Posts by EricB123

Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in 'Chromebook Plus' spec

Gear Aquisition Syndrome (G.A.S.)

"it's hard to know what products will actually give you what you need, at the price you want."

I thought that was the whole idea.

Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure

Say What?

Microsoft seems to have caught a bad case of the Intels. I've heard that is occasionally curable with masses doses of antibiotics.

But then there is the problem of antibiotics tolerance. Don't tell the cattle industry this.

From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?

Re: A solution without a problem

"And drug companies tend to have lots of lovely cash to invest in such things."

You mean instead of stock buy-backs?

Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction

You Win Some, You Lose Some

The Japanese did some recent research with low carbon concrete and actually came up with a few mixes that were carbon negative. The fact that anywhere in Japan is close to the sea and some places in the USA aren't necessarily so might have something to do with some of this I realize. Still, this is promising research.

Now, about coming in to the office everyday....

$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

Re: No doubt

Ohhh, so it's all my fault! Well, then, I must be punished, mustn't I?

I AM SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY!!! I AM SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY!!!

I have the permanant solution

CASIO!

Kyndryl spins out of IBM, stock starts trading on NYSE – and shares tumble

Re: A tendril ?

"I wonder how the marketing team justified that reference."

An illicit substance could factor into this somehow.

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

Re: Pure performative politics

"Judges should rise through the ranks of the legal profession so they are guaranteed to have the requisite legal expertise. Appointing or electing allows unqualified people into positions of power over other people which is a recipe for disaster."

But can the candidate sell whitening toothpaste?

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way

Hey, it almost worked forv BMW

"They could say the new iPocketwarmer feature has been discovered before being announced"

Will that feature require an $80 a month subscription as well?

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Who Cares?

Well, maybe if someone wanted Durian as a pizza topping, I might care.

Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans

Banana Republic

It doesn't help that IBM is headquartered in a "Banana Republic", at least as far as it's shrinking middle class is treated.

DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs

We Have 3 Priorities, But the 4th Priority is Just as Important?

"UTD said a fourth priority, developing a US workforce needed to make the aforementioned three goals possible, is also as important as the other three. "

If this isn't the most important thing, then this screams "outsourcing" to me.

Better beef up the student loan amounts!

Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs

Re: "they will have devices like sensors with that level of compute"

"What exactly are they smoking ?"

And when will they make THAT available?"

Finally, a product that we actually need.

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

I Guess This is Already in Their Training Parameters

"We are fucked".

Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder

This is a Lot

A terabyte here, a terabyte there, pretty soon you are talking about a serious amount of data!

Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign

Hazing?

"Thank you sir, can I have another!"

Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months

Re: soooo

"We are not planning on renewing our Salesforce contract when it ends next month. We are not a small customer either..."

So the top story in tomorrow's El Reg is "In an amazing turnaround, Salesforce announces another round of layoffs!"

Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure

A Golden Opporunity Flushed

"tool manufacturer taking royalties from any house purchase where its hammers were used in construction."

Or American Standard collecting a royalty every time you flushed one of their toilets.

Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cut costs, improve sales, or sell

Re: "activist" investor

""ich kan net so viel fressen wie ich grad kotzen könnt" (I cannot eat as much as I would like to vomit out again now). "

Dang! I Iove that saying! I wonder how that translates into Tagalog...

Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone

Re: Sure, it's possible, but why would you want it?

Monitor your roughage intake?

Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill just a bite away from governor's signature

Same Old, Same Old

America is a series of broken down systems covered by many layers of band-aids. Ho-hum right to repair bills, health insurance anti surprise bills, patient "bill of rights" bills ad nauseum. Everything that is supposed to help the consumer is as watered down as dive bar drinks. Yawn.

Cruise emits software fix after self-driving car slams into bus

Average Schmo?

I resent that! But I'm impressed that El Reg knows Yiddish.

Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal

Patience Required

Ziegler and Evans write a famous song that answers your question. The song was "In the Year 2525".

