Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

... Aaaand that's a fifth Brit Army Watchkeeper drone to crash in Wales

Thinking outside the box here...

Suppose they were to operate them in an actual war zone (as opposed to Wales) and filled them with some sort of explosive - then when they crash into the landscape it would be a good thing.

Thought the AT&T Time-Warner tie-up was scary? Comcast says 'hold my beer'

End of an era?

Does this mean that brave little avant-garde Fox will come under the jackboot of an oppressive corporate master?

Citation needed: Europe claims Kaspersky wares 'confirmed as malicious'

Re: And remove USA software?

Actually EU should not trust US software - it was already bad before Trump, now it can only get worse.

At the moment would you rather have the Russians reading your tariff response discussions or the Americans?

Intel confirms it’ll release GPUs in 2020

Re: Hopefully not just the high end..

For real work you need CUDA, or at least OpenCL support that is as good as CUDA

For games you need Intel to stay in a market for more than 5mins so games support the card, so gamers buy the card, so games support the card

For home/office use the builtin Intel GPU is good enough

Good luck Intel

So net neutrality has officially expired. Now what do we do?

Re: Net Neutrality is a red herring

Could that be because Zuckerberg, Brin, Page and Dorsey are all of the progressive persuasion?

I thought they were all part of a Muslim Illuminati conspiracy? You really can't trust these progessives

Re: You could always hope

Also his voters are only going to be able to get Fox approved websites over their Fox subsidiary cable by next election anyway

Re: Competition

I wonder if the websites will start playing the same game?

Hey Comcast, how many subscribers will you lose if they can no longer access Google / youtube / facebook / Amazon? Perhaps you should be paying Facebook the same as you currently pay for ESPN or HBO ?

Youth crime falls as kids stay inside to play Grand Theft Auto instead of going out to steal cars

But when the apocalypse comes how will Australian youth gain the skills to drive armoured V8s across the outback in pursuit of oil and/or Mel Gibson ?

UK digital secretary throws cold water over bid for laws on kids' use of social media

Re: Molehills and mountains

That's what they said about Rock'n'Roll, Violent movies, VHS, Cartoons and cannabis.

Look at what happened to the generation that were brought up on those things ......

What will this do to standards at el'reg?

If mature sensible and reasonable 13 year olds are no longer allowed to vote?

It is going to screw up the Raspberrypi stackoverflow site - but kids can always learn about computers once they turn 18

Why would anyone do that? for any subject?

Whatever they don't do - that's best practice

Nominet throws out US corp's attempt to seize Brit domain names

Re: Torn...

An Israeli guy just lost Nissan.com to the car company formerly known as Datsun.

His argument that he had registered it in 1994, that it was his family surname (and probably had been since the C6 BCE) and was the name of a Hebrew month - didn't work with the court.

England's top judge lashes out at 'Science Museum' grade court IT

Re: On the up-side

You can deliver a bloc of concrete in the form of a mainframe. Pretty hard to hack into.

Especially if it uses Sygnetics famous write only memory chips

Dems push Ryan to vote to help save America's net neutrality measures

Re: Signal switching

When was it decided that the FCC's remit is to send political messages via regulations, rather than Congress doing it with law

When it was decided that the head of the FCC was a direct presidential appointment

US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now

running Whole Brain Emulation Software

Unfortunately it is emulating the brain of the average Vancouver inhabitant and so is currently stoned.

Re: Good job Mr. President!

By using a lot of clever Taiwanese GPUs

(and borrowing the money from China to pay for it)

Re: Depertment of Energy

How long to mine enough bitcoin to pay for itself?

Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

Re: Decentralised

The point of github though is that it is central. Somewhere to post open source projects that people can immediately find and use them.

If github shut down tomorrow the code would still exist on hundreds of users machines -but it would be a lot harder to find, use and improve.

Back to a world of mailing lists, personal websites and tarball downloads

UK military may recruit wheezy, alcoholic keyboard warriors

Re: Some of those are out for good reason

Unless you received the drugs officially as part of the payment

Re: Health problems?

foster a team spirit amongst the victims by getting them to bond together

Strange how the same techniques has been so much less effective, although equally widely applied, in industry

UK's first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather

Re: Carrier Command

Why can't they stick them on a carrier?

These are RAF fighters. The cost of building a separate officers mess on the HMS Me would be prohibitive

Re: Wouldn’t it be most responsbile if....

I mean honestly... who in their right mind would fly something that expensive into a situation where they might get damaged?

That was a quote from a US general when the first stealth bombers were being built.

The USAF will be defeated when the hanger roof collapses on their single incredibly expensive super new aircraft

Re: New better technology?

Some serious mistakes were made in the planning for that to be the case....

The company planning an aircraft carrier without the ability to fit cats was the same company desperately looking for a customer for the more expensive VTOL version of it's rather pricey new fighter.

I think some serious smarts went into the planning for that.

