Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Another 3D printer? Oh, stop it, you're killing us. Perhaps literally: Fears over ultrafine dust

Re: 3D printing

No need for any filters or ventilation, just a sign saying "These premises contain a material known to the state of Ca to cause cancer..." and you are perfectly protected

Scumbag who phoned in a Call of Duty 'swatting' that ended in death pleads guilty to dozens of criminal charges

Re: Hostage situations...

That's why you always send out the white hostage

So the police bear no responsibility ?

Perhaps it would simplify things if the air force had a web form that you could just call up an airstrike ?

UK.gov fishes for likes as it prepares to go solo on digital sales tax

Re: Too complicated

>The government gets sales tax from online retailers,

But gets 0% of Google's ad sales to UK business (all happen in Eire), 0% of Amazon and Netflix's video (all in Luxemburg) and little of Amazon/Microsoft/Googles cloud services sales to UK busiensses

Yikes. UK military looking into building 'fully autonomous' killer drone tech – report

Re: Missiles, Torpedoes, Mines etc.

There is a small difference between a homing torpedo launched at a warship, and somebody drawing an arbitrary box around an area of Syria and having a drone take off and kill anyone moving on the ground there. Think of this as a remotely deployable landmine

Brit boffins build 'quantum compass'... say goodbye to those old GPS gizmos, possibly

Re: Isn't this inertial guidance?

Fundamentally the same thing, gyrotheodolites are probably the main use/form of gyrocompasses

The north seeking drift is fairly slow (15deg/hour) and absolutely predictable so usually taken out by the software, or more commonly used to give you an absolute heading relative to North.

Re: It's not a compass.

>My guess is that "commercially viable" will be available about the same time as fusion power.

Depends what you mean by commercially viable.

To replace the 10c mems accelerometer in your phone = no

To replace the set of $25,000 laser fog gyros in a submarine/aircraft = not so hard

Re: Isn't this inertial guidance?

> mean, are they sensitive enough to measure astronomic motion like that of the Earth's rotation

They always have been gyrotheodolite

Making an accurate INS that is fixed is easy, making one accurate on a large smoothly moving submarine or aircraft is relatively easy. Making it accurate in a phone bouncing around in your pocket is tricky

If you have a balistic missile sub then GPS is useless. All your GPS satelites have already been taken out by the massive thermonuclear first strike of the other guys - unless you were intending to shoot first.

It's why ICBMs have star trackers not GPS.

Re: It's not a compass.

Yes it is a compass.

A gryo left undisturbed will point in the same direction as the Earth turns. It tells you directly where the true north pole is. It's how you get a heading underground if you wanted to eg. dig a tunnel to France

Third Soyuz does not explode while auditors resume poking around NASA's big rocket SLS

Re: SLS and Orion: not actually made by NASA...

Perhaps if SpaceX could get the 31 boosters to all land in separate congressional districts ?

Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files

Re: What an idiot

Insurance company tried that "duty of care" stuff on us after a theft.

Jokingly asked them if we should have the same level of security as the crown jewels - they replied that wasn't quite necessary, we then asked them how many times the crown jewels had been stolen (answer twice)

Here's a search engine for all you boffins and eggheads that makes it easier to learn science

So in 48hours

It will be shut down by Elsevier's lawyers

If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe

But does she hate/fear black people ?

Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching server, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts

Re: New???

On the other hand they have just made themselves enemies of the half dozen inteligence agencies who were already spying on the server when the Dutch police blew it.

We don' need no stinkin' bounties: VirtualBox guest-to-host escape zero-day lands at GitHub

Only if they already have your immortal soul and first born son

Foxconn denies it will ship Chinese factory serf, er, workers into America for new plant

Re: Bah!

This isn't a fab, at best it's a PCB assembly plant, at worst it's a big warehouse where they stick "assembled in America" stickers on finished iPhones.

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

Re: 5G hype has become ridiculous

An AIS (marine anti collision system) message is 50 bytes for id,position, heading, state. FLARM used for ligth aircraft and mining trucks is 24bytes.

It's not immediately clear how latency means that this has to be sent at 25GHz rather than 3G's 800Mhz

Re: 5G hype has become ridiculous

But early mobile data network transmit moderate bandwidth reliable data signals to allow eg aeroplanes, to inform each other where they are.

