Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US won’t prosecute ‘good faith’ security researchers under CFAA

Judge Dredd dispensed 'justice' without favouritism, politics or racism - he is an idealised dream of the US justice system.

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

Re: Yes, but...

So you're looking for technology to lift chips out of hot oil ?

That might be the cutting edge breakthough the Sheffield company mentioned above discovered

Mineral oil?

Why not use lard then you can make chips at the same time ?

IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans

Re: "reached numerous settlements"

>America has the best government money can buy!

Really, this is the best you can buy?

Are we sure, can we bring in some H1Bs instead ?

The trouble is that most of these prisoners are pretty low skill, so even if you don't pay them it's of limited economic benefit to make license plates.

If you were to imprison more Derivatives Traders / Movie Actors / Popular Music Artistes - then you could turn a much better profit from the slave labour

But while you might 'physically' be cleaning toilets in a Trump Hotel in New York, you are on-paper working in the British Virgin Islands / Narnia so NY wage laws don't apply

>That would solve the problem, wouldn't it?

Yes but it would make it rather less profitable to run say a luxury hotel in New York

Apple scraps 3-day return to office amid COVID-19 cases

Re: "not everyone is yet ready to return to the corporate altar"

>When leasing, using all of the cubic all of the time is getting the most return.

We paid for these toilets so we're getting the best financial return the more time our employees spend on them.

So beer and dodgy kebabs are now compulsory at every morning meeting

Re: Double Speak

I think at this point it's a game.

Hey Apple, "Simon says.....do you have a comment to make"

Re: "not everyone is yet ready to return to the corporate altar"

>The fact they built these very large and expensive buildings is a mistake in hindsight (but maybe not at the time).

to be fair, when Apple and Google built their $Bn headquarters 10 years ago they had no idea that the invention of personal computers and the internet would let people work outside the office.

Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled

Re: Bring it on

Like HPE suing Oracle - you don't care who wins, you just want the fight to go to 12 rounds

Infusion of $3.5bn not enough to revive Terra's 'stablecoin'

Japanese semiconductor plants demonstrated their faith in their environmental standards by putting $$$$ worth of Koi in ponds fed by the cleaned waste water.

A UK lab followed the same policy, only to have the whole lot killed the first time the local farmer muck spread and all the rain water runoff went into the ponds.

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

Re: Cyclists are road users, too

The Subaru could have been swerving to avoid an endangered species of toad when it aimed at the cyclist

Re: But you musk ride a bike....

Pedalphiles oerhaps

Tricky technology

Cyclists are a lot smaller and a lot less predictable than cars - so obviously harder for the algorithms to hunt down and hit - but they are improving.

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

Re: If corporations are persons with Rights...

>Or will they only be allowed to shoot at other cars?

Not a good time to own a black car !

September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job

The 2nd mouse gets the cheese

Re: my early bird antics cost them over 40k

IIRC a certain ferrous female politician declared we would enter at a GBP:DM level, which made the economists say WTF, based on the very reasonable economic argument of who won the war then ?

And then expected the German central bank to support the pound

Re: my early bird antics cost them over 40k

So nothing to do wife the UK entering the ERM at a politically chosen ludicrously high rate for the GBP - to demonstrate our superiority over the Germans

Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker

I think he was feeling a bit under the weather, probably a virus going around

Re: Closed wallets caused by Covid-19 lockdowns?

Its because the MMB are manipulating the chip market to force you to buy new phones with the secret feature

Re: Closed wallets caused by Covid-19 lockdowns?

Other countries threw money at the lockdowned people so they would go on a shopping spree, share prices would go higher and the rich shareholders would get richer.

China's political system does not depend on the rich getting richer to keep the politicians in power.

Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months

Re: No need to charge your phone any more

With work from home fewer people are bringing their pet algae into the office every day

D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system

Or to remind us of the groundbreaking Sinclair business machine that gave the world the microdrive we all rely on

physically located in the US

Probably, - unless you try and measure its momentum

But what if?

The computer in the USA is quantum entangled with one back in Vancouver?

Bosses using AI to hire candidates risk discriminating against disabled applicants

> that tells me everything I need to know about that company, and certainly wont be working for them.

No you won't because this software isn't for your sort of job.

The jobs reg readers are applying for filter out resumes that didn't include keywords: C/C++, Python, SQL or VERB-of-the-MONTH.js in the first paragraph. Then they filter out the ones that don't have a CS degree from a top 10 uni (candidates over 30) or an internship at a FAANG (candidates under 30) = all a very human based process.

But if you are recruiting 100,000 Amazon warehouse staff this month - you aren't going to have the CEO contact each of them to ask them questions about where they see themselves in 5 years and describe a time when they failed and what they learned from it.

