Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

Same reason Ridley Scott shot Blade Runner at night and in the rain. They couldn't afford a big enough set.

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

Re: What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander

There is a difference between a Hisense or VW where the local government owns a % of the shares and so are a government entity and a company like Hisense VW where they were created and controlled directly by an evil regime

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

and the familiar Windows experience they know and love."

I didn't know AI was going to be that bad !

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Re: Phones

Yes the flag isn't "is this device getting updates" but "has this device been tampered with"

On Google Pixel phones you can install a properly signed alternate android build and include the proper keys, on other phones you need to leave it unlocked and have the banking apps try and determine if it is stock.

Re: 10 years !!!

Annoyingly this does still apply at the expensive end of things.

We have a bunch of $1000+ NVidia cards that only do CUDA version N when we are on CUDA version N+1

Even more annoyingly the newest most $$$ ones can't even be 'recycled' into home gaming machines

10 years !!!

Isn't the amazing thing that we are complaining that 10year old hardware is being abandoned for purely software support costs?

Imagine using a 1985 era Mac or PC-XT in 1995 or a 1995 NiCad-powered 800x600 resolution 486sx portable in 2005 !

Alternately isn't it depressing that PCs haven't noticeably improved in 10 years ?

Try going into Screwfix wearing last season's builder's jeans

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Re: VPN Warning

You can tell the VPNs that are government projects

They cost $10Bn, don't work, only support windows95, are only available 9-4 Mon-Fri, and are turned off when congress shuts down the government

Re: VPNs

Because Digital Ocean etc use Linux and using Linux is terrorism

Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

This is looking at people made in the image of G*d doing profoundly biblical stuff - it's not like just buying a gun

Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

That's why you also need facial recognition, so the site needs to have your Webcam turned on while you peruse their artistic content

Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

Perhaps Adrian Dittmannis his real name? ELON MUSK does sound made up

Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

>sends a scan of their passport or face

Worried that it's not an image of your face they are going to demand.

Anyone remember the peasants revolt?

Re: Really?

Teenagers can definitely handle setting up a VPN if properly 'motivated' .

Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats

Re: "fear of upsetting the next US President"...

>Similarly, if you buy a newspaper, particularly one that in the past had the strong reputation as the WaPo did, you shouldn't expect them to bend the knee in the editorial section.

But if we just print the same front page "All Hail Bezos" then there is a great saving in journalists and type-setting costs. Assuming we sell exactly the same number of copies and get the same advertising of course

Re: "fear of upsetting the next US President"...

So they really are "All the President's Men"

Re: Tariffs are bad.

>Adam Smith said so

Well that explains it. He was undeniably an expert in economics, and what have we had enough off ?

Re: "We won, great job boys."

A land of milk and honey, obviously !

Re: Tariffs are bad.

A 25% tariff on the country that supplies most of your fresh produce, together with expelling all your agricultural workers is an extreme solution to America's obesity crisis - but it's worth a try

Re: "Only if there's a Schwarzenegger Amendment."...

Remember when "President Schwarzenegger" was horror movie nightmare joke rather than a dream option ?

Re: "fear of upsetting the next US President"...

Peter Thiel

Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters

Re: Sinking Ship?

So reporting an ongoing reduction in feul costs while efficiently disposing of a depreciating asset and at the same time downsizing a non-economical crew

Shackleton's Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego

18+

Does this mean that model won't be available in a majority of US states without using a VPN ?

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

Most of the Y2K bugs were actually not reading the asctime() man page. Everyone thinks the YY value returns the 2 digit year and so they print 19YY. It actually returns the number of years since 1900 so prints 19100

Re: Well, we have 2038 to look forward to

>Embedded systems that require accurate dates have been built with 2038 in mind for decades now.

It's all the ones that don't require accurate dates, but simply divide some quantity by the difference in time_t from the last measurement - and suddenly decide that your process flow is negative.

There were very few Y2K systems that actually used the year to calculate anything, there are a lot of embedded systems that use time differences.

Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half

Re: Backwards

"Trickle Down" is the nice euphemism for what used to be known as Sparrow economics.

