Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

Re: World leading

>Britain is the first country to ever impose economic sanctions on itself.

We have to teach them a lesson, being tough is the only language they understand

Re: @wolfetone

There will be no extension.

However we reckon we could get a lean-to built by the end of 2021 if there are any old doors going spare on the allotment

Re: Err...

Fortunately we will know by at least 11:45 on Dec31 if he is even allowed to do that.

At the moment we don't know what the rules will be for Eu drivers in the UK.

>Dipshits, both.

Personally I blame Barnier. He is a professional politician, he should have forseen that the UK government's response would have been a complete cluster fuck and so arranged a deal with himself and implemented the software for the UK.

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

But isn't your first question at the bid, " ever built one of these before?" if the answer is yes, then the next question is "did it work and can we have an exact copy?"

A city near here famously did this for property tax. They bought the software that another city ran and refused to change a line. They changed some bylaws to match the other city and put a PC in the line to the printer to replace the name of the town

Re: The problem with public tenders...

The same system of <cough>"directorships" and <cough>"consultancy fees" that led to the current system also led to legislation saying that the government isn't allowed to take previous failures into account

>Pensions legislation is some of the most complex there is. Good luck to anybody taking it on.

But is the same for everyone.

So unless there is something special about Scottish pensions that required some new breakthrough in hyper-mathematics, you just copy and paste the same system as every other council/company in the country

Re: So...

>sounds like Capita could have literally put zero people on the contract, defaulted on it and still come out of this with a large wodge of pure profit

Any evidence that they didn't ?

Re: So...

I think that's crapita's business model.

1, Win bid

2, Fail to deliver

3, Profit

Snowden was right: US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

Re: Great, so NSA slurping back in Snowden's day was illegal

Question is can you extradite and prosecute somebody for revealing an illegal operation, while not dealing with those doing the illegal stuff - and still be a legitimate government ?

What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan

Re: An alternative explanation?

>Maybe they're primarily needed because the traditional extended family support has ceased to operate, as it mostly has in the "west".

Or because their decades of falling birthrates (*) means that 70 year olds are left caring for their 90 year old parents.

* - probably due to all Japanese peoples baby-making parts being replaced by blocks of pixels ?

Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works

Re: Predictions are useful

It's your own fault for not going metric - then you would only have around 1.2M

Borking all over the world: At home or abroad, you're never more than 6ft from a BSOD

Re: its amazing how many embedded systems use Windows.

>when some type of unix could be had for free.

Given the capabilities of BIOS these days - are there any which will display contents of a webpage ?

Infosys to hire 12,000 more Americans – especially the cheapest ones it can find

Or this "promise" will get them a favorable nod from the current administration, a free pass from the next one who don't want bad headlines, and somehow the jobs will never actually materialise

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a pair of black holes coalesced resulting in largest gravitational wave we've seen

Re: Gravitational waves?

>measuring is 1/10,000 the width of a proton.

Metric or Imperial protons ?

What's that in linguine ?

Re: Is God a programmer?

>Every geek knows that black holes themselves are essentially divide-by-zero errors.

The singularity at the center of the BH is the divide by zero

The black hole is the try/catch block around the singularity to stop you hitting the error

Re: Not a "Fwoop"

> Does the 9 solar masses' worth of energy mostly depart in the form of EM radiation

Yep mostly gamma rays, lots and lots of gamma rays

You're stuck inside, gaming's getting you through, and you've $1,500 to burn. Check out Nvidia's latest GPUs

Re: Mouth-watering specifications and possibilities

>I could add weird tile things but I don't have to and didn't.

Depending on your version of windows10 you had to spend time removing them, and then removing them again when it does an update - or on some versions you can't

Re: "neither side was short of a few shekels"

I think the leather jacket has become an Nvidia keynote brand

Fortunately they are now able to render the leather jacket onto the video in real time so he doesn't have to wear it

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

Re: re: company seeks one true way

Yes if only they didn't keep abandoning the new way before it was able to do what the old way did

What's 2 + 2? Personal info, sniffs Twitter: Anti-doxxing AI goes off the rails, bans tweets with numbers in them

When it comes to things like detecting abnormal cells in a smear test I'll take 'massive dumb statistics' over a bored technician giving it a quick glance

Critical vuln that lets miscreants hijack computers via Slack? *Sucks in air* We'll give you $1,750 for it

Re: Slack is gonna look so secure...

And think of all the free publicity they will get when large organisations are hacked because of a slack bug.

Soon CTOs will all be discussing slack

When Irish screens are borking: Ticketing trip-up for Dublin-based Windows 10 IoT terminal, but at least it's not XP

Re: Irish Gauge

Or it was to allow taller heroines to be tied to the tracks by Irish mustache twirling villians

Sounds like the black helicopters have come for us. Oh, just another swarm of FAA-approved Amazon delivery drones

Re: "And it carried out a fully automated remote landing on an even larger plane, "

And smaller and smaller drones and so on to infinitum...

