Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Bonkers

No but it will be a better incentive to having ID cards than just love of TBlair

Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing

Re: Can you please confirm?

The C series threatened the 737 so Boeing got it's chums in Washington (the other one) to put a 300% tarrif on it.

A troubled Bombardier was forced to sell it to Airbus who have ironically much greater manufacturing capabilities than Bombardier so the aircraft is now going to be a much bigger threat to Boeing

Re: Airbus “ships” 2 planes a day

Nonsense, we use swallows, lots of swallows.

Admittedly it takes some organization to get enough of the little birds to grip a fully laden 747

They are also prone to wild-cat industrial action - that's why you hear of flights being brought down by a bird strike.

Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

> Female 96% confident, to Male 54% confident

I'm a male and I'm very rarely 54% confident.

Prog Rockers

They walk among us - undetectable

Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs

Re: It won't

"We know that these issues are strongly supported by Trump's voting base,"

But the election is over - who cares about voters now ?

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

Re: Can probably be ignored.

>This will be a bit like speed-limits on the roads. It is only enforced if you have resource to catch people.

So enforcement would be automated to the point that most people regard it as merely a tax rather than a safety measure?

Re: offences related to information likely to be of use to a terrorist

>One of those circumstances being that the train runs on time? Highly unlikely in the UK.

That's all part of the cunning plan. The terrorists don't know where the trains will be.

It's like removing all the road signs in WWII

Were you just bicycle-curious ?

Re: offences related to information likely to be of use to a terrorist

>anything showing flesh?

You're into kinky skeleton porn ?

Re: Big quote

Have you tried eating them raw?

Re: How about a ban on spray paint?

>Spray paint cans have legitimate uses but by far their most common use is for spray painting graffiti,

My government has taken all possible steps to prevent art and are now reorganising the Department of Education in an effort to wipe out writing by the next election

Re: Big quote

It also covers the Bible, Scouting for Boys and most of Roald Dahl's children's books

Re: offences related to information likely to be of use to a terrorist

>kindly define extreme.

Anything you wouldn't want your wives or servants to see. Especially anything involving game keepers.

Wouldn't a bit field be more flexible?

Then you can code if your 21 year old can see boobies but not alcohol

Or your 12 year old can see ads for machine guns but not Kinder Surprise

Re: Just another example...

But this doesn't scale with the goods. The corner shop buys the goods from reputable wholesalers and assumes they are responsible for the quality that they pay for,

This is like putting all the health and safety requirements for the entire supply chain on the teenager at the counter.

The reason is obvious, the lobbyists paid for the legislation, small local community PHP forums will close down and you will be forced to move your parish Bell Ringing meetup to Whatever-Facebook-Is-Called-Today and the failed cabinet minister behind this will be given the job of vice-president of community at Whatever-Facebook-Is-Called-Today

Re: Just another example...

Yes but this is more like having your corner store get a team of lawyers to confirm in writing with each of their suppliers that their products don't contain weapons of mass destruction.

Fairly easy if your Costco, a little expensive for a corner shop.

No but it does help big sites remove the competition. Handy if you're a deputy PM hoping for a job when you lose an election

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Re: I'm surprised RTO doesn't improve morale

I think you are confusing office-worker morale and office-owner morale

Looking out from my corner office over the masses of minions who are forced to endure a terrible commute to come into the office demonstrates the power of my awesome will.

I may only be divisional chief of paper clips for the East-North-Eastern region of Amalgamated Holdings (holdings) - but at least I can force 20 other people to be miserable

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Re: Three competing wants.

>Shoot 'em Up video games are not a problem.

Neither are Shoot 'em Up actual guns in schools

IIRC the law required them to confirm the age of customer without them uploading any government documentation.

And without the law defining what would be an acceptable form of age confirmation

Re: Banning porn..

But just like prohibition, it will offer great opportunities for new entrepreneurial businessmen to come to the fore

Re: We cannot let facts get in the way of truth

But the new president can immediately pardon all the pickup truck drivers, heterosexuals, meat eaters and people who say Merry Christmas who were put in gulags by the evil genius weak senile previous president

Re: Transparent bullshit

My cat wants to go outside but also wants it not to be raining

I can only suggest the same solution to Southern States I apply to the cat

take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure....

Re: Sadly, I could foresee the current internet issues arising YEARS ago...

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

Re: Job interview

If you are in Florida and are looking for a child to help you configure a VPN so you can access porn. Can I suggest you are very careful how you word the advert ?

