Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

Re: Is that the same FAA ...

One day an insect wakes up and finds it has been transformed into the President of the United states

Re: Nothing is ever new

According to the AI the answer is AI

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

It's an acheivement

Nobody felt like this about Porsche, VW, Mitsubishi or Lada

It takes a special sort of CEO to make SS-Oberführer Porsche and Brezhnev look good

Re: Don't forget your incel card

They have their mummy to clean up after them

Re: Courts to the rescue

But suppose somebody bought a cybertruck because they are automobile fans and just wanted the ultimate in vehicle style and engineering?

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

Do you think the association with Musk is going to make Nazis look bad ?

Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite

Re: Negative 40 of course

>Why the ° is required is still beyond me.

It supports artisnal makers of Unicode fonts who were devastated by Germany dropping the double-S thing and a shortage of umlauts because of covid.

US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs

Re: The problem with tarrifs

Depends who you are. If you are a big agro business or a Chinese billionaire wanting to acquire some land then bankrupting small is great. Especially if your company sells farmland and your boss can hand out subsidies to the new owners.

If you are a gazillionaire hoping to pick up some stocks, or the Island of Hawaii, cheap - then a recession is a good buying opportunity

And China doesn't even need to impose tariffs. It just signals that they shouldn't be buying American soybeans and the importers will get the message and buy from Brazil - like last time.

Re: It won't just be the rest of the world

But he won't be backing down, he will be "saving America from tariffs " by removing them and forcing the Canadians to remove their unfair tariffs that were destroying American jobs - all by being tough on Trudeau

Re: Why is it...

Or the scene where they all on the rope bridge and Musk is shouting to cut it - but they forget to hold on

Re: It won't just be the rest of the world

Don't the Chinese call Trump the great nation builder?

He has united Europe more successfully than Hitler or Napoleon and made Quebecois sing the Canadian national anthem in English !

Re: Heres

There are multiple electric grids with some resiliency - but are there pipelines to supply Russian natural gas from Texas ports to Oregon homes ?

Re: Heres

Trickier, there are a lot fewer LNG tankers around than old oil tankers and the filling / discharge terminals are a lot more complex - hard to do at sea with nobody noticing

Re: Candada is to the USA as Ukraine is to Russia ?

The President's electric car company has plants in China but not in Mexico or Canada

Re: Neither Canada or Mexico was doing enough to stop drugs

Canada can do more to stop drug smuggling into the USA.

The deportation to El Salvador of those disgusting American insulin addicts who swarm Canadian pharmacies to take unfair advantage of Canadian health services.

Re: There’s a reason why so much manufacturing was offshored…

No he hopes that for a small gratuity to the Don, your industry will be exempted

That's why last time iPhones made in China didn't get tarrifs

Wonder how long it will take to produce American uranium?

told US farmers to "have fun" with the new deal.

Does he have a sufficient domestic source of guano to replace Canadian potash as a fertilizer ?

SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship

Re: SX runs better when he's around it.

So wouldn't it have been more cost effective to just auction the job with the money going directly to the government rather than indirectly to the ad agency's dealer ?

> what is the point of trying to 'colonise' Mars?

To get away from Trump and Musk ?

Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene

Re: Mega Cute

>Move over internet cats - you have a rival!

Are the mice going to be Mammoth sized ?

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

Why would TSMC care about tariffs?

They don't pay them !

They are the only supplier of these chips in the world. If their customers in the USA have to pay 25% -> inifinite % more it's no photo-resist off their nose, they have plenty of customers queued up elsewhere

Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows

Re: More Misdirection In ElReg?

>What happened to the idea of a company owned-and controlled data centre?

It's expensive and potentially more unreliable - unless you are also experts in cyber security and power and communication systems redundancy.

Ok if you're a major bank or a government - but expecting every small business to have multiple geographically separated data centers might be a distraction from running their day to day business

Re: (UK readers) Forget boycotting M&S

The UK is in a unique position of being dependent on both good relations with the USA and the Eu.

That shouldn't involve any complications

Re: It's not enough

It's the OpenSource movement's fault.

Where are the lucrative jobs for ex-politicians and civil-servants who buy Linux ?

US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

Re: Dump America

>the US can refuse to help, but it cannot stop the other NATO members

It can if you were foolish enough to buy US weapons systems. Even if there isn't a kill switch they can cut off spares and support if you fight back against their new best friend.

