Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

No just an anti-war hero.

He wants Lockheed-Martin-BAE-Sikorsky-Aerojet and Boeing-Mcdonnel-Douglas-Vertol-Sikorsky-Hughes to be split up so they can no longer build any modern weapons.

Muskets were good enough in 1776 and should be good enough now.

'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'

Re: Aaargh! Ambiguity

If everywhere in your field the word 'black' is used to mean a negative outcome and 'white' is used for a positive outcome = it's a problem.

Replace them with white = Catholic and black = protestant or white = christian / black = Jewish everywhere and see if seems 'ok'

Re: Is "Chinese Wall" actually offensive?

I think it's the 'nod and wink' nature of Chinese walls, at least in finance

So a 'Chinese wall' has come to mean a lie.

>No, then it would be in a 'second' language. I would still have a native language, it would just be a different one.

Yes, that was the point. If 'native' was being used as the default language it might not be 'native' to everyone. But don't see how anyone could object to 'native' resolution = the resolution the screen was born with

Would it still be your "native" language if you were an immigrant who learned another language at birth?

Re: Ethical wall

Firewall isn't even the right name for a firewall.

A firewall is between you and the engine in case of a fire.

It stops all fire - it doesn't let approved fire in and all fire out

Re: Red Team?

>master / slave in the context of electronics (including device drivers) has a very specific meaning

Commissar / prole - then nobody is offended

Also means the dear users who manage to wedge a USB plug into a ethernet socket are just being pro LGBTQI2*

Re: What?

>Everybody has a couple of grandfathers.

Maybe an overestimate in certain US southern states

Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks

Re: Time to apply the duck test

Paypal and Alipay are definitely banks.

Income gets paid into them, they hold it and will let you withdraw it.

They will also decide to lock your account with no notice, cancel your account because an algorithm makes a mistake and confiscate all your money fro breaking some vague 'terms and conditions'.

They also have no insurance, no regulatory oversight and often no way of contacting them.

Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace

Re: "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP"

Supply is only less than demand due to them not making enough.

Isn't that true of everything?

China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules

Corporations bail out government = communism

Government bail out corporations = capitalism

Couldn't he just contribute to Xi's re-election fund and then the next party meeting would have a bunch of Aliexpress products on the president's desk ?

Re: Yet in the West.

Much better to say "if you criticise the government we'll use armed mobs of whackos to go after you"

Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine

Re: Lifecycle of Bollocks

When your 100years of corporate history is so toxic that you need to rebrand.

Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing

Re: Book Titles

I agree with the Disney copyright extension, but only if it is symmetric.

Every extra year they get also applies to the the years before the mouse.

So once all those princess, dwarfs and wooden boys hit the Grim, Anderson etal they lose everything

That's a pity

I was hoping that Oracle would win and then IBM come round and ask about all these copyright Sql statements Oracle might be using

UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain

Re: Speaking of ads

I quite like them.

I never see any ads at home (thanks PiHole and Brave) at work I get the Redhat ads with some guy with a bog-brush beard. Now I have an extra reason to avoid Redhat.

Have they..

Introduced a rail replacement horse and buggy service?

United States' plan to beat China includes dominating tech standards groups – especially for 5G

Intel announce

Their new American 0.0002 thou fab

For blinkenlights sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front of the Machine

Re: Broke my little toe...

Less cocaine

Re: Broke my little toe...

And that little sister is now home secretary

Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on

But can it....

make telephone calls ?

Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened

Re: Test, test, and test some more!

You have to install them in the basement in Japan. if you put them on the roof Godzilla can knock them over

Re: Test, test, and test some more!

Texas is a desert so it's a one in a million chance it would ever rain, or have a tropical storm, or a hurricane, or snow - so it's a waste of money

Re: This would never have happened at a certain broadcaster I used to work for.

Requirement was that servers were up 99.9999%, connecting to them is an S.E.P.

Re: This would never have happened at a certain broadcaster I used to work for.

There were lots of stories after the hurricane that hit New York.

Generators on roof of office block - for safety reasons you don't want generators in basement - feeling smug when basement floods. Then discovering either diesel tank or pumps for diesel tank are in basement.

