Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

No longer prepared to svn commit: WebKit migrates to GitHub

Re: Apple stepping back?

Especially since they are effectively handing over control to Microsoft.

Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

Re: If only

If you are deciding who is a criminal by measuring skulls ....

Re: If only

> I ask that you first give a definition of Nazi that doesn't boil down to "whomever I say it is".

What about: I want the government to remove/discourage/exterminate group X because they are inherently inferior to group Y which I happen to have been born into,

ps. If you are thinking. I think that and I'm not a Nazi, I have news for you !

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

Re: an account number was accidentally entered into the payment amount field

> did anyone think of adding validation to confirm large transfers?

It asked them to re-enter the number without spaces - and they did

>How did she ever expect to keep the money?

If she'd been richer and the bank had accidentally paid her $900M she could have kept it.

Re: If the transfer had been cryptocurrency

Presumably held her indefinitely for content of court until she handed over the password.

Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

Re: IBM are dead

At least Oracle don't discriminate in hiring the Dammed, Zombies and other members of the undead and soul-free communities.

Re: Shareholders need to clean house

Why this is exactly in shareholders interest.

IBM is transitioning to support of legacy installations and government jobs where they are the only approved supplier.

Eventually they will just be a patent troll.

To do this they need a few cheap salespersons in the customer country and a bunch of report generators in a cheap country.

The board achieving this at the cost of a few small fines rather than $$$ in redundancy is money in the shareholders pockets.

Re: Constructive dismissal? That's exactly what it is.

I don't know if it applies to a company as large as IBM but in the USA companies more directly pay for unemployment if they fire staff. So it's in a company's interest to argue that you quit or were fired for cause and get you denied unemployment

Re: IBM are dead

>the Exec bastards who caused this will simply move on and burn somewhere else down for self profit.

Let it be Oracle, let it be Oracle

Re: Constructive dismissal? That's exactly what it is.

'Other roles as required'

Hey programmer you are now a 'hands-on customer service role' in a brothel we own in Cambodia

Well ... looks like you just resigned then

The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing?

Re: I see what it means...

There is a 'plan' but it involves simulations in the very well understood and well tested field of very-vary-large structures hitting the upper atmosphere at hypersonic speed.

Then even if that does what the software says, the bits with the biggest motors with the most control get splattered first leaving you with less and less control as the orbit gets less well predicted

Finally you lose comms to the remaining motors before you need to use those motors, so you pre-program a burn and hope that you got it right

>But wouldn't they fall asleep as soon as they got cold?

You just keep the spaceship pointing at the sun.

That's why you sent dogs into space and not cats, the cats would just find the ray of sunlight and go to sleep

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

That's the nice thing about building codes, they are 10x overspecced for somethings while hopeless inadequate for others - but they are the rules so what can you do?

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

You would just need an International Building Code for software. The spec says that apps must be 640K and that remains the law until every jurisdiction and every professional body agrees to a change

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

But if everyone who uses computers professionally is required to have certification then it wouldn't expire.

As long as you keep paying your PEng subs they aren't coming round to make you re-take any exams.

After all if a civil engineer can graduate and then keep stamping drawings for 40years why would that be different for software?

>Are you trying to say we have other people up there, just not ones that have been publicly acknowledged?

That's why you never see Lizard People astronauts - even though they would make much better astronauts than mammals.

Re: I see what it means...

>While the end-of-life drill for the ISS is very clean

Erm possibly, the ISS isn't exactly manouvaerable once it starts to re-enter and big bits with communications break off from the big bits with motors and the big heavy bits that are going to reach the ground in one piece

Re: A strange set of priorities

>There's very little value in getting from London to Canada in 3hrs

Because Concorde is so important we need a special extra security line so please arrive at the airport 3Hours in advance

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

So people with a PEng know how to make perfectly engineered software?

Or does this just mean that you have to pay 1K/year for a MSCE certificate and all software is Excel macros?

Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find

Re: Nhs can do one

My clinical results, my conclusions on salt / alcohol / smoking effect on health. I'll not share that with you peasants.

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Re: 13GW

A lot of reservoirs in California were covered in black plastic balls to stop evaporation

Of course it turns out that making 100Million plastic balls uses a lot of oil / energy /water - but if you are building the solar panels anyway

Re: 372 miles

So instead of kwh/kgal would kg/m/s^2 make more sense ?

