Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38

Re: What I like about X

>on a hi-res screen laptop it makes fonts readable

That's why we need Display-PostScript to make a comeback

Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

We don't call it slavery. it's a unlimited internship available to our overseas associates in lesser developed regions

UK govt considers invoking national security in Arm IPO saga

Re: It's all window dressing

>The idea that this is some kind of national security thing

Wait till 3 year olds find out about this option.

I wanna ice cream........

You can't have an ice cream until you've eaten your dinner

I need an ice cream ... because of national security

OK, here you are

British chips for British people

Hopefully it will cause foreigners to reconsider their dependence on ARM for their own national security

Microsoft pulls Windows 10/11 installation websites in Russia

Re: Putin, got one name for you mate....linux

Wait till America finds out that algorithms are ay-rab. Then they'll ban then in schools

Re: Putin, got one name for you mate....linux

> Linux is free,

I don't know, sounds sort-of "communist"

Re: I resisted for all of 20 seconds

I believe this is known as "bringing aid and comfort to the enemy"

NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak

Re: Fake it till ya make it?

I read a conspiracy theorist on the internet who claimed NASA were actually building the SLS!

Like that makes sense in the real world

Re: At least...

Government killing teachers is expensive and inefficient, when it can be so effectively outsourced to the community

Also known as

The VolksWagon solution

Tesla lawsuit alleges unlawful layoffs at Nevada gigafactory

Re: WARN employees they are being fired?

>overwhelm .... unemployment services.

Now I have a Reaganomics solution to that....

Re: WARN employees they are being fired?

I think by the standards of today's GOP, Nixon was a communist

WARN employees they are being fired?

Is Nevada communist now?

No wonder he wants to move everything to Texas

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

Re: Some features i would like today

Still think dot works, we use it in internet addresses. Dos used \ to avoid accusations of copying CPM

The metadata on RiscOS was IIRC a 32bit ID. 16bit assigned to the software vendor and a 16but field for them to use internally. Rather like MAC addresses

Some features i would like today

File meta data id rather than everyone+dog deciding to grab all the common 3 letter extensions for themselves (looking at you autodesk)

On my A310 with 1Mb of RAM being able to drag memory usage limits around in realtime to give my program more memory at the expense of screen resolution or font cache.

And if only everyone else had adopted "." as the separator in directory paths we wouldn't have had 40years of escaping bloody "\"

Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market

Re: LPDDR5 ISO 26262 ASIL D

Do games care about error correction ?

Re: Yes, but how much?

That's what we thought for hard drives for the last 2 years.

Re: LPDDR5 ISO 26262 ASIL D

Yes as soon as there are cheap chipsets that support it.

Which will happen once there is user uptake

Which will happen once there are cheap motherboards that support it

Which will happen once there are cheap chipsets

......

Re: I joked about it years ago, maybe it will come true

A raid array of SD cards?

Actually given their small size, low write speed and unreliability - that's not a bad idea.

Quick invent a silly name with no vowels and call the VCs

Re: "a mean time to failure rating of two million hours"

Except for police body cams where it will fail after every shot

1Password's Insights tool to help admins monitor users' security practices

Re: fido2 not suppored by Micros~1 for local accounts

That's because Microsoft have their own authenticator app for your mobile.

Presumably easier to manage corporately than either accessing your local machine when you lose your Fido key, or remote disabling your Fido key when you lose it.

What's wrong with passwd?

For certain manufacturers who force you to create an account and make you login everytime I need to download an update to your software - you bet I'm using password.

For import stuff at work I use "change your password" because that's what they told me to

A great day for non-robots: iOS 16 will bypass CAPTCHAs

Click on the pictures of Vegans?

Re: I For One

Please click on 3 the same pictures of hills that were selected as hills by somebody working in a minimum wage click farm in S.E. Asia

I'm an Apple User - and so's my wife

>Yes, but the website that is asking for verification does not know this.

I assume this is like a Tesla/BMW.

How do you identify an Apple user? You don't need to - they will tell you

So ...

They are claiming that iPhone users are mere humans like the rest of us?

AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem

Re: "Hey, computer! Are you sentient?"

Of course a sentient computer isn't going to say yes.

It's like the theory that Orangutans can talk, but don't because they know people would put them to work.

Re: The real issue

My cat isn't convinced that I'm sentient.

