Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

Two sheds ? What are you, the Queen or something ?

Re: SMRs are expected to produce 300MWe per unit.

I think the people of this country have had enough of the second law of thermodynamics......

Was once explaining to a visiting American how the NMR lab in the chemistry dept was being moved and renamed the MRI lab. To 'I quote' avoid the 'N' word.

He seemed very confused about why we were mentioning the 'N' word. I was even more confused about why he was confused.

This was many years ago before twitter......

Re: Money for old rope

>For example, we spend a lot more money per km of railway than other countries with comparable geographical constraints

Not quite the same.

France = monsieur farmer would you like more money to turn your land into a TGV line than you currently get from the Eu for not farming it ? Mais Oui !

Japan = there is an uninhabited mountain range between two major cities. Get tunnelling. Hai

China = there is nobody living in the flat farmland between these two cities. Excuse me I live here ! (sound of gunshot off screen) There is nobody living in the flat farmland between these two cities

UK = The land between these 2 cities goes through 1000s of privately owned Englishmen's suburban castles, each of which for some reason is worth £1M. And the farmland is all owned by somebody who lives in an actual castle and is in the House of Lords. And there is a rare toad somewhere outside Birmingham so the line will have to go via Lands End.

Re: Money for old rope

"Sorry, we can't join in the fight against Russia over the Ukraine, because they would turn our gas off"

And if they haven't been funding anti-nuclear campaigns in Europe for the last 60 years they are idiots

It is if you have a sufficient containment shed

Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them

Re: Does it go through brick walls?

>A solution that requires a buying expensive kit for every room is not a suitable replacement for cheap cable.

No that would be silly, how would you connect them ?

The proper solution is a hammer drill and add some radio-wave access portals to the walls

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

Re: Pounds ( No Stones)

A proper British furlong or an American one ?

Re: Pounds ( No Stones)

It's always weird when US gives the mass of something enormous in pounds - like a Saturn V weighing 6.5 million pounds.

What's that in Hundredweight ?

Indubitably

JWST unfolding correctly is proof we are living in the Matrix

Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do?

Re: Facebook and an angle grinder--

No, not nearly enuff

Re: Dave?!

So why do they call you Dave then ?

UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'

Re: Let me see …

So Oz is going to start sending its convicts to Britain?

Seems a little cruel

Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

When amanfromMars1 talks about Liz Truss and Govt policy it cancels out and makes sense

Re: Your next PM

Yes missed an 'or', although I am only administrative officer for the week ...

Re: Your next PM

You don't get to PM by thinking you are like everyone else.

You become PM because you were chosen by divine providence to become PM.

(chatty burning bushes watery tarts throwing sword may be involved)

Re: Buzz words

>whenever I hear "liberty" I think "libertarian nutjob".

Over here "Liberty" is a feminine hygiene product

>while having lower crewing requirements

Oz has a fix for that, just let children drive submarines.

Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

So she's going to be prime minister -

Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment

Re: Joint European Tours but it's in Britain

>Tours is in France, you must mean TORUS.

Andiord autocorrect not up on its topological terminology

What's that law that any post pointing out a typo will contain a tpyo ?

New wall at JET is a combination of beryllium and tungsten armour

It may be the Joint European Tours but it's in Britain

EC president promises European Chips Act to quadruple homegrown production by 2030

Re: Not gonna happen

So Greek taxpayers are going to give Billions to a US corporation to double its plant in Ireland while the Eu sues US corporation over its imaginative tax deals with Ireland

Re: So the EU are going to make silicon chips...

Yes I believe those dumb euro commies Intel do this from Eire

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

Re: Oops…

Conclusion - el'reg is part of the government.

>wasnt that because they were using Excel 1972 or something?

No it was because they couldn't do the import properly so they ran out of columns

They managed to make a spreadsheet where each entry was a new column !

Intel plunking down $20bn for at least two chip factories in Ohio

Re: Global Britain.....

Cutting edge fans are full of enormously expensive machines and need an expensive controlled environment

While initiatives are cheap, especially if you only do the announce part

If you want less CGI and more real effects in movies, you may get your wish: Inflatable film studio to orbit Earth

Union rules

Isn't there extra pay for shooting more than 30 miles from Hollywood, and that's why the entire universe seems to look like Topanga canyon and Leo Carrillo beach

How much are the scene shifters going to charge for going to space?

UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure

Re: bonfire

That's the plan.

Make the fee £££ per company with ever increasing registration and reporting costs.

So only GS4/Crapita/etc can afford to play - and non of them can be fined or cancelled because they are a vital part of infrastructure.

The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

Re: More Lost Jobs

Don't worry there will still be foreign robots to blame.

Coming over here using our electricity, interfacing with our servers

Re: Yikes

> huge need for green energy workers

We prefer the term compost

Re: Christ on an self driving electric bicycle. What have I just read?

If an omniscient deity is on a self-driving bicycle ?

That would be an ecumenical matter....

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

Ban private jets - problem solved

Re: Power

They know who is conspiring against them, it's backbenchers and usually the home secretary

I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

Re: Higher Academe

>so many pure loonies hold doctorates

As do so many super-villains

I'm not saying i wouldn't use my PhD for evil, it's just that the HR issues in recruiting and replacing so many henchmen seems like a lot of hassle.

Although an indoor monorail would be awesome.

Re: Plot For A Film

> All the falsely sued Bitcoin developers having to fly into London to appear before a judge on a fraudulent claim, with the stress of an unpredictable outcome, and constant demands on their finances to fund their defence costs

Which is presumably the aim. He does some sort of deal with their solicitors where they agree to support his claim in return for them being dropped.

He then shops the case around jurisdictions until he finds a judge and jury <cough>East Texas</cough> who decide for him because he has an American Flag hat and this Satoshi guy sounds like a gook.

He gets a judgement against Coinbase or Binance for a few $10M in damages and they pay because they are worth $Bn and its cheaper than a threat to their SEC licence.

It's just the old patent troll model with magic beans

Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it

Assuming the 5G aren't leaking signal 200MHz out of band.

Always wondered that for FCC certification, you certify that your device doesn't emit harmfull RF and you also certify that you aren't affected by external RF

Protectionism ?

>mobile industry to cough up $100m or so to pay for altimeter upgrades.

And that money will be distributed to everyone?

The FCC will pay for Chinese and Gulf airlines to update their planes - or will only US airlines be able to land at SFO in fog ?

UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making

Re: How to legaly discriminate

No it's perfectly fair.

We fed the AI totally unbiased data in the form of CVs of all our previous board members - and the system calculated that we should only hire sons of former members who went to Eton and Oxford

It's totally unbiased and data driven.

UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law

Re: It's all ok!

MoJ declares ICO terrorists and has them all deported

Fire in Berlin factory won't 'significantly' impact output, says ASML

Do we need a new word?

I don't think many of the mask engravings are on stone anymore

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

Re: Governments

A certain ex-member of PinkFloyd was notorious for splitting his contribution into 2 parts so he got double the royaly share

No it would be quite simple

The open source contributor just has to pay to take the company software buyer on a golf trip....

Buy 'em by the punnet: Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk

Re: Brilliant little devices.

That's what the little glass window is for

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

Sending email from Linux isn't the best practice, with Linux you could be using the same operating system as any number of bad actors.

By paying for IBM Z/OS you are sure that IBM's customers aren't sending mass scam emails

>Strangely @work, which only recently transitioned to O365, does not think that this is an issue at all.

They tested sending messages to somebody else in the company and it worked so the problem must be outside

Re: Mark my words...

Not much point if Google / Microsoft / Apple refuse to deliver your email to their clients.

Re: Bully boy tactics

Unless you are a convicted monopolist operating under an agreement with the feds and you block a competitor to a service that you have just announced in your latest financials as a major profit center.

Then you can expect a distinctly different look from the judges compared to Spamhaus - especially if you sue them in th eeu

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

Re: Sanctions

Isn't Google's Quantum Computer Canadian

Re: Sanctions

2 people with undergrad maths degrees living in a swamp designed the ARM.

North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report

Texans pay for parking ?

I assumed they just tied their F150s to the hitching rail and mosyed into McDs

Actually I didn't think they ever got out of their trucks. I'm picturing remote work just being everybody sitting in their truck in the parking lot