Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds

Bitlocker

> Microsoft's on-by-default BitLocker and Fast Startup features will prevent you mounting NTFS volumes from Linux, unless you manually disable them in Windows.

Isn't that rather the behavior you would want from a full disk encryption ?

Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

Re: No shit sherlock

Google strives to send you to sites that have Google ads

So all the responses have become like those recipe sites that have 20pages about their Italian Grandmother to click through before it tells you how long to boil an egg

Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy'

Apple don't need to slurp your data to market to you. You bought Apple and therefore will continue buying anything Apple wants to sell you as long as you keep staring at the shiny Apple device

>What specific information do you think people will be angry about telling the government but willing to put into a Facebook form? I can't think of anything.

In some of the more G*D-fearing states: that you are a friend of the star of wizard of Oz or that you are expecting a baby ?

Or suppose you were a sovereign government outside the USA, possibly one which encompassed 27 European economies, and thought to yourself:

You know, those American chaps are right, it's totally unconscionable to have the private data of your citizens in the hands of filthy foreigners

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, TPFKAT you have 180days to divest all your companies in the Eu

Congress aren't owned by China. Congress are owned by Russia and Russia is more afraid of China than the US is - so Russia's people are anti-China

The one notable example is the guy who used to be anti-China when Russia employed him is still anti-China, but is now being paid by somebody who is invested in TikTok

The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?

Re: Growth & innovation

>If government cared about economic growth they'd have delivered some in the past 14 years, when in real terms it has flatlined.

But that's the fault of the previous government and Jeremy Corbyn

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence

Re: Whether they will look outside the company

It's no-frills. You want frills ?

Ryanair will just charge more for a seat with an opening window

Didn't he replace the last CEO after the MAX crashes?

He's getting fired to be seen to be doing something about the door plug

At this point you could just wire 'send press release firing the CEO' into the black box

Re: Whether they will look outside the company

>Indeed, and I think that they ought to start recruiting senior executives from the likes of Airbus and Embraer.

They tried to buy Embraer to get some cheap non-union younger dynamic engineers but it got shot down by the monopy authorities

Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

Re: Reason #854637

But those are salary jobs with a pension and presumably employment rights

For a contractor job where you have to pay your own tax, benefits and training and spend time unemployed (but not able to claim) you need to double the salary

Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks

Re: I'm beginning to smell a big fat commie rat

?Commie?

They are selling exploits on the open market for a profit - while our own governments keep them locked up inside inefficient state owned security services

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale

Re: Geoid, anybody ?

That's because you get a lot of sponges living in the Persian Gulf

Re: What are they using as their zero point?

Verne equinox is when the sun leaves the southern hemisphere for the north.

Frankly it seems unfair of the south to hang onto the sun all winter when we could really use it

Re: What are they using as their zero point?

>Shirley the problem with that is Greenwich (and everywhere else) is slowly changing latitude, altitude and orientation compared to the rest of the world's land masses.

No, the rest of the world may move relative to Greenwich - but that's their problem

Interesting though, Greenwich was the reference because the telescope was built on the meridian (or rather the meridian was the axis of the telescope). now you have to combine the various meridian telescopes all around the world all on different continental plates - so solving their relative locations to each other to within mm is interesting.

Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs

Re: Blackwell?

David Harold Blackwell - American mathmo

Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays

What a surprise

So the companies have been given $$$$$ by the government to build $$$$$ chip fabs urgently

So in a robust capital market the materials suppliers have responded in a fiduciary responsible manner by raising material prices to enhance shareholder value.

while the evil money grabbing communist unions are trying to extort higher wages from these vital national security industries

US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions

>Sale and Leaseback is a common form of corporate asset stripping but I don't think Boeing has gone this particular route.

Well they out-scourced their non-core activity of making airframes to a spun off subsidiary for a more economically efficient outcome - to the general benefit of almost(*) all concerned

(* ignoring the very small proportion of the company who might be actually flying on one of the economically assembled airframes)

"It will end up in endless management, bonuses all around and stock buybacks. "

Which will ultimately trickle down to the great unwashed masses for the general good of the economy

Well if the tax payer's money went into the plant infrastructure that would be central planning and before you know it we would be waving red banners and putting ex-presidents in glass boxes

Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week'

Re: I can see cost savings here.

No the busses will be run by the council because they are a loss making public service vital to getting people to work and school.

However the roads will be privartised because they are infrastructure and only private industry can do long term investment in infrastructure

<ad popup> If you download our app today you get a 30% voucher off use of the road outside your home in off-peak hours <ad>

It will quietly collapse in a year or two cos there is a 3-5 year wait list at ASML for the next-gen kit to fill them. Then there will be a cyclic downturn in the semiconductor industry and the drop in demand mean the plants wont be needed.

