Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

So Mr Cthulhu you are obviously qualified for the role of Unix admin (in fact rather overqualified) I just have some questions of how "that is not dead which can eternal lie" fits with our pension contribution

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

That's rather the problem.

1, Everyone knows that nobody hires [black/northern/ginger/women] for job X. So if I'm [black/northern/ginger/female] it's not economically sensible for me to spend years and $$$$ qualifying for job X

2, Everyone hiring for job X claims that they aren't against [black/northern/ginger/women] - it's just that there are no suitable [black/northern/ginger/women] candidates

Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

>Yes, it is a bit of a Cnut isn't it?

Bloody vikings, coming over here, raping and pillaging, sprouting sagas and stealing our jobs

Stop the Long Ships

Re: Nae bother

I think counting Scots as people is an example of 'Woke'

Re: Anglo-Saxon names?

I'm normally against positive discrimination but it's about time there was an effort to promote Anglo-Saxons over the Norman ruling classes

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator

Re: @Cliffwilliams44 - Blinded by Ideology!

Everyone knows that President Biden is funded by the Northern Independence Party and VP Harris is a tool of the Batley Towns womens Guild

El'reg is a British publication and supports British conspiracies

Obviously there will be exemptions for vital donors strategic companies

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'

Re: His Majesty's Stationary Office

Only if it's Organic Dutchy Original

His Majesty's Stationary Office

Have been required to design new versions of the 10 and 20 pound note which contain methods to prevent their use to fund, child abuse, terrorism, immigration, purchasing of Phil Collins CDs at car boot sales, and anything else bad.

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Re: The bit of the brochure which gives me the shivers:

Hands up anyone who's written self-modifying code.

Deliberately?

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

Rail-replacement Bus Service simulator

Re: Obviously...

Flight Simulator - Southwest edition ?

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

Re: Easy Fix Incoming

>Disband the EPA.

That seems rather drastic

The clearly thought out, well.researched, political solution is to fire 75% of the staff based on their SSN, cut the budget by 75% and have a law saying that companies can ignore any of their rules unless they win in court.

And then appoint a leader who believes we need to ban DiHydrogen Monoxide

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

That was before Tipper Gore and warnings on CDs though 60s and 70s music was totally harmless.

Only 50s rock&roll caused immorality and 80s rap caused Satanism

So shares in vaccine makers are down, but the potential gains for iron lungs and funeral homes should make up for it

Re: Censorship Cartel & Section 230

You can post absolutely anything you like that the Police and Dept of Justice aren't likely to object to.

Except slightly worse.

You are in an area only served by a Vulpine network company. Fox News is available for free at full bandwidth in the base package, BBC is only available in the $100/month euro package and MSNBC is an extra $1000/month at a maximum of 300baud

Re: "Carr wants to revisit Section 230

>El Reg has a moderated comment section, so they do not fall under section 230 protection anyway.

Erm moderated content is precisely what Section 230 covers.

Under the old laws, intended for newspaper letters pages, if you edited any content you were a publisher and so liable for everything you published. The only solution was to allow absolutely everything and claim you were just a pipe and didn't look at any content.

Section 230 gave a reasonable middle groudn: you could do your best to selectively remove the most seriously objectionable material without being liable for every single one of the firehouse of posts.

But didn't you turn to Satan after listening to those Beastie Boys records?

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

Re: New badge on Twitter

I think the ones with the Swastika will be the ones assigning coloured triangles to the union leaders and other undesirable groups

New badge on Twitter

A red triangle

UK test-fires SPEAR mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters

Re: Net Zero

>Blow up Royal Berks! Shocking! Better to blow up someone else's countryside

Since the Berks already hosted Aldermaston, Burghfield, Newbury and Greenham Common it was likely to be the subject of some prompt urban redevelopment by the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Worker's paradise.

Re: Cost

Isn't it immoral to use troops from one of the poorest countries in Asia to do your fighting for you?

Send Ghurkahs instead.

To allow another aircraft with a better angle on target to give better guidance or overcome jamming or decoys ?

To allow an aircraft to deploy the missile from a safer position out of sight/detection of the target and allow it to be guided by a more distant or better protected asset like an AWACS

Re: Data Link

Isn't all this pointless if you have to ask permission from Congress before you are allowed to fire it because it uses an American chip ?

Re: Bold move

The data link is designed and built by software experts at a certain well-known US aerospace company using the cheapest chips their purchasing dept could source on Aliexpress

Re: Abortion? (insert talkshow jabs here!)

