* Posts by HammerOn1024

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European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns

HammerOn1024

Re: Follow the money

Since you didn't read his comment, I'll reiterate:

1) The French TAX PAYERS paid for the reactors.

2) They new reactors were turned over to be run AT PROFIT so that new reactors could be built out of those profits.

3) Instead, the entity that owns them pocketed the cash and now wants the TAX PAYERS to buy it new ones again.

Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds

HammerOn1024

Re: I say it's plausible

Have the entire management team re-read "Murphy's Laws".

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

HammerOn1024

Sooooo... Shocking

Sooo.... communism doesn't work again. This is my shocked face :-|

To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver

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These days he would have been gone since his manager would have never done anything wrong in his life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror

HammerOn1024

The Lack of Cameras

"Why no cameras to watch the deployment of the multi-billion dollar observatory?"

Simple: When was this device designed? It started in 1996. What was the state of space rated video cameras then? They were all built for space probes - there were no space rated cameras to get you the video you wanted at the time.

And there was no way anyone was going to delay the schedule (Spend money) again just to beam glamor shots.

Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911

HammerOn1024

Fu$! Microsoft

All together now! I remove any and all MS apps from my phones as soon as I get them.

My workplace uses Teams and my boss has asked me to put Teams on my phone: I've said hell no! He's stopped asking.

If MS exploded tomorrow, all you would hear from me is a belly laugh like Dr. Cox when he totaled the janitors van.

It's primed and full of fuel, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be packed up prior to launch

HammerOn1024

Place Your Bets!

I wonder what the Vegas odds are on this thing blowing up on the pad?

With it's luck, and white elephant budget, it would be the perfect capstone.

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

HammerOn1024

Feed The Crazy

Just go ahead and keep pouring napalm on that fire. I like where this is headed... lemmings and cliffs... lemmings and cliffs.

Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

HammerOn1024

Re: Capabilities

And as typical, you left out the reason for that deployment as it was NOT a test. The satellite in question was a recently launched one that failed. While the satellite was no issue, its hydrazine was; most of it would survive reentry if the fuel tank failed to explode and there was a high probability of this. The satellite itself would reenter in late February or early March on its own so orbital debris would be minimal and short lived.

A single SM3 was used to destroy the satellite. The kinetic impact set off the hydrazine and dispersed the by-products; no more environmental threat.

The software used for this mission has never been loaded into other SM3s. Could it be, sure, but that would be a lengthy process and not worth the effort.

Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer

HammerOn1024

Re: I dont know what he actually accused of stealing

So you have Coke's recipe?

HammerOn1024

This is...

my shocked face :-|

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

HammerOn1024

Well, it is pretty simple:

Stop! Using! Their! Products!

They'll get the hint sooner or later.

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

HammerOn1024

Re: Palemoon, check. Seamonkey, check.

If one wants to spend more time configuring their editor rather than using it.

BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine

HammerOn1024

Ah yes...

The office Troll extraordinaire.

We had one of those. She was easy to get rid of; we'd just plug in all the devices she confiscated into her office outlets on a Friday evening... it was beautiful.

If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband

HammerOn1024

Yeah...

Ahuh.

I have a 5G phone and my download link is 10bps... so much for 5G.

US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact

HammerOn1024

Re: Which is why Texas

Your tinfoil is showing.

Since you haven't bothered to educate yourself, have a look at some of the law enforcement run-ins SpaceX has had with county and state officials. They are in a bit of hot water over several issues from pollution to road closures.

Take your libtard attitude elsewhere.

Intel, Qualcomm win deal to design 7nm silicon for US defense agencies

HammerOn1024

Re: high end vs bulk

For tactical systems, larger features have one very significant advantage; EMP tolerance. And I'm not talking 40nm, I'm talking 100nm or larger. But EMP can be mitigated by other means than feature size.

From my perspective, I don't need 32-bit or 64-bit architectures for weapons, I need robust 16-bit systems with known instruction execution times: i.e. I don't need branch prediction, I need instructions that can execute in one or two clock cycles. And quite frankly, given the size of cache's these days, I don't need RAM at all. I can run the entire code base straight out of the cache; A 32 MB cache is about five times what I need to run the whole thing so there's plenty of upgrade space!

