Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net

Re: 4 sides and a spare

>Far in the future I expect archaeologist will dig it up and describe it as the highest holy temple to military bureaucracy.

Including having twice as many bathrooms. One set for men and women and one set for non-people

Re: Wot, no Huawei? Not to mention...

>I guess the Pentagon decided to get rid of the NSA's backdoors.

The NSA is probably a bigger enemy to the Pentagon.

The Chinese aren't a threat to the DoD unless you start a shooting war - the NSA are a threat at the next funding round.

Re: 150,00-plus wired ethernet switches

You need one switch per user, then if they are doing something secret you can switch it off - that's why it's called a switch.

(Selling to government chapter 1)

FCC puts final nails into net neutrality coffin. In a week, America will vote on whether to bury or open it up again

>I still don't see what net neutrality is supposed to mean,

That your cable TV company that is your only choice for broadband - isn't allowed to block Netflix that is destroying its business.

Machine learning gets semi conscious... Waymo, Daimler vow to bring self-driving trucks to American highways

What could go wrong with a 20T vehicle driven by Bubba on Truckers-Brand(tm) amphetamines with a couple of beers busy texting

Re: Autonomous defence

Time to join the elevator operators and strike

Can't afford an AI-accelerating Nvidia Jetson Nano? Open-source emulator lets you prototype Python apps for it

Re: Wow

The python calls CUDA functions, the calculations happens on the GPU, the data stays on the GPU

President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds

Re: Be careful what you wish for.

If anything it's worse in the USA than in India = Our CEO is brown therefore we aren't racist

Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner

I think the treatment of Gartner should be closer to that meted out by Joey when the_girl_whose_name_I_cant_remember got stung in Friends

Upcoming Linux 5.10 release will love you longterm, pushing support out to 2026

"Which kernel feature turned my beard that grey?"

Judging from the sidebar picture Greg is looking a lot better

Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery

Re: Why not...

>Instead of 5G, .... why not a bigger battery

Because 5G will allow you to actually talk to people using your phone

Re: Just curious

5g battery life is probably great since the only 5g signal is in Apple's labs

Re: The Iphone 13 will come quicker than the 5G

But if Apple install 5g antennas then only fashionista liberals will get it.

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

Re: Portland

You don't have shires, why do you need reeves?

Re: Portland

Same solution to all bloated civil servants - Privatize it.

With the proper incentives it would open up a wide ranging employment among the disaffected urban youth to compete against traditional Italian-American family businesses outside the limited market of retail pharmaceutical sales.

It might even speed-up pizza delivery (obligatory obscure Neal S. reference)

Re: These vehicles contain no steering wheel or pedals for human drivers.

The official driver is a numbered bank account in Liberia.

Re: AI face recognition of cops

>This'll make undercover work interesting if police graduation photos get added to the system

How is undercover work even possible these days?

So you're Mr J Smith and you want to join my drug running gang ?

Lets have a quick look on Facebook, oh you don't seem to have any presence on the web in spite of being 20 and growing up in America.

Oh I see, you were Amish before you decided to get a very short hair cut and join the underworld? That must be why you also stand to attention and call everyone sir .

UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey is heading into gaming territory with £6m tender for dev team

Most of the actual topographic/cadestral data is from government sources (outside the UK the taxpayer often owns the IP that it paid for) .

Most of the public contribution is tagging names/locations and unofficial routes such as footpaths and hiking trails.

They do if you want to pay $$$$$$$ (or £££££) but 97% of the OS work appears to be preventing other people using the data or you using data you paid for in ways that aren't explicitly mentioned on the license which appeared to be written in 1745

Except it's the other way around.

Openstreetmap - start straight away with a bunch of existing code that devs all over the world are already using in game engines vs. hire a bunch of lawyers to negotiate with OS about the specific uses and licenses for their data and then develop on their API using only the 3 devs in the world familiar with it and have a product that only works in the UK.

Re: Virtual exercise?

Home sailing. You stand in a cold shower throwing non-waterproofed iPhones into the water

Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78

re:Do not ever buy a Samsung appliance.

Why do their appliances all play tunes at you all the time?

Are they aiming for "share and enjoy" ?

NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop

Re: Lorryload of Hay

Strictly speak it is interstellar, just a lot closer to one stellar than another.

Re: Ounces?

It'a American, I would have expected it to ask for 1/2 cup of rock

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

>that it DID cover nuke ownership by the states.

