Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs

Re: Need more than coders

>Tells me the software is buggy as f*ck

So the software leaks memory faster than the engine leaks oil?

Nice to see the LandRover tradition being upheld

Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach

If you can't trust the US military to behave, who can you trust?

That headline?

The old el'reg wouldn't have missed the opportunity to make a "better to be a pirate than join the navy" Jobs quote

Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time

Re: Let it slide

That was the downfall of French revolutionary time. Rather than a day off in 7 you got one day off in 10.

This forced the French to invent l'automobile so they had something to set fire to in protest

Re: Cop Out

I think that anything involving 'atomic' time probably post dates French imperial hegemony

Re: We fear leap seconds.... Julius added whole eigthy days...

I think in their day it was all MVS

Re: Cop Out

And not for childishly holding up the process until everyone agrees to the acronym so they can go home

Re: TAI = UTC + 37 seconds, am I missing something?

>It's the threat to civilisation we're worried about.

That explains why certain people aren't concerned

Re: Didn't someone previously propose

That was the work-around most big computer users used.

But it means systems could disagree about the time by up to 0.5 seconds during that day.

Re: Cop Out

add in a leap hour, you simply change that offset.

So giving the world a Y5.6k problem ?

TSMC confirms 3nm fab in Arizona to make neighbor Intel sweat a little more

Intel remains on track

And have the Powerpoint presentations to prove it.

Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move

See that's the advantage of IoT, when the person whose credit card the subscription was billed to finally leaves - the lights turn themselves off.

Re: Closed my twitter account today

When Poe's law and Godwin's law collide

Re: Requirements

What about if that megaphone is essentially the only way of hearing somebody?

Suppose twitter dropped all democrat candidates a month before the election? Suppose Google decided not to return any search results for Republicans or had Chrome block all Republican candidates sites?

Suppose the credit card companies and banks decided they would only process donations for their preferred candidate

At some point these monopolies have to be regulated in a different way from a bakery not making a gay wedding cake.

Re: Requirements

Especially when you consider what the constitution says about publicity stunt votes inside a privately held corporation.

I believe it was settled in the case of "8 out of 10 cats vs the supreme court"

Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid

Re: Socialism

In other news Musk puts in a bid for Enron

Re: IT does not matter

But apart from Florida being underwater and Texas becoming an apocalyptic hell scape, there are downsides to climate change

Socialism

Surely the grid would be more reliable if it was run by efficient American corporations. Has anybody called Musk?

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

Re: Madness

That's why cold-war Soviet airliners with a separate navigator and radio operator in addition to the pilots were so safe.

Re: Next up: get rid of that pesky extra engine.

For the same reason that motorbike accidents by young men on the road are so common?

Re: 2 Pilots for a reason

But that only applies to planes above a certain number of passengers.

The single engined float planes that take off from the water in a busy city center, surrounded by high buildings, mountains and suspension bridges, in an uncontrolled airspace full of private pilots, police/news/medic helicopters. These only need one pilot because they have < 16 seats.

I suppose this is much easier flying job than taking a 737 from one Cat5 airport to another Cat5 airport.

US offshore oil and gas installation at 'increasing' risk of cyberattack

Some cybersecurity tips

Do not have your monitors set to 16char x 4line mode with sci-fi font

Change the password from "Swordfish"

Absolute zero must be maintained in the boiling clouds of coolant for the mainframe

Do not connect every terminal to the automatic destruct system

If any British guy in a suit turns up - don't let him in / throw him overboard / ideally shoot him and then throw him overboard

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Re: The rich investors deserved it.

Also you factor that into the investment returns:

They claim to detect these 20 diseases in a single 1ml sample for $1. OK that's ridiculous, but if they can do 10 tests on a 20ml sample for $10 then we are still 10x up on the competition.

Problem is when instead of switching to a realistic product they just keep hyping the impossible one.

Re: She got off lightly

He only stole from customers, not investors.

Or you were told you were fine and missed treatment that could have saved you.

Re: A CEO being held accountable?

>What IS the world coming to?

