Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh

Re: Mid-term elections are coming....

Ironically for national security reasons the routers have to be built in the USA but the code can come from anywhere.

So bring back minimum wage assembly line jobs but keep the skilled programming jobs in China.

Either somebody is playing hyperdimensional chess or an idiot made up a policy in a tweet

Re: Older kit?

I'm sure you will be able to have your kit approved for a special exemption in return for a gold bar to the oval office (cough iPhone cough)

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Re: You think this is bad

But why would America defend Taiwan?

How much does the American Taiwan Public Affairs Committee contribute to US politicians?

How many hotels can you build in Taipei ?

And if Taipei 101 is blown up Trump's towers will all move up the height rankings

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

Re: AI in apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad.

Continuing the classic theme.

They added AI to EMACS and asked "is there a God?", "Yes, now there is."

AI in apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad.

They did add AI to edlin but it just curled up in a ball signing "Daisy, Daisy..."

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

Sorry my fault, click here

Dear Mr Mxyzptlk

Customers who searched for B07PDQCY7Q also purchased B08PDQCY8Q and B09PDQCY9Q

Click here for special offers on a whole range of meaningless identifiers

So exactly like advertising but without the drugs, sex and alcohol ?

(Unless AI has really achieved AGI)

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

Have you thought of having 2national monopolies who also own all the TV and landline and ban any other companies competing?

Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns

But the ........ geese ..........

Kill them all, God will know his own.

How much more christian can you get?

I assume

That a major part of our $1.5Tn security budget has been invested in cyber-security of vital resources under the leadership of the most skilled security professionals that the country that invented the internet can muster ?

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate

CEOs can't be overpaid

In the ruthless efficiency of free-market capitalism no CEO would be paid $1 more than they were worth.

Otherwise they would be quickly replaced by any other identical overweight middle-aged man in a suit who could do the job just as well for less.

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets

Re: Cannon

A drone is no bigger than a wamp rat, that's impossible even for a computer

Re: Fairey Swordfish

Having sunk German and Italian fleets, surely it needs to get the French to complete the hat trick?

Re: Cannon

>How much easier is it to target the drone with a laser?

It means you can put all the large, heavy, power consuming tracking gear on the fighter and a simple laser detector on the missile

And you don't have to explode all that expensive kit on every shot

Re: Cannon

An array of tethered hot-air balloons staffed by gentlemen with blunderbusses

Seagulls with laser beams !

Re: Cannon

>Typical drone speeds are ~100mph but a Typhoon or other military jet becomes difficult to control at speeds less than 250 kias.

Introducing the new Camel air defence fighter, featuring a fully analogue cockpit with unimpeded direct vision support and a dual redundant wing design

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

Re: Gyms

The trouble with cycling is that as you get better it's less effort so you stop getting fitter, then you buy some super lightweight carbon bike with aerodynamics and low resistance tires and electronic shifting and it's even less effort

I'm launching the revolutionary new "fitness bike". Based on a 1980s Halfords original, it's made of cast iron, has 3 dynamos on each wheel, the brakes all rub and it comes with special low pressure knobbly tires.

Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser

Re: Curious

>It also prompted me to ask, are there any mechanical (or analogue) cypher machines which could be secure in the modern age?

Scrabble bag of letters as one time pad = perfect

Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo

Re: Why is Artemis II orbiting the Moon at such a great distance?

>Although I'm not sure if they've got the fuel to get into and out of lunar orbit without the upgraded upper stage anyway.

AFAIK they barely have the performance to do the orbit they are doing, it was also the reason for the tight launch window and moon position.

Not NASA's fault given the whole project history but it has an air of desperately looking for a win l.

Re: Why is Artemis II orbiting the Moon at such a great distance?

They are doing far less than Apollo missions did and need a way of spinning this into 'a win' for the new advanced technology

There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark

Re: Eclipse

That's why the next mission will involve landing on the moon, ideally near one of the moon crackers

Re: Monolith

Stop the world, I want to get off

Re: Eclipse

But now we have evidence that the moon is round

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Lots of people used it to claim that 1970s teachers/coaches/priests had behaved "inappropriately" to them at school and so it got sued into the ground

The reg is an officially registered anti-social media site

Useful when some paperwork asks who/when you ever worked somewhere.

Especially when you know they are also going use LinkedIn to check it

Re: Agreed! Have an upvote...

Isn't 'misanthrope' a young lady werewolf?

Re: Methodology?

Letters to the Daily Mail, written in crayon?

Re: Agreed! Have an upvote...

I would be a misanthrope - if I thought of other people at all

In internet meme - HateBook Stalk You (sorry!)

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

Re: Pre-emptive self defence?

Might I draw our American cousins attention to the seminal work on home fortifications - 3 little pigs

Even prophets have to make a profit somehow

Re: He was probably radicalised online.

Mr Jackson, Did you write this comment in the shed?

Re: Croissants

Non ! No revolution, No croissants!

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Someone didn't want toast

And it couldn't cope and had a breakdown

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

Re: Buy US Treasuries

Would be the first to persuade your enemy to buy war bonds - but it's worth a try

The irony being that scientists aren't that keen on the ISS either. Its 'science' is solely the study of how to be on the ISS and its original intention was to fund BoeingLockheedGrumman (and their Soviet counterparts) through the end of the cold war

>Most buyers for those funds are foreign countries

50% of American debt is owned by US citizens, 25% by the US government and just under 25% by foreign investors.

Re: Is space exploration really necessary?

But it doesn't say anything about any other planets.

That's why we've abandoned plans for Mars, it isn't in the book and so doesn't exist

Well he's not wrong. There is an infinite amount of money available - all backed by our eternal and unwavering full faith in the US government

Re: $1.5 trln for the military

>A better use of that money would be on universal health care and increased spending on education.

But the military get universal health care and education and free housing and free food, it's the American dream.

<sings>Then raise the scarlet baseball cap high. Within its shade we'll live and die,

Re: Distance Record

And it isn't. It's the furthest away, but the Russians that spent 18months on MIR went a lot further - admittedly they were doing the space equivalent of laps of the parking lot, but they did a lot of miles.

Re: $1.5 trln for the military

So that's why they did it from Alabama, Houston and Florida

Re: Get Trump to declare war against the clangers

The Clangers are safe, they have a tactical Soup Dragon that can be deployed against any attackers

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Nostalgia

Remember the good old days of Professional Software Engineering, when we cut and pasted from SO rather than relying on this AI slop

Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds

Re: 28%?

Unencumbered by vibe coding, a system given the herculean task of paying 1M federal workers in a single federal government in a single country is now nearly $6Bn over budget and so far behind schedule that it is now paying the descendent of people it was supposed to pay.