Giving Florida the bomb would solve a lot of problems - assuming the wind was in the right direction

>Guns are tools. The problem is with the user, not the instrument.

Another good reason for extending the 2nd Amendment to nuclear weapons

Re: @Adelio

>(a)knowingly causes a nuclear weapon explosion

Hence my special zero-knowledge quantum nuclear weapon trigger.

It's entirely up to my cat in a box to decide if it wants to nuke anybody

Re: Barr wants backdoor to boot

Or by dumping the phone's memory to a server and trying a billion attempts a second

Re: @Adelio

That's why I have nukes for home defense

Re: Suicide rates and gun ownership

> With firearms you rarely get a reprieve,

That's why the government needs to do more to promote Russian-roulette

Re: Your big brother policemen...

It doesn't come to court

Most of it is checking young women's phones for selfies / sex-tapes

Then a lot of finding something bad about a person after you shot them at a traffic stop / if they complain about you. It would just be a lot more convenient if you knew the dirt on everybody before you stopped them.

Re: Exactly!

That's why our brave boys in blue need a strategic bomber force

There might be a 12 year old in Portland with a gun - nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure

Is it Iran or Russia's hackers we need to worry about? The Russians, definitely the Russians, says US intelligence

>The actor may be seeking access to obtain future disruption options, to influence US policies and actions

They should stop electing actors then

I think you're forgetting something

The Russians look just like us so can't be bad

(except communist Russians = they look like Klingons)

Fancy a steaming portion of Kentucky Fried Bork? A fingerlickin' flub that's pure poultry in motion

Re: Urghh

>A diminished sense of taste.... is also a symptom of Covid19.

So the success of Mrs Browns Boys should have been a warning

ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag

Re: Another leak?

Fixing it is easy, tricky part is finding it.

Lacking a suitably large bowl of water to look for bubbles they have resolved to solve the problem with a teabag.

Who knew? Hadoop is over, says former Hortonworks guru Scott Gnau

This is why

I stick to Fortran

What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo

Re: this anti trust suit will probably fail

Remember US anti-trust isn't about protecting consumers - it's about protecting other companies.

Google's ability to see more analytics allow them to set prices to advertisers more efficiently than the old fashioned TV/cable ad-brokers did, and so puts those firms at a disadvantage.

The aim of this is to give the ad-agencies the same business model on the web that they had with print media.

2020 hasn't been all bad – a new Raspberry Pi Compute Module is here

Re: Forgotten memories

>Why, in a classroom, would you do *anything* other than netboot them?

Apart from managing the server and credentials and which student's image is which

One idea is that the Pi is cheap enough to have the same machine at home - so the kids can take an SD card to/from school and play at home, like we used to do with cassettes (but hopefully more reliable)

Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined

Re: Todays politics is irrelevant

>. If you think you can't find any, you are looking in the wrong places.

I'm hiring lots of them - because I don't need the to all be accepted in the country club

Re: Todays politics is irrelevant

>The issue is that the US exported all its tech talent to China starting about 20 years ago

The US stopped creating any tech talent 20 years ago.

Looking around 20 employees, the CFO and Office Manager (and our lawyer) are the only non-immigrants or 1st generation children of immigrants.

All the PhDs and engineers are furriners or furring-looking enough to get stopped at the airport.

Re: Such wisdom

Now they are blaming Obama for 9/11 and Biden for corona

Re: Will people learn?

>"Full employment" is a myth that hasn't existed in reality since the late 19th century

I believe the southern half of the country has a plan to return to "C19 full employment" and simultaneously solve the "expense of paying workers".

But suppose they escape into the world ?

Re: Insanity is becoming mainstream in the US

> the orange clown is a con artist

Hardly, a con "artist" would have got away with it.

Re: Will people learn?

>In large part because the economics of it just don’t make sense:

Unless you can get $1M/job in subsidies. Or you can import 'components' from your plants in China and install a "made in USA" sticker and avoid tariffs.

Re: Potemkin factory

Couldn't they have put up a bunch of large LCD screens and generated an image of the factory ?

Re: Trump is a con man

And Foxconn is sure that there won't be any issues of its manufacturing stuff in Jina

Huawei should have booked more executives into Trump hotels\

Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers

Jealous much ?

"Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines." - Said General "Buck" Turgidson in a canned statement