Posts by Bonzo_red

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.

Driving Test

Not sure about that driving test bit. My mum had a full UK driving licence but never took a test.

CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy

Re: Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back

Strategic gas storage? You mean the two weeks' storage? Hardly strategic compared with Germany's 2 months' but then Germany doesn't have much North Sea gas. The UK's storage was only ever there to smooth out the supply/demand differences.

Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany

Re: This fab is going to require electricity, I assume.

Electricity is one problem but a lack of water supplies is going to be an even bigger one. Elon's Tesla plant had problems because the environmentalists considered it would be extracting too much ground water and this fab is going to need a lot more than Tesla.

Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

Re: Who do I trust?

Can I trust that an unistall has removed all the software without leaving a nasty package or two?

European Commission sticks 'in-depth' antitrust probe into Nvidia-Arm merger plan

Re: The EU?

There is also the concern that the merger will have a negative aspect for customers in the EU.

Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack

True Faith

I guess they put their faith in the 1G and considered 5G was too polytheist.

International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters

Hammer of Thor

Is it too late to send them the 'big hammer'?

Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

Slow Boot

Speed may be one criterion but Firefox is damned annoying at that the moment, taking many seconds to load whereas Edge is near instantaneous. Disabling the two plug-ins has no effect.

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

Re: Carlill vs. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.

I wonder how they proved an influenza infection back in those days - PCR testing was not available, I believe.

Re: print-free-for-life plan was "an introductory offer,"

A printer's for life, not just for Christmas.

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

Re: I thoroughly recommend...

Is the Tesla one on sale yet?

So did the European Patent Office award her the prize of "inventor of the year" for her testing, her book keeping or for her legal defence?

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

Be thankful that the article included K and °C to make it understandable in the light o the use of "colored" and "sulfur".

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Presumably once the recent decision of the EUCJ has been implemented, such crime-fighting techniques will not be available in the EU.

Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents

Lots of Patents

The numbering system doesn't mean there are ten million patents to negotiate. US patent number 1 was issued in 1790, for example.

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

Re: Launching

Scolpaig?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/19/shetland_space_centre/

Stock market blizzard: Snowflake set for £33bn IPO as valuation bubble keeps on expanding

With the shares now at around $220, I hope you didn't find a way.

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Citrix VPN

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the crims exploited a known vulnerability in a Citrix VPN product.

GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Re: You have nothing to Fear

Try convincing the family of the woman who died because the Dusseldorf University hospital had been compromised. She had to be taken to another hospital as a result and arrived too late to save here life.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Re: State Aid? Trump??!

"Vote early, vote often" as the saying goes. Thinking about it, that could be Trump's next slogan.