Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

Re: Ready, steady, eddy

> the planetary defense community.

I want them to have a really cool logo

And possibly silver lycra suits

Re: Ready, steady, eddy

It was also a radar, used to image the surface of Venus. Don't know how often it was run in this mode though

Re: Failure in 3,2,1...

"Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education"

They didn't even manage to make it a recursive algorithm

Re: Failure in 3,2,1...

The telescope isn't going to be rebuilt. No scientist is ever going there again. It's too far out of the way to be a tourist destination.

They presumably need to keep some sort of 'science facility' there to keep the lease/avoid remediation costs

So put up a birdbox and call it a wildlife habitat

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Re: Wait...

Don't give Oracle any ideas.

Officials warn of Russia's tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict

Re: Slave trade

Surely we can out bid him?

Instead of spending $$$$ on the latest StormNinjaKiller 2000 (with umlaut) precious guided thingy

You pay 100,000 sepoys North Koreans to charge around the battlefield for you.

Cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly

Why can't you use poor Asians as cannon fodder in your army ? Surely our parents expired a century ago

Re: Catch 22 for the Light Entertainment Edification of Pwnd General Populations

Think of the widespread redundancies there are going to be across the bot industry after the election.

It's going to be like the miners strike, entire regions devastated, they traditional way of life destroyed

Re: Tech angle?

You're not familiar with North Korea's IT industry?

They are building a national ZX81

AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal

Sorry won't work.

The engineers will go back to Japan and sit in their office 12hours a day looking busy for their bosses

Having been 'trained in America' they are now flagged as special little boys for promotion. So all they have to do is not rock the boat and not doing anything wrong for 10years and they are guaranteed the corner office

A Kansas pig butchering: CEO who defrauded bank, church, friends gets 24 years

Re: Probably Not

Sounds like the enterprising high growth business we need to bring back on-shore

Relocation is a complete success – right up until the last minute

Hopefully rated FF0.22 for extremely quick blow

Re: Designed by Apple

We put the power button on the bottom so it's functionality wouldn't spoil the pure perfect lines of perfection (said in either a supercilious French accent or a rather sinister Dr Strangelove German)

I would hate to have to find the Fire Alarm button in Apple HQ, you probably have to swipe clockwise 3 times on a glass door

Re: Crt

I think the problem is that the album was recorded in dobley

Re: Crt

Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told.

But you're not as confused as him are you? I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel.

Spinal tap, where the stage designer builds a Stonehenge set 18inches high from a sketch by a confused heavy metal band

Re: Crt

"You're not as confused as him, it's not your job to be as confused as him"

It's amazing how often this phrase is used in a development environment. It's also sad how few of the younglings get it

> I've seen a 15A fusewire in a 5A fuse carrier simply because it was the only fuse wire available and the people didn't know any better.

And it never blew = better

Probably built by a company whose eyes respond to different wavelengths of light

- or designed by Apple

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot

So your local petrol station sells for £1.35/litre. It pays £1.25/litre to Esso for the petrol. Does it pay 25% on £1.35 income or 25% on (£1.35-£1.25) = 10p profit ?

The Hermes store on Oxford St sells a handbag for £5000, it pays Hermes-France £4999 for the bag. So it pays 25% of £1 .

You could have a tax law which says - don't take the piss you rich thieving bastard (only in Latin) but that's why the tax law isn't written on a Post-It

Who is liable if the person on the phone gives you bad advice?

The IRS phone answering agents in the colonies will only read you precisely what's on the form in front of you - because anything else might be legal advice.

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Re: I(di)oT

Difficult to know how fast you are going without GPS so the evil IoT device has to know where you are.

Even the new privacy focussed smart watch with a sextant still knows where you

Re: I(di)oT

I have no need for a smart watch to give me split times because I don't run or cycle but sit in my basement commenting on forum threads.

Supposedly to determine which frequency bands to search (depends on local allocation). Even a presumably legitimate open source Android wifi scanner needs it.

Although my phone has option to give it just location of ISP rather than GPS

Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages

Re: Mission cirtical code in the cloud for download?

Because you can always trust code you wrote and compiled yourself

CHIPS Act funding in question as House Speaker waffles on plan to repeal bill

That's the problem with constantly changing presidents. Have you thought of just appointing the eldest son of the previous one for life?

Re: Speaker Johnson is a bible-thumping freak

They all are. Can you imagine trying to be a scientist in a country where the agency in charge of science has to be run by someone who believes in a magic Sky Faerie

Re: I like the idea of the CHIPS Act

The government would have setup its own, run by leading government appointed executives and staffed by top government employees.

It would have a monopoly on supply to government organizations.

It could even have a 5 year plan for meeting it's production quota

That sounds like something that would unite all wings of US politics

Re: (sigh)

While the Republican plan was to allow them to bring in as many Taiwanese employees as required rather than hiring all the local unemployed (but presumably male) Arizonan semiconductor engineers?

