Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD

Re: It can't...

Fortunately the Pentagon only has to go up against USSR Russia, N. Korea and Venezuela.

It did try going up against more lean startup-style entrepreneurial enemies in Afghanistan, it didn't go well.

reinventing the wheel

We reinvented the wheel and gave it 5 sides

Research believes that by adding more and more sides we will be able to achieve a smoother ride.

UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups 'targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware'

Re: Well duh

>human rights violations

That's not a problem, we'll only use it against foreigners and terrorists - not humans with rights

Re: Well duh

But we need to develop honest British spyware.

British people have the right to have their privacy violated by honest British spyware developed by honest British paid subcontracted Tata employees

Re: Why does NSO get a free pass from the UK?

It tried to claim sovereign immunity for the Kashoggi murder claiming it was working for the Saudi govt.

Re: Wreck of the Medusa, Ship of Fools.

Yes but the alternative would be that a government IT bod has to clean all the porn off his official phone. You don't want to imagine what sort of stuff senior Tories are into

Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD

Re: Who gets 5nm?

>Does this mean Intel have 5nm pending?

Yes they have solved the technical problem.

They hired an intern who knows how to change the background image on the Powerpoint template from the 7nm(nb not real nm) logo to 5nm(nb not really nm) logo

Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs

Re: Artemis foul?

"every part built by the lowest bidder".

That's really unfair.

Every part was built by the lowest bidder in that congressional district. You try getting an equal value of Apollo components built in Arkansas and West Virginia

Re: might... you forgot the word might.

1, Make a disposable rocket more expensive than the reusable one

2, ?????

3, Profit !

NASA takes the credit when an aerospace company built rover or telescope works

Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist

>If I hold my money in a UK bank

Assuming that the bank on the UK high street is a "UK bank"

Re: Help me understand....

Isn't that the point of lawyers, you hire one to find a way out of the water tight contract you got another one (or the same one) to write?

Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court

But Google insist that you have to show them the same view that you show other visitors.

Google will block you if you show data to them for indexing and block that data to visitors - Google aren't in the business of providing free search for your walled garden

Re: "protect our members' ability to control the information they make available on LinkedIn"

I "architected the vault of the heavens", "created the world in 6days - ahead of schedule" and "invented coffee" according to my Linkedin profile - and I still get job offers for web developer

Re: site stupidity.

if I'm a big headhunting operation and I PAY LOTS OF MONEY to mine LinkedIn's data I'm welcome

Re: site stupidity.

>Once upon a time robots.txt was there to stop scraping but that seems to have worked on the principle of a gentleman's agreement

It was to tell the search engine that this was dynamically generated data that wouldn't be available in future and so shouldn't be indexed.

It wasn't to tell the search engine that it should index it for search, but anybody coming to the site for the result should pay - you have to be some sort of sexchange expert to expect that.

Broken password check algorithm lets anyone log into Cisco's Wi-Fi admin software

Re: I'd guess

Is that like the tiny secret invisible (except to Bloomberg's CEO) Chinese spy chips on Supermicro and Lenovo motherboards ?

Re: I'd guess

You have to picture some engineer deep in the MMB thinking Oh FFS.

He spent years secretly hiding the subtlest of backdoors in CISCO updates and then they do this.

Re: Bug or Backdoor?

Only after you install the security update, the default factory passwd is "password"

Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model?

Computer generated training images

Slight problem with self-driving cars that all head toward the spinning Nvidia logo on billboards

Semiconductor average lead time breaks half-year barrier

Well the 2 most likely lead times are 'in stock' and 'discontinued' so ....

Re: Welcome to the Tech Apocalypse

Wait till the USA runs out of parallel port Zip drives and centronics SCSI cables - then they'll have to come to me

I wondered about that. Last time I was involved in semiconductors we were getting custom stuff made for cheap on obsolete 3" wafer lines.

My understanding is that simple micro-controllers made on 60-100nm designs use what were cutting edge fabs a decade ago. Nobody is going to build a new 100nm fab because the margins on these parts is 1% of bugger-all so it would never pay.

Now in another 10 years there will be lots of 'obsolete' 5-7nm fabs around, but you aren't going to be making power switches on 5nm gates. And even if you just scaled up the design, the costs of a 5nm EUV process, even with the plant paid off, is unsustainable.

So are we going to need to start building lower end fabs? Or are we going to rely on a new round of 3rd world countries, after India and China catch up to TSMC? In 10 years are we going to be moaning about a car shortage because of a fab shutdown in Somalia?

I'd also like to see the detailed stats

Our lead times are either available immediately or 52weeks - cos that's the maximum Digikey list

So the average is ..... 26 weeks

While I suspect that 52weeks = never, so the average lead time is infinity/2 = infinity

Review: Huawei's Matebook X Pro laptop is forgetful and forgettable

Re: Come on

> chuck out the Chinese tech with (allegedly) Chinese spyware and replace it with American tech with American spyware (also allegedly)

Built by the same Chinese contract manufacturer in the same Chinese plant (ironically)

When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue

Re: So it's not just me.

