only the blue checkmark posts from scammers

I bet the judge is going to love that

A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

Re: Even if its not a superconductor

You can make current high-Tc in bulk, the problem is you can't make wires. Currently you either cast the HTs material in situ or you scatter powder onto tape, either isn't great. It's why they weren't used for ITER

Currently this material seems to have very low (100mA) critical current and very low max field - but if those are just due to it being a lab bench mix rather than a refined product

ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

>What are they going to do when there is clouds?

Take an umbrella. These are rocket scientists - they can think ahead

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

an arbitrary metric space

So it's all the fault of the French?

Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters

>using old mine tunnels

But demand would soon outstrip existing capacity and so we would need to dig new mine tunnels

And the algorithms to suggest that because you watched this cat video you might also like this video where an obese shouty man explains why your religious group controls the weather

Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light

Re: No SMR?

>considering they've just been greenlit

Cos 'greenlit' by some US agency suggesting that they are a Good Thing(tm) on a PowerPoint about climate change - is not quite the same as getting planning permission to build a ruing of them around Dublin

Re: Global warming? Meh!

Unfortunately not. When the gulf stream turns off it might have weather a little more like Nova-Scotia

Re: nuclear power plant

Like the urban legend story of somebody talking to Cray's customer support back in the day.

"Look you're not our only customer", says CRAY

"No, but we are the ones with nuclear weapons" replies the DoE

Re: nuclear power plant

You can't be a Saffer super-villain, everyone will laugh at your accent.

Re: nuclear power plant

So Microsoft, Google and Oracle all become nuclear powers? I think I saw a SciFi movie about that

Re: Madness. but it is Microsoft so what do you expect

So we build a giant offshore wind farm in the Irish sea and blow it back

Re: Madness. but it is Microsoft so what do you expect

>The biggest environmental foe to solar powered DC in Ireland would be latitude

Yes, but although the DC would be in Ireland in a strictly physical sense (and for tax reasons), for the purpose of energy generation it is domiciled in Spain

AMD mulls new chip manufacturing partners amid supply chain jitters

Re: Opening moves.

> smart bombs, drones or cruise missiles won't destroy the IP

Just hope the smart bombs do preserve the calibration settings and software licenses for all the suppliers systems - they need to be pretty smart bombs.

This isn't like capturing the VW plant in 1945 and getting a chap with a pipe and moustache to restart the production line

Re: Opening moves.

The same strategy as the USAF's plan to capture Hiroshima's origami plants?

Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out

Re: Seeing a problem can cause a problem

Hence my brilliance in never producing software which meets the original specifications - on the grounds that specifications are always wrong.

Re: Google Engineer - what are the legal issues ?

Unless they broke some protected class ie. you would say that cos you're gay !

The possible cases are fiduciary duty, ie. the directors knew the AI project was a waste of shareholder's money. Or they knew the product would be likely break some law

The most likely is that he is hoping for a quick $1M + NDA to basically fsck-off and keep "Google+Evil+AI" out of the headlines

Re: AI is being used to detect fare dodgers

Don't catch fare dodgers - it's never worth it.

Our glorious people's transit system got a consultant to say were 'losing' $3M/year to fare dodgers - in a system where <50% of income is from fares, most is subsidy

So they were going to install a $30M oyster-card style system with barriers

Of course they weren't going to just use Oyster, they were going to build their own system - cos we're special

When the cost reached $130M they stopped publishing cost figures 'for commercial confidentialy'

It finally worked, except they now had to hire staff at every station to assist disabled or people with luggage etc through the gates and they had to introduce a flat fare across the system cos it couldn't deal with the bandwidth of people tapping out at the end of the journey

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

Re: Jeff's BO putting the cart before the horse

>Blue Origin has got people into space (but not orbit) repeatedly.

Getting into space is easy, you can almost do it with a balloon. You can do it with an air-air missile fired from a fighter

Getting into space, turning 90deg and accelerating to orbital velocity (8 km/s) is a mite more challenging

Re: Jeff's BO putting the cart before the horse

No problem they've got a really good price from Yodel to actually deliver them

Would everybody around Florida please check in their bins, over the fence and in the hedges for any satellites

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Re: I got an iPhone 4

> to monitor the solar system I'm putting in.

Note that installing your own solar system in your car may void the warranty

Re: Anti-social Media

On the subject of lighter fluid as the great one said:

Nonsense. This is a far superior drink to meths. The wankers don't drink it because they can't afford it.

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Re: Alethiometer

Horizon is arguably horribly inneficient but it's predictable.

You don't move for a job and find the grant is only for another 6months and then the research councils are all rearranged or the next budget cuts research spending or universities are moved to a new ministry or the university loses overseas students and needs to save money

Re: Outstanding British effort there!

A lot of the regions that voted BREXIT are famously over endowed in the number of toes

Re: The ECJ (and to a lesser extent ECHR) are the issue

^not many countries wanting to trade with the UK have members in say the Supreme Court of the UK

Although for a few quid they can have members in the House of Lords. Are the UK's Supreme Court judges are cheaper than the USA's?

Re: becoming a global science superpower

>Kelvin formulated the second Law of Thermodynamics

And Lord Cavendish was mad and measured G. So all we need to do is increase the number of independently wealthy, neurologically divergent peers and we can have fundemental research

Re: Dolchstosslegende

Brexit is being sabotaged by leprechauns

Re: Who needs science

Ironically over here PPE is 'personal protective equipment' and all the safety training emphasizes that relying on PPE is a fsck-up cos it means proper safe working failed.

Workday wants racially biased recruitment algorithm claims thrown out

Here at amalgamated widgets

We don't have any algorithms, we employ anyone in the union irrespective of race. And anyone can be a member of the union so long as they are the son of a member