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China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

Re: Replace Cyber with Alcohol

But alcohol is terribly bad for the human body upto an age of 6.62E8 seconds, at which point it becomes wonderful

Re: Modus operandi

> except gaming addiction is a genuine problem,

But this proves it can't be.

The evil communist Chinese dictators are banning it

They are bad

Therefore gaming must be good and proud patriots must encourage their kids to play NinjaStormingDeath4K 24 hours a day

Re: been there

>My dad imposed similar rules on the old 8bit back in about '83

I hope you reported him as a Communist

Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year

Re: relearning chemistry

>hypergolic propellants, then I realised some are zero carbon

Hypergolic fuels - environmentally friendly is the first thing I think of

I don't think that's what Organic Chemistry means

Re: an issue with the spacecraft’s valves

> in spaaaaace.

Well that's where Boeing's secret plan comes in

Re: an issue with the spacecraft’s valves

>CMOS might be better in space though.

I think Boeing were going for that authentic Apollo era 60s sound

Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love

Re: TCP/IP

> TCP/IP [was] quite inherently a non-secure protocol, designed for ease of sharing with no inherent security baked-in.

Compared to analogue voltages on bare bits of wire strung from poles through the countryside ?

In America they've gone one step further by obfuscating the names of their cities.

Nobody is going to attack the capital if they think it's a small town in Sunderland

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

And now no US company will be able to compete with it and all it has to do is hire a separate company to handle sales and marketing on the USA

Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time

Re: Only temporary

>Nothing is more permanent than a temporary price increase.

Yes the one immutable truth of computing over the last 50years has been the ever increasing cost of processing power and storage

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

Yes but it's easier, especially at the planning stage, if someone had noted where they buried a gas main etc rather than every digger having to try and ground penetrating radar search for every fibre

Re: Costs

But they are going to have to have $$$ of liability cover in case they take out a fibre link.

So I can't hire Mick-the-dig, I have to call McAlpine to dig a hole

Re: Nobody told the rats

That could be a security problem.

With this new system the rodents would know exactly where to dig.

What precautions are being put into place to prevent toothy herbivores accessing this data ?

Re: Costs

Although that adds costs.

If I'm going to be responsible for damage where I dig then I don't just want a 1-800-CALL-BEFORE-YOU-DIG I'm going to need the precise locations in writing, signed by a director, witnesed and filed with my lawyers before I set foot on site. From every water, gas, power, telco, etc that MIGHT have services in that area.

If a water main bursts in a High St on a friday evening then it's going to take till well into Monday before anyone can start work.

Re: Not a hope

>Good luck to whoever gets the job, because they're seriously going to need it.

I don't think the contract is to find all the stuff

I don't think it's even to record all the stuff

It will probably end up being a web page with links to various utility companies 'contact us' page

Re: About bloody time!

Wait till you find out how many data centers have multiple independent fibre links - all in the same conduit

Re: Having worked with BT /Openreach....

>documention hadn't been updated for decades.

So long as the cablea are non-migratory

Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation

Re: Suggested podcast

Then not wishing to be ablist but perhaps steering a warship may not be the job for her.

Perhaps she should consider cyber

Re: The RYA Yachtmaster (Ocean) still includes sextant use

>The beauty of the sextant navigation, along with Line, and compass chart and a 2B pencil is that they will get you anywhere

It does help to know the time in Greenwich - but you can get that from the GPS

Re: USNA Annapolis

Seems unnecessary, even if GPS was down the US Navy has alternatives GLONASS and BAIDU

Re: "It's probably 20 times as much planning to execution."

Torpedo on the starb'd bow captain.

Quick send out the "form a sub-committee to study the problem" email

To hands to the Powerpoint

Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death

Re: "unexpected explosive events in the Universe".

I would be really worried if there were expected explosions in the Universe

Re: " thereby presenting the best argument for ongoing remote work, for every job, forever"

You would think that the telescope's on-site staff are suitably quarantined

India's big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic

So just contract it out

You just need some increasingly desperate 3rd world country where they speak English and there are cheap workers with poor labour conditions.

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

All big aircraft use fuel to trim.

It's just that at take off when you are full of fuel - and quite busy - it's trickier

Re: Weight of passengers

>Prince Harry was also a helicopter pilot - he flew the Apache

He was the one who was demonstrating the value of peace and democracy by having an hereditary monarch shooting them from a helicopter gunship

Re: Weight of passengers

You are still allowed to not load luggage - although on wide bodies there is generally enough air-cargo that can be bumped first. It's expensive to leave passenger's luggage behind.

It's assumed safe because the individual terrorist doesn't know that their bag is one of the ones to fly on a different plane.

Re: Weight of passengers

The Italian Job maneuver ?

UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead

Re: ARIA v. DARPA

I thought we had a world class military research agency staffed with first class boffins who invented stuff from growing semiconductor crystals to LCD displays - and it was then privatised so that Thatcher's mates could get richthey could use their knowledge for the general economy

Dishing up the goods: Square Kilometre Array moves out of the theoretical and into the contractual

Re: 10 years of deign work ?

