Posts by druck

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

Water and Russian's are not good for servers, I have no opinion either way on Bhuddists.

Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU

Re: Excellent little camera

I'm still waiting for the Sony STARVIS 2 camera to become available for the Pi. You can still get the first version arducam, but the resolution isn't sufficient.

Forget the Kia Boyz: Crooks could hijack your car with just a smartphone

Re: Connectivity

Car buying MUST NOT HAVE's

1. Any sort of remote app or connectivity that can't be disabled

2. Large touchscreen instead of physical controls

Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India

Scooters

Maybe the reason why so many scooters are broken is due to crashes of the exhausted 70 hour a week workers?

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

Re: Not a problem

He's got to try that line out on your first, to see if it sounds more plausible when delivered to his wife at 2am, reeking of someone else's perfume.

Victims lose $70K to one single wallet-draining app on Google's Play Store

Re: “The attackers behind the app clearly knew their market well.”

The whole crypto thing looks like it was designed as a scam from top to bottom, so it's hardly surprising they exactly where to hit.

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

Re: FFS

Very few people actually want an overpriced soulless battery car these days, those that have tried them miss the experience and aural feedback of driving a proper car, those that haven't have no interested in a one peddle milk float no matter what the claimed 0-60 times. Those who consider driving to be the just the process of getting from A-B and hate the experience, value the entertainment system of the EV more than it's driving dynamics, and even they now will be but off by the atrocious buggy mess which is the enviable consequence of engaging InfoSys in any project.

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

€19K?! Forget about the fancy 3D pod, just get a second hand chest freezer - air tight and the local recycling centre will take it away afterwards (although probably not the contents).

AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand

Hopefully some enterprising people will find a use for all that redundant low precision FP math capability in the NPUs, like SETI and folding@home did back when CPU had idle cycles going spare.

WP Engine hits back after Automattic CEO calls it 'cancer'

No, it's more like; I've given away my life's work for free, because I expect to make money from hosting it. Now someone else has come along and taken some of that, and I need to find a way of forcing them to give me a cut.

Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030

Re: Seems a common issue with US infrastructure

US Airports are old and poorly designed compared especially to Asia and the major hubs in the Middle East - again is this due to the localised operational model where no-one wants to spend money rebuilding?

The two largest airports in the UK have 2 and 1 runways respectively, even backofbeyond regional airport in the US has at least 7.

Russia's digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing: Malware hits surge

Re: This article

I imagine it is getting harder and harder for Russia to have much impact on Ukraine in this way, as they've run through their whole library of exploits by now. They'll have to continually buy or develop new ones

As they say in Russia; Слава богу за майкрософт

Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh

Re: Tracking and Performance

I wish the BBC would use a performance tracker, so they realise their news web pages always redraw again after a second with all browsers on every type of device - that would be useful.

'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting

Re: has since hired third-party cybersecurity experts

They also sponsor the HAAS F1 team, which is how I've heard for them.

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

Re: Scientific Calculator

@Andy Non while many cheap POS physical calculators will give the Daily Mail answer, the Windows calculator is the only software I've ever seen give both answers depending on what mode it was in.

Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent

Re: modular datacenter architecture

Well the Chinese knock off version.

Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims

Re: try this

And I keep posting; ban the method used in 100% of ransomware crimes - crypto.

Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot

Oh ye of so little imagination.

There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

Watchout for the reverse takeover.

I'd be worried the remnants of Intel management might convince Qualcomm to give x86 another chance in mobile.

WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all

Unless it's a built-in app.

FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

Re: Make paying ransom a crime.

It's time to stop the ransomware and criminalize the payments. You can't arrest a botnet operator in China, but you can arrest a CEO whose company paid. Stop the payments, end the profits, and you stop the ransomware.

If you ban crypto, you have stopped the payments.

The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

Re: let mut x: int = 1;

Rust defaults to immutable variables for safety

The entire point of a variable is to vary, that is the default of any sensible language.

A non varying variable is a special case called a constant.

Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions

Up to that last line, I still thought there was hope for you. Enjoy your chatty and polite hallucinations.

ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling

Re: Who moves first?

The TCAS anti-collision system for aircraft makes sure that the avoiding action taken is in opposite directions. Obviously satellites aren't all fitted with transponders, and approach speeds are several orders of magnitude faster.

China’s quantum* crypto tech may be unhackable, but it's hardly a secret

Quantum FOMO

Let China tie up its best brains and biggest pots of money in chasing a technology that will never work as promised and will never be needed.

Isn't this exactly what I've been saying all along - let others bankcrupt themselves on Quantum FOMO.

