Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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

Re: FTX CEO, CTO and Alameda Research CEO

Do they charge an ongoing licence fee ?

Re: That must hurt

>Nothing like regular amphetamine use to make you an overconfident dumb fuck.

No it's perfectly safe https://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/021222-gopills01.htm

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

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

>In the UK dog licences were scrapped years ago (in 1988),

So you just let any dogs drive ?

I mean a Border Collie fair enough, but I wouldn't trust a Golden Retriever

We would just like to remind all Londoners and southerners in general that Yorkshire (especially North Yorks) remains a desolate wasteland populated by flat cap/flat vowelled zombies and gentrification would be impossible.

PS Harrogate is a myth

Re: Second Life

>The yaw induced must lead to interesting handling.

The 747 can famously fly with an extra spare engine under one wing (it's how Quantas planned to get a replacement engine to Oz in a hurry if necessary)

Re: Second Life

Even funnier; a year later they did exactly the same thing, told the USAF they were going to do the same thing, from the same bases to the same targets - but this time they turned on jamming the interceptor's radar.

You didn't do that last time complained the defenders, "Yes obviously" was the reaction from the mustached service

Re: Second Life

Ideally a plane with a decent take off weight, internal bomb bays, ability to get upto 50-60,000 ft and proven ability to get into airspace it wants despite an entire air defence network and 1000s of fighters trying to stop it.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/07/01/vulcans_last_flight/

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

One of the selling points for Pegasus (the original US version of this 30years ago) was that it could fly to your site, pick up your package and deliver it to space directly rather than having to ship it to Edwards AFB/Cape Canaveral

If the UK insists that you need a licence from them, presumably also from the place you pick it up and then from the area you launch from - it's going to get a lot faster/better/cheaper to just ship your package to Texas and let TwitterX deliver it

But IIRC Lohan went to Spain because they couldn't use the rocket motors in the UK and couldn't get some other permission in the USA

Re: Second Life

Unlikely, the B52s are operated by a organisation with an infinite budget and many of the long lived ones were originally only for use in "delivering special presents to your special best friends" so got very few flight hours.

In terms of years in use, there are probably DC3s flying somewhere. There was a place in Switzerland that did sight seeing trips in a J52 until they had an unfortunate incident with an Alp.

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

You need a license for a dog so I suppose you also need one for a space rocket

SEC: Startup had 'no functional streaming service', raised $1.3m anyway

Re: Next use Kickstarter and...

They forgot to add the :

The documents provided contain statements related to our future business and financial performance and future events or developments involving XXXX that may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by words such as "expect," "look forward to," "anticipate" "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "estimate," "will," "project" or words of similar meaning.

ps. when you cut and paste this from some fortune 500 company remember to replace XXXX with your own company name - I've seen a few startups that forgot !

Re: Centrix

>people get bored of x-centric content

Many of the profitable X content providers specialise in X-centric X content and do very well out of it

(or so I hear, no personal experience of course)

Fraudulent ‘popunder’ Google Ad campaign generated millions of dollars

Re: They're never legitimate

Brave even blocks pre-roll youtube ads (at least if you don't login to youtube) I don't know how it does this but I hope youtube don't find out

I assume a site which conains content that online adults would be interested in - like https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs

Or is this about pictures of people getting along famously?

Re: They're never legitimate

>claiming an ad impression that doesn't exist, because the purported viewer doesn't see it.

Isn't that true for 99% for ads ?

Swatting suspects charged with subverting Ring doorbell cams and calling cops

Re: Seems kind of poetic

Look that baby might have had a WMD concealed in its cot - it was necessary to throw the stun grenade in there to protect lives

Re: Charges?

> I can't recall anybody being pursued with quite so much vigour before

This was an outside person doing it.

Rather than the call being made form the payphone inside the police station against a house they couldn't get a warrant for

Re: Charges?

Does make it rather difficult to prosecute though.

The accused knew that we, the police, are a bunch of trigger happy thugs who would shoot first and ask questions later and they were relying on this to get someone hurt.

Re: I'm trying to be surprised by this.

Isn't it also a plot point in the sequel to William Gibson's neuromancer from about 30 years ago ?

Re: Amadhouse the great

>In US the police all have guns

Which is just unnecessary these days. Instead of calling 911 and have the police send a unit to shoot the target we could have a simple phone menu system linked to precision artillery.

Press 1 for high explosive, 2 for armoured piercing

Thank you, please enter the coordinates of the address press pound when finished.

Re: Charges?

There can't have been an attempt to endanger someone because armed US police would never harm someone unless it was absolutely unavoidable to protect innocent bystanders

UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself

Re: cyberattacks by criminals and nation states

He got promotion when the SPG were disbanded

What's latin for: meet the new thugs, same as the old thugs

Re: Stay clam everyone and don't picnic!

It's also a test for people who are of an age, I don't think the younglings know the meme - since Manchester's finest got computers

Re: cyberattacks by criminals and nation states

Didn't they send a bunch of cyber security special operatives to smash a couple of redundant macbooks when the Gruniad published the Snowdon stuff?

