Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

Re: Same

Techies buy new gear for work and "recycle" the old gear for themselves.

Techies buy 3 year old off-lease kit and install Linux

I haven't bought a "new" system for myself since college

Re: Same

Your old computer used binary with only 1 and 0, Windows 11 will use New Binary (tm) with 1, 0 and peppermint.

UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention

I don't think they went so far as to tell them not to be naughty again. They were told they had been naughty but were right to keep the sweeties they had stolen

Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak

Shocking

This allows you to run free software on a device you purchased, like you own it.

It's basically terrorism

FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure

Re: Does this really have some kind of chilling effect on FOSS…?

Use Edge and you can stick a Microsoft certified sticker on your wall. Use Chrome or Opera or Brave and you are responsible for employing a properly qualified person to go through millions of lines of code.

Now that we are all using "security certified" Windows and Edge there can be no more malware and there will be no spam or phishing attacks if you are reading email from that Nigerian Prince with MSFT-Edge that has a security certification

Re: Not just FOSS

>How could MS possibly claim this software to be secure?

That's the beauty of this sort of security. Microsoft don't have to actually make the software secure. They simply have to have a process which can be audited to show they are following the processes - and anybody who can't afford to have an audited process isn't allowed to compete anymore.

Re: Unnerving

You will also have to send yourself on regular training courses so you have been Powerpointed all the differences between ISO13485:2018 and ISO13485:2022 (rather than sending you a diff which largely consisted of "s/2018/2022/g")

Re: Hurrah for Brexit

The Scottish and Welsh assemblies are staffed only by politicians pure in spirit to the one goal of independence and so are above such worldly matters as corruption and incompetence.

the Northern Irish assembly politicians have reached such a state of political nirvana that they are above even assembling

Re: Hurrah for Brexit

#3 - somewhere deep in MSFT a PEng has "signed off" on Azure, just like CE/ISO9001 or any other pointless certification soup you can use this safe in the knowledge that it is "certified" and nobody can blame you.

As soon as you decide to have your own Linux box inside your organisation you have to prove you have had a suitably certified professional go through every line of the Linux kernel and sworn that it is safe.

Re: About Time

Microsoft concerned industry bodies tried this 20years ago with a proposal that you could only use software signed off by a professional engineer - for safety.

So you could use Windows ME and VB since somebody at MSFT had ticked a box, but not that Linux stuff that wasn't safe.

Re: Will this actually ever happen?

The question is whether Amazon Microsoft can bribe more to make their cloud compulsory or if the FOSS devs can outbid them to keep allowing people to use Linux

Re: Hurrah for Brexit

How unlike the home life of our own dear mother of parliaments

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Re: SPOF anyone?

Amateurs, people have taken down the entire phone system with a single route update

Re: If it was working before then the first thing you must always ask

And more importantly what did thus change do to everything else.

Otherwise you would just change that router back, "fixing" the problem but causing all the other routers to repopulate their tables again - causing another round of outages

Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location

You mean the proud patriots of Boston who contributed to a peaceful Northern Irish cultural group committed to traditional folk pursuits and who didn't do anything like pirating DVDs that would fund terrorism ?

Re: So in conclusion

>He probably feels it is his patriotic duty to not insulate his house and keep it at 75F (i.e. freedom units) all winter long to support the fossil fuel industry!

By burning more coal he is creating global warming (which doesn't exist and is a liberal plot / or does exist but is due to China) - so creating warmer winters for people who can't afford to heat their homes

So in conclusion

Coal only needs $12/MWh in subsidies

JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

Re: Had An E-Mail from JD Sports..... in Portuguese

Haven't a clue why it is in Portuguese.

Security, how many Chinese super ninja cyber warriors speak Portuguese? Taps side of nose, knowingly

What is Google doing with its open source teams?

Seriously! All this n'th generation large language model AI and my Google phone auto-completes "like" as "Luke"

You only need to worry when they refer to employees as "donors"

Yes but if you aren't doing a 1st year business class you think a little beyond the immediate effects.

In the next upturn you are going to be competing for people to hire. If it seems Luke you are the sort of place that just fires people from a spreadsheet it might incline the best people to go and work for Apple. The juniors who want to work with them will follow.

Imagine if IBM actually tried to hire top talent now, how much over market would they have to pay to convince people to risk moving?

US ban on China chip exports rebounds, causes 2,700 job losses

Re: Politics shouldn’t enter science and technology

>the gov't was actively engaged in protectionism against foreign competitors and giving out subsidies.

And so capitalism says they will lose. This will give them a failed industrial base, like postwar British car makers or US aircraft makers now.

