Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

President Trump turns out the lights on solar panel imports into US

Re: A stopped clock is correct twice daily

It's thinking long term.

This boosts coal and LNG use.

So increases global warming

So makes solar more viable for the rest of us

Hats off to our selfless cousins for thinking of future generations.

Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms

Re: Who's got the cluestick?

If you are selling ads on your own web platform it is very difficult to claim you only made 0.01% profit on a £10 billion turnover

US govt shutdown lobs spanner in SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch

Re: Do they still get paid?

Govt employees do (or at least they did last time) but all the civilian contractors and support don't (at least the ones that can't hide the extra billable hours)

Firms pushing devices at teachers that let kids draw... on a screen? You BETT

Collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity skills? How does Cortana address any of these things?

You can use it to watch a ted talk about how important they are

UK Army chief: Russia could totally pwn us with cable-cutting and hax0rs

Re: Why would Russia want to fight us??

Having every mansion and football team in London owned by somebody closely linked to the Kremlin is probably the most effective missile defence shield ever invented.

Solution

Hire lots of cyber security experts

To lure them away from Amazon/Google etc you need to beat the salaries and not make them do all that extreme camping the Army is so fond of.

Since salaries are fixed with rank you will have to hire these nerds at a rank that is commensurate with $300-500K industry salaries

So that means a pay rise for Brigadier General (or whatever the highest rank is among the brown trousers)

NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside

Re: Response

Now do a complex inner join on 60M records with the DB app local and the data being 100ms away

Re: Response

response times for hosting in the US are going to be significantly worse than for Europe

Once Britain leaves europe that will be fixed

China flaunts quantum key distribution in-SPAAACE by securing videoconference

Re: All those satellites

No it's just like the arms on top of trolley buses

The Reg visits London Met Police's digital and electronics forensics labs

Re: A question for all my fellow (and fellowess) El-Reg readers.

Criminals are aware of CCTV, so try to obscure their faces.

Hence anybody who hides their face is a criminal - QED

PC sales get that post-Brexit vote sinking feeling

Are RAM prices a complete scam

Yes, all the Japanese, American, Korean Chinese and Taiwanese fabs get together at a secret meeting at Davos and agree to rig prices. It's a rare example of perfect international cooperation.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

HMRC dev support team cc blurtfest: Over 1,400 email addresses blabbed

If they're transferred between departments, then there's some effect.

Yes their budget is increased by the amount of the fine and your power is measured by the size of your dept's budget

Re: The CC error

Of course...that doesn't prevent someone sending them out in a badly written script.,

This is government IT - I'm surprised they used 'cc rather than typing them all individually

Tax Google and Facebook for a job subsidy scheme? Sigh

Re: The UK has a problem of local news

That's why you need More Democracy (tm).

Make the school board, fire station, police and transit all democratic.

Then you get the thrilling experience of separate labour and conservative campaigns for election to the park board.

The city engineering is still unfairly decided by an unfair guild system which insists on privileged knowledge, so the unwashed masses don't get to vote on how thick the bridge cables are - but it's only a matter of time.

Re: Thankfully the internet routes around censorship

That's quite common in small oil states whose many warring tribes are united only in hatred of their neighbours - I wonder why it applies to Scotland ?

America restarts dodgy spying program – just as classified surveillance abuse memo emerges

Re: No longer recognise the US

Remember the USA doesn't actually exist - it is all faked on a film set.

The writers for this season do seem to have "jumped the shark" somewhat

Re: Dear America

About the only political leadership who seem to be intent on actually leading their country are the Chinese !

Re: Dear America

For your next president, choose a person who is honest, passably intelligent, willing to listen to advice, familiar with your Constitution

Siri for president ?

Twitter breaks bad news to 677,775 twits: You were duped by Russia

Re: It's a bit of a snicker, really.

Lots of Entrenched Interests are feeling the swamp getting more turbulent.

Goldman Sachs executives in each post or advisers to unqualified holders - check

Consumer and environmental protection rewritten by industry - check

Banking regs rolled back to pre-2008 settings - check

Net neutrality rules reset at cable company request - check

Yep swamp drained.

