Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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

Re: Don't get too contented.

Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area? Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing?

Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

The wind over the wings, at take-off speed, is enough to lift a 500ton plane so a 1knot wind might provide 5tons of lift

I suppose with a windspeed measurement with 0.01knot resolution, and a perfect CFD model of the plane and all it's surroundings, and assuming perfectly laminar non-turbulent flow you could estimate the lift to the mass of a person

Would work if the aircraft didn't have huge horizontal surfaces that generated lift if any wind was blowing

Pegasus-pusher NSO gets new owner keen on the commercial spyware biz

Re: meet the new bagholder, same as the old bagholder

Although mixing the garlic and holy water with chick peas and tahini would definitely attract Israelis. Probably not kosher if you use holy water though.

Re: I keep beating this horse...

You mean be given free government money launch aid, export-credit guarantees, allowed to bribe customers and have their friends in government threaten any country that doesn't agree to buy the product ?

Re: meet the new bagholder, same as the old bagholder

>For others, comments start comparing NSO to Nazis.

Really rather the opposite don't you think ? NSO's expertise is in breaking other people's 'unbreakable' wireless encryption.

Re: "The lenders are currently in a process of restructuring the shareholders."

Its more of a concern when the intelligence agency customers are restructuring journalists

Re: meet the new bagholder, same as the old bagholder

Not sure how that was antisemitic, garlic and holy water doesn't work on Israelis.

An antisemitic statement would be that the company should have been bought by Sawzall as a natural synergy - remember the Saudis are Semitic people with a Semitic language

Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again

Re: If you want a second unit of temperature ...

The Hilton might be appropriate for the range at which pert-ness can be measured. But at -250C we do have to use the Geordie mini-dress/T-shirt scale

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

That's the advantage of killing millions of people slowly over decades - nobody cares.

It might be the selling point for the new micro fission reactors everyone is excited about. If you put one in every highschool and every day one of them blew up and killed a dozen kids we wouldn't have to do anything to stop it, just send 'thoughts and prayers'.

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

To clarify, ITER will use existing Tritium stockpiles for it's fusion tests (from the UK at least before it left Euratom - hopefully that's still OK) it will generate Tritium in-situ as a test of the methods for a commercial reactor. And although the Tritium reaction only occurs with Li-6, you don't need pure Li-6. It's not like fusion where the wrong isotopes 'poison' the reaction. If you have 10% Li-6 you get 10% of the rate.

Note that 'newenergytimes' is founded by proponents of cold low-energy fusion and spends most of it's time attacking ITER. There's a lot wrong with ITER politically but that's life in multi-national multi-decade, multi-billion projectes

Re: Deja vu ?

Interesting that their breakthrough "high temperature" SC is still 20K, there are pure metal SC at around 10K since the first discovery

We've had "High temperature" SC at 80K for 40 years, still cold enough for a Geordie to wear a coat, but at least liquid Nitrogen rather than Liquid Helium/Hydrogen.

They were considered for ITER but it was impossible to make wires and tricky to even make these kind of tapes so ITER played it safe and used conventional liquid Helium temperatures

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

> Tritium is vanishingly rare and commensurately expensive and all the synthesis methods so far are even more expensive than extracting natural Tritium.

Because all the current synthesis methods are to produce vanishingly small quantities for nuclear weapons and research - that's why it costs a gadzillion $

ITER will breed Tritium in situ - almost by accident, neutrons from the magic pixies dust in the Tokomak will hit a cheap Lithium jacket and make Tritium. Extracting it is a bit tricky but they don't need the hyper-purity you need for research

Re: If you want a second unit of temperature ...

If you are discussing temperatures of liquid Helium then perhaps Rankine ?

Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF)

Pronounced JIF

UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck

Re: IT is like being a footballer, you only got so much time to get your wedge!

>but retirement is "look after number one" and screw everyone else,

That could be a good IR35 test.

Are you doing this to do a good job, benefit the company and enhance shareholder value? Then you are a hidden employee and should be paying full tax and have your ears chopped off (whatever HMRC current punishment is)

But if you claim you are just out to screw the customer out of every last penny and make as much as possible and damn the consequences = then you are behaving like a proper company and get to keep your contractor status.

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Re: Nobody tell the medics.

>We cannot process the skilled migration visas fast enough.

Funny how the successful economies are rushing to attract skilled workers from all over the world while the ones tettering on recession are desperately trying to reduce the number of legal immigrants.

I wonder if there is any correlation ?

>tree climbing crocadiles

Probably trying to get away from all the dangerous animals on the land and in the water

Because now they have been banned from using the scheme in future they have all been forced to change their names and relaunch as brand new innocent companies

The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable

Re: Return of house calls?

The patients wouldn't need to move.

They would line up outside their houses and as they heard the NHS van drive past they would just wiggle/wave/twerk the afflicted limb at the medic - picture a Mexican wave of affected limbs

Re: Emergeny Room? Free to use?

>in Oz it's called the Emergency Department or ED for short

An unfortunate medical acronym.

So if you took too many of the little blue pills to cure your ED you would go to the ED to have your E dealt with ?

Re: Emergeny Room? Free to use?

>I too assumed it was US from the use of a "two-meter USB cable".

