Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server

Re: Speed compensation

Alternatively he could return the drives to Amazon for a refund while earning $$$ through YT ads and referable links while getting lots of free publicity from el'reg

Re: Such opportunity. The like of which you've never seen...

Your sailboat reno video needs to include lots of pictures of you in a bikini (recommending you shave your back)

Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?

Re: Always silly

There are community heating schemes. the problem is that in the summer people want the plant to keep running but don't want the heat. So you need to build an extra cooling system which you need to maintain all winter when you aren't using it - sometimes you even need to heat it to stop stuff freezing !

Re: I have a blueprint

But the logo is obvious

I have a blueprint

To repurpose disused coal mines as high speed rail.

Well when I say a blueprint, more a concept, well call it a bullet point, but we hope to have a logo in a couple of months then an acronym

UK government publishes guidance on security rules for tech takeovers

Re: So, basically..

No Land Rover the: Critical Suppliers to Government, Defence, Military and Dual-Use, Transport company - no way they would allow that to be bought by Asiatics

Re: 18. Political Party Donations From Foreign Interests.

You can still buy power and water suppliers and newspapers

Re: So, basically..

Yes but it would stop foreigners taking over LandRover (clause 7,11,12,15,17)

A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Re: Hmmmmm

> Ironically most of those British Brilliants now want to maximize their stock options which will may conflict with the best interests of ARM future growth.

ARM is now wholly owned by Softbank (and therefore by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund) any stock options would either have been paid out or cancelled when it was bought

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

>all Ministers, from all governments, all of the time, take advice from their expert advisory bodies

Except presumably the Slithy Gove ?

Re: "The CMA will now report to me and provide advice on the next steps"

I assume the ministerial summary is just smiley face / frowny face emoji ?

Are you suggesting that the government should interfere in the free markets and stop water companies being sold to foreign enterprises for some sort of spurious "good of the people" / "national interest" reasons ?

Good God man, this is only drinking water were talking about not something vital like a merchant bank

Re: Can anyone explain ...

>UK Gov does indeed have a legit influence because Arm is UK based

Currently. Even if the former colonies have no geeks of their own they may be able to persuade some of those in Cambridge that San Francisco is equally cold and windy - albeit with 5x the salary

Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle

Re: Navigators? You mean back-seat drivers...

In the USA I think they are rear-gunners

Re: recreated in Lego form

Or they could send up the LEGO sets instead - it would be much cheaper

These are very small but those are a long way away.......

recreated in Lego form

Fake news - this is a model from the original filming set

Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

Re: Capabilities

>Saudi Arabia is spooked by Iran, a lesser extent Iraq. 48 Billion & 8.4% of GDP, is highest GDP. But seems disproprotionate

Saudi Arabia is spooked by the problem of people not being able to buy oil in US $.

That's why they have to find a way of returning USD to the USA to keep the global economy running - they do this by buying vast numbers of M1 Abrams that are never going to be used.

Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

Re: I for one welcome our

I don't believe he gets angry, he gets even.....

Re: Californium-252

But in California there would be a warning because of the solvent in the ink on the box

Re: I for one welcome our

Don't make the BOFH angry, your wouldn't like him when he's angry

Re: How about a really large archive?

>Good luck modulating an atom bomb.

Morse + lots of bombs

Re: How about a really large archive?

Or perhaps the ultimate "reply-all" ?

Re: Californium-252

I assume a Californium-252 source is it's own Prop65 warning ?

Re: Back of the envelope calculations (mostly using E=mv^2)

>possibly transfer data through the earth at some slightly more reasonable rate

Although not very far

Re: :-) Hello Worlds. What’s Not to Like....

Well not proper English anyway.

Bloody martians, coming here in their tripods tekin ar jerbs

Re: a small step

"Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" ?

Re: Now if they could do this with neutrinos...

So rounded corners then? Could be a problem

The paperless office is back again! (But only because print hardware supplies are jammed)

Re: Maybe not.

Not the fact that you're working at home and having to use your own printer and your own 'gasp' ink ?

