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The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy?

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Re: Is the government actually learning some economic theory?

Of course Ricardo missed out on the bit where you stop anybody else selling you the bits where they have an advantage - because they're foreign that's an unfair advantage.

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Re: pile it high, sell it cheap

We could just ban foreign companies form buying brilliant innovative British companies.

Of course this means that brilliant innovative British inventors know that if they start their company in Britain they have no chance of cashing out. But that's OK because the VCs also know this so will know not to invest in a British company.

Of course the brilliant innovative British inventor could just go somewhere else. But that's OK because somehow in politics headline "$$$ US company was founded by a British inventor who moved to US" is a good headline while "$$$$ British company sold to US company" is a bad headline

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Re: 'semi' conductor strategy.

The government thinks it's arguing about whether you need a full time conductor on HS2

$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors

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Re: You can take dumb horses to water but can’t make them drink ITs Kool AIdDevelopments

Just a test to see if all replies to amfM1 goto /dev/null

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Re: "some of the cash infusion could be wasted"

Essentially the whole point of government is to keep the cash flowing.

It doesn't really matter if it's drug dealers or paying people to design nukes - as long as you keep the money velocity up.

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Sounds serious

Good job with have a congress working together in harmony to ensure the future good governance of the leader of the free world.

(America however, is fscked....)

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Re: Easy peasy

> But climate activists will whine a bit.

A representative of Disaster Areathe DoD met with the environmentalists and had them all shot

Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices

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Removing a Chinese messaging app from government devices ?

What next, removing Grindr from Air Traffic control systems or Pokemone Go from RCN submarines ?

Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program

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I think you'll find that Microsoftlinux™ has always been a core part of Microsoft and anything Microsoft has always been a supporter of Microsoftlinux ™

(Anything you might think you remember about Balmer is fake news

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Re: Does it really matter..

But don't they also punish disloyalty?

The guy that answered all the .Net questions on Stackoverflow had to hand in his badge when he got a job at Google.

Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic

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Or just remove the seats = The infamous Chicken Tax

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You can't get meth in France ?

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Re: Still Filthy Diesels

Diesel engine in car < EV (assuming your power grid isn't all coal)

2 stroke diesel engine in ship > bunker oil

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Unfortunately then you would have to take it apart and assemble it in Alabama for Americans to buy it

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Re: What happened to .....

And why Airbus got to buy the Bombardier competitor to the 737 for $1 after Boeing got it banned from the USA

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Re: What happened to .....

"Who should I believe?

Some rando on the internet, or a company that generates renders for press releases of projects that will never materialise beyond an annual report and the first search for "Airbus + environment"

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Re: Lift??

But this ship is designed to carry a bunch of massive aerofoil 'sails'

Simply mount the A320 wings vertically on deck on turntables and zoom across like an America Cup yacht

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Re: What happened to .....

If I were Airbus, I'd spend my innovation budget on bribingincentivizing US politicians so I didn't have to build planes in Alabama to get them accepted in USA

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They just have to find a cargo for the return trip,

something produced in Alabama that is in demand in France.

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

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Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

I didn't want to cause alarm and the vapours among the innocent readers of el'reg - but it is important to check your parent's file system regularly

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Re: What a waste of time

The majority of party supporters worry about whatever the party is telling them to worry about today.

And they certainly don't live in the sort of 'estates' that have street corners

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Re: Love Your Response....

They did, some campaign group sent emails filled with random numbers to the home secretary - but police explained that the law was only for use in serious cases such as checking if people lived in the right school catchment area

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Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

s/of/off/ ($%^#$ing cell phone)

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Re: Anorexic bloody loony in a loin cloth ..

One of those films you have fond memories of, but suspect would be a disappointment if you watched it again.

my comrade (Billy Connelly!) will not speak until he can say Cascara is free.

American: Is that a political posture or a speech impediment?

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Re: Loneliest place

It does leave open the question, do the police have to prove they are encrypted files, or do you have to prove they aren't ?

I used to work at a physics project that spent years generating insane quantities of random numbers mathematically indistinguishable from encrypted data

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Or that terrorist Gandhi, "one anorexic bloody loony in a loin cloth and we lost a whole sub-continent"

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Re: Love Your Response....