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

Re: USA's Clean Network

But this is like having the tunnel exit in Belgium to stop the French invading!

Unless they don't plan to connect the American end you can still get to America's internet

While you lounged about all weekend Samsung fired up its biggest-ever chip factory and started cranking out 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM

Re: You say 16 Gb, the picture shows 16 GB

Marketing hat=ON

What's the difference

Worried about the Andromeda galaxy crashing into our Milky Way in four billion years? Too bad, it's quite possibly already happening

Re: Humanity in 100 years

> Once machines are smarter than us why would they want us around?

Don't you read on-call ?

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

Re: "Was the militia pro police or pro protest?"

>It was very much pro-police and the police were OK with the militia.

That's why we need some official government agency to decide which posts are approved - to stop all these pro-government groups posting such sentiment

Re: If there were no Facebook?

Simply re-introduce the Lord Chamberlain's office and have it review all material for publication.

That would soon solve this problem of el'reg comments.

Then we could have all tiktok videos certified by the BBFC.

Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly after COVID-19

> All of the work-from-homers who want an actual OFFICE to go to could actually RENT an office room,

Sounds like a business model

What could WE call this place to WORK ?

Re: I would hate to own commercial real estate

> they've bought or refinanced a building in the past 25 years they are still going to be in trouble.

Cost of being a commercial landlord is the cost of interest = bugger_all% for the next few years

Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise

Re: It has nothing to do with entertainment.

All of who are going to switch to the next app when US Spyware TikTok is banned everywhere else and in the USA requires you to view an ad for presidential candidate Larry every time you log in

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts

Re: This Is A Job For An American

But this was a cyber-crime. It is increasingly difficult to hire white collar criminals in the USA, the market is so tight and so many of the best have secure government jobs.

If it was possible to bring down the CISCO WebEx by shooting at it, then an American would be perfectly qualified

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

Re: Enough

Interesting fact, Welsh was written with K for the C sound but when a Bible was published in Welsh in C16 the printer didn't have enough Ks so suggested using C

One of China’s flagship 7nm foundries falls in a hole as funding flees

Re: Add in the corruption factor

If only China had a strong leader who could ban foreign competitors and funnel unlimited public money to favorite projects

Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member

>Hmm, "pragmatic, plausible sounding"

"share and enjoy"

Re: And he also couldn’t do it from Apple Mail.

>Exactly. It's developers who grew up in the last 5 to 10 years who are the problem.

They can presumably instagram screenshots of the code, captured on their phone?

A bridge too far: Passengers on Sydney's new ferries would get 'their heads knocked off' on upper deck, say politicos

Re: They could

>But it has a rifle range in the southern footing, so it's got that going for it!

I believe it's called 'sarf london' and AFAIK it isn't restricted to rifles

Re: They could

You could just add some sponges to the water to soak it up and lower the water level

The Viking Snowden: Denmark spy chief 'relieved of duty' after whistleblower reveals illegal snooping on citizens

>how do you protect the country if you cant spy and monitor everyone?

How do you protect the country if people are allowed to vote for the wrong person?

President attacks security services, what do the security services do in response?

President Obama certainly shouldn't have planned any motorcades in Dallas if he had investigated

This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over

Re: Woking

>The colour palette used to change as I'd switch application windows, inducing a near weekly migraine.

With the advantage that you could click in another window and what you were viewing in Mosaic became indecipherable

Re: Performance Upgrade

>Tesla does the same with their cars.

Tesla was even worse.

There is a government payment for electric cars. But they didn't want the tax-payer to fork out for rich B'stards buying luxury cars so they set a price limit.

So Tesla sold a version of their car for $(incentive limit - 1) with range limited in software to almost nothing. But you could then buy a software upgrade which restored the full range and cost exactly the difference between the incentive meeting price and the retail price

What legacy is IBM really shooting for? Cheating its own salespeople out of millions? Here we go again, allegedly

Re: That's crazy

> the person making ... excess commissions is making the company that much more in contracts

But those sales are next quarter, the commission is paid out this quarter - your job as an executive is to make as mush as possible this quarter, even if it destroys the company next quarter.

That's the point of capitalism apparently - longer term planning is communist

Re: The same IBM

The irony now being that I ride a BMW bike, a company that literally ran concentration camps, but I assume anyone riding a Harley is a Nazi

Utes gotta be kidding me... University of Utah handed $457K to ransomware creeps

>The way I see it, the school has no choice but to pay up.

Unless the money was going to terrorists or countries under a US embargo.

Space station update: Mystery tiny but growing air leak sparks search for hole

Do they have a small child on board?

They are able to secret a fluid that, unlike the blood on Alien, gums up everything

Re: Call a plumber

>The call out fee is not going to be 100 Million... as a seat on SpaceX is 55 Million (round trip)

Plumber and apprentice + cost of launching a white transit van

Re: Redefine it

An unsheilded thermal exhaust smaller than a rat !

What could possibly go wrong ?