Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

Re: what's wrong with them?

My IEE-488 connected portable flash drive is perfectly reliable

Re: Even worse ...

You might want to take a look at the two drives side-side.

Nobody was making counterfeit Hitachi Deathstar back in the day but we've had fake Samsung Evo nvme from Amazon

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

Re: What a mess

2) I've never seen the word meekly used when encouraging violence, rioting, destruction of private property and then funding the bail and lawyers pardoning of those caught doing such things.

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

It could also be a bigfoot in a suit?

You don't know how smart they really are

Re: Seriously?

So we need the federal government to guarantee the freedom and non-human rights of Bigfoot from the individual states

An amendment to the 14th amendment perhaps?

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

Re: What?

>He thinks that if he puts tariffs on imports, American industry will be able to quickly pivot

I don't think it's even that advanced.

He thinks like a landlord. If you want to sell in his country you have to pay an entrance fee - it's just "good business" !

Re: What?

>"The US State Department has dropped a statement from its website which stated that Washington does not support Taiwan's independence"

Do they now not support independence from China or independence from the USA ?

Re: What?

>Rather than subsidizing the US industry, I presume the plan is to tariff imports until the US industry is competitive again

Except they are also tariffing chip making machines from Europe and blank wafers from Taiwan - probably some clever 4d chess move I am not qualified to understand

Re: What?

Semi-conductors are doped - sounds like they would be more than qualified

Re: What?

Semi-conductors sounds a bit 'pronoun' America will only build the best conductors, super-conductors perhaps

Re: The Trump administration’s plans for the future are not clear.

Although with NIST destroyed he will be able to claim he is 6'5" in Trump feet and 215 Trump lbs

The Trump administration’s plans for the future of NIST are not clear.

I think it's reasonable to say "The Trump administration’s plans for the future are not clear."

UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

Re: £880 Million was that on the side of a red bus ...?

Looks like the NHS isn't getting any more money for 2 weeks.

But since it has been receiving £350/week since 2016 it should be doing OK

US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K

the sum would amount to almost 4.5 percent of its annual net loss

So looking on the bright side - it's 20x better at losing money doing its core business than through computer insecurity.

NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?

Re: NASA budget

>but if Congress has voted the money, that is it.

Remember the golden rule - the one with access to the bank transfer system makes the rules

5, drive out all the scientists and engineers and then wonder why your wonder weapons don't work and you are in danger of being vaporized by deplorables working for the new economic powerhouse

Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight

Topological Core Architecture

It would have been more impressive if they had worked out a non-Topological core architecture.

Re: "We have actually worked out a path to a million"

I went on a bouncy castle as a kid and I could barely bounce a foot, when I went on one as a (drunk) adult I could probably do 3 or 4 ft. So a path to reach orbit is worked out - if I get old enough and drunk enough.

Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad

Re: Here in Britain...

But if you are a total nobody or TikTok influencer (but I repeat myself) then nobody is actually planning to harm you - so you don't really need anyone to be armed.

All you really need is a bunch of mates arsing about, or some unemployed theatre school kids and a Turo subscription and you can play-act all you want safely and cheaply.

If only someone's babysitter had thought of this in 2016 we would have been saved a lot of trouble

Re: Uber with guns

Aren't they are all working for the MET ?

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

Does STOP AI want to ban all AI?

> the group's answer is, "Not necessarily, just whatever is necessary to keep humanity alive."

And that's where I lose sympathy with them.

Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff

Re: Global economies spread (some of) the pain

>someone who sees that Acer's prices are 15% higher would probably just buy someone else's laptop,

Most laptop sales, and the majority by profit, are to corporate.

We might swap from Dell to Lenovo but the process is going to take 3 years and we aren't doing it for a 10% saving. Especially if Dell would just hike the costs of our servers and storage by 20% if we did.

And we all know that all the corporate brands are going to raise prices by exactly the same amount - that's what free market competition is all about.

Re: Not Unexpected

Do you think he knows that he knows what he is doing or does he makes sure he doesn't know what he knows for security reasons ?

Re: Not Unexpected

Ironically TSMC have the opposite problem. Their factories in Arizona are in a freeport for tax complicated reasons - and so are subject to US import tariffs

> I'm genuinely surprised that someone could downvote it.

Russian bots

Re: Tariffs are taxes with nationalist spin.

>If we follow your line of reasoning, we really should be including the price of street drugs in the inflation figures….

