Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around

Re: He might as well say to Airbus

Because the result of the Jones' act is not, as envisioned, that the US ship building industry bestrides the globe as a colossus.

It's that they can't dredge harbours because there aren't enough US dredgers, they can't ship rock salt to the NE in winter or hurricane relief to the south in summer because there aren't enough permitted ships.

And the costs of living in Hawaii (and Puerto-Rico) are vastly increased because everything in the local Walmart costs 20x as much to ship from California than it did to ship to Ca from China.

Re: Entirely predicted

True, but I don't have to turn up at the bus stop 2 hours before my journey

If only there was a way of going from city center to city center, at several hundred mph with the safety of an airline and without having to be fondled by an armed mall cop

Re: Bombardier

>Airbus took over much of their civil airliner business. The A-200 series was designed by Bombardier.

Boeing got the US to put a 300% tarrif on the C series and so Bombardier had to sell to Airbus for $1, who build it in the USA as the A200

This means that what would have been a competitor to the 737 built in small numbers by a tiny Canadian maker - is now one of Airbus's most promising future platforms.

Well done Boeing, managing the A-10 cannon of shooting yourself in the foot

Re: Terminated staff are only non-union, of course

The long shoreman's union is a grass-roots organisation striving for the liberation of the proletariat to control the means of production.

That the members make more than doctors and jobs are only open to the sons of members, and the union leaders have to be full-blooded Sicilian is just one of those little historical quirks

Welcome to fedgov, I see you have run a too-big-to-fail defense contractor into the ground

Press 0 to receive direct government grant (we'll worry about the WTO later)

Press 1 for a new infrastructure bill which will subsidise all companies that begin with B and sound like a cartoon noise

Press 2 for a black-budget payment to develop some secret project that will never see the light of day

Press 3 for a contract to renovate some fighters you made 50 years ago

Press 4 for us to build you a new plant and new road system and a new port and exempt you from property and business taxes for 1000 years

Press 5 for all of the above

Re: The problem ....

Fire the wellpaid, benefit encumbranced union employee in Wa and hire cheap workers in the south/Mexico and import sub-assemblies

Detroit is gone but the US still sells more cars than in the 70s

Re: He might as well say to Airbus

Europe won't do that. They will see that it harms consumers and act like professionala

Re: He might as well say to Airbus

Imagine requiring all flights between US destinations to be on US owned, built and crewed aircraft.

It would cause huge financial hardship for UA destinations where everything has to be transported by air and lead to an increasingly unproductive US aircraft industry protected from competition

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

Re: The software is reviewed in depth? How about the hardware?

In our experience it's all the power supply's fault.

We had no hacks of systems where the PSU is disconnected

Re: My thought is...

>What, does he have staffers in the bedroom?

I think we have proved in court that those roles are outsourced.

Oddly one of the few jobs where he brought in an obviously qualified professional

Re: Hmm

That's impressive detective work, picking out the specific dangerous armed nutjob at a Trump rally

Re: Very stable genius

My brain was blanking on what kind of genius he claimed to be.

Obviously at 50 I'm too old and senile to comment on US Presidents

Re: Oh, my

maga2020! . note the secure mix of letters numbers and symbols you would expect from the greatest genius ever

Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption

Re: Time will tell

>Further research is necessary. Please find attached my £2,000,000 grant application.

Damn commies, funding fundamental scientific research is unfair

AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright

Re: Hmm

Suggesting we might have a bit of a rethink about datacenters.

We are still in the banking/Telco mindset of 9-9a uptime with multiple redundancy to avoid any performance degradation at any cost.

But more of the load isn't as tie critical. If I train an AI for only 50% of the time when power is 10% of the price, or I buy 50% cheaper hw that needs a daily reboot I might come out ahead.

Maybe it will be cheaper to serve YouTube from different data centers?

Re: Hmm

Because it's not like Google could only crawl new sites to index while the sun is up, or only recompress YouTube videos at other resolutions when the wind is blowing.

Cat videos are a strategic national resource and must be available at locally all at times. You expect people to wait an extra 50ms to be served an ad from 2 states away?

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Re: One socket to rule them all

That's the UKs strategic SCSI cable reserve, as discussed here regularly

Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between

Re: Reading some of these comments...

>There are pupil trackers that show where every kid is on every section of every part of the National Curriculum,

So that's why education has got so much better in the last 50 years. sure the costs have gone up, but kids are now leaving school with the equivalent of a degree.

You only have to look at the number of A++++****(Platinum) exam results or chat to a GCSE maths class. They are now so well prepared we had to put an extra year onto undergrad science degrees to accommodate their extra knowledge.

>Back in the old days, educational establishments stored considerably less data and managed to function

We had these large write only pads with the kid's names down the side and a punch of spreadsheet cells with checkboxes that could be ticked with special pens

Unfortunately, there's no easy fix when it comes to education-sector security

Well there is one: Microsoft and fdisk

Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?

Re: for those times when making a personal effort to communicate is just too much

Of course with better technology if doesn't have to be a real Chaffinch, you can select any personalised bird in your own virtual reality

Re: Personalized AI-generated avatar

Is it limited to human forms ?

