Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies

You simply buy our new Insurance Risks policy which covers you against your insurance not paying up.

And if you have any concerns about that we have an Insurance Risks Insurance policy .....

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

>8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and carry 154,000 pounds of payload

So setting g=1 really helps

Intel turns to private equity to help pay for new factories

Re: Intel selling tax breaks?

It's a cost if Intel own a fab,. But for an asset manager like Brookfield it's a profit center, they're charging rent.

Of course they both have a bunch of accountants to prove to the IRS they are losing money while proving to the investors they are wildly profitable

Re: Climate

>Why Intel is not focusing on that sector?

For pretty much the same reason that Mclaren isn't concentrating on the vital 3rd world buffalo cart market

Huawei CEO reportedly puts company in survival mode

Re: Could be the best thing to happen to the company

How come we never hear about those great companies that concentrated on cost cutting over investment and growth? Media bias !

US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record

Do you have windshear, or indeed wind, at 60,000 ft ?

Re: SI Police

They're units used in aviation

Re: Hype Aside, the 1959 Cessna 172 record still stands.

I think we lost the ability to file FAA paperwork for low level flying over a truck while grabbing jerry cans from a guy standing on the roof.

Re: High performance sailplanes are like that

So you're suggesting fitting Laser target designators to Albatrosses?

I like it !

Re: It's not 1984. Really. Trust us.

Problem with testing it in realistic conditions over a battlefield is where do you find a suitable enemy?

It counts days and nights

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

Re: Hosepipe bans

And to be fair when the pipes were installed there was no reason to think there would need to be ongoing maintenance. It's only in the last couple of years that anybody has discovered that old pipes leaks

UK government will not step in over Altice’s growing stake in BT

Re: Not surprising

Any chance of letting SNCF buy some privatised rail companies ?

Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstroke

So isn't cost also the solution?

If the data center is overloaded then you charge customers more to be on it or offer discounts to customers to shutdown or move off it.

The customers know best how vital it is for the to be on a data center in central London during a heatwave

Isn't maximizing scarce resources supposed to be what the market is good for?

In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up

Re: From Mssrs Pratchett & Gaimain

We pay $30/radian

Re: From Mssrs Pratchett & Gaimain

>Of course the government could fix this by setting a proper minimum wage,

But where's the fun in that ?

Re: No Good Turn

Back in 2008-9 was working on a bunch of banks "merging" after some of them became "financially complicated"

Drove to their secret underground bunker site. Went through a bunch of serious security and were escorted by security guards to their computer room - where the guards let us in and left.

Spent some time worrying if our liability insurance would cover me if I tripped and ripped out the rats nest of cat-5 cables strung between dozens of servers racked at random around me.

Re: From Mssrs Pratchett & Gaimain

So they should simply have changed to a sensible round number with 256 pennies in a pound. Like the famous bank of Sans Serif dollar

Re: From Mssrs Pratchett & Gaimain

I live in the colonies and refer to them as medieval units.

ps if you think BTU are bad, try working out how many "tons" of AC you need for your server room

Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support

Re: Sed, awk and grep...

Unix - it's all a series of pipes !

Ex-HP finance manager jailed after going on $5m spending spree using company plastic

Re: Tracing??

>anything to do with procurement had at least 4-eyes approval of invoices and payments

They were a PA for executives. You can't have 4 other executives approving every executives expenses processed by their PA

Re: so many mistakes...

Strange how every white collar criminal we see getting caught does something stupid

Re: Addiction?

>I guess so, as why else would you buy 16 of the things?

Statistics. With one watch you always know the time, with 2 you are always in doubt. With 16 you have a standard deviation

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

>Not sure who Facebook is aimed at nowadays

Local newspaper. In my sleepy backwater it's yardsales, buy/trade/swap groups, babysitting circles and community groups choir/sportball/dog walking

So you need to have a throwaway account to find out when the bins are being collected

Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19

Re: Incredibly delicate technology

Or simply attach an anvil to the cover

Re: When I Were A Lad

>FOD in the form of a unexploded WW2 bomb.

But was it a foreign bomb ?

Re: Maybe it's me being a bit dim

The mesh would also lead to ice build up

Re: Not just Australian wasps...

It takes a terribly long time to redesign a wasp.

Re: Blame the thing that can't answer back...

Australian solution. Install spider to deal with the wasp.

