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Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

Re: Nuclear power is neither clean nor safe

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Cost of living crisis less of problem for tech pro retirees than others

I never wanted to be in IT

I wanted to be .... a .... lumberjack

" so those coming out of retirement will have to spend some time swotting up"

Yes if you want to come out of retirement and compete with all the other 19 year olds to be a $VERB$.js developer

If you want to fight off all the recruiters desperate for COBOL, FPGAs, MFC and even C++ experience - or just any developer that can do maths beyond reaching for a calculator

Re: The 41k sweet spot

>trying to earn £70k by spending countless hours "upping my skills",

The bad (or good?) part is that you don't - you get £70k by moving to London and working in finance

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Re: Just a quite helicopter

Yes like jet airlines are just a flying ocean liner that lets the rich get to America quicker

Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry

Government grants to industry

Why that's practically communism

Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

Oracle License

Just remember to uncheck the "first born child" and "immortal soul" sub-paragraphs in page 347 of the EULA

California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles

Re: Can someone explain to me what these are for? it sounds very james bond...

Presumably these can be manufactured by Chinese prisoners at lower cost

It's not married to the towing unit, trailers can be quite promiscuous and swap towing partners freely.

Not everyone has access to the UK technology of "a bit of cardboard with the tow vehicles number in marker pen"

or "; DROP TABLE offenders;--," ?

Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike

Re: German Visa Office.

>Although, as Russia did not claim to have targeted the building (it wasn't even directly hit), it probably wouldn't be considered an act of war against Germany unless in - the extremely improbable - case Germany wanted it to be so

Like the USA accidentally bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline

Re: It’s annoying…

Or fewer targets. How do you knock out North Korea's social media sites?

Re: It’s annoying…

However if you happen to work at a Russian centrifuge plant it might not be a good idea to pick up any USB flash drives you find in the parking lot.

Re: Sounds like a load of bluster

But suppose they escalated this to taking out the customer support sites of our telecoms infrastructure ?

How do you protect your online systems? Cultivate an insider threat

BOFH solution

xkcd.com/538

Rivian recalls nearly every vehicle it has sold

Re: Ford (Found On Roadside Dead)

Rental agencies demand bottom of the barrel specs - because only cost matters

Car makers build crappy quality vehicles because they are going to be changed out after 9 months and the rental company is only buying on price.

And of course nobody's first experience of driving new model XYZ is based on having rented one ....

Rookie programmer's code goes up in flames ... kind of

Re: Is this me or not?

>The process you put in last week failed? Hmm, well there was failure on a AD server 4 years ago right?". WTF?!

Probably went to Catholic school.

To a 5year old: you spilled your milk? Well some Jewish trouble maker got nailed to a tree 2000 years ago because of you !

Re: Was the update deployed? Or not?? If so, When?

Although presumably they do it by accident while trying to do something else

Linus Torvalds's faulty memory (RAM, not wetware) slows kernel development

Re: Macbook?

Have any alternative high performance consumer ARM system to test on?

Or you could only do builds on Intel and hope the code is portable.

IIRC the emperor penguin used to do builds on a PowerPC for similar reasons

Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

> some liberal policies similar to MAGA

Tough on muslims/women/gays/blacks, tough on the causes of muslims/women/gays/blacks ?

Re: Let's remember Trumpf lost the popular vote *twice*

You should have done what we did.

Have a referendum with FPTP and a laundry list of alternative systems and then claim that the result was no clear preference for one of the alternatives

I know Trump accused her of being a Chinese agent, but i'm not sure even the former President Accused Senator McConnell of being a democrat

Re: Let's remember Trumpf lost the popular vote *twice*

>The electoral college prevents the very densely populated (mostly coastal) cities from dominating the process, and rightly so. The US presidential election is not a popular vote.

That's why the only sensible solution is one state-one vote

Why should California and New York dominate when N. Dakota has as much right?

In fact we could stop people in big cities, like Washington, voting at all !

Re: Does it even matter anymore?

>Now if I wanted to do as much damage to the US as possible I'd leave them to it, adopting a strictly hands-off policy.

Or at least I wouldn't care who won and wouldn't try and change who won - but I would put a lot of effort into making it so that a large bit of the population don't believe it

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

Re: Binance’s CEO, reiterated the apology and claimed everyone's money is OK

If a real bank loses $600m the government pays up.

If a magic beans store fintech loses $600m, you better hope they can create some more magic beans coins

I feel sorry for

The left-behind generation of bank robbers being forced back into the workforce by the recession

Good old east-end blokes (played by Michael Caine or Timothy Spall) who spend all week tunnelling into a bank vault or at home sawing off shotguns to rob a bank for less than the cost of the getaway Ford Transit

Then there's the poor old Sweeney, they don't get to leap out of Ford Cortinas and shout 'your nicked' to the aforementioned old lags.

