Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth

Re: It's unfortunate

>"I did try in 1989, but the meat-like alternatives available to me at the time were pretty vile"

We've improved since then. We have these things called fruits AND vegetables

Re: 10 years?

>1kg of methane's GHG potential is about 25kgCO2eq.

So burning methane is good for the environment ?

Texas + Napalm = Green

Not surprising

>NASA didn't name any of the groups ..., even in New Mexico where the US government has the ability to step in.

NASA doesn't want to be accused of un-American activities under a future administration

Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos

Re: Art class

> The fact that there is a genre such as Anime shows that some amount of intellectual property has been copied from one place to another.

So the large eyed young ladies of Japanese/Korean anime aren't related to Disney large-eyed cartoon figures

Re: Obligatory BlackAdder reference

Or misses normal shaped body parts coloured like a turnip

But to train that you would need a large data set of images of people's sproingfangles and kerflumpunkitz

Where would you get such things ?

Never mind the Saudis: Here's a new OPEC for EV battery metals

Re: Imperial Copper

Fortunately His Majesty's Northern Empire also contains giant nickels

As opposed to the Northern Territories that just contain useless diamonds

Imperial Copper

Fortunately the North American colonies contain the largest copper reserves - hurrah

Federal bans aren't stopping US states from buying forbidden Chinese kit

Re: Right wing think tanks says what? Who cares....

>NEVER been a single instance where Chinese hardware has been shown to have been spying

That's how good they are! While of course being mere asiatics with tiny skull measurements - they are nevertheless infinitely in advance of our own technology and able to conceal undetectable tracking devices in every grain of rice.

Re: The government you should trust the least is your own.

And secondly your closest allies.

Russia spying on the PM is only a risk in the event of war, and even then it's not clear what advantage the enemy in a world war gets from having your bitchy tweets about a cabinet colleague.

But during a trade negotiation with your closest military ally, having access to their negotiators phone/email might be of more direct use.

Microsoft boss Nadella's compensation pack swells 10% to $55m

So you don't like it - don't buy Microsoft

Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop

Re: Security

By doping the silicon with Boron and Phosphorus

Almost all Chromebooks now are Intel, typical N4000 celerons. The first few Samsung models were ARM, but ARM systems are a litle rarer now

Gelsinger takes ax to Intel after chip sales slump, profit nosedives

Re: “Drone entertainment unit”?

Do you really want mobs of dissafected bored drones hanging around on street corners ?

Re: Not a surprise

PCs are irrelevant, even small servers are becoming irrelevant Intel used to be able to leverage it's monopoly on Xeon to keep the OEMs on board - now that the cloud companies can fab their own ARM chips times are not looking good.

And, in Canada at least, they shuttered the plant as soon as the terms of bailout expired

You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors

Re: It's almost as if any outfit with a "funky"

Yes you can always tell an established industry player because they never break the law

Re: Surely some mistake here?

You earn $$$$ as a full-stack-web-Javascipt-rockstar-Ninja

You need to buy frozen pizza

You can take an hour off in the middle of the day to search around your out-of-town business park for a supermarket / take your e-scotter and head out from Shoreditch in search of an Asda

Or you pick supermarket delivery and they will deliver to your home, sometime between 12-8pm on Thursday, so you take time off to be at home - and the delivery doesn't turn up.

Calamity capsule: Boeing's Starliner losses approaching $1B

Re: They had a plan ...

The whole point of the ISS was to fund Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas-Lockheed-Martin through any unfortunate peace dividend following the end of the cold war, and before we could find any new enemies worthy of a $Bn stealth bomber. And as a bonus make sure the USSR's boffins didn't all find new opportunities in the middle-east.

The 2 suppliers was never to avoid just Russia, it was to make sure that BMDLM didn't end up as a monopoly bidder.

Re: That's what you get when you play the "We're the *safe* pair of hands" card

So do they get a special NASA extra $1Bn payment for R&D into "testing procedures for spacecraft" or do they get a $1Bn black ops budget payment for a secret project so secret nobody can be told what it is.

Cos no way are any of our elected leaders letting Boeing getting into trouble.

And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses

Re: RE: the election

The government clawing back money from hardworking CEOs ? Of course the people are against it.

Support your local plutocrats!

Executive bonuses will just include an insurance clause paying them any loss due to this.

Re: lizard

it's from the classics

Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it

Re: Let’s Go Brandon*

Has somebody bought a better machine to run amfM1 or is political reality just getting closer to GPT3

Re: What campaign?

Similarly back in el"reg land there was a claim that Russia would interfere in the Tory leadership election. Nobody could work out what result could actually be more chaotic than a free and fair vote

Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation

Re: I don't get it

>Amazon & co may say so, but you only have their word for it

Amazon stand to lose a lot of business if it turns out they are lying to governments.

And get hit with a few things like a monopoly verdict

>Local providers can guarantee that your data stays local

Assuming you have the ability to verify if Bert's Genuine British data storage isn't really run by a guy called Dmitri

Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables

Re: Not surprised

>Maybe they should switch to XT90 connectors for GPUs.

Or just put battery terminals on them and we use jump leads

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

10 million lines of Kotlin code

For a wrapper around facebook.com in a browser, a chat client and a video uploader ?

