Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, 'AI visas'

Re: Data Centre Locations

Hey, we've had enough of experts remember !

Your argument seems long, complicated and well reasoned.

Can you make it into a 3word slogan that will fit on a bus - so we can get Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells to care ?

Re: We don't need AI.

Unfortunately Nimbys aren't a valuable export resource, many trading partners have more than sufficient home grown supplies

Tower PC case allegedly used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer

Or used RGB meth

Importing meth?

A sad indictment on Australian chemical education

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

Re: Does not say exploit

6b:69:6c:6c:20:61:6c:6c:20:68:75:6d:61:6e:73

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Re: Time is an illusion

I come here for both trivia and the pedantry .... and the sarcasm

Well obviously I'm not going to forget the sarcasm

And the puns....

Re: Time is an illusion

It's the reg - we might be senile old farts but we still have our encyclopedic knowledge of 70s kid's TV shows and 80s comedies

Re: The problem with the UK

York is already at the center of the world (well the 3 ridings anyway)

Re: DSThesia

>An officer assigned to help us students cross a busy street had to push off the bonnet of a car to avoid being run over. No, thanks.

That's why children need to carry RPGs to school.

Re: Set them

Never heard of that. I suppose the concept of a passenger railway was too wild a fantasy for the American public

Re: Clock Embuggerance Day

>What a world we live in where the fictious leaders and inhabitants of an impossibly daft world look positvely sane by comparision with ours?

Try reading Swift

Re: The problem with the UK

But moan could be a major export for Scotland.

Now the oil has run out and as the rest of the world gets richer and happier there will be a demand for high quality traditional Scottish moaning.

The traditional objection in the UK is that farmers will have to bring cows to milking in the dark. Because cows follow a rigid work day.

According to the article, it isn't the daylight so much as the lost hour of sleep.

Supposedly this causes car accidents and dozens of fatalities every year in the USA.

So this is only a problem with the spring switch to summer time, the autumnal switch back gives everyone an hour extra sleep and so presumably saves dozens of lives.

My proposal, is we put the clocks back every autumn but abandon the crazy "spring forward"

But what about the farmers having to take the wheat in an hour earlier - or whatever it is the farmers always complain about ?

The Eu could simply solve this by having members countries switch between French and Belgian time as the parliament moves between Strasburg and Brussels

You've got to be really quick to get the lid on.

And remember not to open it and take a peek - the stuff leaks out fast

Re: Set them

>I think we should go back to pre-railways time where every town/village had its own time zone

Wouldn't that be a problem with a nation-wide high-speed railway system running to a precise timetable ?

Re: Time is an illusion

Lunchtime doubly so .....

Re: Old proverb

So you insist on a ridiculous theory that the East cost of the colony is a more sensible reference ?

Why not stick to the proper meridian ?

Re: There's no such thing as "daylight saving time" in the UK

Because "British Summer Time" sounds like sarcasm

Re: Leave the clocks alone

So all the daylight we've saved over the years - what happened to it ?

Re: Leave the clocks alone

Paris is only 2.4deg E of Greenwich, so only about 10min time difference

>it's pretty clear why Portugal follows the same hour as the UK and not CET.

For some reason all the other countries in Europe switched to Berlin time during the early 1940s. Portugal opted out

Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries

Congratulations - you achieved civil service nirvana

Re: Stranger than fiction

>Your CV must contain no hint of who, where or what you are, just why you can do the job

But presumably does list where you went to school, which college you were at and what sport you played there.

Re: No respect for a worker

>How would such a salary motivate to even wake up in the morning?

You got a crap degree from a former amusement arcade and have no actual skills that a city firm would want and don't work hard enough for a startup.

You can hide in the buerocracy of a govt org that slowly promotes you for doing nothing, never fires anyone and offers a pension

Re: Low salaries for security reasons?

So hiring the most skilled people at the lowest rates?

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Re: What would Torvalds know?

Gartner is the best trained and most reliable expert system in the world.

It just has one tiny sign error

Re: re: the gist of 'AI', esp. LLM

You can update training, the current crisis-du-jour is that to get ever smaller incremental improvements you need ever greater data sets.

It's far beyond being able to curate those datasets by hand and so you just feed them the entire internet/youtube/reddit/etc.

More of this training set was itself AI generated crap and so the algorithm learns that this is correct/popular/useful and so repeats it - eventually disappearing up its own fundamentals

Re: I agree

>Having a GPU flag my scans as a bit Sus... better that then an exhausted radiologist missing it.

Do you think a CS graduate does a better job of optomising multi-threaded,cached,pipelined,branch-predicted code than CLang ?

Re: I agree

So is this going to put hunchback assistants out of work, or enable a broad base of new evil supervillains who have been thwarted in their plans by unavailability of affordable Igors ?

Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again

Re: ...So Seriously That GCHQ Can't Pay A Decent Wage......

So if they can't pay presumably they can't recruit people to spy on the startups.

I made this network so resilient nothing could possibly go wro...

Re: reload in, or its vendor equivalent

Cisco has an arm that comes out and presses the reset button - like those joke boxes that press their own off switch.

Re: Triple redundancy?

See also:

Checking the diesel tanks for your backup generator have diesel in them

Checking it's not biodiesel that turned to slime years ago.

Checking that the pumps to get the fuel to the backup generators are on backup power.

Re: Making things worse

And the Telco says certainly - and then leases a line from the first lot.

Re: busy hands

Apparently you're also much safer having a heart attack.

The junior doc on duty is less likely to do something "clever" and just let you get better.

Re: Reminds me of my first FDDI testing

It's always connectors, except when it's power supplies

Re: redundancy and diversity?

Yes but that would be Cisco's fault so you can't be blamed.

Accidentally doing a Cisco command option on the other router is your fault

I think New Zealand just solved that problem

Boeing launches funding round to stave off credit downgrade

Re: And still...

They have stopped going to Starbucks and eating Avacado toast

Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos

Re: All or Nothing

The difference in the two systems.

The USA swaps the establishment after the election so that all the functionaries are politically aligned with the new leader and ready to do his (or conceivably her) bidding.

The UK swaps the leader before the election so they are politically aligned with the establishment and he (or she) is ready to do their bidding.

Re: How long, oh Lord, how long

MTG was already claiming Harris ccan't be president because her parents weren't US citizens.

Long distance relationships are tough. Sometimes you can't be with the one you love because of work commitments and you just need to hear their voice

Mature node chip output to surge 6% in 2025

Re: I'll be quite happy..

We keep lots of infrastructure on old electronics, I think we still source 5.25 floppies for the underground here and more than one nuclear power plant is running on 60s era hardware.

I suspect a lot of the vital national infrastructure for the next century is going to be an ARM chip running an emulator of an X86 running software originally written for a Vax that was a port of an earlier design on a PDP.

So if the only obsolete tech you have to support is in museums - you're doing a good job !

Re: I'll be quite happy..

>Ironically, in the UK we probably spend more money keeping old steam trains and Spitfires running, than old electronics.

Wouldn't that be a good thing ?

If you're spending a lot keeping power-plants/railways/tax systems running on 50year old technology - you probably failed somewhere