Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players

Re: maturity

Utah has a lot of tech companies, essentially all of computer graphics was invented there. And pretty much all Utah natives are Mormon.

It's like saying NSO spyware was created by Jewish programmers in Israel

Nothing says 'We believe in you' like NASA switching two 'nauts off Boeing's Starliner onto SpaceX's Crew Dragon

Re: Prediction

It's like one of those SF stories about generations being born and living on a starship heading for a distant star.

Generations of astronauts will grow up waiting for Starliner and SLS

Given Boeings schedule so far it would probably have clashed with his grand-daughter's wedding

But "un-named crewman" and "red-shirt" are both on the list for the next flight

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

Re: Bad Business

If we put high enough tariffs on everything imported to the UK we could spend £350M/week on the NHS.

Re: Stinking Yanks!

If only we hadn't flogged it off - we could replace chips with proper English Electric Valves

Re: Rival chipmakers however...

The US doesn't need Intel to shut down outside USA, if anything it helps them politically to have large employers in friendly countries - they are just nervous about only having Fabs in future warzones.

It only makes economic and political sense for Intel to site this in Ireland where it has a big14nm fab. The question is whether Eire can afford 8Bn kickback investment.

Re: What a surprise

It just required the UK to allow Johnny foreigner free movement - like other EEA countries.

Re: Deal done

Aeroplanes very rarely reverse into mountains

Re: Deal done

>The employees you need for a chip fab are NOT in London. Do you even know what employees work in a chip fab?

The employees for a chip fab aren't anywhere. An $80Bn fab would need 1000s of employees, you can't just build this next door to an existing UK prototype-scale fab and rely on locals.

But having spent 30 years concentrating all the well paid jobs in London - you can't open this on a disused steelworks site in Middlesbrough and expect 1000 of scientists/programmers/engineers to move there and just have wifey be happy at home on their new suburban estate like you could when you did redevelopment policy in the 60s.

You could build this at Oxford/Cambridge/M6 but these people already vote for you.

Re: Deal done

Would never work in the UK.

The government would give you a subsidy to build it in some depressed region that they thought might be persuaded to vote Tory.

But all the employees you need are in London.

And no people can't move, they have families. What's the partner of a fab engineer going to do in barrow-in-furness?

Re: Deal done

>rafts of EU bureaucracy and Brussels red tape

The Eu is going to force them to make chips with nanometers rather than proper British piocfurlongs

NSO Group's Pegasus malware was used to spy on Dubai princess's lawyers during child custody dispute

Re: How about Android?

> As a result, most recent cases of confirmed Pegasus infections have involved iPhones.

Could be a side-effect

If your targets are high ranking / status / rich they are more likely to have an iPhone than a cheap Chinese Android.

Re: Is there a Chinese Wall

Or a 3rd way ?

Re: How about Android?

You just need to buy a Chinese Android phone that is banned from any connection to Google and its 3 letter friends - then you know it's only spied on by the Glorious People's Revolutionary Army of Peace and Prosperity for all Toiling Peasants

(sorry my phone seems to do that when ever I try and write anything about The Great Leader )

Middle East peace envoy

Arab leaders buying Israeli weapons is obviously a start to Blair's plan for peace and cooperation

Samsung to sling 2nm silicon in 2025, 3nm process running a little late

Intel will become a national champion vital strategic resource.

US govt customers will be forced to buy Intel chips which can become increasingly uncompetitive and everytime it looks to be in financial trouble it will get a big strategic investment from the money printer

.NET Foundation boss apologizes for pull request that sparked community row

Re: What a shame

We understand that some minority of passengers were onboard during, although not with, our planes' decision to crash into the ground.

We will be exploring new ways to communicate the value of our MCAS strategy in future.

D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer

Re: "D-Wave claims"

>That only applies to politicians.

That's an experiment I can get behind - anyone got an airtight box ?

Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi

Re: Mini computer

I can do 22 mHz on my fingers.

> It's amazing how well such things have improved in the last three decades.

And yet I could support a teaching lab of 25 vt100 terminals on a single Sun3 while my corporate windows laptop struggles to open a webpage

Facebook far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society, whistleblower tells Congress

Congress far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society,

Says Facebook

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

Re: "my internet is down"

We had a short lived panic that corporate IT had discovered Whatsapp and were blocking it.

UK's £5bn National Cyber Force HQ to be sited in Lancashire beside Defence Secretary's constituency

Re: Lancashire Tech Step-by-Step

Since we won, there is only Yorkshire and the west Pennines.

The current government is going to cancel it in 5months when the last of the consultancy budget runs out and they need another new announcement to placate some other area

Re: Lancashire Tech Step-by-Step

Release t'cyber-ferret down t'intertubes

Re: CS

Or Hull

Re: CS

Obviously you can't employee civil servants so far North.

