Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Russia, Iran discuss tech manufacturing, infosec and e-governance collaboration

Re: Legality

Generally one gets the Pope to approve an invasion - then God and Little Baby Jesus (and their insubstantial pal) are on your side

Heartwarming

Isn't it nice when politicians can put aside petty religious, cultural and political differences to forge friendships like this.

It reminds me of the days of Uncle Joe and that Ribbentrop chap

I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient

I think you mean:

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Google has - in view - become much, much worse.

I have cast doubt whether the Earth is really flat and on the back of a giant turtle

Baidu crashes the cost of robo-taxis by 75 percent

Re: Laughable

market forces = just increase congestion charges until there is no congestion

Re: left holding the ...

You could design one that flew off immediately before an accident

In fact it would be pretty trivial to design

Re: What time to be alive. ®

Unless the AI has been trained on real black cab drivers - then they wont want to kill 'all' humans

Re: Emergency drill. Not a Tuba but a Trumpet

> My 1st thought was if car ahead suddenly stopped he would be rammed through the neck by his trumpet.

Adaptive cruise control

Hopefully he would also match the tempo of the playing to the speed of traffic

Re: Let the Chinese Test This One

>I would certainly cheer on anyone throwing bricks at cars not yielding to pedestrians.

So you're obviously not American !

"bricks"? Why do you think there is a right to bear Javelins

Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records

Re: Legacy system

It becomes a legacy system as soon as it is used .....

New software solves this ?

Presumably the new software they are buying is so much more efficient that it will use less CPU and so the data center will run cooler

SpaceX crewed flight to ISS delayed by damaged rocket

Ryan puts in a bid...

My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?

Re: The Bit-Theory

So you go around collapsing bit's wavefunction by observing them ? You Fascist !

Re: The Bit-Theory

I'm not sure it's appropriate to arbitrarily classify bits as 0 and 1 - I think we have to ask bits their preffered state and value those values

Have you ever tried to play it back? I have a really fast backup drive on my system mounted on /dev/null

Re: The Bit-Theory

That's ridiculous. What's happening is that foreigners are generating extra ones as waste by their one industry and so are dumping them in your phone. In the future kids will look out onto vast slagheaps of used oned

How to get Linux onto a non-approved laptop

Dell laptops

So an unlabbelled (*) black button where the delete key should be is the on/off button.

*Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it.

London Stock Exchange CEO still aiming for dual Arm listing

Re: Read it carefully

Although I should have added - it's nice that a Tory Prime Minister was so concerned about unionised admin staff that he was campaigning to keep the HQ in the fens

Re: Read it carefully

Listing in the US doesn't mean the HQ has to move.

The 'HQ' moving doesn't mean job losses in the UK - look at how many UK high st business have their 'HQ' on Sark

The Union's job is to be concerned about absolutely everything but i would think that a bigger risk for their company's future in Cambridge is that you can't hire people, especially now we aren't letting any foreign chaps in, and the people you do manage to employ can't afford to live there.

It's a great job ad. "Hey new Mathmo/Natsci/CS/chip designer! Want to live in windy Cambridge ? We pay 1/4 as much as Silicon Valley, 1/10 as much as the City of London, with the highest house prices in Europe"

Re: Read it carefully

So what? Other than a few extra fees for London based accountants why does it matter what exchange it's listed on?

I can see for a company like BAe moving the HQ to the US so its a US company and can get US defence contracts matters. But does anyone care where an API licence comes from

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

>Industry is not going to pick up the tab

Really? Every network node your email/web/tiktok/snapchat/whatsapp/instagram/wibble-pling activity goes through gets to eavesdrop/analysis and sell all that data? And you are forced to allow it ?

You bet they are going to pay for it !

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We've got a photocopier and it can copy anything

Re: Bank of England notes.

Funny how you only hear stories about idiots in white collar crime

Re: Ambivalence

Option 3, you don't interfere with the machine but put a lot of anti-copy features into the printing. Holograms, alias patterns, reflective patched etc.

Then demand a copy of driving license /passport to do anything online

Re: modern technology will prevent such counterfeiting efforts

>can we please get the various mobile payment apps compatible across borders,

What? Get different countries across Europe to all join some sort of common market and agree on trade standards ?

Inconceivable, will never work !

Re: Years ago....

Couldn't they have paid for the copier with .....

Samsung teases 11 Texas fabs as $50 billion CHIPS Act vote nears

Re: Sure, as long as you don't need power

>Property taxes are huge.

Companies don't pay property taxes - only workers.

And the CEO can probably get some deal classifying their 100 acre property as a tax-free farm and their 50,000sq ft, 12 bedroom mansion as a farmhouse.

Re: Sure, as long as you don't need power

The people are there in Austin

It ensures Republican support, or at least not opposition, to their bid

Intel, other chipmakers boost lobbying spend to get CHIPS Act passed

How Much ?

