Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

How data on a billion people may have leaked from a Chinese police dashboard

Re: Vint Cerf did say...

Couldn't the American govt just buy the data about Americans from the Chinese ?

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

>while those less educated and trained will produce 8048s.

Doesn't that use Harvard Architecture? nuff-said

(sorry post got withdraw by accident)

You think that's a problem?

Nobody wants to study EE because CS makes more money

Nobody wants to study physics cos EE makes more money

In physics nobody studies optics because all the optics depts got axed 30 years ago because classical optics is old fashioned and boring.

All the optics experts are very old and retired

Guess what field you need expertise in to project a pattern of light into a handful of nanometers ?

This is the military – you can't just delete your history like you're 15

Re: I believe the story

If you're not cleared for TS you can't be told what TS is - because it's TS

Re: We've Probably All Come Across This

tautology is the study of tauts. Which presumably, given a small typo, was both what the sales manager was and what he was studying.

More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers

Re: more CS students are interested in AI

>They have no idea what they want their AI or ML to achieve, but they all want to do it.

It avoids trying to understand the problem and possible algorithms to solve it.

In computer vision I have seen "AI" solutions to basically fitting a straight line to a bunch of points. If your onyl tool is TensorFlow - everything looks like a nail

Re: There aren't enough lecturers

I think replacing students with an infinite number of AIs would make the problem worse

Re: "We need to find more people that have a passion for teaching"

>as if the university were a retail business.

You charge £9K/year = you are a retail business

Re: more CS students are interested in AI

> to gloss over the common groundwork in favour of concentrating on the current flavour of the month

That's why you study maths not computer science

Elon Musk considering 'drastic action' as Twitter takeover in 'jeopardy'

Re: Where is the ROI?

>he could continue his ingratiation with the Republican Party

There are cheaper ways, a $1M in a brown envelope to the local politician is a lot easier than $50Bn for Twitter

FBI and MI5 bosses: China cheats and steals at massive scale

Confused

Aren't all those college scientists with their book-lerning all commies anyway?

At least Britain has come up with an innovative Brexit plan to stop foreigners stealing British scientific research.

Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters

Re: "half-baked ideas"

He wasn't forced out by this scandal. A few people decided he had outlived his usefulness and then the 'quite words in ears' start and the cascade of jumping ship starts

Re: Direct your ire...

>It'll take at least 30-50 years to get a more competent administration. That's how long is needed to get clueful people with a STEM background into the top jobs in government and politics

Just subcontract government to Singapore.

Ok so it has even less democracy than the UK, but the trains run on time and everyone gets a council house

Re: Direct your ire...

>Whilst it's very easy to focus on Boris as the centre of the omnishambles,

Wasn't that his job?

He was put in by 'those that really run things' (*) to be a distraction and do something amusingly headline grabbingly stupid everytime some evil financial plan was being put in place/

(* I really hope that things are being run by a secret cabel of evil supervillians, the truth that everyone in power is simply incompetently stupid and venal is distressing)

Re: "half-baked ideas"

With enough jam spread around London the capital would soon be infested with giant murder hornets thus driving the people out to seek employment and affordable house prices in the northern wastelands regions

Shouldn't Prime Minister's mistress be a civil service appointment, like the cabinet secretary, that goes with the job rather than the incumbent having to provide their own ?

Elon Musk had secret twins in 2021 with Neuralink exec

So what's his secret?

Boris it's obviously good hair

Musk - I guess electric cars are just sexy

Apple's latest security feature could literally save lives

Re: Nokia 3310

>So they're turning an iPhone into a Nokia 3310.

Not quite, even in lockdown mode the iPhone isn't nuke

proof

UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact

Re: Easy but naughty solution.

>Koreans and Japanese are related.

Yes but they do have a rather fraught history.

Yiddish and German are closely related - but that didn't really help.

> In fact how is this even beneficial to people the UK?

Great British electronic companies will now be able to collect data on their Korean customers and so be better able to market to them.

Oh and 'pork markets' probably

Pentagon: We'll pay you if you can find a way to hack us

Re: Cheap!!

It is a multi $M project, it's just that after everyone got a promotion and a new office, and then the defence contractors were paid and managed by the lobbyists, selected by the management consultants, and everyone went to Hawaii to see a computer installed there - there was only $100K left in the budget (and that was just because they didn't pay the interns)

FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

Re: "where it hopes to save an estimated $400 million annually"

>Why not run an open source OS and an open source database on your own hardware

Mainframe licenses are immensely lucrative, you want to drop DB2 and run your own software then the OS license fee doubles, or you don't want to upgrade to the new OS then the service cost doubles.

Re: "where it hopes to save an estimated $400 million annually"

A datacenter where it can use opensource distributed database rather than paying DB2 licenses on top of the IBM OS licence.

A datacenter where it can buy extra capacity for the christmas rush without having to start pouring concrete in January to be ready for the December delivery of another mainframe.

And if they did their design correctly a datacenter where they can switch between Amazon.Microsoft/Goolge easily to get the best price rather than IBM looking at Fedex's profits and decided what next year's maintenance contract will be.

UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards

Re: Feeling it might be Ireland . . .

>The Irish government historically has tended to align its policies (and enforcement thereof) with US

That's terrible, have you considered some sort of uprising to break free of tyrannical rule by a foreign empire ?

