Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Amazon gave Ring video to cops without consent or warrant 11 times so far in 2022

Re: This is just one of the many reasons why European data is not safe in the US

Recent foot-shooting events notwithstanding, the UK is still in Europe

Re: This is just one of the many reasons why European data is not safe in the US

>In Europe privacy is a fundamental right that is enshrined in most constitutions.

And yet it's Europe where every city center has more CCTV cameras watching you than a reality TV show and where ANPR tracks every car on every major road.

Here in the offshore colonies, speed cameras are banned as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy

Re: There is a current meme ...

The point isn't to catch anyone, its to deter people from doing things here and have them move on to loiter in neighborhoods that didn't pay for cameras.

This does sort of break down when every last village has more cameras than Kodak

11 times ?

1st time was all footage for all cameras in January

2nd time was all footage for all cameras in February

.....

Somebody was away at the start of December and nobody else knew the password

Re: One up on Stalin

No need when everyone posts their opinion of the government on Facebook and uploads their storming of the winter palace to Instagram.

I suppose a network of secret microphones could be useful to find out what the driver of the pickup truck covered in swastikas, Confederate flags and Fuck Joe Biden stickers really thinks about the party

EU court says it can probe M&As even when one party has no European operations

Re: "even if one of the parties has no operations in the EU"

If the buyer was European and was buying foreign firms in order to become a monopoly or prevent other competitors entering the market that would be a reasonable concern.

Obviously if the buyer is totally foreign but buying a European operation this is investigated, otherwise a buyer just needs to form a front company outside the Eu, claim that this entity is doing the deal and has no presence in the Eu and so is free to do anything

Intel plans chip price hikes due to 'inflationary pressures'

Re: Inflation

Inflation in Intel CEO salary is 400% over the previous CEO.

Assuming everyone else's job is paying 4x the salary of last year and everyone is getting a signing bonus equal to a year's pay then this will lead to rising prices

NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse

Re: No real change in the guidance

Would this really be sufficient to protect you from living in Essex ?

Re: "NYC issues super upbeat PSA"

>super upbeat PSA

I believe it refers to music consisting of a rapid succession of repetitive beats

Re: You gotta laugh

> Have you considered Sonar,

Shouting "we are here" with a 1000W of underwater sound rather defeats the purpose of a deterrent.

>or even a tourist map?"

Perhaps the local council could install underwater sign posts?

And CMOT Dibbler would be there to sell sausages-in-a-bun

Given recent large scale sociological experimental results, half the population would run toward the mushroom cloud to 'own the libs' while denying any harmful effects

Re: Why stay on the mainland?

I always wondered why everybody got V12 muscle cars when gasoline would soon degrade.

Diesel lasts longer so you could have Mr MadMax driving around in a VW Jetta, but most of the post-apocalypse road warriors would be on bicycles

Re: I'm all upside down

If a 30Mtn has a direct hit on Manhattan, no.

If a terrorist or 'backpack' tactical device goes off in New Jersey container port 10km away this is useful advice.

After all it would be dumb needing advice to move AWAY from a couple of burning collapsing skyscraper

Re: Update

To be fair,duck and cover made sense for the small and scarce weapons the USSR would be able to use at the time - in the early 1950s

Re: Hmmm…

Florida would miss

Re: Hmmm…

State most likely to nuke New York is probably Texas

That emoji may not mean what you think it means

The younger generation don't speak properly and you can barely understand them - said by everyone over 40 since Ug the caveman

Re: Pictograms ...

>are so limiting

That's why China had poetry for 1000s of years before we had 'Erik's axe' scratched in runes

Re: Eggplant

Well Blackpool is where a lot of close encounters of all 3 kinds happen, so .....

Re: Eggplant

Best way to communicate is with flashing colored lights and a giant electric organ

Weird Flex, but OK: Now you can officially turn these PCs, Macs into Chromebooks

Re: Because it's there!

Then it must cure it.

Everything must either cause or cure cancer - the Daily Mail says so!

Re: So, wait, what? Why again?

Because it's there !

It might find a use in kiosks ? Or reducing parental support calls. But chromebooks are so cheap you might as well buy one new

Personally I buy old cheap chromebooks put Linux+xfce on and use them as nice laptops fro browsing

Intel's net positive water use only tells part of the story

Re: You put your left foot in ...

>There's an argument to be made that any water-requiring industry should always have its waste outlet upstream from its inlet...

hope you don't like eating farmed food

Re: You put your left foot in ...

>Yes if it good enough to return to the rive as fresh water it should be good enough for intel to use again.

Not if your process needs <ppb of some contaminant. We are happy to drink water with 'minerals' but the machines aren't.

Having said that it's normally a problem of solvents, its hard to remove tiny amounts of a waste solvent, compared to removing heavy metals, but you can dilute it down to a safe level on the waste stream

Re: Good for Intel

Unless they are doing is an accounting trick. Extract X gallons from municipal water, add in Y gallons from a river or well and deliver x+y gallons of contaminated eater to municipal sewer system

Obviously

>how its magic trick of turning water into more water works in America

Massive pre-shift consumption of American beer ?