Chips still down for Toyota: Low semiconductor supplies dampen output

Re: As expected with Just In Time

The problem is that, unless you make everything in house and just stockpile silicon+steel, you need a year's stock of every single component - so why not just build a year's production of finished cars and park them in a field 'just in case'.

This is obviously insane, but it also doesn't make sense to have a months stock of just 1 component out of 10,000. So all you can do is a risk assessment on every component and ever input into every component and the shipping risks for every component.

Re: As expected with Just In Time

>the ludicrous customs setup the UK has imposed on itself.

What customs? British cars will be built with British computers made with British brass gears made by the British Babbage computer company

LG makes a TV roughly the size of a queen-sized bed

So this box just contains 12Million pixels and an Allen key ?

Missing

The most important number ?

Germany orders Sept 1 shutdown of digital ad displays to save gas

Re: Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine,

'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.'

Re: Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine,

>How could we have a legal Russian invasion of Ukraine?

You get a Papal banner then it's a Holy War and any infidels you kill don't count toward God's naughty list.

Re: Energiewende...

You aren't thinking in 4D chess like a politician.

Liz Truss want's to be Thatcher, but is the exact opposite of Thatcher (cf Boris != Churchill)

So logically Truss will re-open all t'pits, recreate the NUM and presumably resurrect Scargill

>visible from a kilometer away when you drive into Luxembourg city.

"Abandon Hope All Ye Who enter Here" ?

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

Re: Just remember...

On the other hand your backups are never bad if you don't look

Re: Hardly on topic

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Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant

Re: USA national debt

If you want politicians to do what you want - simply pay for them

Re: Oops, I misread The Headline

Has anyone seen a copy of Boris's birth certificate ?

>They may have trouble getting skilled staff there.

Hence their plan to reintroduce 'lifetime unpaid internships', combined with 'free relocation packages from W Africa'

Re: Why should taxpayers subsidize big business

Well if you wanted grants why didn't you just get off your butt and offer all the local politicians non-exec directorships to help them believe your claims of 1000s of jobs to revive the Nevada deep sea fishing industry

Re: Oops, I misread The Headline

Upto now the US market has been dominated by large, noisy, inefficient, polluting presidents. But recent trends suggest this has gone too far and people now want smaller stylish european style presidents with lower emissions.

Since they aren't allowed to import them from Canada, America is now trying to manufacture them locally

US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all

Re: So the USA will save $800M

Well done. Do you want a cabinet post ?

Re: So the USA will save $800M

Eu unlikely, Elsevier and Springer-Verlag have a substantial 'taking politicians out for lunch' budget.

Post-Brexit UK has a more out-of-the-box solution to the problem of access to public funded scientific research

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

Re: Hmm

You don't have hot, cold and sparkling taps?

Re: If only

Train a dolphin to hit the big red button

Re: Hosepipe bans

It's also a fear that you are going to get ripped off later.

Suppose next year they introduce special emergency drought rates that 10x your costs 'due to the emergency'

They introduced smart electric meters here which potentially allow them to adjust the electricity rates in real time to match the market price. Coincidentally the standard fixed consumer rate is often less than the spot price that they could sell our green hydroelectricity to California. But I'm sure they won't take advantage of this

Re: A quarter?

But they need those for the 670,000 sharks ?

A lot of USA areas ban clothes lines because they are for poor people and so lower house prices

Re: Hosepipe bans

The problem is that almost all the cost in water supplies are fixed, it costs money to run the pipes even if you use no water.

So either you have bills with a large fixed service charge and trivial usage rates or you charge for usage based on the expected average and then end up massively overcharging anyone who uses more, such as families with kids.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on track for August 29 liftoff

Re: Conflicted.

Science and space research is really worth it - it's not clear that this means the SLS is really worth it.

eg. Vaccine research is vitally important. So we made a single diamond-encrusted gold LamborghiniPickup Truck and gave it to the director of CDC, so we have "invested" $Bn in vaccine research

Re: time and money

And IIRC adapting the surplus, reusable shuttle engines into these non-reusable engines costs more per engine than they originally cost to build

Huawei CEO reportedly puts company in survival mode

Re: Maybe if...... .

2 years ago Huawei was a front for the Chinese secret service and so the boss of Huawei is presumably just a puppet of Chinese communism - but now he is a prophetic warning of capitalism's decline