Cars will need a massively high bandwidth signal that doesn't work in rain or fog and suffers from lots of complex multipaths when used around a bunch of metal cars

Doesn't affect me

I'm taking back control and putting up red lines to any of this foreign radio rubbish (chap's name ends with a Z - clear sign of a foreigner) any of this 5G will only be allowed across my borders on my terms

'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'

Re: Well, if there's a Chief Blockchain Officer then it has to be legit, right ?

Surely you wouldn't have A chief blockchain officer, you would have a whole distributed bunch of them and add a new one with every new decision

The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

Re: you missed the REALLY important bit

>I auto-tune out 'blockchain'

We can automate that process for you with AI / Machine Learning

@BongoJoe

Anyone thinking - what is an expensive propriety VMware layer that gets in the way of all the open source stuff that is common across all the cloud providers offering that's special ?

Bullshit, that's what

Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week

Re: PR BS makes me puke

Just adapting to changing market needs.

The only reason to buy CISCO over some OEM grey box or rolling your own open source is because of the wealth of professional support services.

So you axe all the customer support people.

Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240

Re: am I just a jaded old IT worker that has seen this too many times?

But the old workers weren't digital, they presumably greased the gears and cams of the analogue computers that the bank has been using upto now,

Finally they are going to get some of those new digital computers

SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman

Not the only thing that seems fishy

How do you spend £672m on admin but only £80m on total salaries? That's a lot of stationary!

I can see the tat bazaar making only a couple of % selling books at cost with free delivery, but how does a consultancy who only apparently spend 5% of their income on salary manage to not make a profit?

Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)

Re: Really?

Not sure why you (or the twitter guy) is blaming Microsoft.

You turn on full disk encryption in your corporate standard enterprise grade Windows operating system and it actually doesn't bother but just trusts the unknown crappy made in China hardware encryption.

30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim

Re: Kim Philby

>does American foreign policy seem recently like it was borrowed from episodes of Futurama

Traditionally it was somewhere between The Simpsons and The Flintstones

Clunk, bang, rattle: Is that a ghost inside your machine?

Re: A real ghost story - Not mine

www.mumsnet.com dreaming about a man made of balls with a gladius (Roman slang for penis) .....

Re: Many values for true

It's perfectly logical.

There is only one zero (easily provable by 1 line of set theory) there are infinite non-zero numbers

There is only one way for a function to succeed but an infinite number of ways to fail

So make success zero

Re: Chasing ghosts

>DCOM errors.... it's an error, but somewhere in the fine print M$ says it's expected behavior?

DCOM - our chief weapon is surprise,

Surprise and fear

Our main weapons are surprise and fear and a fanatical devotion to Win95

Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

The same people

That hammered a sensor into place because it wouldn't fit - because it had been carefully designed with locating pins stopping it being installed upside down ?

proton failure

This revolution will not be televised – but it will be sanctioned: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals

Re: It's a "Culture" elsewhere too.

No engineer at HP ever dated anyone

If they invited you back to their place to look at their calculators you were in for a big surprise - a night spent looking at a collection of calculators.

If an HP engineer was planning sex it would involve 9 months of meetings to clarify the model numbers for all the options.

Re: What do all the staff at google actually do?

They have to be very quick to type the answers to all your search queries, and very clever to know those answers off the top of their heads

>You cannot contact to break the law.

Yes but I suspect that if you called 911 to report a cig lighter in the shape of breasts - they wouldn't send a SWAT unit. *

The point of the arbitration is to stop every HR issue turning into a civil court case and the original reason for forced arbitration was to stop the richer person automatically winning out of court. You accuse a VP of abuse, you go to court, they demand that you put up a $$$$$ bond to cover the VP's legal costs if you lose - you poor secretary drop the case.

(* Actually in Ca they might, unless you made it quite clear that it wasn't being used for tobacco)

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

British implementation

What is your name ?

What is your Quest?

What is the airspeed velocity of a fully laden swallow ?

Re: Good luck!

>1 in 4 people that suffer from depression or anxiety, or both, or similar.

They will automatically be detected as British and allowed in.

Anyone showing signs of happiness, contentment and enthusiasm is obviously a foreigner (probably Australian) or weido (ie Australian) and will be blocked

Re: Language/Accent?

>a language in which the perfectly legitimate traveller is not fluent

The system will ask the questions in English but in ALL-CAPS, the foreigners all speak English if you shout

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

Re: Anti-intellectual?

At the risk of being fair to the slithy gove

The 'experts' he had enough of were economists working for the world bank and friends who claimed that the financial crisis wasn't the banks fault, that the government always needed to bail banks out and austerity was a good idea to cut deficits.

