Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

But now YouTube is targeting those of us with layers of brave browser, pihole and other magic. And we are exactly the high value customers that blanket ad buyers want to target.

Re: Subscription

What are YouTube going to do about copyright strikes when they are the ones collecting $/month for you watching pirated content?

Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week

Re: It's not for everyone...

As the ghost of a medieval court jester currently working for a small rental outfit I object to all these stories about computers

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

>the democratic vote to leave the European Union has nothing to do with how nice the Royals looked on Saturday.

Any chance of King Charles getting Aquitaine back ?

"Humphrey, Couldn't we give this contract to a startup who could offer a quick and efficient solution based on opensource rather than giving it to the usual Capgemini/G4S/Crapita who screwed up last time ?"

"That would be a very courageous decision, minister"

.......

Re: CapGemini built Abbey Nationals car and home insurance software

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.

'Where do bad Americans go?'

'They stay in America'.”

Re: hmm

>The Rwanda scheme being a place to accommodate the flood of illegal immigrants who need to be processed

For now, then we can extend it to terrorist suspects, then domestic terrorist suspects, then people who put their bins out on the wrong day.

They will deliver all that. Note there was no mention of delivering any working software

Re: Alternative explanation for contract award

We could go back to black and white passport photos?

Re: DevOps

I thought devops meant firing all the ops people and letting the devs run everything?

I'm a Dev with the root passwd. Look on my work ye mighty and tremble.

But all those extra costs count toward GDP, so in a strictly economic sense the 'value' of your exports have increased

>You forgot to mention that it was to stop African and Asian immigration too

Unless you were campaigning in an Asian or African populated area where Brexit was all about being able to control your own immigration policy and so let in more Asian and African relatives rather than all these Poles

But under the heel of the Brussels jackboot we were forced to offer the contract to the best bidder irrespective of nationality.

Now, as a free sovereign national we are able to just hire the French without any foreign interference

Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus

User requirements

The backend database on an HPC system is to store the model configuration, so you need ease of use and quick snapshots more than you need complex custom SQL triggers and report generation

The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault

Re: Quelle surprise

Status meetings where everyone in the company reviews their progress on their project to people on every other project who have no idea about the context.

So 35 people on 5 different projects describing details to the other 34 who don't know, care or understand.

And the company thinks this 90mim snooze is an agile standup.

EV truck maker Nikola stalls in 2023, pulls out of Europe, hits brakes on production

Re: Why do we let these zombie shams shable around?

Don't forget its innovative, battery-free, zero emission truck powered solely by gravity

Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs

Re: Sand in the gear(s)

You think the DoD budget would stretch to Iphones?

Re: Sand in the gear(s)

I'm picturing wrist mounted mil-spec Apple watch, but with GB602 Aquaddie proof 55way metal Amphenol connectors

New drill ?

<shouty voice> Present keys

By the left, attempt to insert key.

Rotate key

Attempt insert key

Rotate key

Attempt insert key

Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS

Re: the company behind Gatwick Airport's exceptional infrastructure

It's still there, seems to be all you can ask of it

Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages

>(e.g. the Perseids come "from" Perseus).

Although the government is introducing legislation to stop them arriving here

Re: Aye, right !

>"A meteor shower is like a normal rain shower,

But with hypersonic rocks surrounded by plasma falling like raindrops on roses

Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads

Re: We keep doing Russians favors

>it's the primary cause of Russian's appalling life expectancy.

Cue Putin, 'I have a cunning plan'

Re: We keep doing Russians favors

So the best plan would have been to get SAP deeply embedded in the Russian military-industrial complex and then NOT impose sanctions?

Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner

>Stupid idea to use a playlist as an alarm.

Since I set John Cage's 4′33″ as my alarm I have slept soundly and woken refreshed every morning

Working from home could kill career advancement, says IBM CEO

Microsoft

Staff must come back into the office, it's the only way to get any real work done.

Your work will be developing our extensive range of products that allow teams to work seamlessly from multiple remote locations

>Isn't this the guy who decided to get rid of experienced people because they were too old?

