* Posts by Trollslayer

1322 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Dec 2009

Moore's Law isn't dead, chip boffin declares – we need it to keep chugging along for the sake of AI

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Re: Old Macdonald had a neural processor farm, AI AI O

It makes cents.

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A 7nm line

Is about twenty atoms wide and finfets aren't always the solution.Moore's Law is really Moore's Guideline.

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

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A friend Of Trump

As the modern expression has it

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

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Was the footage aired?

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Re: Millions

Or nothing if they are lucky.

Security? We've heard of it! But why be a party pooper when there's printing to be done

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Re: Very Secure...Unless It's Hot

Snap!

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

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Re: Touch screens

The only time I've had a misted up windscreen (well part of it) was when the pollen filter was years overdue for replacement.

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Re: Touch screens

Keyless entry/ignition is a big security problem.

There is equipment, basically to boxes of electronics, the first which can detect the key in a house if it is near a wall and talk to the second by the car.

Guess what happens.

You can easily secure America's e-voting systems tomorrow. Use paper – Bruce Schneier

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And we think the UK government is bad

OK, it is but nowhere as bad as the US.

Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report

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Re: So...

It'll be OK.

It'll be OK.

It'll be OK.

It....

As many as 100,000 IBM staff axed in recent years as Big Blue battles to reinvent itself from IT's 'old fuddy duddy'

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Get them while they're naive

'nuff said.

Sleeping Tesla driver wonders why his car ploughed into 11 traffic cones on a motorway

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No because it is known for not realising some objects exist.

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Re: This is not auto-pilot

Correctamundo!

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You have nailed it

"The last thing I want is complacency that will lull me to sleep"

Complacency kills a lot of people.

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Re: Tesla provides

Even Five AI are nowhere live autonomous vehicles.

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Re: Not-an-Autopilot

It is quite simple.

It. Is. Not. Autonomous.

Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK

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Re: Erm...

At least it's not DHMO!

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Freedom units

Definitely El Reg!

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

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Re: A more satisfying outcome ...

Are you the BOFH's understudy?

DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019

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It is/was bound to happen

Like Moore's Law running out.

Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera

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I worked at Icera

Actually Nvidia after it was acquired, great people to work with and a chance to do great work.

Jensen Huang could have closed the place down earlier but he stuck to the five years promised and even flew over to stand in front of us. A lot of us respected him for that.

Happy days.

Oracle goes on for 50 pages about why it thinks the Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud contract stinks

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Re: It is more about supplanting Oracle technology in government...

You skipped lunch?

America's latest 5G drama: Spectrum row bursts into the open with special adviser fingered as agent provocateur

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Re: It stupidity anyway

It is mainly meant for use with a one to many feature in 5G so the audience can listen on their phones.

Goodbye acoustic problems in a 20,000 seat auditorium.

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

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Because there are models where the battery is built in..

Suspected dark-web meth dealers caught by, er, 'using real address' when buying stamps

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They were a bit sloppy not stupid.

The rest is down to the FDA's hard work.

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Re: somehow they knew where the shipping point was

I would say it was good solid police work.

McAfee sues ship-jumping sales staff over trade secret theft allegations

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Re: Oh the Irony

That is against a virus, not someone copying files from the PC.

Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

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Looks like RMDR have gone!

The link for RMDR in the article does not connect.

Nice one El Reg!

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Re: Doesn't matter

Because in this case the files were random bytes.

RTM dear boy.

Remember the Nominet £100m dot-uk windfall it claims doesn't exist? Well, it's already begun

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Re: That .com I have looks a better buy each day

I have a .org simply so I don't rely on Google etc. for my email given how much I trust those outfits.

There's that phrase again: JP Morgan CIO told Autonomy's first HP boss it was 'a shit show'

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Not the first time

I worked for a major semiconductor manufacturer that manufactures networking and set top box devices who decided to buy the TV device division from A Terribly Interesting company.

The problem is this was all done at a senior level and it turned out business wasn't as good as it appeared to be - bye bye to over $100 million.

Sometimes you need boot son the ground to see if things are as they appear.

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

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Privacy Badger

Nice little browser plugin, blocks tracking cookies etc. with Farcebook etc. caught be default.

You're Huawei off base on this, Rubio: Lawyers slam US senator's bid to ban Chinese giant from filing patent lawsuits

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Re: Dear Mister Trump.

All China has to do is stop buying US Treasury notes.

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US or China?

The US is the more two faced and duplicitous by far.

I know of an instance when the clearly stole technology from the UK.

Like using the latest version of Microsoft Office? Love Offline Files? Not for long!

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Me as well.

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Re: Clouds rule OK!

LibreOffice is fine for basics but I have used advanced functions in Excel which LibreOffice was never meant to handle.

What first attracted Ofcom boss Sharon White to the near-£1m salary offered by John Lewis Partnership?

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Broadband speeds

It is worth noting that in the US broadband speeds are worked out using blocks of areas and a supplier only needs to have one customer in a block to be considered to supply the whole block at that speed.

Cherry pick and will.

Judge slaps down Meg Whitman for accusing Autonomy boss of being a 'fraudster who committed fraud'

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Re: Spinning in their graves

Then re branded as Keysight when they cut costs and staff yet again.

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Re: Etiquette when in Court

Broadcom made that mistake buying a business unit from another company that lied about their sales and potential orders.

No boots on the ground to see what really happened.

You go that way, we'll go Huawei: China Computer Federation kicks back at IEEE in tit-for-tat spat

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Re: Huawei phones

Google does all the tracking.

Globally.

Oh, the massive sky dong? Contrails from 'standard' F-35 training, US Air Force insists

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Re: Admit it

BOOO!

There are plenty of Blackbird stories and I doubt any are exaggerated.

We ain't afraid of no 'ghost user': Infosec world tells GCHQ to GTFO over privacy-busting proposals

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One big fat target

Hackers get that and they get everything.

Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

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Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

A second rate troll.

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

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There must be a way to get out of a place without access control in case of fire.

This is why there are break glasses by call points on fire routes.

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Re: whether if they'd had their sidearms they could have shot the lock off instead

RED 2.

I like those films.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

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Re: Diretional antenna

It's all about SNR.

Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman

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That is why they sent a thug to tel us what to do.

Huawei was always going to be limited to the radio equipment in the UK anyway.

Wine? No, posh noshery in high spirits despite giving away £4,500 bottle of Bordeaux

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A f*cking idiot.

That is being polite.

Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)

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Battery fires

Let me guess - testing was cut short.

The usual story in such cases.

Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

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Like you let the Republicans put a cartoon character with Alzheimer's related dementia who declared bankruptcy six times in the White House?

Then there is the opioid epidemic the pharmaceutical companies made billions out of.

Oh, add civil forfeiture where any hick town police can just take everything you have. There was one case where a family's house was taken because the son had smoked cannabis. Didn't even deal it.

Plus - this is the good one - poor people vote for Republicans even the Republicans make them poorer and vote against those who would help them. You know, things like better health care.

Go back under your stone.