>One would hope the datalink capability either allows for other friendly resources

Your call is very important to us, please stay on the line.

Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today

Re: Any mention of 'bug-out-bags'?

In lots of parts of the Western lands the weather can be sufficiently dramatic that one may need to vacate one's castle at little notice - even without barbarian invaders.

A bag to grab if you have to leave quickly for a few days isn't unreasonable.

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

Re: Ah....backups....

Even a successful restore isn't necessarily a good test:

Back in the far off Unix days our DAT drive was /dev/nrst0

Due to a small typo in the backup script it wrote to /dev/nsrt0

The backup script ran as root so this wasn't a problem, and the root filesystem was large enough

Reading back the backup from /dev/nsrt0 tested correctly and everyone was quite happy with how fast the process ran

Then one inquisitive user questioned how the backup "succeeded" in reading back without loading the tape ?

Re: Bold move

Don't emacs users all use VMS anyway ?

Re: Colour Me Shocked...

>BBC Micro for the win!

Bet you had a Volvo and a proper leather satchel

NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode

Just add a Swanee whistle or Kazoo to the valve?

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

Re: China wants locals to use more tech designed and built within its borders

I fear that following certain recent events in the colonies - we are going to have many refugees here that don't speak our language or understand our humour

Re: Headscratcher?

>And a reminder that we said this is where sanctions would lead.

I thought that was the plan? We motivate lots of developing countries to innovate as a way of avoiding global deadlock because of all technology being in the hands of a few moribund monopolists.

Re: China wants locals to use more tech designed and built within its borders

>The dragon is waking up, beware when it starts moving . . .

No it will just announce $Bn on new fabs, have lots of photos of local party faithful cutting ribbons and the completion date will be pushed back until the next economic downturn.

It sounds like a good scientific economic system in theory but just doesn't work in practice

China wants locals to use more tech designed and built within its borders

Typical 3rd world communist government industrial policy.

Imagine wasting billions on unproductive local plants instead of buying cheaper chips from global technology leaders like Taiwan or Ireland

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

Re: Redundancy here we come.

I'm worried that artisan handcrafted insults will be replaced by cheap mass produced insults form some AI

It could be the end of Britain's last domestic skills base

Are we being fair to the AI ?

"You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe."

We all know people like this.

The one that decided we all needed a course on "Empowering a quality culture: strategies for excellence", springs to mind.

Is this news ?

We all know that all hardware, especially printers, have always wished to "kill all humans"

This is just the first time it's been able to say so

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Re: Multi-Fail

>1. "...it was dark and an engineer didn't use a flashlight." This person should never have been hired/should have been fired for lacking common sense,

Their toolkit probably doesn't include a flashlight because one isn't required for that service.

Or do you propose that they just have a spare flashlight in their pocket, along with a multitool and a few spare parts. Of course that would require them to have a system for ensuring that none of the spare tools from their pockets were left in an engine - but what are the odds of that !

Re: "as it would pass through the rotating blades during flight"

>Photo shows something that's not twisty enough to be a duck.

Perhaps just a very well endowed duck

Re: "as it would pass through the rotating blades during flight"

African or European Starlings ?

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers

Re: National Science Advisor

>Or a flat-Earther.

I had that for the head of FAA.

Why is everyone flying to Alaska when it's on the edge of the world?

Re: National Science Advisor

It is going to be interesting if the head of a NASA is a Moon landing denier

Re: DOGE

NASA are a customer not a competitor.

NASA don't build rockets, they but launches on commercial launches like ULA or SpaceX

It's like saying that Lockheed want to cut the USAF so they can sell more fighters

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

Re: if it's anything like his ability to run a car company...

See what happens if you install a legacy system and don't keep upto date with patch fixes

Re: America 1776 - 2024

If you were male and white

AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows

Re: <-- Religeous wars that way .

That might be Intel's only advantage.

Even I can work out that i3 is cheaper/slower than i5 which is less than an i7 and I can't afford an i9. I can easily tell that an i5-14700 is newer than an i5-10700 and might be comparable to an i7-6xxx

AMD all the CPUs are Ryzen ? I assume a 9000 is better than an 8000 or 7000! What's a Threadripper and do I want one ? AMD sound a lot like they are still aiming at a niche market of enthusiasts who know all their internal code names. Like Porsche compared to Intel's BMW

UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding

Re: Wads for the Boys...

And then nationalised it. Perhaps even give it a royal warrant

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Then you could have a Royal Science and Research Establishment (RSRE) that could profitably sold off to the next PM's chums.