Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

Re: I need the kitchen smoke alarm to go off..

That was a famous recipe for cooking steak

1, Remove battery from smoke alarm

2, Add any oil, except baby or engine, to pan

3, Show steak to pan

Re: Learn to cook?

>Or in the microwave…

You're proposing microwaving bacon ?

Is that scheme to send people to Rwanda still available? I think we've found the only deserving candidate

"Rate of Rose" is how often that blonde from the 1st series of Dr Who shows up for no reason in the later ones

Re: Not in kitchen >you need sprinklers!

Ancient saying: Man that lives in wooden house - should stick to oven chips

Re: This is a specific US-Centric problem.

I believe the ionization ones are popular in America because they use Americium - the most patriotic of radioactive isotopes

Re: Not in kitchen

You with your fancy separate kitchen. Bet you're got a butler's pantry and a 2nd undergardener's sauna.

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

And why it's cheaper to pay 3x as much for a flight returning on a friday rather than paying for a night in a hotel and a cheap weekend flight

Or why it's better to sit on a travel request for 3months and have the approved travel office book a British Aiways flight the day before, rather than an easyJet flight 3months out

Re: Scientific Calculator

Can't get RPN anymore in Britain since we left the EU.

Re: Don't put it in your pocket

Heckler&Koch and Gloch boardrooms: a bunch of bald guys with dueling scars (and riding trousers for some reason)

Zis time zer plan vil verk

Mileage claims get creative if you have to take into account Earth's curvature

Re: Don't put it in your pocket

If you wanted to completely destroy western capitalism would it be better to:

A, have all financial calculators explode - wiping out accountants, hedge fund-managers and dealers of derivative backed mezzanine split-level convertible debt golden tickets

OR

B, allow all accountants, hedge fund-managers and dealers of ... to go on using the calculator and thinking they understood the answer ?

Re: Scientific Calculator

Daily Mail calculator:

Lefty woke LGBTQ immigrant teachers are making your child use Arabic numerals

Re: Variable length representation

Windows (tm) calculator app does something similar so that users don't complain that 3/10 = 0.3000000000001

Re: Scientific Calculator

Scientific calculators use a body of tested and published algorithms to determine the answer.

Non-scientific calculators believe what they read in the Daily Mail and what someones sister's best-friends hairdresser's partner saw on Facebook

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal

Re: Hope...

>Who is sequencing genome at home

Sequencing - no

Replicating - Oh Yea Baby

Re: Unfortunately

And MSFT only implemented Memory Crystal 4D (level1) without the diLitium extensions so it ticks the box for the federation approval process but is useless

Unfortunately

It became unreadable when Windows65536 only supports 6D memory crystal storage

US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist

Re: But it's anonymous

It's how most casinos stay in business.

Walk in with $ 'earned' from some strangely profitable business and walk out with 94.7% of it in the form of legally declarable winnings.

The local casinos here weren't even bothering to make you sit at a roulette table all night betting on black. They would take your money and give you 95% back while you entertained yourself in a comped room discussing business with an agreeable young lady.

Re: IRS involved?

That used to be a common tax 'activity'

Start a private company with 100M shares.

Sell a share to your mate for £10 giving you a valuation.

Shove a stick certificate for 1million shares in the donation box of your nearest charity and you have a £10M tax deductible gift. You can sell the deduction to someone with real money and a real tax bill.

There were a bunch of stories of the local cats home asking how they owned millions of shares in Amalgamated Holdings Ltd (Bermuda) and how they could get the £M to spend on cat food.

A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches

Re: SpaceX?

Trouble is that space rockets are built in artisanal small batch production. The number of Ariane 5 launches would have been decided decades ago and that number of engines, fairings, flight computers etc made.

It's like a lot of military aerospace kit, you decide up front how many of the shiny toys you are buying, they build those plus a few spare parts and that's it.

If 20years later you decide you want another couple of F-whatever cos Tom Cruise bent one, you are out of luck or it's going to cost $Bn

Re: SpaceX?

In Europe we have this economic system where the best supplier is chosen based on price and performance, rather than the political whims of the great leader. It's called capitalism

Re: Radio doesn't go through water well

Originally it used a local ground reference system to approve improve your position fix so it couldn't be used by Counter Revolutionary Running Dog Imperialist Lackeys for bad purposes

But that didn't scale to a billion cell phone users so now it's just a standard GNSS

Re: Radio doesn't go through water well

There is a hefty import duty if you don't support the local system and its generally just a software fix to do so

Re: Where am I?

That's presumably why they switched to "fully digital payloads". I hope they have a way of replacing the battery

I do like the idea of a 2001 type black monolith shadow in orbit, slowly revolving to reveal a giant Casio F-91W

Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent

modular datacenter architecture

It's Lego isn't it ?

UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group

Re: A bizarre barter in the bazaar

>They used Centurions for another couple of decades.

