* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas

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On a constituional point of procedure

Did he preface the executive order with "no take-backs" ?

Welcome to the splinternet – where freedom of expression is suppressed and repressed, and Big Brother is watching

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Re: They will ne fed with a proliferantion of batshit crazy too...

>You can't have an effective democracy when a sizeable minority of citizens are unwilling to believe that their side lost an election

You could just tell them that their side DID win.

Since there is generally very little difference in US policy between the center-right and the further-right parties. You could just segment the audience so that all Fox viewers get told that R won and all the Wapo readers get told the D won, Facebook are already essentially there.

It would make everyone happier and remove the need for expensive and disruptive elections.

Then the the country could continue being run by <NO CARRIER ..........

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Re: HORNET or death

It used to be said a free press was free to print any of the political opinions of the owner which didn't upset the advertisers.

The nice thing about social media is you can match the advertisers with the opinions

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Re: The USA model is not perfect ...

At least in Europe we don't have all-powerful media billionaires with a right wing political agenda controlling vast blocks of news sources.

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Re: A note to all African countries - Beware of the CCP bearing gifts.

We are no longer the nights who say Eu

We are now the knights who say Farage-Farage-Backstop

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Re: HORNET or death

Nothing compared to the trouble books have caused

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Re: But who watches the policemen?

>who do you trust to do it?

Mumsnet ?

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Re: Different censorships

Is turkey still a loyal NATO ally and a bastion against the asiatic hoards or is it a filthy muslamic dictatorship that must be crushed in the name of freedom ?

Sorry my vidscreen is broken.

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Re: Free internet != lawless internet

But in the physical world one president can't just take away control of another entire country's telecoms infrastructure and hand it over to a supporter in Florida

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Re: HORNET or death

> A source that can be held accountable for the profanities and malicious content of their spewing.

Perhaps with some sort of "social credit" score ?

New year, new rant: Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for 'killing' the ECC industry

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There was probably a requirement from a big customer for a cheap embedded board with ecc, eg. ATMs or medical.

There is no risk of a micro i3 board stealing server sales, that's why you can't get the i7 version

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Re: I don't see it that way

>It wasn't Intel's fault: ECC memory is just too expensive for most people's cost/benefit equations."

Intel kept ECC for the server market to charge a premium for Xeons

If you had ECC on all CPUs then cheap RAM would become available with ECC and everyone would just buy desktop machines instead

Remember you have to buy Xeon (or preferably Itanium) for 'real' work

File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result

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Re: Google Docs?

>Perhaps they were 'collaborating' with people outside the law firm

You can't just google for random documents on the internet and make some sort of "dossier" out of it

New York Stock Exchange bins China’s three biggest telcos

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Re: "the NYSE isn’t entirely necessary to investors"

Not all exchanges are equal. A larger exchange with more trading volume will give you a better price

Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb

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Re: Most are Born With An A*** Hole

When you are created the first embryo cells form a ball with one opening. In most species this first opening becomes the arse, then a 2nd opening for the mouth forms later.

For some people this is the peak of their development

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Extra points if the off switch is black, unmarked and shaped to form part of the plastic moulding around a corner. Bonus if it's next to a row of USB ports or something else that needs to be poked at.

Double word score if the kit is also used in the dark or somewhere that you can't actually see but need to plug into the ports by feel

Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet

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Re: Tesla market crash 2021/2022?

>Cheaper and better options coming on stream soon.

Apple crash 2021/2022 - other cheaper and better mobile phone makers are coming soon......

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Re: A Television you say...

>Have you never watched the Simpsons?

Not since I was in short trousers / it was actually funny.

Have I just been wooshed ?

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Re: A Television you say...

>Like the square root of one hundred, I suppose it is something we will never know;

I think that's +/- 10

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At this point why would you buy a BMW/Audi/Merc over a Tesla?

None of the other luxury makers can compete on technology or cool and they can't launch anything electric which disrupts their dealer network. That's why BMW launched the electric noddy car, Audi will do a hybrid LeMans car and MB will ignore it.

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Re: I'm glad he refused to take the meeting

>They buy technologies, not customer bases

Who could they buy for customer base at this point ?

Buy BMW in case there is a BMW driver that has never heard of the iPhone and the only way to reach BMW drivers is the next time they buy a new car ?

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Re: Offered to sell the company for 1/10 current market value

>But in Apple's case, I guess it got more complex.

Mainly because apple has more money than God, so if I'm a minority shareholder lawyer and I go after them - they might pay me a few $M just to go away.

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It's almost like all famous creators of multi $Bn businesses aren't fluffy bunny-rabbits

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Re: Offered to sell the company for 1/10 current market value

Trouble is he has a bunch of fiduciary reasons not to take the meeting.

Apple invests and he gets a bunch of lawsuits from Apple shareholders who complain it isn't a good use of their money, from the Fed claiming he is now a monopoly, from the press with "Apple product kills" everytime a car crashes

If he bought stock personally after the meeting he is in trouble for insider trading and more if Apple does any future deals with Tesla like allowing a Tesla app on the iStore or bundling iTunes with a Tesla

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Re: Offered to sell the company for 1/10 current market value

>"Hi Tim, the company's in seriously deep shit, and I'm looking for some mug to get some money out of before it collapses".

s/Tesla/Next/g worked out for them

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Re: You read it here first

Why a steering wheel?