Bonus - it's an Australian spider so also deals with the humans

Mozilla finds 18 of 25 popular reproductive health apps share your data

Re: Women as breeder cattle, rights

>right to snort cocaine and screw dead horses

Sure. The federal government's job is to decide which cocoa derivatives should be a $Bn chain on every corner and which should be a prison sentence ? (results may vary with skin color).

Of all the things you are allowed to do to a horse, screwing it when dead is probably the least harmful to the horse

>Republican states seriously consider giving a month old fetus the vote

Or if I have 20frozen embryos stored in the state that offers the best dependency tax deduction

Re: My advise to women

And don't forget to thank D*g you are living in a free country

UK blocks sale of chip design software company to China

Re: The footrest

>I, for one, am pleased to see a bit of protectionism,

Except this is going to result in a US corporation offering to buy them for 1/10 the price.

If the government is going to block all other foreign buyers then their choices, or the choices of their investors, is to accept any US offer or wait for one the UK's own semiconductor giants to make an offer.

Googlers demand abortion searches ‘never be saved or treated as a crime’

Depends on jurisdiction, you can be hosted on a server in Boratistan and refuse requests from Alabama all day long

Just for starters

Probably shouldn't store searches for musical theatre tickets, halal butchers or Bagels and Lox

Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California

Re: A good start... but V2G is better...

1, you charge your car for cheap overnight on cheap overnight baseload electricity. When there is peak demand from 6-8pm you stop charging or sell power back to them. You get reduced price electricity and get paid for any sent back.

2, except for totally discharging, the most damage is to do with charging rate and temperature. Slowly charging and discharging at home with the rate set by the battery computer is the best thing for you battery - compared to driving.

There is definitely a price I would agree to this for - and I only pay $0.10/kwh

Re: $2/kwh is a lot of money

But cheaper than having a bunch of gas turbine plants built and on hot standby.

Google teaches robots to serve humans – with large language models the key

>As well as a mine detector

ie 'conscript with big boots'

Re: "going over to pick up the can, throwing it into a bin, and getting a sponge"

Job creation - it's in the same union as the Roombas

Re: "going over to pick up the can, throwing it into a bin, and getting a sponge"

Throw can in bin? Aren't Google in California?

The CHIPS Act won't end US reliance on foreign foundries

Re: not going to help the automakers

>Today's cutting edge will be tomorrow's old process node.

That is a major concern.

The EUV magic to get 3-5nm is highly involved with the chip design. It isn't like just taking 20-40nm parts and getting a 50-100x density for free.

It might not ever be cost effective to make cheap older parts on these systems even if the fab cost was already paid

not going to help the automakers

Intel / TSMC /etc are going to take the subsidies to build next-gen fabs - the ones that make the most profit.

Nobody is going to be building the cheap, high volume, low profit parts that automakers need. And even if you did, the dicing, packaging and assembly of these $0.05 parts isn't going to happen in Austin

Skyrora fires up second stage of XL rocket

Re: Sunlit Uplands?

>in Scotland

So long as we don't have anymore referendums...

Re: What? Why?

>But it is reminiscent of the old Top Gear jerry rigged attempt to launch a Reliant Robin

I don't think a British Space program has the sort of extravagant BBC budget of Top Gear

Excel @ mentions approach general availability on the desktop

Re: Forecast is 100% chance of @storm

Roll-up ladies, gentlemen and hipsters. Get you bets in on Excel security lottery.

Evens: You will be able to get a copy of anyone else's spreadsheet by @ and request-reply

2:1 You will be able to run arbitrary macros on the recipient's Excel

4:1 You will be able to send arbitrary binary payloads AND run arbitrary macros on the recipient's Excel

10:1 If you are using Edge it will be able to get your browsing history, If you use Firefox it will kill your dog.

Elon Musk 'buying Manchester United' football club

Re: re: 420 hahaha

According to wiki the police code is a myth - I assumed it was a date that some law/police action happened, but apparently not.

re: 420 hahaha

Over here shouldn't it be 20-4 ?

Although why all these people would want to celebrate Hitler's birthday is a mystery

UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs

Re: meh

>expressed in € and $ but not £.

I suspect it's te difficulty in updating the falling value of Global Britain's Global currency

Apple to compel workers to spend '3 days a week' in the office

Over here artisan beavers have been almost entirely replaced by large concrete hydro-electric dams

What few itinerant beavers remain are widely hunted for their delicious tails

Re: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who insisted...

>Bozo spotted buying wine?

Chap has to "buy" his own wine?

Obviously not a gentleman, probably a foreigner