The main concern by lobbyists seems to be that laws are written directly by industry with no need to actually lobby

Re: Follow-on to the previous post... sigh.

How many times did Clintons meddle in Russian election's?

I always assumed somebody in the UK/USA intelligence agencies got Putin elected.

He is the perfect Russian president, scary enough to justify arms sales but not enough of a leader to gain anything. Corrupt enough that the Russian economy stays out of competition and we get to sell his friends nice mansions in London

If it wasn't for the fact that he isn't a committed communist I would assume he is an MI5 agent. Although the shirt-off posing does suggest he has a touch of the Peterhouse about him.

Re: It's a bit of a snicker, really.

Makes a change from Murdoch deciding elections I suppose

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

Re: Meanwhile...

Only to the central mass (assuming much larger), the mass of the satellite doesn't matter

A380 saved as Emirates orders another 20 planes, plus 16 options

Or to threaten Emirates that if they don't sign, Airbus will shut down the line and their fleet and business model is now worthless

Re: Make Me An Offer

Except countries like Dubai/UAE/Singapore can't operate a point-point model in Eu/USA.

The free market economies of the decadent capitalist west make sure their own airlines are protected - so Air Singapore can't operate Manchester to Newark or Barcelona-Berlin. They can only fly in-out of their own country, and nobody wants to fly from one 2nd city in Dubai to another.

Emirate must screw the hell of pricing out of Airbus.

Or Airbus said - nice airline you have there, pity we aren't making anymore of those planes or spare parts.

Ryanair at an airbridge !

It was the flight to Glasgow it just lands at Scotland(Manchester) and then you get a bus into Glasgow city center

F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg

Re: VIF[F]ing?

However the F35 won't be usable in a future Falklands conflict.

The US company with the contract for the onboard avionics will have a significant share holding from the Argentinian teachers pension fund and so will cancel the runtime license and then Turkey will be negotiating a deal with Argentina for a new pipeline and so will refuse to do any servicing, and Boeing will be in court about bribes to Argentine officials and doesn't want any bad press...

We may have created the solution for perpetual peace

User had no webcam or mic, complained vid conference didn’t work

Re: Your Network is broken!

"He couldn't understand that he created shortcuts to the files on his computer and that it wouldn't work on our computer..."

Back in the day somebody managed to load our dept web site into MSFT Frontpage and convert all the hyperlinks to file links to the shared drive.

Of course it must be our fault because it worked on their machine.

Heathrow's air traffic radio set for shiny digital upgrade from Northrop

Re: handheld in a drawer

i just hope someone has a handheld transceiver secreted in a drawer in the control tower for when it all goes blue screen,

Aren't all the pilots on snapchat ?

Re: Secure?

But the web interface to do things like shut the system down should be secure.

It wont be, it will have the usual set of web vulnerabilities and will have a default service account with the passwd "service"

National Audit Office report blasts UK.gov's 'muddled' STEM strategy

Re: It's really very simple

Because you can't run a lab science class for the standard fixed tuition fee. So you either shut down the chemistry dept or divert money from the cheap to teach arts depts to STEM.

In top universities it is the opposite way round, the STEM research depts bring in massive amounts of external grants which you charge 150% overhead on - and divert the money to the arts depts

Re: STEM

But we just had a 25% increase in STEM students - simply by reclassifying "exercise science" and "domestic science" as STEM.

Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em

Re: It's a common problem

If you have physical security then a complex password written down is better than a weak remembered password. If you don't have physical security then there is no point in a password

Re: Dont' name and shame persistent offenders

Then they just obey the security policy to the exclusion of doing any work.

If you do those fake phishing calls/emails to see if they respond then your users stop responding to any calls/emails - they can simply claim they thought all customers were suspicious.

In fact I'm not even logging onto my machine this morning because the keyboard looks like it has been moved on my desk - that's "suspicous" so I'm going out for coffee until IT have checked it.

Destroying the city to save the robocar

Seattle and Vancouver, BC

"Road signs and lanes disappear

Good - it can only help.

The freeway from Seattle splits into two border crossings.

The old one is "straight on", the new one, open 24hours and with truck facilities, splits off at the last exit.