I spoke privately with the speaker

And made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Were horses heads involved ?

Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails

Re: Auto Delete

Remember when your outlook.pst file going over 2Gb would silently corrupt it ?

The good old days.

Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple

Re: Chuckie Egg

Anyone remember a similar UK text 'game' where you had to plan a siege. If you failed, by not allocating enough men to gathering food, you were "fed to the camp dogs"

Naturally we aimed to get "fed to the camp dogs" in as few moves as possible

Re: What's next?

Not sure today's audiences are ready for the horror of DOS4 - might be a whole new video-nasty panic

What's next?

So we've had remakes/reboots of every 80s movie, every 80s TV series and now we're basing movies on USA-only 'educational' computer games.

What's the next 'inspiration' for the 50 somethings who are now in charge of the studios?

DOS 3.2 the movie? A horror series based on getting all the protected mode drivers in the right order in config.sys ?

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

Really? I'm pretty sure she was going to abolish private property in year zero.

While changing everyone's pronouns

I would like to The Register a complaint

"This post is hidden from public view because one of its ancestors has been deleted by a moderator."

Certainly remove offensive posts quickly. But deleting them 3 days later and losing a rich seam of classic el'reg sarcastic responses to the USA loons seems a little off.

If I were an American poster I would now insert a long enraged diatribe about 1st amendment and the Deep State.

Instead I shall have a cup of tea. Unless that triggers any of the new readers in Boston

Re: If you'd look outside the US

All US bill names are a lie, cf. the Patriot act

Re: Hmm

>Look how appeasement worked in the 1930's.... Clue... It failed miserably.

But it this time Edward VIII is king and Oswald Mosely is running for PM

Re: Hmm

Last time, when Trump tariffed Eu steel I thought it would be funny if Eu steel makers bought ASML - an anti-monopoly agency isn't going to see any problem with that - and then just decided to not return calls from US customers

Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack

Have we not learned anything?

Don't store info you don't need. Ideally don't collect info you don't need, but this is govt.

So check a driving record on hiring but don't store the license on a live system afterwards.

If you need to check SSN don't store it, or store a hash and ask people for it again if you need to verify. And ffs stop assuming knowing your SSN proves identity.

And if you must store data - silio it. The receptionist who clicked on a spam link shouldn't have full access to every field in every database and every file share.

This goes double for bosses, the higher up the tree you are - the less data you NEED direct access to.

Strangely this should have been obvious to high school kids 20 years ago so it's not like this is a "workplace boomers don't understand computers" thing

Six IT contractors accused of swindling Uncle Sam out of millions

Re: "German cops bust DDoS site, nab operators"

And are also Deutsche, Distributed Deniers of DDoS sites

>This office and our partners will use all available resources to hold accountable those who would undermine and distort the government's procurement of goods and services,

Unless they're called Oracle / CapGemini / Palantir / Boeing

Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions

Re: Net zero

>I owned a wooden house built pre-1911

How much have the functional requirements for 'single family home' changed since 1911?

Probably less than the requirements for hyperscale data center. Which in 1911 was a room full of women with slates

Re: Good thing that

>does it really matter if the building burns down?

If the only reason you are doing it is claims of emissions goodness - then perhaps turning the whole building into CO2 might be sub-optimal

That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled

Re: Oh, hell yes it's real!

I fear I may be entering "get off my lawn" grumpy old man stage - which is unfair because I'm definitely not an adult

But as someone who grew up with 8bit and graduated before Linux, some of these "digital natives" seem a little naive

Re: The Honeyed Man Traps of Poison Pill Pushers and Poppers?

Surely they would have the easiest job hiring.

Perkins? Do you remember interviewing that new chap that just started working in network security?

No - he just showed up one day, but he's in the HR computer system and on payroll

Excellent....

Re: Solution 1

>provide reasons which would be clear and objective enough to meet such a requirement as to why the unsuccessful ones would be rejected

If you are government or a very visible corporation you already have to do this.

Have had lists of questions to ask, all candidates must be asked the same set of questions, all questions are vetted by HR.

Anything about their life,hobbies or their 'fit' is obviously banned - I've normally managed to get a question about "opensoucre packages you have contributed to" to at least find out if people are actually interested in programming.

Re: USA

>Who's gonna stop them?

The workers.

If company X gets a reputation for fake job ads then the graduating class are going to find out and everyone is going to know.

Result = nobody any good applies for X, so they have to increase salary or rely on hiring 2nd rate candidates, hope for H1b, etc

There was a UK finance software company that was very picky in only doing recruiting fairs at Oxford/Cambridge/Imperial. In the 90s there was a bit of a dip and it cancelled offers to all its graduate intake.

The next year its stalls were a little bare.

Although since its main business was derivatives/high frequency trading systems on mainframes - the writing may have been on the wall anyway