People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis

Re: Not great news for youngsters

Coming over 'ere with their fancy beakers....

Re: Not great news for youngsters

>For example, restaurants and other businesses in France can't get staff either,

That's why Brexit is doubly sad. The French are being denied the experience of British chefs

Re: $54K median ... LOL

The average salary in the UK in 2022 is £29,600 per year, so that's $29,600

Re: Not great news for youngsters

>engineers with a laundry list of skills are being offered £20k-£30k

Wasn't that the point of Global Britain? To undercut China with cheaper workers?

Re: Not great news for youngsters

>I hope we aren't letting the Angles totally off the hook.

Obtuse bunch

Re: Not great news for youngsters

>The real problem is that the mismanagement of the Bliar years has created a generation of entitled snowflakes

I think we have accept it's the fault of those lazy Saxons.

The new Norman regime needs to be given some time for its innovative entrepreneurial policies to work.

Re: Not great news for youngsters

If only there was some freedom in the system where the chef could be rewarded in some way to incentivise them to get out of bed and come to work?

Perhaps the movements of small green pieces of paper could be involved?

French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change

Re: If France is in the Eu

>Yes, it would. The business happens where the /customer/ is, not the /seller/.

Although Google's none of our 10,000 sales staff int he UK make any sales, it's all the 3 people in Ireland. Or Apple's that sale in an Apple store on Oxford St actually happened in Ireland - would disagree.

IIRC the fine was for Ireland agreeing to make Apple essentially tax free, which gave the <cough> Irish company <cough> an unfair advantage over other European makes of smart phones.

If France is in the Eu

Does Apple have to actually do business in France?

France has to let the free flow of goods from other members. So if Apple closed its retail stores in France and French consumers just bought their iPhones from apple.be and all the appStore sales happen in Luxembourg anyway - would France have any power over Apple?

Could this be extended to all the US tech giants just moving to 'accommodating' regulatory regimes in Eire, Luxembourg, Malta etc and tell the various governments to swivel ?

If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics

Ironically being demonstrated in the country famed for its DRM defeating tractor firmware hacks

If we could only get the Chinese to spend all their R&D money and science/engineering talent on increasingly complex and expensive weapons systems we could bring down their whole system.

It worked for the USA.

Re: Just team up with John Deere

Except for Ukrainians

Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it

Re: Great! Ignore security until the government pays for it.

The government sets the prices they can charge.

If the prices you can charge the customer is fixed then all you can do is cut costs.

There is no "their money" to pay for cybersecurity - unless you think they should write to all the shareholders (which are pretty much all government pension funds anyway) asking them to each chip in a few bucks

IBM: Hey Joe, we make chips, too. How about some of 'em subsidies?

Re: Memory problems

Yes that's what most companies found and is why TSMC exists. But mist of the fabless companies don't then go to the government demanding hand outs because of a need for more fabs

Re: Memory problems

Yes this funding is for their new cutting edge 2mm fab

Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins

Targeted advertising

Wouldn't this only be visible to humans on planet Earth ?

We feel that this might be too micro-targeted for our brand's needs

Yours insincerely

Marketing Dept

Sirius cybernetics Corporation

***** Go Stick Your Head In A Pig ********************

Charge a future EV in less than five minutes – using literally cool NASA tech

> BTW, how does your EV handle prolonged exposure to heavy rain, water 4 cm deep and 2 km long. Asking for a friend in emergency services

And how does your lifted pickup truck handle meter deep snow and mud, trenches and high velocity anti-tank rounds? Asking for a friend in the 1st Guards Tank Army !

>I'm not sure where you get the 1L petrol is equivalent to 13kWh,

By forgetting to multiply the theoretical energy density of petrol 12.8KWh/kg by the density 0.75kg/l

Then assuming that your car's engine achieves 100% thermodynamic efficiency

Re: Not union, it's the law

>.... aaaand.... that applies to your average commuter

Any pickup truck driver in Houston ?

Hot DRAM, Micron promises $100B for 'largest chip fab in US history'

Re: "Your Tax Dollars at Work"

It's a shame, Detroit produced so many iconic 60s car designs

In the 90s

Re: "Your Tax Dollars at Work"

Still it's nice to see the Americans abandoning the failed capitalism experiment and embracing state owned industry.

Any news on when you all get the shiny biceps ?

Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists

Re: 79, 75, 77

>Quite. Most physicists (probably Nobel Laureates in other disciplines too) ultimately win the prize for their earliest works,

I wonder how much this is true of the work, or does the committee look around and see there was nothing noteworthy+reliable+believable this year (gravitational waves, event horizon telescope, Higgs) and so they dig through the file of old discoveries that haven't been recognised yet ?

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

>I don't think you quite understand what the term "spin" means when applied to sub-atomic particles.

Similarly the thaum is made up of so called resons, which are themselves made up of at least five flavours (including up, down, sideways, sex appeal and peppermint