Surely it would be worse if China freely competed buying the best and cheapest components from around the world and assembling them into the most efficient systems. We should fully support China embracing the USSR industrial model.

You there, boffins and tech giants, take this $50m and figure out better chips

Yes, the Chinese will never think of doing something like this, muhaha

The advantage of Captialism is that this money will go directly to CEOs and shareholders (*) without being diverted by corrupt government officials

* in the appropriate congressional districts, and assuming that campaign contributions have been forthcoming

Intel inside a world of pain as revenue plunges by a third

Re: "Rome wasn't installed in a day"

> go back about 10 years and fix their management team.

They just need to go back to a world where PC and server spend went up every year and they were a monopoly

Re: Slash spending and layoff employees

But if dual Xeon corporate smartphones had ever taken off - imagine the profit margins

Slash spending and layoff employees

Fortunately the semiconductor business doesn't rely on massive capital investment in R&D and advanced production kit or on skilled experienced and expensive engineers

Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

Re: rm -rf /

Was it Home Depot in the USA that accidentally leaked all its customer credit card details to crooks ?

Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health

Re: How the hell...

At some point even IBM reach a Logan's Run scenario where they are having to fire all these expensive crusty 21 year old new graduates

Re: How the hell...

They are contracting out the redundancies to India, it's cheaper to make workers redundant there.

Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time

Re: An obvious solution

>That is a bad idea for many reasons: the sheer volume, needing up to the minute data, etc.

Obviously broadsheet NOTAMs would be unweildly for all but the most spacious of flight decks.

So perhaps a continuous linear form which matched the route and could be unrolled as the flight progressed, TOpological Relavent Air-mission to Hand ( TORAH ),

Or for long transpacific flights into Hawaii you would have a multiply redundant system TORA-TORA-TORA

An obvious solution

These notices need publishing on a daily basis

Distributing them electronically seems to be subject to fsck-ups and/or super-ninja-global-state-sponsored-hyper-cyber-something threats

Meanwhile the print journalism industries have been facing a sharp decline leaving a largely unused capacity for printing daily news sheets

SAP culls 3,000 jobs – and its results weren't even that bad

See we're also a cool silicon Valley software company

We're doing layoffs and we have a yacht like Oracle

Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April

Re: "Houston, the locust has landed"

>Space is very, very big.

And getting bigger

Re: How does this work?

>to be able to refine materials to sufficient purity for them to be useful

Wasn't the whole point of doing this in space that the elements are already in their pure state unmolested by the processes of geology?

Re: How does this work?

Pay no attention to the reality behind the PowerPoint

Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation

Re: @AC - 500+ million PC's obsolete in 2025 unable to run Windows 11...

>A massive increase in market share and user-base.

So if a billion obsolete office desktop Dells became Linux terminals running office365/teams/edge would that make advance our plans for world domination?

It might be more aecure

India uses emergency powers to order takedown of BBC documentary

Just business

India wants to replace China (see story about Apple living 25% of production). So Mr Modi had to catch up to Mr Xi.

Now which children's story character do we ban ?

Intel kills $700M liquid cooling lab amid chip slump

You're assuming it's compatible with non Intel-made cars

XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors'

Re: The same XenServer Citrix made free and then didn't?

Wasn't Xen originally an opensourse app from Cambridge computer Dept?

I seem to remember a fuss because they had an academic source license to Windows which made it possible. This was in the days when MSFT had less love for open source

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: plumbing

Or they refer to the diameter of lead pipes 100years ago which had the equivalent capacity.

Which is why 3/4 copper and 3/4 plastic pipe is different and neither is 3/4"

Until you add in something like eggs or teaspoons

Re: 1 calory heats 1 gramm (aka 1 cm³ at 4 °C) of water by 1 °C

Foot * Pound (force) would be the base unit of mechanical energy in an imperial system.

I assumed ovens in Germany would be in Kelvin and also operate as freezers if set to 250

Re: plumbing

And since it's plumbing the 3/4" won't actually be 3/4" and the 15mm won't be 15mm

Young people would switch but the old folks would carry on driving on the left

Re: Costly

I think making planes that flew on the left was a bigger problem

Re: US Survey Foot

They made the American inch (which they call English units) and the British inch (which they call imperial units) both the same 'metric' inch - defined as exactly 25.4mm

Re: Metric for precision. Imperial for sharing

Some GOP politico was tweeting about Sanders having to share his birthday cake, cos socialism, not because that's what you do with cake!

Re: We'll have to replace our clocks

But you would also have 100days in the year so get more Thanksgivings