Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

Re: meanwhile in Russia...

>to die for an old man’s ego and delusions of empire.

But they definitely had weapons of mass destruction and could use them in 45mins.

Anyway ‘We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators’

Overclocked water-cooled BBC micros then ?

Re: Intermediaries

Nothing except it would cost them many times list price, take a long time, be complicated to setup, involve limited supply volumes and long delivery - and when what's actually delivered is a box with a brick in it - who are they going to complain to ?

Re: Digital Cameras?

Apparently made in Belarus so they probably don't have the technology anymore

Japan lets its banks and other entities issue stablecoins

Re: the decision relied heavily on trends in the US and Europe

>and what real life problems only these currencies can solve is glaringly absent

My XXX born colleague wants to send some money home to his parents. He can't because the banks won't deal with XXX because our government doesn't like the country's leader. So he has to give some $ to a guy at the local XXX food store, who knows somebody who is going there who will pass the money on - hopefully.

Another friend wants to send money home to a friendly country where people don't have international bank accounts so he has to use a money transfer service that charges 20%.

I want to pay a few cents when I read a post/view a youtube video to support the creator. But KYC rules means that it would cost $10s for them to process a payment from my country.

I want an algorithm that pays someone when certain easily verifiable events happen online - but I don't want to pay an accountant and lawyer $1000s to handle this.

There are lots of things that I might want to do with money that are quite legal but difficult with our banking system.

Sony launches a space laser subsidiary (for comms, not conflict)

Re: It's not a weapon

It certainly sent a message to the rest of the rebel alliance - at least the ones not on Alderan at the time.

Re: So Sony wants to fire lasers at satellites

If this is satellite-satellite then eye safety shouldn't t be an issue. They are at least 300km above any pilot and are quite precisely pointed at the destination satellite.

You would need quite a chunky laser to have a Beam Hazard Distance of a satellite on the horizon 300km up. Pointing isn't a big issue, you know where the other satellite is from stored orbital data and a bit of spherical trig.

Advantage apart from bandwidth is as you say, spectrum availability. Even with narrow radio beams you are going to have some overspil and with 1000s of targets all talking at each other you are going to need quite a lot of radio channels.

Re: So Sony wants to fire lasers at satellites

As long as they do it from a volcano lair

Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

Re: Another cause of mass shootings -

So if only a couple of them survive they are still ahead of the Japanese, the USA are just r-strategists

Re: World V USA

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

Tom Clancy - bizarrely enough, I'd love to think that Clancy was actually an ironic comedic writer rather than a CIA based AI.

Tripwires and claymores might be more effective.

Why do you think they have "this side toward enemy" printed on them? Obviously aimed at the educational market.

Re: NRA accepts need for new legislation

I don't mind hunters as long as they clean and eat what they shoot.

In the UK you can own a tank with a shotgun license.

But we have remarkably few tank based school shootings.

This could be the ultimate anti-NRA tactic, every gay pride parade is led by a pink tank and massed ranks of drag queens with pink AR-15s

One of the Dalai Llama's less popular t-shirt slogans

Re: And the problem continues to be

But in the past it was impractical to go around measuring everyone's skull with calipers - now with omnipresent cameras and AI we can do physiognomy cheaply and efficiently

Re: And the problem continues to be

>So, your government doesn't trust its cops either, huh?

No, that's why we have a couple of regiments of elite guards units surrounding the head of state, although sometimes an illegal immigrant ursine predator does get past them.

But we avoid the problem of a bunch of nut-jobspatriots attempting to break in and hang the vice prime-minister by a cunning plan of nobody knowing or caring who he, or she, is.

Re: World V USA

America isn't real - it's a scripted reality show shot on a film stage.

That's why when you visit LA or NY or Florida it looks like a film set or theme park - that's all there is.

Although I will admit they did rather 'jump the shark' with the 2016-2020 season

Re: Another cause of mass shootings -

>If US politicians cared about the lives of babies

They care about controlling women.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament

Re: death-dealing robots, et. al.

Just to be clear Joe Biden didn't kill Kennedy - he missed, because he allowed for the Coriolis effect not realising that the world is flat.

Re: Or as a gun nut friend

"but I need a 50BMG sniper rifle for home defence"

Perhaps if you are some sort of pathetic liberal

I need 155mm for home defense - if those kids in the next town play their music too loud

Re: less than the cost of one armed guard

>But where do we find all those "one armed guards"

AtoS here - you only need 1 finger to pull a trigger: approved for work

Re: And the problem continues to be

>If anyone has a good solution to identify all violent and potentially violent people

They play computer games and listen to that sinful rock music.

Re: death-dealing robots, et. al.

>How do these people get into schools? Mine has keycard controlled doors

How did a kid get into a small town school in Texas?

