Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Re: Jesus

Britain landed a vehicle on Mars.....

Re: Jesus

I know the reg has been forced to accept American spelling but I hoped it at least used British sarcasm.

In a story that came down to 'Chinese build a plane but it will be crap cos they aren't Americans' I didn't think it needed the icon

NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt

Cos in this economy rocket engineers would forced to beg on the street.

If NASA are paying enough to attract engineers from the real world they are causing worker shortages and inflation. Cancellation of SLS is equivalent to building a new Caltech

Twitter whistleblower Zatko disses bird site as dysfunctional data dump

That's which we make foreign billionaires become citizens before controlling media empires. So that they are then aligned with the good of the nation and would never broadcast anything harmful

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

Re: What Could be Useful for the Farmers ...

Or more worryingly is in a city 2 hours drive away and has an area the size of a european country to cover and isn't due to your farm for 4-6 weeks and it's the middle of harvest

Re: Protectionism

If you pander to them they'll never learn

That was GE's problem, GE capital was the only bit that made any money so they stopped investing in all hat tedious making engines business. Then when the financial crisis happened and GE Capital was in trouble the whole company had to be 'rescued' so we still had engines

Re: What Could be Useful for the Farmers ...

This isn't a problem of modern engines needing computers. This is deliberate user fee lockin. The filter needs to be swapped every X hours then the engine will stop at X hours until the official service agent has swapped the filter and reset the clock.

But of course this isn't a user fee per X hours, it's genuinely that a filter lasts precisely X hours in all circumstances and can only be swapped by the official service agent.

Re: Embrace, Extend, Extract

>It's weird that a company is able to build a single model of tractor, and sell it with different licenses controlling the power output

That's legitmately the one good use for DRM.

Build 6 different models of engine, each with it's own emissions certification and set of spare parts = higher cost for all models, more expensive maintenance, longer waits for parts VS build one model and sell the power output the customer wants.

Re: John Deere

And that's why we need to ban Japanese and Korean companies from importing vital agricultural equipment <waves American flag> <applause>

Only tractors?

'Cause I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the encryption key

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers races to break ground in Texas before tax breaks dissolve

Re: Good luck finding Water

You only need water and electricity to operate a fab

If you can get a tax break for simply building a building, or promising to build a building, or laying out the marker tape for a building and arrange a ribbon and a silver spade for a political photo op.

Presumably NVidia can just render a CEO and politician into a ground breaking ceremony entirely in a GPU

New startup idea

Following privatised space we can have privatised ICBMs. In orbit is a network of fabs, car plants, bank head offices and movie production companies packaged in cube SATs.

On a message from the appropriate stock market they can fire their retro rockets and break ground anywhere on earth in 4minutes

FCC Commissioner demands review of Starlink rural broadband subsidies

Re: Good! Give the money to Starlink!

No between their subsidised unused roads, subsidised water and power, subsidies to farmers and federal help every time a natural disaster strikes they hate government hand outs

Re: Good! Give the money to Starlink!

Or, and this is a stretch, the government could pay for the fibre and own it and let any telco pay to use it.

Some sort of ultrastructure if you like

Re: Quite Impressive

Guessing the fibre was already installed it just took a few weeks to persuade local telco that there is fibre and please turn it on

Re: Quite Impressive

Yes the kit works, the question is whether it's a good public investment.

Essentially give Starlink a guaranteed subsided business to supply certain rural areas with a service that works from day one, but might not be as great in 5years VS run fibre which can be expanded and improved and supply fast service for decades.

It's like for some remote rural areas it might make more sense to pay a local taxi company rather than run a bus, but it wouldn't necessarily be the best thing to give UBER a $Bn instead of building a subway.

Biden administration prepares to bring hammer down on Chinese chipmakers

Re: Graft

I quite liked their minimalist monochrome scheme. Any patriotic american 2nd amendmentists want to pop over to blighty and continue the revolution?

Re: Well Murica... if Sanctions are working so well...Why do you need more?

The thing about Chinese propaganda is 30minutes later you want some more.

Re: Isn't this going to make the chip shortage worse?

>Correct me if i am wrong or misinformed, but is there not a chip shortage? If so then wouldn't this worsen it?

But only for cheap Chinese versions of cutting edge chips that they don't make yet.

What's important for national security is that China won't be able to develop next generation AI supercomputer GPU chips that are used in imaginary next generation weapons.

Fortunately all the chips that are actually used in deployed systems were designed 10-20 years ago and are made in China using 10-20 year old fabs

Boffins build microphone safety kit to detect eavesdroppers

Re: LG TV calling home

So that 70s public information ad about 'the TV set should be unplugged last thing every night...bedtime routine' is back but so a Korean chaebol can't spy on you rather than shoddy British electronics burning down your house

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: The original girl boss

Was assaulted, went on a revenge tour of burning undefended cities, got trounced as soon as an army turned up.

Not really a Helen Mirren/Judy Dench worthy role compared to Liz 1's clever management

And don't call me Shirley

Re: The original girl boss

"The original girl boss"

Wouldn't that be Elizabeth I ?

Re: She was a good one

Well the cabinet are cheaper than the Mock the Week cast, and now much funnier

Re: ta ta Liz

"Now there is a weekend of pointlessly cancelled events which is going to cost millions."

But that is deflationary, and with the UK heading toward "money in a wheelbarrow" territory...

Re: ta ta Liz

>The monarch's powers are limited to the point of being nothing.

