Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans

Re: Patriot Act Fallout

The patriot act resulted FROM an excuse to spy on Americans

Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money

So if scrabble produced the letters 'f' 'u' 'c' 'k' then Hasbro are responsible for your use of this in your sermon?

Unless the journalist used a Macbook, then you could sue a $Tn company

The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung

Re: Tape out costs

Not sure how many other customers they are going to get.

No competitors in the CPU / GPU or other markets that Intel play in are going to want to share info, even if it's just order sizes and launch dates, with intel.

Or are you going to trust your fab slots if Intel decide they need more product capacity for themselves? (I'm betting there are lots of caveats in their contracts)

Re: Tape out costs

Assuming intel can build and tune up new capacity faster than TSMC can clone existing fabs.

And assuming you can trust that Intel's new fab generation with its catchy new name will work on day one as well as the TSMC process you and them have been working with for years

Re: Flogging a dead horse

Intel had a huge advantage by being vertically integrated.

The fabs could be late to the next generation because they had a guaranteed customer in Intel. The designers could rely on the next generation because Intel had fabs that would always be able to produce it.

There are different cultures. Some companies decide that the best course is to screw your customers for every last cent and deliver as little as you can get away with, as late as possible, pay your suppliers as little as possible, demand more every year and pay as late as possible - the only thing that matters is this quarters earnings. you need an MBA to understand why this is optimal

Then there are companies that have relationships with customers that last decades, where the customers and suppliers are partners in the project and if everyone works together then everyone does better out of the deal. This is basically communism and explains why Japanese, and European engineering companies do so badly.

Re: Or as the Semi's industry does

You make the chiplets in a cheap place and then ship them to your cheap to build but well subsidised US packaging "fab" and slap a stars and stripes sticker on the box

Captive market

The Federal government, State universities, anyone getting a Federal grant will be required to buy $2000 Dell laptops, still made in China but featuring $1000 made-in-USA Intel 'freedom chips'

Or more likely 'chiplets' fabbed somewhere cheap and 'assembled' in the USA

Re: Succesful

If China invades Taiwan I don't think Apple is going to be switching to Intel's 14nm node

A bigger problem is going to be that the rest of the iPhone is made in China and 40% of Apple's sales are in China

Identity thieves can hunt us for 'rest of our lives,' claims suit after university data leak

Re: Very often you can avoid disclosing your SSN

Your account or credit card or mortgage application gets cancelled cos there is another John Smith with bad credit.

The police know it's not you but the bank is free to choose whatever customers they want - and why would they take the risk ?

Re: Very often you can avoid disclosing your SSN

>What they really need is a law that makes it illegal to store a Social Security Number

Then they will just require only your name and dob to open a credit card. Hope you aren't called Smith or Wang.

With just an SSN,

So stop using Social Security Numbers as if they were some magic secret key.

They are just to (hopefully) unambiguously name somebody - knowing the number doesn't prove you are that person !

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

Because it would make it much more expensive. Hey Oracle we need you to quote for a government system and it all becomes public domain. Oh the cost is now the market cap of Oracle ?

I get this with clients, they want to own all the software I deliver. I then have to explain to them how much it would cost to rewrite everything from scratch just for them and why it's better if I just give them a license to use it.

Re: Yes and no

>the latest revisions have almost entirely been to keep the Mouse out of public domain

It should just be retroactive. When Disney's copyright is extended for a century then the copyright should extend to a 100years before. Then when all Disney's fairy stories hit HC Anderson or the Brothers Grimm they loose it all to the earlier authors

This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again

Re: Mistakes like this can be made if you put the effort in

Generally rivets are used to stop a crack propagating.

Re: Listen up, UP, Congress, and NASA--

But then the large projects are in danger from the representatives of the (50-n) states that don't benefit. You need to maximize 'n'

Re: Pissup/brewery

You also don't have to worry about getting upto speed through dense atmosphere.

So long as you have thrust > weight you can presumably lift off as slowly and gently as you like ?

Re: Pissup/brewery

It's a good job that never played in SA, or you know SpaceX would launch from under a swimming pool

Re: Pissup/brewery

I think I saw the footage of the rocket landing in a hollowed out volcano. But some conspiracy nuts claim that was faked on a sound stage at Elstree

Re: Pissup/brewery

> I have no idea why there's no film of that landing on the Moon back then instead of those grainy black & white images of a spidery little lander thingy.

Obviously the whole Saturn V wouldn't fit vertically in the sound stage

A pure Oxygen atmosphere at 1.2 Bar. They wanted to test the leakage rate of 0.2 Bar in vacuum while on the ground so naturally just pumped it up

Rename comimg up

If they aren't going to launch until december/january perhaps it should be renamed capricorn, or for the first flight Capricorn One ?

UK warned not to bother racing US, EU on EV subsidies

Re: Get down to Charnock Richard Cycles

A relaxation in the unnecessarily burdensome child labour laws and a stock of rickshaws should allow a dynamic market of urchin propelled inner city transport

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

Re: As for ...

What site are you on ?

Re: Ahh but it does!

They had tests, the command to blow away the database was correctly formatted and had all the correct options and did precisely what it was supposed to do - test passed

Re: As for ...

