Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

Re: Its 2023.

>Churches in 'the west' are already having to 'import' priests from 3rd-world countries.

So the solution is a captive breeding program, like with pandas?

I don't think gay priests are going to help much.

£2B in UK taxpayer cash later, and still no Emergency Services Network

Re: Doing a fusion power

Remember, the real SAP transition is the friends you made along the way

Re: ESN services vs network

>TETRA will provide a call between John o' Groats and Lands End without any laborious setting up.

Suggesting that local policing has reached a crisis

Re: ESN services vs network

>… an NHS ID has no statutory powers.

But fortunately an NHS EGO does

Re: voted Labour and Remain

>The only beneficiaries of Brexit are Russia, China and a few rich Tories with their snouts in the UKCA trough.

And the happy fish.

I think a few european politicians might be breathing a sigh of relief that they don't have to deal with the [F/G/Bel/It]-exit annoyances in their own countries anymore

Re: ESN services vs network

And people wonder why the NHS still uses fax machines?

Re: voted Labour and Remain

I thought Labour consistently fought a bitter campaign with Labour over Brexit?

Re: Purchase

Possibly for police, there are many contract organisations that provide "Policing Services" in places like Africa and the middle east - trouble is so many of them only speak Russian.

Ambulances? Unlikely, our parents and grandparents fought a Brexit to remove foreigners from working in the NHS.

The colonies do export firefighters around the world, but they generally come with water bombing aircraft - which might not be suitable for a typical chip pan fire.

But we would still need to invent our own radios for all these groups to talk to each other

Re: hopeless

Is that still the one that burns soldiers, needs a strengthened chassis to carry, has a wrist mounted unit that you need to be the terminator to lift and they never made enough batteries for ?

IBM boss Arvind 'kerching' Krishna paid more than $16m in 2022

Re: How to get rich

Think how much more he would be paid if the company he ran actually did something of value to customers, or even had a sustainable business model

How old is he?

Is he the last person over 50 working there ?

Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry

I for one welcome out Dutch overlords

A couple of years ago when an orange man was putting tariffs on European stuff to Make America Grate Again - I wondered if a consortium of European steel/car/wine makers could just buy ASML and then later decide that it wasn't selling to Americans?

UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron

Re: Why do you need...

32bit Excel maxed out at 32K rows.

If you have a population of >65M you are going to need a bigger computer (or >2000 copies of Excel)

Re: Irony

I had a very thick history teacher who couldn't understand: "steel is iron+carbon which you make by removing the carbon from iron"

(I was always a smart arse, even as a kid. Now I do it professionally)

Re: British technology

Finally - a British computer that leaks oil

Re: British technology

The great thing about valve computers is you get a much warmer more rounded answer

Re: What could go wrong?

But if the government scrapped IR35, so every crystal reports monkey got their Mondeo tax free - then we would be a technological superpower.

Re: It'll be like the Crick Institute won't it.

£19M spent on local community involvement initiatives

£999,980 on branding consultants

£20 on speccy from car boot sale

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Re: Old news

I think you meant:

They've been deployed successfully elsewhere in the country to protect domestic abuse victims from the officer attending

Re: Video on Ring's servers is the problem

>If this was stored on a machine within the home they would be much more secure.

Yes they would have to get a warrant to remotely access his home server, or maybe just turn up with a warrant - there might be all sorts of interesting stuff they can find, or just steal

Re: Meanwhile in London

You think the government of Airstrip One has the ability to keep the viewscreen servers running ?

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

Re: Maybe, just maybe

>Maybe the best solution would be to donate them to a charity or charities

Doesn't solve the problem of shoes being seen on the street, and featured on the media, which are more associated with another Adolph than Adolph Dassler's company would like

Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects

Re: Ouch, 100-120% these days? I

Argument used to be that overhead on rich, research grant loaded STEM paid for the poor starving arts departments and that we should be proud of supporting culture.

Now that they charge the students 10K/year to do poetry and they've closed all the labs cos it's not profitable to teach chemistry for 10K/year

Sort of depends how you account for it.

