Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

Re: the above quote isn't really saying a lot

Only a finite number of customers, less than INT_MAX, have been affected

Re: Yep, it's affected us...

They will have a teams meeting to decide how to send a message to everyone on teams to say when teams will be back up

Re: I guess they are going to miss their SLA?

>Having said that, they still missed the 99.9% one anyway!

The new T&Cs say they can bring forward a future 10years of assumed perfect uptime to make the 99.%

Re: I guess they are going to miss their SLA?

Open 24hours (although not in a row)

Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade

Re: Pollution?

>Pretty sure that at the temperature of re-entry, any dioxin produced won't last very long.

Temperature is only high for the front of solid heavy objects hitting serious ram pressure heating.

The inside of meteorites arrive at the surface still deeply frozen.

Gases leaking out of heated batteries and then dispersing into the ultra-rarifed upper atmosphere aren't likely to be affected much. Then worry that chemistry of the upper atmosphere is complicated with very small amounts of some vital molecules spread very thinly.

Remember it didn't take very much mass of CFCs to destroy a layer of Ozone. You can't just say 'the entire mass of the atmosphere is massive so a few 100kg of X can't do any harm" - and then disperse that X into a very thin layer of upper atmosphere.

Ironically the batteries would probably do less damage if they hit the Earth (or at least Australia) intact than they will by disintegrating and doing some unknown chemistry into the upper atmosphere.

Re: Pollution?

>there won't be anything left but molecular powder at best.

Good job that no chemistry happens in the upper atmosphere then.

Raspberry Pi Foundation boss waves off listing rumours, says biz discussions may have been 'over-interpreted'

Re: Alternatively...

Just buy Micron, Singapore is still British isn't it?

Re: Silicon valley / fen

>You can be the CEO

TechnoKing !

Re: Silicon valley / fen

Only if i get a liquidity preference

Silicon valley / fen

They would have launched a SPAC instead of a product and be valued at $10Bn (merely a $Bn isn't impressive anymore)

Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say

Re: ESN

Rumours suggest that they are now looking at 2[0-9]25

Re: Just SOP.

So long as the red-tape costs less than £350M/week we are ahead !

Holes patched in Russian segment of the ISS though pesky pressure loss continues

Re: Happy to help

>My toolbox is full of self-adhesive patches accumulated from assorted air-beds, tents,

Tricky bit is finding a large enough bucket of water to put it in to see the bubbles

Xiaomi didn't turn the glue up to 11 on its new Mi flagship, but still gets low marks for repairability

Re: Curved screen

Thinking about it, this could be a good use for repair scores.

In looking for a new phone that curved screen, or being 0.1mm thinner isn't just costing me $X up front I know that a repair is going to be $Y more than the base model

Curved screen

If customers want (for some reason) a screen that goes around the sides, for extra drop risk, isn't this their fault?

It's not like the maker is doing this deliberately to make it non-repairable.

Does mean I have an extra reason to stick to $100 Xiaomi low-end phones

Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness

Re: Football Fields

> 45 and 90 metres and its length between 90 and 120 metres,

So we could in theory have a square pitch?

You could change ends every quarter

Re: Football Fields

>New Olympic sized swimming pools are now ten lanes wide and to keep the counting of the traditional eight as it was, the new lanes are numbered zero and nine

An off-by-one error on both ends ?

Re: Football Fields

Of course we ad it tough....

Re: Football Fields

>Not sure Leeds would be daft enough to bid for the money pit that is the Olympics though

But if wer run in Yorksha it mek a profit.

No fancy stadium, just run to the other end of the carpark, cross-country is the wasteground next to school

Marathon would be around the ring road, not closed to traffic to give you a bit of a boost

Rowing in the Canal

Re: Football Fields

>Olympic swimming pool built in Leeds turned out to be too small to be classed as an Olympic pool.

Could this harm Leed's chances to host the next Olympics ?

I quite fancy a Yorkshire Olympics

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

Re: Blockchain 0, Mona Lisa 1?

And this allows you to won art that can't be put on an easel.

You own a painting or sculpture only if you have the physical item, this lets you own a totally digital artwork or 3d render, or computer generated animation.

Without this how would you 'own' a digital sculpture ?

Re: Dumber than a rock?

> they don't own the copyright, they may not be the only owner of a token for it (the number is public though), and the image they "own" is also available for free

So exactly the same as a "worthless" numbered Picasso print then ?

Re: What is this

>The file is NOT unique, there could be a billion copies all identical, so what makes this unique or valuable?

I think the MPAA would have an opinion.

If I own the TIFF files for Toy Story then they have value irrespective of not being "real" like celluloid

Re: It just goes to show ...

And this is different from doing the same with an unmade bed or a blank canvas ?