Lots of pictures of people carrying 100s of Jerry cans up 20 flights of steps

SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts

And the point is?

This isn't as fast as running fibre to every last cabin in the woods

But since we can't seem to run non-lead water pipes to city centers, or transit to anywhere it's unlikely that rural America is going to become Singapore anytime soon

So yes, don't say we don't need any infrastructure spend because they can just use Starlink - but also don't block Starlink because it can't do 4k Netflix to everybody outside downtown SF

Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99

Re: No TV

>Some bloke called Captain Tom got a hip replacement aged 99

Hope they kept the box

Re: forthright with outspoken opinions

It is the one political system in where the monarchy have more guns than parliament.

I would like to see a state opening of parliament where Brenda walks in with a Barbour jacket and a shotgun under each arm.

Re: No TV

>and, erm.... Ireland

I don't think Bono worship is actually state policy - it's just a tradition

Re: Bad greek

Algebra is a bloke's name

Re: Bad greek

>concluded that he'd been a British subject all along

Isn't everyone?

<sings> Rule Britannia ....

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Re: Not necessarily.

The FAA did have to 'adjust' the average weight assumptions for aircraft design.

Their previous value was based on a very accurate survey of USAF aircrew in 1945 - it must be accurate because they averaged so many 1000s of measurements

Re: 11 stone..

For small planes where this actually matters - they do.

They have the passenger stand on scales in front of the checkin desk with their carry-on baggage.

For 'personal privacy' reasons it doesn't display the weight in big flashing numbers, just adds it to the load sheet

Re: So you're a pilot

It's still the responsibility of the captain to approve the load sheet and balance calculations and the airworthiness of the aircraft. The fact that they have no idea if what they are being told is true is just one of those "funny little things".

Belgian police seize 28 tons of cocaine after 'cracking' Sky ECC's chat app encryption

Re: Cocaine

Hopefully it is a drop in the ocean. If it was a significant effect on supply it would lead to price rises and presumably 'enhanced competitive behaviour' in the distribution staff

Re: OpenPGP

The encryption isn't the problem.

Distributing keys to groups of people, being able to message groups of people when you don't know if one of them is a police, getting apps that do this and can run on your phone, trusting that the app is written by the police - these are trickier

All drugs that aren't for clinical purposes are 'recreational'

Jumping out of an aeroplane underneath a giant handkerchief is recreational (if you aren't invading Crete).

Doesn't say anything about the level of danger

Re: 28 million grammes of coke

Imagine if there was a simple drug molecule that could be made at home and was widely available in Belgium and caused people to stab a member of their family and led to car crashes - I'm sure the Belgian authorities would crack down on it.

In comparison i think coke mostly causes bad ad campaigns

Re: Encyrption back door?

Especially when the bad guys and good guys is a matter of opinion

Beloved pixel pusher Paint prepares to join Notepad for updates from Microsoft Store

Re: MS Paint has never been so bad

>Microsoft Paint is the kindergerden tool, as far as I'm concerned.

Yes and if you want to crop a screenshot and draw a red circle around a button before sending the picture to a user - it's all you need.

Re: Paint Sudoku

But with Paint3d you can solve Rubik cubes in a similar manner

>What "features" have they added? Seriously.

Well all the new colours that were invented since Windows7 came out

Re: I'm pissed off...

Because they need to pay a fee for DVD playback licence, since nobody actually plays DVD anymore MSFT don't want to pay the fee to the Evil Giant Global Capitalists for every copy of Windows they sell

Remember AMD, Xilinx were merging? Shareholders give thumbs up to $35bn deal

Re: I hope it doesn't hurt Xilinx!

Like any other Intel business....

Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques

Seems to set a dangerous precedent if this is training on an internal tool.

You start at McDonalds, you do a bunch of training courses from Burger-U about their world class business procedures and the use of their advanced burger making technology.

Then you try and leave and you find you are massively in debt - can anybody spell indentured servitude?

Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination plan

Re: Nothing rare about rare earths

And the aquaduct,