Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Barge off: Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites in US, France

But at least the pirates have to put some effort in, its not just some kid in a basement ripping off Lars Ulrich

Re: DC Produces AC?

I was hoping for pools full of electric eels

Re: well yes, but no?

Probably best to run some sort of closed loop fluid cooling with radiators rather than dump the servers in the deep blue sea then ?

TSMC founder says 'globalization is almost dead' as Asian foundry giant expands in US

Globalization is almost dead

I wonder where TSMC are going to buy chip making equipment from in the USA?

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

We prefer the term "residual human resource" in the laundry

The problem with an violent revolution in dear old Blighty - is that the royals have all the guns.

I think Prince Philip on the balcony with a pair of shotguns is quite an effective air defence.

Re: 17 robots unemployed because cops replace them.

17 ARMED, explosive-laden, kamikaze robots unemployed because cops replace them !

>Look I wish you people would stop misrepresenting it as bombing. It's urban renewal.

The RAF, for all your bespoke overnight urban renewal needs

San Fransisco

Home of hand-crafted artisanal personalised Police shootings

Energy being expensive and trickier to source is good news ... for renewables

Re: How much electricity ?

The difference between me doing nothing and me doing the maximum to reduce my carbon emissions would be less than 0.00000000001C

I only emit 1/8billion-the of world's greenhouse gases!

Re: In before . . .

> If their energy is 'renewable' why has the price of gas inflated their bills so dramatically?

If there is a shortage of components for new cars - why have used car prices increased ?

Re: In before . . .

Green power is a global capitalist hoax to discourage union jobs in coal mining.

Deutsche Bank backs Nvidia's bet to make big bucks on software

So does this mean NVidia is a scam?

I'm pretty sure they do actually make high performance GPUs - but if Deutsche is behind them .......

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack behind days-long email meltdown

Re: So...

>Until senior management/ business owners realise that IT is just as important to their business

that's why we build our own computers in-house. It's vital to the operation of our Tea Shops

Re: So...

That's why the main suspects for this attack have to be amazon or Microsoft.

After all you can't get fired for hosting your Microsoft email at Microsoft - just like you can't be blamed for getting Arthur Anderson to audit your accounts

Musk's Hotel California erected at Twitter HQ, as some offices converted into bedrooms

Re: Future conversation

It's along term solution to recruitment - but Musk does seem to be trying his best to personally repopulate all his companies

Re: Office as housing?

I sit down in a meeting room, check out the selection of cookies, wait for them to slip some relaxing Powerpoint on the screen and drift away into a heavenly sleep

Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages

Re: They're good at it

>They might even get a bit bolshie.

Then let me introduce you to our new product, ED-209

Rule Brittania

So investing in advanced industrial automation makes the discarded workers sad?

Fortunately Britain managed to avoid that and so has the happiest unemployed industrial workers

Equinix to cut costs by cranking up the heat in its datacenters

Re: This is not how data centers work

And presumably they rent you space by the rack - so kerching

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

Re: any connection between the attack on the power grid and a drag show

It did have 'transformers', that's close enough

Re: Hanlon's Razor.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I believe that is the new national moto

>Similarly, one could ask why are churches higher on the list than government?!

I think "thoughts and prayers" are the traditional US first response to any incident

With the recent decline in "thought" it's obvious that "prayer" is the only possible action

>It interrupted a drag night, therefore it must have been 'far-right'.

I don't think Stalin was a big fan of Panto, and given the ubiquity of armed Maoist groups in America it could well have been far-left terrorists

Re: Fragile

The comment was meant to be read following the 'those are German' line above

IIRC it's more turning into HGVs and throwing buildings around

A highschool kid with a gun shooting things? In what country?

Re: Fragile

The best things in America are: Beer, Hamburgers, freeways, cars that can do corners, Republican politics

>Such people are usually quite open about their agendas

Like having a national convention with a stage where you spell it out in lights?

