Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill

Re: The main problem with trying to spot antifa members...

> "antifa" is not an actual identifiable thing

Yes it is: if (skin_tone_pixel < 128)

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

Re: Will we get to a point where our democratic apple is so rotten..

Damn they even got to my phones autocorrect - this thing goes deeper than I thought

Perhaps white-people should be allowed on the brown-people no-fly list ?

Re: Salting the battlefield

Interestingly murders in Washington are the only ones that can be pardoned by the president.

Murder is generally a state charge, so to get a federal pardon you have to do it in a non-state

Re: So that's what freedom looks like

Would 2/3 majority force bi-partisanship or just leave it permanently powerless ?

Then all policy would be by executive order or fed policy.

Re: Has someone taken the big red button off him?

I think the last president they gave the genuine codes to was probably Eisenhower

Re: Will we get to a point where our democratic apple is so rotten..

>The US could start by performing a dickectomy on itself and cutting away Florida.

Or just draw a line across the country and remove all those south of it.

Do you think they could be persuaded to come together into some sort of confederation and succeed ?

>Definitely the best court jester of the era.

Zappa or Trump ?

Now at the point where Trump ripping off the mask on Jan21 to reveal it was Sacha Baron Cohen all along wouldn't be a surprise - would almost be a relief

Re: isn't anyone going to stick up for this idiot?

We could compromise

If the republicans allowed Police to also shoot white people the democrats could offer to ban muslims

Re: Jake

I notice amanFromMars1 has been absent since Trump was de-platformed .......

Re: So that's what freedom looks like

Obviously the solution is for senators and congresspersons to also be elected for for life - then we only need to worry about an election when someone dies

Re: They are only doing this since the Democrats will be in power in two weeks.

Funny how social media are the only ones getting crap for this

Banks and credit card companies are still processing donations to his cause - nobody is calling for the people funding this to act responsibly

US courts system fears SolarWinds snafu could have let state hackers poke about in sealed case documents

Re: Pre-SolarWinds....just ask Ciaran Martin.........

I for one welcome our Gin and Chocolate bearing overlords

Re: Pre-SolarWinds....just ask Ciaran Martin.........

And how else are we to protect against a Belgian global empire of evil ?

US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax

Alternately tax the people taking the money from the corporations.

Amazon can dodge all the corporate tax it likes, that money eventually flows to the shareholders - just tax those gains as regular income

Women are 40% of Indian STEM grads and in just 14% of tech jobs. Not good enough, says VP Naidu

>Women now make up 34% of the IT workforce in India, with the majority of these workers under the age of 30

Would be interested in how many of those are coders vs support, or call centers being classified as IT to meet some govt target

Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls, Biden may just throw the web legal shield on the bonfire anyway

Re: The Great Blatherers days in power are numbered

Except while they passed almost no laws during the last 4 years (except a massive tax cut) they did install a bunch of mental patients (*) who will have final say in laws are valid for the next 40 years.

* - if I said that a voice in my head, filtered through the folk stories of a bunch of bronze age sheep molesters, told me what to think - you would put me away.

Re: Dear Chief Justice of the USA...

> in Prestwick,

That sounds inhuman - can't he be extraordinarily rendition-ed to somewhere nicer ?

Re: Section 230 should stay

That was the reason for S230 in the first place.

If Facebook / twitter etc removed one death threat or KP post they were suddenly a newspaper and responsible editorially for every post by all of their billions of users

>that Blog covers the Bible

The truth of this magic fairy story is disputed

Re: Dear Chief Justice of the USA...

>Trump wouldn't have picked a VP he couldn't keep reined in.

Trump didn't pick him. Bannon or Stone or some fixer at Breibart picked him to appeal to the God botherers

If Trump had done the picking it would be VP Ivanka

Re: What about e-mail?

>E-mail... will the owner of a server be held responsible for the content on it?

How do you have a search engine if it is responsible for the veracity of any pages it returns.

UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm

Re: What Nvidia has in mind.

"ARM needs to remain under UK control,"

It isn't - it's owned by a Japanese hedge fund managing a Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

I suppose the UK govt could spend 40Bn buying it back in order to stop any foreigners using it - not like they having any other pressing matters to deal with

Re: An ironic Austrian ?

Yes, almost like you should bet on new innovative startups doing new and innovative stuff rather than backing monopolies for nationalistic reasons.

If Dr Hauser had said - The govt should support some group of smart people somewhere doing something new and innovative with eg RISC_V - I would have a lot more respect.

An ironic Austrian ?

If the UK govt in 1980 had taken the same concerns about "supporting British jobs" and "national champions", then upstart Acorn wouldn't have got a look in and the BBC micro contract would have gone to the National Enterprise Board or ICL

Canadian Windows demands a jolly good bit of validating

Re: We don't even have a president

I only just found out that they invented the non-brand "white label" own brand concept - although in their case yellow.

ob xkcd cartoon

We don't even have a president

President's choice is the 'Tesco Finest' branding for the pricey stuff at Canadas big discount supermarket chain.