The US would use freedom units that would be a 0.022 football field cable

Re: close inspection

Broken toes are very difficult to diagnose, even with x-rays

Fortunately the treatment for a broken toe is normally 'tape it up, ice, pain killers and try not to stub it on anything' while the treatment for a diagnosis of merely severely bruised is 'tape it up, ice, pain killers and try not to stub it on anything'

Re: Return of house calls?

>Sending them around would mean they spend at least half their time travelling rather than actually working.

You aren't doing out-of-the-box MBA style business optimisation.

It's only wasteful if you see only a single patient per visit.

If instead you lined up multiple patients, along the route, you could see a large number of patients as you drove past.

You would just need some sort of icecream van style jungle and then as you passed each person they could cough or display whatever bit ailed them.

what's more you could increase efficiency by simply using a faster vehicle

Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban

Re: Have You No Sense Of Decency, Sir ?

Is this part if the CHIPS act? Is the USA trying to onshore the production of irony rather than rely on imports from a single small island off the coast of Europe

The USA must also ban Micron

Gentlemen, we can't let them out-ban us

Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11

Re: Please Stop.

"Users can learn how to onboard their ARM64-based endpoints here'

Will stakeholders be sufficiently dialogued with ?

CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules

breaking the rules

"They can split into four electrons," I would have thought that was a bigger rule break than a boson decaying into 2 other neutral bosons

Re: Waste of time and money.

It's all this eco-stuff, we have to make disposable compostable bosons rather than those photons that hang around for ever

BMW adds games to the 5 series but still ain't the Ultimate Gaming Machine

They do work. The "turn signal" add-on pack is just $20/month for the first 3 months or you can get "turn signal ProPlus" for $50 that includes 4 way flashers to give free parking in bus and bike lanes

Ir's a 5series

It has to be a golf game

Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can

Re: Salting IP addresses

>Isn't the salt, and the hash arbitrarily big until this isn't an issue?

Doesn't help. You need to know the salt to do the match. So the search space is the same- it doesn't really increase compute. The salt only protects from pre-computed hashes

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

Re: So yeah how are those autonomous cars coming along ?

So 90year old drivers might kill lots of people but remember, they vote

Re: Racist?

>My understanding is that you need to bias it the other way and have more black people than white in order to get similar accuracy.

Or not. Police facial recognition used mugshots. Proportion of black people arrested (and so in mugshots) >> proportion of black people in population = system flags more black people as criminal

Was listening to a US history podcast review of Marc Morris's latest book - it consisted of 30mins apologising/justifying the use of the offensive title = "The Anglo Saxons"

Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password

Re: Just the one letter?

If you put an umlaut in your password, does that make it 30% more metal ?

Re: Did he save the Company?

Or worse, The MD logs in on Bob's last day, removes that /VMUnix file that is taking up lots of space - and then Bob is accused of leaving some sort of trap that destroyed the system.

Re: Just the one letter?

Accidental similar revenge.

A RaspberryPi was monitoring some equipment, the sort of "leave it alone for a year until something fails"

The user swore blind they had used the 'standard' shared password for all that sort of kit.

The Pi starts with the proper Queen's King's English keyboard and asks you to enter a password

To make WiFi work you have to set your locale - to here in the colonies

The password included an '@' ....

China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight

I'll only fly Boeing if the board is standing on the ground underneath the aircraft.

LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves

Expecting to go into the lecture, find everyone sitting on the ceiling = there was a sign error

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Re: Hmmm

Bonus points if they've all got the barrel connectors cut off because you needed that 5V@3A supply but with the connector from that 12V one so break out the soldering iron

US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up

China seems to have won this round

Banning Huawei is a big pain for western countries, it costs business and customers to rip out an entire telecoms network and generates bad press.

Memory is a commodity, banning Micron hits Micron but doesn't really impact Chinese companies of users - they can swap to Hynix or Samsung at zero cost

Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers

Re: Average?

Although not in this case, the people were between 24 and 70, it's not like there were any 10,000 year olds to skew the average.

I'm not sure (off the top of my head) if an average age of 55 out of 156 and 52 out of 264 is statistically significant depending on the age distribution of the employees

Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

Re: How could it possibly go wrong?

>Even if this did happen, the Met would never shoot dead an innocent unarmed black person

That's unfair, sometimes they can't find a black man and have to resort to a Brazilian

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

Re: Bone to Pick

Oh good - it did seem a step backwards

Re: Another Liam's Windows rant

And all of the major distributions worked.

After 30 years and a dozen major releases there are a lot of niche options.

I'm betting WinCE, NT-Embedded and IBM DOS2.11 also didn't work

Re: Bone to Pick

Macbook Air (at least my M1) doesn't have magsafe. Had to buy a magsafe-usbC adapter from cheapchinesecrap.com for when the killer feline decides that nothing else is allowed on its couch

SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras

Re: Chipping Away

I can't see this sort of thing being allowed in the UK.

A constitutional right to protest against the government? That's terrorism

Re: What is needed

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear

Born in the USA! Broadcom will produce American-made RF modules for Apple

All of Apple's products depend on technology .... built here in the United States

Except for the actual made in China iPhone and its made in Taiwan SOC and made in Korea other ICs

So it depends on one chip made in the USA

FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year

Re: I'm not surprised

> FBI is the enemy of the People

It's just a question of jurisdiction.

The CIA's job is to overthrow democracies and stage coups in foreign countries but isn't allowed to operate inside the USA

The FBI is the domestic equivalent