Posts by Chris 15

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slightly disappointing article

No wanting to post the picture for this one?

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Re: What is it with managers and training costs?

Well maybe try and find a course that isn't being given in Tahiti or Hawaii? ;-)

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

I guess they test in production then..

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Let's see

Laughable Economic Options?

Last Egotist's Onanism?

Left Efficiency Out?

Limited Emergency Optimism?

Less Effective Operations?

I guess this needs a better wag/wordsmith than I.

Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

well I have to say

This was a terribly written article (unbelievable lack of any hard and fast numbers) and that I wanted more actual information about, because this is important.

So I went to the ISDglobal article that was frankly not better, with just an executive study and poorly defined methodology and no meaningful metrics cited.

It feels like less than half the story told by ISDGlobal and no desire to actually justify their findings using metrics.

El Reg had almost nothing to work with.

This ISDGlobal study was so poorly fleshed out in their article that it was not worth El Reg's time doing a story, the decision to publish this on el Reg is questionable.

Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators

my thoughts too

Aircraft gas turbines, at least more recent ones, are heavily optimise to operate most efficiently at certain atmospheric pressures (not sea level..) and power/thrust levels, and this does not even consider the wasted wall of hot high speed air coming out of the back of them, to put it crudely.

They're also optimised with weight in mind.

You'd be better off efficiency wise using diesel generators, or having them built out of old diesel motors with better static cooling loops added, and a generator slapped onto the crankshaft I suspect. And eoled diesel motors are much cheaper and vastly more available.

Ofcom refuses to bite over Openreach's fiber freebies

hmmm

That stop sale policy is problematic.

So if a consumer for whatever reason wishes to obtain fixed line broadband service 25% of the premises will have a conversation along the lines of:

"We can't provide dsl as we have a fibre only policy in your area"

"Oh okay then, can I order a fibre broadband option then please?"

Err, no. We can't provide you with fibre broadband"

Something something joined up thinking..

UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

Re: How about FTTP for urbal locations, OpenReach?

14.4?? Is that kilobits? What modem standard from last century is that again?

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Re: Tracking

Laws, like, say, the GDPR (UK GDFPR for us brits), which say that data controllers require permission, and which setting do not track clearly signals to the website that we do not grant permission for the data dragnet to be used and clearly fall within the gdpr meaning for witholding consent??

This is a poor move by Mozilla and I'm hoping an addon quickly adds it back in.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

Re: I read through

Switch the beancounter off then back on again with a defib pack? Cattleprods being somewhat frowned upon..

Re: Thermostats

Sorry to 'well Aktuwalleee' but I don't know of any internal combustion engined car that does not have a 'heater core' for cabin heating..albeit fed heat via the engine coolant loop which will send most of the waste heat to the radiator once the engine is at proper operating temperature

So you are kind of correct, but not technically correct.

Have a beer anyway ---------->

Brits think AI in the workplace is all chat, no bot for now

what a load of tripe

I love how organisation like this claim nebulous things about what a large group of people 'think' based on a ridiculously small and selective sample size. Talk about desperately trying to gin up publicity about themselves!

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

that makes me think

We should unleash amanfrommars1 on spammed-in as a 'thought leader', he might get a cult following!

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Re: 'lessons learned'

Yes, that would be truer, however this is West Sussex County Council you're talking about. They're frankly appalling

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

Re: Hasn't the left been saying for quite a while that free speech is not free from consequences?

No, and neither have you. Because you are being disingenuous and spreading lies.

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you're 16... or X, Instagram and Facebook

Now the UK should do the same. We can all live without these known cesspits full of lies, hate and exploitation

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

'Exit interview'

ugh, that hoary old chestnut.

Let's force someone with (now) no stake in the business to have to sit through a grilling and lecturing session because Galloping Corporatitis!

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

Re: "Russia doesn't lie to deceive you. Russia lies to insult you."

Introduce him to window skydiving more like- obviously no parachute

Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns

Re: WOT! Amazon screws over customers?

Surely you could go down the criminality route. Commercial copyright infringement is usually a criminal offense in most jurisdictions?

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars

Re: FOUR YEARS?

Indeed, this is unbelievably weak. Considering the cash this guy has no doubt squirreled away it's pathetic

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

Well surely Cow-orker works in this case..

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

Re: Questionable resolution

Oh do give it a test with the ad hominem fallacy silliness

Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature

hey look!

An addons (i guess you mean browser addons) are bad strawman!

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

Re: Three point one pints please

Aussie beer isn't really better chilled so ..

US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation

my suspicion?

They have a geosynchronous satellite continuously watching them concrete cows. That's the only thing to worry about...

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

Re: But surely

I'm sceptical, without a load to increase resistance surely the increase in max amperage should have had no effect? Absent some type of short the only way to overload would surely be to increase voltage?

