Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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

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

Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years

Re: "NEVER SWITCH OFF"

There's many amongst us who are more "switch it off and see if anyone complains"

Not necessarily optimal for things connected to the fire service

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Re: Longevity in the US

The last Scottish bloke seemed fairly reasonable, have we thought of just outsourcing the job to the SNP ?

The amazing medicinal benefits of Maple Syrup, Timbits and Poutine

Re: Absence of evidence

It would save a lot of time/money/argument if we simply chose the oldest candidate to be President

- rather than carefully selecting the most honest / intelligent / empathetic / diligent / moral and wise one

Re: Well of course...

CHOW (tm), even – we are rather proud of this – a completely artificial dill pickle

Re: Longevity in the US

>UK life expectancy = 80.8 years

Scotland: hold my beer Buckfast

Re: Everybody

>Humans are odd in the sense that no other female mammals have menopause -> grandmothers were important for the genes.

Also true for whales (at least for Orcas) and IIRC dolphins

Re: How long will the elephant in the room live?

It's the wrong sort of poverty.

Old european peasants growing their own vegetables, rarely eating meat or sugar, never eating processed food, not knowing what HFCS even means = the sort of diet that only the rich now have.

Re: "life expectancy in [the USA]"

>The problem is that someone else may be involved.

I think you might be fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of America

Re: Well of course...

So there are a bunch of states busily producing an abundance of low-skilled, un-educated people with low life-expectancy, just as we are going to need more low-skilled care workers for the ageing elite?

We've created morlochs but persuaded them to eat McDonald's instead - sounds like a brilliant plan

Re: Absence of evidence

Yes for "average" life-expectancy. What these studies are showing is that we are going from there being a handful of people who are newsworthy for reaching 100, to having to deal with 50% of the population living passed 100 - while at the same time having the number of young people declining

Re: How long will the elephant in the room live?

>As nations develop, lifting the vast majority of their people out of poverty, you see the life expectancy grow massively. Up until you hit what was previously considered the plateau.

Fortunately now they will go past the plateau and hit the diet-and-exercise decline in less than a generation.

People whose parents grew up in famine will now die prematurely of western lifestyle diseases

Re: "life expectancy in [the USA]"

>But you should then probably be aware that Alzheimer's doesnt hit in a day. It's a pretty steady downward spiral,

That's why we don't have re-licensing requirements for old people driving.

You don't notice the steady decline, but one day you are driving your F150 the wrong way down the freeway and nature takes it's natural course.

Re: Longevity in the US

>Americans. The nation with the best teeth and the worst health on the planet.

Americans - people who eat like they have free health care

Re: Sshhhhh!!!!!

>So the neoliberal paradises of the USA & UK have static or falling life expectancy whilst in the socialist paradises of Western Europe (ex UK) it continues to rise. I wonder why that is?

You have to be a little careful about statistics. My city has about the highest life expectancy on the continent - it also has the highest S.E. Asian population, moving here from NY doesn't suddenly make you live to 100, unless you also become a Japanese grandmother.

And overall life expectancy is heavily weighted by childhood mortality, rules on how a still birth is counted, or at what date a miscarriage counts as a still birth have a big effect, It's going to interesting if certain states start counting all miscarriages as deaths with an age of -0.75

But mostly diet and lifestyle, although remember it's what diet and lifestyle was when those old people were young. Today's fat teenagers don't affect today's life expectancy. A lot of the reason for the USA/UK's health being crap is that they were crap 30-40 years ago, when a lot of Europe was less crap. Don't expect today's French / Italian teenagers to have the same diet/lifestyle as their grandparents.

That's terrible. She didn't survive for 5years after diagnosis and so completely screwed the hospital trust's performance metrics.

If you are the former colonies it will also have cost the doctor/hospital a couple of Mercedes in lost treatment costs

Intel successfully ships an updated datacenter roadmap

Re: Gentlemen, we have a PowerPoint

No that would be unacceptable.

Instead the performance is degraded with each monthly 'security update' until you give in and buy a new model

Gentlemen, we have a PowerPoint

Although they do seem to have cut+pasted the same image of new generations of the chip

Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters

Re: Meaninglessly diluted and overrated brand anyway

How old and out of touch does the board have to be - to think that Branson is a draw for the yoof?

Somewhere in the boardroom of UK-MEGACORP the dust is blown off Sir Archibald Double-Barrelled and somebody suggests that they sign up that young Mr Cliff Richards because the young people seem to like that 'bebop' music

Re: Where is the support?

As soon as they decide which department is responsible for failed space projects - and why it's the Dept Media,Culture and Sport

Re: Who dares still needs a business case

Really, the only purpose of a commercial air launched system today is that you can move it around to collect regional development grants.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for VO, it will probably pop-up tomorrow in Wales as part of Spaceport-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch if sufficient "leveling-up" grants appear

Re: Cast of thousands

Pretty much everyone with a successful launch industry is based on having an ICBM program. The military stuff subsidises the civil stuff - almost every launcher is just an ICBM and a bit of cut-and-shunt welding

Contrary view: if they had kept the black Arrow the UK government would have had to plough money into an insanely expensive alternative to Polaris/Trident and/or ground based ICBM. They would have had a limited space launch capability that lagged the USA but UK firms would be forced to use it, so strangling the UK's far more profitable and advanced satellite building industry.