That would be terribly inflationary. What with every arrest involving a drugs with a an estimated street value of £1M

And the manufacturers increased the price of dryers (which weren't tariffed) by the same amount

Re: Tariffs are taxes with nationalist spin.

But tariffs aren't inflationary. The US Center for Pure American Economics and Apple Pie and Motherhood and Football said so in a paper published on Twitter.

Re: Tariffs are taxes with nationalist spin.

>And there is no escaping. If your kit contains so much as a single blob of Chinese solder, the tariffs go on.

Luckily only 10% though. If it came from the Evil Empire to the north it would be 25%

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

Re: Advertising?

>right guv, Pi-Hole 6 is out!

Is it ? I haven't seen much online promotional material about it

Monetization

So this means the shareholders/VCs will pay the users who create the content, right?

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Re: The compiler could generate a lot of extra code for bounds checking

>Assembly = Transwarp.

>C = Warp 9

That's perhaps the only big change in the last 20years.

You used to do the fast bits in assembler, even if you just did the maths in SSE.

In C you learned loop unrolling, bit shifts and register variables yourself.

Then C compiler optimization on modern CPUs became magic and now the fastest code is the most simple obvious naive C

Re: C is the new COBOL

It needs to be "backwards compatible" in being able to link to existing C libraries but more importantly it has to look like C/C++ to an experienced developer.

APL might be great but good luck on the adoption

Re: C is the new COBOL

C is a way of describing the underlying processor - which haven't changed much in the last 50 years

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

Re: Share what you've done the past week

There was a Dilbert of that back in the Good Old Days (tm)

The PHB introduced a bonus for bugs fixed, resulting in Wally 'writing himself a new yacht'

Re: Scrum

We improved on that, we made it leaner and got it down to 1 sigma

Re: Scrum

You forgot the *team" and "inclusive" part where all the non-programmers staff are also included in the stand up - so you get to hear what the office manager, hr and accounts are doing and they get to stand around listening to your jira tickets and Atlassian burn downs

Re: Scrum

Surely an improvement would be to run 90m of cable next week and 100m the week after?

A 10% week-week improvement in output is impressive, even if it does mean some people have to climb over boxes of cat5 under their desks

UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay

Re: Anti-counterfeit?

They weren't even "counterfeit" - they were just cheap microprocessors implementing USB-RS232(ish)

The issue was that at one point Microsoft's driver looked for FTDI's device-id before it loaded the totally generic USB-serial driver, so some uProc versions started reporting FTDI's id

Then Microsoft did the patch that bricked all the non-FTDI devices and everyone just switched to CH340 and dodgy drivers from chines language only download sites

Chinese spies suspected of 'moonlighting' as tawdry ransomware crooks

You can't trust anyone these days

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Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

Contributing where there isn't existing code.

You aren't going to be making a contribution to the Linux kernel, same way as you aren't getting on the C++ standards committee as an intern

But Github is full of niche projects where there isn't an 800lb gorilla.

Especially in small HW, when Linux took off it was still difficult to make small electronics without paying $$$ for dev kits and building your own HW - now with RPi, Arduino , ESP32 etc you can build real world gadgets with a clever idea, $10 at Aliexpress and a dozen lines of embedded python

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

Re: re: US intelligence?

That's OK they are still committed to defeating Franco.

While the rest of the FCO is worried about this Napoleon chap.

In 4 years the US intelligence services will be 2 conspiracy nuts from Reddit and a plaque at the new Langley golf course saying "Former site of CIA HQ"

Re: Likely scenario.

>If the US cannot legally spy on their citizens

<Inigo Montoya voice>You use that word "legally", I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re: re: US intelligence?

>With Tulsi G in charge, anything given to Us Intelligence may well find its way to Russia

That's how we have always done UK USA intelligence sharing.

Committed communists in MI5 report to Moscow who forward the info to Russian agents working for the CIA

It's not the most efficient, but it does ensure full employment.

HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive

At least America still leads in Movies and High Speed Pizza delivery.

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Re: "an assertion that blocking the deal will benefit Huawei"

Wouldn't it be cheaper for HP to just buy the DoJ? It must cost less than $8bn, considering how little it cost to buy the entire government

Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal

That's why we have adopted the cunning strategy of spending the least on Ai

Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

Re: Well

>The crew uses several methods to compromise victims' internet-facing infrastructure and gain access to critical sectors including energy, oil and gas, telecommunications, shipping, arms manufacturing,

Such as buying "international governments " ?

North Korea targets crypto developers via NPM supply chain attack

In the inimitable words of Clarkson: Oh No! Anyway