What I'd like, is for these cache's to have MRAM or some other instant-on capability instead of having to wait 30 seconds or more for the weapons systems to POST and start running. I'd also like the MRAM management system to have HW logic to support obfuscation and encryption in place... I've no desire for script kiddies to get in!

But another point for most manufacturers; there's no money in DoD chips. The typical production run need for most is measured in hundreds or thousands at best. That's about 10 minutes to an hour at most commercial production house. These day's, it's not even a whole wafer! The last time I looked into this, a request for more than 10,000 chips was for GPS SASSMs a lllllooooonnnnnggggg time ago.

Facebook and Amazon take over Philippines-to-USA sub cable after China Mobile quits

HammerOn1024

Well...

"Chinese telcos get a better reception in the Philippines..."

To me, that's just fine and the Chinese telco is a completely Philippines problem within their boarders. When it comes to bringing it ashore to the U.S; a hard NOPE!

China warns game devs not to mess with history

HammerOn1024

Dear China

Since you in the central committee like to re-write history to your liking anyway, what's the problem?

My response: NUTS!

A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh

HammerOn1024

Dear Mickysoft

Enough of the whiny, worthless, BS, touchy, feely screens... I require USEFUL information for BSODs!

A new island has popped up off the coast of Japan thanks to an underwater volcano

HammerOn1024

Uhm...

"... a new C-shaped island with a 1km diameter..."

That would be the caldera forming close to the surface. Run, do not walk to the nearest exit!!!

British defence supplier Ultra Electronics to be sold for £2.6bn to US-controlled firm

HammerOn1024

Re: doesn't bode well for Britain's industrial future

For those that are worried, have a look at all the defense contractors scooped up by BAE, ya know, British Aerospace Electronics, here in the United States.

If you are so concerned, get together with a few million of your closest friends and pitch in 1,000 pounds each to buy it yourself. I would think that 10,000,000,000 - 30,000,000,000 pounds should make a nice purchase with plenty of capital left over for improvements and expansion.

Otherwise: Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't list'en!

SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

HammerOn1024

After an engine expands the gas to atmospheric pressure, it's of no use to the vehicle. While the engines are fixed ratio engines, and stage dependent, there is no incentive to worry about such as small amount of NOx.

The average operations of a jet engine put any rocket engine to shame for NOx production.

HammerOn1024

Re: SpaceX

"If Bezos wants to compete with Boeing and SpaceX, he needs to sink billions of his own money into Blue Origin, and fast."

Uhm... you do realize that ALL of Blue Origin's funding has been from Mr. Bezos; he's typically sold a billion a year of Amazon stock to finance it. And since he's not the showman his competitors are, and he keeps his development information very, very closed, it appears he's not doing anything from the outside.

That's a bad assumption.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

HammerOn1024

Re: Did I miss something?

Gibbs?

HammerOn1024

Re: read this elsewhere...

Over here we have folks with functional 105mm howitzers. It's rather fun to fire one off at the range! For instance, there's a M52 for sale right now by Sotherby's. The vehicle is currently pictured on their auction site and currently resides in CA.

The ATF requires a $200/year license for the vehicle, a background check, and another $200 license/year/live round.

Quite frankly, it's no big deal. Here's one in TX: https://youtu.be/A5s-3uJG_gY

Happy hunting!

Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories

HammerOn1024

Re: Who had "mosquito tornado" for summer 2021?

Take my up vote!

Also, "We'll need a bigger can of RAID!" comes to mind.

Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist

HammerOn1024

Re: Fixing things long after they have gone live

One thing not mentioned in the cost here: Are you willing to bet your companies reputation and cash on not fixing a bug?

As several companies have recently found out, how expensive was that cyber attack? What did it cost your company in brand reputation? How much did it physically cost your clients to repair the damage?

How many lawsuits did your company just swallow because of a bug?

I'll put a paycheck on a Los Vegas bet that 100x would be cheep compared to the cost of a very ugly lawsuit train.

Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website

HammerOn1024

"... standardisation processes over the years shows it can just produce the least worse one that works."

I couldn't agree more. Standards are good to a point. Unfortunately it's like voting for lizards; one has to vote for ones own lizard just so the other guy's lizard does not get elected; to paraphrase Douglas Adams. Plus people use standards as a shield for doing really, really, dumb things.