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Buying small cheap per-rack UPS is much cheaper than a proper designed full-facility backup.

Especially if you only sell 24x7 redundant power as an add-on package to some customers

Not saying that this is what they did here, but ......

It's France, they probably mean they fixed it up with a cute little Renault car booster called Nicole

'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces

Re: French vocab

Although O level German took every opportunity to use Durchfall

Huawei's first desktop PC to be sold outside China is a sleek business machine with optional 'smart' keyboard

Re: BYOKMD

I suspect you aren't the target market

First Australia, maybe Europe, now America mulls effort to potentially make Google, Facebook pay for news

Re: I don't think this is enough

> because even collectively, they don't have enough power to force a company like Google

They don't have to, Murdoch just needs to have enough power to force a politician.

Think the Sun / Daily Mail and no effect on Brexit, or Fox News on Trump's win ?

Re: Copying snippets of news articles ...

>clearly marked as opinion of the author.

As opposed to the opinion of the publisher in the rest of the paper?

> it's the use of snippets of the article,

Like the title of the article you found?

It's hard to show the result of a search if you can only display the URL pointing to some CRM generated UUID

Re: First unintended consequence?

But Google/Facebook linking to any news story would be illegal.

So as long as the politician is friends with Murdoch only the 6 people who buy Private eye on the news stand will ever find out about it

First unintended consequence?

$Politcian$ registers as a newspaper so Facebook/Google can't publish details of his tax-cheating/child-sex/wig-wearing without paying him

UK Space Agency will pay a new CEO £125,000 to run non-existent space programme

Re: pay a new CEO £125,000 to run non-existent space programme

Well obviously you aren't going to get somebody full time for that, it will be something to do on Wednesday mornings between more lucrative directorships

Four women, including TV star, thought they were investing in a software business. It was a scam. Now the perp's going to jail

Re: that helped applicants for government benefits

He made the mistake of only ripping off investors for a few $100K, if he had ripped of the govt for a few $Bn he would have got a follow up contract..

The odd thing is why he decided to steal the money, all he had to do was hire a couple of incompetent offshore programmers to fail to build a website, while paying himself and family members a large salary as consultants and claiming a few foreign trips as expenses. Then the company goes bust = all perfectly legal

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

Re: Its all Sh--.

> All of these little horrors should only be allowed on an air-gapped network, and have no direct access to the internet.

Exactly, if I want to see who is at my house while I'm at work I call my in-house security team (who operate from a secret bunker below my fish pond), they connect to the air gapped camera, copy the footage onto 16mm film and after developing it drive it and a projector around to my office.

MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic

Re: Queen of Carnage

>Even at that position she was apparently asked if she wouldn't mind finding an alternative position

Mobile Customer Driven Container redeployment coordinator (responsible for returning trolleys).

Re: NHS Test & Trace??

You can't criticize "NHS" Digital cos that's attacking nurses and Cpt Tom and probably fluffy bunnies

SpaceX wants to slap Starlink internet terminals on planes, trucks, and boats – but Tesla owners need not apply

Re: Hopefully

So BT get money in advance if you promise to install FTTC but lose money if they actually serve any customers? It all makes sense now.

Re: Hopefully

>They can supply internet just as easily to a city centre as the middle of nowhere.

But not as cheaply as competitors running fibre from an exchange on the corner.

They are also limited in bandwidth / area. A lot of users seeing the same group of satellites lowers the bandwidth, although a city center would also have nearby uplink so there is less satellite-satellite relay

I see you are unfamiliar with the rural USA

Re: Probably Not

Explains the cybertruck

Re: 1 million users?

Probably a limit on the number of digits in the field on the license form

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

I would just like my government to be on the same side as me.

Discover a zero-day and keep it to themselves in order to use it against 'domestic threats' - and announce that they knew about it only when the Chinese use it against me !

Remember the cold war - in the UK

I remember that the government spent a lot more effort on defending against "domestic threats" than the Russians

If the government had put as much effort into the CCCP as it did into spying on CND, Greenpeace, the NUM, TUC etc. Although it probably didn't help that at the time all the security services were headed by Russian assets

Of course things are completely different now.

Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

Re: How to survive a Terminator attack

Don't list your name in the phonebook ?

Re: Autonomous weapons need to be internationally banned.

>AFAIK no major nation has developed and used weapons where there is no human in the decision making loop.

The decision being where to place the minefield ?

US newspaper's 'Biden will hack Russia' claim: A good way to reassure Putin you'll leave him alone

US Resposne

1, Announce a US Cyber-force

2-49, Decide on name for 'soldiers' (discover Guardians of the Galaxy already taken by Space force, reject Ninja as cultural-appropriation) and uniform design

50-99, Political in-fighting about which agency gets to own/staff/control/get-the-budget-for

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