Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

No, that Sunspot Solar Observatory didn't see aliens. It's far more grim

Re: Unconvinced

Can't take any chances, should probably shut down all the other telescopes as well

Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

re: vikings

Vikings, or the early European explorers had been so recklessly timid and afraid

I think that explains the difference between modern Sweden and say Scotland/Ireland/NE England.

All the vikings who through that the longship lacked proper life saving equipment and that the sea looked a bit cold and wet - stayed behind and their descendants built Volvos.

The ones who were too dumb to realise how dangerous it was went out raping and pillaging - and their descendants are still raping and pillaging in the Bigg market in a T-shirt in the snow today

Re: Artificial magnetosphere

All we need is a Blue Peter type appeal for children to send in enough fridge magnets...

Anti-ageism

Just send wrinklies

When we do radiation dose an "average" person is 30 years old, anybody 30-50 counts as 0.5x dose 50-70 is 0.3x and anybody over 75 doesn't matter. But for people 20-30 the dose is 1.5x

Basically older people have less time to develop cancer before something else gets them so we don't worry as much

30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days

Re: Yellow and blue

We old timers used stone circles, survives hurricanes really well - but takes for ever to reboot

Re: "who had a computer at home (with a modem)"

And local calls in the UK, even assuming you had a local BBS, cost more than long distance calls in the USA.

Re: You have not lived ....

>Why would anyone have bought a RM380Z for cassette only?

In 1981/2 it was still fscking expensive and we wor poor up-north

The nice thing was that all the cool kids wanted to play games on the BBC-Bs a few later - but the old box was left in the corner all for me....

The most interesting feature was that the TV modulator was so powerful you could tune any of the B&W TVs on other machines in the class to it without a cable and confuse people (we didn't have monitors when I started)

Re: You have not lived ....

>Was that the RM which was a hefty black box with square aluminium handles

You speak of the computer that came before it, the RM380Z. Close to a zx81 in big box form, with an operating system you had to load from cassette each time. The joys of J103 RESTORE

Why waste away in a cubicle when you could be a goddamn infosec neuromancer on £50k*?

Re: Tools

I have one but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon

neurodiverse ?

Does anyone else get the irony of describing people who don't get subtle social and linguistic cues with some smug euphemism?

I'm not "neurodiverse" I'm smart, sarcastic, often annoying, occasionally brilliant and don't suffer fools gladly

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

An original message?

Will GDPR apply?

Do we need to get permission from the original sender?

Scrapping UK visa cap on nurses, doctors opened Britain's doors to IT workers

Re: our NHS will be short staffed

> Why on earth would American doctors want to work in the UK?

Following Brexit I assumed some would be there sent on humanitarian missions.

Re: our NHS will be short staffed

- a piece of paper from some foreign country does not cut it.

Presumably there would be conversion courses to allow American doctors to learn British physiology ?

Re: Where's your sense of balance?

The home office is following the government's target of net migration of "10s of 1000s."

It just doesn't know how many people are entering, how many are leaving and how many intend to stay - but they are following a target.

Watt the heck is this? A 32-core 3.3GHz Arm server CPU shipping? Yes, says Ampere

Re: Drivers ?

How good are Supermicro's 10G ethernet drivers?

Are they 1% less efficient for ARM than Xeon?

Do I need to even worry about this?

Do I want to worry about this?

Do I need to suddenly care what motherboard is in my cloud providers servers ?

In the margin small differences make a difference

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

Re: Post school or at school?

More importantly by doing some programming they learn what computers can really do.

So when they grow up and become home-secretary they won't believe that all data on a computer is automatically correct and all results displayed by a computer can't be questioned.

I think PE at school has an opposite effect on fitness. If all you remember of PE is being one of the fat/spotty/geeky kids picked last and never getting to touch the ball you don't have an interest in keeping fit and healthy as an adult

And worse, then they fail to immediately walk into that job at Microsoft Research or Google, or get paid less than the man who invented map-reduce it must be due to sexism.

It's worse over here on the West Coast, people take out loans for $10s K to do these bootcamps prompted by "typical salary figures" for Stamford PhDs at Google

The Reg chats with Voyager Imaging Team member Dr Garry E Hunt

Re: Perspective

A 747 full of SD cards is still more bandwidth than the internet IIRC

xkcd fedex-bandwidth

What's Big and Blue – and makes its veteran staff sue? Yep, it's IBM

Re: Not Surprised

canning older workers: loss of institutional memory

But IBM's income all comes from surfing the next techno-innovation wave of cyber goodness.

It's not like they have any business in legacy government mainframe projects.

I definitely want a 21year old Ruby bootcamp rockstar in charge of the air traffic control system - after all they grew up with an iPad so are digital natives.

IBM's been all about the share price ... for the last 30 years.

Then the management should have shut down and invested the money in an SP500 fund.

In fact they could have invested in anything short of Beanie-Babies and done better

UK.gov isn't ready for no-deal Brexit – and 'secrecy' means businesses won't be either

Re: Anyone else being asked by agencies ...

Say hello to Ms May when you're there

Re: No shit, Sherlock?

We send £350M a week to Westminster, vote to leave the UK and we can spend that on the NHS instead!

Re: Anyone else being asked by agencies ...

You know some good people smugglers ?

We could just dig a tunnel.

All we need is a giant vaulting horse near Dover and a lot of people wandering around dropping dirt out of their trousers

Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit

Re: Impressive consequences

>After all, it's only monitoring software, it's easy to claim it's not critical.

