Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK govt probes Brit chip biz Imagination after growing Chinese ownership sparks national security fears

Re: It is very good that the Secretary of State is intervening

But ARM got sold to a Japanese con man respected businessman backed by those nice Saudi chappies.

Pentagon watchdog sets phasers to none, clears $10bn JEDI contract process but leaves door open for lawsuits

Re: So even the report thinks they lied

That's the beauty of USA political investigations, you get to find out the truth by who refuses to answer and yet nobody actually gets punished.

Re: I can’t get too worked up

Possibly worth getting worked up on $10Bn defence contracts being handed out based on who the great leader likes.

IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process

Re: (IN)Justice has prevailed!

I think it's just an Americanism.

Trunk = Boot

Hood=Bonnet

We are willing to settle your claim in full out of court = Guilty

Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum

>One upon a time we locked these sort of people up for their own good.

Turns out putting them on TV is cheaper and more entertaining

Re: Calm down people...

We don't have fluoridated water here because a shadowy cabal of dentists block it

>Before you downvote, is a place that protects the right of people to call for murder civilised?

What if they had found a dossier on the internet ?

Re: Viruses are tiny, microscopic, organic entities.

>The minds of the arsonists are similar in all respects...

Unfortunately viruses evolve

Idiots don't

You know how stupid the average person is ?

Half the people are more stupid than that.

SE's baaaack: Apple flings out iPhone SE 2020, priced at £419

Re: Only took Apple 2 years...

Considering that it will probably be supported by Apple for 5+years then it doesn't look too bad compared to a noname £200 Android with zero updates.

(says somebody with a £50 jailbroken Lineageos with updates)

Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot – but will it work?

Paula, brillant! <ok> (sigh)

Gender specifc name detected, <moderator pearls clutched = true>

Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing

Re: Scary and Scarier

>Not everybody has a mobile phone.

You mean terrorists/pedophiles/people_who_leave_the_teabag_in ?

>Not everybody with a mobile phone runs google or iphone OS.

Bans Huawei

>Not everybody with a phone has it with them 24/7

A new offense of "going un-equipped during the hours of daylight"

From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard

Re: Way out of date

When the government manages to get rid of the BBC, this will be the best TV journalism available

You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'

Re: I'm looking forward to Eamonn Holmes

Or the Donald decrying UNicode as a UN effort to force us all to use China characters

Re: Hieroglyphics

>cavemen ... used to draw pictures, but we all moved on from that.

What if they were just the Powerpoint presentations of their day?

Ugg will give presentation on value proposition of hunting mammoth

Although without transitions they presumably had to all move to the next cave for each slide

So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help?

Re: False positives could be off the scale.

>you live on a busy street in a house with the living room at the front and you leave your phone next to say the window

You line your window with aluminium foil of course

British soln

Have your phone attached to the wall of your house by a wire. Then you can be assured that people with phones are isolated at home.

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

Re: 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast

Brady Heywood, an Irish forensic engineer, also did a series on Apollo13 as part of his podcast on engineering fsck-ups

brady-heywood-podcast

Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!

In other news

Yahoo USA has signed a deal to track the whereabouts of its US user. The anonymized data refers to the subject only as, that loser in his mom's basement, which it locates precisely

Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...

Re: Fun fact. #1 result from JPL analysis of "lessons learned" in payload design.

It's always connectors or power supplies

Re: WTF

Also if a fuse blows inside the oxygen tank after launch, all you have to do is pull over to the side of space and take the tank apart to replace it.

Interesting story:

One of the power supplies for the original European camera on Hubble had a front panel fuse.

Why everybody asked? - Who is going to replace the fuse ? (this was before resetting polyfuses)

Because the PSU is being built by a small european country and required approval by their aviation agency who said that a flight PSU must have a fuse !

It was subsequently replaced by a PSU built by a competent larger European company.

The fused unit probably sits on a shelf in a clean room to this day

Re: Why O-rings

Famously to the width of a horse's arse

Re: 13 Minutes To The Moon

Particularly the 15mins when the crew-cut "failure is not an option" types in the control room try and convince themselves it is a faulty gauge - after their astronauts have told them they felt a massive bang.

An explosion would be an inconceivable disaster, therefore we can't conceive of an explosion. Looks like nothing changed for the Space Shuttle program

Re: Where's the modern equivalent?

>What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?""

For the public to back this they must believe the failure to be 1:100,000

We want the public to back this

Therefore we believe the failure rate to be 1:100,000

Re: Lucky 13

A statistical analysis along the lines of "I never wear a safety harness" / "I've driven drunk before" and nothing has ever happened to me

Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme: This website tracks which shares US senators are unloading mid-pandemic

Re: Mark Twain

Ironically it would be best for everyone if they were exempt. The trades are public so act like a giant lie detector

Re: Not selling airline or hotel stocks when this spread from Wuhan...

>Cruise bookings are apparently up.