Remember building the big firework , until the new startup ventures, is the low skill/low value/low profit part of the business

Re: Where is the support?

They are processing the permit to be allowed to submit an application to receive the form.

FTC urged to freeze OpenAI's 'biased, deceptive' GPT-4

Re: Eh? Everyone (except Google) knows this

If you want an unbiased answer just use Magic 8 Ball

NHS Highland 'reprimanded' by data watchdog for BCC blunder with HIV patients

Re: Letting the get away with it

As opposed to the system where a government dept fined another government department and then another government department increased the first department's budget to make up for the lost income.

Ban CC in government

Take all the income from these fines and pay MSFT to make a government version of Outlook with no CC (or alternately use a open source email client that you can modify for free - but that's just ridiculous).

There is no use for a CC - especially with depts dealing with classified / sensitive material.

Re: Efforts to recall the mail failed.

But this is the NHS so it could easily take 4-6weeks for the server to process the outgoing emails

Of course the request to recall them must go to another depart that has a 3 month waiting list

Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to late July

Re: Boeing to be caught with no pants.. Again.

Boeing won't be allowed to fail.

The USA is not going to hand the airliner market over to cheese-eating-surrender aircraft. No US airliner is even going to operate C-E-S aircraft unless they accidentally took over a Euro carrier that got forced out of the market.

They will continue to get money from 'black' project everytime things look tough, and will continue to get 'support' from the regulators. the FAA aren't going to criticise Boeing that would be unpatriotic and probably communism.

But that is still self-certified.

People have the idea that the regulator should know more about the design and is going over it correcting your homework as it were.

Self-certified is really the only way to make an aircraft or medical device or etc. You come up with a list if things that could go wrong and you list how you mitigate the risk and how you will test the solution.

Sometimes the regulator has lists of risks you must consider. But ultimately they have to trust that the manufacturer did what they said they would. That's what the 737max didn't

Boeing solution

A software fix that simulates the instrument data from the parachute if it fails to open

This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes

Re: "helped law enforcement home in on targets and speed up investigations"

There used to be a system involving bicycles and the fleet-of-foot to get very short lived isotopes from the accelerator to the hospital's dept of doing-scary-stuff-to-people.

Apparently they upgraded to a pneumatic tube running under the campus.

I love the idea that we have a nuclear air-rifle / pea-shooter

Re: Officially recognised???

Although that was just to deal with spiders in the bath

Re: "helped law enforcement home in on targets and speed up investigations"

>Is there that much suspicious radioactive material being sent by snail mail these days ?

You can use Royal Mail but note that Pu-239 has a half-life of 24K years, which you should take into account when using 2nd class mail

Also under the Royal Mail Prohibited and Restricted Materials page they do note:

- UK & International - Allowed with restrictions

- Surround with cushioning material e.g. bubble wrap.

- The sender's name and return address must be clearly visible on the outer packaging.

"Suffice to say, it's generally illegal for any individual or group to own a nuclear weapon..."

If you're in the UK it's now illegal to use one - Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998

Although fortunately: (2)Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to a nuclear weapon explosion carried out in the course of an armed conflict.

Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?

Re: rouge state?

No, in that case the UK is definitely a Rouge state

EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins

Re: VOIP Numbers

And .Scot but no .england in the unlikely event of the other kingdoms casting off the imperialist shackles

Re: Just one back door required.

That's the sort of solution you get if you leave ordinary people in charge.

Re: Just use Matrix and be done with it

What do the French and Swedish governments have to officially communicate about ?

>I can't call your email address from my phone.

Should be pretty simple, you just need a central database of people's email, mobile number, Telegram ID, citizen number etc

They could even be given a little card to carry around

Re: VOIP Numbers

>Like having a .uk domain instead of .co.uk (although this isn't as bad as it used to be)

Are we going to get a .england top level domain soon ?

The way things are going somebody should probably jump on that

Re: What a load of bollox

>If we know each others' phone number and we know each other, we can call each other.

Yes but that's not the technical problem the ruling is trying to solve.

How to do this securely so that you and the person you are calling have total end-end encryption but the Luxemburg Coastguard can intercept the call if they have a warrant, but that GCHQ can't have access, unless the Eu allows it.

Building a domain specific language to enforce 3rd party access rights into the protocol is an 'interesting' software engineering challenge

Re: Just one back door required.

>in the EU where people in power are willing to do anything and everything for their own power and wealth

Well one less now

It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in

Not familiar with US school system

>Amy is a 16-year veteran of Early Childhood Education

Does that mean she isn't very good at passing exams ?