Posts by markrand

WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits

Isn't this a dead issue?

The patent expired 7 years before the court case.

China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies

Re: And yet

I remember when the NE555 was cutting edge!

Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

Hunter?

Shouldn't that be Jäger

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

With all due (dis)respect to Elron, it's still an application for a Darwin award.

Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns

It's nice to know that my Samsung phone is too old to be affected :D

That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices

Re: WTF is a WiFi router?

Not to sound smart, but to point out that router (level 3) doesn't include switch/access point(level 2). Basic knowledge which seems to have been perverted by public ignorance.

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WTF is a WiFi router?

I have a router. I have a (Cisco) Wireless LAN Controller. I have WiFi access points. What is a WiFi router, other than a made up thing?

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig

Re: She'll fit right in

one could have voted Whig/Liberal. I didn't, I voted Labour because they support most of the Whig agenda, but don't demonise nuclear power...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps

Re: Flavour?

stinks like a foeitid patch of mid-Atlantic seaweed that is past its float-by date,

FTFY

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

I wasn't happy with Locust Notes as purely an email client, but when we started using it to its full capabilities, grew to love it. When the company was taken over and forced to migrate to outlook/sharepoint/teams, a couple of decades of progress were lost and not recovered...

China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions

We're all going to hell in a handbasket, Maam

The world seemed to be a far happier and more friendly place before crass mercantilism, disguised as security fears, killed the globalist concept of 'a rising tide lifting all boats'

Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet

All of the above. Plus losing their government funded job, pension, healthcare and parking permit/bus pass

Cyber terrorists should be castrated, then emasculated, then fed their intestines, which have been cooked in front of them...

Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs

One of the HP chaps at Theale told us about the new HP-PA RISC chip that they were developing and how it had run at 200MHz... Until the freon boiled off.

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

In the meantime, I do hope that Jian Sun got at least a good bottle of whisky for his original work.

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: Heck; I can't even trust my Volvo

It is an offence, to overtake someone who is indicating right. It is not an offence to overtake someone who is not indicating right. You want to pull in to that continuous stream of HGVs without getting creamed or runn of the end of the merging lane??? Politeness doesn't cost.

No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged

Re: Killing the industry

The best government and legal system that money can buy.

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

Re: Spying laws

Maybe we should ban all US IT products then. After all US companies are subject to national Security Letters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

UK comms watchdog banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises

There is a risk associated with regulating price rises

If the limits to price rises are poorly thought out or set, for-profit companies will set their price rises at the limit rather than up-to the limit.

This is why the Telcos set their price rises to CPI+3.9% and universities set their tuition fees to £9250 in England and £9000 in Scotland, Wales and Norther ireland.

These aren't industries that are having their profits severely limited by regulation, they are having the need for competition eliminated by the implied cartel pricing of the regulated price.

I'm not clever enough to work out how to make price regulation work, but what we've got isn't working.

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

Re: Intel vs AMD vs ... CPUs

My best work was done with the Motorola 68,000 series processors. It's all been downhill since.

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production

Re: Let's ignore that there aren't enough raw materials to support the EV mandates

Copper is amongst the most recycled materials. What's your problem?

Re: Ford didn't get any money

> And calling it a Capri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Capri

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit

PC Idiocy

If there's a security loophole, it can be guarded against without removing the equipment, just like any other equipment. if there isn't, the kit has already been paid for. Bloody well use it until it needs replacing because it's end of life or out of date.

Bah! Humbug!

Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill

Re: Remember how Walmart was going to completely shake up and take over the UK market?

Not so much private equity as a Manchester United style debt loaded buyout...

Chinese electric car brands zapped by price surge as EU cranks tariffs

Re: Tere is something fishy about these sanctions

It would appear that Tesla's shareholders have voted for the stock option to Mr Musk. Equivalent to about $10,000 per vehicle that Tesla has ever manufactured. What would a $10,000 price reduction do to sales?

Re: Tere is something fishy about these sanctions

So our subsidies are good, but theirs were bad?

Maybe it's something to do with not gifting the CEO with $56B of stock options, combined with being a low wage, low cost, low overhead economy, maybe its somethiing to do with not adding unneccessary gadgets to vehicles to push up their price. maybe it's having the largest domestic EV market in the entire world with very price conscious customers.

