* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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UK Ministry of Defence apologises – again – after another major email blunder in Afghanistan

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Re: Why does it happen so often ?

Wasn't this the plot of a Bond movie?

Moneypenny has to shoot Daniel Craig before he leaves a disk with list of all the agents on a train

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This was the MoD, laws don't apply to people with nukes

If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs

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Re: "cheaper self-driving cars getting the bare minimum"

No it's simply Intel's business model.

If you have a 3series BMW you need an I3, if you have a more powerful 5 series it has an I5 and a 7 series needs an I7. If you use your car for business it needs a Xeon

AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand

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Re: This is interesting

Or it means international links are still so poor that you need the data locally

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

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Re: The Irony

With such limitless resources of fine bespoke hand crafted genuine artisanal stupid available

Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon

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Re: The return of the automat

Just need a bunch of tubes to each table.

Select the flavour of soylent green you want

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Re: Anyone remember the breakfast scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

You aren't considering the tremendous computational power available today.

With precise control loops and precision targeting - the kitchen-to-diner pie delivery system could be perfected

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Re: costing a hundred times as much

>How is the robo waiter going to get the dishes onto the table, if he has no arms?

By stopping quickly.

You've seen the trick of pulling the cloth away and leaving the plates - same thing in reverse

'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov

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Re: Sure thing, boss

But these will be British supercomputers! With new silicon features made to fraction of inch, none of this French nanometre business

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So....

Set up numerous government committees in the dept for administrative affairs to be concerned about the lack of supercomputers, or spend the money on buying actual supercomputers?

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

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Re: Crash proof how?

Obviously you make the drone out of the same stuff as the black box

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Re: Mid flight failure

> why it shouldn't apply to UAV flying over populated areas

Doesn't currently apply to helicopters that are allowed to fly into cities/hospitals

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

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Re: Hmmmm....

No the Royal Navy is very clear that 'proper' navigation is what you rely on and GPS isn't even a backup - it's there because it came with the systems.

Commercial tends to rely much more on GPS because they can't afford to have a bunch of navigation officers taking sightings around the clock and you have to be quite precise maneuvering a container ship the size of the Isle of Wight, passed the isle of Wight

Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

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Re: Underpaid but better off?

Everyone pays if they watch Bargain Hunt.

Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO

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>What kind of cloud service doesn't have near bullet-proof disaster recovery procedures in place?

One whose business model is low cost hosting for sites that don't need and don't want to pay for 5-nines up time.

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

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Re: No need for paper charts

> passed by oral tradition from master to apprentice

Presumably only by the ones that found their way back.

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Re: Reg units need not apply

And relying on a fuel gauge which didn't measure how much fuel was in the tanks - but repeated how much they had told it they had loaded

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Re: "two main reasons why the Royal Navy no longer uses [paper charts]"

>A system failure on the USS Yorktown last September temporarily paralyzed the cruiser, leaving it stalled in port for the remainder of a weekend.

My kayak is required to carry a spare paddle as an "alternative means of propulsion" - do they have banks of oars ?

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Re: Reg units need not apply

This 300lb man was shot by a 9mm and has lost 4 (US) pints of blood, quick how many grains of laudanum should we give him ?

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Re: "two main reasons why the Royal Navy no longer uses [paper charts]"

They do do-it-themselves, the navy standard is to be able to navigate coasts and harbours using only compass and sightings and astro-navigation at sea.

GPS, Loran and markey boys aren't allowed - since the people you are intending to broadside may have been naughty and removed them.

What isn't done the old way is using log tables to reduce the numbers - you are allowed to use the nav software and calculators.

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Re: "two main reasons why the Royal Navy no longer uses [paper charts]"

New bits of not-sea get discovered - we are still surveying the oceans (ironically one of the things the Royal Navy does most)

The case where that US sub got a nose job was because it hit an newly charted undersea mountain that was on the updated charts that they hadn't yet updated to.

JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal

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My clients shotgun-charlie, razors and Harry "Can't Remember His Nickname" Jones have announced that they haven't done anything since last month's Streatham bank job and consider the matter closed

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PTSD

Having finally got over Vietnam, they spend 20 years in Afghanistan - and now you expect them to work with Oracle ?

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

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Re: Far simpler to ban them all

But ubiquitous ID tracking and biometrics would have classified him as undesirable immigrant / non-white / catholic. Which only gives him a 66% shoot on sight rating.

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Re: Far simpler to ban them all

But you have to consider the Bayesian probabilities.

If you are in the city of london and wearing an expensive suit then P(A) the probability that you are a-priori a crook/tax-cheat/imbiber of the devil's nose candy , is 1.0

There is really no need for the police to investigate further.

Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes

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No I moved to the colonies - becoming a work shy immigrant taking their jobs and avoiding Brexit

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I thought IR35 was a tax dodge optimisation to allow programmers to carry on doing the same job in the same office for the same employer but pay themselves in low-tax dividends and claim their car, meals and mortgage as business expenses. I didn't realise it was revolutionary praxis by the oppressed masses against global corporatism.

Comrades, come rally .... you have nothing to lose except your tax write offs

Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year

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Re: Rip and replace

Yes but Huawei want $3RD_WORLD_COUNTRY to sign some sort of large deal involving ongoing support and maintenance and a "friendly regulatory environment" - they aren't going to support a Telco who bought a bunch of banned kit on ebay.

Not only are they losing the sticker price, but they want the ban to be as expensive as possible, to be most politically difficult to the countries doing the banning.

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Re: Rip and replace

Depends. The stuff being banned is carrier grade, backbone stuff. So if you are a telco in a non-aligned country, having a bunch of misc mismatched gear with no support/maintenance from Huawei might not be such a great deal.

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Re: Rip and replace

Or facist ones.

Or religious ones.

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

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Re: Which is why Texas

Yes and I'm sure the same supreme court will show a similar enthusiasm for federal over local state authority - especially when it comes to protecting the environment from big business.

If there's one thing the current court values more than women's rights it's environmentalism.

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Re: Which is why Texas

>There are also good reasons for launch from south Texas:

It's nowhere near the equator, and that only really helps for GSO / going to the Moon.

The advantage of Texas is no income tax = useful for billionaire CEOs but more useful for attracting tech professionals, low house prices and most importantly a state government that doesn't care what you do (as long as you aren't a women/gay/brown)

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Until that damn hippie Nixon got in

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Re: Which is why Texas

But they were all resolved very quickly - it's only the federal agency ones that are ongoing.

If SpaceX was launching from California it would still be in public consultations about whether launching rockets infringed on the beliefs of flat earthers and

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Which is why Texas

The local state regulators are going to approve anything - in Texas it's your civic duty to pollute as much as you like.

And the same supreme court that approved that the state is in charge of women's bodies is definitely going to back that the state is in charge of the local environment.

And the FAA is going to play along with this in case it does go to the supreme court and they effectively gut all federal agencies.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and we should feel fine

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Re: Machine Learning

> A quality phone that lasts 5 years isn't going to bring continuing profits.

Apple profit margin on iPhone 5-10% ?

Apple profit margin on 20% app store commision = 20%

Apple profit margin on you streaming content from Apple = 99.99999%

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Re: "now we've caught up and we're puzzled about what to do next"

Yes but we would also still be on Analytical Engines and arguing about which brass alloys IEEE approved for use in computers.

You can have reliable computing, stick to BSD and only use Awk + Tex

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Re: Where are the Tee-shirts ???

What are we calling Oric owners ?

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Re: Where are the Tee-shirts ???

Never mind the cult of Mac, Children of Clive / Hordes of Specy sounds cooler

Although a Commodore Barbarian myself

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Re: Most of the problems have been solved

So the 'solution' to today's IT woes is going to be the equivalent of what QM did to physics - oh joy

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Re: Sinclair and the SSD

We wouldn't have any IT industry if it wasn't for management pissing off techies who then formed much more successful competition.

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Re: Thought Experiment

Run RISC-OS on a modern Pi - it flies. And I don't remember it being a slouch on the original Archimedes

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Re: Does it work though?

And when you do try and remove the Korean font used only in 16 century court poetry, it says it's part of the desktop pack and removes your window manager

Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser

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Re: "I imagine it'll be pretty simple to fix"

The real skill is not telling yourself this....

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Re: Hmmm,

I always sing it to myself in a Noddy Holder voice - had to check that it wasn't sung by Wizard.

Now I have 70s Brummie ear worms

-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2

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Re: Er, do I need help?

I put the content in the filename, then all the files are 0 bytes.

That way I save on storage

Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral

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Re: Pay

One covered in el'reg a week or two back.

Masters degree in e-eng, hardware builder, programmer, hacker, etc, etc Central London and 34K

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Re: Warriors?

So somebody piloting a drone from a trailer in Nevada to blow up somebody in Afghanistan isn't a soldier because they can't be shot at? Or somebody in a minuteman missile silo?

What about a B52 pilot dropping bombs from 30,000 ft above any possible insurgent gunfire?

Even a sailor on a battleship bombarding the beaches on D-Day was pretty safe from return fire - I doubt they would consider themselves non-combatants

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