Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

The US is worth (Z.1) about $270Tn so almost $1M per person

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

Re: China needs us more than we need them

Where else is China going to get Bourbon and Harley Davidsons from?

Whereas all we get from China are rare earths, electronics, steel, chemicals, industrial parts, fasteners. Who needs that stuff when we have Soybeans, Rice and Guns?

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

Re: Misnomer

"this kind of resource requires long term strategic thinking and planning"

You mean communism ?

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

Re: Cheer

US Defense budget $1Tn

Gerald Ford class carrier $25bn

Owning the President? Priceless (and surprisingly cheap)

Re: Shoot the Messenger

It's not about the satellites. Now little boys and girls (at least while their still allowed in school) will study hard and grow up dreaming that one day they might work for Amazon or Musk

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

Re: Exemptions

> illegal

If the President does it, it's not illegal

Re: Exemptions

Presumably all the shippers, importers, brokers, customs officers and all the software are totally clear on what that means and are all updated before every executive tweet

Re: Shipments

>There are unconfirmed reports suggesting some major IT vendors, including HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Apple, may have temporarily suspended shipments of products such as PCs from China to America."

Wouldn't you ship them anyway, keep them in bonded warehouse at the port and release them when he tweets in the middle of the night "NO TARIFF, TARIFFS, VERY VERY BAD, COVFEFE"

Re: Exemptions

Magic 8 ball has spoken ....

But that was double Calvin Ball reverse day

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

Re: From what I've heard elsewhere.

American chips put into American servers in America by American robots

(Chips manufactured in Taiwan, Robots manufactured in Korea, Japan, China)

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Re: Cartoonify filters have existed for decades

>Mondrian no longer has copyright

Why not? Is it because he wasn't called Disney?

Re: Reboot.

There is a BBC remake of Threads (hopefully they get it made before it comes true)

No news if it will be made in Sheffield, although with CGI today they can probably remodel a post-apocalyptic Sheffield without have to spend all the money cleaning it up first.

You are in marketing but nobody watches TV and your core audience has ad-blockers on all their media

Now sell them:

1, Pulp Fiction / Parasite or

2, N+1 of the franchise they are already watching

Re: General Ignorance does not help

What many people inside IT don't understand is that the many people are no more intelligent than an eight ball and a spreadsheet with a bayesian function picking from a larger list of responses based on Fox News.

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: How Empires end

>that America gave him a second chance at being idiotic with their very existence is just sad.

In the immortal words of the Carlin

You know how dumb the average person is? Well half of them are dumber than that !

Re: US companies did this to us

>Chinese workers imported to Scunthorpe’.

Poor bastards .

Re: Oh how we laughed

But China is surrounded by advanced economies with a historical hatred of China.

What could possibly happen to drive the likes of Japan and S. Korea into close financial and ultimately political and military cooperation with China ?

Re: US companies did this to us

>a lot of the takeaways that we have come to know, love and see as part of British Culture are disappearing

No problem, as we welcome the next load of refugees we get a new set of delicious foreign cuisine.

We got Jewish Fried fish, then Italian, then Indian/Bangledeshi, then Chinese, now we will get a new round of people fleeing oppression with only their culinary heritage and appetite for hardwork.

The only drawback is that the next lot are likely to be American.

Re: Tech CEOs backed Trump

>they were also supporting his tariff policy which is proving highly detrimental to the companies they run.

No it isn't

Facebook, Google and Microsoft don't care about tariffs - they sell services, there is no duty on clicks.

Apple know they will get an exemption, either for free or for a small donation to the spray-tan fund.. Nobody wants to go on Fox business and tell people that their policies mean an iPhone costs $3000

Nvidia will get an exemption because otherwise all the AI data centers will be built abroad and Silicon Valley will start to look like a ditch

>You simply can’t add USD$4tn by raising the debt ceiling, whilst legislating for USD$4.7tn of tax cuts and promising to eliminate the debt.

Yes you can, you can always promise to eliminate the debt.

Re: What’s it gunna be America?

11th Province ?

Make Louisiana French again !

Re: US companies did this to us

>steel demand in the EU (pre-Brexit) was such that it was hardly enough to keep 2 steelworks (with blast furnaces) working.

But if we built more blast furnaces there would be a demand for the steel to build more blast furnaces

Re: US companies did this to us

>And not all of them running takeaways.