Dept gets $100K, university takes $30K cut, or dept needs $70K, university will want $80K - grant application is for $150K

It did 'mildly infuriate' me that we were actually more expensive than the national laboratory next door when you included the university's take, and yet we were being paid post-doc salary while the national lab researchers were being paid a salary "commensurate with private sector" to "attract and retain talent"

Remember the university will charge 100-120% overhead on research grant income. So the researchers will get 40-50% of this, so not quite as ridiculously generous as it sounds

Intel rattles the tin for another €5B in subsidies to build German fab

Re: you pay to build it, we take the money

Presumably if Intel agree to build this plant they will get fined in the USA for illegal state help - so Intel need the extra money to make up for the losses in the US market

Don't worry, that system's not actually active – oh, wait …

Re: Similar

They also trigger Republicans

Re: Change window - cue the drums

Wouldn't a more optimal solution be to just secure the children? Some sort of straight jacket or just handcuffs?

What ? No I don't have children myself

Re: Off datasheet appliance usage

PS "kettle chips"? A total.lie

Atlassian to dump 500 – by email – in the name of 'rebalancing'

Tricky, the new task is generally do the old task with fewer people and for lower salary. Senior engineers seem to be really bad at that

Re: "... saying goodbye to around 500 Atlassians"

accounting savings

WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy

Re: You cannot eat your cake and have it.

>You want to "work from home"? Hot desking when you do go into the office comes free with that.

No they are really "thinking outside the box" - 3 days/week you need to work from somebody else's home

Re: Shared work spaces work if...

So you need to have enough stuff online that you can work from any desk with just your laptop + wifi

But somehow you can't do this from anywhere but one of the desks in the building

Re: Shared work spaces work if...

And if you don't need anything on the desk to do the work

As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000

Re: Cost of leaving

Although presumably flights to Koh Samui are cheaper than from Basingstoke ?

Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests

Re: Dark Side Demographics

Similar in physics with an extra problem. There is a big drive to get better gender equality in academia so more encouragement to get women into academic jobs, so fewer went into industry.

It leads to some ironic statistics, pay differentials for men/women in physics increases with higher qualifications.

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

Re: Florida.... Hold my beer

With Fraggles, you would at least have infrastructure

Re: Care

Not if you murder the child https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alaska-republican-david-eastman-benefit-child-dies-abuse/

Re: Depressing news

School shootings, a 40th trimester abortion

Re: Which is why we need encrypted DNS

We just need to block all websites, after all you have ESPN for football, Fox for news and church for everything else.

Re: Depressing news

>Walgreens will stop selling abortion pills in 21 states.

Won't that affect their sales figures and so their share price?

Can they make up for it with gun sales?

Re: Florida.... Hold my beer

So somebody who wants to run for President has just made it illegal for any mention of him to be made on the internet?

Google: who is republican candidate

Result: 404

>I am in Texas

>I have a house rep and he will hear my opinion on censorship and free speech.

Your name will also go on the list ...

What is your name?

Don't tell him Anonymous Coward

Havana Syndrome definitely (maybe) not caused by brain-scrambling energy weapons

Re: What a relief

> the differences in rules all make it easier to sustain serious injuries.

They should just allow them to use guns

Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran

Re: Operation Iran Freedom

That's appalling. The correct procedure is to go to Angola, declare it's now called Sir Humphrey Clarkson Land, take all the resources and cut the hands of any of the slaves human resources who complain.

Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying

Re: How could they break the law ?

So that's why the government sponsored a dictionary of the language https://languagehat.com/pitmatic/

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

Re: "Asok has a basket containing 12 apples, Nish wants 7..."

>Lucy is on the train from Temple Meads, travelling at 78mph

It writes science fiction ?

Re: it just doesn’t add up.

There's about 16 15 14 13 12 ..... different ethnic groups, various languages and so on

Re: Options?

Plans for the ultimate pocket calculator are available for free https://hackaday.io/project/19883-dirk-gentlys-i-ching-calculator

Just needs an arduino an a few bits