Re: Mobsters did very well out of Prohibition

Ultimately isn't it a problem for their advertising business ?

You have to believe an advert on some level, if a pitch for safety and reliability of some new car is sandwiched between pet eating aliens and Jewish space lasers - why would you buy, and why would the maker pay for this 'exposure' ?

Re: Sadly, I could foresee the current internet issues arising YEARS ago...

I blame writing.

When you had to go into the market and tell your story people would punch you if you told lies about Marduk

Once you were able to anonymously publish lies about the quality of Ea-nāṣir's copper and there was no accountability the world went downhill

Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible

Re: Stupid question

Cos it's the only bit with any value you can sell.

It's why, when I go to fill up the car, I always sell the valuable wheels to pay for the fuel

In financial news...

A careful analysis by management consultants have determined that the only cost-effective, profitable and solvent part of Intel is the 4th floor lab's tea kitty.

In a dynamic synergy leveraging exercise all other Intel divisions have been sold off leaving only the tea kitty.

At time of writing, the tea kitty contained $4.50 in cash and is valued at $100Bn

Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters

Re: Hmm

Or use the federal land for Ai golf courses or Ai mining, once it's been sold off to your friends for cheap.

Re: Doomed to fail

The UK's big advantage is that a far-sight premier Thatcher made sure to preserve Britain's coal stocks until they could be used to power future AI datacenters.

Finally with a Labour PM, her legacy will be fulfilled and the pits will re-open to produce massive quantities of vegan, organic, carbon-neutral power.

UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector

Re: sensible policy instead of culture war?

In the 70s, Harold Wilson did try to make it illegal for banks to let themselves be robbed - but pressure from the Sweeney blocked the legislation

Re: There should be a law against it...

>How about having the NCSC set standards for IT systems, certify them and then mandate their use in the public sector?

Here is a 10,000 page standard, which costs ££££ to buy and can only reasonably be met by Oracle/CapGemini/Crapita

No using Linux at your school or having your own on-site sysadmin unless you can certify that they meet the 10,000 page standard and have updated training every year.

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Re: Captain, captain!

"The purpose of the jacking gear is to get the lube oil going in the main reduction gears and shaft carrier bearings before making turns(turning the shaft under power)."

Disgusting.... pure filth...!

Re: Shame

Oh, one I suppose

Re: Kaliningrad

>Ooof, you'll be Saar-y that you suggested that!

This time we give eastern Germany to France and western Germany to Poland - confuse them !

>There has sadly been a lot of blood shed over borders in Europe over many many years, I'm not so sure that we should joke that much about what is still quite a sensitive subject.

Fine, we just take Aquitaine and Normandy back.

Re: Shame

Being a Russian ship it probably was made of cardboard derivatives

Re: Shame

Obviously you would tow it outside the environment first

Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

Re: Tim who?

Apple don't run a news site. All they have to do is contribute $$$ to the golf fund and agree to hand over any user data the FBI ask for. No sense in advertising that.

Johnny Ives left Apple in 2019 and the price has doubled since then, so he should get $1.5Tn

Re: Trump can't do anything about it

Tesla's shareholders board (who all have the same surname) are willing to bend over and spread them

>Elon Musk wants about 700 times as much for running Tesla.

Well to be fair, Apple has an excellent product line, beloved of it's customers and an insanely profitable captive app-store and streaming market.

Tesla is a disastrously unprofitable company, with a disastrous production line and new product launches that are a laughing stock and many competitors making much better offerings that can only be kept out by tariffs.

So Musk deserves much more money for having to manage this shit sandwich

Re: Tax efficient remuneration package!!

There were laws introduced in the Clinton administration (IIRC) to limit CEO "pay"

>I can never fathom how some executives get a double digit percent rise

We did ask the CEO in charge of setting the level of the CEO pay rise but they haven't replied

Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions

>I doubt a greed-driven business like Nvidia knows much about national security.

Just because Boeing makes a massive loss on its USAF contracts doesn't mean it doesn't know about national security - it's just a bit incompetent

Re: Wot?

>200mHz DEC Alpha to Kazakhstan

Well 12 instructions/minute was pretty cutting edge in Kazakhstan

That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

We write off laptops as soon as the Dell warranty runs out.

Means we have a stack of pretty nice laptops to 'repurpose'

Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

Re: Apropos of which

We all support the Womble Equality Front

CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet

boost productivity

Productivity = income / worker

Is it clear whether AI increases the numerator or decreases the denominator ?