Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

Re: Not government funded but government run

>What Government cronies? It seems to mostly be infected by Whitehall cronies

1, Give £400,000 to Prime Minister

2, Get appointed boss of BBC

3, Profit

>he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time

I just went to the Bar Mitzvah dressed as a Nazi cos all my other suits were in the wash

Python head hisses at looming Euro cybersecurity rules

Re: To pay or not to pay

>but it often doesn't matter in terms of legal liability whether someone gets paid or not for what they are doing.

Except the publisher of the software isn't responsible for what is done with it.

If i answer a question on reddit about car maintenance am I responsible for the crash ?

Re: Something needs to be done to protect consumers

>If I bake some cakes and give them away on the street for free and people get sick because I didn't follow hygiene laws then I would be prosecuted.

>Why should software be treated differently?

Because software is more like "I publish a recipe for cakes, that doesn't mention to wash the ingredients" should I get prosecuted?

Three quarters of UK tech pros are ready to leave their jobs

I get that every may/june

When your payslip gets that little bump that means you've maxed social security deductions for the year and you are also now in the higher tax bracket = I'm working the rest of the year mostly for the tax man.

I could quit today

Re: The old saying

>pay them more

Not really a long term solution.

I can poach optics engineers from Zeiss by paying twice as much, they can then poach them back by doubling again.

Big win for optics engineers but doesn't increase the availability of optics engineers for the next 10 years

Re: So?

The 9% who replied saying they were happy to stay thought it was a trap

Re: Hybrid working

>Before IR35 changes, when you ran a consulting business you could expense your own office

<cough> write-off 1/3 of your mortgage cos you use one bedroom of your 3-bed semi to store that pile of old servers + printers that you can't throw away

Pager hack faxed things up properly, again, and again, and again

Re: what fun it was writing configuration scripts in the Hayes ‘language

In the days when they supplied a fax at 14.4k BT would only approve 300baud modems

Coincidentally they would also lease you a very expensive ISDN line

Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars

Re: Daily Mail Headline

Would they mention the colour of the object?

Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond

Re: Blue Peter

Get an adult to help you with the fission core

Re: We've been here before ...

> especially if the airframe can be DIY’d from locally sourced cardboard and the electronics can be readily reused.

But I suspect this can be solved by requiring aerospace grade cardboard from an approved aerospace qualified supplier and assembled by a certified aerospace cardboard folding engineer - we'll soon have it upto a price that doesn't challenge any existing market players

Presumably not in the USA!

The director also won the prestigious 'not being sent to Siberia' award from Stalin

Re: Cheaper ones will follow.

>How long before the US government ban this?

If we classify them as munitions then the USA will make drones compulsory in schools

Re: We've been here before ...

> If you're concerned about some toxic fumes from a bomb's delivery system, you have your priorities in the wrong order.

Not necessarily. Now that Iraq is a stable and prosperous democracy and our economic and political partner - it's a real problem that everywhere we would want to build iPhone factories is covered in toxic uranium rounds

Re: No number 8 fencing wire to make it an ANZAC effort :)

Let the Emus try again, this time the Australian army are prepared

>whereas a tank farm ...

So that's why all the Ukrainian farmers were dragging Russian T72s with tractors = harvest time

You need to have picked up the key from the dungeon on the first level

>Fake towns and industrial plants - just the lights, nothing else - were set up along the Humber to waste enemy bombs

Thus preserving Hull for future generations....

Ironically if you watch the footage - it all seems to have been faked on a sound stage

Blue Peter

Today children we will be making ICBMs out of washing up liquid bottles and sticky back plastic

Re: costs less than $3,500 apiece

But the youtuber wasn't having to employ a dozen ex-DoD people as non-exec directors at $1M salaries

Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars

Now just sit back

And wait for the first privacy complaints - and you've detected life

(unless Google blur out aliens)

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

The point of a disklock isn't to protect your Lamborghini if you regularly park in a bad part of town.

It's to make a casual thief go for the Honda parked next yours

Re: Even that isn't always enough

In the good old days they would at least have left you a sawn-off shotgun or a bag of used notes in the back

>you'll still need however many amps at the back "distribution box" (think those are free?)

You need one power wire to the rear and one data bus

Alternately you need a separate power wire from 2 rear lamps, 3 brake lights, 2 reversing lights and probably some in-boot lights and an automatic boot lock all back to separate physical switches on the dash and then to physical fuses then to the battery

Re: What's old is new?

You gotta pick a packet or two boys, you gotta pick a packet or two

Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem

Re: War reparations

> One of the conditions ought to be that all the loudmouth Russian bloggers, TV people etc. who have supported this war should be drafted into mine removal roles, along with all Russian military officers and government officials.

