Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Uncle Sam wants 'ethical hackers' to crack its planetary defenses, but don't expect a pay-day from this bug bounty

Re: Why does the Pentagon spend more on seafood than bug bounties?

They have lots of boats and lots of sailors

If they bought some fishing rods couldn't they be self-sufficient?

(Possibly challenging on a submarine)

Re: US Inland Revenue Service?

The inland revenue service was set up to be safe from pirates

Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA

Re: NASA LOST 2 OUT OF 6 SPACE SHUTTLES

But mostly over their own territory

although would have been ironic if they had hit Diego Garcia

Re: Don't worry China

But that's different, we care deeply about the people of the Maldives

Re: Holidays

That's the solution, we keep burning enough coal and the Indian ocean becomes a safe place to drop rockets

UK's competition watchdog sniffs around AMD's proposed $35bn all-stock buy of Xilinx

>Xilinx are a San Jose California business, wtf has it got to do with the UK competition watchdog?

Because an anti-competitive monopoly would affect UK companies

If Boeing were to try and buy Airbus it would affect people beyond Boeing in Seattle

The problem is that the threat of British disapproval and retaliatory trade action by Global-Britain (tm) doesn't strike fear in quite the same way

1, The monopolies commission have to justify themselves.

2, The whole world looks to Global-Britain (tm) for leadership in international rules

3, Intel gave someone in govt a free coffee mug

China to enforce social distancing on peak of Mount Everest

There is still the original British side

‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

But in the 90s a Sparc5 outperformed a bunch of Vaxen by a similar margin and you got a mouse instead of VT220 graphics

IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips

Re: power consumption?

>teaches me how to assemble something that's already been designed

That's when we had proper education.

Now you would just learn how to harvest the data from people looking at ads for the product that has already been assembled by someone else

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Re: @MonkeyMagic - But China always abide by international treaties...

But what if they were only breaking the law "in a very specific and limited way" ?

Re: Weaponry

Do NSA's KH-11 satellites officially exist?

Hard to complain that the enemies anti-satellite weapon is targeting your secret military satellites that don't exist

Re: A law unto themselves.

Or that America would allow itself to be subject to any international body

Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price

Re: Use of floating point numbers ?

At least trading in 1/8s meant you could all this in binary

Re: Use of floating point numbers ?

But then you have to explain to auditors why 1/3 + 1!3 + 1/3 doesn't add to 1.

While they are being paid $10,000/day not to believe you

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

In the UK they are (or were) explicitly recognised as a race, along with Sikhs, in the context of race relations acts.

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Nothing is going to keep the NSA away

They either pressure the Dutch or UK govt to give them access or just run a fibre tap into Germany's major exchange

The advantage of keeping the data in the Eu is that if all your medical records suddenly show up on a US life insurance company's marketing database you have somebody to sue, and they can't get their brother-in-law the judge in East Texas to rubber stamp it.

Also your cloud data can't be subpoenaed by a US competitor, again with close family ties to E. Texas courthouse, quite as easily.

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

Remember to also have some sort of remote access to the remote management network router.

Perhaps a dialup modem and a serial port ?

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

Re: finger in glove

We all miss the chisel, but you don't have to take out your loss on your thumb

Re: finger in glove

>Hit my left thumb (resting on stone) with a 2 kg hammer.

Why ?

Re: severed finger unlocker

Haven't you heard of a dongle ?

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

Gluten-free Pizza instructions

1, Remove gluten-free pizza base from cardboard box

2. Discard

3, Eat cardboard box

Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel ... if you're into that kind of thing

Re: ARM64 support

I suspect that dominating the Linux running on Mac with M1 market would raise monopoly concerns and Microsoft don't want another DOJ investigation

Re: none of this Microsoft shite

The difference is MSFT would slurp all your data and not know what to do with it.

I see you are installing HaloShootingKillerGrandTheftNinjaAssassin can we suggest you would like minesweeper?

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Re: Tech is slowly taking control.. because we let it.

No it's the internet that's the problem. Have the router connect to your ISPs website and that's all it can connect to.

Chat with all your friends on BT and death to the TalkTalk infidels

Re: Huawei

But it's not Huawei that are installing these routers, it's British ISPs.

So obviously the British ISPs are under the control of the Chinese Peoples Army. It's obvious to anyone who has tried to deal with them that they aren't hyper efficient free market capitalists.

Plus Branson has a beard so is obviously a communist and probably controlled by Corbyn (must stop reading Daily Mail)

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

Re: The rollout didn't help...

