Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit

Re: You are so polite...

It's just resting.

It's pinning for the everglades

Microsoft whiz dishes the dirt on the Blue Screen Of Death's colorful past

Or an offer for a subscription service to future Blue-Screen-As-A-Service

Uber and China's BYD agree deal to roll out 100,000 EV fleet

Ridiculous - the Japanese will never be able to build cars or motorbikes to compete with great British marques

US tariffs on Chinese EVs stand at 100 percent

What if China retaliates and puts similar tariffs on USA built pickup trucks ?

How will we achieve our climate goals if the Chinese can't match us in emissions ?

Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs

The next Boeing?

If I'm R&D why am I going to work at Intel ?

I can take my semiconductor physics / wafer design CAD programming / general engineering skillz and go and be a programmer at FANG for 3x the salary - and even if I do get cut in their next jobs round I have a million other software companies to work at.

Or I can specialise in semiconductors, have a choice of 2-3 companies in the USA to work at and hope one of them doesn't axe R&D to please Wall St.

Re: And yet

But their R&D determined that the future hasn't happened yet, so future losses don't affect today's share price.

If they cut R&D and sell off more fabs every year then eventually you have to become profitable.

Upcoming US export rules on chipmaking tools won't apply to friendly countries

Of course if a future US monarch was to start being less friendly to western Europe and more friendly to a certain country in very-eastern Europe then some of these 37 might just tell the USA to piss off

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: Not entirely true

The BMW and Audi allow the driver to run down bikers themselves.

They're all about the driving experience !

Skype goes ad-free, which is unusual for Microsoft

Re: Skype sucks

>So can Teams...

Didn't know teams could do that !

Apparently my corporate are obviously cheap !

"With your calling licence, you can only call people within your organisation"

Re: Skype sucks

Skype's (only) advantage is that it can call ordinary phones.

Re: I have to ocassionaly use skype...

Are the only users of Skype US cellphone customers with astronomical international calling rates?

Or is there actually a business case ?

China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer

Re: .. overcome in a short term

> If I was the US I'd be fucking terrified of what happens in the next 5 - 10 years

China becomes fully developed, all its best and brightest students skip STEM and become lawyers and finfluencers and we all have have to switch to buying cheap crap from Azerbaijan

Re: China can do what they want.

>The authoritarian axis meanwhile appears to wish to use language models to create bots to manipulate western public discourse

But we're banning TikTok and US news operations owned by US billionaires aren't going to distribute AI generated political videos to undermine democracy

Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

Re: Crookedness considered harmful

> but what else can you do?

Put on the dress yourself and ask if it looks better on you?

Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal

Re: So, will they be punished?

Or how Arthur Anderson had to rename themselves everytime they got caught helping a company fiddle tax.

Re: So, will they be punished?

>They will be punished, right?

Of course. Fujitsu may even be disadvantaged when bidding for the replacement system

Forcing them to perhaps even form a new subsidiary to apply for future Post Office IT contracts

Re: But as Watson might say

> This got raised because it would apparently also increase the PO's profitability

Good job the PO isn't a public compnay or the SFO would be all over them - and then do nothing because they are the SFO

Revamped UK cybersecurity bill couldn't come soon enough, but details are patchy

Re: Talking about "recent events".................

But Microsoft explained that - it was all the fault of the Eu being woke

Re: Misinformation - Sweet Talking Citizens - While Doing Nothing......

It also doesn't say anything about the government publicizing the reported incidents.

Gov depts A, B, C are all hacked in the same way on the same day and report it - their report is then classified and the information comes out 10 years later in a public inquiry as a result of a Private eye story, slightly too late to warn all the companies targeted by the same flaw.

Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy

Re: Vaccine evidence

You can't get too attached to the lab rats if you're going to do large scale trials

>Gravity's a myth.

It's only "a theory"

Re: Vaccine evidence

>An amateur might not be able to provide vaccine efficacy

He could, by persuading a few 100,000 of his followers to not get vaccinated and then watching the rate at which his followers die

Even simpler, your fireplace should give you a lethal case of sunburn if it wasn't for quantum

US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices

Re: Regular reminder of the 100-mile limit

But if they can't unlock your phone at a traffic stop - how can the download any 'candid' photos and share them around the station?

