Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Cult leader meets the Pope: Apple CEO chats to Francis

Re: the maker's representative?

Aren't they the market leaders ?

Re: Cult leader meets cult leader...

And the bread and wine, don't forget the wine - that's one thing we'd really miss if the catholics left

Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization

Firing admin / services staff that can be replaced by cheaper contract labour - which is why the union cares.

While hiring engineers to make the company more money

Samsung dreams of 2nm chips in 2025, 1.4nm by 2027

Re: Be quick

>I thought Apple were already a major customer of Samsung

Everyone is a major customer of Samsung, including Samsung.

Nobody is happy about it, including Samsung.

If you want to know what your iPhone would be like if it used vacuum tubes (ie valves) see the great what if...2

Re: cleanrooms first ... fabrication equipment to be swiftly installed

Semiconductor engineers would just fill the room with acid to etch the concrete then fill with more concrete

If you want cheaper/smaller/faster computers, yes

Elon Musk tells Twitter: My takeover deal is back on

hmm

1, Make public offer to buy a company for a weed joke price

2, Message boss of company slagging it off, using company's own product

3, Claim you never said any of it when price tanks

4, Profit ?

I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps this isn't the world's smartest businessman ?

FCC takes on robotexts. Good news if your dad thinks IRS gives SMS rebates

Re: What about all those "give us money to save america" texts ?

Sure just contribute to my campaign to block political spam.

Just send money ($ for preference, no pounds please) to 1-555-NOTSCAM

Online romance scamlord who netted $9.5m jailed for 25 years

What an idiot

If only he had started a Political Action Committee people could have sent him money for lies all day - legally

EU semiconductor investment not nearly enough, warns chip boss

Re: Suggested generic headline

Surely what business are saying is that this industry is far too large and important to be funded by risk capital and the only solution is nationalisation

Re: "I don't think people realize how much investment chip fabrication requires"

Which is why non of these plants will be built here.

On the one hand we have a multi Bn euro investment in a strategic product vital to all modern life, on the other we have the committee to save the lesser spotted stickleback.

(The CTSTLSS is not affiliated with the committee to stop any more building or traffic anywhere near our nice £1M homes)

Re: Shock

But now we control our own beaches, which is where the silicon comes from.

And the new science minister/pub landlord informs us that chips are important and the British seaside are experts in chips

Remote work wipes $453b off office real estate

In the words of Nelson Munce

Ha...Ha....

FBI: We tracked who was printing secret documents to unmask ex-NSA suspect

But this guy didn't get to hire his own judge

Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo

Re: That was close

although penguins are susceptible to fishing scams

Windows wmf vector drawing files let you embed commands directly

So you could start a file with "# format c:" and the opening the file would do that

Re: Trusted hosts

Github is unlikely to be blocked by corporate firewalls. An app downloading from malware.filehosting.kp is likely to generate more suspicion

China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech

Re: Torn

But how did they find out about this technology to license it ?

Once something is patented it is secret and nobody can ever use it again, ever

NASA, SpaceX weigh invoking Dragon to take Hubble higher

Re: Insufficicent

Unfortunately it's a bit nonlinear. NASA guestimates somewhere 2030-2040, depends on 'space weather' ie. how exciting the sun gets.

Re: why stop there?

At that point just launch a new telescope.

If you have SpaceX launch costs then building a dozen 2m class missions with a single instrument doesn't look as crazy

Re: Insufficicent

Boosting it would at least mean not worrying for a few years.

You could also for a finite amount of money add a module to the docking ring with a self contained pointing system, with its own reaction wheels - the mechanical parts that are failing on Hubble. That could be done easily by a remote pod, like the auto iss cargo pods

Chipmakers cut output, investment – but government bucks never go out of style

Re: Yup

So if you were an organisation with a long time horizon and the ability to make your own money - this might be a really good time to invest in building plants which wont come online for 2-3 years.

Rather than waiting for the next crisis and hoping that pouring billions into it will allow a 9 million women to produce a baby in 1 day

Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage

came to rest on an overhead power line.

And was immediately cremated.

