* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Look ma, no fans: Mini PC boasts slimline solid-state active cooling system

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Re: Counter productive

Ant powered would work - if only we could get enough bugs in (GNU pterry)

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Re: Counter productive

We need to get away from this solid state technology and return to proper brass gears.

No more cooling concerns, so long as you keep everything properly oiled

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

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Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

>Don't the male equivalents like 4chan prove the same thing about men?

Very few government policies are based on 4Chan posts.

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Re: Why bother?

I thought Morrissey would be a fan of Twitter

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Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

The sort of psycho who wants the closing brace to line up with the statement is closes - as G*d intended

(it was actually the 11th commandment but Moses ran out of stone)

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Re: Hmm

>"Big Snake Oil"?

Jörmungandr = ever wondered why the Norwegians seem to have so much oil ?

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Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

Except for Emacs users, and Python programmers who use tabs, and people who put C braces on their own line, and people who but the desktop dock on the right, and Belgians

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Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

>Elon wants X/Twitter to embrace payments and banking then trying to satisfy regulators around the world

That's the nice thing about being a dynamic hyper move-fast-and-break-things Silicon Valley company with a cool name = you can ignore regulations

NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle

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Re: Spaceship

But if he hadn't we wouldn't have a cheap source of labor to undercut China

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Re: Spaceship

And the Nasa director from Utah who wanted Morton Thiokol to make the giant fireworks which meant they needed joints, which needed O rings....

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Re: Spaceship

Design by a committee is OK, there are very few space programs entirely designed by a lone bloke in a shed

The problem was that it's requirements were created by a bunch of competing agencies, some of which later dropped out once their compromises had been implemented. (see also any European fighter program involving the French)

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

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Re: Surely one possible technique...

Cos the first rule of spies is they aren't allowed to lie to you if asked a direct question

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Re: Techies get drug tests in the US

But imagine how dysfunctional the government would be if the senior politicians weren't subject to the same drug testing as a postal worker.

Can you imagine a congress where they were all on drugs?

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That's why the banks all have boxes on their forms to tick if you're a North Korean spy

Fears China could trash Broadcom's VMware nuptials as revenge for sanctions

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>Can someone explain to me why a merger between two US companies (I presume) has anything to do with the EU/UK/China??

How could Apple buying Google and leaving you with a choice of iPhone or "2 tin cans + string" as a choice affect anyone outside Cupertino ?

UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

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Re: So the way for the UK Government to spy on its subjects

No, the government gets to ignore the law anyway. This is a way for UK companies / local authorities / some bloke down the pub - to spy on UK subjects by just using a website in Jersey

CIA exposed to potential intelligence interception due to X's URL bug

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Re: El Reg Style Guide needs an update

But like paying for TSA vip line it's part of the US belief that being able to pay makes you not-criminal

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Re: Hostile nation could have exploited it to receive Western intelligence.

So you are a Russian railway worker, not a fan of special military operations, and want to report how many trains of tanks you routed and to where.

What are you supposed to do? Hang around on park benches asking people if "the eagle flies south for the winter"?, ring Moscow information and ask for the local CIA tips line? write a letter to CIA HQ USA ?

What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court

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Re: The lesson to be drawn from this:

If you don't use Google, don't have a Facebook account and use Linux you are probably a terrorist.

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Re: Don't use Google.

>Eventually someone will end up ticking enough boxes that they'll get individual attention

And many of those boxes will be name=foreign, skin=brown. Alongside the same search terms about recent events

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

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Re: My experience so far

>I have come to the conclusions this is linked to the silent Teams updates

On Android teams updates remove the ability to call 911 so you're ahead just losing desktop audio

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Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

>Besides, installing Linux these days is nothing special

ThatWasTheJoke.jpeg, I've been installing Linux since SLS and the boot and root floppies and you had to write your own xorg.conf modelines and hope you didn't blow up your CRT getting phase correct

Nothing was as opaque as that list of Windows instructions

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Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

Wow, good job I only use Linux. I'm obviously not smart enough to install windows anymore

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Re: Maybe it's the installer

Virtual box works very nicely on modern CPUs and if you can live with the "please take my firstborn" Oracle license, even USB3 works

One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe

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Re: Fork lift trucks

Sorry that wasn't true, they were 11

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-young-11-operated-forklift-employed-kentucky-distribution-center-rcna120997

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Re: Fork lift trucks

The USA reduced the age that children can work in factories. You can't have 14 year olds working with forklifts see something like this !

