Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

Re: Freaks

I know some of you woke liberals might whine about dumping waste on poor countries - but have we thought of giving Texas back to Mexico?

ps France, are we still in the return window for the Louisiana purchase?

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

Re: Operation Iran Freedom

China taking over Iran for it's natural resources?

So stealing our IP ?

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

How could they break the law ?

I am the Law

Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse'

But Sunak isn't starting wars doing deals so he can get a few $200,000 speaking tours in the USA to fund his retirement

Sunak = better than Boris and Truss

I bet his mum's so proud

Technology strategy

I don't think we've had a government technology strategy since Tony Benn - at least we got Concorde and Post Office tower out of that

UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up

I think they said they would take back control

Re: It is not one or two individuals

It's estimated that the costs of having Hubble in storage for the years after the Challenger Oopsie was more than the cost of building it

Re: Civil Service

We voted to be a "rule maker" not a rule taker, and we are just demonstrating that

Now we're building computers from lab-grown brain cells

Frankenstein: “Whose brain is this?"

Igor: “Abby someone.”

Frankenstein: “Abby someone? Abby who?”

Igor: “Abby Normal. Yes, I am almost sure it was Abby Normal.”

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

Re: Havana Affair

But remember Cuba contains advanced alien military technology beyond the USA's understanding.

That's how a small, apparently impoverished, island continues to be an existential threat to a super power.

Re: What a relief

Hey Chronic Traumatic Head injuries are a proud American tradition - one president was even famous for "having played too much football(*) without a helmet"

* i.e. 'American football'

i.e. Rugby for schoolgirls

symptoms are also consistent with known RF effects

" such as dizziness, headache, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, cognitive deficits, and memory loss,"

Also consistent with the consumption of recreational vegetable products generally more available in the Caribbean

Intruder alert: WH Smith hit by another cyber attack

Re: As someone married to an Ex-WH Smith Employee

I'm more surprised they have a computer.

I assumed it was run on a Speccy that was left in a store cupboard

'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11

But the only question ever asked of Bing on Edge

Is "where do I download chrome?"

Re: Minutes taking

>Automatic speech to transcript is already routine,

But this is AI, so it's automatic speech transcription by somebody with a CTE

Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

> glorification of violence

Might make it a bit tricky for the chaps in uniform, and a big chunk of the entertainment industry

Semiconductor industry: To Hell with the environment, start building fabs already

Re: Still wondering....

Need cheap land - so east coast is out

Need seismically stable - so west coast is out

Need people so north middle bit is out

Need to have some foreign people work there so south is out

Surprisingly few places with an educated workforce, no weekly natural disasters and free "huge tracks of land"

Simple process

1, Decide that having all the worlds chips made in Taiwan is a national security risk

2, Redirect 5% of the defense budget to building semiconductors on-shore

3, Begin planning process.

3.1 Someone objects to planning application

3.2, Promise to employ enough of the local council's family + members of any local community objectors until objections go away

4, Planning process put on hold for 5 years because a heron nested within 10miles of the site 3 years ago

5, Decide to build new fab in Taiwan

Re: Short cuts are bad

So just put a sign on the door saying that The state of California believes Hydrogen causes cancer

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

Re: Daylight saving?

> One hour forward, one hour back

That's your mistake. If you keep moving just forward then you will gradually move into the future and eventually get flying cars!

Chipmakers, you can have these billions – but Uncle Sam wants a cut of your profits

>Just wait for the next Republican administration.

You think the party of small government and the free market will immediately cancel this socialist program ?

Re: Yeah, they will game the system

>the profits from those Fabs could be extensive.

No they won't. If the return in capital was likely to be more than T-bills then the capitalists would be fighting to invest.

The reason Taiwan did this is that the returns for a small relatively poor country, and assuming you are a monopoly, were slightly better than the alternatives.

Might be worth doing as 5% of the defense budget. But even assuming half this is actually spent on fabs, it's purely a payment for strategic reasons

Re: If only there was a way

But what would you call the people who "held shares" in this "capitalism" ?

If only there was a way

For the government investment providing the capital to a business endeavour to receive a proportion of the profits.

We could call it "capitalism" - it might catch on.

chipmakers won't be allowed to funnel CHIPS dollars into stock buyback programs

Of course not.

Income from CHIPS act = $xM

Revenue from all other sources = $xM

Stock buyback = $xM - but that all came from other sources

Biden wants chipmakers to provide childcare if they want billions in free money

Re: Just a comment on the accompanying picture

As semiconductor features get smaller then child labour is an obvious solution - we can't get to 3nm without those tiny fingers

Companies can't shut you up using severance pay, at least in the US

> The Republicans want to throw former employees under the bus

A bus might be a bit too socialist - after all public transport is basically communism - perhaps "throw them under the pickup"?

Re: Deemed employees

Given that the conservatives famously expressed an intention to fuck business - is labour now the party of capital ?