Re: Fragile

A more American solution

Re: probably wasn't an act of terrorism

But what if they felt threatened? Electricity is dangerous, perhaps they just had to shoot first

probably wasn't an act of terrorism

= Critical infrastructure was deliberately destroyed by politically motivated religious nut jobs with white skin

Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences

Re: Proud West Aussie here

> Dockers or Eagles

You're making that up. If they were real, and Australian, they would end in 'o'

Re: Blue Peter

Same thing if you have UK budgets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Low_Frequency_Synthesis_Telescope

Re: This thread...

It's a bit Specials

Re: Indigenous land

At least they left.

Re: Indigenous land

All land everywhere is indigenous land that colonists have stolen. Down with Norman / Saxon / Celtic oppressors

Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

Re: Worst code I ever saw...

>That's why keyboard re-mapping was invented. Put 'em where you want 'em

Foot pedals, the only choice for a gentleman

Re: Worst code I ever saw...

>Nobody seems to teach "touch typing",

When I went to secondary school (in the late iron age) they had just removed all the typing desks - cos we had finally abandoned all that "girls do secretary / boys do metalwork" stuff and in the future we would all do Craft-Design-Technology and nobody would type.

Ironically now when I'm not building prototypes in a workshop I'm typing code

Re: Explosive demonstration

Loching machinery being throwing it in a lake?

A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer

Re: College Love

> a task such as that requires a large magnifying glass, a lot of light and a very steady hand.

The components get smaller as you get older

Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system

Re: Efficiency is king

It depends how many come after 007, is it limited to 999 or MAX_INT ?

Re: Efficiency is king

You can still efficiently transfer power with an inverse square law - that's why you can efficiently bisect Bonds with a laser some distance away

US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy

Re: Saved by whom?

The same party that told its core voters not to take a life saving vaccine ?

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years

>Moore's law simply mentions transistor density, not frequency.

Precisely, Moore's law noted that wafer size increased and feature size decreased linearly with cost - while squaring the number of transistors per wafer. It's not clear that this was true in the EUV era, we had to make features smaller for power and to fit into a phone - but I'm not convinced that 3nm is cheaper "per transistor" than the previous generation

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

That's why the stats for Spain and UK might not tell quite the same story - it depends on the rules for claims.

The unemployment rate in Canada typically tracks 1.5% above the USA, just because of the different rules in claims

For the youth unemployment there is also a bias because youth are mobile.

I come from a town oop'North that can charitably be described as a shit-hole, so like everyone else with 2 O'levels to rub together I left.

This means that youth unemployment there is incredibly high - just because they are effectively only counting people with no qualification. People from there, but working in London don't count for their unemployment.

It's a carefully worked out deal on both sides.

Ireland to US company: put your HQ in Erin's green valleys, we speak English (sort of), your CEO/Chairman thinks he's Irish and we'll make a fuss over him, we're politically stable and we won't charge any tax and make sure that our regulatory agencies are accommodatingly ineffectual

Ireland to voters: it will bring jobs, we get income tax, it will boost house prices and if we didn't do this they would setup shop in Luxembourg. Plus all the sales they make in Britain will get billed here so we're fscking the English

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

Re: Eye-watering

> ensuring the crazies out there know that if they misbehave badly enough

Except which crazies?

This is a super advanced stealth bomber designed to slip past the most advanced air defense networks and enemy fighters. You don't need this to deal with ISIS or Al Queda, throwing rocks out of the back of a DC3 would be enough.

The trouble is that most enemies that have good enough air defence that you need this to reach their capital city - have nukes.

Yes this could get to Beijing or Moscow or Paris without being intercepted, but if you want to bomb Beijing or Moscow or Paris you have ICBMs. It's not their plucky chaps in handlebar mustaches that are stopping you - it's that they would return the favor rather finally

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

Re: Government subsidies: good for us, bad for them?

If the Quebec pension fund invests in Bombardier that's illegal government funding and the competitor to the 737 gets a 300% import tarrif.

This is OK because none of the $Bns of government money are ever going to produce any actual product and CEO bonuses and share buy backs don't attract tarrifs.