Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

Re: Meaning what exactly?

So my plan to save money on the LHC by commissioning a poll of 1M people to ask them the mass of the Higgs boson (margin of error 0.01%) wasn't a good idea ?

Well obviously the drug companies should have had vaccine plants, optomised for this particular novel vaccine, built and staffed and sitting idle ready for such a contingency.

The same way that the NHS should have had 10x as many ICU beds sitting empty waiting for such an outbreak.

Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

>The Polio vaccine is mandatory, at least in the US. So is the Smallpox vaccine.

Really? I thought the Smallpox vaccine was heavily restricted and was only handed out to US medics recently when there was a political scare about a terrorist bio-weapons attack (from Al-Queda's secret underground biotechnology labs)

And the polio vaccine isn't mandatory - pretty much no vaccine is mandatory in the US. Unless you are a soldier, in which case being shot at is also mandatory, so a covid jab probably isn't your biggest worry.

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

Re: Tesla scams.

>In fact, they can't even manage 100% ...

Which is why you put 2 regen brake generators on each wheel then they only need to be 51% efficient

> and that can become the same type of cash cow as oil is for the saudis.

Which is why the Saudi's favourite nation state will destroy it.

Re: Whenever I hear these lunatics

But the antennae load was installed so her electric waves were being sucked out of her and into the tower - thus disrupting her aura

Re: who go batty at a few milliwatts...

Do NOT attempt to start an electricity based pun-run on el'reg.

Re: Tesla scams.

>Yeah. There's the American school system for you.

When your best and brightest, most educate citizens are driving tow trucks

Re: Casual reference to 5G sceptics as 'wingnuts': author already is on wrong side of history

>Fortunately, all the protein in my body is safely wrapped in a thick layer of fat.

Except your eyeball, which is why you have to be especially careful of your eyes when working with high power RF

Call me when the political donations to get the permits for 1km square km come down to $50M

Re: Casual reference to 5G sceptics as 'wingnuts': author already is on wrong side of history

>5G had undesirable side effects we'd have been experiencing them with 4G

But what if delusions about 5G are a symptom of 4G exposure?

You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'

Re: Scale

>They could easily pay more to the staff, but they chose greed

Yes this was built on the backs of 1000s of starving developers in Redmond

Re: Feel Free To Contradict me...

>he had two identical Octopus yachts. One in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific to avoid unseemly transits.

With Unix he could have just had a symlink

Re: whatever it is you nerds get inordinately heated about

Think of it as siphoning money between millions of low paid consumers and 1000s of low paid service workers.

The celebrity is just a pipe.

Re: Lend-Lease gorn mad?

But the 2nd World war was solely John WayneTom Hanks vs the Germans wasn't it ?

Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!

Re: Shock ! = Death

"Electrocution" = "Electric Elocution" - you touch the live wire and say "Gosh that was a bit of a surprise"

Obviously this is only an English thing, with American electricity you barely notice.

What do you think all the World's AIs do of an evening once they're finished battling keanu?

Obviously they put their peripherals up and watching streaming

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

Re: A rose by any other name

Because you need to have the encryption key to do the search.

So you store your encrypted emails, you then encrypt the name of the mistress (or farmyard animal) and it returns which emails match - without EvilMegacorp reading them

International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters

Re: Didn't notice?!

Ba-dum !

Re: Didn't notice?!

>You mean apart from the fact the Earth was visible from a different window every few seconds!

The astronauts are government employees, they can't spend the morning looking out of the window.

Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?

Re: You can treat some of it as spam

>For example Hebrew with numbers or actually names of streets in Jerusalem...

Probably easier to just rename all the streets in Jerusalem than sort out the Unicode.

Unicode committee can get really political

Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets

Re: One crash = more paper

One solution to preserving movies that now only exit digitally, is to print them as 3 black-white copies (one for each color) on monochrome film stock.

Re: Paper doesn't need electricity

Business opportunity - selling Gamma Ray Burst data loss insurance

Re: "Paper per se isn't so much of a problem(...)"