Inconceivable - he must be Chuck Norris or a cyber-ninja assassin programmed by Bill Gates and George Soros to drop from a stealth black helicopter on wires like Tom Cruise in MI.

Or same way that Joe Biden got into the Texas Book depository to shoot Kennedy - nobody actually locks doors and door locks on small town schools vary slightly from those on missile silos or bank vaults.

Re: Another cause of mass shootings -

There was a historical bloke who tried to suggest alternative behavior to this

- but he got nailed to a tree

Re: less than the cost of one armed guard

>More importantly, what is the profit margin for the supplier?

Pay-Per-Victim

Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems

Re: Launch

Didn't the UK have a test range in Oz?

Compared to the dangerous creatures at ground level going up a snake/croc/spider free gantry to a running rocket seems like a safer option

Re: Why a "retired farmer"?

Or if you are in the windy swamp university that house the British Antarctic Survey you go to the course on handling cryogenics and get a cool lecture on gruesome frostbite from being stuck in crevasses.

Re: Why a "retired farmer"?

After a case where a chemistry PhD student decided to heat something amusingly reactive on an open flame and blew a fume cupboard into his stomach.

So HSE ruled that grad students were public not employees, which caused a whole can of worms about IP. We had to have IP assignments to use any software they wrote.

With everyone convinced they were going to be the Steve Jobs and every uni convinced that they were going to make $$$ from startups - it got a bit fraught

AI-driven HR startup snapped up as companies fight to retain employees

A cunning plan

Hey developer are you thinking of leaving $MEGACORP$ ?

Well the place you planning jumping ship to uses "AI‑powered skills intelligence is the foundation for the future of work," !

Oh, so you decided to stay here? Good......

Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

Re: Well thank Satan for that.

It's the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. Plague, War, Recession and then Exchange Server updates

Higher spec machines lift US PC revenues 40% even as shipments drop

Re: Elephant in the room...

Companies aren't going to roll out Windows11 for at least another year - we certainly aren't.

Home users aren't buying new machines this year, with Win11 or not, because they all bought new laptops to work from home last year.

Compute responsibly: Yet another IT industry sustainability drive

IBM

See we aren't making older expensive works redundant, we are merely recycling them

Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

Android

Other than stopping Apple have a complete monopoly on mobile - do Microsoft actually care about Android, or mobile generally ?

Starlink's success in Ukraine amplifies interest in anti-satellite weapons

Re: Success in Ukraine? PR maybe

A cynical el'reg reader ?

Not at all a slight on Ukraine, just like in a previous conflict it was important to persuade American public opinion to keep the materiel flowing - in that case with Powel&Pressburger movies and David Niven

Re: Success in Ukraine? PR maybe

Ukraine's ability to prosecute the war doesn't depend on secure command&control links between military units.

It depends on meme-worthy videos of tractors capturing tanks being uploaded to Tik-Tok, featuring on American breakfast TV and the US public not getting bored.

Re: The internet is two way

>you'd blat the easily located civilian infrastructure underpinning the network on the ground,

They have satellite-satellite links, you only need an individual satellite to be in view of a ground station for optimal bandwidth.

blatting a ground station in a nearby NATAO country might lead to a serious self-own for the blatter

Re: Physical destruction not practical

But you ping times are going to go up - if you are first-person shooter gaming in the war zone

Re: Would ground/plane based laser be effective ?

>so the immense cloud of debris the destruction would create wouldn't be likely to affect other spacecraft.

Unless you use explosives to inconvenience the target - at which point half the debris goes into higher orbits.

If you can arrange to disable them with a hammer then they will safely remain in the same low orbit.

Police lab wants your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse

Re: Odd...

Because they need to train a system to determine what a happy child looks like. If your child doesn't like that then you are obviously abusing them - even if no picture of the abuse exists.

Re: I’m quite old

Is that why tik-tok videos do that ?

Re: If their "happy" images can't include nudity

'Primitive' women are those that can be shown topless on a magazine cover in a school library without the PTA having a fit of the vapours.

It would be an interesting experiment to determine exactly how 'primitive' they had to be before the AI determined that librarian was to go on a government list.

Re: Efficiency?

So logically put a gun in all your photos of children and they will be approved

Re: Australia

Australia - an imaginary country where even the bunny rabbits are venomous and the politicians can overrule the laws of Mathematics

Re: Nudity = child sex abuse now?

And we need to roll this proven successful program out to your computer at home, and we need to block all that foreign internet - we have Murdoch News (tm) what more information do true patriotic Australians need ?

Re: The great trust pairing

>The AI then identifies all pictures of non-whites as child abuse.

But this is Australia so that won't be a problem

Dear Europe, here again are the reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly

Re: we signed up to the UN convention of the rights of a child

As long as it doesn't stop British 'children' joining the army at 16

Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills

>our Jura filled with organic Yirgacheffe

Assuming one of those is the name of your baby (from context hopefully the first)