Posts by JassMan

Re: Explanation

Sizing was covered a few weeks ago in another chip story. It seems that for the last couple of years the sizes have only been notional. Eg. 14 nm could be the equivalent of 2 layers of transistors fabbed at 30nm but has the number of transistors it would have if they had squeezed them down. 7nm might be 4 layers of 30nm fab or 2 layers of 16nm. Note these are all layers of transistors, not doping layers which may be 5 or more per transistor layer. I cant remember how many transistors they had per mm2 but the point was they had achieved 15 times more than a legacy 30nm chip so they called it 2nm even though it was still using 12nm lithography which i think is about the limit even for hard UV

Re: "people should not be using it fraudulently"

OTOH this is a great opportunity to do a vaccine passport on the cheap without spending millions on yet another useless app which can only run on 2 specific OSes. They just need a bit more security on the site such as NI number and NHS number and it could then be used to show you don't need to quarantine for 14 days when you come back from a green list country.

Sorry I forgot, the government isn't interested in making life easier for Joe Public, just looking for new ways to spaff millions of quid on their chums.

Re: ROI

$ 4.2 million for 8.5 million bogus comments versus one college student with 7.5 million.

They should demand their money back. They could have got the student and one of his mates to be on their side for just the cost of a years worth of pizzas.

Re: Take a look at the damn thing

"Nah, the problem is that it can't leap up at you, put its paws on your shoulders, and try to lick your face.

Not without crushing you to the ground under its weight... the lack of a licking device is a mere oversight."

I've known some Great Danes like that. Ok they had a licking device but that only made it worse. There is nothing more objectionable about an overfriendly canine than being pushed over AND slobbered on. Unless maybe they had been rolling in a field of cowshit first.

You missed GKN off your list. What they don't know about steel alloying and heat treatment probably isn't worth knowing. All now in the hands of a non-Brit hedge fund.

Re: So he waited

As another old fart with some younger friends, it never ceases to amaze me how little the youngsters know in spite of their MSc degrees. Just last weekend I was chatting with one about various mechanisms and he had never heard of collets, didn't know what a scroll compressor was and wouldn't believe gears could mate unless they were circular. He was surprised I knew anything about mechanics since I had spent a lifetime in broadcasting.

Re: Get a b'desk! @JetSetJim

Maybe the other 4K is for the robot arm which pops up from the back - they just forgot to mention it. How else are you going to play solo ping-pong?

HTTPS

Hyper Text Transfer by Pigeon System

They may not voluntarily give any information to the Intelligence services but they have probably given it all freely to Google. There was no option to opt out of analytics yet I believe all pages were running scripts supplied by google.com. Who knows how much actual data Google hoovered up (accidentally of course.)

Re: What's to stop...

The force of a storm is not in the local air pressure but in the wind speed times the mass of whatever it has picked up on the way. A kilogram of dust travelling at 100 Km/h will do as much damage on Mars as it will on Earth. Not all the erosion on Mars happened before it lost most of its atmosphere.

Re: Taking homegrown infosec seriously?

More likely it will go to an accredited security contractor like the bunch who told ONS that the census data will be secure after using Google Tag Manager.

Long on jargon and technobbable, short on security problems and mitigation strategies.

Re: No customer dashboard should ever fire off a connection to Facebook, Google, or any 3rd party

Gov.uk pages including Sunday's census which used Google Tag Manager. The ONS had an independant security audit done by Bridewell who claim that all our data and privacy are totally secure. Yeah, right!

Can we start up a class action to get our data back?

Re: Name?

Could we please agree to call him by his proper name? Harry Windsor I believe.

I thought is was really Battenberg (aka Mountbatten) or Saxe-Coburg. Windsor is just where the royals have one of their many palaces.

Re: The only things

The original story on "Critic" repeatedly says desktop computer, so I don't think the students were storing their work in the desktop folder. Even the story here on the vulture sort of implies that it is the local harddrive by saying that network and cloud drives were unaffected.

@AC

Which disaster is that? The disaster that is CMS or the hundreds more disasters that this government is creating every week by awarding contracts without competition.

By signing Public inquiry into Covid-19 pandemic immediately with the aim of saving lives https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331877 maybe we can get them to learn at least 1 fact about actions without plans.

A4 and Letter

Yep, it was almost certainly Letter (other non-A series sizes also exist).

Although A4 has been used in Europe for a couple of centuries before being named as A4 by DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) 100 years ago, it didn't become an ISO standard till 1975 - 2 years after Jobs wrote the application. It is unlikely that many merkins had even heard of A4.

@Zippy´s Sausage Factory

CyberUp is the name of a campaign led by NCC Group,..... It aims to rewrite the CMA to remove the threat of criminal prosecution from threat intelligence researchers.

Given that this is effectively an NGO there is a small chance that our superlazy government will cut and paste lots of their ideas into any forthcoming white-paper and we may end up with something useful. This is totally the opposite of where gov ministers let big business write their own laws in return for a promised job post parliamenatry career.

Re: 'scuse me? @Jim Mitchell

The problem is that flapjacks cause wetware bloat while flatpacks cause software bloat. Both can be dangerous to your health.

Re: winding up @Andy Non

At least they have improved from the days of my youth when all hotels used to close for 'congé' (the annual holidays). I never understood why they would do that, since the time everyone needs a hotel is when they are on holiday. Thankfully current hotelliers seem slightly more intetersted in serving the public.

Re: Repairability at reasonable standards and costs

This washing m/c bearing failure seems to be the new Covid. My 24year old Bosch also recently started making the barrel full of bricks sound on spin. The hard to answer question is: should I get the bearing replaced and hope for another 24years out of it or replace it and maybe save a bit of leccy - it says it is an eco model and has fuzzy logic, so I am guessing it was one of the first energy saving models. I vaguely remember it having A+ on the old style labelling so I am guessing the energy saving of a new one will be a lot less than the government says.

[edit] Just noticed further down someone saying they had brush problems. So did my Bosch - it went through 2 sets of brushes in 10 months. On the second visit, the repair man replaced the whole motor. It is now running on 23 year old brushes. Hmmm. Maybe time to replace it after all.

Re: Hacking is honourable

I guess it's too late for "quantum leap" to have its original meaning restored. Especially when journalists think that the massive supercooling plumbing surrounding a qubit is actually the computer. They'll think "That computer is enormous, compared to my phone" so they'll reassure themselves that a quantum leap is must be a big jump.

Re: We’ve come a long way from the old USB hubs...

OTOH if Apple have made it possible not to blow up the computer simply by making a software change, then there is always the possibility that it was the computer which was non-USB-C compliant all along. Anybody whose computer has died after plugging in a USB-C hub surely has a case for a replacement under warranty. It wouldn't be the first time that Apple had abused a spec to maintain the walled garden only to realise afterwards that it was costing loyalty.

Re: Heat?

I believe there is a power company which uses solar heated Stirling engines driving a generator to make green energy. Throw away the solar concentrator and connect the Stirling motors to the heatsinks on the GPUs and sort of get perpetual motion. OK, entropy and all that, but they could probably reduce the overall input requirements. Do it all near the sea and the Stirling motors would be very efficient.

Re: The company says users can opt out if they want.

"Tracking should be OPT IN or NOTHING. no exceptions."

Tracking MUST be OPT IN or NOTHING. no exceptions. FTFY

Under GDPR and the UK equivalent, all cookie options must be opt-in. Opt-out is not acceptable.

Re: What KIND of printer? @2+2=5

Even in space you'll need supports. Otherwise all the independent bits will float away while they are being printed. A lot of printer technologies won't work at all without gravity.