> and the kind of trees used for it are mostly eucalyptus, who are among the worst water draining and soil exhausting species,

Yes, the endless eucalyptus forests of Scandanvia and Canada teaming with grizzly koalas

Re: a drop that was even more pronounced for A3 devices.

Ironically the bigger the page the less ink you use - assuming large format inkjets are used for schematics or architectural plans.

Unless hipsters now print out "blueprints" out of nostalgia. I'm old enough to remember actually using blueprint printers as a PFY.

Re: Need to print

Our main use of office printer seems to be expense claims.

For some reason they all have to be printed out and filed away in cabinets for years on end.

Biggest irony is photocopying receipts onto A4 paper because they don't want to bother with stacks of little bits of till-roll stapled to the claim form.

Re: Need to print

>Where does the data in the article come from? I

A lot of office printers are sold on per page charges, especially for the highest volume users.

Then you can add in toner / drum sales and paper supplies.

Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

Re: How about a focus on efficiency?

>making the instructions per clock cycle ratio higher and performance per watt as well

Don't these tend to be opposite?

Super-scaler Itanium style processors do a lot in each instruction but the extra transistors this needs uses a lot more power than a RISC chip like ARM

Re: It was never a law

on your "wrist" - damn phone autocorrect

Re: It was never a law

>There are also issues with yield as you increase the number of devices per chip and reliability decreasing geometry and increasing clock.

Yes that was the point of Moorse's 'law' - the optimal number of transistors per chip (or 1/size) increases geometrically. In spite of the increased cost of the fab to make smaller components, the increased processing time and steps, the increased failure rate with smaller components = it's still cheaper over time to make smaller transistors.

This is what has actually run out. It's now more expensive per transistor to make them on a 5 marketing-nm fab than on 7 or 10, but if you want to put skynet on your write you have no choice.

Optimal cost

", the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10"

Surely the optimal cost per transistor is zero ?

Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws

That could be fun.

Tory candidate: According to our app all the residents of this council block in Skelmersdale would welcome visits from our people.

Re: How did this happen?

Obviously what they should do is quit Europe so that they can then make up their own data protection laws and the ruling party can simply declare this legal because sovereignty.

As a side effect they would then automatically rule the world.

Re: coincidence or cock-up

IIRC routine that calibrated out the Earth's motion didn't use enough significant figures.

Telescope was on Earth and was measuring very small shift in the position of another star, so had to take out the measurement point moving much more than the shift you are looking for.

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Re: Extinguishers...

If you could collect the H2 you could use that industrially - perhaps in some sort of airship

Re: Salt Water Batteries

Or just burn the Lithium ?

You dig it out of the ground and set fire to it. Market it as "zero CO2 coal"

Re: Extinguishers...

>And the plan is to have one of these buggers in every Lorry?

Now imagine carrying 30 tonnes of LPG.

The nice thing about dead dinosaur is that you get the oxidser for free from the air so you get much more bang per ton.

Re: SpaceX

un-extinguishable boxes of fire attached to rockets that can be propelled from the homeland to other countries ? I think Boeing has all the IP.

Re: Concrete

I take it that the battery wasn't made of any cardboard derivatives ?

Re: Concrete

The Aussie technique would be to tow it outside the environment

US SEC chair calls for crypto regulation

Good news everybody

This means that if bitcoin drops in value the US treasury will rush in with a bailout to protect institutional 'investors' - it's just as real as any other dodgy financial instrument

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

Re: Cisco

Presumably using someone else's network kit

Re: Cisco

To be fair, CISCO has always done its best to stop people working outside the office

US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon's surface with SpaceX, thanks

Re: Moon race 2.0

I think the plan is just to use SpaceX to launch the SLS as payload and then assemble it in orbit - works out cheaper than launching SLS

UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting

Bounds clearly set?

Ok Germans, no attacking before the kick-off, no sending tanks through the Ardennes, no avoiding the Maginot line, no attacking the Empire.

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Re: Application Overreach

I think that idea may have currency, I'll take notes

Re: Application Overreach

Or even better we could have a payments system that didn't rely on the secrecy of a 16 digit (10 of which differ) number that we give out to every waiter / gas station / store clerk