23andMe settles class-action breach lawsuit for $30 million

I'm sure medical insurance companies have got their hands on this data and increased premiums based on the increased likelihood of various conditions indicated by the genetic data. So it could cost the victims of data breach many thousands of dollars over their lifetimes, and they need to be looking for a lot more compensation.

Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500!

I dare to say that occasionally of the comments are better than the original story, so I definitely agrees with this.

Re: Dear me, 10 years already ?

The only website other I've read for so long is the BBC News. I've been reading El Reg since... I'm not exactly sure, it has me down as signing up for comments on 6^th June 2007, but I'd been reading for many years before that, back when we only had dodgy dial-up.

UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status

Exempt AI

While many data centres house functions which could be considered critical national infrastructure, any hosting AI workloads should be exempted. We don't want this useless waste of vast quantities of energy being given priority access to the grid in times of high demand.

Healthcare giant to pay $65M settlement after crooks stole and leaked nude patient pics

Actually another good reason to make paying ransoms to criminals illegal.

No ban crypto - no easy way to pay, no viable crime.

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

Keep taking the pills.

You don't need to be a conspiracy nut to explain Microsoft's history of bad behaviour.

Wanna watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park the lounge room

Spewagon

Watching a large TV in a moving vehicle with windows tinted out? That's a great receipy for motion sickness.

Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info

Re: Dodged a Bullet, this time!

By the time you've paid for the gas for the truck, it probably doesn't come out any cheaper.

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

Re: Reminds me of a claim by a sysadmin

Talk to the hand as the AI isn't listening.

Re: 'Exit interview'

A little different to when I'd resigned from a job and one morning met the IT guy in the lift, who remarked he was surprised to see me in as I was supposed to have left and he was just about to go and delete all my accounts. I told him I was leaving but in exactly a month's time, he reassured me he would not do anything until I'd sorted it out with my boss. On getting to my floor, I found my boss was on holiday, his boss was on holiday, there was no one more senior in that building, and HR wouldn't talk to me as their system said I was no longer an employee. I was pretty annoyed as my family had already relocated across the country, and I was staying behind to work out my notice. I didn't know if I was still going to be paid, and considered walking out there and then. In the end I convinced the IT guy to hold off for a few days until my boss came back, who quickly corrected my leaving date, and I did get paid. We were able to laugh about this by the time it came to my exit interview, especially after being treated to one last ribeye in our favourite steakhouse.

North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns

Yes let encourage a hostile state taking idiot's pretend money and turning it in to nuclear weapons.

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature

You haven't considered that might be an issue with the 3rd party extension?

GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow

Re: i have yet to see any benefit of Gen AI

I hate AI images, there is always something really annoyingly wrong with them, from extra limbs to nonsense text. LinkedIn was infested with them a few months ago, but they have decreased even that Microsoft owned pit of AI hell. Obviously others have also reacted badly to the people and companies that use them.

Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

By the time...

...there's a version of Mint based on 24.04, they'll have worked out all the problems.

China outspending US, Taiwan, and South Korea combined on chipmaking kit

Re: Banning ASML from doing repairs ...

|f China was a free market this wouldn't be happening.

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Not just TAAT, but...

...Chinese Hyper Efficient Automated Process TAAT

Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain

Re: Not worth it

I'll take your bet on that.

HPE to pursue $4B claim against estate of Mike Lynch over Autonomy acquisition

No, to be fair I would award them something above £0, maybe the cost of a cheap coffee, so HP can wake up and smell it.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Re: NASA wastes so much money

While it is a shame for the crew who don't get to go on this rotation, there are two very capable astronauts already on the station who will be able to do those productive things.

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

Re: was that it supported multiple CPUs

The Risc PC 2 was still quite a few years before multi-core chips were common, particularly in the ARM world, and we would have hoped Acorn would have done some work on RISC OS before it became a reality. Of course that could have happened a few years before hand if the RISC PC 1 had two ARM processor cards fitted (instead of an ARM and x86), or when the Hydra board allowed 4 ARM710 chips to be used, but around that time the StrongARM chip came out, and it was far easier to carry on with a single CPU which was 7x faster than try to make full use of 4 slower CPUs.

Re: 386 and 68020 had ports of Unix

That would have been the R140.

What is missing from the web? We're asking for Google

Re: My starter for 10

Usenet still lives

Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers

Re: Don't forget to check for deceased employees :o

As she hadn't clocked out, I hope they pay the overtime to her estate.

Re: AI couldn't be more incompetent than the humans there

This will affect your credit rating. Check with a ratings agency if the former owner is still showing up as living at the property, if so you can apply to have them removed.

Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks

Fukushima had considerable defences against tsunami's, unfortunately nature came up with a bigger tsunami than anyone had expected.