You go where Apple wants you to go

US Department of Homeland Security warns American business not to use Chinese tech or let data behind the Great Firewall

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Re: Not long to wait

That's not what I said.

The Ariane 4/5 (not familiar with earlier models) were based on French ICBMS

The Ariane4 engines are from their 1980s land based missile and the Ariane5 solid fuel boosters are from France's submarine new submarine based model.

ie the French defence budget ( which is like all defence budgets unlimited) is used to subsidise/hide the cost of the Ariane development, in the same way as the US Delta. So simply deciding that you are going to have a space program without also developing your own nuclear missiles doesn't work out $$$$ wise.

Probably the real reason for the "encouragement" to the UK to drop their rocket program from the USA wasn't the competition in the space business, it was that with it the UK wouldn't be able, financially, to buy Polaris / Trident

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Re: not to use Chinese tech?

And their TVs - how long could America last without TV?

It would be full Mad-Max before the next ad break

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Re: So Basically

>Have they got involved in the fishing rights negotiation?

I hope they don't decide to leave - we don't want Sexit !

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Re: Not long to wait

But the modern commercial Ariane launchers (certainly the A4/A5) are basically French ICMBs

So unless you are going full nuclear and using the military development to subsidise your commercial project it's hard to make $$$ - same with the US Delta vehicle.

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Re: On a similar subject, and it is sad to have to say but necessary to have it said ...

> That one mostly made sense.

Sign of the apocalypse that, amanfromMars1 making sense

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Re: Not long to wait

>UK developing an orbital rocket, then canning it

I'm not sure about that.

Was the UK going to continue developing it through the 70s,80s,90s with the accompanying ICBM program to justify the development costs ?

Was it going to be a (subsidised) commercial rival to Ariane ?

Or would it be used for a couple of UK military launches a decade?

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Re: On a similar subject, and it is sad to have to say but necessary to have it said ...

>Some may squawk and occasionally appear to talk the talk with some interesting smalltalk

Is the amfM1 GPT2 writing Haikus now ?

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Re: Don't trust anyone?

That's why I keep all my data in North Korea

I'm pretty sure I can trust them not to hand anything over to the government

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Re: On a similar subject

So the UK is a military threat to the EU!

Now we can show them when it comes to fishing negotiations

Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin

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Re: Well said

Shouldn't the bottom half the companies listed on the stock market just buy shares in the more successful companies ?

Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency

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Re: Sercviceability?

Not to worry you, but this is how all civil aviation works.

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

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Funny that certain southern states haven't thought of this.

Multi-year unpaid internships in the field of cotton-fields available - includes free housing, food and travel from Africa.

(actually sounds like a better deal than some finance industry interships in New York)

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>RIBA Stirling prize architecture award

Generally given on the basis of how much the roof/windows leak when it rains

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Re: el Reg

>So the 'Cynical IT news website of the year' award the the Register wins EVERY YEAR

That's different - you have to pay not to win.

Once it wins then it's no longer cynical enough and loses all it's street cred

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It would if it was work - but as long as it's training or an internship then slavery is fine

Expect €5m cloud, says European Centre for Midrange Weather Forecasts

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Re: only JUST in the UK as of December 10th

This is going to be an interesting natural experiment of Brexit - how many of these "Staffing Resource Units" you can move move/replace and what side effects there are from moving a world center of expertise from London to GDansk.

Postdocs or $MM bonus paid traders you can move to Frankfurt on a whim. But telling finance lawyers or meterologists with 30 year careers and families that from next week they are working in Ruritania because of some pork-barrel deal on an office reloaction might provoke a different reaction.

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On premises cloud computing environment

Isn't that what we used to call a computer ?

Typing this on my horizontal writing surface attached, separated keyboard, non wirelessly communicating smart-phone

And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction

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Re: Three button mouse?

The very first mouse had one button - although the first production model had the correct number of buttons

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Re: A couple questions

Generally it's the provenance that matters more than looking at the actual item.

If an Apple I board was for sale by an electrical engineer that was well known at the Homebrew meetings and has some sort of original receipt or documentation and other people have seen him playing with it before it recently became valuable - you can be surer it's legit. Probably more reliable than carbon dating capacitors

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Re: Interesting comment...the lawyers will love this

and will be totally transparent - only the most refined of influencers will be able to see it

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Re: Amazing

>I've long since given up on the thought of anybody being able to read my handwriting.

Just out of interest, would this get you into trouble with RIPA ?

I'm concerned that somebody might ask me to decipher some XLST code I once wrote

(I was young and needed the money and they said it would be artistic)

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Re: Amazing

>I have some sketches somewhere for an improved mousetra

I have some cool designs of an intergalactic mega warship that I invented when I was 5

Wait til my 'notebooks' are discovered in 500years I'll be as famous as DeVinci

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Re: Interesting comment...the lawyers will love this

IIRC he tried to get HP to build the Apple but HP weren't interested in "computers"

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UK finally signs off on Square Kilometre Array Observatory Convention

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Re: Can’t see the data for the trees...

That number is a bit "marketing speak". Imagine listening to radio1 on a software defined radio, that's 100Mhz at 16bit = 200Mb/s. But it quickly cooks down to much less "information" / second.

The reason the data rate from each dish is so high is that the 'raw' data can now be digitised and then a bunch of correlation / filtering /frequency selection etc that we used to do in HW can now be done more efficiently and cheaper in software,

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