Or was that MI5 ?

cyberattacks by criminals and nation states

Surprised Britain has an offensive cyberattack capability

Picturing special Branch Constable Savage just hitting a keyboard with a truncheon.

> so they didn't bother doing anything...

Didn't they just run out a fawning advert for the new (or last, or next) iPhone ?

Apple accused of censoring apps in Hong Kong and Russia to maintain market access

Didn't we just have

A big school sports day where players were banned from having armbands and our governments and national broadcasters were all tripping over themselves to approve of it?

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Raspboss Eben Upton

Re: Priorities

>ather than looking into creating another unobtainium product, then frustration and resentment, maybe they should focus on increasing the production capacity.

Yes because they're entirely fungible,

The hardware designers in Cambridge should stop browsing Broadcom app notes and get themselves to Shenzen to ease supply chain issues for the component that goes into the thingy that you need to make the widget that the wafer makers need to get product to the fabs.

Re: Bye bye Pi

>RPi's are like rocking horse shit due to them sucking the corporate cock.

Is this a piHat I've missed?

Presumably harder to do in the cloud - this has to be the ultimate desktop (or under desk) application

Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier

Re: When and how will China retaliate?

Ironically even the (white) Russians failed at marching on Moscow in 1919

Re: When and how will China retaliate?

>or whether Japanese firms would suddenly be labelled as security risks.

It's the textbook case. In the 80s Japanese LCD makers were blocked from the USA because LCD were a vital military technology for fighter cockpits. Japan was instead forced to build and export laptops instead

Re: When and how will China retaliate?

Fighting a land war in Asia - always a good idea

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

Re: Unanswered question

Hello professor Falcon, would you like to play a game?

Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed

Re: Openshot has been perfect for me.

AFAIK the free version of Resolve is limited to 4K60, but if you need more the paid version is pretty cheap (at least compared to the storage cost for a movie at 8K 120fps!)

I think they make most of their money on the editing console / mixing desk hardware

Re: Resolve ?

Ok thanks. I work in hardware so for test/calibration the precise color / brightness is most important. I don't edit full length movies.

I write plugins for it so for all practical purposes (if not philosophical ones) it's open.

Resolve ?

The industry standard is free but not open source.

Is there any reason to use these other than open ness

IT recruiter settles claims it snubbed American workers

>How would a government checker be able to find out if a foreign worker from Latvia does in fact have a suitable degree?

You let 400tonnes of aircraft filled with 200tonnes of Jet-A fly over your capital city piloted and maintained by someone with a Latvian qualification - but you can't check if Riga U doesn't just hand out CS degrees to anyone who plays basketball ?

Meta, Google, TikTok and friends sue California to block kids privacy law

Re: Interesting

This heavy handed government restriction of children's constitutional rights is unfair.

Why here 5 year olds aren't allowed to buy machine guns. How are they supposed to form a well regulated militia to keep girls out of their tree fort ?

Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup

Where could we find centrifuges?

So we finally invade a middle eastern country not for their oil.

The SCRAM name is unfortunately a bit of folk etymology and not true

NIST says you better dump weak SHA-1 ... by 2030

Re: What the....?

Not all hash algorithms are used for nuclear secrets.

We use it identify test data on an internal build server, It's easier than making up imaginative unique names for 1000s of test data files and makes sure nobody accidentally changed / renamed any of them.

To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

Pay for CPU, get banned if you use CPU.

It's like an unlimited data plan that doesn't allow large downloads

Seven smuggled US military tech for Moscow, say Feds

Re: Just use Turkey

Similar getting an interface board made in the USA back to UK, because it contained an advanced 32bit RISC cpu = an ARM chip designed a couple of miles from my lab.

Amazon graduate hires told they can't start work until next December

Re: Alexa in a drawer

Ob xkcd

Rivian abandons electric van partnership with Mercedes-Benz

That's the innovative British Leyland / Lucas electricals safety feature.

It's very difficult to have a crash if you are immobile by the side of the road

From pictures on reddit I thought it was only exotic hypercars that burst into flames.

Certainly nobody seems to post photos of old bangers on fire - so a 70s escort or Vauxhall viva is probably the safest car on the road

>. Germany says they are at 90% reserves capacity.

That doesn't mean they have enough gas for winter - it depends how much storage capacity they have,

My car is at 90% battery capacity but that's not enough for me to drive all winter (in fact with the heating and sub-zero temperatures it barely gets me to work and back)

London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation

Re: The heat is on

It resisted arrest and was subsequently spread around the garden with the help of some coppers size 11s

An update on the old Porridge joke about not digging up vegetable patch

Re: Ahaaaaaa!

The traditional use of art was for the owner to say - look at me I'm rich

IBM to help Japan’s government-funded chipmaker produce 2nm CPUs, GPUs

Re: That looks like a

A 2nm (Nautical Mile) choccie digestive - Imagine the cup of tea for dunking !