Posts by Twitchy Eye

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

It has always been like this.

For the individual training as an E&EE has always been about interest. It's a demanding subject and even when it was free to get a graduate degree it wasn't that popular as a subject. When I graduated there were very few jobs so I ended up in Diesel Generation and then as a support engineer, by which time any pretentious of being a hardware designer had started to melt away (I'd be starting from scratch). 30 years later I am a privacy and security expert.

If the industry wants more people then it has to do a better job of ensuring graduates are not lost to alternate careers at the early post-graduation stage. What makes me annoyed is having an industry which apparently says there aren't enough engineers when it neither pays well or does a good job of career management.

Any time I hear anybody say "We have a skills shortage in ___, I just think they don't want to pay the going rate"

BT hails hollow-core fibre trials as 'critical advancement' for secure communications

Behemoth telco polishes vanity project while we all stay stuck on copper

Seriously, stop it....

Why not research a way to make FTTP more accessible or provide better protection for your customers. Still acting like a state monopoly after all these years, BT research was once a fine thing, now it is irrelevant intellectual masterbation.

If I wrote a list of 1000 things BT could do to improve information security, quantum key distribution would be in 1000th place

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

A better algorithm

Not sure you need AI for that. Pick one of my local roads at random and you'll find plenty. The real test would be to do this and compare the results with their AI model. I bet it's just snake oil.

Ex-Twitter staff charged with spying for Saudi royals: Duo accused of leaking account records, including those of critics

"Our company limits access to sensitive account information to a limited group of trained and vetted employees", really actually vetted?

Or more likely "sign this NDA and agree not to do bad stuff." Vetting foreign citizens in nearly impossible, because access to their criminal history is also impossible.

Never mind the fact that the labor shortage in California is so bad they'll take anyone with a pulse.