Spending $1m on getting a $50bn subsidy?

Either Intel have brilliant negotiators, US politicians work for peanuts or this is only the official cost of sending out a few emails saying "chips are important" and it doesn't count a large number of PAC and campaign contributions

UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory'

Re: Quick charging

Thank you and your anecdote is perfectly relevant to 40t HGVs doing a regular run from the Channel ports to a distribution center in Scotland

Apple hits brakes on hiring amid economic uncertainty

They fab their own ARM cores but still rely on Qualcomm for the phone part of the phone

Seems they can't keep up.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/28/apples-failed-5g-modem-effort-means-iphone-15-will-be-all-qualcomm

That's not normally the problem, they are customers

The problem is that they will reduce their orders for chips.

So ARM Qualcomm etc all have to reduce their headcount - and they are mostly R&D

So in a couple of years when things pickup Apple ask where the new chips are .....

SoftBank reportedly moves London IPO out of Arm's reach

>According to US financial sources, if ARM list in the US as their only listing they will need to move their headquarters to the US in order to qualify to be part of US indexes.

They can just have a small listing in Luxembourg etc. Sony / VW / Toyota / Nestle etc are all listed on the NYSE without having to become American

Jailed crooks told to cough up $600k for COVID fraud

Amateurs

15% of Paycheck Protection Program Loans Could Be Fraudulent, Study Shows

And that's only the "fraud" frauds, not the "re-classify everyone of your chain of 1000s of restaurants as a separate small business so they each qualify for the full amount" not-at-all-fraud

Cruise self-driving cars stopped and clogged up San Francisco for hours

Re: Does it really need to be AI?

This is FIFA, decision's aren't decided by the toss of a coin

Unless it's a bloody big coin and tossed the right way ... wink ... wink

Re: Deadlock condition?

Also rural Canada, people with right of way stop for other people at stop signs = chaos

Re: Does it really need to be AI?

Why not just put a series of long poles across the field

Introduce a large ball

Attach players to the poles and use large motors to spin the rods+players as the ball goes past

The robot uprising

But instead of Schwarzenegger and the Terminator it's Reg from On The buses

Crypto miners aren't honest about power use – time for a crackdown

Re: So What ?

That's why Texas has it's own separate power grid. So that it can properly regulate it for the good of the people, rather than be at the mercy of those rapacious capitalists in Washington

Re: So What ?

But there would be an app for it

Re: So What ?

>Capitalism is a system of equal chances and socialism is a system of equal poverty.

And that's why Russia is now doing so much better than Norway

Re: So What ?

>For a "capitalist" system, there sure are an awful lot of American industries propped up by the government, socialist style...

It's only socialism if society benefits form the handouts. If capital benefits then it's capitalism

You can easily tell because one is bad and evil and the other is good and what Little Baby Jesus wanted

So What ?

"Miners are using huge quantities of electricity that could be used for other priority end uses that contribute to our electrification and climate goals,"

It's a capitalist system. The Central People's Power Allocation Committee doesn't get to decide whether using electricity for Bitcoin is a better use than Golden Girls re-runs or illuminating large black men in tight trousers failing to play rugby properly.

Intel tried selling software before. Will it succeed this time?

> you've got McAfee. They've got some great stuff.

Personally he seemed to have some pretty great "stuff"

re: Intel’s starting point seems to be, “we need to find a use case for this chip we designed”.

I think that suggests an optimistic level of strategic planning:

Dept 1, We have some existing chips that we can make

Dept 2, We have an idea of how to make a new chip

Dept 3, We can't make the new chip but we aren't going to tell Dept 2 cos they report to a different VC

Dept 4, We seem to have accidentally acquired a bunch of software companies - and my bonus relies on us having a plausible plan for making money from them

Re: sell more sockets

No there is a shortage of CPUs and Intel have problems producing them

While sockets are relatively cheap and easy to make and have quite high profit margins.

The license now simply requires 186 pins / seat

Bill for US telcos to bin Chinese kit blows out by $3 billion

Re: Maybe resell the Huawei kit to some other country

>Resell them to those who want / can use them.

Nobody in the USA will be allowed to buy them - cos they are insecure

But you won't be able to export them because of export regulations - these are military grade secure backbone kit

Re: Curious factoid.

>Ok, so Huawei kit may not have the brand recognition of a Cisco,

Depends on if you are paying or not.

The last time there was a big hand out for rural broadband it resulted in a lot of one-room schools and libraries in sheds being equipped with grant funded $100K enterprise class CISCO kit.

If you aren't spending your own profit margin and there is a nice CISCO salesman offering to help fill in the application and compliance forms, then who do you buy ?

Re: Avoidance

It doesn't ban Chinese made kit, just stuff where the money goes to China. CISCO kit made in the same factory is fine

It's almost as if the law was more about giving US makers a monopoly market

CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years

Re: Build your

It looks like Greenweld have a website now !