Re: Deemed employees

>Under IR35 you are your own employer when it comes to employment rights.

You could also strike to protest against the terrible working conditions you imposed on yourself AND bring in yourself as a scab to crush yourself

Presumably

This only affects the statutory minimum severance pay.

They can still say, you're fired and there is your 1 groat/year of service... Or you can sign up for our Premium member plan where you get to keep your health insurance for the next month get 2 groats and in return, because we're all family you don't talk to nobody right ?

To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge

>buy IBM stocks and he said "Oui"

I would assume they were being sarcastic

Re: emojis used in certain situations can only "objectively mean one thing" – financial advice

So by indicating that they believed these stocks were going to the moon (with rocket emojis) they are obviously morons, so any reasonable investor would assume the stocks would tank and short them !

So by being demonstrably idiots, the WSB crowd are offering sure-fire investment advice - and so should be regulated.

But if they were carefully regulated financial advisers then any investor would assume they knew no more than any other adviser (ie their predictions were worthless) and so not act on them !

But anything sold as "collectable" or "limited edition" is obviously being offered as an investment.

Not sure if claiming the plates featuring cute woodland creatures and advertised in the Mail on Sunday definitely are "art" is a bigger stretch than claiming they are are "collectable" !

Re: Using emojis now comes with legal warnings

> I can no longer use the rocket ship emoji to indicate I'm going to take my lady friend to the stars tonight?

Yes, what you can't do is publish a list of stocks with a rocket emoji or a poo emoji next to them and then claim you never made any representation as to buy or sell - and so that you happened to buy or short the same stocks beforehand is totally irrelevant

Isn't the only reason people buy baseball cards as collectables is that they think they will go up?

So doesn't this make the whole art market, from collectable plates in the sunday comics to Van Gogh subject to the SEC ?

HMD offers Nokia phone with novel concept: Designed to be repaired by its owner

I suspect LineageOS will be available for this very quickly

Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

Re: Offshoring?

>Train others to take over your job?

If you work for IBM Watson your job is to rename things until the next "strategic re-visioning"

Not sure it took much knowledge transfer

America: AI artwork is not authored by humans, so can't be protected by copyright

Re: A bit off a tool

>They seem to be arguing the AI is not a mechanical process

So the backgrounds in movies / games created using Perlin noise aren't copyright-able

Even modern ray-tracing isn't mechanistic, it uses Monte-Carlo and noise injection to add realism

Not sure I see much difference in a VFX artist tweaking the "randomness" dial on a water texture generator and an AI-technicain choosing the magic words to give to DAL-E to generate the image they want

Microsoft strokes UK's ego by pooh-poohing EU approach to AI regulation

Re: I mean, what has regulation ever done for anyone?

The train wouldn't have had brakes even if Trump hadn't repealed it. Lobbyists watered down the law to only count trains with >20cars of murderously toxic cargo.

The railroad claimed this train wasn't hazardous because the chemicals weren't harmful (unless they caught fire) so the rule wouldn't apply anyway

Re: beneficial to the machinery of government

>So yes, it will fit right in...

And I call on ChatGPT to go further and promise it will say the same thing 3 times in order to make a rhetorically catchy soundbite

Re: "a Conservative Brexiteer MP who seemed to enjoy sticking it to the EU"

So if all the conservatives that think anyone black/gay/unmarried+pregnant should get an a free"camping" holiday somewhere, and all of labour who think all landlords, bosses and intellectuals should be sent to SiberiaLancashire, formed their own parties - then pro-Europe young educated Labour voters and Conservative voters that don't froth at the mount could form a new central party and bring together their socially democratic and liberal ideas ?

Re: I mean, what has regulation ever done for anyone?

But the rail company could have fitted proper brakes out of an abundance of caution, even though less than 20 cars were carrying dangerous chemicals.

After all it's what good corporate citizens would choose to do.

Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

Re: Qite likely

Are you sure the Belarus rail system can be 'hacked', or do you mean the string broke ?

Re: Unprovoked?

We 'democratically' elected a gibberish speaking comedian - and convinced nobody to invade us.

Although it did convince other countries to copy us and Sacha Baron Cohen is now running several countries

quickly announced that the alerts were fake

So they didn't try and send a tweet cancelling the alarm - discover they forgot the password, try and do the password reset but can't remember which intern set up the account and don't know what the email is ?

The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch

Re: El' Reg loves alternative units of measure

What's that in sheep ?

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Edge with AI

Edge download chrome

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that

Who needs sailors? US Navy's latest robo-ship can run itself for 30 days

Re: Religion bashing?

>They were advocating that anyone Catholic be either killed or exiled.

And Quakers, and any other members of the Church of England that didn't believe in exactly their version, and the Popular Front of Judea

Re: Religion bashing?

So the founders of America moved to the Netherlands in the hope of finding more bigotry? That explains quite a lot.