Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US tariffs on Chinese EVs may grow from around 25% to 100%

Re: Yawn...

Venezuela has really cheap gas, perhaps the US could learn from the Venezuelan political model?

Re: Yawn...

But by limiting the supply of EVs to $50K Teslas, $100K cybertrucks and $150K F150s we can massively increase the "investment" in green technologies.

Intel reportedly seeking $11B to finance facility in Ireland

Re: better investment than in "Israel"

Ireland is a more reliable US state certainly, but Israel can leverage more US 'investment'

Re: Could try asking the Irish government…

Belfast counters with a gravy chip act

UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems

Re: fair and open competition

The politicians agreed with the maker of secret data harvesting software that certain secrets would be kept secret if the bid was approved

Encrypted mail service Proton hands suspect's personal info to local cops

Re: Privacy, Anonymity,.................

That does seem like an awfully complicated process just to be allowed to complain to the local council without some minion being able to look up who you are to retaliate.

But Iran and N Korea are unlikely to hand over data to the UK police. So if you are a UK terrorist ( or rent a flat in a better school catchment area) you should use a Russian email provider.

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors

Re: We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow It from our children

>Clearly what we have been doing is making the the world much more livable.

Again, blame the Germans - specifically Fritz Haber

Re: 82613.. +1?

> Scottish Government estimated that 17.05 million trees had been cut down since 2000 in areas that are currently managed by public agency Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS).

Managed forests (ie tree farms) cut down trees

In other news, the DFA estimate that 'lots and lots' of wheat plants are cut down each year to make bread and calls on people to recycle their crusts

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets

>only nations with advanced underwater capabilities are able to take those out

Or ships with anchors / idiots with backhoes

Gentlemen, we cannot let a strategic idiots-with-backhoes gap develop

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot

Re: Union

With the many Windows machines in a data center that big - you are going to need a lot of people running around restarting them

Re: I'll believe it...

May you never feature on a future 'Who Me'

What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores

Re: A scourge

>Why some of the sites send these consolation prizes isn't clear.

Harder to get a credit card / PayPal chargeback for 'wrong item' vs not delivered and no tracking?

Credit cards and even legit cheap tat stores like AliExpress will normally refund without question if tracking is wrong or missing

Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails

Re: "The frunk is powered and shouldn't be closed manually"

Which ironically is what the actual founders planned to do. They made the Lotus based roadster as a demonstration of their skill intending to sell themselves as consultants - because to be an actual car company would involve massive investment in factories, battery plants, charging networks, dealers etc

To give the Muskiness his due, he did have the vision to actually make a car company that produced cars everyone wanted and wiped the floor with the established car makers

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system

Re: Bet the rest room is the same.

But it's not all glamor and high living, sometimes you have to do meetings

Nope you duplicate the data to different places with different weather. When the 'free' wind power stops in the middle of the day or in summer you switch to the solar data center in the desert and then switch back at night and in winter.

Data centers doing heavy compute are the perfect load balancera

Re: And where is that heat going?

It should be cheaper to just build the data center on a container port somewhere and throw cooling hoses into the water. But:

Real estate costs, planning permission, environment impact stuff, finding out that the land, shore, beach and tidal waters all have a different government agency with their own rules/requirements.

Although this does seem like a way of burning VC dollars except in a few locations where you are putting offshore wind infrastructure in anyway

Re: And where is that heat going?

Centers on land are going to heat it as well. The question is how much extra energy do you have to use on land to run the AC to move the heat to the environment vs just a water pump between the cpu and the wall

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

>wouldn't "St Mary Walk" be almost as good, and a lot simpler?

It sounds like a command. So unless local councils have gained much greater statutory powers recently I think commanding dead saints to take up their bed and walk is probably beyond their remit.

End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box

Re: Regardless ...

> University .... Maths program ..."Applied Cryptography"... library.

Funnily enough they have a solution for that problem

Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback

Re: Why in the world do you think buybacks aren't in the shareholders interest?

Ironically share options, and the short termism and price manipulation, are a result of limits on executive salaries introduced in the Clinton era

Re: R.I.P. Steve

He converted it from a boutique toy maker always one failed product from disaster into the largest (or 2nd depending on how MSFT is doing today) and one of the most profitable ongoing businesses.

Re: "working towards finding an optimal capital structure"

Pivoted is still a bit negative

They are probably 'dynamically thrusting forward in new directions' (where the new direction is coincidentally 180deg from the previous direction)

The difference is anyone else buys them with their own money.

A CEO buying back shares is increasing their own share value by buying with the company's money

Re: Why in the world do you think buybacks aren't in the shareholders interest?

