Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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 ?

Call a plumber

Fix leak $20

Call out fee $100,000,000

They're 'clean': SoftBank gets thumbs-up from Uncle Sam for keeping Chinese gear off its Japanese 5G network

Re: Why woud they give a f?

>Softbank does not have any network in the US

But it does have lots of $Bn of investments in US companies

If the Very Stable Jenius decided to go all Goodyear on Softbank they could be in trouble

Avoid a digital Pearl Harbor

By having the Japanese run all your DoD networks.

Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants

Re: So what will the rest of the world do ...

Clarification Britain leased the new territories but it 'borrowed' Hong Kong in the same way it borrowed India, Malaysia and most of Africa

Marketing: Wow, that LD8 data centre outage was crazy bad. Still, can't get worse, can it? Finance: HOLD MY BEER

Re: The Cloud

No the cloud is your code on other people's computers in their data center. It fails they move the code to other computers in other data centers = their problem.

This is the old 2nd worst case, your computers in their building. Now it's both of your problem.

The only one worse is on-prem. Now the computers, power, comms, security and oh-shit our building just flooded/burned down/got invaded by zombies is all your problem

Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet

Re: The bastards messed up Joe's billing

Happens everywhere, we had a camera shipment to Sweden blocked because the customer was called Mr Pistol and this triggered some anti-terrorism rule

MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up

Re: Usefulness

>Probably intended for some very remote devices far from any cellular tower.

Wouldn't you use one of the new LEO meshes of satellites at lower power and better coverage. The antenna for GSO gets large when you get away from the equator

Re: 5G is not 5G is not 5G

>No, I wouldn't call that low latency.

Compared to USPS

Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small

Re: Within a busy area

Most satellites don't waste power and mass by sending MW of radar 1000s of km out into space

Re: Reputation

President kills 180,000 people and is mostly ignored. But you kill ONA president and you never hear the end of it.

That's the advantage of a flat earth, most of the rocks will be edge-on and miss us.

Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check

Replacement PCI bus service

I'm here all week, try the veal

Robust Rust trust discussed after Moz cuts leave folks nonplussed: Foundation mulled for coding language

That's why it needs the foundation. When Mozilla goes bust and is bought by Oracle/Facebook etc evil Corp will own the name (even if the code is all Foss)

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

Re: Teachers know a lot more than government ministers

Yes the reason for paying for the best teachers.

If you pay 50grand a year for the right school you can be sure the teachers will say you'll get the right grades and you can be sure the right universities will believe them

I can see my house from here! Microsoft Flight Simulator has laid strong foundations for the nerdy scene's next generation

>To be clear all versions have Heathrow,

It's just that in the premium deluxe version you can leave

Re: ENTER RUN TO FLY AGAIN

Particularly the bit where you have to arrive at your computer 3hours early and hang around before you can play

IBM takes Power10 processors down to 7nm with Samsung, due to ship by end of 2021

You can also be sure that no elected chaos monkey is about to ban you from using IBM

India to run optic fibre to 450,000 villages in 1,000 days and give 1.3bn a digital Health ID

Re: Nations are built by leaders with bold vision

Will it end up being a massive failure with all the money being siphoned off in bribes/consultancy payments to politicians, unsuitable kit being bought from dodgy suppliers with the right contacts, stuff installed wrongly to meet some arbitrary completion date, govt/schools/hospitals being forced to pay over the odds for approved kit and very little of it ever being used?

Or is India different ?

Reply-All storm sparked by student smut sees school system shut down Google Classroom for up to a week

Re: Surely they're using G-Suite Enterprise for Education?

You don't need any admins for Google/Chromebooks/cloud that's the whole point - it's just in the web fro free !!!!!

Money talks as Chinese chip foundries lure TSMC staff with massive salaries to fix the Middle Kingdom's tech gap

Re: Won't work

The USA should send in secret crack squads of management consultants.

Then within a few years their most brilliant students will all be competing to get degrees in PPE, the companies will all be run by the idiot sons of the current bosses, leaving their scientists and engineers to be underpaid and ignored.

All we need is to teach them to play golf and we can totally destroy chinese industry.

Re: More blowback from Trump's epic mishandling of foreign affairs

Ultimately, the population of Germany(1939) was only 65 million, they could take on Britain or France but not Britain and France

ICE to see you: Homeland Security's immigration cops tap up Clearview AI to probe child exploitation, cyber-crime

Re: Everyone is a pedo?

No just Immigration and Homeland security

Epic Games gets itself epically banned, launches epic Fortnite death match with Apple over App Store's epic 30% cut

Re: Unfortunately, Apple will win

I would love to see Visa and Mastercard both decide to charge a 30% commission on payments to Apple or the iStore

How do you solve a problem like Privacy Shield? US and EU policymakers kick off discussions

Re: Crazy thing

Or until it starts to affect ordinary people - not just terrorists/drug-smugglers/bogeymen-of-the-day

When Hans Schmidt gets rejected from a job at VW because it may involve travel to the USA and a pre-hire security check says that immigration may reject him because of his twitter following.

Or he can't get travel insurance to holiday in Spain because of the Google searches he did for symptoms - which although illegal in Europe, his insurer is allowed to take advice from it's US parent company

Re: Store data in the EU

Hence parallel discovery

Shady US agency automatically reads all email hosted by a US company from Eu citizens, because what else is their massive new data center for?

They tip-off local law enforcement in the US to stop a certain citizen for a broken brake light and have a look for drugs. When does the NSA involvement come up in court?

Or they pass on a tip to friendly agencies in Europe that somebody a bit brown is emailing somebody in Iran and the friendly country's police respond - by shooting a Brazillian

Re: Store data in the EU

Nope, a US company could already have been handed a secret US national security letter telling them to hand over Eu citizens data held in the Eu.

Or they could have just decided to do it anyway in order to be "cooperative" and perhaps be the only approved bidder for a big DoD cloud contract.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Winking red supergiants sneezing hot gas 650 light years away

The iron only gets formed in the impreeive heat and pressure of the an explosion.

The current out flow is a bit of the surface layer which is almost all hydrogen

Eagle-on-EGLE* violence: American icon sends govt-flown drone hurtling into the waters of Lake Michigan

American response

Naturally will be to arm the drones, or just shoot all the eagles in the area

Made in China? Not for much longer, reckons Foxconn boss

Re: The components?

People used to make their own capacitors from waxed paper but they got too lazy and didn't want to wind their own inductors and grow their own crystals

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

Re: Why such limited photo coverage?

In radio you can generally add together lots of dishes for the same area.

The Square Km Array is quite big (0.05milliWales) and has the advantage of being steerable and being much more modern technology.

Ink tanks park themselves all over the lawns of Western Europe as orders flood in

Colour lasers are good for colour documents but not for photos

Arguably any printing that can be done with a colour laser shouldn't be in colour