Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

Either that or it never occurred to all the brilliant minds and lawyers in govt that there would be any confusion.

FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld

Can we hire more of them?

How come they can develop this for the price of half a man-year of developer while a simple govt payroll system ends up costing $3bn, is years late and doesn't work.

Can we use drug dealers for all govt IT projects instead of Crapita / Fujitsu / IBM?

China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips

But this isn't grandiose enough. They aren't setting a target of making a new chip or a fab - they are making a small number of prototypes, probably by hand.

It's like imploring NASA to build another 10,000tons of Saturn V in the run up to Apollo 11 launch

Re: Trump's trade war

I'm not sure why a Russian asset in the Whitehouse did so much to advance Chinese technical and military capabilities.

Either the conspiracy goes much deeper, or everybody in all governments at all levels are incompetent.

Its much easier to port and test software on a VM running on a remote server.

Making 2000 laptops by the end of some arbitrary astronomical Earth position sounds more like one of those political "we will have x000 tests by the end of Y" sort of statements.

Sad that a mighty communist nation should be so susceptible to grandiose political stunts that so often derail actual technical progress.

Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches

>Never knew Notepad++ had web searches

All software expands until it can read email

Re: the text editor for granddads

An elegant weapon, for a more... civilized age.

Re: the text editor for granddads

So what's vi - the text editor for the undead ?

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

Re: Not your keys, not your crypto

My moving several hundred gold bricks from the Brinks-Matt warehouse to a lockup in East London was a performance piece

Re: Not your keys, not your crypto

Hand over is tricky.

Leave a million barrels of Brent crude in unmarked drums under the mailbox on the corner.

Apple settles with student after authorized repair workers leaked her naked pics to her Facebook page

Re: I have no problem with the award

sorry I missed the negative, I thought you meant Apple weren't responsible because they had a contract with the repairer

Re: I have no problem with the award

If she had taken her phone to Honest Achmed's phone repair and used camel store - yes

But Apple make a big play about how only their authorized repair places are allowed to touch the holy iPhone because of "security" - so Apple are on the hook.

Re: In before . . .

>I dont have pictures of my private parts on an internet connected device because I’m not an unthinking moron.

That's your choice, and probably as an el'reg reader an aesthetic one.

But you shouldn't have to self-censor images of yourself and partner because you can't trust the computer maker

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

Re: Who are NHS Digital exactly?

>Aren't NHSX part of this new NHS Transformation Unit?

NHSX is where Dr X works

NHS Digital is the stuff that involves sticking fingers in you

Re: Matt Hancock to involve patients

>Tory MP has ever considered asking The Product for an opinion

Didn't work too well last time <cough>brexit<cough>

Opens excuses manual

1, Claim anyone opposing plan is confused and misunderstood

2, Claim to "dialog with stack-holders" with empathy face

3, Rename operation

4, Do exactly the same thing it in another way

FBI drops subpoena to identify readers of USA Today article about shootout with agents

Re: One in the Eye

Getting the subscriber list wasn't the point.

It's the chilling effect of knowing that if you subscribe to Private-eye or visit the Private-eye website your name goes on the list for the next investigation.

Better stick to only reading the Daily Mail online like a good patriot

Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe

Re: GPUs

If you buy ASICS and have cheap 3rd world power and hosting/labour costs it's worthwhile.

If not it's cheaper to buy some, use your media platform to hype it, then sell shorts and use you media platform to sink it.

Like the rest of industry - it's not worth actually making or mining anything when you can gamble on it.

Re: GPUs

>idiots who believe they will get rich in a week if they grab an off the shelf mid-pack NVidia GPU

If it wasn't for idiot consumers we wouldn't have nice shiny toys - it's just a shame that short term it means I have to buy Quadra cards for no good reason.

Re: So.

> value is only arbitary and ultimately decided by governments,

The difference is that governments can demand that you pay taxes in their made up magic beans, and they can send men with guns if you don't

>I thought the warranty reduction was due to the chip shortages, switching from TLC to QLC?

No it's because of these evil bankers miners - nothing to do with us cutting costs, we are the innocent victims here, poor us etc

Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers

Re: Should get a better dictionary

> What's an artist?

Somebody who can sell you something useless by claiming it's "art"

Re: drummer =/ artist

>Drummer: <noun> A programmable metronome.

What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine ?

You can punch a tune into a drum machine

Re: In the void there is a container of positive and negative possibilities

So will the art market reward higher and higher grade vacuums with larger and larger prices?

Re: Should get a better dictionary

>what is actually "Art".

Art is anything made by an artist that sells

Plagiarism

He clearly stole the design from some homework I didn't do in school

Remember Anonymous? It/they might be back, and it/they are angry with Elon Musk

Re: I'm Anonymous

Are you talking to me ?

>"You often drive 400 miles without stopping to discharge/recharge occupants?"