A case in point; the height above the floor of the average display screen in a video conferencing system is defined by a specification. The problem is, it's way too close to the floor. This leads to the display being blocked by most of the participants sitting around a table. When I pointed this out to the IT folks installing my companies systems they pointed to the specification, installed so that no one could really see the screen without playing "gopher" and started walking away. The result: No one uses the expensive video system.

I asked one of the IT guys that if the specification had said to mount the screen on the ceiling, would they have done that? My boss, who was in the room at the time face palmed, because I was right and he knew I was about to add another notch to my "Idiot IT lizard" belt. As you might expect, the IT guy froze, got mad, red in the face, and walked out, he wasn't able to give the correct response, which would have been "no" since he was specification locked.

If a solution doesn't make sense for an organization, it doesn't make sense for THAT organization, and that's ALL it means.

Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today

HammerOn1024

Re: Do allow Bezos his moment of glory

He achieved it with his own money, no one else's. No tax dollars, like SpaceX, for example. He deserves his moment and all further accolades as he continues to USE HIS OWN MONEY.

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

HammerOn1024

Huh...

We just sequestered first articles in a locked, limited access room. No one who was not part of the development team (5 - 15 people) was allowed access to this item until the pre-release HW/FQT and SW/FQT.

Then the HW configuration management folks were allowed supervised access to the system. They generated the final HW P/N and BOM.

Then the SW FQT was similarly run with a resulting SW P/N and BOM.

These days, a third group of Cyber Security folks also run audits with a CS P/N and BOM.

This system works well to this day. So far, given the systems sensitive use, we've never had an issue in 30+ years.

Expensive? Not really. The development budget may be $100,000 or so higher than a process that doesn't do this. The savings, imagine this story played out 1,000 times over a world-wide distribution... $100,000 is cheep insurance.

Microsoft solicits Clippy comeback – later reveals it had already decided to bring back the peppy paperclip

HammerOn1024

As with Disco...

Things have their time and Clippy, the abomination, should stay 6 ft. under and well tapped down.

Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

HammerOn1024

Sounds Like...

Another repair mission is needed. I'd thinking a Dragon on Falcon Heavy could easily lift the necessary hardware and personnel to Hubble. The issue is reentry: Can Dragon take the higher reentry speeds?

If it can, then bring along new stabilization gyro's and a shortened Canada Arm to grab the satellite. Break out the shuttle space suites for on-orbit repairs while your at it.

After 15 years and $500m, the US Navy decides it doesn't need shipboard railguns after all

HammerOn1024

Re: A cunning plan

Sorry, but not even close. As having been an adult during that time, the military budget was background noise, which it still is, when compared to the social spending this country does.

As an example, it takes the US Navy 5 years to build a carrier; at about 12 billion dollars. With Social Securities budget it could build EIGHT (8) a MONTH! And that's in 2021 dollars. The 2021 budget for JUST Social Security is about $1.2 TRILLION dollars: https://www.ssa.gov/budget/FY21Files/2021BO.pdf

So please whiners, stop it. The ENTIRE defense budget is trivial when compared to the rest of the US budget.

Biden to sign exec order calling for right-to-repair rules for farmers, maybe rest of us

HammerOn1024

Re: About time!

Yeah... except he's trying to make new law, which the first lawsuit from the manufactures will nullify before the ink is dry.

I'm amused by the Democrats in Congress. For a group of people who claim to represent "the little guy", yet buy large-tech holdings like a drunken sailor of a 52 day pass, they sure don't seem to be onboard with the whole right-to-repair wagon.

I mean, along with "fixing" our immigration mess, where is the legislation? Nada! Zip! Zero! Zilch!

SO Democrats... why no bills? That's an easy one, they are paid to spew, but hide when their investments will be torpedoed.

Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad redaction

HammerOn1024

An Old Addage

Dear IBM,

Tit... meet wringer...

Five words everyone wants to hear: Microsoft has 'visually refreshed' Office

HammerOn1024

Re: Custom ribbon?

Also, to avoid a reoccurrence, toss the development and management team into a rat infested pit of black death... the only way to be totally sure.

