Posts by Bonzo_red

Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision

Re: How Much?

A measley £28 million/year spread over all the projects being slashed.

https://www.ukri.org/publications/explainer-stfc-prioritisation-outcomes/explainer-stfc-prioritisation-outcomes-2026-to-2030/

Re: criminal

The Guardian reported where the cuts will be hitting but I didn't see mention of the JCM telescope funding being cut. They mentioned a 20% cut to Rubin, a 45% cut to the Next-Generation Transit Survey and no funding for further instruments for the ELT in Chile, together with a withdrawal from the Event Horizon Telescope. For British astronomers, the cuts to Jodrell Bank seem a minor issue compared with the total devastation being wrought elsewhere.

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat

Good day in court

Another good decision today - the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines was declared an act of, or resulting from, war, so the insurers don't have to pay out.

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

ATO Costs

What estimates were given for the additional costs of NOT implementing ATO? I can well imagine that the train drivers will insist on additional pay to drive these new-fangled high speed trains.

Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

If it looks like a duck

The Quantum All-powerful Computing Kolossos, QuACK?

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Re: Considering

A solution to that problem might be to fill the floors below with bags of hydrogen to counteract the weight of the water.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

lfl

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: What if....

Having just ordered a passport for my dual national daughter, you are required to either send them your other passport or a colour copy of every page of it.

Conundrum

If Border Force know that you are a dual national, why do you need a British passport to prove what they already know?

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

Ring bashing

Seems to happen quite often. Woodpeckers have got a thing about Ring cameras.

Warning Daily Mail

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

Spycatcher

The phrase "being economical with the truth" comes to mind, i.e. using a form of words which you know gives an impression other than the real situation.

Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case

Re: Simple solution

Generally, I would agree with that but there are exceptions, like the requirement for cars to include cellular technology.

Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics

Ski Mountaineering

Seems like the games are facing an uphill battle or two.

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

Re: Painful reminder

I thought the whole purpose of a wedding ring was to be a painful reminder for the rest of your life.

Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

Suggestion

How about some big, beautiful wind turbines?

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

Who cares about protecting the U.S.A.

The ballroom will be built.

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Re: creepy

Just as well it was not armed.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Balloons in the sky

A couple of hundred Baby Trump in Diapers (nappies for the Brits) filled with the national helium reserve to float Discovery down to Houston could work. A couple of laps of the White House first, of course.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Apart from the misquote, 'unto', not 'into'.

Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones

Re: No, the opposite

Each national/regional telecom body has its own rule on how to deal with essential patents. The European body, ETSI, has a set of rules with article 6 setting the conditions required for licensing essential patents. While not crystal clear, it seems that the rules relate to manufactured equipment, i.e. phones, and not chipsets. Chipsets would be considered as components for use in MANUFACTURE, defined as the production of EQUIPMENT, in turn defined as any system, or device fully confirming to a standard.

I hope Which has enough money to pay Qualcomm's legal team.

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

64-bit machines only

It seems as though ESA is only available for 64-bit versions of W10. I have an old 32-bit box happliy running 22H2 but no offer of extended support for that one.

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

Can you imagine any right-minded person working for the Blair Institute?

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

There were mutterings today about Taiwan not allowing the export of 2 nm and below technology in the near future. Presumably they hope this will give them a few years' protection from the Middle Kingdom.

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

I'm waiting for the 100% tariffs on cell phones.

Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all

Re: Walking in wet weather

Waterproof trousers? Just wear shorts.

Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial

How can Stallman license his article if is imaginary? Does he believe in one set of rules for his creative works and another for those he wants to copy?

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

Trident

Can it also be used to calculate why the British Trident missile just went pffft on launch?

EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance

Re: Interesting...

More likely a trade mark issue. People want to buy phones which are labelled as having Gorilla (R) Glass screens. Corning seems to license the use of its trade marks but requires for 'quality control' that the raw materials are purchased from it. Whether this is a reasonable requirement or not will be what the EU has looked into.

