Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

Re: Advertising weary?

>The web should operate the same way.

With only sites that appeal to the broadest possible market because without targeting they can only attract broadest advertisers who want the blandest content

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

Re: Not my Queen

>It'd be much cheaper to keep a Queen.

For a start you only have to pay them 75% as much

Re: Last meeting of note

>But BoJo will not attend as the current PM.

And so won't turn it into a farcical version of Blair's People's Princess show

Re: Titles not necessarily constant

>James who was the Scottish king at the time, got the throne of England as well.

And ever since, the English have lived under Scottish oppression and so everything bad that has happened since the C16, including the British empire, is the fault of Scotland.

Isn't it about time England got independence?

Re: Coburg-Gotha-von-Battenberg

Yea that doesn't really work logically does it?

The train robbers own lots of used notes that they distribute down the boozer, so it doesn't make sense to abolish bank robbery financially

Re: Coburg-Gotha-von-Battenberg

>The French had the right idea.

A revolution with a peaceful transfer of power that led to a stable republic every since?

Re: Anonymous because "They" are watching...

>Anywho isn't it time we changed to a republic

Except for the idea of Lizz Truss moving into Buck House as President - yes

See the first of Spike Milligan's books for a precise description of army truck driver training, including phonetic swearing

>Head of State in any commonwealth country other than UK

I wonder if one of those regions might not be in a hurry to acclaim Chuck

Re: Last meeting of note

Hanging on until it isn't Bojo at her funeral !

Mandiant ‘highly confident’ foreign cyberspies will target US midterm elections

Re: Mandiant again

Generally my experience of 4legged Americans has been more positive than many of the 2 legged ones.

(With the exception of Moose)

Good luck !

>impersonating US political candidates to push false narrative

Deepfake versions of some politicians would only be an improvement

NASA picks a tailor for Artemis moonwalking suits

Re: " ... land a woman and person of color ... "

>So, between an incompetent black woman and a competent white man we should choose the woman because...?

Lower mass, lower O2 requirement,

Re: Now you think of a suit?

Yes but the program began in 2005, got renamed by Obama and then made biggly-er by Trump

So on a project with a tight deadline and numerous technical challengers I might have looked at some critical bits of technology that haven't been looked at for nearly 60years and which commercial vendors have never had to build. Rather than wait until 2years before I needed them.

Now you think of a suit?

Don't you think they might have looked at a suit design once they decided that walking on the moon might have needed a suit?

Hopefully the splash down in the water contract will be agreed before launch, or at least before spalshdown

Google CEO Pichai: We need to up productivity by a fifth

Re: Big Tech companies should simply divest

Obvious it's even called alphabet.

Just split Google search into 26 different companies and you just go to a different one depending on what initial letter you want to search for

Re: Why?

If they launch 5new ones then cancel one a year later, that's a 20% saving right there

Re: maybe do better before faster

>Most scammers now use Gmail

Cos everyone uses gmail.

That's like saying most scammers use Fujitsu optical fibre

So just fire 20%

Google runs ads for other people's successful business. The ads are priced and sold automatically by a bidding algorithm. It needs a couple of admins to keep the lights on. All Google has to do is reduce it's own costs faster than other successful businesses reduce their ad spend.

US state of Virginia has more datacenter capacity than Europe or China

Re: Oh - the irony

But 40% of the world's banjos ?

Who'd have thunk it

Half the worlds data storage is sited next to the HQs of the spy agencies of the world's only superpower

In other news - West Yorkshire has more Pontefract Cake production than Albania and Zimbabwe combined !

Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board

Re: Space

Or it has to go inside a EMC / dust /waterproof enclosure inside a machine. Then suddenly a motherboard size box inside your Gruntmeister (with an umlaut) 2000 gets surprisingly expensive.

If you want a PC this size and this powerful with a chance they will be around in 10years, look at Shuttle

Google tightens screw on staff expenses as economy slows

>She was able to play bridge quite happily with her regulat group during lockdown

That's the irony, the very standard stuff that biz-dev or legal do is easily handled remotely or by email.

But you can save a lot of time and money by sending an engineer to the site something is being built or installed. The saving from explaining in person to however is assembling it which alignments are critical or discovering that a testpoint is impossible to reach. Saves the cost of the flight.

But for Google with lots of programmers working internally on internal projects I suspect a lot of their travel is of "business vision leaders go to Hawaii for a conference on vision leadership". The best saving is just to never bring these people back.

HR message to all staff

The company is now on the downturn, in a decade we will be IBM, you have no future here.

No more perks, so do just enough not to get fired, leave at 5:00 everyday.

If you have options they aren't going to be worth as much so you can probably write them off rather than having them as golden handcuffs. You're going to be made redundant at 40 anyway, once we hire that ex-IBM CEO

Good job that all Googles senior programmers have no other job opportunities

Microsoft warns of bugs after nation pushes back DST switchover

Re: If DST was a good idea...

They do moving the Avebury stones for British summer time

(Of course they had to pretend it was a joke when news leaked out)

California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings

Re: What are the downsides?