TSMC, Samsung plan price hikes for chip designers – reports

Re: New foundries

Assuming that some politician isn't 'encouraged' to introduce a law requiring Federal computers to use chips made in the USA (for security reasons) so these TSMC/Samsung Freedom Chips are going to be 10x the price - so leaving TSMC/Samsung with even more pricing power on their foreign chips

AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

>well its taken them nigh on 30 years so no big achievement really

Because upto now if you shipped AMD in anything other than a few agreed low end toys, you would suddenly find you couldn't buy Intel chips for your lucrative server line, or SSDs or Gige network chips

Now being ignored by Intel's salesmen isn't such a big threat

Europe proposes tackling child abuse by killing privacy, strong encryption

Re: 1 in 5?

It's always a fun one to include in Pi charts

50% of server failures caused by Veloceraptor attack or PSU fail

30% caused by cooling fail

20% etc

Re: At Kitten...

>May I humbly suggest including James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegan's Wake',

IIRC the 'hand over all your encryption keys' law also required you to reveal the hidden meaning of any apparently unencrypted messages.

Picturing Special Branch breaking into your house, seizing your copy of Gravity's Rainbow and demanding to know what the author meant by it

Re: What was the proportion of kiddie fiddlers again ?

>I wonder how crimes were solved before the internet?

Arresting the nearest Catholic / Jewish / Black / Irish man (delete by appropriate century)

Re: What was the proportion of kiddie fiddlers again ?

>So essentially build "Britnet" -= all family friendly, child safe, govt approved content, no foreign rubbish or filth"

It should be Royal Britnet, with some Princely Royal in charge. Somebody not next in line to be king with a nice uniform and no other job

Re: Scunthorpe

When the law was introduced a nice man from the Home Office came to talk to our computer dept.

We asked what happened to data files from simulations that were random and so couldn't be proved not to be encrypted data.

Essentially we were told not to worry our pretty little heads about it since the law was only for use against terrorists and/or international drug dealers

Re: Scunthorpe

>And did it make any difference?

Yes the sender went on "a list"

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW

Re: do we really need DALL·E 2 to generate a picture of a cup of soup?

There have been neural nets and genetic algos that have produced 'art' (for whatever thats worth) but this seems to have just discovered that the median google image has a moon at the top and food at the bottom

Re: The word "understanding" is problematic

And water doesn't really 'find' it's own level, electricity doesn't really 'choose' the lowest resistance path and the ground doesn't 'supply' a reaction force to a load - but it's an easier way to describe a behavior

Re: The real world as it is, or as you'd like it?

If I said 'flight attendant' did you immediately picture a craggy native american old man?

No? Then you are a racist, sexist, homophobic ageist

Re: Societal stereotypes

But what it should do is reflect the answer you want.

That's why the Gruniad's public transport app always shows you that a TGV will be arriving within a minute for a 1 quid fare into London at rush hour.

Re: "Trained on images scraped on the internet"

Better than being trained on proper art, or all we would have is naked fat birds and a bit of gauze

Re: Sorry, computer said "no"

> an artist could happen upon somebody who would recognize his/her potential

And assuming that they were 'friendly' with the producer they might have a chance.

Now everyone makes music, uploads it and hopes the algorithms recommend it to enough people

Motorola benefits from delays in the UK's emergency services network, says govt

Re: the financial incentives on Motorola to leverage its position have increased

Lessons have been learned and the fire service contract has been given to Bob's Flammable Liquids Matches sales and Arsonists LTD

Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide

>? And who keeps on bank rolling Uber?

People who believe that once Uber has replaced taxis everywhere on the planet and public transport in most rural areas they will be able to turn the screws employ pricing power and make money

Or idiots with other people's money

An international incident or just some finger trouble at the console?

Re: always do the secondary

> can failover to the secondary

And you still believe in Santa Clause?

Looking at menu.

Do you know what that is?

No but I can solve it!

Re: Typing is not a good idea.

A password manager is the perfect tool to collect all the passwords of the weak minded.

Instead you should use a 32digit password for all accounts using upper and lower case,numbers and symbols from at least 2 different eldritch rune alphabets.

You should also change them monthly and never reuse any.

Re: At long last...

The greatest trick the Illuminati ever pulled was convincing you they didn't exist

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

Re: re: rebellious Scots...

>Perhaps Scotland does not want the USA monitoring it

Fine assuming it completely dominates all its global trade relationships it can do what it wants.

Re: re: rebellious Scots...

>Defend the arctic against whom and for whom?

Against Russia's rather large and well funded nuclear submarine fleet and for the USA that currently spends $$$ monitoring the UK-Iceland-Greenland line.

Of course the USA could decide that an independent neutral Scotland is more important and give up worrying about a dozen world destroying vessels having free passage to their shores.