Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again

Re: A solution?

Well obviously, if the government was for the benefit of society that would be socialism.

Instead, guess who capitalism is set up to benefit?

H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse

Re: Abuse of H1B spouse EADs by the same agencies / body shops

>Never struck me that subtle humour was an defining american trait. Anything more intellectual than slapstick requires a laughter track.

I never said which box identified the Americans

>Identifying the irony probably ticks the un-/non-american box,

Bingo

> Who can blame students enrolling in Uni/College for avoiding those careers for ones in Law, Medicine,

I was a researcher at Caltech many years ago.

A prof from UCLA told me that all his science grad students were kids of first generation Chinese/Indian immigrants, except the Russians who had left after the wall came down.

He was worried that if the IVY league law/medical schools weren't racist and let in the same students the USA would be fscked - because there would be nobody left doing science.

Re: Abuse of H1B spouse EADs by the same agencies / body shops

They should introduce a CAPTCHA where you have to pick out the irony, then we could weed out foreigners from American candidates

Re: Abuse of H1B spouse EADs by the same agencies / body shops

It's terrible how the world's most advanced computer companies in the world's most advanced economy can be so easily fooled by these unskilled, unqualified foreign applicants.

Re: hose out the stable first

Well you could drain the swamp but you'd have to bring in a bunch of Dutch engineers

Re: When did the change happen?

Sorry "vet" the applications

Obvious solution

Visas are a scarce resource. Some companies would hugely benefit from bringing in semiconductor engineers to run their new $bn fab. Some want to bring in cheap employees, underpay them and use them for low value work.

Fortunately we have a whole science of allocation of scarce resources among those who would realize most value. In your language it is called "reflected sound of underground spirits"

So if only America could be persuaded to become capitalist we could have companies simply bid for H1 places. Highest bidder wins.

Re: When did the change happen?

They introduced a cap, so everyone still has t fullfil all those requirements but there are 10x as many applications as places. And nobody wants to actually get the applications

Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos

Ironic if they just nationalized Spacex and he just got "thoughts and prayers" from the investors

Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

Re: Conference

Had to do a last minute "drive this kit to Amsterdam tonight".

They put me up at an amazing Japanese hotel in Amsterdam, full of JAL aircrew, in a fantastic suite bigger than my flat.

Every hour all night I got woken up by a computer alarm that beeped for a second and stopped before I could find it.

So set my watch to wake me up just before and I was ready to hunt down the source.

A spare fax machine in the office off the the meeting room was out of paper!

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

Re: Just... wow

At this point the only thing HP could do to harm the brand further would be to merge with Boeing

Re: This feels like an own goal...

>If they lose they'll have to stop doing it and start the long haul of rebuilding their reputation - if they can.

If they lose they pay $$$ to the lawyers and a few c to each owner and then add small print to each new printer / each new software update acknowledging that you allow this.

Re: never again

It's a shame - I have an old scope with a proud HP badge - from the days when HP was HP

I even HP <enter> Calculator <enter> own <enter>

But my 15year-old $99 Brother mono-laser is still running happily on it's n'th cheap replacement drum

US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data

Re: 'AI', another nail in the coffin of copyright?

That's why the USA needs a national theatre, a national movie studio, a national recording studio and official authors. Then artists could be compensated for their work and the results would be freely available for all without copyright.

Nothing much would change - except the over muscled super heroes with the flags on their chests and the shiny biceps would also wave sickles as well as hammers

It should also apply to non-AI work as well

Writers and film makers should be forced to disclose what books/movies they have read or watched and have influenced them.

These people are blatant in their open practice of going to college where they do nothing but study the copyright works of previous artists and learn to copy them.

It will presumably limit Eng lit degrees to only studying works from before the 20C. So Kurosawa remaking Shakespeare as Samurai movies will be ok, but American directors remaking Samurai movies in space will have to pay up.

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

>produced work contains recognisable elements from other, copyrighted, pieces of art you can call it copyright infringement.

That's Hollywood fscked then.

CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024

Science either costs money and doesn't have a payback this quarter or is denies the fundamental truth of our ever-loving FSM

Re: Hmm

In this time of [high inflation] / [recession] we need to cut taxes on the highest earners to [promote investment] / [stimulate spending]

Re: Wait a minute

If they don't give the military more than it asked for then the land of Apple Pie is in danger.

If we only had 19 nuclear powered super-carrier fleets rather than 20, then Venezuela could simply sweep into N. Dakota - just look what happened to Ukraine

Re: What's the justification

Being on the science committee is famously political suicide, there are no large well funded bodies to contribute to your re-election funds.

So it's full of members who are either are in such safe seats they don't need to campaign or losers who are going to be wiped out anyway

Reform of USA's Section 702 spying rule may make it to a vote this week

Re: All your online activity belong us /s

So they would be able to record you in your own bathroom where you are just showing some boxes of your own private papers to some very close comrades

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Re: Did you ever hear about...

And so all US companies in the EU are subject to the harsh oversight of the Irish data protection office.

Is it still in a single room above a corner shop in the middle of nowhere?

Re: Irony

We get all our power from rain. Over here the electric company is just known as hydro.

Re: Irony

>Yorkshire would work also, I believe they are still part of the UK.

North Yorkshire at least you would have nice stone built field bit barns. Tha might have to share them wi cows mind

>I can understand the words, unlike South Yorkshire.

Woz e sez abart t'arn ?

Re: Irony

> Britain removing its GDPR rules which will then lead to EU countries not wanting to host data in Britain

But if it's Apple/Google/Microsoft then those massive data centers and servers in Britain are actually philosophically, legally (and taxably) in Dublin

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder

use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire

So if he had gone to a Starbucks in New York, or used a VPN to send the money within New York, he wouldn't have done anything wrong ?

Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100

Software support

When asked about software support intel replied - we're a hardware company

UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats

>The fire happened on a Friday night and, as I was taking an OU field trip on the Saturday, didn't immediately find out about it.

A likely story. Better arrest him just in case, yes sarge

Re: Progress

> financial hit of £1,206

So the dopey mysognistic term on reception clicks on a dodgy link and we have to get her a new PC from Currys until your nephew can come in and reinstall windows

or

We must immediately shut down all operations at Bert's windows cleaners, contact National-Super-Secret-Police-Super-Secret-Super-Cyber-Super-Unit, NAFO, MI4 (the one they don't talk about) and the MMB and implement plan Gotterdamerung from our secret backup data center on a secret island somewhere

Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff

Re: Bolts for Boeing

At least in the 60s they didn't rely on foreign technology from WWII

They aren't Boeing maintenance - the maintenance is done by the airlines. Or for smaller operators sub-contracted to people like Lufthansa-Technik

Since Southwestern has something like 400 flights/day from Denver they probably have a significant maintenance operation there

Re: Bolts for Boeing

So NASA is chasing eclipses with a foreign jet fighter from the 1940s - and we're expected to believe they had the technology to land on the moon ?

Re: Is it Just Me??

So are the CFM engine cowls anything to do with the GE turbines from the 60s?

Does Boeing solely design the engine cowls are are the engine maker also involved ?

It does seem a little unfair, the BA777 engine fire at Las Vegas was the fault of a GE engine, the BA777 that landed short at Heathrow was a Rolls Royce engine design flaw - but they get reported as Boeing 777 crashes

Re: Video looks like a landing not a takeoff

>The incident flight was only 35 minutes, hardly flying around in circles.

Yes that was my point, they couldn't fly around in circles with a potential damaged wings so had to land overweight.

The 737-Max8 has a range of 3300nm so while not the longest of long-range has a fair bit of fuel onboard

It also has a max landing weight about 15t less than it's MTO weight - so in an aircraft that can carry 20t of fuel and can't dump fuel might be concerning.

ps. Although this flight was probably not heavily loaded for a domestic flight

Re: Video looks like a landing not a takeoff

>Is there anything which isn't annoying or dangerous? This is starting to get ridiculous!

No it's a very good aircraft. It's low enough to the ground that it can carry air-stairs on board so you don't need a terminal, air bridges or ground crew, you can load baggage without any special equipment.

But this does mean you have no room for wheel bay doors and it might get tricky if engines ever get bigger - but we can worry about that in the future if these 'jet airliners' ever catch on.

Re: Bolts for Boeing

All major airliners use Imperial fasteners - even Airbus.

When airbus was trying to break into the US market they realised that demanding every mechanic buy a new set of tools and have everyone stock a confusingly similar set of nuts, bolts and screws would be a challenge - so they stuck to precision components based on the length of 3 barley corns

Re: Video looks like a landing not a takeoff

Which is annoying on a 737. One of the interesting 'historical' features of the 737 is that it can't dump fuel so you either have to fly around ion circles for a few hours - not recommended if you suspect you have a bit of wing missing, or you land overweight and risk damaging some expensive concrete

Re: Is it Just Me??

>It is too early to apportion blame but how do you know it *isn't* a Boeing issue? 9 years service is not a long time for a plane and manufacturers have been involved in maintenance for years

South West operates 3000-4000 flights / day, there are about 3000 CFM56 engines in service so this could either be somebody forgot to latch a cowling shut on one of them - or a design flaw that took a decade to show up on a component that is opened and closed every day on the worlds most common airliner.

US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies

Re: A physical visit is a lot more reliable

But insurance is a game of playing the odds.

This particular 17 year old driving a Ferrari might be a super safe driver who only over drives it out of the garage to wash it and perform careful maintenance - but the prejudiced insurance company is likely to run off screaming into the distance at a speed that only a Ferrari could keep up with

404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show

Re: Train 404

Did they have a tape marked "Erasure" ?

Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens

Re: But I thought that nobody .....

Unfortunately as computers got better the simulation became more detailed and so we need higher resolution cameras to screen-capture

Re: Liquid cooled or AI

But this is an America telescope so it might be an Imperial shit-ton, a short shit-ton or a long shit-ton, best to just stick to the metric shit-tonne to avoid confusion

Re: Don't look up

But the satelites are moving very fast and will only cross a pixel for a tiny fraction of a second during the 15sec exposure so it will only obscure a tiny amount

The reason the are building it in the Andes is so that giant Andean condors can be trained to fly in circles over the camera whenever a lizard-people ship is arriving.

There was a design (don't know if ever got built) for a camera like this for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (IIRC) that had two sets of CCDS back to back.

You took a picture with one set while you were reading-out the other and then flipped them over to repeat the process.

CCDs actually store the image electronically on the chip and it stays there until reading it out destroys the image and clears the chip.

ps forget to add.

We used to do this with giant (0.5M) glass photographic plates that had to be bent to match the curved focal plane you get with a very wide field of view telescope.

It took a while to get to cameras that matched the resolution of 2ft wide film frame

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

Re: It wont be technical issues which sink this

Munich fsck-up technically as well. They decided to do it in a big-bang rather than a roll-out of certain roles/depts, they started with their own custom distribution instead of working with eg. Suse

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Re: Cloud

>For that money, they could have built multiple state of the art data centres to serve the citizens.

But cloud is really useful for when you have very lumpy unpredictable computing demand, like a once-a-year promotional sale, or rendering CGI for a new movie release - or running a 1000 year old government.

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

Re: Not surprising at all

Also if you are a church you could make a totally tax-free purchase of a million bibles without anyone suggesting that this is a political donation.

After all a church buying bibles that's normal