Not revealing the salary is obviously an advantage to the employer

If a candidate asks for less than budget you smile inwardly, if they ask for more you negotiate them down, or your own budget up. This obviously depends on the confidence, experience and other options of the candidate - and so statistically disadvantages disadvantaged groups.

But publishing a range still means that a more desperate candidate will accept the bottom and a privileged one will demand 10% more than the upper limit

Re: What are the downsides?

I can see the point in publishing salaries, then it's easy to see that everyone female or whose name you have to ask how to pronounce seems to be earning less than the white guys. But IIRC this only requires that current salaries/gender/race are reported, not published.

Here the govt jobs paying more than $100K have to have the person's salary published. Then somebody retires after 40years with 12months of unused medical leave that is paid out and the local paper makes a fuss about binman or school caretaker being paid $$$$$$

Re: Will this actually help ?

Unless everyone just takes the piss and quotes $0 to $MAX_INT

Will this actually help ?

For fast-food the salary range will be $minimum wage to $minimum wage+$epsilon and guess what you will be offered?

For professional roles, that I guess this is aimed at, it will say $50K-$120K. And some people will negotiate for 130k and some will accept 50k, and this will be as exactly correlated with race and gender as it is now. The only advantage I can see is that you don't waste time applying for "senior roles" that then offer you $50K

For executive roles it will just say $200K+ options where the options can be worth $0-$MM

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

So we've had enough of experts and enough of idiots?

Exactly who do we replace all civil servants with every election?

Do we vote for them? We could have labour and conservative candidates for your heart surgeon? Or perhaps just blokes from the pub?

Sadly it appears that traditional exports of sarcasm are failing to find markets

Re: Council houses sporting Conservative posters

So if Truss wants to be Thatcher she just has to wait for Labour to build lots of council houses in London. Sell them off to the tenants for pennies, have them become fantastically rich on house price rises and give all the credit to her.

It's not the least credible plan in the last 12years

Re: Opinion polls are looking good.....

Although to be fair Ress-Mogg probably doesn't regard Dublin as a foreign country.

Re: Bye bye BoJo???

If every other ex-PM of a member country were killed in a bizarre group photo incident.

He has more chance of becoming US President than a Brit had of becoming Eu president.

(Shit - I had my hand on the magic monkey paw when I said that)

Re: Please don't take this the wrong way, but

As long as you kill 1/4 of them in safe seats you're fine.

Ideally you kill more of the other lot's pensioners than your own. That's easier if your own pensioners are richer and live in the warmer south

The real problem is that red-wall Tories might be at risk from too many dead poor pensioners in the North.

Perhaps a targeted program of tactical lagging ?

Re: Opinion polls are looking good.....

Keep your business registered in the country where your mates set the rules and taxes, put your money in the place where there might be some worthwhile business being done.

The same reason you register your leaking oil tanker in Liberia ?

Re: I want to be Prime Minister!

Truss's new plan, England threatens to leave UK unless Scotland pays more !

He called on the new prime minister to go further and also resign ?

Re: That's It I'm ....

Finland is also imaginary - and look at their PM !

All the engines are on fire and the pilots are currently battering each with axes - but we are 30,000ft away from having any idea whether this will be a good landing or bad

Dead people could be designated authors of Atlassian Confluence docs and that can't be changed

Re: Slow news day, eh?

He doesn't know because Atlassian's HR system lists everyone as "Employee Name"

If you ignore a problem long enough

It solves itself.

What happens if women ever become programmers? They change their name when they get married.

Can you believe women used to change their name when they got married?

Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech

So what are the causes of these significant delays?

There is no upside if it goes well - the head of the agency doesn't get a bigger yacht, the civil servants don't get stock options and the minister has moved on to another dept.

If it goes at all badly - then the press rip apart the head of dept and the minister responsible, and the current head and minister who had nothing to do with it.

So the only motivation is to avoid every possible point of blame and ideally drag the process out until some new guy is in charge.

NASA sees our space future as both government and privately run

Re: We do what we do, because that's what we do

Obviously actually launching a rocket to the moon is harder than filming it on a sound stage

NATO investigates after criminals claim to be selling its stolen missile plans

Re: literally phishing

There was a story at the end of 2020 that he CIA had suddenly lost a surprising number of agents abroad.

If so Trump should probably stay away from book depositories and there is going to be a long running conspiracy of which government agency wasn't involved in his assassination

Re: Orange is the New Black?

But the empty folders show that there is nothing to investigate.

Like the broken cage that says "Veloceraptor", do see any Veloceraptors? No - so there is nothing to worry about !

Re: I thought Trump Declassified all these documents

Rabbis don't bless things and salt is always kosher.

This is more like Transubstantiation. Through the power vested in him by the ineffable electoral college. Trump was able to miraculously convert the documents into unclassified paper, while to the unbeliever they retain the same mundane physical appearance of highly sensitive national secrets.

It's one of those mysteries of faith (like the popularity of Justin Beiber) that mankind are not meant to understand.

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

Re: far right?

Tough on crusty jugglers, tough on the causes of crusty jugglers.

>posting the addresses of three restaurants in Belfast, and calling for arrangements to be made for them to be bombed.

The IRA have an online booking service now ?

I thought traditionally they phoned the warnings to you, not you to them ?