Don't forget stock buy-backs - Intel is still in the SP500 so it boosts peoples ETFs

Wait a minute, if this boosts everyone's portfolio is this communism ?

As if working at Helldesk weren't bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims

Re: Helpdeskers are disciplined to be helpful

And that would still be more helpful than my actual helpdesk who would tell me to file a support ticket.

Then close the ticket cos I had selected reason='security' when I should have selected 'access permissions' then when I open a new ticket close it because I should have selected 'security'

Re: Helpdeskers are disciplined to be helpful

I need to setup MFA app on my phone ?

Full instructions are on the intranet

How do I access the intranet ?

You need to enter the code from the authentication app on your phone

Thank you for using BloodyStupid(tm) the new AI assistant from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints division

Share and Enjoy !

NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

Re: Unknown scheduling practices or assumed higher costs

Or the central storage system charges more in grant overhead than it would cost you to buy your own NAS

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

Re: bread

You mean lower gluten bread enriched with added minerals ?

This ridiculous demands of the workshy for a 5 and 1/2 day week is being led by that arch communist Henry Ford

If workers expect almost 2 days a week off the world will collapse, this is unreasonable government interference in true American capitalism

The woke mob will be stopping me sending children up the chimney next

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

The problem is this political interference forcing honest American companies to pay workers.

Given how beneficial the lifetime unpaid internships allegedly were we must reintroduce the system to make American 1850 again

IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%

Re: Forget about the stratosphere...

It's IBM, fire force-reduce everyone above average pay grade, give residue a 7% rise = half wages bill

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data

Re: > The secretary just handed me the entire dossier

>To Mike 137: As above, make it literally impossible. Nobody should have bulk-access, only aggregated data and some meta-data.

Tricky if you're the admin running the backup

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

The "cross-platform" gaffe shows they have really lost the plot

Do you think Microsoft would rather pay 100,000 developers to make Windows12 that you will pay $10 for an OEM license

Or charge you $30/month to use Office 365 online from your Mac or Linux box?

Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

Re: How much?

Berkshire Hathaway seems to be doing rather more of the acquisition business than making coats these days

Re: Sorry????

It's the ones you haven't heard about, who don't appear on twitter or in the press conference - but are the ones quietly organizing stuff behind the scenes. Occasionally giving 'the boss' shiny things to play with, and packed rallies to rant at, while planning the train timetables.....

Re: "Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?"

Then they would get together to persecute the animated Spiderman series sect

Re: Hey Buddy... can you spare a dime (or a billion or two)

And the crazy bit is that people are blowing each other up over different interpretations of the same 10th generation copy of a translation of a translation of the fairy story.

Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?

Re: Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

>Only for federal crimes, however he is also charged by several states.

The thing about being a dictator, even only on day one, is that the niceties of the rules don't really apply.

Unless Twitter offer him a better cut of the ad revenue

Re: "the use of a Chinese firm"

China is the enemy of his boss.

Unless the sanctions are biting enough that the checks are late and he's looking for a new one

Re: How much?

Presumably at least Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

Re: Why would Musk want to buy that

>The only reason Musk would buy it is to shut it down and force Trump back to Twitter.

Or for the gratitude of a future president

And a ban on imported EVs and a $100K/vehicle federal subsidy for American built EVs ( only valid for companies with 5 letter names beginning with T) ?

Plus a contract for all US satellite launches for the full 1000 year Reich Presidency ?

Re: Sorry????

US Navy nuclear powered super carrier = $37Bn

Replacement for USN Trident nuclear submarines = $100Bn

Owning the guy in charge of them = priceless

Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips

Re: Ivor Catt

The clever bit isn't saying: you should use all the chips on this wafer in one computer rather than chopping them up and re-assembling them on a PCB - it's making it actually work.

Otherwise I invented the intergalactic hyper death-ray battleship on my school book in infants

Re: An unanswered question

|The engineering that makes this possible is mapping out and routing around the bad cores.

The problem has always been that this costs money and wafer area, so it was always more cost effective to chop the wafer up, test each chip and sell them separately

It's only with tasks that need a bazzillion cores and 44GB of ram for a single task that this thing starts to make sense

We refer to them as "medieval" Allen keys

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

Re: WTAF?

If it had a securely fastened lid the cat would tipped the whole thing over

History repeating itself

hope Tokyo doesn't have a giant telecommunications tower in the middle of the city that could be felled by a giant kitten...

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble

Legal fees for reviewing each press release saying it's still out there. Licensing fees for using the NASA logo on the release