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

Hopefully Lynch arranged his personal finances well in advance of his death, both to avoid inheritance tax and to put his assets away from the reach of HPE.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: Conspiracy Theories

How about this report in the Telegraph?

"Stephen Chamberlain, Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in his US fraud trial, was critically injured in a road incident on Saturday, it has been reported."

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

Re: Eating Tips

At €35/person, that is a lot of beer with your lunch.

Re: I'm convinced...

If you like looking at old junk, there is the Marxzell Vehicle Museum in Marxzell, between Pforzheim and Rastatt. It's not only the British who are eccentric. For visiting Sinsheim, Ryanair fly to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden

UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer

Re: The decisions have not gone down well

Manchester University was heavily involved in the more modern ARM processors, I believe.

Time for a change of name

Perhaps a petition should be started to rename DSIT to the Department of Science, Innovation and Silly Technology, or DeSIST.

UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case

Re: So, the patents are invalid in the UK

The UK courts, like those in the US, consider both validity and infringement. In Germany, the state courts consider infrinement but cannot decide on validty for a patent covering the whole counry. There is therefore a federal patent court for deciding on validity only, with cases running in parallel to the infringement case. As the patent court runs a bit slower, the finding on infringement is generally before the finding on validity. The patent owner can therefore be awarded an injunction for a patent which is then declared invalid a few months later.

EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials

Re: Try Australia

This may not work if the refining needs technology which the Middle Kingdom has export controls over.

The chip that changed my world – and yours

Is the Zed 80 the British cousin of the Zee 80?

IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat

Are they using the same advisors as HP used for their acquisition of Autonomy?

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Exactly - with my 7500u based laptop it was a relatively trivial task to install W11, and the SSE4.2 issue will not arise. As an ASUS device, installing W10 with the incompatible sound driver was more of an issue.

UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM

Cambridge Analytica

Zero investigations? I would call the Information Commissioner's report an investigation even if it came to the conclusion they were not involved.

Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries

Re: Could this be related

You are suggesting that Earth Krahang are UK based and as a result of their lack of pasties they have decided to while away the time with such activities?

Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public

Re: Reddit was started in 2005

At a guess the tech concerned is some form of video codec which wasn't around in 2005.

Re: Patents were created to avoid the "trade secret" problem.

In the term "Letters Patent", the "patent" bit means "open" as in not secret. So by being granted a "letter patent" you are opening up your secrets to the world. Patent is derived from the Latin pateo, to lie open, exposed, accessible.

Apple pulls Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 from shelves in US after Masimo patent brawl

Re: Such a stupid system

Has Masimo offered to license the patents or would they rather sell their own blood-monitoring smart watches in greater numbers?

Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production

World leaders in semiconductor innovation

For a world leading innovator, the company appears to have remarkably few patents - there is a rash of five applications from 2021, perhaps encouraged by the funding round, but on the face of it little else.

German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC

Debt brake released

The German government has decided that at least for 2023, the "Schuldenbremse" can be overridden. Prsemably they can do the same for the following years if they do not come up with a solution to their budget problems.

Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs

The tariffs were brought in because Uncle Sam refused to let cars from the EU have the same rebates as US built cars - they were intended to catch Teslas but ended up hitting domestic industry.

Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict

That is a generalized summary of the patent, not the claimed scope of protection, which reads, for example, "a system for processing information, the system comprising: a memory configured to hold data; at least two processors, each configured to perform operations, and to generate an access request when one of the operations involves access to the data, wherein each access request includes an indication of whether or not this occurrence of the access request is to be performed in a sequential order among other occurrences of the access request and, if so, an indication of a specified order; and a controller configured to receive the access requests from each of the processors, to determine a performance order for the access requests, and to provide the access requests to the memory in the performance order, wherein the performance order conforms to the specified order when the access requests indicate the specified order."

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: Titles not necessarily constant

Wales was not a nation though, it was a principality, and the English took it over only 65 years after Llywelyn and his friends decided to call it theirs.