(Obviously speaking about mass produced stereotypical American beer. Not your local artisan Rhubarb and Elderflower infused IPA, which nobody could drink enough of to affect the water table)

Bosch to pour $3 billion into European chip fabs and research

Re: Meanwhile. Back in the UK...

Ere Bert is says this part has to be machined to within 5 thousandths of an inch.

How many thousands in an inch?

I don't know, bloody millions probably

Re: Bosch is set to invest €3 billion

That's because the Eu and Germany are Communist.

Here we are promising to "invest" $50bn but because we are capitalists we won't actually ever deliver

Re: Meanwhile. Back in the UK...

With our new British "fraction of an inch" fab technology

Re: Finally

It does still only give you a small buffer.

Your local fab might be able to handle a supply disruption for a few weeks. Then you discover that all the wafers or dicing blades, or a specific chemical, come from one company - and the world collapses again

Finally

One of these projects that seem to make financial sense.

Unlike the, demand $50bn to make a cutting edge 5nm fab cos we have a shortage of 555s to make ventilators

Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools

No but teaching them a little about how computers work might be important when a politician stands up and says that 'the algorithms' will predict all crime and do sentencing without any errors.

You don't have to teach advanced microbiology to teach people how diseases spread and that antibiotics or horse dewormer dont kill viruses

Power outage at Hiroshima facility may hit DRAM supply

Re: Idea

Obviously, war with Japan

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

Re: Still missing?

>You think he's going to pick your lifetime to show up in the shot, with a microscopic sign saying 'Yes I'm here'?

Well it's proof that God isn't a lawyer - or there would be a copyright symbol in the CMWB

Re: An honest, possibly dumb question

>Instead of suggesting we stop peaceful scientific research, ask yourself how much money the world is wasting every year on arms and war. Now cutting that out could make a real difference.

Don't worry, a good chunk of the hardware and development cost went to defence companies

Re: Larger still

That's just the foreground lens. The stuff being lensed is more like 13bn years, less than 1bm from the beginning

Re: Pffft

A barn is 10^-28 m2 so a picobarn is bloody small

To fight TSMC and Samsung, Intel hires execs from foundry rivals

Re: Execs only?

If Intel thought actual engineers were useful it would have trained and retained its own, the executives know that only executives are important so hired some more of them

Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be

Re: How

>have they not been hit with a massive anti-trust suit again?

Because they are sure that the current lot are dependant on Silicon Valley for funding

The lot who are going to take over in October are 'pro-business'

The big red flashing anti-trust light over Android and Apple mean that Microsoft can smile sweetly and say "why us?"

Mastermind of Broadcom’s VMware buy is out, CEO Tan to take over software

Re: I'm so screwed

But if it didn't look like a Win95 VB app with some broken functionality, you wouldn't know it was enterprise software

API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter

Re: News just in

It's not just that Delaware has an accommodating attitude to taxes (companies still pay local tax where they operate) but it has very well understood and well tested corporate law.

Its courts aren't about to give a judgement based on tiktok likes for the lulz, because that would rock a lot of corporate boats. Its the same reason a lot of international companies were HQed in London. You could trust British courts not to do something crazy - future results may not reflect this

Re: News just in

Except he doesn't get to decide this. The court in Delaware (assuming Twitter is a normal US corp) gets to decide.

Note for readers on the civilised aide of the pond. Delaware is the US equivalent of Switzerland, all US corporations are registered there because everyone knows and trusts Delaware law and courts. The tiny state also relies on corporate registrations for a lot if its income - it isn't about to sacrifice its neutrality for a shouty idiot

Re: Ah, twitter

That's the advantage of el'reg. The antics of the bofh help my mental health, while providing useful tips about stairwell lighting and the necessity of keeping a carpet and shovel in the server room

US military contractor moves to buy Israeli spy-tech company NSO Group

Re: So

>whilst the N.S.O.group is Israeli owned it is a bad company.

No an Israeli company must be a good thing by definition. That its customers include the Saudi secret police just shows how it is a shining example of inter-faith cooperation.

By becoming an American company it will transcend this to become a world wide champion of peace and understanding - probably with Tony Blair on its board

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Re: Don't you love their way of communicating?

But Twitter will get reported on the news. Canada has a well funded public broadcaster who are quite capable, once the intern has shown them how, of regurgitating a tweet

Re: BGP

Even in Canada it's not normal to have Beavers update your BGP routes.

Re: Don't you love their way of communicating?

What was the alternative ?

A message on the Jumbo-Tron at Roger's arena ?

Writing to all their customers and having Canada post deliver it ?

A giant flock of carrier pigeons ?

A Roger's executive drinking a lot of beer and writing a message in the snow ?

Re: FSB

But can we be sure that a comfy monopoly meaning you don't need to hire good staff or have good processes wasn't a cunning Russian plan all along

America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers

Re: You think that's a problem?

>Here in the UK there is little emphasis on some fields being more economically valuable than others

Because it doesn't really matter what field you studied, whether it was classics, history or PPE. So long as you went to Eton - you are getting a cabinet post anyway.