Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

'Multiple security breaches' shut down trucker protest

Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

>Do the Canadians have seatbelt laws?

Yes, but as long as you remember to shout "I'm a sovereign citizen, I don't accept Newton's laws" as you get into a crash - they don't apply to you

Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

It's a tradition. You can't stop doing stupid things just cos they make no sense anymore. Being stupid is a part of their heritage

Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

>. Freedom of expression and choice is a hallmark of liberal western democracies.

Exactly, these treasonous colonials are forced by a totalitarian government to drive in the wrong side of the road. As a free born Englishman I choose to drive on the left.

Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

Paging Mr Darwin ....

Intel: Please buy these new 13th-Gen CPUs, now with 24 cores

Re: Twenty Four Cores.........Umpty Ump Threads........Infinite Confusion........

Forgive my ignorance but isn't checking for primeness the ultimate parallel task?

If you have a naive algorithm of 'divide n by every integer upto sqrt(n)' then you can parallelise this with up to sqrt(n) processors !

Man wrongly jailed by facial recognition, lawyer claims

Technology

Can't we just go back to proper police work where we are simply looking for a black man from New York and arrest anyone who matches

Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet

Re: Non-binary memory?

>a problem understanding what a Black List or Whitelist relates to ?

Since it's not inherently obvious which of black/white is the correct option I always use Catholic / Protestant list, so it's immediately clear which is the bad list.

Re: Non-binary memory?

Can't we call them Jamóns to honour their deep love of the costas ?

Re: Non-binary memory?

This isn't new we've always had non-binary bool = True / False / file-not-found

With Mastodon, decentralization strikes back

Re: issues

Do both ends have to approve federation or can you just 'subscribe' federate to receive their posts?

Otherwise how would you do official announcements?

Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

Re: Here is an example of FOSS for SDR that vanished due to ITAR

That's a relatively soft problem, it's easy to replicate a repository.

The problem is if US corporations are scared off using/ contributing to a particular project.

I'm guessing that major projects are a big enough part of $$$ that the politicians aren't going to suddenly try and ban them.

Re: Keep politics out of open source

>A retired British businessman who admitted selling weapon parts to Iran has been sentenced to 33 months in prison by a court in the US.

So if a contributor to GNU SDR included "not for military use" and the US Coastguard used it - he could have the British courts extradite the US president as CinC to rule on whether the Coastguard counted as military ?

Open source databases and operating systems containing contributions from Russian/Chinese/Venezuelan developers and so must be banned.

Also thank you Oracle and Microsoft for you campaign contributions

Re: Just to clarify...

See that's the great flexibility of a software licence.

Contributor 1: this software is not for use in Saudi

Contributor 2: this software is not for use in Israel

Customer: my government bans any boycott of Israel so is it illegal for me to use this software or is it illegal for me not to ?

Not just software

Russian artillery uses Newtonian mechanics to calculate the path of shells. Britain must regulate the export of Newton's laws

Re: Keep politics out of open source

>not for military use" and "not for evil" licences

And this is enforced by ?

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

Re: major fuck-up I reckon

The procedures for when operations aren't operating as they regularly would

Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI

Re: Pricing sorted?

>The AI won't train itself and you need it to stay competitive

Ironically if you do a lot of AI training you don't have to worry about expensing this - Nvidia send you A5000 boards for free to evaluate

India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones

Re: So much for "Brexit freedoms" eh ?

>Are we still pretending that Brexit was about anything but racism?

Only for the voters, for the promoters it was also about lowering standards

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Re: A very long time ago

It's panto season. If all the boys and girls believe in backups they will appear.

And the bofh is behind you

TSMC ramps up 3nm chip baking at Taiwan plants

Re: Oh come on

Obviously we need to genetically engineer faster hamsters.

So far, attempts to cross breed hamsters and greyhounds have been problematic

Re: Risk?

3nm chips aren't vital to the people's army, but they are vital to the SP500 and so to its government.

If China cuts off iPhone you are going to see sanctions that make Russia look like a family tiff.

Risk-averse Kyocera gambles nearly $10b of own shares on semiconductor growth

Yes but if you don't cut costs and headcount during a downturn the share price drops and you, as CEO, get fired. It doesn't help if it puts your replacement in a great position for the next economic cycle

Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers

Re: Outdated scheduling software?

Or if the computer says that you have an aircraft at X, the crew at Y and the alternate airport at Z is closed with weather = then you blame the software for the cancellation

Re: Some FAA flexibility ?

I thought Tenerife was the textbook for why rigid rules are bad = we have to take off in the next 15 minutes or we will be out of hours and stranded 10,000km from home without a replacement crew - so there is a push to believe you heard the takeoff clearance.

Yes working hours affect safety but there are some ridiculous rules, you spent 24+ hours travelling constantly to get form your home to your home base, that doesn't count as working hours. You sit in the cockpit with the engines off at the stand doing paperwork, does that count? You sit in the de-icing queue for 2 hours with the engines off, does that count?

