Posts by MiguelC

Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

Add the turbo button...

...but make sure it's far away from the Reset button!

Results are in for biggest 4-day work week trial ever: 92% sticking with it

Re: Cost of Offices

OTH, if 20% or the workforce takes different days off, the company can reduce their office space by 20%. Probably a lot more savings than the heating and electricity reduction of a one day per week office closing.

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

Re: Really?

It's corporate speak for Nuke'em from orbit

If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now

In my wife's lab, where they do climate modelling 24/7 on their on-premises servers, the air con died during a scorching summer period some years ago, quickly raising room temperature to high 50's. Their immediate solution was similar, although not that effective, as the outside temperature was over 40ºC, but the air con on the adjacent room was turned to its lowest possible temperature, doors wide open and some fans strategically placed to increase airflow between rooms. Instead of having one room at hellish temperature, they got two at purgatory levels, but it held their servers until maintenance came to fix it.

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

Re: Ouch

My shepherd dog once tasked herself with slicing a 20 meter 3-phase extension cord into much more handy 5-10 cm pieces... luckily it wasn't live (I mean the wiring, but the dog pretty much played dead when I found out)

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Re: What a load of cobblers

https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/compulsive-overeating-disorder

Re: What a load of cobblers

Recovering alcoholics don't completely stop drinking, do they? It's what they choose to drink that matters.

Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit

"The quickest way to save money on Oracle licences is to get off its Unlimited Licensing Agreements, a well placed Big Red audit expert claims."

Let me just ... snip... hmm... ok, that's more like it:

"The quickest way to save money on Oracle licences is to get off."

This can’t be a real bomb threat: You've called a modem, not a phone

Re: The RAF ate my homework

It happened to a friend of my daughter, who dropped his backpack by the school's entrance while he played nearby with his mates - this being the day after the shooting at the Bataclan, terrorist alert was at a maximum, but sending the bomb squad for a backpack left at a school door? Seems a bit over the top....

US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan

Re: Ukraine: Korea-Style Settlement

Your point being?

Should NATO have waited for Russia to invade all non members until they felt in a strong enough position to start directly hitting NATO members? Or do you believe Russia's intentions were only about Ukraine - and that Ukraine doesn't deserve to be free from their giant neighbour's grip?

Privacy on the line: Boffins break VoLTE phone security

Re: Need to Ensure Public Interest

"affected".... <sigh>

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

Oh, the irony

He bought 98% and the police are part of the other 2%? Didn't he read the fine print on the contract?

US Supremes deny Pegasus spyware maker's immunity claim

Re: "most EULAs indemnify the software producer from culpability"

did you mean "exempt"?

I've never heard of software producer being paid for having bugs on their SW - at least not publicly ;)

CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit

from that site...

"from age of 10 to 40" ?!?

JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban maker after crooks drained $272m from accounts

I've designed automated systems that reconcile in house bookkeeping with electronic bank statements that provide alerts if there is a difference (over a certain threshold) between both sets of numbers, forcing some kind of user intervention to guarantee the alerts are dealt with.

There is some leeway for small inconsistencies, but it's usually a few euros, certainly not a quarter of a billion!

FTC floats rule to ban imposed non-compete agreements in US

Re: Don't ban Non-Compete clauses

Not a problem, at "twice the highest wage" it would still harm the company and benefit the ex-employees

After roasting Nvidia for overheating issues AMD now has its own

Re: der8auer

As you pointed out, it's "vapour", not "vacuum", chambers - vacuum chambers would be pointless for transferring heat

FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty on eight charges

SBF, as in "Some Banking Fraud"

Man wrongly jailed by facial recognition, lawyer claims

Re: Am I overly cynical?

Well, the U.S. do have lots of no-win no-fee ambulance chasing lawyers, so he might end up getting some compensation - but I'm sure he'd prefer never to have gone though the whole experience - I know I would!

Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards

“Senior Chaos Engineer”

I wouldn't want that job, but the title, though, I'd wear it proudly

Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

Re: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

No one has been arrested or charged for finding or publishing the original key.

New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules

Allowing the bundling of parts without restrictions is the worst - so, as an example, the manufacturer will still be allowed to only make available a full motherboard even if only your usb port is broken

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Not during Christmas, but not at the best moment either...

I once spent an hour and a half at the bottom of a slope watching all my mates ski on (initially) pristine snow while I did remote support for a piece o SW I'd had the misfortune of taking over mid-development some weeks earlier. Of course none of the other members of my team, who were not on holiday, could take the call...

Adding insult to injury, when I came back, I spent days knocking on doors until someone at my company "magnanimously" signed-off to pay me back the roaming charges

LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

Re: The cloud is just someone else's computer

Like the umpteen different cloudy apps I use on a day-to-day basis that my employer decided should each have a unique URL but the same login information

Micron plans staff decimation as demand dips to Great Recession levels

Re: What ?

They mean they could be using "creative accounting" like many others, but theirs is very honest - honest 'guv.

Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement

Re: Bring on the good Baroness

Did she give it away the very next day?

Ukraine secures 10k more Starlink receivers with EU help

"Borschchevik"??

April the 1st, already?

You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108

Re: No idea what "♭" could be used for

It's for those or are not that ♯

UK arrests five for selling 'dodgy' point of sale software

Re: Interesting

In Portugal they used to have something called "training mode" in cash registers, where transactions would be inputed, invoices emitted, but nothing would be registered on the ledger.

Then tax authorities decided that every last thing ever sold would have a unique invoice number tied to both the seller and, optionally or, above a certain threshold, mandatorily, to the buyer (who, in those cases, would get a small fiscal cashback of part of the paid VAT, meant for encouraging the buyer's voluntary participation).

These kind of VAT frauds almost disappeared, although services not invoiced (cash-in-hand, as electronic payments leave a trace), and VAT carousel fraud are still very much alive.

ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI

Re: printf("Tetris");

I could argue that it is a possible solution to the query.

Is the answer wrong, or are the functional specs insufficiently detailed?

Legit Android apps poisoned by sticky 'Zombinder' malware

Ermahgerd

It's VIRM!

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

Re: I feel I am not doing my bit for global inequity

You may well be without ever realising it. It's not that hard to ever having drank a flûte of Moët & Chandon or Veuve Clicquot (the two best selling Champagne brands), or a glass of Glenmorangie whisky - they're all under LVHM's wing, amongst many others

Re: Makes me wonder...

Herschel "I'm not that smart" Walker never fooled anyone, the reason people still voted for him can only be fall on calculating pragmatism, if we're to be kind, or dogmatism and fanaticism

BOFH: Come back to the office. Your hotdesk is nice and warm

While I go there and read Dabbsy's blog, I'm sure that publishing at ElReg pays better (and ensures that his column keeps going on, writing just for fun is all fine and dandy, but getting paid for it is better)

Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024

Re: Site radios?

I was a bit confused about the part in the article that mentions smartwatches ("Devices that only charge wirelessly, like smartwatches, are exempt from the USB-C port requirements.")

My thought was that if other kinds smartwatches needed to use USB-C that would mean larger devices to accommodate the port - very difficult for the likes of Xiaomi's MiBand type devices

Although they could probably work like earbud chargers - you don't connect the earbuds directly to the USB-C port, instead you have a proprietary middleman in the guise of their storage/charging case.

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

I think you meant the A220, not the A320....

Washington DC drags Amazon to court for 'yoinking' driver tips

And still worse: "As part of that settlement, the mega-corp admitted no wrongdoing."

So they just paid some money to make their legal problems go away? It's like bribing the state.

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

Re: Fragile

You forgot, yet again, to use the sarcasm tag. Since this site migrated to a majorly leftpondian audience, sarcasm detection rates have fallen to closely nil...

How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

"How bad will its fall be?"

I'm hoping for a Looney Tunes kind of bad fall

Cisco wriggles out from $2 billion bill for ‘willful and egregious’ patent infringements

IANAL but....

Shouldn't there be a retrial?

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

Re: WITHOUT putting anyone but the perp into danger,

Just extremely unsafe for the other people in the premises - the children and teachers in that case

International cops arrest hundreds of fraudsters, money launderers and cocaine kingpins

I just love telemarketters

"Hello, I'm speaking to Mr?..."

"Yes, you are speaking to Mr."

"Erm, hmm, could you please tell me your name?"

"You called me, you must know who I am, right?"

not much to go on from there....

US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage

A hub-and-spoke cartel

In this case, RealPage is the hub and the landlords are the spokes - "A hub and spoke cartel can be defined as the indirect exchange of information between two independent undertakings which are horizontal competitors on the supplier or retailer level (“spokes”), through another undertaking operating at a different level of the production or distribution chain (“hub”). The hub facilitates the coordination of competition between the spokes without direct contacts between the spokes.[2] Despite the lack of a direct exchange of information among the horizontal competitors, this indirect exchange of information can be considered to have the same negative impacts on the market as a horizontal hardcore cartel."

I have no great doubt RealPage will be fined and agree to pay it "without admitting or denying the findings", as usual...

Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

I've told this story before, but here it goes again: in the late 90's the bank I worked for at the time did a DR test that was supposed to go Mains -> Battery -> Generator

Instead it went Mains -> Battery -> Extremely loud bang in Generator -> fire department called and full building evacuation (and of some adjacent buildings, being in an old part of town) -> 2 days to go back online

Fun times

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

Re: Catch-22

Damn! You beat me to it!

Have one!

FTX disarray declared 'unprecedented' by exec who cleaned up after Enron

Re: "The FTX scandal sets the bar for bad behavior"

Hold my Beer!

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

Re: Just a thought

Verbing weirds language. So what?

Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune

Re: Dear Register

I'm guessing here, but that's probably why he's not called Amazon's CEO in the article?