It's not like security is a core part of their business

And release reports 5 years later saying that the Millenium Dome or some PPI hospital deal didn't turn out to be so wonderful - they could easily be replaced by a subscription to Private Eye and a rubber stamp marked "Doh"

Boffins ask for £338m to fund quantum research. UK.gov: Here's £80m

Re: So the US gives us some hope

Make large box

Insert Trump into box along with radioactive atom

Dont' open it

Who's hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers... or rival gamers living in res hall?

Re: Timing

Yes but that's the point. North Korean ninja hacker bogeymen can hardly be blamed for cyber-ninja cyber-warfare cyber-terrorism if the only do it to knock students off Facebook during term time

NHS smacks down hundreds of staffers for dodgy use of social media, messaging apps

Re: Wow

There is a difference between sharing patient medical data and nirses posting "we had a bloke come in with an .... shoved up his ...." to their freinds. If doctors had done this on the golf course nobody would care.

I suspect managers have been criticised on the platforms and so the revenge has come down,

UK.gov finally adds Galileo and Copernicus to the Brexit divorce bill

Re: As always the Conservative leadership put the party over the country.

Although to be fair Labour's position on Brexit was even worse.

We could lose the entire North to UKIP if we don't

We could lose everyone young, poor and/or black in London if we do

So we are definitely supporting ........ erm

Re: And so could the UK industry if the government wasn't so hell bent on screwing up the country...

*Bunch of delusional xenophobic little Britain nutters. Bunch of power hungry political chancers. Bunch of city types seeing some angles to make a big killing on the markets as the UK economy goes down the sh**ter certainly. Bunch of pocket lining liars.

And the others are the ERG .....

>Historically the UK has been an obstructionist force and a drag on the evolution of the EU

That's unfair. Historically the UK has been an obstructionist force everywhere

>Who would have thought that Brexit was so complicated

Just have a trade war with the Eu - Trade wars are good and easy to win.

Re: Remind me...

Fewer foreigners certainly, whether the unlimited Indian IT workers are "less foreign" than Polish builders I couldn't say

New MeX-Files: The curious case of an evacuated US solar lab, the FBI – and bananas conspiracy theories

Re: Follow the money

>If it were aliens or state conspiracy I would expect military or NSA involvement.

That's what they want you to think.

What if the FBI is really just a front for the Milk Marketing Board ?

The real question is .....

Why isn't 4 days amanfromMars 1 commenting ?

UK.gov tells companies to draft contracts for data flows just in case they screw up Brexit

>UK will still be a valid GDPR nation

So long as it continues to implement all the Eu laws about data protection while "negotiating" a trade deal with the USA , and agrees to submit to the ECJ

What were we taking back again ?

What exactly do these new contracts look like?

Dear UK customer, G*d knows the rules will be next March - suck it up, it's not like you have a choice anyway.

Dear Eu customer, we don't know if we will be GDPR compliant, so it might be illegal for you to use us as a supplier. But don't worry we hope to have an answer in 2 years (hopefully).

Re: Transfer

There are only a couple of new cables, the new Microsoft/Google link to Spain and the Vodafone one to France.

Remember that the cables that land in Britain and then go to the continent all go through switches in the UK and then back out - they will count as a data transfer to the UK and be subject to "5-eyes" intercepts

Re: Does this mean (thinking Cloud here)

No they only need them in the Eu. UK data centers won't be allowed for Eu citizen's data but the UK will be in no position to make any demands of the American social media giants so they will be able to put UK customer data anywhere they want.

The Eu is fine with data for RoW users being processed in the Eu without the GDPR applying.

Transfer

Does it define what "transfer" means.

IIRC all the N. America - Europe cables go through Britain except for the ancient FLAG1 and a couple of cold war era cables to Iceland

If west bound data is banned on Brexit day there are going to be a lot of unhappy customers in the Eu

GDPR v2 – Gradually Diminishing Psychotic Robots: Brussels kills Terminator apocalypse

Re: The EU, you say?

Forcing the Eu to have an army would be a guarantee of peace.

You would need to have German troops taking orders from a French general Italy and Spain organising the logistics support. A requirement for a unanimous vote of 27 countries to chose the target and a parish council in Walloonia having a veto on every order.

Re: Autonomous weapons

Easier to deploy and therefore more likely to be used.

It would take some "political will" to go and lay a minefield across a city in Syria / Ukraine

But drawing a box on a Google map and having a bunch of drones kill anything that moves inside - and then have them leave with no trace is a lot easier.

Re: Weaponizing AI will happen, denying this is suicidal

"Wars since the start of the 20th Century more and more target civilians."

They most certainly have not - targeting civilians would be a war crime.

RAF bomber raids in WWII were for dehousing - destroying the houses of German workers, any inhabitants of the houses were unfortunate collateral damage.

The same with the USAAF nuking of a couple of military barracks in the middle of a pair of Japanese cities.

Re: Please return to your houses

The Alan Coren guide to army training:

"They gave me a rifle and told me to point it at anyone who puts the verb at the end of a sentence"

Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

Have you been reading my documentation ?

Re: SJW Powers Activate

Linux is obviously satanic ...

"Out of memory: Kill process 7429 (java) score 259 or sacrifice child"

Re: What's next?

> Proper terms are "Mainboard" and "Mezzanine" or "Peripheral Board".

But doesn't that imply a lesser subservient role to the peripheral ?

While Motherboard and Daughter board were working together in a synergistic partnership to deliver a solution against the patriarchy

Re: first time in 20 years

>Can I complain about the use of the word Python?

Are you demeaning a "differently-abled" reptile that tries hard to live in a predominately leggist world?