But given that this is Australia, landing on a 11,000V is probably still safer than being on the ground with snakes/spiders/sheep

Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future

Re: The horse has bolted...

>You can use the land between the turbine bases for other things like farming.

What about the number of migratory pigs impacted by the turbine blades

Re: 1.2 million kilowatts

The Japanese really like tea so, like all civilised countries, they calibrate their power stations in 3 KW kettles

At least they didn't say 30 million kWH/day

Re: Over-reaction much?

They are talking about putting reactors in underground bunkers so terrorists can't fly planes into them.

Over-reaction much?

"The companies want to reduce the reactor's probability of sustaining damage to less than 1 percent of current models by installing it underground "

Hopefully they are applying the same rules to office towers in Tokyo

HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust

Re: $25 for what?

Our grandparents had steam trains, radio and rickets to be nostalgic about - we get ZIP drive's click of death

Re: $25 for what?

>And in any case my HDDs don't click, they just hum gently

They just ain't got no rhythm.

How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms

Re: "Investigative research group Bellingcat"

>MI5 claimed credit in a public speech afterwards for the wholesale dismantling of the Russian propaganda front story,

You mean those 2 Russian agents weren't really cathedral enthusiasts visiting Salisbury?

What a brilliant piece of intelligence work.

Next they will be uncovering who the enemy were in WWII

Re: Who cares about the treacherous.

Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshall Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.

General Melchett: Filthy hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!

Captain Darling: And fortunately, one of our spies...

General Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for Blighty!

Re: "more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012"

Well by that point all their highly trained KGB senior officers had retired and the new bosses were presumably all Al Qaeda agents

So which is worse

That CIA, MI5, etc are all operating at about the level of efficiency you would expect from the driving licence agency

OR all the official intelligence agencies are just a bluff to cover up the fact that there is some real secret government organisation (probably the MMB) that is so good at spying you've never heard of it?

Pentagon is far too tight with its security bug bounties

It's not just about the money

It's also that if you have a name that's hard to pronounce they may just decide that your an enemy spy or if you are brown, a terrorist

Arm founder says the UK has no chance of tech sovereignty

And their solution appears to be to not have an economy

Perhaps for individual personal Menhirs (although there are concerns about the use of performance enhancing drugs) but if you need an installation at the knapping edge of megalithic technology

Re: New EU sancions on Russia

Trebuchets throwing washing machines ?

Re: The UK these days, and for decades

So if they dabbed the chip locally most if the value would be in the silicon not the IP, and they would be a manufacturer?

Re: Herr Hauser Surely you Beau Gest

No, Marx went to Manchester to learn how Britain's "innovation first" approach to employment law led to great leaps forward in opportunity and worker conditions

Re: The UK these days, and for decades

Manufacturing doesn't have to involve cast iron these days

Abacus ? Filthy foreign stuff. When we are the world leaders in stone circles and are ready to export them to anywhere that stones can be dragged.

UN's ITU election may spell the end of our open internet

Re: Why Russia

When Britain was made a permanent member in 1945 it still had an empire with many more people under its wise and benevolent guidance than the USSR ever managed.

OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others

Re: Art history class

That is the big advantage of famous art as an investment - there is no way for a human artist to produce works indistinguishable from other famous works

Post-Brexit 'science superpower' UK still hasn't appointed a science minister

Alternatively the finance experts had a meeting with her, concluded that she was going to do something really financially stupid for ideological reasons and they all put their bets in.

Is the PM being a right wing idiot committed to supporting the rich really inside information ?

Re: Plenty of potential candidates to choose from

>She'll be off to the Lords courtesy of Boris' resignation "honours" list

As I believe the youth of today say: "for the lulz ?"

Re: Give them a chance

So ironically money with a man on it is only worth 75% as much as the same money with a woman ?

Why is crashing the pound a problem?

So long as you got your trade in, you made out like a bandit. And all your real wealth is in $ in some sunnier island.

Ever suspected bankers used WhatsApp comms at work? $1.8b says you're right

>Also some of the traders at my place have historically been so stupid

Repeat after me: do the illegal shit on the phone with the red cover, do the ordinary work on the phone with the blue cover.