Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision

DVI does have the option for VGA, it's the 4 pins around the flat blade connector. It's just that almost nobody implements it

HDMI to DVI works both ways

Mostly. For computer graphics and no audio HDMI / DVI are equivalent (except you don't have to pay the HDMI licence fee for DVI)

For video HDMI can do more high bit depth modes and of course has sound

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: Serious point amongst all this humour !!!

Have you considered the Brussels solution ?

No government for 2 years - but you still have beer, chocolate, waffles and chips (with mayonnaise)

Re: Someone will be along shortly ...

It's never the Eu, they are totally powerless bureaucratic foreigners, impotent against the might of Global Britain

It's the internal threat of the 5th columnist Remainer anti-growth coalition of experts and civil-servants

"Make America Great Again" by not just electing the tallest candidate with the best hair?

Re: across the Irish sea

I thought all Irish politicians were basically St Patric crossed with Seamus Heaney ?

According to Fintan O'Toole

Re: Export please!

As opposed to the 1911 committee where they just give you a pistol and one bullet

Re: Free speech, duh

>The UK PM - not a trivial role, only the leader of a G7 nuclear power

Now I'm depressed....

Re: Please help me here

<sings>.... coffee and latte, living together in perfect harmony,......

Re: Please help me here

The only difference being that Saddam wasn't democratically elected - presumably why the CIA didn't coup him before he did 9/11 with WMDs

Although rather more eloquently and with multiple syllables

Re: At last, a benefit of Brexit

Vote to make that the new Microsoft Teams icon

Re: Got the popcorn ready for Question Time

Wouldn't you be tempted to just go on and laugh hysterically for 30mins ?

Re: Please help me here

"Facts have a liberal bias" was Rob Corddry (writer for the Colbert daily show) in 2004, originally said about Bush's invasion of Iraq

Re: Infosys will be happy

Would he want the job?

I'm not sure Indian parents would approve of their son giving up a promising career in finance to become a stand-up

Re: Someone will be along shortly ...

Best result for a Green ever

Re: Please help me here

Perhaps outsourcing is the solution?

PMQs can be answered by 'My-name-is-John-how-can-I-help-you' with an Indian accent telling you to turn it off and on again

Re: seeing how things work (or don't) over there...

>OFTEN makes me wish we had an easier system over here in Yankville to remove leaders early

I thought you had a very efficient system - you just need to expand it beyond Dallas

Re: Please help me here

The technology to display a HD full colour live lettuce to the world has taken decades. Once we were only able to show a single black+white coffee pot at 64x64 pixels

Re: If a mistake is bad enough ...

Since BJ is front runner to replace her, and will inevitably soon fall to some sex/finance scandal - I'm beginning to think somebody missed a break; condition

A group of elected Tory MPs elect a committee to elect who becomes the next PM - that's like democracy**3, you can't get much more democracy than that !

Re: Obvious solution

At the currently exponentially decreasing tenure we are soon going to reach the stage of prime-ministers / second and this would cause massive deforestation.

Obvious solution

Introduce conscription - everyone is forced to be prime minister in turn, at gun point

Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud

Re: energy storage ... pulling a train of concrete blocks ...

Simpler version, just cut out the water and lift the mountain

Re: towed to the top of a hill before the brakes were released.

Similarly there is an energy storage scheme with an electric locomotive running up a mountain to an abandoned mine pulling a train of concrete blocks.

Off peak it is driven up the hill and then comes back down to generate peak power

towed to the top of a hill before the brakes were released.

So a zero emission vehicle powered by its attraction to Mother Earth - how much more green can you get ?

Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

Re: "something only 15 percent of boomers and 31 percent of Gen X admitted to"

I am informed by the passing millennial gen-z toddler that it is spelt "L33T"

Re: "something only 15 percent of boomers and 31 percent of Gen X admitted to"

Obviously I don't really use "Password" you have to use P@ssw0rd like the leet haxorz

Re: "something only 15 percent of boomers and 31 percent of Gen X admitted to"

My home system doesn't require me to change the password every 90days, so I don't need to use Password1,2,3 etc like i do at work

Re: Meh

Possibly a difference between some of us whose first meeting with a computer was a terminal at university with a username and a password and permissions and a big scary BOFH. And the younglings who have been used to clicking OK on their phones to get the new shiny since they were toddlers.

Now get off my virtual lawn you whippersnappers.

Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'

Re: I don't disagree, but

Not necessarily, for a SAAS software company they have the expertise to run their own hardware in-house, it's a core part of their business

That doesn't mean it makes sense for a widget maker to run basecamp software in-house

IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

Re: Show us the metrics

IBM was also much more profitable before the internet. So they should just disconnect all their employees and they will go back to the profitability of the 60s/70s

CISA warns of security holes in industrial Advantech, Hitachi kit

I'm assuming that following this revelation, all Japanese electronic equipment will be removed from our core telecoms infrastructure ?

SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies

Re: Easier isn't easy, or fast

The planes already have in-flight wifi that you pay for (or get a points deal)

But that normally uses links to ground cell networks, this works over the ocean or over desolate wastelands like Greenland/Canada/Lincolnshire

Re: REgulatory Approval

If the plane already has approved wifi then an external antennae that isn't safety critical is a lot easier to approve.

Especially for a narrow beamed system like SpaceX

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

>Good grief. Why would you want to live in Birmingham and commute to London?

You don't have to want to:

If you are a property developer anywhere along the HS2 line you made $$$$ and so you show your appreciation at party funding time.

If you are a home owner anywhere along the HS2 line, then the property website tells you that your house is now worth 50% more and so you show your appreciation come election day

>There are various economic benefits

Doubling house prices in Birmingham by making it a London commuter zone is an economic benefit for some (and presumably turns those people into a political benefit) but it's not clear that its a national benefit

Children should have separate sections in social media sites, says UK coroner

Even if the age verification could be made to work - this is the wrong approach.

If you are a company that markets to kids; Facebook/Youtube/tik-tok you will lobby and work around it.

If you aren't then its safer to just ban under18s. Why would Nadella risk fines + jail time because some Mary Whitehouse type finds rude words on a github comment. Safer just to ban kids from github, Same for el'reg, or stackoverflow or any other professional tech site.

They can learn all this computer stuff once they turn turn 18 and enter the workforce

Re: If government wants to enforce it, they should provide the verification

> I don't know what sort of promises that company makes ...... But I imagine the government holds them to SOME standards,

Hey do you need a bridge? I have one going cheap !

Re: Meta tells The Reg it's working on parental controls

Can't the reg develop its own parental controls? Perhaps a set of age appropriate questions?

Mumps is:

1, A disease you used to get in the olden days

2, The vaccine that mum thinks caused me to like computers

3, Arggh no, please don't make me touch it , no please arghhhhh

A Gender changer is:

1, That theatre studies kid that insists on being called them.

2, Woke rubbish from these tofu eating gruniad readers

3, Look I was born DTE and I'm not becoming DCE for anyone

>- or just mailicious on a societal scale.

I hope that wasn't intended to cause distress to the Prime of Ministers voter citizen ?

Re: “nudge them towards different content”

Precisely, it was the sort of mind warping filth we should keep from our children.

I grew up reading Enid Blyton and Sven Hassel - but we didn't have internet back then so I'm normal

Re: “nudge them towards different content”

There will be. If it becomes impossible to prevent under 18s accessing unsuitable material (like the Java Programming Manual) we will have to get rid of the 'adult' books. If we burn them for warmth we can also solve the energy crisis

Re: borrow your parents' credit card (or ID)

Possession of a VPN will be illegal since it's only purpose is to break the law protecting children.

You aren't against protecting children are you citizen ?

Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions

Re: What they have; with "reasonable accommodation"

My Samsung washing machine came with a 10year warranty on the drum motor - but not on the motor controller PCB

Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years

Re: Overvalued by people who don't know what they were valuing

> Sun's market valuation at peak

"At peak" for a HW company in a niche market.

Would you have paid 10x earnings for ARM in 1993?

Re: Overvalued by people who don't know what they were valuing

>We had the dotcom bubble. This is the AI and ML bubble.

And yet we now have ubiquitous internet and smart phones, instant virtual finance services and online delivery of every product we use .

US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors

Re: Suspenseful silence

Stellerators. Tokamaks are good research tools because they are easy to design with 1960s technology.

But they are a bit crap for power station use, for example they can't produce power continually.

The problem is that because they are simple to make work that are what most large projects settle on because you can't take a risk on a multi $Bn project.

So ITER is like what happens if, in the 1930s, you create an international project to invent the transatlantic aircraft for the next 50 years - and you agree to build a giant airship because that's what everyone agrees is a trusted design.

>How much ... tritium is there in the world, not a lot

And less every 12 years