Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare?

Re: USA change its date format ...

>time 24:00:00 doesn't actually exist

What about 23:59:60 ?

Re: USA change its date format ...

Whereas we had to rename a royal family, turn German Shepards into Alsatians and swap the names of a bunch of towns in Canada

Re: if programmed correctly, mean that a straightforward update will do the trick

Can we lay off the reasonable comments? We need clicks here!

Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

Re: Who do I trust?

Waiting for Kapersky to do a John McAfee video explaining how to uninstall ?

Re: Who do I trust?

>This reminds me of SMTP admins that used to geoblock entire continents

You say that, but I get very little spam from Antarctica

Re: Kaspersky [ ... ] does not have any ties to the Russian government

>King's College, Cambridge is a special school funded and managed by the KGB/FSB, for the sole purpose of recruiting and training future KGB/FSB agents?

Well it was founded by a schizophrenic who claimed to be king of France, to ask God to forgive his dad for killing so many Frenchmen, but by the 60s ......

ps Peterhouse is run by the CIA to produce perfect Republican (in the American sense) Tory MPs.

In order of ease/effectiveness

Have your machine behind a router, after the crappy one your ISP supplies.

Get SO a chromebook

Don't install random windows software

Don't add toolbars / plugins etc (except from chrome store that have 1M+ downloads)

Use Brave browser

Install piHole

Re: Kaspersky [ ... ] does not have any ties to the Russian government

By which 'logic' Herman Hauser (founder of ARM) going to King's College Cambridge - home of all the 1960s Blunt/Philby/Maclean spies - means that ARM is a front for the USSR/KGB

Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany

>In my books they lost that right due to the English teachers they sent to India then long ago.

Was this like sending all the criminals to Australia ?

Re: Writing

>I wasn’t aware FIFA mandated extra big (soccer) Football fields

I feel there is a new unit of a FIFA world cup bribe amount

The HS2 costs 2 FWCB, the GDP drop due to brexit will be 10 FWCB etc

Re: 'the wrong metaphor'

Not 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 ?

Re: No ASML or Imec

"Belgian zombie government" - the name of my band

Re: Writing

In addition to all this plough(or plow) is the wrong metaphor

You don't plough/plow seed, plowing/ploughing is turning stuff over or pushing it to the side.

On 2nd thoughts perhaps ploughing government money is a perfect metaphor

nm = nautical mile

Half of bosses out of touch with reality, study shows

Re: Easing?

Microsoft, the maker of the original personal computer software that let you do computer stuff from a personal computer rather than needing to be in the big room with the big computer, and now makers of the team software that lets a team work together from anywhere.

Is insisting that all their workers must come and sit together in the big room with the big computer ?

Ireland: Meta fined $18.6m for breaking EU's GDPR

Re: "Meta has received an $18.6m (€17m) fine"

The problem with data protection law is that it's enforced by the same government that is offering the company financial incentives to locate there.

Imagine if employment law was enforced by the chamber of commerce.

Ford to sell unfinished Explorers as chip shortage bites

The site of a herd of unfinished Broncos, shurely ed.

Re: Quite frankly ...

You don't NEED a battery, you can just put a small reliable Honda generator in the back to power the motors

Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computer system

Re: Microsoft & Quantum Computing

We have made Edge your default browser - unless you observe it

Chip world's major suppliers of neon gas shut down by Ukraine invasion – report

Re: Even Worse

It used to be that the quartz for the crucibles used to melt the silicon for wafers all came from one seam in one mine in the USA.

It was never worth the risk of making a furnace from anywhere else because some tiny impurity could screw up all your wafer supply - perhaps in some way that you don't discover until you have made devices.

Re: Theres a bit of Neon in

It's one of those things where it isn't worth getting into the market (except for wars)

You could fit collection, purification, liquification, storage and transportation equipment and you might make the same profit as the existing single plant in $Country$. Except they already have paid for all this plant and they already have contracts with the few people who are customers for this. 2 suppliers wouldn't grow the market enough to support 2 suppliers.

It's especially common where you require some purity standard that you can't really specify other than knowing that existing supplier X seems to work - so long as they don't change their process. This seems to apply to almost all materials used in the semiconductor industry.

Re: Unlike fscking Helium

>and H2 is a whole lot worse when it comes to leaks.

Yes but at some point it will explode and solve the whole leak problem !

ps I wonder if H2 leaks are less of a problem if they would form chemical bonds when squeezed through a tiny gap in some metal seal?

Re: Theres a bit of Neon in

ps The biggest of the noble gases you can buy cheaply from BOC (yes I know Krypton and Xenon are bigger (and still fsck Helium))

>EU can't buy Russian fertiliser. Consumers suffer,

The Eu will survive, they can buy Canadian fertilizer and Canadian or American wheat.

Russia and Ukraine are 20% of the world's wheat exports.

It's the poor countries that are going to suffer. Which poor countries with large populations are on easy sea routes from the Black sea? Perhaps Russia will send some wheat to prop up Syria but wheat is going to get seriously scarce in Egypt/Libya/Algeria/Morocco and I can't imagine the USA rushing aid shipments to a bunch of brown people in countries with the wrong version of their fairy tales.

I wonder if Europe will be as welcoming for for 10-millions of starving North African refugees as it is for Ukrainians?

Re: Why do chips need neon?