America world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China, says Brit think tank

HammerOn1024

Being a private system, hackable or not hackable, is not what this article is about; it is about national assets - Government assets, within the government in general and the military as called out by the "offensive" verbiage in particular.

Yeah, the US government has had some serious lapses, most recently with SolarWind, but the ability to counter and recover was pretty quick once the attack was identified.

This is in contrast to incidents from the early 2000's where government networks were hacked for YEARS before being detected.

Is US commercial and governmental infrastructure where it needs to be? No way! But it's nowhere near as bad as it was. It is getting better.

Hubble telescope in another tight spot: Between astrophysicists sparring over a 'dark matter deficient' galaxy

HammerOn1024

Well, Quite Frankly...

While we'll make good use of the James Web scope, building three Hubble class scopes and putting two of them in Saturn's Lagrange points and the other 180 degrees out in Saturn's orbit would be of greater use.

Hubble’s cosmic science is mind-blowing, but its soul celebrates something surprising about us

HammerOn1024

Re: Correcting the Corrector?

No. It's a more advanced system.

BOFH: Oh for Pete’s sake. Don’t make a spectacle of yourself

HammerOn1024

Re: Ah, Threat-Detecting Boots

Marvin took them... he's tired of having to face those tanks alone.

Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown

HammerOn1024

Let's Be Clear

In the prelude to any shooting war, any warship that is using AIS will remove the hardware; not just shut it off, but remove it.

As well with ADS-B on aircraft, the units will be removed.

So, the Russians can spend money on spoofing these systems all they want.

Also, there's no need to actually send a UAV, boat/ship or other physical actor and trace a course, one can transmit bogus AIS information form anywhere or inject it directly into the AIS infrastructure directly... it's not hard.

Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009

HammerOn1024

Re: Er, yes, mate?

Just remember folks, these are space rated computer systems. While the designs are from the 80's a lot of the chips were 70's vintage designs.

But, they were designed to take a LOT of radiation and just keep chugging along. Old does not equate to infirmed nor non-functional.

I'd bet it boots and works just fine for another 20 years.

Also, since these were made before the lead solder hysteria, tin whiskers are not even relevant.

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

HammerOn1024

Neil Young

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Later dude!

'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode

HammerOn1024

So here's the thing

There are two big inertia drivers here, one from the business side of the house and the other from Engineering. From the business side it's; If we don't get reports it's broken, it's not broken, so no money to check if it's broken. From the engineering side, it's the usual variation of; If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The engineers are not given the time to check, see the business rule, and the business folk have profit blinders on.

So until the company CEO gets a knuckle ball to the head, nothing is going to change.

The only thing to keep in mind then is: What color is your parachute?

US Navy starts an earthquake to see how its newest carrier withstands combat conditions

HammerOn1024

Dear Register

Your level of ignorance is really quite shocking. Have you even bothered to learn WHY those "trucks" (There called sled's by the way.) are launched? Do you know what non-destructive testing (NDT) is?

Well, seeing as your mostly a bunch of IT (Idiots in Transition) people, I'm not shocked you are clueless on NDT.

Get a real engineering education or stop writing about real engineering.

Google cans engineering diversity training scheme after alumni complain of abysmal pay packages

HammerOn1024

This is my...

Shocked Face:

:-|

Nominet is back to 'the same old sh*t' says Public Benefit campaign chief as EGM actions grind to halt

HammerOn1024

Look to the French...

Guillotine? The threat of "Death by razor." has a tendency to focus the appointed ones energies like nothing else.

US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile

HammerOn1024

Some things...

... are in the way of the impact blast; non-explosive but a hypersonic impact will have the same effect as a warhead. That's what.

Now on to more important things: "... type will have been in continuous service for almost a century." I'll put a Vegas bet down that the B-52 will see 100 years!

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

HammerOn1024

Dear Register, Speak for Yourselves

"... Windows 10 is so much better than..."

Yeah... no. So much customization has been lost since XP that it borders on criminal cruelty to animals. Shoot! One can't even get rid of the directory tree in a folder view without every stinking file explorer instance following suit!

Yes I realize, under the hood, 10 is good, if one can deal with the absurdities of Windows policies, but 99% of the people don't care! They don't use nor manage their systems like sysop's. They want to load and go and customize as THEY see fit.

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