Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Spamouflage trolls pretend to be American patriots on X, TikTok ahead of US presidential election

Re: Do we care?

You cannot hope

to bribe or twist,

thank God! the

British journalistpolitician

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But, seeing what

the man will do

unbribed, there's

no occasion to.

Re: "...pretending to be patriots"

Obviously a true patriot would never fly the flag.

After all, you know your country is superior so why would you feel the need to go around making a big fuss about it ? Seems a little insecure really.

Re: "...pretending to be patriots"

Bill Hicks once did a sketch about how if Christians wear crucifixes to honour Jesus, should Americans wear little gold rifles to honour JFK ?

Then Republican politicians began wearing AR15 pins to celebrate (deny, mock?) a school shooting.

Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index

Re: America* giving money to companies is strategic investment in vital infrastructure

If the wars of the last 30 years have taught us anything it's that the ultimate military vehicle is the pickup truck with stuff welded on.

So Ford F150 and Harbor Freight are a vital part of our national defense infrastructure.

The point isn't that Intel being delisted would affect the DOW, but that it would affect Intel.

However stupid the DOW is - being in a direct-to-video rather than getting a theatrical release does affect what people think of your future earnings

That's totally different, Kodak developed the digital camera but refused to exploit it because it would harm high-margin film sales

It's not like Intel acquired an early strong ARM development effort then killed it off because it would harm high-margin server CPU sales

Re: Company "in trouble"...

Other countries giving money to industries is communism.

America giving money to companies is strategic investment in vital infrastructure for national security and independence and freedom and apple pie

Re: So it's delisted ?

> It's share price is only important to useless people who gamble on it.

And to people who lend it money to build new chips. And to staff who get stock options.

So a delisted Intel just has to borrow at interest rates normally associated with loan providers who carry baseball bats, and has to find money to pay engineers more real $$$ to make up for the risk that your job won't be around next year.

Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit

Space Pirates

Sailing ships in space can only lead to space pirates

You want space pirates? This is how you get space pirates !

Re: This is of course fake news ....

>Which way is this "solar wind" blowing, exactly?

Tacky, very tacky

UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz

Re: Costly legal enforcement

Once they've agreed to that could all countries also agree not to spy on each other, declare war on each other or cheat at golf ?

Tired of airport security queues? SQL inject yourself into the cockpit, claim researchers

Re: Be afraid, be very afraid ... of the wrong thing.

Presumably they weren't concerned that you would deliberately crash a glider into a office tower.

After all, no-fuel can't melt steel beams

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

Re: Proper documentation to prevent off by one errors

One, two, five..... three sir !

The two hardest parts of software development: Naming things and cache coherence and off by one errors

Gelsinger opens up about Intel troubles amid talk of possible split

Re: The sting in the Tail

Have they thought of spinning off all their managers into orbit a separate company?

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

But you were allowed to watch Tiswas

Re: Good Old C64

>The 1541 having basically the same architecture as the C64 itself (

But it made up for all that advanced processing power by using a serial link that was slower than some cassette tapes

Re: Two significant characters?

A real programmer can write BASIC programs in any language

Last 8bit I owned was a Z88 - Management bought one to do inventory of all our Unix workstations, and it followed me home one day.

Unfortunately it went the way of my Psions, QL and Archimedes 305 in a move.

Re: Where the Personal computer industry went wrong

For historical accuracy you should write a pt4, aiming to publish at Xmas - but never release it cos the audience dropped off after pt3 ;-)

Re: The big mistake

>The popular mistake was to change the hardware sufficiently that old software would not run.

Most of these machines were for games, there were new games out every week and they cost pocket money.

The value of a C64 or a Speccy running last Xmas's Vic20 or ZX81 games was pretty minimal

Re: MSX

My understanding was that MSX was a consortium effort by a group of N Japanese makers and by the time any subset(N) managed to agree on a feature to be added to the MSX standard it was superseded ?

HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences

You can't use your liver anymore because your left testicle is empty.

You will have to buy a testicle top-up before you can go out drinking

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

>I'm personally not sure how well it would go down with the OSS community

I'm guessing somewhat similar to an Al-Qaeda / Boeing merger ?

Microsoft's in-house Linux.

Microsoft data centers now powered by Balmer turning in his grave (I know he's not dead but I always assumed he slept in a coffin anyway)

Lego's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

Re: What is the max skin temperature?

>They outperformed most, if not all, of the USAF's inventory.

Although to be fair you can fly subsonic bombers the size of a footballcricket pitch over the US capital (and capitol) quite easily.

Re: What is the max skin temperature?

There's an interview with the SR71 pilot in the Omegatau podcast.

He was describing how he was pootling around over Cuba doing SR71 type things, when asked to look out for civilian traffic at his flight level

His observation was that he was wearing a space suit and peeing in a tube, while these businessmen flew past in shirt sleeves eating dinner and sipping champagne

Re: Scale?