HeNe is only used for "regular" UV lasers. The EUV black-magic fuckery with tin plasma, megawatt lasers (and probably stargates) that you need for 5nm TSMC stuff doesn't need it.

Re: Theres a bit of Neon in

Inert atmospheres that can't use Nitrogen tend to use Argon (rather than other noble gases) it's the biggest atom so it's easiest to leak control.

Unlike fscking Helium that can leak out of a black hole, fsckign helium I still hate you......

Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram

Re: About the only thing that Putin

>Pretty sure Farcebook aren't literally armed to the teeth with actual munitions,

Wonder how many of the 1M American covid victims are due to Facebook anti-vax pages

China's top tech city Shenzhen locks down completely for at least a week

Re: Oligarchy

>Could you clarify why Gates and Bezos are part of NATO

NATO is also North American Theatre Owners (cinema trade body). I was new to movie effects software when I was told the head of NATO was visiting. I was surprised at the lack of security

But freedum

It's only a 1000 sick people. Haven't they thought about the global supply chains? I really need my new RGB case lights. The tat must flow ....

New US law: Cyberattacks to be reported within 72 hours

Re: Law Abiding Citizens

300 million users emailing the equivalent of 911 when a site doesn't load or they get a spam email ?

Intel eyes subscriptions to grow software sales from 2021's $100m

Your new i7 comes with 8bits for free. You buy another 8bits in the base package. But 32 and 64 are only available in our premium tiers, and for some reason you also have to buy ESPN

114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

Compared to the cost of the people in these industries, that's the daily cost of a color mixer or editor.

Mary Coombs, first woman commercial programmer, dies at 93

> When you said you were a programmer, they didn't know what that meant." .... should resonate

Nonsense, I react node.js backend through docker to spurgle AWS to SAP interop wibble furble

Actually I do math stuff for image processing in CUDA but web backends always sounds like gibberish.

Re: From the Cadby Hall wikipedia article

woman<citation needed> Prime Minister

Re: First time I heard of her -- thanks!

Interesting that many of the first computer programmers/operators were women and this continued into the 60s mainframes.

Assuming that this was because it was considered closer to telephone switchboard operator, in the early days, and then just 'typing' once consoles appeared. While the soldering wires was obviously 'proper' electrical engineering and therefore man's work.

Just scale. IBM was already a massive business machines company before computers, running every business and every US government dept.

A British tea shoppe is unlikely to be able to compete.

Uncle Sam has a datacenter waste problem

Re: US Government?

I tried to buy a gold bar once for this very reason.

Our research grant had £30K in it for a mobile crane to position part of a detector - but it was easier to do it with half-a-dozen slavesgrad-students. We had to spend the budget that year but we didn't have any budget for consumables in the future once the detector was built.

There was a part number for gold wire in the stores catalogue, I wanted to buy a gold bar, about £30K in those days, and then sell it next year.

This was apparently silly/fraud/not-the-way-we-do-things so we bought a fancy oscilloscope for another group and they promised to pay for our stuff, and everyone was happy.

Re: quite a bit of growth

Also if you a local BOFH for some government agency wouldn't you rather run a datacenter rather than a couple of server closets? Time for a new sign on the door

Re: This is the result of an organizational problem

And if you do report your datacenter is only running at 49% capacity it would obviously make sense to merge it with another organization that is using 51%. So you will get taken over unless you can get your utilization up above half.

Time for some bitcoin mining or just wrapping all tasks in docker containers till the fans are roaring

BOFH: Gaming rig for your home office? Yeah right

Re: Please do remember...

>You are aware that the BOFH is fiction right?

Oh you sweet innocent child ....

The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase

Re: "nowadays we have zero of those conversations"

If only they had demonstrated running 1000s of copies of Linux on a mainframe in the 90s they could have owned the cloud and owned customers transitioning off mainframes.

But that would have hit OS license maintenance fees that quarter

Moscow to issue HTTPS certs to Russian websites

Re: Fake facts

Honest question from someone whose network admin is limited to wiggling a dodgy bit of cat-5

My browser has lots of certs included from places that I don't necessarily trust (ie. Belgium),

That can't change the trust certificates for microsoft.com but they could sign a certificate for "totally-not-a-scam.microsoft-updates.com" and my browser would show a reassuring green padlock and hover-over could even say it was registered to "Microsoft Ltd" if that's what the naughty people had put in their registration.

Am I understanding this correctly ?

Oh Mr La Di Da Di southerner with your use once and throw it away teabags.

We used work 25hours a day in t'tea mines for t'tpence a month .... etc ... etc

>If Kenya, India and Sri Lanka should ever form any kind of alliance - then they would have control of our tea supplies

Can't we all just drink Yorkshire tea?

The deployment of "special" forces has been delayed because the tanks don't have windows to lick ?

And when any packet went between them DHL would charge you a $50 handling fee

SEC proposes four-day rule for public companies to report cyberattacks

Re: Good but legislation still needed

It also incentives companies to reduce security monitoring. If you don't know about an attack, you don't have to report it.

NASA awaits approval of $24bn 2022 budget

Re: Hmm

The point of NASA is to spend US taxpayer's money in the USA. Any science is a by product.

Pretty much the same is true of the DoD, NASA just does leas collateral damage

Re: Such a pity..

>Is money freed up from leaving Afghanistan

Sadly no, a big chunk of the $tn is the ongoing pension/medical benefits for veterans.

If cases for actual harm from things like waste burning go through it could go up a bunch