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Drones aren't evil and won't trigger the Rise of the Machines: MoD
AMD Ryzen beats Intel Core i7 as a heater (that's also a server)
Thursday 14th September 2017 09:08 GMT 
Re: I've thought of this often
Except that you really don't want the headache of water-cooling your rack-mounted servers.
See for a good example of watercooling servers.
BTW CSCS are very open to giving tours; if you're in the area then their setp is very, very impressive.
Thursday 14th September 2017 08:03 GMT
I had a tour of a Swiss university's new HPC machine room. The geeks wanted to do exactly that; apparently the architects asked if they could guarantee that the computer room would still be in that location for 20 or so years outputting a similar amount of heat - they couldn't make that promise so they had to build it without.
Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine
Thursday 14th September 2017 09:02 GMT
Re: Commerce without human contact
I feel slightly bad when I use the automated checkouts at my local supermarket as they appear to lower staffing requirement by 75% (four tills:one human); the staff do encourage you to use the self service which seems a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas (although they may not have a choice).
Facebook posts put Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli in prison as a danger to society
Apple bumps up price on iPad Pro as flash costs climb
Thursday 14th September 2017 07:59 GMT
Re: The iPhone X is $1149, not $999
Many people will get the phone on a contract which means that the upfront cost is hidden from them. Those that can do maths will have worked out that's an expensive way* of buying a phone and therefore separated the device from the call/data plan.
Compared to buying a phone upfront and using someone like Giffgaff (if you're in the UK).
Giant frikkin' British laser turret to start zapping stuff next year
El Reg is hiring an intern. Apply now before it closes
Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't
Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building
F-35 firmware patches to be rolled out 'like iPhone updates'
Dear rioters: Hiding your face with scarves, hats can't fool this AI system
Amazon crowd-sources new HQ location, Bezos tells mayors to woo him
France to tack weapons onto spy drones – reports
So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth
Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation
Monday 4th September 2017 08:46 GMT 
Cheap labour
There's also the depressing reality that in the UK, in some areas automation is being phased out in favour of very cheap labour.
Thousands of hornets swarm over innocent fire service drone
Monday 4th September 2017 18:36 GMT
Re: "drone was attacked by the hornets while being used [..] to locate the creatures' nest"
When I was young my dad found a wasps' nest in a granite wall in the back garden. He cemented it up and figured that it was all sorted; he noticed that they seemed to be trying to get though the cement and figured that they were wasting their time. The next day there was a hole in the cement about half a centimetre big with the workers flying in and out of it!
What he should have done (from orbit of course), although it may have made a mess of their conservatory....
Smart meters: 'Dog's breakfast' that'll only save you 'a tenner' – report
Argentina eyes up laser death cannon testbed warship
Linus Torvalds passed a kidney stone and then squeezed out Linux 4.13
Google's Hollywood 'interventions' made on-screen coders cooler
Monday 4th September 2017 09:05 GMT
the problem is that in a few years time there will not be enough junioor legal jobs left for people graduating with law degrees to be able to get the next stage of legal qualification that they need to make use of it
This happened to a friend of mine after he decided to do a law "conversion degree"; he's currently doing a job that requires little more than Excel skills and ringing up suppliers and shouting at them.
HPE wraps up $8.8bn Micro Focus software dump spin-off
Oracle staff report big layoffs across Solaris, SPARC teams
User thanked IT department for fast new server, but it had never left its box
Oracle finally decides to stop prolonging the inevitable, begins hardware layoffs
Boffins want machine learning to predict earthquakes
Friday 1st September 2017 09:52 GMT
Re: Randomness
They're probably not random but at the same time there probably isn't enough data available to predict them, even roughly.
I guess that accurate seismology measurement has only been available for a few decades and big quakes are (thankfully) rare; in time there will be a better dataset to learn on.
Nest cracks out cheaper spin of its thermostat
So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it
Connect at mine free Wi-Fi! I would knew what I is do! I is cafe boss!
Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest
Thursday 31st August 2017 15:38 GMT 
DPA requests
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives people a legal right to demand copies of information held about them, including CCTV images and related data. It is estimated that around two million people enter the general area of the annual carnival.
If say 10% of the attendees requested the CCTV of them in a suitably vague way "I was wearing blue jeans and was there mid-afternoon", then I'm sure that 200k DPA requests should lessen Inspector Knacker's enthusiasm somewhat...
Stephen King's scary movie reboot provokes tears from 'legit clowns'
MongoDB quits Solaris, wants to work on an OS people actually use
Huge Apple news confirmed. Software deal with Accenture is official
Pacemaker patch passes probe by US watchdog
WannaCrypt NHS victim Lanarkshire infected by malware again
Tuesday 29th August 2017 11:33 GMT
Believe me, critical systems and devices are a different league from generic software. I really hope Philips medical equipment doesn't have such a clause, and nobody accept something like that.
I work in IT in drug research (and in a cancer lab before that), most systems, reagents, etc are specifically marked as "For Research only" to get around all of the regulations. Obviously buying ones "For Diagnostic Purposes" is hugely more expensive due to the regulators. I assume that the scanners etc. have to be certified in the same way.
If they muck up their software in an upgrade to either the controller PCs/Servers, the software and/or the scanner firmware then things can go <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/03/mri_software_bugs_could_upend_years_of_research/>quite badly wrong</a> so the field is very conservative.
San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite
Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60!
PC sales to fall and fall and fall and fall and fall for the next five years
Bombastic boss gave insane instructions to sensible sysadmin, with client on speakerphone
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