Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

One careful driver: Make room in the garage... Bloodhound jet-powered car is up for sale

>Getting the MOT might be a bit of a challenge...

Emissions test is tricky. This is a classic / no OBD port - so presumably they stick a probe up the exhaust

Re: Perhaps Elon Musk...

>Touching the ground

Land speed record for a "train" (ie rocket sled on rails) is about mach 8 - admittedly unmanned

But for a real British record, get a track, a sled, a bunch of rockets, an idiot and some Mallard blue paint and have a proper speed record

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

Re: As expensive as flagship phones are they should be grateful anybody ever upgrades.

>And they don’t know how to multiply $100-$150 by 36.

If idiots could do maths capitalism would collapse

Re: As expensive as flagship phones are they should be grateful anybody ever upgrades.

People don't spend $1000 on a phone - they get a "free" phone upgrade every 3 years with their $100-150/month phone plan

Wait till Apple trigger the gravity-inverter which causes it to jump out of your hands and smash itself on the floor

The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

Re: So?

IBM business model:

1, fire all your customers

2, fire all your engineers

3, hire a new CEO

I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

Incredible

The poorest, most sanctioned, most backwards country on the planet is a cyber security threat.

Surely we must respond to this by increased defense spending - order another aircraft carrier immediately

You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right? Trust... but verify

Re: Kwalifried sparky

Did all that and still got zapped.

The treasonous colonials wire the top/bottom socket in an outlet to different feeds on different breakers.

I mean, nearly 250 years and the buggers are still trying to kill me -

Re: Kwalifried sparky

I had a very old house that wasn't wired with a ring - but direct runs to each (admittedly scarce) socket.

Needed to fit a modern consumer unit and had to explain to dozens of PFY that they were putting the wrong fuse values - eventually got a grey beard electrician who would accept that "not a ring main" could exist, and was arguably better.

Re: Boeing Aircraft Wiring

I thought we used up all that dodgy fragile insulation rewiring Nimrods ?

Re: Disco Beer

> find the extension lead was simply a hefty two core, no earth lead!

Common at music venues - 'easiest' way to avoid earth loop hum

(for certain illegal values of easiest)

Re: Professionals built the titanic...

It doesn't say 2 it says 7

ps. It does explain why Swans are evil. All the evil people and animals were drowned, except presumably ducks and fish. So we have Sharks, Alligators and Swans = evil buggers than can survive floods.

Re: Respect the experience

Students, can't even tazer them these days - bloody elf+safety

Re: Professionals built the titanic...

>building the arc did have the highest level of guidance possible.

The last project where the bloke handing out the specification actually WAS omniscient - instead of just thinking they were.

Re: In true Clouseau style ..

>"cut it and see"

Step 3 being, if live replace electrician and goto step 1 ?

Re: The neutral doesn't join up with anything on the switch!

>You do know what an RCD is?

Yes it's a thing that does fsck-all to protect you if it hasn't been wired up right

Re: You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right?

If you keep doing that - how will they ever learn ?

If you stop Darwin putting a little chlorine in the gene pool then look what we ended up with ...

Re: You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right?

>. "I am qualified to design power stations but not to extend a domestic circuit."

Oh the wailing and nashing of teeth when PATT testing met the university engineering dept.

Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague

Re: GPT-3 Bias

Bias is the whole point of training, machine or people. If you see the word 'Microsoft' you want to be biased to assume software not artichokes.

The trouble is you don't want it to reflect some of the most common associations in the world

Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon

Re: No WiFi?

Yes, i meant the "You can buy half-a-dozen ESP266 boards from China for $1" set don't have the full CE/FCC that a legitimate RPI product would need.

But there is lots of space on that PCB for an official ESP32 block coming soon..

Re: What a shame they didn't go down the RiscV route...

What precisely isn't open about the Arm-M0 ISA?

Yes, you can't make a gate-gate copy and sell it under your own name without paying ARM 0.01c, but it's not like there are secret instructions you aren't being told about which you could use on RISC-V

The original Pi wasn't totally open because they used an off-the-shelf SOC and the maker of that part doesn't let you use it how you want. This is because they sell the same part for different applications at different price points with different features enabled - that's the economics of SOCs.

It wasn't because it was only for education and kids don't need to know details of the shader architecture.

Re: 12-bit A/D disappointing

True 16bit are still expensive, because you need reference voltages that are good to much better than 1/64K. The ones you can afford are successive approximation (ie don't believe the last 4 digits).

I remember when Burr-Brown 16Bit at 100Khz were a thousand quid and came in their own metal box.

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

>So it is difficult to see what this addition to a crowded market has to offer - apart from the "Pi" branding.

So it's an Arduino Due with RPi built-in "educational approval" and hopefully a well supported infrastructure for the price of a Chinse Arduino-Nano knock off ?

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

If it's all written in C and connects with I2C / SPI it should just be a matter of redefining pins.

The package manager for Arduino libs is very nice though, hope they manage to make something like that for this Pi.

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

Arduino also comes with a lot of libraries for things I don't want to write from scratch. Hopefully someone will put some effort into porting them to this

Re: Interesting

The analog ports on things like Arduino are normally very slow, don't know if you could use them for audio sampling

Re: No WiFi?