No that would.be illegal (in civilized countries), he got rid of experienced people because they were expensive and helped customers.

Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China

More stealing our IP

The Chinese government outrageously yet dangerously conflates Islam with violent extremism to justify its abhorrent abuses

Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch

Re: Agree

L2 along with the other L's is a point. But the payloads orbit around the point because it's not a minima so it takes fuel to stay exactly there.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

Re: FFS

So you're happy that innocent young Conservatives could see the MailOnline ?

Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

To persuade enterprise customers to buy into their stuff and get deeply embedded enough that they keep paying when Microsoft finally get Azure / OneDrive / Teams / Outlook / SMB to all play nicely together to do all this stuff automatically

UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

Re: Reasons for delay?

Whats wrong with their current process?

- Go to operator of existing system.

- Contract them to build next system

- When it's late pay them more for continued support for the old system

- Repeat

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

Re: Static

>Seems my unmentionables were made of cotton, hers were made of silk and petrochemicals.

So the optimal is "bare feet and no knickers"?

Hands off, vendors – it's for research! $11B of US CHIPS funds earmarked for NIST fabs

NSTC choose to license technologies

And will it be allowed to license to anyone, or just to Intel ?

So will it be like NASA, half of whose budget goes on supporting research into "USA large commercial aircraft".

Note this is not a Boeing subsidy, its research is available to all US manufacturers of large commercial aircraft.

Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter

Re: Good idea staying clear of China

Or Canada the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada

resolutions as high as the Hubble Space Telescope

"a 0.5m telescope" - HST is a 2.4m telescope so "resolutions 1/5 as high as Hubble"

You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years

I miss the good old days when spy agencies left laptops in bars or had unencrypted DVDs that got lost in the post.

US National Cyber Director: Fending off cyber threats in space is 'urgent,' needs 'high level attention'

US Mole Command

Although they hacked 'space' assets, they did it over fibre cables that are buried underground.

So obviously the US needs a "Mole Command"

US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors

If you used chatgpt, or a genetic algorithm, to design a circuit for you. Could you explain how it came to that solution? Could you then claim to be the inventor? Could you then patent it ?

Or have you just decided that all mobile phone antenna designs and most semiconductor mask patterns aren't patentable?

Re: Patents and Copyright are privileges, not rights

Originally it was because inventions would be kept secret. So if the inventor died or went out of business the secret of the everlasting gobstopper, or obstetrics forceps, would be lost.

More recently it's so an inventor of one component of a system can offer their invention to makers of the rest of the system without it being stolen.

Mandiant's 'most prevalent threat actor' may be living under your roof – the teenager

Re: Prospective defence

I blame books.

If we didn't teach these proto-hackers to read while they are still in school then they won't be able to learn from each other

If you don't get open source's trademark culture, expect bad language

Re: Storm in a rust bucket?

That's what they are trying to use the trademark to ensure.

Otherwise some evil corp could take Rust, extend it so it only runs on their OS, release masses of libraries that only work with their version. Encourage teaching their version in college for 'market fit' and your evil corp's open source package has become property of a different evil corp

Microsoft also went after the cross platform wxwindows, forcing a rename to wxwidgets, and then went after X-Windows which predates Windows

From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow – RSA is back in town

Don't forget the year

That the USA banned the 'S' in RSA from attending the conference.

International cops urge Meta not to implement secure encryption for all

But if the police don't have access to everything how can they protect us from unions ?

https://mronline.org/2021/08/09/spycops-how-the-uk-police-infiltrated-over-1000-political-groups/

Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar

Re: Has anyone…

The Mayans ?

With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick

If the vatican is a country

Does the man in the fancy hat get flagged as state media ?

Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

Re: Those are rookie numbers

>But surely a train/metro, a bus,..., would be a better option?

Well if you're a socialist - yes

Re: Those are rookie numbers

>And what exactly do those quad-thingies replace?

Helicopters

For now just air-taxi services but once drones get to the size/payload of helicopters and become as cheap to operate and maintain they will get a lot more uses.