Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China

Except Fox reports and his followers believe:

He introduced tarrifs that China paid for, China has now surrendered because Trump is so tough and America won.

Re: He just cares about the pomp and circumstance

All that matters is the announcement.

It's a democracy:

You announce good-thing

Your pet media reports good-thing

Voters see good-thing and like good-thing doer

Actually doing the thing is totally irrelevant

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Re: I'm not planning to visit the United Hell Holes any time soon

>what's needed is that euro-ish liberal that doesn't have AOC's baggage

Or they could follow the UK's lead

If the want to beat a right wing candidate the left wing party just has to select a more right wing candidate than the right wing party

I applaud President Trumps decision to Nuke Washington and call on his administration to go further.....

Re: I'm not planning to visit the United Hell Holes any time soon

>great grandma who was sharp as a tack until she died at 102

Is the US ready for its first posthumous President ?

Re: I'm not planning to visit the United Hell Holes any time soon

>biggest problem is that the democrats ran a woman.

But she was black and the Dems had their greatest success with a black man. They can't just keep running black men to appeal to some prejudiced voters

Re: Face for Radio

The Met Police trials of facial recognition at the Notting Hill carnival managed 100% success rate

Well they identified 100% of black men, and the police had to decide what they were guilty of later after they had been arrested, but it's a start

Re: Double-take?

No it only measures simple biometric parameters

Skin/fake-tan colour eye colour, squareness of little mustache

Re: Why not simply.

>...close all the routes in and be done with it.

Build TWO walls

Re: Face for Radio

The difference is between taking a picture, checking it matches the picture biometric on your passport and then deleting it, and taking a picture storing it alongside 350 million other pictures and then mining that for marches with bad guys.

If you have a 1M photos of bad guys, 350M photos of citizens and a 99.9% accuracy rate, how many innocent people do you shoot?

Re: Avoid - at all costs

It is possible that the news coming out of the USA is just a viral marketing campaign for the Somali tourist office

Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus

Re: Literacy

> Equinix somehow pays less tax than your local shoe shop.

That's very unlikely, they will pay no tax.

While receiving incentive payments for the millions they are collecting from their customers, which is remember a contribution to the economy

Re: Greenwash hogwash

Most likely they buy some sort of complex financial contract on solar/wind power when there is over production and the price is cheap - and so claim that they purchased >100% of the annual power usage while relying on continual 24x7 grid power to actually run their business

Add to the UK economy....

So where does the money come from?

The local council could introduce £1000 parking charges and add billions to the UK economy

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Re: "Successive outages on this scale show" . .

That's why I run my own version of the reg on my own server.

It covers IT issues in my house to an audience of one. It currently doesn't have many comments since I banned myself

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Re: OpenAI panhandling

> LLMs are a dead end that will never produce real world reasoning, learning or intelligence.

Fortunately their market is Americans

Re: I wonder what the prize is for winning this race is.

Or do you think it will be more likely that government won't manage to build 1000 new nuclear power stations this year and hooking up these data centers to the grid will take too long and cost too much.

So the solution will be 10000s of 'temporary' ie permit exempt, direct-drive gas turbine generators <cough>jet engines<cough> stacked in parking lots ?

Re: 100 Gigawatts per year???

Well if you wanted cheap ubiquitous green energy you should have bribed him contributed more than the Koch brothers

Re: A New New deal ?

Surely sober responsible public servants wouldn't waste tax payers money on facilities purely for the benefit private industry ?

Re: A New New deal ?

As long as we get statues with huge shiny biceps

Re: One hand washing the other

Somebody just needs to find a way of building a bunch if 4GW coal powerplants before next financial quarter.

We could sell them Drax, what's the import tariff on power stations?

But we're really, really good at it !

Re: 100 Gigawatts per year???

It's not that difficult.

Build one on the first day, 2 on the second day,4 on the third day etc and you have 100 GW in a fortnight.

AI wrote a Python script to prove it.

A New New deal ?

Silicon Valley wants the Washington bureaucracy to build national infrastructure projects to beat the communist's central planned economy?

Obviously a spoof post. If there as a demand for this electricity Private Equity would have already built it quicker, cheaper and more efficiently

The CAPITAL LETTERS trick that helped merge Windows 95 into NT

Although it did lead to the years of having to start all your code with:

#define WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN

#define FOR_GODS_SAKE_TURN_OFF_THESE_STUPID_DEFINES

if you didn't want all the occurrences of "max" and "min" in your code to be silently turned into Windows macros

UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO

Re: depends on circumstances

>The pension is bloody amazing.