You also have signs warning you to exit before you end up at the border

The result is a set of instructions, to be read at 70 mph, that I think are Turing complete, the wordage makes "Finnegans Wake" read like the Very hungry Caterpillar

Re: The best of both worlds

It's costing New York about $3bn/mile of tunnel - and that's for a narrow subway.

Now do that for 4 / 8 lanes of highway, with on/off ramps and ventilation

Airbus warns it could quit A380 production

Re: Rune reading again ...

It was just a typo, was meant to be called High Speed/2

Re: Capacity

BA 747s many times I would argue that the word ergonomic' is sorely misplaced, unless you mean 'dark blue, creaky, cracky, cramped hellhole'

That's true of all BA flights (or was before I used to avoid them)

The nice thing about being the World's only airline is that you really don't have to make any effort at customer service, new or clean aircraft etc. It's not like business people are going to fly on some bunch of middle eastern or SE Asian carriers are they ?

Because they had to

I wonder how much of the A380 was because Airbus had no competitor to the 747 ?

If a national airline wanted long haul trans atlantic/pacific it had to buy 747s (before etops 370). So you had to let the Boeing salesman in the door, at that point he could offer you a much better deal if you also wanted to buy 737s and 777 for your other routes. And look at all the savings on maintenance and training by only operating Boeing.

It's like HP or IBM having to buy up auxiliary systems vendors because if they can't offer the full package the customer has to go to your competitor

Frankfurt is much more centrally located in Germany

I hear the new plan is to move Berlin to next to Frankfurt airport - it was quicker and cheaper

Re: Why not a cargo version

. Often customers are willing to pay for speed of delivery, especially with JIT manufacturing.

JIT means they are willing to pay for reliability.

That's why Maersk's new container ships are half the speed of the last lot. So long as I can promise to the hour when the parts arrive then you don't care if it is in 10 days or 20 - it's just a longer conveyor. The extra cost of capital tied up in the parts is so low that the cost savings on fuel win.

It's only for one offs or launch day spikes of a new iPhone that you need rapid delivery.

Re: Rune reading again ...

And if China takes off and you need A380 passenger numbers on short trips that would be 737 in Eu/USA then you need an A380 in "asian economy" seating layout (don't ask if you are more than 5' 4")

Unfortunately it looks like they have decided that high speed rail is a better/quicker/cheaper/more efficient way of moving 1000 people 3-500km - bunch of commies

Re: single-engine A350 ...

So if Canada were to close a bunch of northern airstrips it only keeps open as emergency diverts - then only the A350 would be able to make a lot of Eu-USA flights and Boeings would have to do a long expensive southern route.

Boeing has just screwed Canada over with a 50% duty on Bombardier and Airbus has just take Bombardier under its wing...

US senators vow to filibuster FBI, er, NSA's domestic, errr, foreign mass spying program

Re: Good

It does seem a lot of effort just to pick which Goldman Sachs partner gets to pull the strings - couldn't it just be an internal HR decision?

The obvious solution would be to abandon the current socialist communal voting system and just put the Presidency out to tender

And strange that the democrats that are shocked by extending it didn't manage to get it cancelled in the 8 years they ran the place

Private submarine builder charged with murder of journalist

Re: That's the best headline you could manage ?

It has no UK technology industry angle so el`reg is only covering the story to get clicks for advertisers - so it might as well have a flippant headline

That's the best headline you could manage ?

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Wait, what? The Linux Kernel Mailing List archives lived on ONE PC? One BROKEN PC?

Re: Ker-ching!

What do you sell to people on the Linux Kernel Mailing List?

France may protect citizens' liberté with ban on foreigners buying local big data firms

Re: Oo yes, because that worked so well last time

After a series of ownerships by US computer companies it got bought by an even shadowier French owned company that seems to got unlimited amounts of freindly government contracts.

seems like a bloody good idea.

Hey want to invest in my French startup - it processes data.

Cool, am I allowed to buy shares?

Will you be able to IPO?

If you are sucessfull, will you be able to sell the company ?

Will the bank lend you money if it isn't allowed to sell assests ?

Are you allowed to choose which customers to work with ?

If the answer to all of the above is: "It depends on the politics of the French government or courts at the time" Then I might just pass