It's what they also call their own bank/credit card

A bit ironic having a 'Presidents choice elite worldclass' mastercard from the equivalent of Aldi.

Ah, right on time: Hacker-slammed SolarWinds sued by angry shareholders

Re: In their defence

Britain retakes control of Normandy, Aquataine and Anjou

New York Stock Exchange U-turns on decision to boot China's three biggest telcos

Re: Follow the money

Or a strong position in New York remaining a financial center.

If a president can ban foreign companies on a whim shouldn't all foreign companies worry?

Trump also started a trade war with Canada, for National Security reasons, perhaps Bombardier could be the next victim, or Deutsche Bank if Merkle was rude to him or Samsung if he felt Korea wasn't supportive enough.

Then Saudi Aramco or gun companies could get worried about the next president.

Pretty soon it's safer to list in Singapore or Geneva or some new online exchange in some tax haven.

Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down

VPN? You sound like a terroist boy, you sure you ain't one of them commie Linux users?

relying on third-party services

Remember OFAC bans any sort of dealings with you, the bank, phone company, domain registrar etc all have to block you if you fall foul of OFAC

It's difficult to not rely on ANY 3rd party - unless you are a self sufficient yak farmer

Techies start growing an Alphabet-wide labor union: 200-plus sign up, only tens of thousands more to go

Re: Interesting

And unions have a really good record of getting rid of old white members who harass young female staff.

Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

But forking a now obsolete old branch just to support existing non-commercial users doesn't sound like the sort of exciting new project which will attract may contributors.

It would make more sense to fork 6.0 and say *BEEP* to the Qt company and go on your own - especially since they have shown that they aren't planning to play nicely in future.

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

Hereditary leader of the opposition

Sounds like a reasonable system

Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas

On a constituional point of procedure

Did he preface the executive order with "no take-backs" ?

Welcome to the splinternet – where freedom of expression is suppressed and repressed, and Big Brother is watching

Re: They will ne fed with a proliferantion of batshit crazy too...

>You can't have an effective democracy when a sizeable minority of citizens are unwilling to believe that their side lost an election

You could just tell them that their side DID win.

Since there is generally very little difference in US policy between the center-right and the further-right parties. You could just segment the audience so that all Fox viewers get told that R won and all the Wapo readers get told the D won, Facebook are already essentially there.

It would make everyone happier and remove the need for expensive and disruptive elections.

Then the the country could continue being run by <NO CARRIER ..........

Re: HORNET or death

It used to be said a free press was free to print any of the political opinions of the owner which didn't upset the advertisers.

The nice thing about social media is you can match the advertisers with the opinions

Re: The USA model is not perfect ...

At least in Europe we don't have all-powerful media billionaires with a right wing political agenda controlling vast blocks of news sources.

Re: A note to all African countries - Beware of the CCP bearing gifts.

We are no longer the nights who say Eu

We are now the knights who say Farage-Farage-Backstop

Re: HORNET or death

Nothing compared to the trouble books have caused

Re: But who watches the policemen?

>who do you trust to do it?

Mumsnet ?

Re: Different censorships

Is turkey still a loyal NATO ally and a bastion against the asiatic hoards or is it a filthy muslamic dictatorship that must be crushed in the name of freedom ?

Sorry my vidscreen is broken.

Re: Free internet != lawless internet

But in the physical world one president can't just take away control of another entire country's telecoms infrastructure and hand it over to a supporter in Florida

Re: HORNET or death

> A source that can be held accountable for the profanities and malicious content of their spewing.

Perhaps with some sort of "social credit" score ?

New year, new rant: Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for 'killing' the ECC industry

There was probably a requirement from a big customer for a cheap embedded board with ecc, eg. ATMs or medical.

There is no risk of a micro i3 board stealing server sales, that's why you can't get the i7 version

Re: I don't see it that way

>It wasn't Intel's fault: ECC memory is just too expensive for most people's cost/benefit equations."

Intel kept ECC for the server market to charge a premium for Xeons

If you had ECC on all CPUs then cheap RAM would become available with ECC and everyone would just buy desktop machines instead

Remember you have to buy Xeon (or preferably Itanium) for 'real' work

File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result

Re: Google Docs?

>Perhaps they were 'collaborating' with people outside the law firm

You can't just google for random documents on the internet and make some sort of "dossier" out of it

New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos

Re: "the NYSE isn’t entirely necessary to investors"

Not all exchanges are equal. A larger exchange with more trading volume will give you a better price

Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb

Re: Most are Born With An A*** Hole

When you are created the first embryo cells form a ball with one opening. In most species this first opening becomes the arse, then a 2nd opening for the mouth forms later.

For some people this is the peak of their development