Hey it's not bad if we do it.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/france-s-deadly-mine-clearing-missions-surviving-german-pows-seek-compensation-a-574180.html

US defense tech veterans call for a separate Cyber Force

Re: This is war!

Because instead of each service hiring an expensive management consultancy to draft a cyber-strategy and then hiring a defence contractor to manage millions of desktop anti-virus installs, you will have a central cyber command hiring an expensive management consultancy to draft a cyber-strategy and then hiring a defence contractor to manage millions of desktop anti-virus installs

Re: Each Existing Force Does Counter-Cyber-Stuff Differently

>The #1 problem is pay.

I think if you are a cyber-force officer in charge of choosing which anti-virus gets bought for millions of DoD computers - you won't have to worry about living off an army pension

Ninjas

Since space force took 'Guardian' the only thing left is 'Ninja' or possibly 'terminator'

I hope their dress uniform is a black hoodie and the salute is a 3finger ctrl-alt-del

For a motto what's 'turn it off and in again' in Latin ?

That sound you hear is VCs shutting wallets, tucking them back into Patagucci vests

Smart money

The best time to start a new business that is going to take a few years to get to market - isn't when highly skilled engineers are being laid off, office space is cheap and people are cutting back on buying new products for a few years.

The smart time to invest is only at the top of the market, when engineers have to bribed with $MM to work for you, rents are astronomical and the mega-corps are launching competing products today.

Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting

Re: More McCarthyism.

If Chinese students study in England they might learn the secrets of Yorkshire Tea

Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks

Re: What happened to QLED?

So it relies on people knowing that OLED=best and not reading the QLED label too closely

'Investments

So every country in the world with a semiconductor industry, or a desire for one, is throwing tax-payer money at subsidising it.

Does that mean lower prices for customers in those countries whose wise and benevolent leaders chose to 'fsck industry' ?

As defense tech goes commercial, does national security miss out?

Historically ?

>Historically the role for innovation, particularly in Deep Tech, has always lain with government

In the last century's global unpleasantness it seems that the side relying on commercial development from Messers Rolls, Royce, DeHavilland, Supermarine and Boeing seems to have produced better toys than those whose defence research agencies began with Reich...

In more recent belligerent toy shopping it seems that cooperative multinational government programs produced, when they produced anything at all, high-albedo pachiderms.

NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

Re: what do you call...

>The word Astronaut is from the greek.

Didn't know that. So it's what posh Romans would have called their spacemen?

Classical Greek spacemen wouldn't have worked, they would have wanted to do space walks naked.

To survive in space naked you need Geordies

Re: Come On

Other languages borrow words, English mugs them in alleys and goes through their pockets for any spare grammar.

Re: what do you call...

Astronaut is not an English word, it's what the Romans would have called the people in their space program.

Unfortunately, not having a word for zero - their launches never got off the ground

Re: What are the criteria for inclusion as crew?

Clinton got the wrong sort of voters. You need to win the states where people's votes count more.

Or you could institute universal suffrage and let Washington vote.

Re: Forget about everything else.

Although that was intended as a punishment

Re: Forget about everything else.

America has strong ties to Britain, they are only separated by a common language

Re: what do you call...

>have different names for the same profession based on nationality? Is this unique to spacefarers?

No, foreigners seem to have a different word for almost everything

US Navy turns to hull-climbing bots to combat maintenance backlog

Re: So basically large versions...

Can they be equipped with Laser beams ?

Laser beam wielding Lesbian Lizards sounds awesome (possibly as a band name)

Re: Danger of Sabotage

So the USSR had secretly hacked Microsoft to create PowerPoint so that maintenance was now in the hands of managers who produced slides saying that it wasn't a priority - now that's long term planning

Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters

Re: Spin class ...

Have they had the riot about it yet ?

AI software helps astronomers deblur galaxies snapped by Earth telescopes

Re: Artists are getting a change of career

Why do all these spiral galaxies suddenly look like a copyright symbol?

Still better than the genuine intelligence that looked at 5 stars in a W and decided it was a Swan. Or the later genius that reckoned those 3stars formed a triangle

Why a top US cyber spy urges: Get religious about backups

Re: Why do so many people overlook backcups?

>Keeping several backup copies of your data is easy.

But having a spare mirror system to restore them to isn't. Especially in a corporate environment, especially when you want to back-up router and firewall configs and domain controllers and other stuff.

Running verify to re-read the tape is easy, practising a bare metal restore and recover - isn't

Japan joins US, Netherlands in chipmaking tech export crackdown

Re: 2023 : Trade Barriers

UK votes to exit Hanseatic league.

Says German Jute suppliers will beg us for better deal

After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want

Re: Have some sympathy

Also have you seen the bugs there? I wouldn't want to handle them