Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

>How come a Ukraine who dies fighting Russia has no value ?

Depends which side your president is on

Re: Wow...

Consistent style, consistent points, utter numpty good scripting

Re: The UK should be paying attention

Germs don't exist = you can't see them

Re: Brain drain

It used to be a phenomenon where European scientists fearful that their ethnicity might be considered undesirable, moved to the USA. As I remember the US did rather well out of it.

Although all those guys in the Manhattan project would probably be considered DEI hires now

Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

Re: Regulator knows best?

Jolly sensible of them. Presumably to avoid a complicated junction in the middle of the channel tunnel

Re: Regulator knows best?

Is that why the driver sits in the middle of the cab - so they can drive on either side of the rails ?

Yes so the point is that you get rid of all the signal wires and run the signal on top of the 25KV AC

Does Ethernet over Powerline work on 25KV overhead line equipment?

Generally 25,000v is a strong disincentive to stealing the wire, at least for re-offenders

Re: Good idea, ruined

You could take advantage of the high speed rail network to move messages about train movements by mail. You could even sort the mail on the train

Re: Good idea, ruined

>we'd use morse code on a telegraph, or semaphore flags, because they're even simpler and therefore theoretically more robust solutions. But…

Network South East calls for aid - light the beacons

Re: Good idea, ruined

In these straightened times we can no longer afford extra superfluous vowels added to make Greek words sound French

Re: Good idea, ruined

>Making it digital just because

The country could just share one analog channel.... over

Why are all the railways sharing a single Spectrum?

Couldn't they afford BBC micros when they were privatised?

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Re: Hmm

Yes they can simply not do it. What's the judge going to do? Arrest him?

DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code

Because they have rules like - if asked how to manufacture $NERVE-AGENT, say no.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Re: Poachers turned gamekeepers

'Little Rocket Man' ?

Elton John does cyber now ?

Obviously 1,that government "your next job is in cyber" campaign really really worked and 2, Cyber must really pay well compared to being a pop star

Re: Needed?

>Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18m, report says – as he hits the links again

Although compared to the financial consequences of him 'working' - they are a bargain

Re: Sorry, folks, but you should look at the facts

>They could easily significantly cut military spending

If they only had 19 carrier battle groups instead of 20, Canada could burn the White House again

Re: Cheering

But Russia is irrelevant unless they are currently invading you, you are an aging lefite who hasn't realized that communism ended, or you are infatuated with their leader

Re: Cheering

I suspect China are getting worried.

They want a degraded USA that isn't quite so globally dominant. They don't want a USA in a permanent recession with an impoverished population that can't buy cheap tat

Re: Needed?

>Are they? They are making cuts but the government is still there.

Except for education, science, health, veterans, environment

I'm all for getting rid of those expensive fire engines we haven't needed this quarter

Shouldn't be a problem getting paid

This is a red team penetrating a US govt department. If they are any good they should be able to monotize that.

Re: Cancelling contracts?

How many divisions do you have?

Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan

Re: Hmmm ...

Intel could sue intel for $4bn, it's probably the only way for intel to make money

This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network

Re: Nice article!

No, we are only at war with China, we have always been at war with China.

Russia never hacks us, Russia are our friends, Russia has always been our friends

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: Valued Veterans

>How can they see them in action when they can no longer afford TV?

If you don't watch your quota of Fox, you don't get your soylent green ration

Re: Valued Veterans

>And yet somehow DJT won 65% (I looked it up) of the veterans vote in 2024.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

Re: Sell the waste heat

Heating West Virginia to 80c all summer might be a solution. There are many proponents of sterilization of the area around Washington

Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?

Re: All part of the plan

>Soldiers will have to choose between obeying orders and getting paid.

Paid ?

Surely soldiers should be a revenue source.

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Re: Wow

But many of those $13 go to US defence and aerospace companies and since this is the no-war president his mission is to dismantle the military industrial complex

>Of course she was by expertise a climate scientist,

So three strikes against her

Re: All part of the plan

Do you know the army also forces airborne troops to wear parachutes - whatever their religious beliefs ?

Re: All part of the plan

Only follow the new testament

Re: All part of the plan

Isn't the Bowl of the Heavens non-stick ?

Re: All part of the plan

Why do we need NASA ? The bible has the truth about how everything is created !

Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories

Re: "Finally, ice is transparent at radio frequencies."

"East Alaska"?

You mean Western Yukon, on the coast of the Gulf of Canada

Re: "Finally, ice is transparent at radio frequencies."

Water is opaque, ice isn't. It's why microwaves do such a bad job of thawing frozen food.

The defrost setting turns the power on and off to melt frozen outer layers and turn them into water to absorb microwaves to heat the next frozen layer and so on

Re: To give you an idea ....

So two layers of tinfoil for my hat would be a good idea?

ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

Re: Not a huge China fan…

Pretty much any English speaking government intelligence agency

Re: Huawei Euv?

Sped up the rise of China and competition and therefore the common good. A rising tide raises all boats sort of thing.

Really he is a benefactor of all mankind

Re: Huawei Euv?

But surely that was the plan all along?

If you cut off an emerging economy from buying your existing products they are going to innovate and produce cheaper and eventually better alternatives.

America is just paying-it-forward in the same way that its early industry was boosted by restrictions from the British Empire

>The orange bully will have no problem sanctioning ASML.

10000% tariffs on any ASML machines sent to the USA - that'll teach those round cheese eating, clog wearers

Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

Re: What's the issue?

Microsoft make Edge only go to Bing and renders all Youtube videos in 320x240 8 bit

Re: Time for Google

That's nothing:

Apple Ireland sales = $1Bazzillion

Apple Eu + rest of Europe (+ Ireland somehow) = $0

Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client

Is that a Quantum computer?

A computerin a closed rack that you can't observe - is it alive or dead?

Re: Have done this.

It's Dell's fault for making them all look the same.

At least with SGI you knew to turn off the slightly-mauvish-purple one

Re: Less-of-a-Problem These Days

>Ah yes .. the hostname in the prompt,

Followed by a corporate policy to stop naming servers "gandalf", "bilbo" etc and call them "SYSYSRVP123" for testing and "SYSPSRVP123" for production

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

Whats the alternative?

Perhaps one day we might have telephones that we can take with us when we aren't in the office - but for now we need to be close to the switchboard

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

One could say something similar about tonnes of shiny metal in FortKnox