Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Re: She got off lightly

He only stole from customers, not investors.

Or you were told you were fine and missed treatment that could have saved you.

Re: A CEO being held accountable?

>What IS the world coming to?

"Some of those who lost money investing in Theranos are extremely wealthy,"

Remember to steal from the proles not the prince

Z-Library operators arrested, charged with criminal copyright infringement

Re: First things first

They even stole the language. Although like many poor quality pirate copies there are a few typos

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

Re: he expects the major restructuring work to be done this week

>making people walk is cheap.

In this case it's looking very expensive.

By end of day, here on the west coast, rumours are 75% of the remaining workforce took the quit option before they stopped processing applications. All Twitter offices are apparently locked and all staff locked out of systems.

Twitter is still up, but bets are on it not lasting more than 0.1 Truss

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

Re: Burned through $12 billions, ..Chapter 11, problem solved..

>The debt issue can be easily solved by a hardball Chapter 11

I'm sure the people that fronted him the $40Bn didn't think of that and are happy to walk away from their money (especially those with their own army, secret police and bonesaws)

>no sane country would elect someone like DT

And that statement still holds true

Re: Cue up music from Talking Heads and Brian Eno...

An extra upvote for "to whom you were replying to"

Re: Deadwood

Trouble is that although you need very few engineers to keep the lights on (assuming you don't add any new features) you need lots and lots of warm bodies to do ad-selling, to file regulatory paperwork in every country and to do customer support for valuable clients.

You think having deadwood engineers is a problem, try having 4th rate legal and regulatory compliance people

Re: Cue up music from Talking Heads and Brian Eno...

Erm you know that icon isn't the winner of the 1933 all-europe Chaplin look-alike contest, don't you ?

Everybody went on a crazy hiring a spree during the pandemic.

Partly it was the idea that with remote workers we can hire for cheap in a flyover state and dump these SF salaries later, also if everyone else is hiring you need to hire or you are going to lose talent and attractiveness for future talent

FB headcount went up something like 40%, now it's going down 10%

Hey this guy just called a rescue diver a paedophile, is he the CEO of any public listed companies? I need to buy shares in them quick!

Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

They are obviously running the same software, perhaps amfM1 is the beta test ?

Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

amanfromMars 1 is actually Elon - it all makes so much sense now..

AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore

An analysis of the tracks

See how one set of tracks remains stationary but all the others start backing away and then run off in all directions?

We conclude the 1st dinosaur was a vegan and so immediately had to tell all everyone

Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk

Re: Tome Lehrer, as ever, was prescient

I reach for the Stars - but sometimes hit London

Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock

Re: What do you need to understand?

It would be interesting to see ASML's order book. It could well be that TSMC have already bought all the 5000 series machines for the next few years.

I'm certain Intel are going to score more of the CHIPS act money, they have more friends in Washington, but I wouldn't bet on them making more chips than TSMC.

What do you need to understand?

It's close to a monopoly on the thing that makes the modern world work. If there is a slowdown just going to put the brakes on it's competition.

Intel,GF, etc are all cutting staff and cancelling projects. In a few years when demand has gone back up and their next gen of fabs are coming online TSMC will be even further ahead

Broadcom looks for EU approval of VMware takeover

Anybody know

How Evil is Broadcom compared to Qualcom ?

I think Qualcom comes in at 300-400 milliOracle

(The Oracle being the SI unit of Evil in the software world)

IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud

Re: Be Kind ..... Know your Frenemies and Foe alike and Warn Them of Forthcoming Gloom and Doom.

But not in a way that makes you feel satisfied afterwards

Re: Watson

So far sticking the Watson brand on something means it's guaranteed to fail

Re: Be Kind ..... Know your Frenemies and Foe alike and Warn Them of Forthcoming Gloom and Doom.

>Erotic Customer Centric Cloud Services

Not something I'd want to source from IBM.

I mean, kinky is one thing - but there are limits!

No one ever got fired for avoiding IBM

Shocker: EV charging infrastructure is seriously insecure

Re: KISS

Here the electricity company is nationalised and owns all the chargign stations - but somehow there are a "choice" of 4 different PPI-ed payment cards/apps. Of course different chargers support different sub-sets of the services so you need a phone full of apps and a car full of RFID cards

Raspberry Pis without secure bootloaders

If you can get inside the machine to get at the SD card in a Pi you can presumably do anything you like to the machine

Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time

Re: Some detection tools require video content to be uploaded for analysis

But then they can launch FakeCatcherCatcher which catches people who have used FakeCatcher to make the fakes.