"Some of those who lost money investing in Theranos are extremely wealthy,"

Remember to steal from the proles not the prince

Z-Library operators arrested, charged with criminal copyright infringement

Re: First things first

They even stole the language. Although like many poor quality pirate copies there are a few typos

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

Re: he expects the major restructuring work to be done this week

>making people walk is cheap.

In this case it's looking very expensive.

By end of day, here on the west coast, rumours are 75% of the remaining workforce took the quit option before they stopped processing applications. All Twitter offices are apparently locked and all staff locked out of systems.

Twitter is still up, but bets are on it not lasting more than 0.1 Truss

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

>no sane country would elect someone like DT

And that statement still holds true

Re: Cue up music from Talking Heads and Brian Eno...

An extra upvote for "to whom you were replying to"

Re: Deadwood

Trouble is that although you need very few engineers to keep the lights on (assuming you don't add any new features) you need lots and lots of warm bodies to do ad-selling, to file regulatory paperwork in every country and to do customer support for valuable clients.

You think having deadwood engineers is a problem, try having 4th rate legal and regulatory compliance people

Re: Cue up music from Talking Heads and Brian Eno...

Erm you know that icon isn't the winner of the 1933 all-europe Chaplin look-alike contest, don't you ?

Everybody went on a crazy hiring a spree during the pandemic.

Partly it was the idea that with remote workers we can hire for cheap in a flyover state and dump these SF salaries later, also if everyone else is hiring you need to hire or you are going to lose talent and attractiveness for future talent

FB headcount went up something like 40%, now it's going down 10%

Hey this guy just called a rescue diver a paedophile, is he the CEO of any public listed companies? I need to buy shares in them quick!

Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

They are obviously running the same software, perhaps amfM1 is the beta test ?

Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

amanfromMars 1 is actually Elon - it all makes so much sense now..

AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore

An analysis of the tracks

See how one set of tracks remains stationary but all the others start backing away and then run off in all directions?

We conclude the 1st dinosaur was a vegan and so immediately had to tell all everyone

Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk

Re: Tome Lehrer, as ever, was prescient

I reach for the Stars - but sometimes hit London

Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock

Re: What do you need to understand?

It would be interesting to see ASML's order book. It could well be that TSMC have already bought all the 5000 series machines for the next few years.

I'm certain Intel are going to score more of the CHIPS act money, they have more friends in Washington, but I wouldn't bet on them making more chips than TSMC.

What do you need to understand?

It's close to a monopoly on the thing that makes the modern world work. If there is a slowdown just going to put the brakes on it's competition.

Intel,GF, etc are all cutting staff and cancelling projects. In a few years when demand has gone back up and their next gen of fabs are coming online TSMC will be even further ahead

Broadcom looks for EU approval of VMware takeover

Anybody know

How Evil is Broadcom compared to Qualcom ?

I think Qualcom comes in at 300-400 milliOracle

(The Oracle being the SI unit of Evil in the software world)

IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud

Re: Be Kind ..... Know your Frenemies and Foe alike and Warn Them of Forthcoming Gloom and Doom.

But not in a way that makes you feel satisfied afterwards

Re: Watson

So far sticking the Watson brand on something means it's guaranteed to fail

Re: Be Kind ..... Know your Frenemies and Foe alike and Warn Them of Forthcoming Gloom and Doom.

>Erotic Customer Centric Cloud Services

Not something I'd want to source from IBM.

I mean, kinky is one thing - but there are limits!

No one ever got fired for avoiding IBM

Shocker: EV charging infrastructure is seriously insecure

Re: KISS

Here the electricity company is nationalised and owns all the chargign stations - but somehow there are a "choice" of 4 different PPI-ed payment cards/apps. Of course different chargers support different sub-sets of the services so you need a phone full of apps and a car full of RFID cards

Raspberry Pis without secure bootloaders

If you can get inside the machine to get at the SD card in a Pi you can presumably do anything you like to the machine

Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time

Re: Some detection tools require video content to be uploaded for analysis

But then they can launch FakeCatcherCatcher which catches people who have used FakeCatcher to make the fakes.

Re: Zuckerborg

Or several recently cabinet members.