Little things like that add up, it's called economics :D

Tere is something fishy about these sanctions

Tesla has received massive subsidies, EU EV manufacturers have received massive subsidies. What's wrong with the Chinese government doing the same as the Western governments have already done?

The origin of 3D Pipes, Windows' best screensaver

3D pipes, running on OpenGL was an OpenGL demonstration program that was available on SGI machines before NT 3.5 was produced, as were many others.

Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped

Re: An incentive perhaps

Rather than returning geosynchronous satellites to Earth, would it not be acceptable to nominate one or more longitudes as parking areas with an attendant herding satellite which was equipped to fasten expired satellites together. At a speed differential of 10 miles per hour it would take just less than a year for any geosynchronous satellite to reach a single parking longitude.

GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs

Shouldn't the fact that the stop sign is the only one which is octagonal be a clue for the software?

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

Might need Bungee straps to procreate in space...

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Re: Great news

The classical cure for dendrites in NiCd batteries was to briefly charge them at many times the design rate to burn the dendrites back. it worked as a temporary fix many times.

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

Time for the EU+UK to demand that Gurgle and Bookfart sell their operations...

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Re: RE: Lamborghini dealers in Birmingham

To be fair, the worst offenders are VW Golf drivers who spent all their money on baffle free exhaust systems and can't afford to get the valve guide oil seals and piston rings sorted...

Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy

Give it a rest, damnit

How long is this idiotic trade war going to continue and when will the rest of the world tell the US administration to take their mercantilism ant put it where the sun doesn't shine?

Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke

Am I right

in guessing that the Bright Young Thing/student that wrote the program and eagerly took onboard all comments from the early adopters had moved on to a different position/career before Python 2 became deprecated?

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD

Re: I imagine they're looking at a RISC-V version of Windows right now

"Accept the fact: Windows was always an x86-only system, still is, and always will be."

Having run Windows NT on Alpha and MIPS, is would suggest that it wasn't always hoped to be.

Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales

fer chrissakes stop this idiot bloody trade war. It hurts everyone and helps no one.

Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption

But sir, our energy costs have been zero (since we hot wired the meter).

Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

Re: Deep packet inspection technology

Had that problem at work after we were taken over bay a US generally electrical corporation. my browser kept warning that certificates did not match the web sites' ones. oddly, I'd deleted the corporately installed certificates.

Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs

That's the threat...

US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early

This has got nothing at all to do with national security or defence. It is entirely due to the trade war that the USA is conducting against China.

National Grid latest UK org to zap Chinese kit from critical infrastructure

When managing a business or a national grid, doesn't every organization use their own WAN, or, at least, VPNs to effect communication between sites?

So What was the problem. Stupidity or politics???

To BCC or not to BCC – that is the question data watchdog wants answered

I (IT geek) got accused, via reply to all, of' 'unprofessional behavior' when I used 'reply to all' to an email to 2,000 employees from HR. Replied, via 'reply to all' that HR should have used BCC for the original email and included a link to the relevant RFC.

Got hauled in front of a disciplinary meeting...

India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM

Re: "Indian Internet" Grammar correction.

There is an Indian internet (note the capitalization, it's important). An internet is a network of networks many organizations operate their own internets. Unfortunately, over the last couple of decades, ignorant people have come to think that there is only the Internet, which is the global network of networks.

The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension

Re: America's trade war

Given that, until recently, China had the largest population of any country in the world, one would expect that its GDP would be pretty close to the largest in the world.

Times change, even the American colonies overtook the countries they were competing with.

Quit worrying about 5G C-band and crashing aircraft, US govt eggheads sigh

Re: did they look at all for someone intending on causing mischief?

Yes, the FCC regulates who can broadcast what on what frequencies etc. The FAA can ground aircraft with non compliant radalts, but it should have no input on the correct use of allocated frequencies.

Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents

Serious question

Were the Chinese patents involved issued prior to his employment at the US university or afterwards?

Seems to me that if it were the former case, the University should have no more right to preferential access than any other organisation.

Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages

Re: Rostelecom

What did Brown Boveri have to do with it?

China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

'Tis a monolith seedling.