Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Biden wants to claw back, flog off 1.5GHz of spectrum

Re: Paws off FM radio.

> Feed it a couple of AA batteries and it will work for ages

Another pawn in the pocket of big (small) battery getting-serious-about-crystal-radios

Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead

Re: I want to make a teleprompter type set up ...

>Just to see if I can freak my colleagues out by staring directly into their eyes.

There's an nvidia thing that does that, it detects your face and redraws your eyes looking directly at the camera - and yes it is creepy as fsck

Re: If I designed products this way, we'd go bust

>not some intern's project that by mistake got released to the world?

Because any intern you hire today has been using a computer daily for 10-15years

Whoever designed teams had a computer described to them by somebody who had only seen one in a 1950s SF movie

(I was going to list all the things wrong with it, but there isn't enough space in this margin)

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

Re: Call me old fashioned, but

>I’d also like it to be _only_ my key which can open my car. Not someone else’s key

There are about 80Million cars made every year. That's quite a lot of active car locks to all require a unique key.

Even then there is LPL's "click on one, some resistance on two ....."

It's a feature

The removable steering wheel is for security - just take it with you when you park

Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used

Re: Don't worry

So the plan to fling them into the sun has been abandoned ?

Damn that delta-V !

Re: I've got a better idea...

Also tricky is that the bit with the motors on, the bit with the communications system and the bit with the solar power for the motors and communications system are all on different bits that will be become dynamically disassembled as it starts to re-enter.

It's an interesting problem how you program the re-entry with the path becoming unpredictable just as you lose the ability to control it

Re: I've got a better idea...

>More energy than.... what?

Than leaving it in Earth orbit

Re: I've got a better idea...

Ironically it takes more energy to drop it "downhill" into the Sun

Re: Mir

>which peppered the Aussies with debris.

Look on the bright side, it probably hit some snakes and spiders

But I don't think you guarantee it will hit Australia

Re: Mir

Earth escape velocity is about 11km/s, solar velocity at Earth's orbit is about 15km/s

>then push it out of orbit in the other direction

Turns out orbital mechanics and conservation of energy is a bitch

Re: Why not sell it?

Just a short 500km flight from all major cities (between about +/- 50deg lat)

China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck

Re: ...yeah, but we've got electric trucks!

The bigger surface mine excavators are already electrically powered.

Electrical haul trucks sound attractive, you get to recover some of the energy of your Cat 797 going back down into the pit empty - tipping might be a challenge!

Underground mine trucks are more and more becoming electrical because of the costs of ventilating diesel exhaust.

Re: Trains

Trains are also dangerous - look how frequently they sneak up on innocent trucks that happened to park across their tracks.

>If nations were to install overhead cables on motorways to allow HGVs to do the major parts of their journey and charge a battery at the same time

Perhaps it would be safer if they buried some sort of guidance system in the roadbed that the vehicle could "track" using some sort of Ruby related package/

With advanced control systems you could even "couple" 100s of these trucks together so they only needed a single driver at the front

Re: Bingo

Is Germany unique in having a conservative government that shut down the nuclear reactors to be dependant on Russia while having a Green coalition partner in favour of re-opening them?

Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI

Re: Wrong

Might be useful as a dev board for people planning a RISC-V embedded system

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them

Re: The Gangster State

Nah, the Americans would have bought it and privatised it then deregulated it and left it to blow itself up

Re: Isn't that their plan?

Hey Saruman invested in local industry and brought jobs, and that forest was infested with dangerous trees

Re: Isn't that their plan?

>Project for the New American Century FTW,

Isn't it New Zealand's turn?

Isn't that their plan?

China can probably gain some info from having a functional fan to examine but it's not like they are just going to take over the next shift without support and cooperation from ASML, Cyber and all the software makers.

But if it was destroyed then you are going to have no choice but Korea for good stuff and China for most other semiconductors. So it would be like Russia invading Saudi, it's not to capture the oilfields it's to make your own supply more valuable.

NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon

Re: Telescope on the Moon?

But that wouldn't matter.