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Odd tone here

I find it interesting that El Reg is ignoring the lack of actual privacy in this" 'Privacy' Sandbox" falsely titled Personal Data Grab update

Rather than just being able to disable third party tracking cookies like in any browser that doesn't treat you, the user, as the product for their advertiser customers, Google decide to make it so that only they are able to sell you the the highest bidder.

The alternative to not being tracked across the web via third party tracking cookies is NOT to be tracked across the web by Google instead.

Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

Re: Am I the only one that read the article?

You may have read the article, but I did too, either I'm going blind or you are hallucinating when you allege that she was using 'arm' logos based on what the article said.

Also there is no allegation that 'other things to give the impression it was associated with Arm.' were present on these domains.

Perhaps you were reading a different article?

Perhaps you have further verifiable information that would add to this story?

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

As I understand it only counts if you marry a cousin though...

China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium

Re: Middle Kingdom

So your riposte boils down to 'How dare you say they are persecuted, hey look at the fancy trains (which they would need special permission to use- but we'll gloss over that)'

Just to clue you in a few massively over-budget rail projects does not mean great infrastructure

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Drivel

Do try harder next time though

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

Re: I think I get it...

A police roadblock for a suspect wanted in connection with a crime is not the same as a dragnet by the xenophobe squad

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

odd one

You would have thought that the BOFH and Kelvin would have a long-standing understanding, or else it would be all out war, possibly involving armed autonomous death robots equipment delivery devices.

That's assuming the PFY doesn't take matters into his own hands before Simon even considered it...

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Nice bit of neutral reporting. Not

Shove your inane blathering where the sun doesn't shine, sunshine.

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

Whilst I wouldn't put it so crudely, I came here to say the same thing. There's a war going on, and one side has shown it has very little in the way of morality.

Surely it's common sense to consider security ramifications of allowing potentially compromised or actually bad actors or their accounts access to modify and possibly compromise n different software sources? Risk mitigation is a prudent course of action

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

BAH

VoiceOfWinnie, stop talking.

Here's something for you to ponder:

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

Go away and think about your life choices maybe?

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

ooookay then

By the way, are Elmo's boots good lickin'?

User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

well, maybe..

The message should have read "Software update in progress - PLEASE WAIT"

with "Do not attempt to shut down or restart this PC until this message dissappears" underneath it.

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

Re: Do be evil

I was imagining a robot from Sirius Cybernetic Corps with a Genuine People Personality to be fair

'Have a Great Day' at the end :)

Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth

hahahahahahaha

Sorry, just killing my self laughing.

I can imagine the scene now:

Senior manglement phb: 'These maintenance costs for the new nuclear generator are far too high! Sack the maintenance crew!'

Cowed underling: 'yessir'

Cue miniature Chernobyl's all over the place

No, just no

Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up

Re: Hmmmmmmm

Try having all of the facts.

The Tesla reportedly cut suddenly across 'multiple' lanes of traffic and then braked.

Kind of unreasonable to expect people to leave a safe braking distance to a car that isn't in front of you at that point ...

Re: Hmmmmmmm myxipix2

Did the party about the Tesla crossing multiple lanes of traffic just before slamming on the anchors not cross your awareness?

Bit hard to maintain distance from the car in front of you when it has just appeared there suddenly a moment before...

With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

Re: Gotta love management speak

Euphemisms, surely?

Like this wonderful bit:

>>Rob Shuter, who runs BT Enterprise, will “step down from executive life and spend time with family and on his personal interests,”

Sooo... paid off to sling his hook then?

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

Re: Oh boy

Those on the receiving end will be worrying about the reaction, whether it's a chemical or atomic reaction on that warhead they're receiving is probably a moot point if they're the ones expected to play catch...

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

Meh

Go back to your vegemite ;p

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

Re: Supermarkets do this to people already.

The big difference in the supermarket is that it is a public place... With no reasonable expectation of privacy.

You could order your Pappa John's cardboard circle whilst stark naked (best to don some type of clothing when you accept the delivery though...)

Can't do that in a supermarket

Airbus auctions off bits from retired A380 superjumbo jet

Ahem

"A pair of crashes that killed everyone on board in 2018 and 2019 grounded the 737 MAX until last year, with flaws in its MCAS software ultimately found to have contributed to the fatal accidents."

(Emphasis mine)

Have to say that's putting it rather mildly guys.

Florida asks Supreme Court if it's OK to ban content moderation it doesn't like

Re: Sauce for the goose...

Has'Troof' social for 50 million fools to sign up then?

Another though here is this: doesn't the minimum 50 million subscribers bit fall afoul of the equal protection amendment thing? ("We're treating you differently to these other folks because, all else being equal, this arbitrary number means we want to")

Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

Almost

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines Leafblowers

(to try and keep these beasts cool)

Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

LOL hell no

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu... 'far'left', just stop it with the 'the left creates monsters too' bs. People who use the 'communism' schtick to justify why they should be dictators are not 'far left', they're simply opportunist thugs. Similarly Communism isn't 'far left', its just another way of hoodwinking the masses. I'm surprised you left Hitler out with his National 'Socialism' in your tripe.