French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

It's only terrorism if it comes from the terrorism region, otherwise it's just sparkling vandalism

Re: Transport technologies

>Who knows what (if any) transmission-protecting mechanisms were in use on the severed cables in France....some people will pay for it up-front, and some won't :-)

Not clear what "transmission-protecting mechanisms" you can use with a deliberate terrorist attack - other than perhaps 10KV DC feed in the outer armor

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Re: Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice ...

Mint was always the "distro most likely to just work" on a laptop.

I just had to reinstall Windows on an old Windows Surface clone. To get the wifi drivers you have to go to their website and run a diagnostic tool to identify which wifi driver it needs - did anyone think this through ?

Re: Oh, the stereotypes of yesteryear

Cat: I think in all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most desirable woman who ever lived.

....

Lister: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?

Cat: You're right. We're nuts. This is an insane conversation.

Lister: She'll never leave Fred, and we know it.

The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI

Re: 2.8°C

What's the el'reg standard for temperature ?

An absolute scale based on the fixed points of "Geordie putting on a jumper" and "McD apple pie filling" ?

Re: re: NOAA

No hurricanes if you abolish the hurricane reporting dept - smart !

You were promised "fuck business" your business is now getting fucked - what are you complaining about ?

Re: We all know weather forecasts are crap

No they aren't, they are amazingly good - at least over the next few days.

Billions of $ and 1000s of lives rely on forecasting extreme weather systems

Saying forecasts are crap cos a 3min nationwide summary at the end of the news didn't tell you when it would rain in your garden.

iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back

14% of market but what % of profit ?

Making and selling a phone is a mug's game.

Making 30% profit on everything your phone owner buys from everybody else = genius

Re: Not surprised

Buying a phone and stripping it down to identify the components seems like a cheap Chinese trick, when you can just buy a report for $90,000 from an American company

BOFH: Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe

> West Yorkshire is next door to heaven, just East of it ...

The Isle of Man ?

Re: Moving to cloud?

Or the more metal anthem of the Azure/AWS user

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehen,

kann man uns am Himmel sehen.

Wir haben Angst und sind allein.

Re: "blamed our own fuck-ups on a well publicised but unconnected problem"

>Top marks for an entry box that puts in the space automatically so you don't have to flip a coin.

The web programmer Medal of Honour goes to the ones that accepts the number with spaces, put up an error message telling you to enter the credit card WITHOUT spaces and then clears the entry for you

Re: "You are confusing Belgian chocolate with American "chocolate""

>Seriously, what is it about American chocolates leaving that slight tang of vomit behind?

It's a nasty tasting chemical added to make them shelf stable in hot weather - as an alternative to the primitive European option of using more cocao

Re: recovery workshops in, uh... Belgium?"

Not a problem, they are 99% sugar while also being 99% cocoa - very sensible the Belgians

'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos

Re: Poor kid!

No toddler ever tripped gracefully

Mon chien etait malade sur mon manuel de francais.

My Hovercraft is full of eels

Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge

Just give everyone in the C-suite a Taser. They will inevitably use it on themselves and each other while playing with it.

More entertaining and less liability

Kamala Harris's $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan

Especially since the other lot are charging $1Bn to the oil industry - I think Linkedin need to up their bid

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

Is that like the mole of Moles?

Re: overdose on their own output

A bunch of people standing around saying Covfefe at each other ?

Inconceivable !

Re: Hang on, I think I know this one!

Except the crabs have 3 arms and walk forward

Re: Wolves.....

Back in my lectures (when computers had front-panel switches and 640K was enough for anyone) the example was tanks.

Soviet tank images were grainy black-white taken on long lenses on muddy exercises. American tank images were colourful and posed in front of the factory on a sunny blue-sky day.

The AI did a predictably bad job of classifying them.

Even today the first part of a project to make a tool for analyzing cancer images was to remove the scale ruler in all the images of malignant cases taken in hospital on follow-up visits.

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

Re: Some good points

>It's also about time the EU spun up It's own distro.

Oh that would be fun.

The 27 versions of systemd that take it in turns to act as an executive supervisor for the week but all decisions of systemd must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

--but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

And the whole distribution moves from systemd to init.d twice a year

Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China

Re: .. about the real spy & monstrous capability

I always thought the NSA looked harmless.

How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

Advantage is you can tell branch offices to buy a scanner and email them the barcode for each machine.

Rather than telling them to buy rubber duckies on Ebay / Aliexpress, wait, install build environment, get the build to work, reprogram for every new machine's bitlocker code.