Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Quantum computing startup probed in report, securities suit

Wow, have you told all the major universities and technology companies about your insight?

It could save them a lot of time and money

HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus

Re: Wrong HP

1, We have supply chain problems and shortages

2, we stopped $1Bn of kit going to Russia

3, we sell that kit in richer markets - profit

UK opens up 'high-potential individual route' for tech worker immigration

Re: Hmm

>One of the remain arguments was that freedom of movement didnt depress wages. A lie that has been sunk over and over.

Or it depressed individual wages, if you had no skills and were competing with cheap immigrants for fruit picking jobs, but raised overall wages because it grew the economy and created jobs.

You could go back to guilds, have all developers make £M but there would be no jobs for developers because nobody could afford one.

Re: "London was the tech capital of Europe"

Perhaps in the Maudslay and Whitworth era

Re: With respect, that's bollocks Sir

Any american that qualifies for this visa is going to see a massive drop in medical care coming to the UK.

Medical costs in the US are insane and options really suck if you are poor, black and/or live in Alabama.

But if you have a Stanford CS PhD and work for a FAANG with their medical insurance - then moving to London is going to be a bit of a surprise when you sprain your ankle playing squash and expect to get an MRI on the NHS within an hour.

Re: It's all fizz, pop, and bang

Have they considered exit visas, to solve the skills shortage?

Asking as a Cambridge PhD graduate enjoying the West Coast life rather than working in London being paid less than a tube driver.

>remove the possibility of freeloading on the NHS.

So they aren't paying any tax or NI?

In fact the NHS is freeloading off them. They will be paying top rates of tax which will go to the NHS care of the elderly, where nearly all health spending goes. Young graduates aren't a drain on the NHS whatever their skin colour

Re: "London was the tech capital of Europe"

For certain areas of tech, the important part is the 'was'

TomTom to chop 10% of workforce, blames automation tech

TomTom

Is still a thing?

California Right-to-Repair bill quietly killed in committee

Sorry rich and 'poor' damn autcompleate

How the F--- is this legal?

Everyone is free to bribe politicians, rich and port alike - that's democracy!

Qualcomm among queue of suitors chasing a stake in Arm

Re: No foresight required

Profit is not the same as market cap.

It had an income of $1.27Bn, Softbank are cadgy about it's profitability (adding or subtracting one time sales of 51% to china depending on who they are talking to)

But even if they have a 50% operating margin - you are paying >$60Bn for a company that makes $500M profit? That's a pretty long term payback if you are doing this purely for the dividends

Re: No foresight required

The problem is that ARM's model isn't that profitable,

It can only charge licensees bugger-all% of what it would cost to make their own design or switch to RISC-V.

Large scale architecture licensees gain most value but pay even less.

ARM's only value to a buyer is to stop a competitor owning it.

Fusion won't avert need for climate change 'sacrifice', says nuclear energy expert

The point is that if we currently get 25MW/person of sparkling sunshine - the concern that we are going to cook everyone by having 8bn smart speakers on standby is overblown.

Newport Wafer Fab could be sold to US consortium – report

But once we are free of French metres Britain will be free to export Imperial cricket pitches anywhere in the world

Re: There you are

But that's the advantage of doing this with a defence contractor - you know that the government will bail it out

IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots

>Subway human conveyor belt

"Sandwich artistes" please

Re: do you want fries with that?

Except it doesn't have student loans

Re: Amazing

You are probably discarding the wrong part

Re: Amazing

Just need to invent a robot to eat it

Tomorrow's story

IBM in age-discrimination lawsuit for making all McD staff over 16 redundant

Renegotiating a Salesforce software agreement? It could take up to two years

SAASAAS

Somebody could create an online service which automatically processed complex software licensing agreements - Software As A Services As A Service

Zero-day vuln in Microsoft Office: 'Follina' will work even when macros are disabled

All software expands until it can silently install viruses

Re: Clay Tablets

Any news of a vulnerability in vi+Latex yet ?

Experts: AI inventors' designs should be protected in law

Re: It could come back to bite them...

Or it could be good for reinforcing the role of inventor.

If you say the admin that ran the AI app is the real inventor because they enabled it then the CEO can claim to be the inventor of everything the employees invent

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

You own the resulting design, I just wonder if you can legitimately claim to be the inventor (for patent purposes) when you don't know how it works.

This already happens with antenna design. There are mobile phone antennas designed by genetic algorithms where there is no process to understand the design.

Re: Hell No!