What do you mean, 'Microsoft doesn't care about Windows on Arm'? Here's a cheap, underpowered test rig

Re: "Still, it's only a matter of time before somebody boots Linux on the thing"

Why install Linux on this ? Because it's there !

Re: Seems like an afterthought

>The OS/2 SDK cost about $1000 but Microsoft gave away the Windows SDK free

Not only that, IBM made it impossible for mere mortals to get hold of the OS/2 SDK

We couldn't get it at a certain fen based university research lab.

Remember SoftRAM 95? Compression app claimed to double memory in Windows but actually did nothing at all

Re: Dubious even now

thinks.... with caching being the major performance advantage now that we ran out of clock rate

And 64bit cpus with complexity to burn - does any system do compression as a matter of course ?

>It ultimately did work, it was just a bit optimistic.

Put that in latin and it's the motto for our entire industry

Randox's Certifly app for vaccinated international arrivals has to be side-loaded onto Android phones

Re: Why can't I just use my vaccination cards?

Cos they aren't "Cyber"

Re: Scamdox

The 2nd test is to check that you didn't contract covid during your stay in the UK. Which is why it's necessary to get it at as soon as possible after you arrive.

Re: Scamdox

Yes that's the point. You need a test 3days before arrival to the UK, but even if you are only there for a day you need another one before departure. Which means you need to pay for a pointless test on arrival

There's only one cure for passive-aggressive Space Invader bosses, and that's more passive aggression

Re: Huh, wonder which company that could have been.

Everyone typing this while listening to theBugle ?

Re: My particular response actually worked

Normal approach is to wear the tie around your head, kamikaze pilot style. Or, if you are suitably gendered, just the tie and no shirt

Re: Regrets

No need for AC, you described every games company since SpaceWar

Re: Huh, wonder which company that could have been.

He could put it on the Net. Ware? I don't know

The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom

Re: Visited...

And if they complained above health and safety they would be sent to lick the lead paint off the asbestos

We didn't have any of this passive smoking nonsense, we had tuberculosis and rickets

What, Uber charges disabled people fees for taking a while to get into their ride? Doesn't seem fair, says Uncle Sam

The business model is not to give the driver any autonomy

They could simply add a disabled field to the account signup - with a sufficently involved process to ensure nobody ever manages it.

USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018

Re: Bit by bit, the USA is returning to being a normal world citizen

>However I do have a 7.65mm Parabellum that I would like to deliver personally. A gift of sorts, should he try to run in 2024...

Careful, that sort of talks is going to come to the attention of No Such Agency

Remember to balance it with "Hang Mike Pence" to show you a proud God-fearing Patriot

Another 100 space tourists buy a ride from Virgin Galactic: $25k of that ticket deposit is 'non-refundable'

Re: Honestly

You could just 'invest' the $450K into a congressperson and get them to change the definition to 100m, then you could become an astronaut by walking up some stairs

Re: Real Life Example?

Praxis - a good way of redistributing their $£¥ to a bunch of engineers (or mostly marketing people) in aerospace.

Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer

Re: I dont know what he actually accused of stealing

Water+HFCS+CO2+Marketing

Re: Not useful

It might also be difficult to motivate Taiwanese engineers to keep working for you.

You can't exactly put their families in a Gulag until they comply - Amazon have a patent on that

Swiss lab's rooftop demo shows sunlight and air can make fuel

Re: Been there, done that

Even better grow grapes or hops.

Turns sunlight and air into booze

Been there, done that

I have a system which combines sunlight and air to make bio fuel growing on my roof - it's called moss

Ofcom announces plan to protect endangered species – the Great British phone box

I think the kids today do that in the metaverse

(pleased to note my phone doesn't believe that is a word)

NASA delays crewed Moon landing until 2025, citing technical infeasibility

Re: Dust off Apollo

But this will fundamentally advance on the Apollo missions, it will have a racially and gender diverse (*) group of square-jawed ex-military test pilots.

(* no non-Christian or gays obviously)