Yes and I do it at 300km/h while sitting in a nice seat while somebody brings me coffee, and the vehicle is electric and only needs 1 driver for 10000s of people.

Re: I'm Anonymous

I'm Anonymous ..... and so is my wife

Re: Coward

>I’ve got a tee-shirt with an Anonymous logo and bar-code.

>Made by Gildan

You've become a victim of the T-shirt industrial complex and a pawn of big T-shirt

>one man COULD manipulate crypto coins via opinion tweets suggests that investments in such things is, at the very least, UNSTABLE

Janet Yellen knocked $Bn of the SP500 this morning by saying that one day interest rates will have to rise - she isn't even chairman of the Fed.

Re: I thought ...

Somehow I don't think there is a big overlap between computer hackers and people who sit in their basements cuddling AR15s so the vaccine wont turn them into cell phones.

Of course that may just be what the MMB want you to think.

Not quite, a Ponzi scheme is funding payouts to existing investors from new investors = ultimately unsustainable con.

Bitcoin is just like any mining any other useless scarce resource.

If you can convince the peasants that a bit of crystal coal or shiny orange metal is worth a months salary and is required as a mating ritual - then you win.

US House Rep on cyber committees tweets Gmail password, PIN in Capitol riot lawsuit outrage

Re: Jeebus Cribes, that tweet

>Is writing like a particularly articulate five-year-old having a tantrum the standard for political discourse in the US now?

More of a aspiration

There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself

Re: Over to you, Jeff

>He wouldn't even have to set up his own foundation as there are existing charities already doing these things which could use the money (Medicine sans Frontiere, Voluntary Service Overseas, The Peace Corps, UNICEF, Etc. Etc.)

There could even be some sort of system where a percentage of earnings/ profits could be automatically directed to these public goods by some sort of central national authority

Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely

Re: Not holding my breath

>Depending on whom you are playing with cheating against

I do regret he never played against his buddy in N. Korea

A match where both won after sinking 18 holes in one

Re: On the other hand ...

>h a candidate that 60% of overall voters in post 1/6 polling consider unfit for office

If you allow those people to vote.

If the only valid voter ID is an NRA membership card and a confederate flag T-shirt, and the local "well regulated militia" get to check all the voters ....

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

It takes a special kind of person to be sure they will be well rewarded for delivering a private health service to their new bosses

BOFH: I'm so pleased to be on the call, Boss. No, of course this isn't a recording

Re: Duplicate Asset Tag numbers!

What's the problem? Drill 4 holes and get some rivets.

The asset registry doesn't specify if it's working or not.

Today I shall explain how dual monitors work using the medium of interpretive dance

Re: IT managers were always the most difficult

Found that the younglings here exclusively use their phone as a post-it note.

Makes sense, instead of screen capturing an error, using paint to paste it into a file, draging that file into a teams message, or trying to get an attachment into outlook. Especially for a lab machine that isn't on the domain or a server that doesn't have outlook.

Just grab phone, press camera, swipe to send it to email / mms / signal / etc

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

>mostly a status thing.

Funny thing.

It used to be that being pale was high status because it meant you weren't out working in the fields.

Now the lowest status is the pale person with the most powerful machine - because they do the work.

The tanned person with the least powerful but thinnest laptop is the big cheese.

Re: Qualifications before being allowed to use a laptop

It was the way that HP used the perfectly obvious abbreviation "PC" for "Paper Cassette" because what else would PC stand for ?

Re: Qualifications before being allowed to use a laptop

It says "PC load letter" I've been putting letters into my PC for hours and it still doesn't print !

Re: "they exclaimed, 'How did you do that?!'"

I'm remembering a 2 monitor system where the desktop layout didn't detect when you unplugged 2nd screen.

So it was possible to lose a document/icon because it was on the extended desktop.

In this case it was hard to convince people the document wasn't in the "other computer"

Re: Examples...

RAM + HDD is still von Neuman. Unified memory just means that memory used to store data can also store instructions. The idea was that code can be modified at run time - which it rarely is in practice - at least not deliberately!

A lot of microprocessors (eg some Arduino-AVR) don't have this architecture because instruction memory can to be slower, or lower power, or remain intact when powered off.

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

Ironic that the experts complaining that people call broadband WiFi still call them "telegraph" poles.

(and to all the EEng out there spluttering that broadband is any modulation scheme where message bandwidth significantly exceeds the coherence bandwidth)

Snakes on a Plane meets The Simpsons as airline creates ‘whacker’ to scare reptiles away from parked A380s

Re: Each whacker is, however, labelled with the name of the A380 to which it is dedicated

Because each need to be FAA and EASA certified and so costs $10,000

Its use is documented in a 1000 page binder with monthly service notice updates and another document telling you how to apply the first set of updates..

Re: Everything in Australia trys to kill you

Surprised Australians are concerned by a mere rattlesnake.

That's not a deadly snake - THIS is a deadly snake !