Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

You're Huawei off base on this, Rubio: Lawyers slam US senator's bid to ban Chinese giant from filing patent lawsuits

Re: Rubio is an idiot

>Interestingly Rubio means blond in Spanish.....

Funnily enough the word for blond idiot in English is 'Boris'

'Bulls%^t! Complete bull$h*t!' Reset the clock on the last time woke Linus Torvalds exploded at a Linux kernel dev

This is why the system works

A, you're a moron this should be faster, blah is always faster

B, you're the moron, stop talking bullshit, this is a special case where blah isn't faster, I know what I'm doing

A, erm ok I suppose, but normally blah is faster, we will do it your way...

That is a much better outcome than everyone have to sign up to diversity codes of practice and singing kumbaya around every checkin

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

Re: Icon say it all

And the winning challenge in the new adult version of Cluedo

Good old British 'fair play' is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister

And in other news....

The operation of all the emergency service communications is being handed to another Chinese company ?

*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Re: yeah right

It is certainly cheaper and more efficent than the old paper based system where they had to write back to your declining your license on the grounds that you were a terrorist.

Re: yeah right

Terrorists won't be allowed to register their drone. The first screen asks 'are you intending to use it for terrorism' if you click yes you can't access the site.

Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS?

Re: 3x cheaper...

Obliviously you keep a highly trained and proficient crew on Zero Hour contracts

Re: 3x cheaper...

But for all those tasks where you just need a supercomputer to model a galaxy collision or nuclear weapon detonation once before going back to your day job - AWS is perfect.

It's why the rental model for aircraft carriers is so popular, you only need them when you want to invade somewhere so you don't want to pay for one 24x7

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

Re: Don't you love the EU?

>"seriously impair the physical, ....development of minors"

What if you used both hands alternately to build up both biceps ?

Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors

Re: debt vs dead

Unless you had just changed job and your new insurance didn't kick in for 6months

Or a doctor not in your network glanced at the x-ray and so billed you for consultation - you did remember to check everyone in the hospital was in your network while being wheeled in didn't you ? It is your responsibility.

Employers can't fire you for being sick, but employment is at will so they can fire you for no reason while you are sick - they have to just be careful to say it is for no reason.

Re: USA

But the alternative to paying $50 for an aspirin is Stalin and Gulags

Re: um

That they are deliberately not paying minor bills to justify chapter 11 to protect them from millions in lawsuits.

They hope no lawyer is going to go after a bankrupt target who will eventually have to pay their fees

UK's GDS head Kevin Cunnington leaves to tell world+dog how (not) to do digital

Re: Calculating savings

I saved a billion quid today by rejecting my own plan to build a 25storey new office building for my team.

I can save 10x as much after coffee by also rejecting plans for the same building in 10 different colours

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Re: Identifying potential job candidates?

You don't have to be psychotic to work here - but it helps pass the interview screening ?

This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead

No, so long as you fill in the form showing that there was no safety effect because of the change

Re: nuts

>My understanding is that the wing breaks anyway in these tests.

For 787 they didn't test the wing fully to destruction. Which you normally do because having reached the 150% of design load (or whatever is required) the wing is pretty damaged, and it's fun to watch.

They were concerned that video of the failure would make it onto anti-social media and make them look bad

Coincidence?

microsoft flight simulator 2020 announced

Well half right.. I think a phoenix needs to also rise from the ashes

Re: A new name you say.

I misread that article, thought the new name was "737 global grounding"

Sounds like a good idea.

You can do way better explosions with CGI than SpaceX managed with real explosives.

Get Michael Bay in to direct and they should look awsome

Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

Re: So many "look at this cool thing"

Ultra high resolution bench top NMR machines?

Re: Fusion

You can already get 10T in high Tc superconductors. Trade off is that they are much more difficult to manufacture in bulk, much more fragile and they have much poorer "quench" resistance.

If you were starting ITER today it would still be a coin toss between traditional 4K and 80K materials.

There is a lot of difference between generating 45T at a single point once for a few seconds and getting something the size of ITER to 12T reliably.

Re: Might be of use to the Russians

At those temperatures a Geordie might wear a cap

London opens stock market for a tickling from Chinese tentacles

Re: "deepen our global connectivity as we look outwards to new opportunities in Asia"

Because it could one day fall to socialism. You wouldn't want London to become like Singapore

Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)

Re: The unfamiliar can always catch people out

My new car has one button and no key.

Press it to turn it on

Press it again to start the engine - which doesn't really start because of some electric thing

Press it again to allow you to switch into drive

Press it again to turn off the engine

Press it again to turn off the car

But all these steps take about a second to respond, you only know you have done it because the dash changes and if you press twice within a second it goes to the next step.

It's like trying to get the exact time on a digital watch.

Add in a single multi-way dial knob to control everything else and a menu system designed by an autistic blind person who thought he was trying to configure active directory using only a sendmail config file ....

Exodus: Tech top brass bail on £1bn UK courts reform amid concerns project is floundering

Re: Think i've seen this film before

No this is government fscks up software project -1 because they didn't use unsigned integer

Re: TCEP

No this is the one that drags you to dozens of court appearances for the parking fine. At each you are told that they don't have the documents and after waiting for 8hours you are sent home, until ultimately you plead guilty to mass murder just to get it over with.

Or it sends you a notice to appear 3 days after the date and then they arrest you for failing to appear.