Why do you think Poland is buying Korean tanks?

Re: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

We gave ways been at war with East Asia, Eurasia have always been our friends

Re: contradiction

As the late great Peter Cook explained the Great Train Robbery

Police Chief: "When you speak of a train robbery, this in fact involved no loss of train. It was merely the contents of the train that were pilfered"

Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

But remember the speed an actual waveform (=data) goes around depends on rise and fall times and dispersion more than than just c.

The reason for soldered ram is to get the very fast but very short and twitchy pulses to ram and back without waiting for the electrical characteristics of a socket to catch uo

One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

Re: FORMATS

The Rammstein song is Links, zwo, drie, vier from a military marching chant

What "era of German military" I don't know, but the song is to very deliberately mock people who assume a German metal band must be right wing - when they were all born in the GDR

Re: FORMATS

And a Rammstein song

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

Re: Someone’s fallen hard for marketing BS here…

Even better the electron beam in a crt is relativitistic (electrons are doing about 25% c)

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

Re: Failure to see

I forsee the US government doing whatever Musk says and Microsoft/Oracle/IBM choose to deliver

And they all write it with AI and the cheapest labor they can find

Re: Speed of Transition

Isn't this the same problem Rust has ?

We write new pretty front ends in Rust or Super-Safe-C++ but they are calling 40 years of underlying library code written in C.

At least the Fortran libraries are safe

FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline

Re: So...

>Now I ask this question because there is a general belief over here, that if you fall sick in the US and don't have insurance, then you are just left to die!

Not quite. The hospital is required to "stabilise you" - but that means they will provide the minimum of emergency treatment then go after you for any money they can get.

But this doesn't cover drugs or treatment, so 'working but poor' people do die from being able to afford eg. insulin.

But to pay for this 'free' treatment they overcharge everyone else, so if you don't have insurance or the insurance doesn't cover you for some bizarre admin reasons you will get the famous $$$$$ bill.

Even if the insurance does cover you - you will get random bills for random amounts for years later.

Re: I am surprised that it does not ask you ...

That's the Microsoft watch. It contains an AED so if you don't seem to be working it can turn you off and on again.

The IBM version measures your heart rate and if you seem to be slowing down it makes you redundant

Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5

Re: Alternatives for calling U.S. toll free numbers

>being an extraordinarily sleazy and disreputable bank

ie. an American high st bank

Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever

Re: What about ESP32 ? Instead of 6502...

I think his point is that once you try and go from dev-board to product. The Broadcoms and Qualcomms of the world aren't even going to talk to you unless you are the size of Samsung.

RaspberryPi only got going because Broadcom gave former employees special access and support at the early stages

30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months

Re: Crapita

Ah, I see you have the machine that goes "ping!". This is my favourite.

You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

Re: What is Rhesus?

>Don't knock the AS/400! It was pretty good in its day.

A computer that just runs year after year / decade after decade without you having to throw them all out every 3 years because version N+1 of the new shiny won't run on them?

How archaic !

Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter

Re: Those days are long gone

But with AI you can now generate images of your proposed new AI datacenter using the computer in your garage

Re: "gigawatt-scale datacenter .... will require 634 acres (256 hectares) of land"

We could always build them on golf courses = no loss of useful or productive land.

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

Re: AI quantities of Apple RAM

You haven't seen Apple's new RAM pricing model.

The base model now comes with 16Gb as standard and the price merely doubles for each extra GB you order

Re: You really want to get paranoid

So Apple can know absolutely everything about the tastes and preferences of their customers.

And then ignore them because Ape designers know best

FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license

Most commercial infracters have simply settled out of court. Which means that corporation's own expensive lawyers have said "we aren't going to win this one".

Which is perhaps a better precedent than a bunch of no-good commie hippy open-source users losing an E Texas jury case to some God-fearing patriotic American MegaCorp

100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk

Re: See NSA

If it's a chat between two people in a locked room at the bottom of a mineshaft - and you work for the NSA, you have zero expectation of privacy

See NSA

This is why end-end encryption and keeping your private data out of the hands of the government is important

Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice

Re: FFS.

Typical rush job.

Bodge the hardware with whatever you have lying around in the parts bin and the hope to fix it up later in software.

Re: Rollout stopped because...

Microsoft's fire development sub-committee is researching " what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."... "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"