It's the same with shares, every month I supposedly bought an ownership stake in America's 500 biggest companies. But when I went to the supermarket and asked them for my bit of Kraft-Heinz they looked at me like I was mad.

I'm beginning to think this joint stock company stuff is all a big scam.

I think I'll stick to investing directly in ventures, some chap has a scheme for extracting sunlight from cucumbers - but the details are all a bit hush-hush at the moment

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

Re: BHS

All he had to do was make sure he was a non-dom while doing it and he gets the set (and is sent to the House of Lords soon after)

Re: Sorry Elon, but what's the point ?

>You forgot that Pump and Dump schemes are illegal.

>The US SEC would love nothing more than to take Elon down a peg or three.

Only if you are dumb enough to send an email to your accountant saying this is a scheme (which many people have)

Ideal case would be the SEC blocking him, then he can sell his shares walk away with a profit and say "I genuinely tried but the guberment stopped me!" The SEC can hardly sue him for selling after they told him he couldn't buy

Re: Money can't buy maturity

Was he not banned while still wearing the big hat? To be honest I try not to follow US news too closely for medical reasons

If he lets Trump back onto Twitter then the Biden administration will drop the non-existent monopoly investigations because .... 5g chips ... space laser ... vaccines microchips ... the MMB....

Re: "free speech"

Free speech is publishing the political opinions of the owner that don't offend the advertisers

Re: Fixed it for you Elon.

>It's touching that you think the dead tree press has that sort of influence any more.

With young hip el'reg reading IT professionals = no

With people that write to their congressperson = yes

>That approach didn't work for Bezos. He bought the Washington Post and there's plenty of critcism of that vile gazillionaire.

Although it's stance on unions seems to have shifted recently

Re: Money can't buy maturity

>tRump should not have been banned from Twatter

Something that many non-Trump fans also agree with.

Should the head of state be banned from Twitter? From Facebook, from Google, from ICANN ?

Next time it might be your candidate that is banned from the modern world.

Re: Funds?

>The lender knows that you should be good for it, as you have that worth in stock.

If the bank is convinced the stock has long term value they will take the stock as collateral.

You never pay back the loan and the bank takes the stocks when you die.

Effectively you get tax-free money for life in return for considering the bank in your will

Re: Fixed it for you Elon.

If a billionaire wanted to silence critics and spread their own message wouldn't they just buy a major national newspaper?

Amazon expands: Datacenter site planned for Santa Clara

Re: Not sure I'd like to work there

One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires

BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches

Re: Shelf by the window ...

Went to Google (other better search engines are available) to find the name of that stupid expensive counter-top wifi-enabled automatic programmable beer-making machine.

The first result was a comparison of 12 different models on the market....

Re: So tempting

It's a bank holiday here in Jesusland as well. Although possibly it's the killing of a middle-eastern man that they approve of

Re: rule 1

>Always save those old asset tags from deprecated equipment.

I have a box full of old laptop bottom cases with asset tags - we've never found the procedure for disposing of a corporate PC, so officially I have all these laptops

Chromebook sales train derails as market reaches saturation

Re: "Every kid in the developed world"

Well that's the extravagantly funded British education system for you

Re: Not even on my radar

The pixelbook never really made sense. If you are buying a simple webrowser+keyboard why do you need a 11th generation CPU?

Buying $99 refurb Lenovo/Dell base spec 4Gb laptops for the kids to break on the other hand.

Re: Supply chain?

Possibly more inventory in the chromebook supply chain.

If you are making cutting edge laptops with the latest screens, GPUs and processors you don't have a lot of stock on hand because production is ramping up and the models change rapidly.

If you are making bog standard chromebooks by the million you are likely to have longer stable production runs of parts and so much bigger parts stocks.

Re: I was more shocked at how high the numbers are

Every kid in the developed world without an iPad ended up being bought one to do school stuff from home, everyone with an iPad got bought one cos the school work is on Chrome

Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage actually did

Re: Oof

All mistakes are incompetence - that's rather the definition of competence.

But a new deletion script on a hosted environment, would probably have wanted it to have a "show me what you would do but don't do it" mode

Samsung dethrones Intel as chip sector grows 26% in 2021

Despite (and perhaps because) of ongoing shortages,

That's a relief - I was worried that Samsung might be suffering from this unfortunate set of circumstances

Infosys quits Russia, ending UK political and tax scandal … maybe

Re: What Russian invasion?

Just don't tell the home secretary that you can fire cruise missiles at illegal immigrants

What Russian invasion?

The Russian troops were non-dom in Ukraine, for military purposes they were still in barracks in Russia

Auctioneer puts Space Shuttle CPUs under the hammer

Re: Instruction set architecture from IBM's mainframe System/360

Unfortunately the license is not in planet Earth

IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case

Re: "de-aging the workforce was never part of a grand corporate plan"

And then call the plan Project Ruby, cos Ruby is 50th anniversary and the plan was to fire everyone over 50

A classic defence

We have the documentation to prove our innocence - but there's such a lot of it and we are worried the prosecution will tire themselves out reading it.