WiFi approval is long and expensive. ESP32 get round this by not bothering, not an option for RPI

Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president

If pardons are really only meant for 'political prisoners', any federal prisoners under your administration can't have been the victims of malicous prosecution by your political enemies.

Logically pardons should only be granted by the incoming president at an inauguration, not on the day the old one is de-inaugurated

Nope, this came up in whether Google has to repay the $MM in compensation it got from Uber.

A pardon is "you did it, but we like you so you're free - but you still did it"

Re: Colour me surprised

Why would he need a pardon when he is guilty of nothing but being too soft-hearted to crush the deep-state liberal elite that stole the election?

Please send contribution to Trump@marlargo make checks out to Confederate America Saving Heroes or C.A.S.H

Re: Colour me surprised

This is America, rich people aren't subject to little things like debts.

Trump Holdings-A, the wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Holdings-B might have debts but that doesn't worry Trump Holdings-C.

Re: Trump knew Ghislaine...

>But not well enough to give her a pardon.

It would be a waste with her suicide coming up

Re: So..

That's why the right to bear arms should cover WMD.

If I can't have nukes the Queen of England can just walk in and take over

Re: Good idea in theory

Other countries don't have all their civil servants being political appointees.

If we extrapolate the last few years, in future we are going to have to replace all the police, security services and army chiefs as well as all the government scientists every time the WH changes hands

>Regardless of the merits of any individual case, the fact that a president can simply overrule all due process and pardon anyone is utterly wrong.

Not if used as intended, eg. pardoning all escaped slaves, or more recently all Vietnam draft dodgers (who weren't fortunate sons) seems reasonable

We turn away for a second and Corellium is already showing off Ubuntu on Apple Silicon

Re: Who for?

Why would you want to run Linux on that ?

Because it's there !

Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful

If it manages to do that AND have the mirror unfold correctly I'm going to be eating some headwear - still wishing it the best of luck though.

Re: Lost leadership

But what would you rather have, robot probes landing on asteroids and bringing back samples or swimming around the oceans of Jupiters moons - or some crew cut space marine saluting the flag on the moon on live TV

Chip fab Intel said to be using better chip fab TSMC to make 5nm Core i3 processors, 20% of its non-CPU parts

Re: Single point of failure

That assumes the TSMC fab gets anywhere beyond claiming the tax break but never actually building anything <cough > foxcon <cough>

Of course that they can now bring their foreign fab engineers into the USA to do setup might help.

The general opinion seems to be that's what they need to HAVE done.

But now their fab is so far behind the curve that spun-off it wouldn't be viable and certainly couldn't invest enough to get into the 3-5nm business.

While Intel's high margin chip design business isn't high volume enough for Samsung/TSMC to devote the sort of effort they currently give to their Arm/GPU customers

Re: Single point of failure

We're already in a monopoly with ASML. One outbreak of food poisoning at a Dutch company picnic and we are back to making computers from vacuum tubes

So what can we expect from a Joe Biden White House when it comes to tech? We'll try to answer that right now

Re: Big tech will eat the world

Would have been better if it had been a post office van and you would be dealing with the government to get it sorted ?

People drive 2 hours in their 10mpg pickup truck from their air conditioned home to their air conditioned office - but reducing standby power in their phone charger from the CE required >1W to >0.5W is going to save the planet ?

Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas

A very British solution

Impound some baby clothes in a govt warehouse because allowing them on a baby would be corrupting, but the recipient can later get a £M year directorship with the company he gave PPI deals to and that's fine

Virgin Orbit finally lives up to its name after second attempt with LauncherOne rocket

Re: This just makes sense

>Getting out of a portion of the gravity well before launching a space vehicle is a viable option

It's no real change in gravity (Earth's surface is 6400km from the center, 30,000ft is only 9km further!)

The alleged advantage is that you can fly out to sea and launch in any direction - it's hard to find a land based launch site that has empty ocean in all directions ! You can also fly to where the weather is nicer, assuming it is good enough to let you get off the ground.

Drawbacks are that you are limited to a small, single payload.

It has to be engineered to support itself sideways while slung underneath an aeroplane and then 'downwards' when the rocket kicks off.

The launch altitude isn't high enough for the rocket to be vacuum optimised, so you still need 2 stages.

And because it has a manned carrier aeroplane you have all the safety costs and restrictions of a manned launch.

Re: Hmm

Sorry thought you meant virgin galactic's unscheduled, but unfortunately manned, disassembly

Re: Hmm

Remember this has nothing in common, other than a grinning beardy, with Virgin Galactic.

This is technology that was working great 30 years ago with launching Pegasus from an old DC10

Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire

Re: Well That Doesn't Sound Too Bad

>Any question about why government should do as little as possible is well illustrated here.

That's why it should be a PPI deal. You can claim it's all private, same pork flows and it only costs twice as much

Re: Well That Doesn't Sound Too Bad

>SpaceX are avoiding H2 by using methane - basically a compromise between very difficult engineering and performance. It performs better than kerosene, but isn't as hard to engineer for as H2.

It can also be made on Mars, waiting for Mars to have an oil industry makes a kink in their return schedule

Former NCSC chief says US sanctions made Britain strip Huawei from mobe networks

>Honestly, the UK and the West in general, should learn from this model.

As opposed to the traditional: turn up, rename the place, take all the stuff, kill the locals model ?