Re: Zuckerborg

Or several recently cabinet members.

Robotics startup wants to disrupt walking with AI roller skates

Re: you can "go up and down stairs, step into mass transit, and confidently wait at the crosswalk."

One of the shocks of working in California was watching the Gen ? younglings run up stairs in inline skates.

I assume some evolutionary selection effect had occurred

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Possibly some sort of industry award ?

Bonus points for saying "No, that's a tall stand - go get a long one" and returning with the same stand held horizontally

GlobalFoundries cuts jobs to slash operating costs

Probably not even thinking that far ahead. Quarterly report due and share price will drop I'd they don't have an excuse for losses and a guaranteed way to reduce them.

We're cutting staff is the default

Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

But he wont be a bank he'll be a hyper-converged-next-generation-fintech so no regulation at all.

Just like "Alipay" managed under the notoriously hands-off light -touch Chinese state regulators

Re: How many of these fake accounts have been set up by ex-employees?

Even better, if your account gets banned for posting %!&#$% - you get your $8 back !

Re: Ending WFH

And so these people can just quit - saving you the costs of paying redundancy and unemployment claims

Twitter, Musk, and a week of bad decisions

Re: Fair play to the impostor

And coincidentally all the rest of the pharmaceutical sector of the SP500 were down by roughly the same amount that day.

Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?

Re: Hey, Github!

That's the beauty of Microsoft owning github.

You just have to say

"C colon slash Alexa dot exe" write me some code

Re: Some functions are very simple

It would depend on the amount of code it emits

My phone's auto complete is based on a list of what words most commonly follow other words - that's from analysis of a large number of copyrighted works n English.

If I type "it* and the phone suggests "is" I haven't violated copyright of every author who ever wrote "it is". But if the phone writes " was a dark and stormy night "and I use that in a novel I'm on shakier ground.

World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare

Re: App Stores

Have FIFA said who is going to win? Or are they keep it as a big reveal for the finale ?

But if you want to watch football you need to go to its traditional home in the Arabian desert - that's the price you pay for sport

A government official being careful with government issued phones on an official government visit is one thing.

But having to follow John le'Carre-esq 'Moscow Rules' on a holiday to watch a giant P.E. lesson seems a bit much

In other news

Priti Patel / Suella Braverman / Cthullu (whoever is home sec by the time this is published) backs UK bid for next world cup

Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000

Re: Well, manglement ....

Yes but I don't think the University of California ever threatened people with nuclear weapons.

If it did then other institutions wouldn't play college football, but would have to compete in DnD leagues instead.

Re: You get what you order

In many US states it's illegal to posses bullet proof vests - it's considered un-sporting.

Re: Well, manglement ....

Like the, apocryphal, support call to Cray Supercomputers from a US govt dept:

<angry support rep> Look you're not our only bloody customer you know !

<user>True, but we are the one with nuclear weapons

Japan to set up new semiconductor outfit with IBM's help

Re: IBM's help...

Making a single 2nm transistor isn't difficult. An AFM can make single atom features.

The tricky bit is making a few billion on a chip for a $, and doing millions a month and have them all work

It's a collaboration with a Japanese company

It's going to involve 1000s of meetings where everyone is very polite and calls everyone '-san' but nothing is done because it has already been decided that it isn't going to happen, but everyone is waiting for the other side to drop out first to save face.

More than a dozen Japanese organisations are involved, so there are factorial(12) combinations of this.

All the organisations (including IBM) are basically in managed decline, so they are all just waiting this out for grants and to be seen to be doing something by their superiors

BOFH: Don't be nervous, Mr Consultant. Come right this way …

BOFH doesn't really work on the other side of the pond.

Over there if the BOFH offends a luser - they just come in the next day with an AR15 and kill everyone.

Undeniably effective, but lacks a certain narrative flair

Dot Com ? What are you - some sort of bank or something?

You're so un-hip it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.

It will be thrgistr.<something in unicode that doesn't render in any known browser>

Re: You forgot something.

Non-Fungible Toasties ?

KFC bot urges Germans to mark Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken

It was from a world's fair in the 1880s (ish) in Chicago.

They needed a founding hero in a city with a large Italian population.

The viking colonies in Newfoundland weren't known back then and the first landing in the actual USA was a British expedition by John Cabot (ironically also an Italian) which didn't sell as well to American patriots.