As in, you feed the horse grain and the sparrows get to pick what's left after it comes out of the horse

Re: Backwards

Yes but as long as the poors don't know this we're good

Re: Alternatively

But if you don't keep buying unnecessary new stuff that is slightly worse than the old stuff then the entire edifice of market capitalism will collapse - and you don't want that, do you ?

Re: Divide and be ruled

>The UK did this nationalist self harm thing with Brexit. Not sure whether Trump will repeat the mistake

The difference is that the USA has the $

The tariffs will increase inflation, this will increase the value of the $ which will increase US imports and reduce exports

So the rest of the world (at least the bit which sells to the USA) might do slightly better

The only real losers will be poor Americans but they voted for him so they will be happy

Re: Backwards

>the result would be yet another transfer of wealth from lower and middle class Americans to the wealthy.

Which will then trickle-down to the poors

>"these tariffs are essentially a wealth transfer from the rich to the working class."

'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.'

“The GOP told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

But surely

Canada Mexico China will pay

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

Re: We are all Doomed!

FORTRAN is for useful stuff like modelling nuclear bombs or putting space probes onto targets millions of miles away. COBOL can be dangerous especially when used properly

And what's wrong with that? It's good for job security !

The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses.

Real Programmers use FORTRAN.

Quiche Eaters use PASCAL.

Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done, they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a FORTRAN IV compiler, and a beer.

Real Programmers do List Processing in FORTRAN.

Real Programmers do String Manipulation in FORTRAN.

Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in FORTRAN.

Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in FORTRAN.

If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.

Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer, two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in, like having the best parts of FORTRAN and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for #define.)

http://www.quiche-eater.com/the_real_text.html

Re: Why?

As long as you have complete trust in the Java runtime.

Re: Why?

>The right question is what does Rust bring to the party

Simple, you re-write your C code so that it doesn't use any dynamic memory allocation or raw pointers. It can then be converted into RUST, which is memory safe because it doesn't use any dynamic memory allocation or raw pointers.

Re: What's the point?!

Wouldn't it be simpler to convert it into FORTRAN?

FORTRAN is very easy to program, very fast, parallelisable (yes spellcheck, that is a word) and memory safe

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

Re: Interseting argument

If we can find a celebrity to claim it smells like her Vagina - we're on

Interseting argument

"net has survived and thrived enough long without the need for a net neutrality rule"

There has been no need for a law against this thing we have just decided to do before - so there is no need for it now.

We have never needed restrictions on asbestos / smoking / lead paint / kinder surprise, upto now - so why do we need any laws against them all of a sudden ?

LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs

Re: At the sound of the chime, truncheon says bedtime

>“The system thinks it’s July of 2003, ..."

I knew using Deloreans as patrol cars was a bad idea

Blue Origin inches closer to the first New Glenn flight

Re: Donald has got his second term and can't run again

Or he could just anoint the idiot son as the new MAGA candidate and stay on in advisory role, as a Lord Protector, to guide the new president

Re: Donald has got his second term and can't run again

So we have the unique situation of a US presidency being under the thumb of a single industrialist billionaire - rather than the more democratic constituency of a group of industrialist billionaires .

Actually it's how accurately you can position it - ArianeSpace

Re: Donald has got his second term and can't run again

The alt-president has already said he will fund a challenge to any Republican who doesn't obey the Great Leader.

Interestingly once Trump gets sick of him, will he offer to support any anti-Maga Republican candidate?

Will 'reasonable' Republicans be short-sighted enough to think that accepting Musk+Twitter's support against Trump won't come back to bite them later

Report claims FAA ignores most whistleblower complaints

Re: Whistleblower Web Page

That's why the online whistleblower reporting site has been replaced by a suggestion box. Its mounted on this window ledge on the top floor of Boeing HQ.

Re: Well, that's it then

That's why the NTSB was created. The FAA was in charge of promoting the civil aviation market AND investigating accidents, which were all one-off freak cases or pilot error

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

Re: re: end of Gatport Airwick runway

Pity they stopped, would have been a never ending source of YouTube videos

That's the advantage of 'London' Stansted - there is nothing within miles and miles that you can hit and that anyone would care about (see also Doncaster Robin-Hood)