Re: I don't see the big problem with stopping on the way

US had their nuclear B-52 stationed in Thule.

A Volvo with a roofbox as the secret Scandinavian nuclear delivery system ....

Re: So...

Except for the RAF Typhoons that are now permanently stationed down there.

I think the OP was suggesting that the British invade the Falklands again.

It would be a tremendous flag waving victory, distract from Brexit and give Boris something to write a really rousing, if incomprehensible, speech about.

On humanitarian grounds, having Eurofighters stay on the islands, and F35s stay in Portsmouth - the number of air-air casualties could be greatly reduced.

Re: Emergency Landing on a Cargo Ship

The tail landed squashed a minivan - but the aircraft landed on the delivery crate for a mirror for one of the Uk's telescopes on La Palma.

A modern 8.5m diamter telescope mirror costs around $20M so for a fraction of the price of the HMS Her Maj and Chuck we could build a fleet of telescopes and have them shipped around the world on cargo ships - providing a network of landing spots for any passing VTOL aircraft.

No need to dock.

I understood that the problem with the HMS Oneself and HMS the kid, was the lack of catapults to launch aircraft.

So each ship could be paired with a fleet of airships which would hoist the F35 aloft and release them to bomb Pearl Harbor and then have them land back on the ship.

It would be cheaper than the F35B and revitalise the moribund British Imperial Airship industry

Carriers can't fly either.

I beg to differ

Re: Carrier Command

They could at least get some school kids to paint a mural of F35s on the new carriers

Re: Clouds are no joke - never have been ...

Doesn't this make Britain invincible?

Only if you can persuade Johnnie foreigner to also buy planes that only work in deserts

The navy of course bought boats that only work in the cold - far more sensible

Re: Carriers??

a friendly port?

Anywhere but Portsmouth then ?

It has been the dream of civilization for 2 millennia that both sides would beat their swords into plowshares. The F35 with it's "ability to shoot guns might be achieved in the 2020 software update" would seem to be a step toward that vision.

Re: Clouds are no joke - never have been ...

That's why we don't fight wars against countries that are cloudy anymore.

Re: Remember the war

Unfortunately Greenland just imposed a 25% tariff on temporarily imported US jet fighters and Iceland lost the in-transit-refueling contract to Argentina so the route now gets a bit more complicated.

Alternatives

If you could construct some sort of large ship with a big flat deck then you could lift the planes onto it with a crane, sail across the ocean and then lift them off at the other side.

There was some idea of perhaps having planes take off and land from such a ship - but this involves apparently insurmountable technical challenges solved in the 1950s

I see a satellite of a man ... Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, that's now 4 sats fit to go

Australian Design Rules (ADRs) are national standards for vehicle safety, anti-theft and emissions

I just saw an excellent Australian driver-education film showing the unique design choices for vehicle safety and anti-theft.

Re: "Sats 5 and 6 were launched into the wrong orbit..."

Can we rename them Nigel and Boris ?

So as a matter of fact, the commonwealth is smaller than Eu using any standard market assessment metrics known to man.

Although perhaps a better market for Dutchy shortcakes and cricket pitches - which post-brexit may be the UK's principle export

Re: What's in a name?

Patrick was Roman.

But a non-dom living in tax exile in Wales

Re: What's in a name?

So an immigrant, Welsh and then a refugee ! splutter !

UK has data adequacy issues? Oof, that's too bad! says Isle of Man

Re: Barnier: the bloc "cannot, and will not" share its decision-making powers with a third country,

Why the hell would you listen to someone who doesn't belong to your club, ...Because we're great is not a great argument.

No but "we have all the global surveillance assets, we have access to the US + 5eyes surveillance assets and we aren't going to cooperate in financial security or anti-terrorism unless the city gets what it wants" is.

Yarrrr, the Business Software Alliance reckons piracy be down, me hearties

Re: Piracy does not hurt who you think it hurts

Don't forget if they copy the CD with a 48x burner - it counts as 48x as much piracy

RIAA in a spin over CD copying bust

Re: The BSA

I used to like their motorbikes

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

Re: Never a great customer experience but

solution across a wide range of markets and able to win by bundling licensing for multiple products

So not by using their monopoly to lock you into buying a monthly subscription for everything ?

Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is 'cyber'

Re: Yes, we're equipped, they quipped!

If you are robbed physically and go to the station you are told to stop wasting their time and go to the website and fill in the form to get a crime number for the insurance.

With a 2x increase in the budget then 100% of officers will be able to tell you to do the same for cyber-crime

You blithering Ajit! Huawei burns Pai for FCC sh*tlist proposal

Re: I never thought I'd say this but...

But they still all have ARM processors which are now Japanese - remember Pearl Harbor?

Ban ARM cpus now !

Cute little communists

Filing a constitutional complaint with the government......

Don't they understand that in a democracy the way around this is to fund the re-election campaign of a couple of senators and then hook a few regulators up with some hookers - that's the American way