>Abortion has been legalized there 4 years ago,

Ireland, as ever at the vanguard of progressive rights. They'll be letting women work next

Arm the fetuses now!

with the new AR-15 Intra-Uterine-Rifle your pre-born can join the NRA and defend itself against womb invaders

If Canadians want to kill each other they have to do it on the ice during a hockey match - like civilised people.

The same reason you don't get violence in the stands at Rugby matches

>banning them would be ineffective

So legalise murder, if there are so many murders then the law is obviously ineffective

British Army Twitter and YouTube feeds hijacked by crypto-promos

>It's utterly irrelevant to the actual outcome of a shooting war.

Arguably twitter is the most important weapon in the Ukraine war

Ukraine have a chance because their leader is good on western media, which keeps western politicians interested, which keeps western materiel flowing.

Re: Let's face it

Who outsourced them to some chaps in Korea who offered a very good price.

What do you mean there are 2 Koreas?

Re: The standard

So you don't think any harm can be done to military effectiveness by the messaging sent out to the social media accounts presumably eagerly followed by those in the armed forces, their families and those thinking of joining ?

Is a lack of standards holding immersion cooling back?

Re: Liquid cooling is expensive

You need to get 1000W of heat out of a couple of square cm of CPU/GPU in the middle of a box other parts, while keeping the hot end below 80C.

Air doesn't have much heat capacity, a little bit of energy heats the air above the temperature of the chip, at which point no more heat flows. So you need to start with the air really-really cold and blow lots-and-lots of air passed the chip.

Getting lots-and-lots of really-really cold air and delivering it to the chip and removing it afterwards is bloody expensive.

In theory it's much easier to have a pipe with outside temperature water going in, and 80C water coming out, through a radiator and being cooled to the outside temperature again

Tencent Cloud slaps googly eyes on a monitor, says it can care for oldies

Re: "replace an actual medical professional"

Nurses, plural ?

What kind of fantasy world do you live in. There will be one nurse per hospital (requirement was one nurse per ward but we got a management consultant to classify the entire hospital as a single ward) but this will reduce auxiliary care provider assistants by 20% - unless it turns out that this machine is more expensive than an auxiliary care assistant unit

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA

Re: Asterisk @sergio

Worse it uses a British designed CPU and a Finnish OS.

Suppose it secretly logs any comments made about the Queen or saunas

Google location tracking to forget you were ever at that medical clinic

Authenticator does location detection, it uses your phone number and/or IP address by default but it can use the GPS - the requirement needs to be turned on by IT group policies

If IT demand GPS location you get a pop-up on the phone requesting permission. See common-questions-about-the-microsoft-authenticator-app

No problem, the cell phone company still has records of where and when your cell phone was in the vicinity of a clinic. In cities, ANPR will have logged you driving there.

Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat

Re: They just don't get it.

>really old people (30+).

I hope you were being sarcastic!

Re: Three quotes

Dear Wall St. We're down 50% because nobody likes or cares about Facebook anymore, most of our customers are boomers sharing recipes or wondering why their grandchildren's pages haven't updated since they were 11.

So we're cutting staff to reduce costs - like any good traditional dinosaur industry.

But we're really a dynamic growth company that should be priced like a cool 2man startup.

See, you can tell we're still relevant cos we renamed ourselves to a meaningless short word

California state's gun control websites expose personal data

>Race? Does California record if the applicant is a human, a dog or something else?

No, they are just naturally cautious about NASCAR fans

Re: The American religion of guns

One would have thought that if you are in the military and reach the point where you need to use a pistol in self defence - then perhaps one's strategic plans are not progressing quite as you might have hoped?

Re: Accidental?

>In Canada, holders of a firearms license are more likely than average to have at least a high school education

But what about those still in high school who, for some reason, need an assault rifle?

>and yet in the US the states with the most strict gun laws have the most violent crime rates

And hospitals with the most advanced cancer treatment units have the highest fatality rates.

Jobs that require the most protective equipment have the highest injury rates.

Plants with the strictest fire regulations have the highest fire risk

Re: Are You Daft?

And yet those pink liberal judges still restrict the right to personal nuclear weapons.

At least I'm legally allowed to distribute smallpox blankets to my neighbours

Apple's guy in charge of stopping insider trading guilty of … insider trading

Re: small payday really

The rules don't apply to senior executives because they never get caught and if they do get caught they don't face any consequences.

It's why you get more of everything naughty, from sexual abuse to expense fiddling at the top.

See also prize winning economic studies on bagel honesty boxes

Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

Somebody is going to have to create some case law on this

If the copyright of images used in training data translates into a copyright on the neural net

Self driving cars are going to have a problem, even if Telsa/Google/Whoever capture their own street images does the DoT own the copyright on the shape of the STOP sign?

Do the people whose faces were used for your iPhone camera's face detection have a copyright on the algorithm?

Can criminals register a trademark on their face and stop police using it in mugshots?

Old-school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language

Re: Others preferred

Yes sorry got ed and ex mixed up. When I first saw it I thought it was very clever that you could have a program change behaviour if it was run from a symlink with a different name

NOBODY PRINT! Selfless hero saves typing pool from carbon catastrophe

Re: With carbon copy mentioned right at the start...

Was reading the story to my partner who works in local government.

"oh yes we do that" was the surprising reply.

They have a form, some pages of which must be on different coloured paper. But in today's advanced IT they at least have separate paper drawers and a clever printer setup to do this.

I suppose they could have gone one better and had a colour printer to do the background

Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

Re: Lazy and passive aggressive

He most certainly did not.

A gentleman wouldnt go around putting notes on desks himself

Putting notes on desks is a task for the under-butler's scrivener