>, the triggering system deciding which events to store is quite possibly more complicated than the actual data storage and analysis systems.

Yes, that's what I meant.

The original design, IIRC, was to not even be able to respond to all triggers - but hope that an unbiased subset would still be valid.

Re: absolutely everything is kept.

Also the headline data rate is (I suspect) the raw antenna feed.

The first step is to do digital correlation between beams - this contains all the "information" from the raw signal and subsequent filtering and combinations further reduces raw "data" while still retaining all the signal.

Re: 10 years of deign work ?

Depends on the problem.

For space missions you want to lock the on-board software as early as possible because the HW depends on it and you are usually constrained to lots of of space-qualified systems.

What you innovate on is the processing software on the ground.

With SKA and CERN (or at least ATLAS) you are drinking from a firehose and at the start of the design you can't reasonably build a system that can keep up. With ATLAS (friends worked on it) the original plan was that you wouldn't be able to process everything and you would just sample the data - hopefully if events were random you would get X% of them by grabbing X% of the data. I assume with updates they can now process everything.

Definitely with SKA there was a lot of extrapolation of what would be possible when the HW was ready - especially at the front end digital correlators that have to swallow the raw signal.

Ironically what is difficult on these ground based missions is keeping them running for 20-30years.

I know the Keck telescopes built in the 90s have a full time team building things like motor controllers and PC interfaces to replace stuff made either for ISA bus era PCs or some long forgotten industrial control rack machines.

Re: Space??? who needs space?

The point is that you aren't trying to store that data - you are trying to process it.

Radio astronomy is basically capture lots of random noise, do clever stuff, get picture.

You do have to store lots of intermediate data because it can take months to build up an entire picture when you are relying on the Earth moving to shift your telescope.

The amount that will actually be stored permanently is relatively small.

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

Re: We take our responsibility to safeguard personal data extremely seriously

>That's another phrase that means precisely fuck all.

It means you're going to be fired within a week

Re: Lol

>no gods involved the sending of emails.

Although sendmail config is believed to be the work of Cthullu

Re: Lol

So that's why it's called BCC

Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach

Re: Set up and switched on

On the other hand it's a charity museum running a few mailing lists so it's probably reasonable for it to only spend 99% of its budget on computer security staff

UK's competition regulator announces market study into music-streaming biz

>how much of my tenner per month is going to the artists

And is it more or less than the 50-100p they got from a CD sale

Amid drama at .NET Foundation, Microsoft's De Icaza reveals it was meant to be like GNOME Foundation

Re: Go on then

You might want to get this ->

>Miguel de Icaza is a tool

On a software site I think that statement may be a little ambiguous

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

Re: Great but ...

The lack of engineering software on the Mac is a feature.

In a meeting/hot-desk office it allows you to immediately see who does any work and who is marketing/finance/management.

Without the Mac in front of them you never know if the person in the scruffy black cartoon t-shirt is an engineer or just a hipster being ironically retro.

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

>Why does Micros~1 hate printers so much?

Everybody hates printers, MSFT are just doing something about it

What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls

>asking why he'd been told "Get Back!" and been called "Thickyhead"

There is an argument for having daft memorable error messages.

A user is much more likely to correctly report an "Out of cheese" or "Aadvark broken" error than Error code #2C-FD-A1-C0-70-47

Also a lot easier to search for in the code.

My senior developer just went up massively in my opinion.

We are having a state visit from $important politician. He was asked to give a talk on the very technical problem he works on

"Why, is $politico an expert on X?"

Well no, but ...

"So can you explain why I should waste my time ?"

Well no, but ...

"Right so I'm not bothering then"

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

Re: I'm fairly paperless

I've had Microsoft insist I email them a letter on official headed university paper to get an educational license.

I pointed out that we generate the heading in a macro in Word but orders were orders.

Re: I see your icon, but will ask anyway

>How much CO2 is wasted just to make and ship/distribute all that paper?

Probably less than you would think

Paper is an insanely competitive microscopic-margin business. So costs are cut to the whatsit, hence very little energy is wasted - mills run on burning the unused off cuts etc.

It's heavy so is being delivered by the container load on ships

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Re: The only relevant question....

Between lead in petrol, Findus crispy pancakes and Sunny Delight - I'm assuming those of us born in the 70s are basically immune to chemistry.

Re: Not much of a surprise

>Just how racist is the Scottish Assmbly, might I enquire?

Honest question from an ex-pat with no skin in the game - I was confused why our Aberdeen office had a strict rule against sportswear until it was explained to me.

Presumably the independants aren't big fans of the Conservative and Unionist party. On the other hand the wee-frees aren't full of Christian love and understanding for the left-footers.

So when the SNP gets to rule over an independent Scotland - who goes to the Gulags/takes advantage of Eu freedom of movement ?

> Doppler Radar

A robust stance from the Wind Shear supporters there

Re: Free school meals

Even cheaper if you add in the cost of administering free school meals, the armies of social workers etc to do assessments on who needs them etc

Presumably anybody who doesn't need free school meals is already opted out because little Trixie-Blossom can only eat vegan gluten-free organic moonbeams