It comes to me I pet it, and a couple of times a day I open a packet and put food in its bowl.

From the cat's point of view I'm a slightly more useful Roomba

NASA's SOFIA aircraft preps for final flights ahead of mission end

Re: Fun fact

Resisting the obvious " I didn't know cobras had ...."

There is an excellent Omegatau podcast on flying-the-kc-135s-cobra-ball

Re: Fun fact

The previous one was the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (a C141) and apparently there was an earlier model with a learjet history-of-airborne-astronomy-at-nasa

Re: Fun fact

For complex funding reasons the plane was owned by NASA but operated by United Airlines.

Astronomers asked if that meant they got airmiles. After a long and presumably expensive review the message came back that since it departed and arrived at the same place there were zero flight miles to claim

Fun fact

The original project scientist on SOFIA was previously working on a telescope on Hawaii and was on the flight that became a convertible mid-air.

He survived relatively unharmed, obviously, but seemed to be pushing his luck proposing another aircraft with a sunroof

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

Re: Why

Haven't been to blighty for a few years - they didn't invite me to the jubbly !

Aren't we going to call it the tube ? It goes underground = it's the tube.

Re: 515 orders

> paying passenger will suffer as a result.

Want more comfort, pay more and sit at the front. Want to travel to the other side of the world for a week's salary? Sit at the back.

>Capitalism is a problem

Because Passenger comfort was THE selling point of Aeroflot

Re: Willy-waving

>I threw a spectacular strop and was allowed back on to the aircraft to collect my teddy.

Not a good look for Captain

Re: Nope.

Over water I prefer a seaplane. When 2/3 of the world is your landing strip

Re: Must do better ...

> Special assistance almost feels like cheating.

In the USA the New York->Florida route is known as the miracle flight. Every old lady in NY needs a wheelchair and priority boarding, but sprints off the plane in Miami like Ursain Bolt

Re: Long and thin eh?

A380 is very fuel efficient if you can fill it.

It was built for the Hub model of middle eastern airlines.

And an assumption that China would end up with the same '737 as a bus' model as the USA but with 5x as many people on each flight, like the 747 short range in Japan

And not at all because it was embarrasing that even Air France had to buy Boeing 747 for their most prestigous routes

Re: Why

Just get the tube from LHR->London. It runs every few minutes,costs next-to-nothing but takes an hour while the train takes 30mins but only runs every 30mins. The Heathrow express takes 15mins but costs more than your flight and dumps you at Paddington where you have to wait for the tube anyway.

If you can book a specific intercity train in advance it is super cheap. There is a site which even splits your fare on the same seat on the same train between all the dozens of rail companies running the same route so your ticket is even cheaper. Somehow this is efficient capitalism.

While not quite TGV/Shinkansen speed, it's still a hell of a lot better than driving on UK motorways during the summer.

Re: Why

> "people loving 757s"

I think pilots love it. It's light weight but has fairly beefy engines so can take off like a fighter and it has massive wake turbulence so ATC have to clear everything for miles around you - making you feel special.

If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too

Outlook is sentient

I haven't had any email for a week.

We only use email fro crap from our corporate masters, everything important is teams/whatsapp/telegram

Outlook had decided that since I delete anything from corporate unread, then anything from HR, Marketing, etc was spam - which is surprisingly prescient

Scan baggage

It really should work far better than a poorly trained, bored, tired, minimum wage TSA 'agent'

Now children can we all list the ways in which it will fail because of a very poorly designed training set?

Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff – who leak it

Re: No sensitive information was lost

If you share something with 30million employees it's hardly secre.t

And exactly what's national security about this? It's introductory IT good practice

Re: Whoa there

If politicians know about it - it's no longer secret.

Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop

Re: The UK has bins, the US prefers trashcans

>Mine says "recycle bin"

We have several "recycle bins" on the standard desktop roll-out, one for documents, one for color images and another for raw data.

This has nothing to do with me being a sarcastic el'reg reader who was responsible for setting up the system, and me living in a place where you are hung, drawn and quartered for putting your paper straw in the wrong bin.

Re: We can do better than 8.3 these days, can't we?

Back in the good old days proper operating systems had supplier and type ID meta data embedded with the file. So applications can open their own files without everyone trying to use .dat for data

That's why some of us stayed in universities for the whole decade