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Re: OOPS!

Cos if it's on fire you don't want to have to do all the whole self destruct sequence scene in Alien to shut it down

Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts

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Re: El Reg strikes again..

A few million people die because their country becomes uninhabitable, but the costs of defending against migrants coming here are small compared to having to the cost of being forced to drive smaller pickup trucks

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Re: Heat pumps cannot be the complete solution

Indeed. As a student I rented a stone circle and the landlord refused to even fit a roof, claiming something about English heritage.

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Re: Heat pumps cannot be the complete solution

Thanks to a cunning plan called "UK house prices" we have managed to avoid the problem of peasants living in listed buildings in conservation areas

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Re: Doesn't matter a damn where the heat comes from...

And yet we have an ageing population.

The obvious solution is to have grannies knitting house cosies.

Whatever happened to those sausage dog draft excluders? Do doors now fit? Another traditional industry ruined by modern technology

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Re: Heat pumps cannot be the complete solution

But heat pumps effectively "steal" energy from the public environment and concentrate it for your own private use

I don't understand why the Conservatives would be so attached to them

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Re: El Reg strikes again..

I think you are confusing a government signing up for a commitment and actually spending the money to implement it.

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

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Hey if Ronnie Biggs tells you that your train is vulnerable to theft.....

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So they restricted SAP usage to China, driving them to madness and bankruptcy?

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Re: You think that ?

How's your Gran for soap?

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

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Re: Reasonable Compromise

The real cost though is that every standalone office costs them the $10-100/month they can charge for Office365

Unless they can charge $$$ for every new standalone and everyone renews every coupe of years and there's no piracy - they lose money however cheap the development

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Re: That explains it

Still don't understand why, if they hate cloud so much AND made us migrate everything to github - they didn't just self-host git ?

Anyone with experience of self-hosting git for a major evil-corporation bent on world domination, with perhaps 100-200 devs ?

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That explains it

Our corporate overlords at Cthullu International used on-prem Atlassian. They demanded we move off when they went cloudy - but moved us to cloudy Github ?

Wondered why we had a sudden rush to move to a cloud - when they are paranoid about having all our data in R'lyeh

It's all about the money !

Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited

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Re: I'm losing track

Well you know how you had to update a 64bit OS?

Ericsson sues Lenovo over 5G patents, accuses it of stalling talks

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Re: ‘the '893 Patent covers "shift values of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes’

But they have a patent on the business model of getting a patent on 60 year old mathematical discoveries

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Obvious solution

Lenovo are Chinese, Iike Huawei, so we can just ban them ,like Huawei

Tell me Huawei: Chinese giant wants to know what made EU label it high security risk

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Re: I guess they can't just say the real reason...

How unlike the home life of our own Home Secretary

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

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Re: Hard to dispute?

Unless you photographed a print of the modified image with an Apple/Samsung etc phone

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Re: They have it backwards

Doesn't that only work for pictures of apes ?

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Re: They have it backwards

There is a lot of AI between what comes off the sensor and what comes out if Apple/Google's image processing chip.

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

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Or it will force companies in the Eu to use Windows instead of Linux because their lawyers will be afraid that they are responsible for fixing Firefox bugs in their point of sale system, while Microsoft will (for a fee) handle bug reporting in Edge.

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Re: The usual quality of EU news reporting....

>So pay me $1m a day, and I'll follow the legislation.

That's why open source is so concerned. SAP can say this , I can't say this if I add to some GPL software and you use it. The GPL says I give it to you and you can give to anyone else.

But I'm responsible for reporting any security that affect you, and anyone you gave the software to and anyone using any derived work and possibly for any flaws in any work I derived from that affect my work.

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Re: “… that program you wrote in 2019”

Has there been a court case creating an opinion on that ?

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Re: Seems like a simple fix

That's surprising. It's almost like there are a number of large car companies in the Eu with a lot of lobbying power.

Strangely electric cars are also exempt from the repairable / battery replacement rules that apply to phones

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