Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

Re: Why can’t it be opt-in?

Because the data would be useless, it would be like Facebook planning their capacity based on people who respond to Gartner questionaires

UK and chums call out Chinese Ministry of State Security for Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Server attacks

>Stalin was good at that.

But he also had bad points

>They will respect nothing else.

We should send a gunboat

Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?

>Seems to be something young people are into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP_(song)

Is that the new marker of greyboeard-ness?

If you think WAP means mobile phone pre-internet?

Like if you know why the save icon looks like that, or why it's called a radiobutton

Re: Useful idiots

We've bought their stuff to present to investors to show how we are riding along on the crest of a wave into the sunny future.

We know they are lying, the investors (unless they are total morons) know they are lying, presumably Gartner know they are lying - but we all paid up

That seems to be an unfortunate side-effect of low bandwidth mobile communication - would 5G cure that ?

Amnesty International and French media protection org claim massive misuse of NSO spyware

Re: I am shocked!

But it's nice that after millennia of only state level actors being able to spy on masses of peasants the free market has now allowed any young hacker to dream of having this power, and making money from it.

Re: And in other news...

Is it still PR if your PRs reputation is so bad that hiring that PR means you are evil ?

A bit like hiring OJ's lawyer for your defence team = I'm guilty

USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

Re: "Heightened Risks Regarding Data Privacy"

But these are foreigners

Re: "underpinned by the rule of law"

As opposed to breaking the law under government instruction and then being granted a pardon later ?

Re: PATRIOT Act vs FREEDOM Act

So the simple guide is that the more innocuous the name of the act the more evil it is ?

Somewhere in the basement of a US agency a world scrabble champion is trying to make an acronym spell APPLE-PIE, MOTHERHOOD and FLUFFY KITTENS act

Ordnance Survey to take a poke at Pokémon-style gaming with outdoorsy AR adventure

Re: Just because your data is valuable, it doesn't mean you should monetize it

I thought the last lot of #10 incumbents had made it all free ? On the basis that the main customer of HM Ordnance survey was HMG and it was costing more to handle the billing paperwork than it cost to make the maps - so they may as well make it free.

Sadly now living in an off-world colony who think that printing 1:100,000 maps entirely from WWII-era areal photos with no footpaths and roads only marked if somebody officially maintains them - is somehow adequte.

319 terabits – great Scott! Boffins in Japan speed along information superhighway at new world record

This kind of fibre isn't exactly plug and play into a patch panel - it needs serious boffinery to splice and connect. But being able to use existing tools and splicers is nice

>Surely light doesn't lose it's strength like electro-magnetic stuff?

Erm light is the original electro-magnetic stuff.

It does get absorbed along the fibre, only a bit because fibre is seriously good transparency.

The bigger problem is dispersion = light of slightly different wavelengths travels at slightly different speed in fibre (it only goes the same speed in vacuum). This means that a signal with even slight variation in wavelength will smear out from a sharp pulse into a low bump.

This is what the clever boffins have improved to get these speeds.

NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer

Re: Any fuel left?

Hubble doesn't have any fuel, rocket fuel was too dangerous for a payload that has to be approached by a crew.

Pointing is done by reaction wheels and magnetic bars that 'push' against the Earth's field. Its orbit had to be boosted by space shuttle missions.

But you don't have to worry about it staying up for more than another few years, it is too big and too low to remain for long. Although there is no specific plan for a de-orbit other than "thoughts and prayers"

Re: Not all good

It's only about 350mi away.

Mileage clocked up while 'on-site' doesn't count

Re: Sounds vaguely familiar.. LOL

> it was only a voltage drop under certain load conditions

To be fair though zero-load power supplies are very reliable

The lights go off, broadband drops out, the TV freezes … and nobody knows why (spooky music)

Re: Water Bills

Damn phone autocorrect.

Although I did have to pay $1000 for an inspection that was some block pointing at a big concrete lid and saying that's a septic tank - I wasn't sure if I should believe him.

Re: Water Bills

I do know a certain bank names after a couple of large Chinese cities can't handle a property that gets municipal water but has sceptic rather than municipal sewer

Only one box on their form apparently

Re: Supply pipe

Alternative would be they had 2 stop cocks in the van so they split your house pipe into 2 fitted both with a cock and then rejoined them before they reach you

TSMC reveals plans for further expansion, progress on 3nm process, evolving car tech, amid solid Q1 results

Re: impressive

Input = sand

Output = postage stamp size chip that costs $1000

Nice work if you can do it.

