* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'

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Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

When amanfromMars1 talks about Liz Truss and Govt policy it cancels out and makes sense

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Re: Your next PM

Yes missed an 'or', although I am only administrative officer for the week ...

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Re: Your next PM

You don't get to PM by thinking you are like everyone else.

You become PM because you were chosen by divine providence to become PM.

(chatty burning bushes watery tarts throwing sword may be involved)

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Re: Buzz words

>whenever I hear "liberty" I think "libertarian nutjob".

Over here "Liberty" is a feminine hygiene product

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>while having lower crewing requirements

Oz has a fix for that, just let children drive submarines.

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Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

So she's going to be prime minister -

Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment

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Re: Joint European Tours but it's in Britain

>Tours is in France, you must mean TORUS.

Andiord autocorrect not up on its topological terminology

What's that law that any post pointing out a typo will contain a tpyo ?

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New wall at JET is a combination of beryllium and tungsten armour

It may be the Joint European Tours but it's in Britain

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

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Indubitably

JWST unfolding correctly is proof we are living in the Matrix

EC president promises European Chips Act to quadruple homegrown production by 2030

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Re: Not gonna happen

So Greek taxpayers are going to give Billions to a US corporation to double its plant in Ireland while the Eu sues US corporation over its imaginative tax deals with Ireland

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Re: So the EU are going to make silicon chips...

Yes I believe those dumb euro commies Intel do this from Eire

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

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Re: Oops…

Conclusion - el'reg is part of the government.

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>wasnt that because they were using Excel 1972 or something?

No it was because they couldn't do the import properly so they ran out of columns

They managed to make a spreadsheet where each entry was a new column !

Intel plunking down $20bn for at least two chip factories in Ohio

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Re: Global Britain.....

Cutting edge fans are full of enormously expensive machines and need an expensive controlled environment

While initiatives are cheap, especially if you only do the announce part

If you want less CGI and more real effects in movies, you may get your wish: Inflatable film studio to orbit Earth

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Union rules

Isn't there extra pay for shooting more than 30 miles from Hollywood, and that's why the entire universe seems to look like Topanga canyon and Leo Carrillo beach

How much are the scene shifters going to charge for going to space?

UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure

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Re: bonfire

That's the plan.

Make the fee £££ per company with ever increasing registration and reporting costs.

So only GS4/Crapita/etc can afford to play - and non of them can be fined or cancelled because they are a vital part of infrastructure.

The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

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Re: More Lost Jobs

Don't worry there will still be foreign robots to blame.

Coming over here using our electricity, interfacing with our servers

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Re: Yikes

> huge need for green energy workers

We prefer the term compost

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Re: Christ on an self driving electric bicycle. What have I just read?

If an omniscient deity is on a self-driving bicycle ?

That would be an ecumenical matter....

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

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Ban private jets - problem solved

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Re: Power

They know who is conspiring against them, it's backbenchers and usually the home secretary

I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

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Re: Higher Academe

>so many pure loonies hold doctorates

As do so many super-villains

I'm not saying i wouldn't use my PhD for evil, it's just that the HR issues in recruiting and replacing so many henchmen seems like a lot of hassle.

Although an indoor monorail would be awesome.

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Re: Plot For A Film

> All the falsely sued Bitcoin developers having to fly into London to appear before a judge on a fraudulent claim, with the stress of an unpredictable outcome, and constant demands on their finances to fund their defence costs

Which is presumably the aim. He does some sort of deal with their solicitors where they agree to support his claim in return for them being dropped.

He then shops the case around jurisdictions until he finds a judge and jury <cough>East Texas</cough> who decide for him because he has an American Flag hat and this Satoshi guy sounds like a gook.

He gets a judgement against Coinbase or Binance for a few $10M in damages and they pay because they are worth $Bn and its cheaper than a threat to their SEC licence.

It's just the old patent troll model with magic beans

Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it

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Assuming the 5G aren't leaking signal 200MHz out of band.

Always wondered that for FCC certification, you certify that your device doesn't emit harmfull RF and you also certify that you aren't affected by external RF

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Protectionism ?

>mobile industry to cough up $100m or so to pay for altimeter upgrades.

And that money will be distributed to everyone?

The FCC will pay for Chinese and Gulf airlines to update their planes - or will only US airlines be able to land at SFO in fog ?

UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals' rights to challenge AI decision making

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Re: How to legaly discriminate

No it's perfectly fair.

We fed the AI totally unbiased data in the form of CVs of all our previous board members - and the system calculated that we should only hire sons of former members who went to Eton and Oxford

It's totally unbiased and data driven.

UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law

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Re: It's all ok!

MoJ declares ICO terrorists and has them all deported

Fire in Berlin factory won't 'significantly' impact output, says ASML

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Do we need a new word?

I don't think many of the mask engravings are on stone anymore

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

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Re: Governments

A certain ex-member of PinkFloyd was notorious for splitting his contribution into 2 parts so he got double the royaly share

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No it would be quite simple

The open source contributor just has to pay to take the company software buyer on a golf trip....

Buy 'em by the punnet: Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk

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Re: Brilliant little devices.

That's what the little glass window is for

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

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Sending email from Linux isn't the best practice, with Linux you could be using the same operating system as any number of bad actors.

By paying for IBM Z/OS you are sure that IBM's customers aren't sending mass scam emails

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>Strangely @work, which only recently transitioned to O365, does not think that this is an issue at all.

They tested sending messages to somebody else in the company and it worked so the problem must be outside

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Re: Mark my words...

Not much point if Google / Microsoft / Apple refuse to deliver your email to their clients.

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Re: Bully boy tactics

Unless you are a convicted monopolist operating under an agreement with the feds and you block a competitor to a service that you have just announced in your latest financials as a major profit center.

Then you can expect a distinctly different look from the judges compared to Spamhaus - especially if you sue them in th eeu

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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Re: Sanctions

Isn't Google's Quantum Computer Canadian

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Re: Sanctions

2 people with undergrad maths degrees living in a swamp designed the ARM.

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Re: Sanctions

And they did not have the accumulated years of trial-and-error that were baked into the Western Taiwanese counterparts and know-how.

But the USA is going to onshore 5nm fabs by simply buying some gear from ASML and hiring some non-union labour in the state with the lowest environmental standards who offer the biggest tax break

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Re: Sanctions

>But if we do that which countries poor levels of worker rights will we exploit for our cheap goods next??!?

The confederacy ?

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re: too many smart people

>China will not be stopped by sanction, they have too many smart people to get things done

Hence our cunning plan by CIA chief Mr S Baldrick.

We parachute in lots of Harvard business school types and convince all their brightest students to become, lawyers, management consultants, and derivatives traders.

Then we send in the 101st McKinsey consultant division to persuade them to fire all their R&D staff to pay for a stock by back.

North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report

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Texans pay for parking ?

I assumed they just tied their F150s to the hitching rail and mosyed into McDs

Actually I didn't think they ever got out of their trucks. I'm picturing remote work just being everybody sitting in their truck in the parking lot

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket deploys seven satellites with third successful mission

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Re: I wonder

NFTs a Virgin crypto-coin and a lot of Tesla shares ?

5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say

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>Has anyone in the US actually tested 5G in real world scenarios?

Well obviously not, until we know if it's safe to test in the real world, we can't test it in the real world.

See also prescribing vaccines to under 5year olds before they have been tested on under 5 year olds.....

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Odd safety standard

> been no confirmed instances where 5G interference has resulted in aircraft system malfunction or unexpected behaviour,

At the launch of the Titanic there had been no confirmed instances when crashing a steamship into an Iceberg resulted in unexpected behaviour

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Re: Comms regulators know nothing about RF? I am shocked....

>interfere with anything on frequencies so far removed

But pirate radio Laser558 on 558KHz was a threat to all UK transmissions and air traffic control radar and the RAF and national security.

Software guy smashes through the Somebody Else's Problem field to save the day

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Re: Tracing cables

Thinking there is a market for coloured power cables

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Re: It's a sad day for this IT rag...

>You can make an office block fly in a book and on radio far better than any CGI

"The pictures are better on Radio" - it's a famous quote but I don't know who first said it

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Re: SEP became MP

"My mouse isn't working!"

Have you tried cleaning its ball ?

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Re: It's a sad day for this IT rag...

And the faithful shall respond in somber tones:

I could never get the hang of Thursdays

TSMC allocates a third more on capital spending in 2022 – that's a fab-ulous $44bn on new plants and other things

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Confused

A for-profit company invested its own money in production capacity ?

Is that allowed?

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