Posts by diodesign 3493 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Yeah, mea culpa. I was trying to write and edit two pieces at once, as we've got a rush of interesting pieces to get out.
I could have sworn trolls thought she was in either UK or Canada, and when I saw London, I assumed UK when I edited in that paragraph. That was stupid - I hate making mistakes.
It was fixed pretty quick. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong.
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"What's 'left wing' about campaigning for pay rises that reflect the cost of living?"
The overall policies and wishes of EiE are left wing - classic trade unionism - looking through them. It's not a pejorative, it's an observation.
It's funny how some people think we're beyond-woke liberal morons and others think we're channeling the Daily Mail. It's like there's a spectrum of ideologies and we're trying to find a decent spot in the middle.
I have a feeling some of those upset by 'left-wing firebrands' weren't upset we called Boris Johnson a 'Churchill cosplayer'.
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I love it when people try to be pedantic. Love it to bits.
The article says the deal has yet to close - so yes, as you say, and as we acknowledge, Broadcom has not completed the acquisition of VMware.
And don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you think you've spotted something wrong.
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Yeah, it's fixed. It was a bit obvious from the context in the first par. But, fine.
For those saying why trust a whole article if some simple thing is wrong in it. That's a very 1D way one of looking at it. We're most concerned with making sure the main, sensitive parts of a story are correct.
Sometimes that means little things like saying 10 kWh in the first sentence and 10 kW later get overlooked.
Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong, please.
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It is the summer silly season when actual news is thin on the ground. August is the perfect time of tales that seem too good to be true.
On a more serious note, it is just reporting what Chen said, and that a CVE was assigned, which is funny. No one's confirmed the actual issue.
Our readers are smart enough to know how much weight to put on these sorts of yarns.
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FWIW we've added a large update to our piece. I'd like to highlight that we drew attention to the weirdly small sample size and the incorrect use of Autopilot in our initial reporting, which may leave readers rightly healthily skeptical of the project's claims.
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Yeah it's poles, not pole. And the ShadowCam is just a super sensitive camera:
http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/about
Don't forget to drop an email to corrections@theregister.co.uk, please, if you spot anything wrong or weird, so we can fix it right away.
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OK, chill out! The "reasonable comparison" and "less reasonable comparisons" was the paper's viewpoint, not ours, which I've made clearer in the piece. Suffice to say, no, we don't think physical theft of an item is the same as downloading something you weren't going to pay for anyway.
One, this article is critical of the paper in that (for example) we note that the paper cites industry numbers without challenging them, which is not great.
Two, Tom (who wrote the article) is one of our top staff who goes beyond press releases, and routinely ruins an exec's month with original reporting. Gimme a break with this churnalism stuff.
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We meant the /19 is announced as part of a larger /9 block, which is in the /8 range. Here's the passage from MANRS:
"Around 21:25 UTC On 26 July 2022, Rostelecom’s AS12389 network started announcing 17.70.96.0/19. This prefix is part of Apple’s 17.0.0.0/8 block; usually, Apple only announces the larger 17.0.0.0/9 block and not this shorter prefix length."
I've edited that part as it seems to be confusing people. A /19 block is smaller than /9 which is smaller than /8.
Also if you think we've written something wrong, please drop us an email to corrections@theregister.com so we can take a look straight away, thanks.
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It really isn't. Crypto scams are worthless, yes, so watch out for those. Actual crypto, no.
If you go on Coinbase or Robinhood or WeBull or FTX or whatever, and you spend $1,000 on Ethereum, the price of ETH goes up 10%, and you sell, you just made $100 cash (minus any applicable tax). If the price goes down 10% and you sell, you just set fire to $100.
So yes, real money at play here. $1.5m of it in the alleged Coinbase case.
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Yes, if the allegations in that particular case are true, that would be insider trading.
Whenever a coin is listed on a large exchange like Coinbase, its value goes up - at least initially.
Speaking generally: Let's say a CB staffer quietly tips you off that a token is about to be listed. You buy thousands of those tokens from other exchanges, or perhaps mine a load yourself. Then it's listed on CB and the price shoots up as demand kicks in. When it's gone high enough for you, sell the tokens, and bag a profit.
That would be pants-on-head insider trading.
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Glad you enjoy all the types - it's not so much we'll only do one thing out of the list, it's that we'll do more of what people want.
This is to make sure we're not (say) expecting demand for story type X when really people want type Y the most. It's to make sure we're aligned with what people want the most out of us.
Yeah we know it's a one-shot choice: that will be taken into account when we look at the numbers.
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"journalistic balance through opinion pieces isn't really journalism"
Well, it is. It's an opinion piece. It's like if I have the opinion that Chrome is a nicer experience than Firefox, I'm not going to put in it how Firefox is better than Chrome when that's not my actual honest view.
For some people, MS's efforts in O/S are a positive (it's not going to open source Windows, is it). For others, it's not enough or just lip service (where's Office for Linux?).
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LMAO. No.
We've done two opinion articles - thought provoking columns - out of, well, take a look at just these three stories in the past few days.
* Microsoft intros clothing line that is absolutely not leftover conference swag
* Microsoft resorts to Registry hack to keep Outlook from using Windows 11 search
* Lenovo told by Microsoft to prevent non-Windows OSes booting by default
And so on. I think if you suggested to anyone at Microsoft that we were a pro-Redmond title, they would think you're trolling them.
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The honest answer is: I ran out of time, and wanted to schedule the story before it became old news.
The tweets are linked so people can see the followups. And the article mentions that sending a malicious message - like telling someone to kill themselves - is potentially a criminal offense.
Also, the point of the article was Tories fighting over the bill, not really the actual bill because it's still in flux. And quite a lot of it will be defined with Ofcom.
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One might argue it's passive aggressive, unprofessional, and not particularly constructive.
I would say it depends on how well you know the other person and the context. Someone you've had banter with, you might say to them "this is 1,000,000 times harder than it needs to be, mate." Someone you don't really know, that kind of comment may be off putting.
Many years ago, I contributed to a project and the lead dev gave me the feedback: "This code makes my shoes sad." It's not a great starting point. I had to ask: was it the comments or variable names, or...
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Yeah, that did cross my mind. How many people in each bracket want to start their own business, and how many would consider taking VC money?
But then how many don't even consider it because of other effects... it feels like a complicated puzzle of many moving parts.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not, but 300mm refers to the silicon wafer size this stuff is built on. It's one of the standard wafer diameters.
It's not a whole wafer being used. It means the equipment Intel uses to make components from 300mm wafers can be used to make these arrays.
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