Microsoft, Google, Citizen Lab blow lid off zero-day bug-exploiting spyware sold to governments

Americans are really into humous

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Re: Many policemen, most of the judges and prosecutors should have been revoked in 1944

Even more ironically we had been supporting Ba'ath for years because they were anti-Iranian. We then only hire people who are anti-Ba'ath and it turns out that they are all pro-Iran

I don't think white walkers count

Re: Justy sell'em anyway

I doubt anybody in the UK gives a fsck about her corporate issues

I assumed they were supplied by CNN

Like who makes all those flammable USA flags in the middle East?

And the people's front of Hayling Island

No problem, population of non-Grande Bretagne is about 4.5M

So if only 0.2% of them are Brexit supporting Anglophile separatists he ahs the market sewn up

Isn't all Nationalism tinted with xenophobia ?

It isn't like Yorkshire would split from the UK due to wanting fraternal bonds of love and understanding between all peoples. It's because we are a natural master race that are superior to southerners and Lancastrians - we are just too reserved to ever mention it.

Annoyed US regulator warns it might knock SpaceX's shiny new Texas tower down

There is also a problem with rocket launches from Germany.

Sending them up is OK but if for some reason they come down in a nearby country people tend to get terribly upset.

Re: "The current regulatory system is broken"

>heavy-rail freight trains. ..... Why are we reinventing this?

Because trains are communist

Try placing a pot plant directly above your CRT monitor – it really ties the desk together

Re: BOBSMEDS

Introduction to Induction cookers lesson 1

Re: Your headline reminds me...

Story of a Brummie rock band touring the USA in the 70s

After many meals of burger and fries one of them announces rather loudly - "I could bloody murder an Indian"

Re: Your headline reminds me...

Some vital bit of corporate infrastructure <cough F35 avionics development cough> is running on VMS and they can't find anyone in-house to support it.

Xiaomi parties like a winner after coming second on world smartphone sales charts

Re: The plan

>Now, where are the UK phones?

First we renationalise BT and roll it back into the GPO

Then we convince the GPO that this telephony business is worth looking at and won't affect the telegram business. Then we get an agreement from the Union of sub-PostMistresses and Allied Trades.

Then we get the boffins at Dollis hill to start looking at making a mobile phone with valves, rather than brass gears

Re: Hard work and good products

So far they have been great.

I don't need a flagship phone that costs 4x as much as a laptop

I need >2Gb RAM, an SD card, the same Qualcom chippery everyone else has, a couple of day battery life and a regularly updated unlocked Android.

If I can pay $100 for that because it's aimed at the Asian market rather than instagram influencers that's fine by me

Re: Wrong as usual

Because BBK are a manufacturer of lots of brands - it's like saying Foxconn are the biggest phone maker in the world

Re: "hires 5,000 engineers"

> market of skilled and experienced engineers as demonstrated by the rising wages in China.

Paying more for skilled engineers because of market demand ?

Damn commies !

Teen turned away from roller rink after AI wrongly identifies her as banned troublemaker

Re: Jeez

Because unlike your corner store, a sign saying "no more than 3 black teens" would be illegal. However 'computer says no' is a company policy and out of my hands.

Ironically to stop employees getting sued if they looked at photos and said you look like her, you're banned

Re: mulling whether it’s worth suing Riverside Arena or not

And how much damage to their life, job, housing etc when the other lawyer has access to any previous police records (thanks to some friends on the force) and the ice rink hires a PR comp to make sure this all gets out on Fox news and social medo

Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike

It's always...

Connectors or power supplies

United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights

Re: Do electric aircraft have regenerative braking?

It's funny how they seem to go on and on endlessly

Re: Getting all fired up!

I hear they are doing this for getaway trips to remote exclusive lake resorts

Re: Not a bad start that

>Maintenance may be an improvement. Electric motors will have fewer moving parts and lower operating temperatures.

That's why electric probably has a future in GA (small private plane hobby)

The big running cost is maintenance because engines have so many complicated parts and every last part must be manufactured, tested, installed, serviced by lots of paperwork.

If you make an electric motor that the FAA certify the equivalent of ETOPS, ie these motors typically run for 100K hours with a failure so we can relax service intervals.

And for GA a 1 hour flight time with 100mi range and 1 hour recharge would be perfectly fine

Re: Do electric aircraft have regenerative braking?

So if they also fitted enough RATs they could use them to power the engines

Re: Not a bad start that

It's a "Look Squirrel!"

Every time United get attacked for taking a gazillion $ in bailouts and still selling their staff's organs, or it beats a passenger to death for looking Arabic, or somebody points out how much carbons it emits, it points to this and screams GREEN

Re: Makes sense.

>Inter island travel in the Caribbean for instance would be a perfect use case for this type of aircraft.

Small nations are generally exempt from/don't care about headline grabbing climate accords

It might be worthwhile if you are trying to run some elite rich eco tourist resort

Re: Great idea.

It will link London to its trading partners in the Faroes