It will be contracted out to Fujitsu/Crapita/Some-chap-Olivier-knows-from-school-who-runs-a-pub

Who will sub it out to India

Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise

Re: Having just recently been to Rennes

Unfortunately after a bit of un-permitted urban redevelopment courtesy of the chaps with the moustaches. The center was rebuilt by the Americans.

Using their highly imaginative grid system. With the grid running East-West. In a city on the edge of the Atlantic .

I think it is now home to the European storm force winds modelling institute.

Brittainy is basically Wales with decent food and beaches.

And a dislike of the French comparable to the taff's dislike of the English.

>The town was destroyed by our lot in the war and rebuilt in concrete.

With ironically the exception of some large concrete bits built by the other lot.

Which we failed to destroy at the time and the French have been trying to destroy (without taking the town with it) ever since.

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

Difference between the KLF and IMF - one was effective

Re: Reality vs spin

>As a European, I am still waiting for those badly needed doctors and nurses they had promised.

Instructions unclear - have all retrained as a ballet dancer.

Re: Playing with Chemicals that Go Bang

Lithium and oxidiser aren't dangerous or we wouldn't be allowed to take them on aeroplanes - it's not like they're bottles of water !

Re: Depends

>Australia is bewilderingly open to crime

Nice to see they're remembering their heritage.

Re: Pretty much standard

>these days it would attract a charge of possessing material likely to be of use to terrorists

Only on sovereignty island.

Here on the left pond it would be banned because chemistry contradicts the bible.

However you would be able to buy freedom-dynamite at any Walmart.

Re: Pretty much standard

>Hehehe, which is fine if you are dealing with 0.2 grams or less. ;-)

LD50 is 20mg/Kg

'Nice' thing is that apparently contact hurts like fsck - so at least you know to get treatment.

Re: Ignition!

" a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen itself,"

" it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks."

" the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

Re: You can just ORDER ATMs???

>Don't places like strip clubs have them? Apparently

Covid restrictions mean you now need to use the tattooed QR code to Apple pay him/her

Re: Explosives? Really?

Can't get JCB drivers anymore since we told all the foreigners to p**** off.

And you can't get a visa for a Dutch ATM exploder.

And no British criminals want to do it, not with IR35 meaning you can't claim for the shotgun.

By Christmas we will all be living in Sherwood Forest robbing any Tory MPs with Norman names using bows and arrows.

No you're thinking of bankers

Re: You can just ORDER ATMs???

>ship them back to Calgary

That's where they keep the reader , ie the employee who can read

Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

Re: Only 100km altitude?

It's less than twelve parsecs

Former SAP leader's lawsuit claims she was canned for pushing corporate diversity

We split off the female-heavy HR/reception/admin services to a sub-contractor.

That also has the advantage of reducing inequality between men-women average pay

Redistributing human resources along another axis is a pretty simple optimisation process. Assuming you don't care about the resources.

That 'anti-NSO Pegasus spyware' download is actually a Trojan – so don't touch it

I'm losing track here.The NSO spyware is used by the NSA/MIB

So a message claiming that Anti-NSO spyware is a virus must also be from the MMB ?

Now just waiting for coporate IT to roll out an anti-anti-NSO spyware to counter this trojan and then an anti-anti-anti-NSO spyware to block the original NSO spyware

UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?

Re: There's a reason why large rockets are launched from out of the way places

>that is also why J.P.L. was parked way out in the boonies.

It was in the 1930s, it's now the nice suburb of the very posh Pasadena suburb of LA

Why the USA chose to host its Nazi rocket scientists in Alabama is less of a mystery

Re: There's a reason why large rockets are launched from out of the way places

> I can't think of anywhere in the UK that's suitable as a launch site...pose a danger to a densely populated area or annoy the neighbours

Surely there must be some remaining Labour voting areas, perhaps in the North ?

Re: the space sector is "worth" over £16.4bn per year, according to the document

The art lobby tried the same claim here.

The "arts" are worth umpty billion to the local economy = they added up all the cable TV / Netflix / Amazon subscriptions and that was more than they wanted to build a new art gallery.

So obviously a profit for the taxpayer

Re: Galileo

> ones that generate lots of sustained praise for him are likely to get long term funding

That's just not true.

None of them are going to get long term funding. Those that do generate praise will be mentioned repeatedly and the same phrases used in the next announcement.

This government is just a Markov chain spam generator.

Give put-upon infosec bods professional recognition to keep them working for you, says chartered institute

Re: Keeps on giving

Employer gets in a 'trainer' to show you a PowerPoint on not clicking on spam links.

If you leave you have pay back the 10K worth of cybersecurity training you have just received.

Result - employees never leave.

If only some southern gentleman in the cotton agriculture business had thought of it