Re: Blame the Computer

I assume in a capitalist country you have a range of many excellent premium airlines who all offer exemplary service for the right price (or you're stuck with United)

Some FAA flexibility ?

So it's fine for your crew to have spent 24hours commuting to get to this flight. But if they go over flight hours while sitting on the plane waiting 2hours for deicing you all have to go back to the gate, unload and wait for another 'fresh' crew to spend 24 hours battling through snow storms to get there.

I wonder if there is some scope for emergency rules in bad weather, if they can be written so they don't become the normal working conditions

Re: Blame the Computer

It's the trade off, you want cheap flights the airline can't have a backup aircraft and crew fro each flight.

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

Fake test

Asked them to produce an essay on a current hyper-local topic with no existing corpus.

Now ask it to write an essay about gender roles in Shakespeare, or any of the other standard "deep" thought. English lit students are supposed to come up with.

If it regurgitates a mixup of every previous paper on the topic - isn't that the defn of literary criticism?

>The best novelists and poets write furiously, dedicating their lives to mastering their craft.

Don't forget the drugs. If we retroactively stripped romantic poets of their titles for failing a laudanum test

Crooks copy source code from Okta’s GitHub repository

Re: Okta users don't care either

The plans to Death Star being on github aren't important, this battle station is the ultimate power in the universe

TSMC said to be considering first European semiconductor plant

And how much they can threaten you.

The USA govt. can credibly declare it will only buy made in America parts. The Eu commission, meh

Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?

Re: Not all accountants are bad

>He was quite good

You could say you could count on him.

LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

Re: Someone Else's Password

50:50 CS:RE does teach you that C++ templates surpasseth all human understanding

I assume it was 2 separate 1/2 credit courses but I like to think it was a single combined lesson.

We will now read from the holy book. K&R chap10 vs 2: "and lo the pointer returneth from malloc was not null and he saw that it was good "

Re: 2FA?

Even without the passwd having your unencrypted username/site list is worrying.

Re: Nothing is Safe in the Cloud. Ever.

You still have the encrypted passwd database on the key.

If you lose the key you only have to worry that it somehow finds its way into the hands of a master cybercrimal

An online passwd db company with millions of people's passwd is a bit more of a target.

Re: The cloud is just someone else's computer

Be glad your company doesn't use ADP with one site and half a dozen different userid/passwds to track payslisps, holiday, tax etc

Re: Someone Else's Password

I did computer O level soon after it was introduced (yes my chiseled abs hide how old I am)

It wasn't quite "colour in the picture of the minicomputer" but it was bloody close. I remember those of us who programmed in asm for fun finished in 30min and looked around confused.

TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation

Re: Spying for me, not for thee?

But at least the USA is open and honest about using secret national security laws to compel companies to spy for them.

Those duplicitous foreigners claim that their government owned companies don't work for the government.

Meanwhile we are safe in the knowledge that our government is so crap at technology it couldn't spy on anyone. (Or at least that's what the MMB want you to think)

License to launch: UK space regulator gives Virgin Orbit satellites the go-ahead

Re: Second Life

It's a problem operating piston engines in Northern Canada - they run on high-octane (often leaded) petrol which is hard to get, so you have to fly in fuel supplies to supply your cargo aircraft - which ends up being a bit self defeating.

Turbo-props run on kerosene, or even diesel in a pinch, so fuel is much more available

Re: Second Life

>How do they keep WWII planes flying then (legally)?

Grandfathered-in regulations and a lot of precision loophole navigation.

There are a couple of companies that will build you a Spitfire from scratch using modern components, all you need is the VIN plate from a crashed plane so that this is a "restoration" and no modern airworthiness rules apply

Re: I'm confused by all this...

100% of the subsidy innovation investment in the regions grant comes from the UK

Paperwork decision scraps Google's $600m Minnesota datacenter project

We have a spare 1.2 GW

A previous government started to build a dam, which was too expensive for the next government to cancel - so we're building it even though they both agree there is no market for the power.

Of course there is no point in building a data center in Canada - until we get broadband

FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds

Re: "both cooperating"

I'm assuming Netflix now start filming the series about the downfall of company-X about the time they finalise their series-A round ?

Re: That must hurt

>As opposed to those nice benign kindly American or Sicilian Mafias, who laugh off losses ?

There is no such thing as the Mafia. Some nice gentlemen from the Italian-American Fraternal Business Association will explain to you - like they did to Mr Coppola

Re: Good... now keep going.

> it's every day pension funds, mortgages and savings

Almost certainly not. Ordinary Americans had to jump through a lot of hoops to 'invest' in this - it was probably easier to buy drugs online

Some VCs put some money in, but VC's job is to lose money so nobody cares

The good news for regular punters is that it was mostly rich or idiot's money, the bad news for the defendants is that it was mostly rich+idiot's money.