Everything on MS is a database, Azure is a database, teams is a database, the filesystem is a database

Fortunately databases at scale are really trivial systems to understand and manage AND Microsoft has the best database

Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month

Re: A Bit Late Now

>And luckily for the RPi people none of the other hobby-targetting SBC manufacturers tumbled that the hardware is nothing without usable software.

Hardware is ironically cheap to develop.

There are a lots of SOCs that come with an example devkit board layout. There are lots of cheap low volume PCB makers. Software engineers, documentation, software testers etc are comparatively expensive

Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week

Re: This is a good way to conduct stealth layoffs

> Surely those most confident[*] of getting hired elsewhere are the better staff you don't want to leave?

Obviously not a management fast-tracker

Re: building tribal knowledge

The picturesque ceremony of the changing of the TPS report covers

Re: This is a good way to conduct stealth layoffs

It's also better for the business. If you have redundancies it's upto idiot managers to choose who to let go, and these decisions are all based on age/race/who the manager doesn't like the look of.

By those who wfh quitting they are automatically self-selecting for the ones who are most confident they can get a job somewhere else. Since you don't want the sort of employees that other people would hire - you are automatically ahead

Malaysia goes its own Huawei, won't ban Chinese vendor from 5G network

Carry on buying Nokia and you won't see any viking longships attacking your oil and gas operations

Re: Its geography

>Malaysia is about as far away from the Anglosphere as its possible to get

You mean they aren't rushing to rejoin British Empire 2.0 now the UK is free of the Eu ?

US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'

Re: They're takin arr jerbs

Similarly the 1914 Christmas day football match that everyone gets misty-eyed over.

It was a real problem for commanders, persuading a bunch of working class conscripts (ie civilians in uniform) that they should be killing a bunch of similar German working class lads in Belgium over some Dukes having an argument in the Balkans.

IIRC the unit guilty of the football match was split up and a lot of newspaper stories about German atrocities to nuns were hurriedly invented

Re: I'd say it's ready for Wall Street

Its a completely regulatory captured agency that covers up the crimes of its chums on Wall st while being an example of an extremist communist government oppression of the hard working free marketeers who bring prosperity to all.

Re: What would be your free choice .... ::snip for posting space::

>Pulling the plug is still an option, and always will be.

Ed209 vibes

Re: Earlier test

>someone frantically pulls the plug before it turned 180 degrees and fired on the military brass

Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply. .....

They're takin arr jerbs

For decades we have been able to rely on the American Airforce for friendly fire incidents - now it's being automated away.

Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars

Re: This is not the solution

>Maybe with enough complaints about dang bicyclists, Maine will move to full-width roadways PLUS a proper bicycle lane.

Isn't Maine in the United States ?

They will simply ban bicycles

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

>If you're shot with a legal gun it is likely you were in the process of committing a crime.

Or were a child who knocked on a neighbors door to ask for your ball back

Or opened the wrong car door in a supermarket parking lot

Or were a delivery driver who pulled into the wrong address

Or were a person or unfortunate albedo walking through a suburb with an armed security guard

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

>Need a gun is a self admission that America is full of murdering arseholes and the average American doesnt trust the average American.

Shit I've just realised I need a gun.

In fact I probably need something a bit bigger, are there still all those bureaucratic hurdles to owning nukes for personal use ?

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

Guns are their only defence against the dangerous Kinder Surprise

Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood'

Re: Why not tell the truth?

>Policies that discriminate directly ... or indirectly

But it's a lot easier to justify in court.

"The salary cap for role X is now $Y" - this might discminate against older workers who are paid $2Y. But it's a lot easier to defend that this was a purely economic decision rather than we fired A,B,C for 'performance' and they happened to all be >50 and were all paid $2Y but we pretend that wasn't an issue

Why not tell the truth?

They didn't fire him for being old, they fired him cos he was expensive and they could get cheaper young staff.

Why not just say, we're dumping all the more expensive employees?

Being well paid isn't a protected class and Wall st would love it

Software rollout failure led to Devon & Cornwall cops recording zero crime for 3 months

Re: internationally tried and tested platform

But it's OK because we took their working system and had lots of consultants customise it for us until it no longer worked

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

Re: You missed a question.

" to the Windows \system32 folder" think a bit of root cause analysis here

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

Re: I think I get it...

they were stopping all cars on freeway between San Diego and LA. I was on a work permit and didn't have my UK passport or any other documentation with me.

Fortunately the office looked in the car and based purely on a glance was able to determine that there was no need to question any of us - I assume they have some sort of pyschic powers.

Re: I think I get it...

>This has happened many times. Citizens have even been deported.

>Americans just THINK they have rights. LOL! They don't.

<cough> windrush <cough>

Re: I think I get it...

> The Border Patrol also frequently pulls over motorists in "roving patrol" stops, often without any suspicion that an immigration violation has occurred.

If only 1/3 of Americans have a passport, and since you obviously can't trust birth certificates, doesn't this mean a lot of pickup truck driving white(*) American patriots will be inconveniently held in cages until their citizenship can be established ?

* - assuming most Africa-Americans can be assumed to be American, somebody probably still has the original receipt