Am I so out of touch? Do mobile platforms not do anything and you have to write everything from font renderer to protocol stack yourself in your app?

AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Re: Nukes ?

Hey, we'll have none of that logical talk here. We're discussing Amazon and datacenters and fossil fuels

Re: Wind power

So build some mountains - it's good for tourism

Compared to every office having a bunch of Dell servers under someone's desk and a window AC unit?

Re: Wind power

>I don't understand why the likes of Amazon & Facebook don't have their own massive turbines built off the west coast of Ireland.

"Target" time for approval and design for an off-shore windfarm in the Eu is 5-8 years (Ironically the data is from a pre-Brexit UK study/report), it notes that local objections can delay this. Payback time is upto 25years

So if Amazon don't mind delaying turning on their data centers for a decade, and don't care about electricty costs - then they should build their own windfarms. Although they will need diesel backup for the summer months when I am informed by tourismireland that the west coast is basically a tropical paradise

China chip imports down 12.4% as tech trade war with US intensifies

Re: Withdraw

We might not be able to compete in manufacturing but with the British elite's love of STEM, the excellent public educational system and extraordinary strategic funding for university and industrial research - Britain will be the scientific center of the world.

I mean can you imagine Asian kids doing maths ?

Re: Withdraw

Which is ironically bad for everyone.

If the USA had been cut off from the civilised world in the 1800s, to prevent it stealing industrial technology from Europe, then perhaps Britain would have been a bigger empire for longer and the USA would be just the world's cotton plantation.

But we would be living in world without a lot of the 20th century's inventions. It would be a cool steampunk future though !

Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud

Re: Beat IBM?

Ironically the first modern cloud computing was probably Sun, who Oracle ended up buying.

In 2000 we could telnet to a Sun account, ftp upload java code and run it,although they never worked out storage vs compute requirements

Incentives

Ok so I don't use any of their products but....

My concern is that Oracle's incentive is to get its hooks into me for licenses, that's why I'm nervous of using even free stuff like VMWare or Java - not sure I want to appear on their radar.

Amazon I know just wants to make money and is prepared to cut prices to be the cheapest place for me to buy anything - including cloud

Microsoft similar, assuming I'm also signed up for every bit of Office365/Teams/Sharepoint infrastructure and paying every month

Google is great until they cancel the product you rely on.

IBM is irrelevant

Don't believe the hype: HP CEO says 3D printing hasn't met early hopes

Re: Perhaps it's because HP makes crappy 3D printers

>As to why you've never heard of HP before, they're only doing B2B sales for their 3d printers afaik,

The problem is that at the moment it's still a very specialised market - so more like the early days of typesetting rather than the heyday of the LaserJet4.

Today I'm going to buy a production 3D printer from a specialist company like SLM or EOS. If there comes a time when you have a standard shop 3D printer then maybe HP is a competitor, but i don't know if that time si coming soon.

Ironically the model would make sense in the 3D printer world.

We have a bunch of printers, from Formlab liquidy-goop-stuff to big scary Titanium machines

But we also have shelves full of early attempts that didn't quite work, or were superseded, or the makers went bust.

Having a bunch of specialised (yes specialised) machines that we can use as little as we want because we only pay for consumables, and the makers are incentivised to replace them with newer models would make sense for such an immature market.

There are a few parts that we can only make with metal printing or are one off prototypes or would need a dozen different processes to make conventionally - but I don't think we are ever going to see 3D printing replacing moulds or CNC for production

Re: "HP CEO says 3D printing hasn't met early hopes"

>Workshops aboard some larger US warships now have metal printers, avoiding having to fly in an out of stock widget makes space available for other priority cargo.

That sounds like exactly the "reason" I would use if I was a geek in an organisation with an essentially unlimited budget and I wanted to justify a cool toy. At least this will kill less people than the V22

Is your datacenter safe from the next X-class solar flare?

Insurance

I'm offering gamma-ray burst insurance for a reasonable fee.

If there is a GRB in the solar neighborhood you will be reimbursed in person (shredded clouds of subatomic particles will not be reimbursed)

IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days

There is also the opportune to replace those off-shored Indian staff with cheaper British workers. If we can only get rid of the pesky antislavery laws

Fire them? When there are so many opportunities in the sausage business now we've got rid of the namby-pamby anti Sweeney Todd EU rules

Move fast and break things

The new Number 10 motto

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

Re: There is a separate plugin …

>You’re presuming that we’d even notice the presence of sarcasm and irony without that plugin.

It's official lab policy here "if YAAC (the Brit) says something, it's sarcasm"

20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment

Re: New physics?

His own catalog would have been normal and more useful but I think his was a general FU to the world

Simulation

If we were living in a simulation, "proton"+"antiproton" would either equal "protonantiproton" cos it had been hacked up in Javascript as a weekend project. Or it was done in Python and would result in a crash cos the result was either 0 or None, or False and they weren't sure which.

Re: New physics?

> LHC research has produced over 3,000 published papers

One of our professors produced >25,000 papers on his own.

He had a semi-automated gadget in the 60s/70s for making an astronomical measurement that was previously done slowly and tediously photographically.

Either he was trying to make a point about the publish-or-perish nature of academe, or he was just bloody-minded. But he published each measurement as its own paper - several per day - by inserting the new number on a carbon copy.