>Ha!........innocent until proved guulty.......

But you are guilty of failing to hand over your passwords when asked

"Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows law enforcement to demand a suspect hand over the password to encrypted files (which they refer to as “key to protected material”), or to provide unencrypted copies of the material that agencies are after. If a suspect refuses to do this, it is considered an offence and, under section 53 of the same law, carries the possibility of up to two years imprisonment, and up to five years if the case is one of national security."

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Re: Challenges spawn workarounds

That's the nice thing about the law. When circumvention is a crime, we're all criminals

So the next time the Met accidentally shoot somebody for treading on the cracks in the pavement or possession of an offensive wife - they can produce evidence of VPN use to show he was a child abuser/terrorist/drug smuggler.

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Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

> Something which would, in turn, have almost certainly resulted in a constitutional crisis.

Yes, but him cutting of the PM's head shouting "Now it's one-all, Mother-Fsckers" would probably have improved his public image

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Re: Perhaps Ofcom will take inspiration from the Home Office

He's a pompous bellend of the highest order, and he's a Tory MP - but I repeat myself

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Re: Really? "precludes private communication"/

>All they will get out (even if Signal give them a "backdoor") is more encryption.

And all you will get is 5 years

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Re: Seems you can fool most of the people

There's no evidence but it is scientific fact

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Re: Usual political meaning of "sending a message"

The Tories: tough on crime, tough on magical solutions to crime

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Re: Poor, deprived Americans

I think Polymathery is only allowed in Utah

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Boris as Lord Protector ?

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Re: Perhaps Ofcom will take inspiration from the Home Office

No, this labour leader is the one that had all-night courts to deal with protestors

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I call upon the government to go further

This must be blocked at source and so ARM must be forced to ensure all their processors block material harmful to girls, Tory ministers or small cute animals the Mail on Sunday readers like.

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

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Re: Anybody remember Intel StrongARM?

Probably politics.

Adopting StrongARM threatened the x86 group's budget / executives bonuses. Given that it's Intel they probably have a VP for every individual instruction.

So the VP of SIMD has a chat with an investor/board member at the country club about concentrating on core business to enhance shareholder value.

Similarly when everyone else is going to TSMC, the VP of fabs has a word with a few friendly journalists about how the foolish CEO is abandoning Intel's heritage as the leader of America's semiconductor industry

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Re: Server market could switch from x86_64 easily

In a way he's correct in saying that the competition in the low margin desktop market isn't a big threat.

He's already lost the vast and growing low power mobile market and is in the middle of losing the high value, high margin server market

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Re: Seriously

Yes, so long as you put all the small print in the Press Release

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Re: Seriously

I might have expected the CEO of a CPU company to have noticed ARM / Mobile / GPU / Fabless etc a decades ago and have been building up a plan

But they were probably busy leasing back 'the machine that goes ping' from the company they sold it to , so it comes out of a different budget

(And this guy was once an engineer and has been at Intel forever - so he has even less excuse than the round of parachuted in MBA types)

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Our parent company (Cthullu International) only uses laptops for 1000s of mindless cubicle demons and salespeople.

All they do is on O365 / Teams. They just want thin, light, shiny and nice screens - they don't care about microcode complexity

Only engineers get desktops, Windows for CAD /or Linux for development.

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Re: Strategy

I think this time Intel are facing a much more serious threat. They may have to add "Turbo", "MAX" or "Pro" to the name

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

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Same thing could be said for having a boy/girl friend if you were a boy/girl

Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds

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Re: Pure rent

>Batteries good for 2 years

Don't worry - it's CISCO

6 months after you buy it they will find a security hole and EOL the product rather than fixing it

NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms)

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There was a Crew Rescue Vehicle - Experimental for the Shuttle which allegedly got cancelled because it's acronym was too close to a lady-part for NASA's bosses

Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine

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Perfect security

None of our employees have the faintest idea what we do, why we do it, who the customer is or how it works -

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

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There were also a bunch of crooks organizing illegal raves during lockdown who got caught by their private messages

Spacewalk turns into spacework as cosmonauts grapple with ISS leak

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Re: Space age technology.

You try getting a bowl of soapy water, big enough to dip the ISS in, up there

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