That's not the only reason. They might have bonuses based on reaching a certain share price

To secure for the workers by hand or by brain or buybacks the full fruits of their industry.

Well Apple is a fruit

Because once all the shares are bought back then there will be no more shareholders and so the company will be owned by the worker.

This is just part of Tim Cook (along with all other CEOs) plan to bring true socialism to America

Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer'

Wait till the MAGA discover Lassie was trans

Re: Turing misinformation

His own writing suggested he killed himself because he felt his work and life were going nowhere.

The ' it's all cos he was gay ' is a theme of Andrew Hodge's popular and excellent biography (Hodge is a gay rights campaigner). It also gives everyone an excuse = we put a pride flag in our twitter once a year so we don't need to worry about mental health

Re: Text-to-Speech bot...

We have taken your comment on board and are dialogueing with stakeholders to obtain learnings before doing the necessary

Re: Well, yeah.

To be fair that doesn't prove computers are intelligent so much as proving psychologists aren't

Simulation of a C suite with a copy of PowerPoint, a list of bullshit terms and a random number generator should be trivial

The Oxford English Dictionary (other dictionaries do exist) contains both entries for wuff and woof

But if you have a stupid (but lovable) dog that can't read

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

IIRC memory model was one of the beauties of RISC-OS, you could shrink the font cache and screen resolution after an app had started, to give it more memory

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Re: She is best known for...

>What about [cis] men who lie about their gender identity to access these spaces?

Indeed, and sexual orientation has to be considered. I propose that to spare public morals, lesbians should be required to use the men's showers at the swimming pool.

For balance, gentleman of an 'Oscar Wildean' persuasion can use womens changing rooms at the gym. Where their finely toned abs, skin care and hair products won't cause distraction

>So what's the point of using it?

Where 'predict the next word based on last' is a good solution it works very well.

Write me a BSD socket server in Go, or write me an interface pattern framework in C++ and a Makefile is a lot quicker and easier than you looking it up ina textbook and typing it in accurately

Re: OpenAI claims to be true

>The front of Harry Potter says "This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental"

How stupid are people? Although somebody on movies was asking if Dune was based on a true story!

LLMs write fiction, complaining that they get a fact wrong is like complaining that KJ Rowling didn't tell you the right departure time for the Hogwarts expresst

AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers

Germany has the best solution for zero green energy.

Mine lignite, export it to Poland (thus creating negative carbon), burn coal and import power.

Unions happy, greens happy and plenty of reliable (if not quite cheap) power

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

So decapitate would mean remove someones head and replace it with a different, but equally functional, head ?

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

So that would be 're-orbit' technology?

Re: Where is the "corrections"link?

Or more usefully 1391152684 Brontosauruses (Brontosauri ?)

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

If they can de-orbit geostationary satellites then they have technology which is valuable

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

Re: Oh no...

Lucky Goldstar (LG) has annual sales of $65Bn

But I assume you but your TVs from the English Electric Valve company

UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

Re: Give me 10 lines by the hand of the most honest of men (Or his Internet usage)

>Welcome your new AI-powered Welcome your new AI-powered Cardinal Richlieu..

Anti-English, pro-French, pro-catholic, terrorist detected

Re: is crucial to keeping the public safe

Back in the 70s we had lots child abusers in the BBC and government and lots of terrorism - and nobody monitoring our home computers

So if we have lots of police monitoring our home computers we won't have any child abuse or terrorism

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs

Re: what's a legitimate business decision and what's not

Then it makes no difference whether the employee or the company signs the contract.

The minion still can't switch jobs for more $$$.

Re: what's a legitimate business decision and what's not

There are some legitimate business reasons. If you are hiring a consultant or a contractor and paying $$$$ where $$ goes to the employee and $$ goes to the provider you might offer the employee $$$ to switch to contracting for you directly.

It would be impossible to operate a consultant business other than as a one man band

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

Re: Street Policing??

But only cos the police have been forced out onto the street by encryption

If they were allowed to sit in the office and go through your phone messages to find things you had done wrong, or stories to sell tot he tabloids, they wouldn't' be out on the street endangering innocent members of the public.

Re: Assumptions -- No -- Never heard of them!!

>..what about "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"..

sounds like the sort of thing a guilty person would say

Anyway, if you're using encryption you are a criminal, cos using encryption is a crime

Re: Don't call me Shirley

>Surely they know that this will only allow them to spy on normal folk, businesses and thick crims?

No it will only be used against terrorists, organised crime and (checks notes) child porn

It won't be used against fly-tippers, school catchment area shoppers, dog-shit not-picker-up or the families of murdered children where you didn't bother to investigate cos the victim was black