Online daily stand-ups delivered by Thanos to various X-Men sounds fun

Re: And I'd want to why?

That's why theatre, film, radio and TV never caught on.

I don't need to watch some fancy actor in tights doing Shakespeare when I can just read it in the original Klingon

Re: Max Headroom called...

Pah - the real breakthrough would be the invention of an artificial viewer to watch the TV for you.

Similarly if the artificial Zoom presenter could be combined with an AI agent that would attend the zoom meeting for you, make appropriate comments, ask questions and free the worker to do something more productive. Of course for perfect verisimilitude it would have to spend the first 5mins of the meeting trying to get the camera to work and asking if everyone can hear them

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

It's a pity cars (and traffic) haven't sped up at the same rate as broadband

Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver

atmospheric drag and a tight periapsis

And using language like that is presumably why they have to launch from California, and not Florida

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet

Re: We've come a long way in 100 years

>During WW1 German newspapers were widely available and read in London

Although I don't think Londoners were encouraged to write in to their letters pages with details of what the army was doing

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig

Re: Trick

>How is it going to work?

So the national economic plan is to sell the country to HP for a wildly inflated sum and then have the boat sink?

It's not the worst economic plan the UK has seen recently

Re: Trick

> German outbound Foreign Direct Investment was €114bn in the UK

Does this just mean that Deutsche Bank's 'interesting' loans to 'persons of interest' are now just going through a jurisdiction that is a little more accommodating ?

Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly

Compared to my own creation of the largest EV company from (almost) scratch his efforts are, of course, laughable

Re: My Job Is Secure

I suddenly see why the owner of Twitter thought taxi driver was an obvious next product

Re: Suitable for driving only on a billiard table

They will be confined to an area of the city that has specially prepared wooden roadway, along with a charging infrastructure consisting of an overhead wire grid where that cars will charge via an advanced metal rod.

The production design will have large plastic bumpers in case of collisions with other cars

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused

> most (if not all) crypto currencies are ponzi schemes and regulate them as such?

Because then they would be indistinguishable from a bunch of other financial instruments and the SEC or USSS or one of a dozen existing financial regulators would get them and the FBI wouldn't get the power/funding/cool of being the crypto regulator

The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty

Armour not amour = important difference.

So we invade France. That generally works well so long as you avoid armourous teenage girls

Why do they get us ? They aren't us - they are barely even them !

We could always invade some other island in the India ocean and make a new territory

All 2 letter domains are limited to country domains only.

Even countries that aren't real - like us

You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’

Re: There are already tasks in Jira

Shall we run up the flag pole and see how our alignment matrix synergises ?

Re: There are already tasks in Jira

That could be upsetting to people who are allergic to kittens or whose cat has died.

We need to have a continuously changing background of positive words about our dialogue with stakeholders

UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before

Re: DO we need another regulatory body

They will be overseen by a new Office of Regulatory Regulation

Re: DO we need another regulatory body

But everything else in Yes Minister was just a joke, right ?

Re: DO we need another regulatory body

I thought Jim Hacker's Dept of Administrative Affairs was supposed to be satire?

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

Re: Recovering lost films from collectors is an interesting subject

IIRC a lot of the black and white footage was wiped as part of union/contract negotiation

The broadcasters paid more for colour and the actors/creators/etc wanted to be paid the same increased rates for their old B&W stuff.

The Beeb argued that B&W was now worthless and so there should be little or no fee for rebroadcast - to demonstrate their point they wiped/destroyed a lot of old content.

There was also an increasing fee with each subsequent re-broadcast, so showing older content was increasingly expensive. And all this was before any idea you could sell content directly to consumers

A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them

Re: They'd better get a move on

Intel will also give you enterprise grade delivery and timescale support guarantees

I need to know I can buy this model for X years and be given Y years notice of a change.

I don't get that buying clones on Aliexpress

Another big advantage of Intel - when you combine the NUC into a product and go to TUV/UL/etc they aren't going to argue with the Intels approval stickers.

Re: More is less

Kiosks have apparently changed people's orders.

Men are ordering 2xburgers because they wanted 2 burgers but didn't want to say that to a cashier and look greedy or deal with the whole "2 burgers, but only one drink?" questions.

It has led to redesigning the meal deals

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Re: Also known as the "police report" voice

An "officer involved shooting"

An officer got shot

An officer shot the suspect

An officer shot a bystander

Re: War declared on passive voice by project leadership

And don't start "verbing with stakeholders"

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

Re: False positives

Also add in that the training are on arrested suspects and the scans are on general public.

If for some unaccountable reason the proportion of black faces in the 'arrest' set was higher than in the general population it will bias the results.

Train a model on 50% horses 50% zebras and send it out into a field with one zebra and it's going to pick your 'suspect'

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

Re: Bally up

>The hoodie is the uniform of the criminal

Probably becoming true. It used to be the 3 piece suit but between SBF and the guy from WeWork - the hoodie wearers are probably responsible for more $$$ stolen than Wall St.