Or it moves your appearance to Auchtermuchty ... ditto ...

Meet the new Dropbox: It's like the old Dropbox, but more expensive, and not everyone's thrilled

Re: Chen told that because elements can show just one overlay...

A perfect use case for animated desktop icons?

Re: One specific thing put me off Dropbox

It was how they announced that she was joining as "director of customer privacy, transparency and freedom(tm)" or some such that made me run away

Break out the poutine! SpaceX flings triple serving of Canadian satellites into orbit

Re: The eyewatering cost of the LHC suggests some can

And bearing in mind that the 'science' of LHC didn't cost anything.

Like all these projects you get back in contracts roughly what you put in as grants. So except for on-site costs it's really a way of subsidising your own high tech industry.

It also keeps large numbers of physicists gainfully employed instead of trying to destroy the world by becoming quants.

Canada no longer a threat?

Radarsat2 had to be launched from rooskiestan after the USA blocked it's launch from the USA on grounds of national security.

Quite how forcing the Canucks to ship their not-a-spy-satelite to the USSR Putin Republican ensures the land of the free wasn't clear

No backdoor, no backdoor... you're a backdoor! Huawei won't spy for China or anyone else, exec tells MPs

Re: When considering how businesses operate.

Which is why we should ban all Chinese made technology, Lenovo and Motorola as well as Huawei and any nominal American technology built in China.

Not picking one hate company that is the biggest competitor to your own lobbyists on the basis of national security ....

Re: Meanwhile, UK politicians

Which is why I suspect that UK manufacturers aren't going to be top of any Eu country's shopping list

Re: quite sensible

So long as British phones use ARM processors owned by those bastions of moral rectitude in Saudi Arabia.

US border cops confirm: Maker of America's license-plate, driver recognition tech hacked, camera images swiped

Re: Not just Border Patrol...

There is a fundamental difference.

If the US system mistakenly identifies Mr Buttle the sunday school teacher as Mr Tuttle the international kinder egg smuggler, the police will simply shoot him as he drives past.

If the UK ANPR system mistakenly identifies somebody with an expired road tax the police will be forced to drive at 70mph through a school playground in pursuit with 'regrettable' bystander related deaths.

Re: Subcontractor’s network compromised?

>First, What difference does the "class" of computer make? Who cares if their storage network is on a mainframe or not

Class of computer" when you are working with government data means what level of security did you apply.

If you were storing it on an appropriately secure system following all the required guidelines for data of that classification but were broken by North Korean cyber ninja lizard people you are ok = not your fault.

If you put classified data on your Walmart laptop, took it home and had it stolen you will typically be spending several decades wearing orange in a federal hotel.

UK taxman spent six times more with AWS last year than cloud firm paid in corporation tax

Re: Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich

Imagine a post-Brexit future where all that tax is avoided in the British Virgin Islands rather than the Dutch Antilles

TSB appoints new tech transformation chief cuz last tech transformation went really, really well

Re: Given he was at Lloyds...

>He'll have at least an idea of what may still be lurking in the dark recesses of the systems

We'll need an old priest and a young priest ...

Re: Missing tag

It's an el'reg story about banks and you need a sarcasm tag ?????????

But banks owned by their members is a ridiculous archaic concept.

Banks should be owned by the taxpayer until they are solvent again and can be given back to the shareholders

Captec saps tech from Aleutia to put its tiny PCs back to work

Re: Nice looking machines

These sort of machines aren't bought by regular users, in fact dealing with enquiries from ordinary users who want to buy 1 rather than 1000 is a big cost.

The are ussually covered in buyers guides for industrial PCs

When it comes to DNS over HTTPS, it's privacy in excess, frets UK child exploitation watchdog

But it's monday so we use child porn as the excuse

Tuesdays it's Chinese spying

Wednesdays it's terrorism

...

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IBM raising axe for 'significant workforce balancing in Europe', says staffer rep council

Re: Given the recent rounds of redundancy,....

>Self respect.

You are working at IBM !

Could you just pop into the network room and check- hello? The Away Team. They're... gone

Re: At home

Must have been a hell of a split to blow some of the server grade protectors

Re: At home

>I had been so paranoid about the lightning to insist we crawled.

That's what killed the sheep. Front and back legs 0.5m apart and both connected to ground, strike creates electric field in ground, legs = potential difference = current through the sheep's body.

If you expect a close by stroke you are supposed to crouch down but only have your feet in contact with the ground and close together.

There's a reason why my cat doesn't need two-factor authentication

Re: Problem exists between steering wheel and ...

I was hoping for hot-wheels style barrel roll in the entry ramp....

Russian Jesus gives up food to meditate on how he can improve crypto messenger Telegram

This should be encouraged

The idea of Silicon valley's gazilionaires all going on hunger strike would be laugh

What's big, blue, and hands out pink slips? IBM on Thursday: Word spreads of job cuts

Re: you mean there are workers left ?

I think it now consists of Watson and an HR department sending out redundancy notices

March 2020: When you lucky, lucky Brits will have a legal right to a minimum of... 10Mbps

Re: Luxury!

Ever tried putting a backpack on a ferret? Wriggly little buggers.

While IP over pigeon is an established standard

Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks

Re: Hounsfield

A bunch of physicists won it, Max Delbrück and of course Crick and Watson got it in the 60s