But unless this is some MP like role where you get a full pension after 4years. You are only going to be in this job until the next reorganisation or the next leak/hack/scandal where you are forced to resign.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Re: ROTFL

>Conservapedia has 58,000 articles and 24 active users

If those people could read, they would be hurt by that

>"Nazis today are not like they used to be" - probably

This time we record the victims on the blockchain instead of having to tattoo them ?

AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027

Spending and revenue

Their "prediction" is based on ALL the companies doing ALL that spending have to generate that much revenue.

Instead 9/10 of them will fail and the one winner will get all the revenue.

So it doesn't matter how much you spend, you are either the winner, and become the next Google, or you fail and go bust.

Nobody expected the 2000s bubble to create 10 search companies the size of Google.

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

Re: Eye of a Needle artwork

So it can do cat pictures, but only of orange cars?

That;'s still at least 50% of the internet

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

Sadly the reg lacks a "lifted-spectacles" icon

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

That's easy for you to say

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

Re: I've been poisoning Linkedin profile for years

I wouldn't mind promoting my employer, I've done a lot of startups, it's just the irony of doing anti-spearfishing training and then being told to put all of your work details online!

Especially in an industry where we have blacked out windows and no name on the front door.

I've been poisoning Linkedin profile for years

Once I stopped consulting and sold out to the corporate overlords I've been making stuff up on Linkedin

Architected the vault of Heaven, created global planet enterprise in 6days, can walk on water, invented coffee etc etc

Strangely the same corporate overlords (in a very IP protective industry) who send me anti-phishing training, have absolutely no branding on our very-hidden office building, expect me not to talk to friends and family about work or clients - also expect me to publish all about my work and "like" all their marketing pieces on all social media every day

EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants

You can't spell "regulation"

Without Regulatory Capture

If small independent local suppliers want to make the laws, they can buy their own deputy prime-ministers

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all

Re: "Is AI really intelligent?"

"we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand" Auguste Comte

"Anyone Who Expects a Source of Power from the Transformation of These Atoms Is Talking Moonshine" Lord Rutherford

" it would take one to ten million years for humanity to develop an operating flying machine." NY Times, 2 months before the Wright Bothers

>whereas you lot are all hard-wired to seek to know and advance your social status

This is el'reg comments section remember

Re: The Muppet Test

How does this work with Americans ?

Shaq's new ride gets jaq'ed in haq attaq

Re: NSO is an arms dealer

We shouldn't ban Semtex, we should complain that Ford don't make their cars car-bomb proof ?

Re: NSO banned from targeting WhatsApp?

I assume the US government is going to take a stake in the company

High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses

I'm reliably unformed that drug smuggling is funded by downloading pirate music.

Always slightly confused how drug smuggling needed external funding, I thought it would be a profit center, and surely drug smuggling would be funded by my paying for music and the music industry paying for drugs.

Re: I was given a sure-fire “tip” once

Fortunately the USA is in such a good place right now that there is no other crime for the FBI to investigate.

Italian American Civil Rights League

Nice to see traditional family businesses still able to compete in a world of Russian and North Korean scams

That's why Nevada's government bans lotteries - to protect vulnerable people

Re: X-ray to read cards?

A rye observation

MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech

Not just phones. I found a Audi S20 in the rain at big Tesco. It was locked but I looked up online how to open it.

Waterproofing worked, but somehow the number on the front was recorded by the police and I couldn't use it on the road

Re: Incentive ?

A perfect example of the free market at work.

On the assumption that all Range Rovers in London are owned and driven Drug Dealers/Gangsters/Footballers at clubs owned by dodgy Russians - self insurance should be an option

Just a simple bumper sticker "Insured by the Mafia, you hit us, we hit you"

Re: Modern phones, way too expensive/valuable

Trouble is that it isn't anymore:

It's the MFA login to your work apps

It's the public transit/bikeshare payment app or it's the only way of paying for parking or using an EV charger

It's the loyalty/discount app for the supermarket

For many people its the only way of using their bank / credit card

Re: And we are supposed to trust our digital IDs

No we have to trust the police of all the dodgy countries these phones end up in.

They will need to have the power to lock any UK imei

That's the sort of ridiculous metropolitan London-centric sort of policy we've come to expect.

We need to wall off the entire South East - a wall from the Severn to the Wash should be sufficient to isolate them from real people