Probably 'we will rebook in 6months for free' emails. I imagine a few travel insurance policies will be checked when the cruise companies look shaky

Re: Not selling airline or hotel stocks when this spread from Wuhan...

Some big airlines/hotels could do very well.

All the budget airlines (especially the long haul ones) go bust.

Giant US airlines and foreign flag carriers get bailed out

So next year there is still United, Air France and Etihad but no Norwegian/GermanWings/Zoom/Westjet

Same with hotels. If Airbnb dies and a bunch of small franchise motels go under

People have to travel for work, however much video conferencing improves - so now your airfare costs more and there are only mid-range hotels left.

Re: Good example

>(b)You pick up a document from the next seat that says P&C all over it and read it and it says 'oops our top secret factory has burnt down and no-one knows' - not public information.

Over here it's defined more in your role. So that would be perfectly fine unless I was eg a cleaner for the train company, then my 'privileged position' gave me access to the document.

I have to sit through the same pointless training, but you can make them more fun by trying to think up examples to ask the trainer that would confuse a Jesuit.

The SEC claim was that an employee was pretty much automatically insider trading. The case was overturned but there is a complaint that the sec likes insider trading by low end employees as a cheap win.

Re: Shock

Or a few $Bn for each airline and fracker, then a handful of magic beans to any small business in a swing state

Re: Shock

That was one of the holdups in passing the bill. A special $500Bn fund for the Republican speaker to use to directly assist specific companies he felt were special.

Good luck with that. The SEC have quite broad opinions on what constitutes insider trading.

Famous case was a train driver who noticed a lot of cars in the visitor parking lot with plates from the state where their much larger competitor was HQ'ed, decided there was probably going to be a takeover and bought stock.

Of course the SEC also has a long history of not wanting to go after the rich and powerful

BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort

Re: So you haven't heard the news?

And Benedict cumberbatch plays mercury

Re: It is incredible

And then it blows up on the pad.

Or in my case jettisoned its lens cap early while still pointing at earth and boiled off the 3year supply of cooling in a few minutes

Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year

Re: The Matrix 4?

What if the people who were still in the Matrix were fed memories of 2 matrix sequels?

Hi, Google Duplex here, trying to book a haircut for a socially inept human. Sorry, 'COVID-19'?... DOES NOT COMPUTE

Re: AI personal assistant that can call real-life people

A philosophical robot answering machine, DA would be proud

The writer assumed that when attempts were made to get it to understand kiwi the AI simply folded in on itself before singing "daisy daisy...."

Stop us if you've heard this before: Boeing's working on 737 Max software fixes for autopilot, stabilization bugs

Re: Information just in ...

I would also look at the chances of Airbus remaining a long term supplier of civil aircraft vs Boeing.

Whatever Eu and WTO rules say, France isn't going to let Airbus go bust. They also have significant manufacturing in China.

Boeing is an important military company but their civil business is centered in a state that the Great Leader has a strong dislike for.

Re: The 737 Max is a brilliant demonstration

>Targetted tariffs are illegal under WTO rules

In the words of uncle Joe:

How many divisions has the WTO ?

Re: The 737 Max is a brilliant demonstration

>...without having other aviation regulators check its homework.

>Believe me, after this: THEY WILL

Until they get the phone call from the Whitehouse asking if they still want that military aid and whether they would like 50% tariffs on their imports to the USA unless they agree that the plane is safe

Re: Flying less

>Why do dolphins look like sharks when their ancestors had four legs and horns?

Scene: a Hollywood pitch meeting.

You know Jaws was big, and Jurrasic park was big?

What about a shark with legs and horns and claws.......

The Indian contractor didn't work on any flight critical software.

Blaming poorly paid foreign workers is like saying all those 787s with tools left in fuel tanks and machine swarf inside is because they were made by low-paid non-union red-neck idiots with two first names in South Carolina.

Re: It can't

There was an alternative to the 737 not from airbus.

Presumably it was very good because Boeing had a little cry to their pet congressman and it suddenly got a 300% import tariff. That'll teach those no good Canadians

French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers

Re: Dear Google

Or just remove French from Google, the rest of the world won't miss it

RAND report finds that, like fusion power and Half Life 3, quantum computing is still 15 years away

Re: what is problem with COBOL ?

>who cares what language source code is written in ?

It does suggest that if your government IT is still running the same code from the 60s with layers of patches because it has always lacked the money, management and technical staff to update it.

Then switching the security model overnight to a post Quantum Computing world might be "challenging"

French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle

Re: Elderly?

>.co.uk domain suggests it's written for a UK readership

Which includes Scotland, where reaching 64 assumes some sort of "Highlander" magic

That was one of the ironies, he didn't want the flight but felt pressured by his team to take it.

One of the recommendations is a longer waiting period between medical and flight to back out

Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all

Re: Kushner's experience

Is that anyway to talk about the imperial heir ?