>because while they’re 1:40 in height, the resulting Lego “human” would end up about 3ft wide

So I have the body of a model? Admittedly a Lego model, but ...

Re: Scale?

Concorde (non-Lego) is about 2.7 Brontosaurus long and 2.7 Double-decker bus wingspan

So a minifig scale Lego model would be 10 linguine by 4.5 linguine

HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way

Re: 3 years of updates ?

You can upgrade Android with open source builds, all you need from the manufacturer is the device specific stuff in the modem chip - where all the security flaws are

Re: 3 years of updates ?

>If you have a Pixel you might look at Grapheme

GrapheneOs only support the phone so long as the manufacturer releases security updates for the binary blob. After that their installer blocks older phones.

LineageOS will run on much older models (at the cost of some security)

First of ESA's Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific

Re: bonfire

It is being recycled.

All the material in the spacecraft is being returned to the original manufacturing planet - where it will be deposited in the same ground it was mined from

China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations

Re: In the mean time

>profit margins are so low

Surely not? You get your lobbyist to get your senator to insist on USA made parts (cye Patriotic music), then you sell the DoD 555 timers for $1000 each.

You are out a few $$$ to lobbyist, but that's tax deductible, and a few rounds of golf to the senator - but after that the profit margins are pretty good.

Re: In the mean time

>Can someone enlighten me how comes US military are using this inferior Communist technology ?

Because "those chips" are 40 year old designs of simple stuff.

Why does your military use a power transistor design from the 80s, fabbed on 'cutting edge' 90s technology? Cos that's all it needs.

Why are your bayonets made from steel using 18th century blast furnace technology, rather than 3D printed from single crystal Titanium nano-tubes ? Same reason.

Body of IT tycoon Mike Lynch recovered after superyacht sinks

Next you'll be telling me that economy airline seats don't have a "wings fall off" button

Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system

Re: Noddy level software purchase

SME don't have the resources to offer the sort of directorships that ministers need to make these decisions

Writers sue Anthropic for feeding 'stolen' copyrighted work into Claude

Re: Slippery slope

> if someone writes books in the style of another author they ARE regarded as a hack; it's not accepted from humans

And yet movie critics gush over how a new movie recreated the look of Hitchcock, or that classic shot from John Ford, or had a baby carriage falling down a big set of stone steps

Slippery slope

"Claude could not generate this kind of long-form content if it were not trained on a large quantity of books, books for which Anthropic paid authors nothing."

And had those authors been influenced by books they had read?

I suppose if you limit English Lit to nothing newer than Shakespeare you should be OK but it's going to limit the prose in the next Tom Clancy.

What it's going to do to film studies when no potential future director can view any film newer than 1928? Certainly put a crimp in Mr Tarantino's oeuvre

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

Re: Hard hats

But what if he had fallen off the 200ft high chimney without his hard hat

Re: People do the stupidest things

Waiter - there's a wheel in my soup

Re: People do the stupidest things

I always drive everywhere holding a stop sign - it confuses the other drivers

Re: People do the stupidest things

A random mutation, we'll see if it proves more popular and becomes the dominant spelling

Rocket Factory Augsburg engine test ends in explosion at SaxaVord spaceport

Re: Rocket Engineering is still hard

Yes they've all learned from their predecessors.

What they learnt is that if your rocket engine has any excess safety margin at all - you probably aren't making it to space.

Also known as: Tsiolkovsky is a right bastard

'Right to switch off' initiative aims to boost economy by beating burnout

Re: Small step

>What this (hopefully) will do is make it so that your manager cannot insist you are available out of normal hours.

Unless you agree to a voluntary waiver in your contract. What a surprise, all contracts for all workers include a voluntary waiver for this rule.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: Melancholy

Please do not depart until the aircraft has come to a complete stop (or been disintegrated by a SAM)

Re: float on back

>We were taught that in school a very long time ago (life saving gold medal in 1968).

We seemed to be mostly concerned with rescuing rubber bricks from the bottom

Re: Inference?

>Is it wrong of me to imagine a yacht named “Bayesian” would have decent weather forecasting and inferencing capabilities?

Well it had never sunk before, so the prior probability of sinking now was low

Texas Instruments calculates its US CHIPS Act winnings at $1.6B

Close the Dept Education

Give TI $1.6Bn to mass produce 'Speak-n-Spell"

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

Re: Our employees failed us because of "work-life balance"

But that's why Japanese software companies now dominate the world. All those people staying in the offices til late at night, not daring to leave until their manager does, sleeping under their desks.

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Re: Indirect control

Split off Android and the Play store and each phone maker will have their own play store with a subset of apps being available for Samsung on the Samsung store etc.

Most cheap phones will only have no apps, or will point you at an un-monitored off-brand Chinese app store.

And Apple's market share will double