Depends on how popular you are.

I suspect you would have to be a rather more beloved leader than Ms Truss to survive introducing a bill so bad it caused an abdication.

Re: ta ta Liz

President Michael Palin and Prime Minister David Mitchell, chancellor Jimmy Carr, with Frankie Boyle as Scotland's 1st minister and Alexei Sayle as leader of the opposition

Re: Faster than light communication

No Monarchs aren't quantum cos you can measure their state of monarchy without collapsing them.

Now if you put a prince in a dungeon with a 50:50 chance of dying.... Poor old Richard III was just trying a simple experiment and yet he gets all the bad press.

Re: She was a good one

Cheese - and.that.is.a.disgrace

Re: She was a good one

>He was a hedonist because he had nothing to do because Vicky thought he was a hedonist

But a great one for Anglo-French relation and an innovator when it came to chairs

Re: She was a good one

English democracy once more crushed by Scottish imperialistic aggression

Re: ta ta Liz

>The other half who are struggling working 2/3 jobs to feed their children

And their life would be improved if some former colonial governor or retired ambassador was a figurehead President in Buck House?

Re: Goodbye Elizabeth II

>so they rebranded in 1917

Hanging on until it was clear which way the match was going - or just a lot of paperwork ?

Re: Titles not necessarily constant

A few English kings got killed by their relatives.

While in Scotland no king seems to have survived any family reunion.

Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230

Re: Publishers and platforms

> And they can censor whatever they want, based on criteria that they don't even have to publish, much less defend.

El'reg's total lack of coverage of my daughter's school play shows their frankly ageist and misogynistic censorship of a challenging work of art

Re: Publishers and platforms

And 230means they can remove them without a court deciding a specific post is illegal.

I can't see how, without access to a burning bush, you allow only true posts on your platform. I suppose math forums might be safe.

Re: Publishers and platforms

That's what section 230 currently covers.

If usenet took down one child porn or terrorism post, then they would no longer be a platform and would be liable for somebody saying something hurtful about your dog

Section 230 allows a platform to block some posts without becoming a publisher.

NASA just weeks away from trying again with SLS Moon rocket launch

Sorry, brian failure, Ariane 5 (and 6) uses LH2/O2 1st stage

>I'm not sure it was designed for any particular people;

It was totally designed around particular people

The whole point of going to the moon is to show off America Great

The original landings have faded a little, and the message of "during Vietnam and race riots at home we sent a bunch of white male fighter jocks to the moon" doesn't have quite the PR spin it had in the 60s

So NASA is going to put a women and person-of-color in the sequel. Although I suspect both will be ex-fighter jocks, unless they can find a way of not needing Navy cooperation in the recovery

>SLS is also a lot bigger and heavier, with a lot more propellant than rockets like Ariane V or Long March 5

In addition these use Kerosene first stages and onyl uses H2 for in-space stages where you really care about performance/weight

SLS uses a H2 1st stage because of 50 years of expediency to get something working quickly and cheaply.

Shape-shifting cryptominer savages Linux endpoints and IoT

Re: Show Me The Way To Go Home.

Of course they do. I'm assistant technician (3rd class) in charge of Nest thermostats. Although all changes to temperature settings must be approved by a weekly committee meeting.

PS wonder if the automatic downvote on everypost I've ever made following a comment on the QE2 thread is manual or a bot. Will see how long it takes for thus to get noticed

FCC floats 'five-year rule' for hoovering up space junk

>It would take more than a rocker motor. They'd also have to have a guidance computer for that motor.

Guidance software:

1: rocket point forward,

2: rocket burn until rocket runs out or rocket burns up

Elon Musk claims SpaceX was in talks with Apple on iPhone 14 satellite services

With a slightly improved beam forming 5G antennae, perhaps requiring the phone to be flat or pointed in the right direction it might be possible in the future for some bandwidth data link. IIRC a bunch of these space internet companies have "demonstrated" this.

You can see how SpaceX would love this, a billion potential customers that they don't need to supply H/W to.

Whether that bandwidth is worth the cost for non-emergency use? If you have internet but can't do spotify or netflix or tiktok is there any point ? (kids today!)

Re: Let's turn this one around a bit..

You have to jump through some pretty big hoops to get a satellite signal.

So if the domestic terrorist patriot is prepared to closely follow the onscreen instructions and keep the phone pointed at the satellite for 5-15mins then the MMB will know their location, but probably only to a 100km from a single pass fix (in use the phone sends it's local GPS location as part of the SAR message)

Re: Only marginally useful

>If you actually had a need, you would already be using one.

Satellite beacons are $500+ and a $100-200/year subscription.

People that really need them have them, but your average hiker outside Alaska probably doesn't have one - but might need one.

It's like a life jacket vs a immersion suit, everyone on the water has a life jacket, those that really need one has a survival suit but your average jetskier doesn't. This gives everyone a free immersion suit.

Using the datacenter as a dining room destroyed the platters that matter

Re: Argus 1000?

Why, were they only 12 bit ?

>With their powerful air conditioning, server rooms can be great places to dry wet clothes.

Or if you were a startup without fancy air conditioning, the hot racks of servers were a great place to dry wet cycling gear.

The cloud does not produce toasty socks and warm dry shoes.

Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

Re: Pihole, all the way

Surprisingly it does if you aren't logged in on YouTube.

Pihole + brave + not logged into Google = no ads,

Although you have to manually check for new videos from your fav channela