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

Time to Generate Data!

Excuse me while I go inside my car and jump and roll around for a while. I'll give them some Damn data!

Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador

Too Many to Count

I've lost count of how many countries are strapped with USA sanctions. Has anything positive resulted from any of them?

AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats

But...

Will it detect a balloon?

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

Ground Floor Opportunity

Does anyone know of a REIT that specialized in billionaire utopia cities? Man, I definitely want to get in on the ground floor on this exciting investment opportunity!

Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K

Re: Wordpress or ???

"in Elon we trust"

You mean it's not on the coins already? Excuse me, I must go check on this.

At least I don't own a Tesla he can brick.

Remember That "Lifetime" Airline Pass

Somebody help me out here.There was once an American-based carrier that sold a lot of lifetime passes, to go to anywhere at any time. Then came restriction after restriction when you could use it. Then one day I stopped hearing anything about it. It wasn't so long ago that everyone who bought it would be dead by now. Well, unless they all died in mysterious car accidents.

Whiffy malware stinks after tracking location via Wi-FI

Re: Not acceptable

Options? From one inept carrier to another.

You'd be better off with carrier pigeons.

Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem

But thw wires were good

I used to live in Pattaya, Thailand. After the wires were buried in my neighborhood, I truly missed them. And they provided shade from the intense tropical sun, a true benefit in this part of the world.

There was one benefit to the project, though. The streets got repaved, the first time in decades.

On the Cheap

"If your underground substations flooded, it's because they were built on the cheap."

Isn't that most of them?

Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment

Re: Doesn't make sense -- honest

Yes, I remember during the Reagan era military buildup everyone who worked for the DOE, any company that did any business with any branch of the military, et al had to be a US citizen.

Apparently the bureaucracy has swelled in size to where different government branches have different rules on how to keep America "safe".

Profits just keep rolling in at T-Mobile US. So only thing to do is axe 5,000 workers

Re: Contagion

"Smells like teen Sprint?"

Sorry, I'll do better next time.

Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans' pay or credit

Re: Not good enough

<fill in your name here> "is Awful".

After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California

Re: Louis Rossmann

Dear El Reg... Can you make it a bit easier to make clickable links, italicized, bold and strikeout text? I am familiar with basic HTML but should that really be necessary in this day and age?

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

Re: long-form writers...

You mean Orifice 360?

Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff

LinkedIn?

LinkedIn?

Re: What I'd Like To See

Well, Zuck could give every employee their own private jet.

80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office

It's all relative

When I was in India, they considered a 2 hour drive one way to be "close".

Re: Idiocracy

At least fix the crappy toilet paper!

Yes, We Will Honor Our Pledges

It's so nice to see how concerned tech companies are about becoming "carbon neutral" by 3035, I mean 2035.

Watchdog vows crackdown on 'harmful' world of surveillance-by-data-broker

All Rules Subject to Change

Even if Mr. Biden succeeds in accomplishing any of his stated goals, it seems more than likely the next president will throw all the rules out the window on his first day in office.

Don't shoot! DARPA wants to capture future spy balloons in one piece

Old and Simple

An old Daisy BB gun will do the job and save the taxpayers, err, I mean the government deficit millions of dollars.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

DAW Not!

I have thousands of dollars of Digital Audio Workstation software that runs under Widows. It can, like games, strain the fastest PC. It doesn't run on Linux. Now what?

I also refuse to pay for subscription software.

Netflix offers up to $900,000 for AI product manager while actors strike for protection

I Remember...

And call it "Max Headroom"?

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

Exactly

"X advertisers, X staff and X users"

Perfection in journalism!

World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

Re: Everything is impossible until someone does it

Wow, now I'm wondering what the deleted said.

Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes

Re: Save the politicians!

"Make America Gag Again"

I only read this far in your post before I upvoted it.

Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop

Re: Obligatory

Why in the Hell would somebody down-vote this post???