A bit different from denying physics

>Yorkshire has its own currency?

Yes but for obvious reasons it doesn't circulate, so nobody has ever seen it

US government charges two Chinese spies over jet engine blueprint theft

The decision to charge/prosecute is political timing.

You don't find glaring human rights abuses while you are negotiating a new arms deal and you don't find evidence of state sponsored industrial theft until that state is taking you to court over trade rules

Bomb squad descends on suspicious package to find something much more dangerous – a Journey cassette

Re: Escalation

Remember: Home taping kills music

Probably explains why we don't have music today

Intel hits target: 27% of staffers are female? Apparently that's 'full representation'

At least in academia (alleged) positive discrimination has had two discriminatory effects.

There are a lot more women being hired for new junior roles by departments desperate to look good to funding bodies / reverse centuries of unfairness (delete as applicable). Senior roles of course go to other senior people where the candidates are almost all men.

The best male new PhD are still getting jobs at the most elite labs but a large cohort of "average"

women candidates are finding a lot less competition for jobs, especially at less prestigious institutes.

This is having two effects, the publication/citation score is diverging for male/female authors. To a first approximation new tenure track men are selected from top 10% while average new female tenure track are 'average'. There is also a bias (at least in physics) that men tend to go for the sexy/high-risk/Nobel worthy areas while women are more represented in more applied, likely to get useful results, but less press-worthy fields.

The other irony is that the average salary for male/female graduates, and more so for PhDs is becoming less equal. All the average male physicists (like me) are leaving academia after PhDs to get very highly paid jobs in industry/finance, while more women are getting relatively lowly paid post-docs/junior staff posts in academia.

Note: This is a my very UK/USA view. In most of Europe my branch of physics was traditionally the girly science option. Probably because in the C19 it involved sitting indoors doing tedious calculations by hand rather than doing dangerous laboratory stuff. The result is that depts in Italy/Spain are mostly female even at professor level.

Re: Complaining About Cause Instead of Effect

A lot can be done by industry to change this concept though.

Yes it is annoying to anyone who understands statistics to be told that they must make their math/physics dept 50/50% by next year or they are little better than child abusers. But it isn't fair for industry to entirely wash their hands and say "no women applicants - not our fault"

Here in Canada the resource industry has done a LOT of work to encourage women in science and engineering from school onwards. So much that when you go to many mine sites the majority of students/interns and new graduates are women.

Even the blue-collar jobs are done by women. 300 tonne haul trucks have power steering, you don't need rippling arm muscles to drive them and I have been told by a few managers that they prefer hiring women - they are more likely to turn up on time and sober on monday morning than the average guy in the oil sands.

It is going to take another generation for 11 year old girls to filter through to PhDs, and for it to become cool for a teenage girl to want to be a programmer but everytime you get a chance to talk to a school group or if you have kids - bear it in mind. And stop worrying about all the SJWs who couldn't program arguing about sexist symantics.

Discrimination

Assuming Intel started out with the typical male/female ratio of a technical company to achieve this level of equality it can't have been hiring all the new positions with a completely blind process - otherwise it would have 0.9 * (1990 tech company ratio) + 0.1 * (typical 2018 silicon valley).

The only way it has suddenly got to (typical 2018 silicon valley) ratio is if almost all the hires for the last few years have been women only or if it has been removing the predominately male older expensive employees.

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

Americans, and even Canadians, have big parties on 4-20 - to celebrate Adolf's birthday ?

Re: Future ARM laptops

Autodesk already have a full 3d cad running in the browser.

The nice thing about apps running in the browser is that they get to charge you monthly for access to your own data. Much better than hoping that you upgrade to the new desktop app every 2 years

Budget 2018: UK goes it alone on digital sales tax for tech giants

> if they book that revenue abroad and don't declare it to the Exchequer, that would be tax fraud

Why if they are a foreign company?

I buy email services from a US company, they book that income in the USA (or probably in Grand Cayman) I have that in my accounts as a payment to the US company. Where does the Inland Revenue get any of this ? Is the UK planing to tax any foreign company on sales from UK customers?

All Amazon have to do is close its AWS business in the UK, and have UK customers use USA hosted AWS zones and pay in $. It can still keep its UK shopping site - that makes no profit.

Hi there, Hubble, glad to hear you're doing okay

Re: All the bbest, Hubble!

>My best wishes to the best telescope humanity is lucky to have.

Typical visible-chauvinist remark