Romanes eunt domus!

Re: A bizarre barter in the bazaar

In the 1948 war, the Israelis were flying Messerschmidt ME-109s against Egyptian Supermarine Spitfires.

If Mercedes sell a special version designed solely to kill a specific middle eastern Abrahamic religion (as if they would) and you bought it specifically to do that .... then perhaps yes ?

Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them

Iranian plan

"To stoke discord and undermine confidence in our electoral process,"

Good luck !

Re: It's a little funny, as an outsider...

>You don't think Putin might have had some sort of agenda when he expressed that "support"?

You know, I'm beginning to think you really can't trust that Putin chap

Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure'

In theory.... but I bet it's a lot easier to get a new planning permission for a large empty concreted-over site with a new access road - rather than the local council demanding you return it to sugar beet

Especially if the current government is a hyper-capitalist free-market Austrian school mob, rather than the last lot of socialistic namby-pamby country-squire types

>(actually almost nowhere around can make decent onion rings)

I think we can agree that cows would be very very bad at making onion rings

If we reduce the number of cows we crop off the very bad end of the onion ring making curve

Therefore vegetarianism leads to better onion rings

But is going to be worth much less afterwards - so the cost of borrowing against it is going to be higher

Remember these are real estate deals by Brookfields etc, the actual "data" part is a side effect

>Here in SW Scotland

It's understandable, imagine what Glasgow would be like if it were ever industrialized

>why would you want to build it on green-belt with all the associated hassle anyway?

Because if you get planning approval - which you will cos it's vital infrastructure - and the project falls through then you have some very valuable land with outline planning permission near London.

You paid $(peanuts) for agricultural land - end up with $(Taylor Swift) building site

Data center brings little local employment

That's typical of governments that have for so long neglected the south east of England. We need to bring coal mines and steel works to these leafy backwaters.

Some people may argue that there is no coal in Hertfordshire, but there are also no natural GPU resources. We can import coal and employ the long neglected local peasants locals to bury it. Together we can regenerate these ignored leafy suburbs until they become the new Barnsleys of the south.

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

Re: Troubled Starship?

>We regulate pharmaceuticals, aircraft, hospitals, spacecraft and banks

That harm people when things go wrong.

But if your alternative is a government funded space program that needs an astronaut form every state (to ensure funding) costs $Bn/launch and then shuts down all launches for 5y ears and has a presidential commission everytime there is a failure - we might just fall behind.

Re: Move launch site out of USA

>so an export permit is... unlikely.

What 'export' ? The boosters can be made in Taiwan with German machine tools and Chinese carbon fibre. The software can be written anywhere in the world.

When Boeing-Lockheed-Cyberdyne had a monopoly on space-rated kit then you could export control this stuff - now it's like trying to export control Linux.

Even politically I suspect SpaceX has a stronger hand. Boeing might have more senators on payroll but if SpaceX says we aren't interested in DoD as a customer - you can go back to paying for $Bn/launch at ULA. The DoD, and it's allies, lose Starlink and have to go back to Inmarsat truck-size antennae and large expensive drones, or only fight a modern war somehwere with Verison coverage.

Re: Should be prison time for musk

It would certainly help with American innovation in space.

If every unmanned launch needs approval from a dozen local, state and federal agencies and faces legal action from a dozen local, state and federal agencies that will certainly incentivize companies to launch from America rather than India or China

Re: Payback

I'm guessing a few $M get added to the costs of a few off-the-books launches for other government customers

Desktop hypervisors are like buses: None for ages, then four at once

If you read the headline you now owe Oracle your first-born

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

Re: Right wingers saying extreme stuff

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think"

That was said by a French (a kind of foreigner) philosopher (somebody who thinks) in a book (a thing you ban)

Re: Recently found this blogpost, it's spot on

Does that read like it's written by AI or a 1st year philosophy student?

Re: Enquiring minds need to know.

And it's midnight in Moscow - they making you work late Comrade Troll ?

Re: Enquiring minds need to know.

>If he plays golf so much why is he so bad at it ?

It's really hard to get the ball past the windmill and through the drainpipe

>Stochastic terrorism is not a damn joke.

Better than stoichiometric terrorism

I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!

I got some cheap hardrives where volume wasn't adjustable

It was such a good deal - you couldn't turn it down

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Re: Dear, dear Michael Dell

I'm not sure an AI trained on sendmail.cfg is likely to do any harm except to itself

Re: Cartel Is in Full Operation

>MS need to keep the hardware vendors sweet, or they loose business and hardware vendors start switching to Linux or other….

I wonder how true this still is?

MS wants my $30 monthly corporate subscription to O365/Teams/etc.

I'm not sure they care about the $3/unit every 5 years they get as part of an OEM licence deal

Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack

Jesus saves

But the Christian Democratic Union doesn't