As long as they applied all the magical corrections they need to fit the current mistaken observations of a round Earth - they'd come up with the same answers

Re: "Half a century ago, going to the moon was science fact. Now it's science fiction"

>West is certainly beating China in the generation and preservation of appallingly rich people

Gentlemen, we can't let an oligarch gap develop

Re: Telescope on the Moon?

The flat earthers seem to be the least harmful of our resident nut-jobs

Re: Samsung

But will it, see you on the dark side of the moon ?

Half a century ago, going to the moon was science fact. Now it's science fiction

ReRAM redo: UCL spinout scores £7M to push Resistive RAM

Borg would assimilate vogon bureaucracy

Vive le resistance

Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal

And ironically the Great British Hong-Kong and Shanghai bank is leaving Canada because Canadian rules make it very difficult for a foreign bank to operate here - that'll teach those Britishers

CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club

Re: side notes

And illustrate it with stock photos of people that a 3-letter agency would never hire

No it just means that they didn't pay the bill

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

Re: "What do you mean when you say “There are no backups”?"

Backup script from our old (BSD) Sun system was copied to our new Sun (Sys-V) system

Tape drive name changed from st0 to rst0 but nobody noticed.

Script had to be run as root

Script diligently checked the backup was readable - immediately afterwards from the same 'source'

System had / mounted on a large enough partition

User didn't notice how quickly the backup ran or that the tape wasn't making any noise

We disconnected the fire extinguishers and nobody complained for a week so we proved fire extinguishers are unnecessary

Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth

The Pacific covers like 30% it the Earth's surface so it's reasonable odds that it'll hit the Pacific.

Especially when you consider it hard to hit the poles from a solar orbit

Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry

Re: Will it really matter?

The difficulty with sanctions is that you need to do everything yourself.

So you not only need to clone ASML's machines you need to copy all of the stuff that goes into ASML's machines.

So you need to copy Zeiss's mirrors. Which are unique, so unique that ASML bought Zeiss to ensure supply.

Then you need to also clone all the machine tools that Zeiss use to make and measure the mirrors, then you need to copy all the parts that go into those tools.

Then the same for every mechanism in an ASML machine.

Then the same for the light source that even ASML has to buy from cymer.

Re: I for one welcome out Dutch overlords

So apart from:

Investing in R&D rather than financial engineering.

Hiring highly qualified staff and investing in their career over decades rather than firing everyone over 40 every time the stock dips.

Working with the customer rather than trying to screw them on every order.

Building links with universities and apprentice programs.

What's their secret? Preferably one that can fit into a single PowerPoint, doesn't coat any money and I can implement before this quarter's bonus window.

Re: Will it really matter?

Stealing the designs doesn't help, you still have to get the parts.

Zeiss don't sell EUV lambda/20 off-axis parabola mirrors on Ebay, Cymer don't ship science-fiction light sources to China

Then you have to make it actually work, that involves a bunch of ASML and TSMC engineers that have been doing this for decades working together

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

Re: Its 2023.

Don't forget the fantastic frocks

Re: "identify gay priests, and providing that information to bishops "

>they have been waiting for jesus to return for 2000 years

So how did you treat him last time he stopped by?

>But then I'm not the messiah...

Are you a very naughty boy?

He was a nice Jewish boy who was also God, where is he going to find a girl his mother approves of?

Certainly not some Welsh tart

No it was just an advertising campaign.

Cohen's bread, wine and model crucifix company of Jerusalem needed a new gimmick.

Re: What would Jesus have done?

Also being your own father is likely to be confusing, if worthy of a special edition of Oprah

Re: Land of the free

>I am so glad that I am not an American

Quite glad I'm not a priest

BOFH: I care a lot ... about onion bhajis

Re: Small Rural AM station?

>BTW: boo to "some chick from California" come on mate this is 2023

2023 version: Some she/her preferred pronoun inhabitant of the unceeded territory of the whoever people ?

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

Re: As a member of the Reformed House of Python

You had your own hole? Luxury !

Oxygen of publicity

Linda Smith: I don't really like you saying his name, because it gives him the oxygen of publicity and I'm not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen.

Re: As a member of the Reformed House of Python

You would expect a python to hith

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

Obvious sign - They advertise on Podcasts

Specifically they do host-read ads where the host claims they use them personally

That's my-pillow-guy vibes