Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

Monetization

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

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

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Re: Pre-crime

That's a relief - I assumed it was organ harvesting.

> then that means license fees for 330M users.

Ridiculous. Your brain has 2 hemispheres, so that's a 2 core licenses/person at least

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be

Re: Seems to match

Trump has installed the first African-American(*) president

(and Canadian, we're sorry)

Re: Seems to match

The other thing they have in common is not being part of the oval office club

Re: Seems to match

But the whitest richest billionaires regardless of nationality or religion

James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world

The way things are going

I'm team-asteroid

Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift

Government Accountability Office

Three things the new administration hates

UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers

Re: Putin corrupt?

"Putin has built a corrupt mafia state ", better than a functional mafia state !

I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

My new interview question

I have replaced "Can you reverse a linked-list in place ?" with "you see a turtle on its back in the desert .... "

Re: The real problem

>t's not like there's a lack of talent in the San Fransisco Bay Area.

Your mission is to hire the best possible XYZ developer possible, but you are only allowed to chose from people who currently live in SF and aren't current;y working for one of your competitors.

And you have to pay 5x as much because they have to afford to live in SF and you have to pay 5x as much for office space to be in SF.

It would be like limiting your choice of leaders to people who went to Eton and Oxford.

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Next Trump executive orders

Wait until he finds out where the name "California" comes from

Re: Gulf of Cuba

Sea of Cuba

Next on the checklist is building a new capital city with the biggest building ever - and naming it after yourself

Re: FTFY

No Jesus spoke English because his dad was English but moved to America on the mayflower.

That's also why he was blonde with blue eyes

Re: When will New Mexico ....

Time for a great renaming of all those US cities that sound foreign?

Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco to be renamed in English like Jesus spoke.

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

>The USAID money probably dried up. Lol

Or the last American who could read, left ?

Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way

Re: Don't need this, don't want that...

I think the USA solution to re-housing Palestinians involved chimneys

Netanyahu did suggest that Canada take all the Palestinians because Canada made the most discreetly disapproving statements about operations in Gaza. The feeling among Canada's Jewish population was less than welcoming

DeepSeek's iOS app is a security nightmare, and that's before you consider its TikTok links

Re: "the No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act"

But it's ok because they also carried their super secret government phone with them all the time aswell.

Legacy systems running UK's collector are taxing – in more ways than one

Re: @A Non e-mouse

That same thing is pushed over here: that the top small_number% pay big_number% of all taxes.

It turns out that the top 0.000000001% pay bugger-all due to having their only income being loans against stock. The 1% that pay all the income tax are the doctors/lawyers/small-business managers who pay mostly in income tax and then the statistics ignore the sales taxes paid by the bottom 80%

So the top 1% paying all the tax does not mean that Bezos / Musk / Jimmy Carr etc are paying for everything.

Re: When You Know A Decent Policy For "Growth"...Just Post It Here!

Have you thought of leaving the United Kingdom?

England sends £ Made-Up-Number to London every week, lets spend that on England becoming a global super-power of international dynamic leveraged synergies.

EExit now !

UK armed forces fast-tracking cyber warriors to defend digital front lines

Re: 18 to 39

One problem with employing 18 year old digital-natives is their typing ability.

Having studied the online training materials it is clear that the cyber-ist that types fastest wins, for extreme cyber-ism you need to have two people typing on the same keyboard.

In my experience many of the younglings seem to suffer if not offered a gui and touchscreen.

But these aren't just ordinary professionals - they are the best of 18-39 year old proto-cyber ninjas with no tattoos, piercings, weird hair colours, no arrests for smoking the evil weed have never been photographed at a demo and who were born in the motherland.

Re: Isn't it time

A "basement command" with a formal dress of uniform of black hoodie ?

My cat is equally good at skiing and brain surgery

Naturally the people commanding these people will also need to be paid more than them. So expect a line of cyber brass all being paid several times the going rate until you end up with a cyber-Admiral, cyber-General and cyber-Grand-Mustache all being on Tailor Swift money

Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not

Re: 100V

A euro-compromise / compromise-european !

Re: It's always worth checking

Modern plant based insulation means that wiring can be specified by taste. Different phases are Strawberry, Pineapple, Chocolate.

It leads to extreme care that circuits are de-energised before licking them.

Re: Ch-Ch-Changes

To be fair, he did work at Amalgamated Time Machines Inc. and this sort of things is/was/will be always happening

Re: 100V

Always pictured a euro-Sir Humphrey.

Minister: The council of Europe has decreed the same voltage across the EU. Thus will cost tres Grande-Euro!

Humphrey: Mais non monsieur minister. They only wish to harmonize. We just need to change the spec from 220+/-5V and 240+/-5 to a harmonious 220+25/-5

Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation

No Planet of Apes reference?

Remember when a bird was sent back in time to drop a baguette on a powerline and stop the LHC from destroying the universe.