And then the one employee who wanted a ban and didn't get one sued for millions for "hostile workplace" after their tweet about a colleagues Confederate flag t-shirt went viral

Re: Sex, Religion and Politics

And yet you simply sign each commit with "6 million wasn't enough" and suddenly it's all "politics"

interesting legal point: If holocaust denial is a crime what would that make the 'people' claiming that it didn't go far enough ?

Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways

Re: Live where you want to live, not where you have to

>Re: His employer is about to announce that they will now hire people regardless of where they live.

Is the whole team remote or just new hires? It makes a big difference

Unless you are effectively a contractor, ie. working on a specific project yourself, you find that people in the office that bosses see everyday tend to be the ones that get picked for a new project.

The couple of remote workers tend to get forgotten about, you get missed out on discussions and new opportunities.

'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely

Good job it's American

So we know this was just shoddy cost cutting and not a secret back door put in by evil billionaires which would justify us banning Dell from our networks

Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona

Re: massive investment

Note the clever wording, it didn't say it was investing that in the USA.

Mostly chip fabs need vast amount of $$$ which Arizona tax payers can supply.

TSMC aren't going to build a cutting edge 3-4nm fab in the USA, certainly not for their cut of the $50bn 'investment'.

WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple....

But with art you can create value by paying a relatively small amount of money to an expert or to an museum for them to decide that your painting is by daVinci and so is worth $400M.

You can't do that if everyone can prove the identity of $ARTIST

Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage

>So... Is this amanfrommars1 impersonating a troll, or a troll impersonating amanfrommars1?

A question philosophers have wrestled with through the ages

Re: Mrs Merton said it best...

At the time the joke was, "Melinda isn't coming to work today - she called in rich"

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

Re: They Paid $4,999,999,999.99 Too Much

You have to take into account the value of the internet's biggest collection of exclamation marks.

In today's hyper exaggerated internet - exclamation marks are very valuable

Re: Believ[ing] in Gods

>although the whole trinity thing (one? or three?) is understandably a bit confusing to many folks.

Not really: Odin, Woden and Grimnir are all just different names for the same God

Re: You've got fail!

Because all the kids love Yahoo! and so they would buy phones at Verizon to get their Yahoo! - cos that's how the internet works

Ex Netflix IT ops boss pocketed $500k+ in bribes before awarding millions in tech contracts

Re: This is why

This was just an IT minion, stealing $0.5M from a multi-$Bn company is hardly worth the effort

Re: "His actual sentence, however, will be balanced by US Sentencing Guidelines"

Compared to most Hollywood deals he is a saint - he didn't even rape anyone to get them a part

Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff

I think these guys had some number of years that it applied over and I assume some claw back if you got a job as a used car salesman

The MCSE type places would guarantee a job on graduation by offering a minimum wage software support/call-center job at an outfit they had a major shareholding in.

Re: Better than regular loans

> or decide that the contract remains in force even in case of bankruptcy ? How is it that you get to decide that ?

The humble politicians decided that cunning law/medical students would graduate, immediately declare bankruptcy and then spend 3 years earning very little while training and then emerge from bankruptcy in time to get their $250k job leaving the humble charity of Harvard or Yale out $250K in fees.

More than 1,000 humans fail to beat AI contender in top crossword battle

Re: One of those US crosswords

So you're suggesting cryptic crossword clues to replace recognising American parking meters as a captcha ?

Intel laid me off for being too old, engineer claims in lawsuit

Another one?

What is it with failing, former-monopoly US tech companies now circling the drain that make them such a hostile place to work ?

Bill to protect UK against harmful foreign investment becomes law

Re: Russian Oligarchs

So are we welcoming these anti-Putin, pro-democracy refugees?

What's Home Office policy on rich white refugees?

Former Senator and one-time astronaut Bill Nelson named as NASA's new administrator

NASA head is a political job?

Presumably at least this one will believe in a spherical Earth

Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision

Re: Suing your customer for not buying your product

>See also: Oracle.

We don't care who wins - so long as Oracle loses.

>how do they think that a subcontractor can do if for LESS, hiring those exact same people, after adding in corp-rat overhead and profit

By also using what they built for other customers.

It's why it's cheaper for the government to buy an Intel CPU rather than fab one in house

Ransomware crooks who broke into Merseyrail used director's email address to brag about it – report

About us management page:

CEO John Smith, Born mm/dd/yy, son of Lord Smith and Lady Smith (nee Wibble). He attended Bash St infants and his first pet was called Spot.

No can't see any security problems there