There are very few British takeaways in China

Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B

Missed opportunity

Wouldn't it have been better to have just sold Intel for a 50% loss ?

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

Re: White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

I thought America has a flourishing biochemistry industry based on the striving of small time hard working American high school teachers ? Despite the oppressive burdens on unfair government regulation and unfair competition form Mexico and Canadian imports.

Surely they can pivot to making Ivermectin and Ozempic ?

Who cares? We already won Space. .... USA ... USA .....

Anyway those woke DEI nerds at NASA think the world is round...

China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure

Re: Now Telecom

>That's..... a pretty impressive miss of the goal...

Or as BT would put it, a 600% improvement over last year

Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

Re: Pointless waste of time

At least there WAS documentation....

Like that Beyond Fringe sketch.

My Lord Suffolk, go to York and bring my Lord York to Suffolk

Grimsby, when you pretend you're Doncaster to sound posh

Re: Geography fail

Did that. Worked for an oilfield company in Aberdeen. First week after i moved to Vancouver. you're in Canada, can you go to Nova Scotia and look at this system.

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

Re: Never thought I would see the day when they were...

There is no Carl or Peter, he's getting 3 salaries - or he's an amateur!

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Musk unleashes unregulated self-driving cars on Americans?

So now I understand "Praxis"

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: the army of millions of human beings screwing in little screws is going to come to America

Android phone cost $100, tariff $125 retail = $250

iPhone $1100, tariff $1400, retail $2500, call it $3000 for the inconvenience of having to do all this. It's not like you have a choice, who else are you going to buy an iPhone from ?

ps don't get clever and start looking at airfares to Canada, were also locking them so only genuine Freedom iPhones can be registered in the USA

pps. Reality. Somebody at Apple HQ decides a few $M of it's reserves should be in Trump coin and Apple get a special tariff exemption

Re: Trump doesn't think

>the presidential system makes it harder to dislodge a POTUS than a PM

I think they have an amendment for that very purpose

Re: Shut that door?

Obviously they mostly order McDonalds. What else are they going to eat? Rice ?

Re: Shut that door?

Pivot to making highly flammable USA flags ?

ifixit did a breakdown on an iPhone16 and claimed the parts on a $1099 retail unit cost around $550 - so 100% markup which is pretty typical for that kind of product.

Remember Apple also have the costs of designing it and writing the OS - so their official profit margin might be more like 25%

Re: Manufacturing is easy

How easy? The UK taught America to do it for us at lowest possible cost.

>It would be foolish t think America didn’t take that football and advance it several yards beyond what they were taught: they assuredly improved every aspect of the task.

I always said it was a mistake to allow America into the industrial revolution. If they had stuck to growing cotton and tobacco we would all be much better off.

I know it sounds alarmist but one day they will be making cars every bit as good as European ones.

American jobs for American(*) robots !

* actual robots will be made in China / Korea / Japan

>Yeah (LOL!) Foxconn. What a major fizzzzzzle THAT was.

It was a great success for all concerned.

A major announcement was made of multi-billion $ investment in US manufacturing.

The president got on TV at a multi-$Bn Foxconn site. The Governor campaigned on having brought $Bn of inward investment to the state.

Foxconn avoided a lot of tariffs and political damage by their announcement of a multi-$bn investment in US manufacturing

And all it cost was a $M for an empty site which they got a government bribe investment to pay for and then sold to amazon for a warehouse.

A dozen groups all benefited from a $bn investment announcement and it cost Foxconn less than nothing

>They can make them to sell to China.

Might have to rename a US city "Shenzen" to give them desirable "Made in Shenzhen" labels - like we used to accuse the Japanese of doing

Re: the army of millions of human beings screwing in little screws is going to come to America

>Sure they can work an assembly line operations for (slightly) better wages

When we have millions of newly unemployed and highly skilled government scientists, air-traffic-controllers, FAA, OSHA, DoE experts etc

Re: Most of the iPhone is built by robots

We must tariff the robots to protect American jobs

Re: Look for the convergence

"As the cheap labour countries get better off they can afford to become less cheap. Eventually all the existing ones will be gone. The US on the other hand..."

It's the circle of life ....

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Re: Hmm

A be-knighted former chief prosecutor being a bit conservative - who would have thunk it ?

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned

Re: "Oracle completely destroyed their reputation this time"

I blame whoever didn't take them out and beat them with a big stick as soon as they mentioned the "O" word