If a corporation is a person in the USA how can it stand up in court and defend a lawsuit?

Re: No AI patents.

That could be the strategy.

The initial filing and first few years of fees are fairly low - the cost is all in preparation, lawyers, responses, appeals etc. Especially in the USA if you have in-house legal it can be reasonably cheap in bulk.

So an AI sprouting Markov chain gibberish (of the level of amanfromMars1) could be used to threaten competitors, Look at our 100,000 patents, just have your lawyer go through all of them and check you don't violate any - otherwise we will sue you for millions.

Re: Duh...

>But once you've got the machine, you give it some data, it churns a lot, and out comes whatever. You haven't contributed anything, except the data, and the program was constructed using known methods.

Same as creating a child. Doesn't mean it can't create anything because it only has the DNA you created it with

Re: No.

The purpose of patent law is to encourage inventors to make inventions public for the benefit of personkind - rather than to keep them secret so they can't be stolen.

In return the government grants a temporary monopoly to reward the inventor.

None of this matters whether the inventor is a man, women, child, mutant hamster or AI.

Their implementation in hardware can be patented everywhere, in software it can be patented in the USA at least

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

Ok suppose there you are using a CFD package that uses neural nets/genetic algorithms/adiabatic solvers/magic pixies etc, and it outputs some hull design which is more efficient and you can't explain why - have you 'invented' it ?

Should you get the patent, or the software, or the software creator ?

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

Also a question of why it's a $.

If there has to be 'a consideration' for it to be a contract (which arguably it isn't - i'm effectively signing the assignment under the threat of being fired) it could be a coffee from our free machine or a sweetie from the bowl in reception

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

RP obviously had more influence with the bosses of the Manhattan Project than I have at $MEGACORP$

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

>but the patent should belong to the creators or programmers of the AI,

Just like regular patents, the inventors almost always assigns them to their employer.

For weird contract reasons it is in consideration for $1 - which you never seem to actually get

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

Re: Einstein was right.

>Or navies have more admirals than ships?

I think that's because admirals are much cheaper than ships and defence funding cuts never seem to get as far as the pink gin supply.

But navies do suffer from importance = size of crew commanded. So a small highly automated stealthy missile platform capable of wiping out an entire fleet, but with a crew of 3 , never seems to get funding

Re: Don’t know about you

>1. to protect you from what you are handling/working on.

That's why she is always infuriated with people walking around outside the lab with presumably the same gloves they were wearing in the lab, which can be assumed to be covered in $NASTY_CHEMICAL$

Re: Don’t know about you

When you see someone wearing gloves in the corridor - think about what that means

Re: never underestimate the stupidity of people...

>Curiosity is not stupidity.

Curiosity is wondering what would happen if you inserted a body part in some unfamiliar industrial equipment.

Wisdom is observing what happens when somebody else does it first

Re: Don’t know about you

Partner is a Chemist - never touch any door handles in the lab.

Re: Dogs

Airbus aircraft make a characteristic growling noise from under the floor when they push back.

Legend is that since Airbus are so automated it's extra important that the pilot doesn't touch the computers, so they have a kennel with a spare dog.

(It's a backup hydraulic reservoir or something equalising when the engines start)

Re: Dogs

She went to live on a farm in upstate right ?

Re: Einstein was right.

> why do we need these astronauts again?

So they can run for $political-office$ because they are "heroes" and ensure funding for the next generation of vehicles. It's why every modern armed forces have so many more expensive jet fighters than useful kit.

Re: Dogs

There is A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison - but that's a slightly different story, with a happier ending

Re: Next time

The old adjutants lament:

50% ignore the notice

30% read it but don't understand it

20% read it, understand it, and ignore it

BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?

Re: We had a copier engineer once...

Had that with a certain 3 letter word cable ISP in the UK

We don't service your address.

There is a box with your name moulded in it and a coax cable coming out of the wall

Nothing to do with us.

OK, I have in my hands a PATT tester with a 5kv insulation test. If I were to hook it up to the bit of cable that is nothing to do with you - you wouldn't mind?

Er, can i take your address again

Re: We had the opposite ...

Of course that is in a fantasy world on the back of a giant turtle - in the real world there is no way that annual budgets would be based on such a ridiculous premise

Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs

Good Spin

"War in Ukraine" is good because it's not your fault and is a one off

So expect it to get added to each earnings call.

Zeppelin sales are down this year due to "the war in Ukraine and existence of jet aeroplanes"