Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

This is America, it's cheaper to put them in a government run home than a hospital

Re: Protection of Classified "information" vs. documents OWNED by the President

But he isn't just President he is the Messiah (and a very naughty boy)

Re: They Have You For A Ride

If you started imprisoning politicians for lying to Congress you'd never get anything done

Re: President And Classified Information

> A former president does not need access to secret papers because they're no longer in office.

That's not true, the documents are just as valuable once you are out of office.

>Nobody should store secret, sensitive national security documents in a toilet or stack boxes of them in ballroom

At least not in a world with scanners, digital cameras and online secure storage.

Even Smiley had microfilm, old George didn't have to struggle down the stairs of Cambridge circus with boxes of foolscap.

Re: They Have You For A Ride

>I mean, if I had had a ... and ballroom full of Top Secret documents

I think if you have your own ballroom the police don't like to bother you

Re: COP/EOD

>it's a sporting reference I think from cricket

I thought it was Explosive Ordnance Disposal ? Perhaps for the more extreme forms of the sport?

And the Italian fleet at Taranto

Re: Another carcass for Mojave desert?

Ideally the altitude gauge should remain positive

(some exceptions in the middle east)

Re: Isn't this just...

And similarly, users aren't obliged to keep creating content for free and moderators aren't obliged to keep the content high quality for free - oh well it was nice while it lasted

Re: Why not make it better?

>then make your app as good as the others, don't lock them out

The 3rd party apps are the ones that block ads and pop-ups telling you to download the official app.

Not really a lesson the investors can take on board

Re: Reddit is nothing without its users

old.reddit.com is the only way to read it on mobile. The normal site is nothing but popups telling you to download the app so they can track you more efficiently.

Naturally removing old.reddit.com is also part of the plan

Re: Reddit is nothing without its users

>it has to be the worst UI ever..

Hence all the 3rd party apps that they are blocking

Re: Meh

And /r/britishradio is the best way of finding out when the BBC sneak out a new series of Mark Steel / Unbelievable truth / museum of curiosity / Alexei Sayle /etc by hiding it in a 14th level menu below 'sounds'

/r/politicalhumor is a good way of keeping up with the politics over here without having to get too close

Re: Search engines are pure torture right now

What we need is a decentralized text based set of forums. A network for users, a usernet if you will

Re: Old school here

Nobody puts the disposable ones in properly.

The correct procedure is weird enough that you think they are taking the piss - but if you ever have to do a safety course they teach you.

Re: I can't wear buds/in-ear headphones for long.

How old are you?

Many genX-ers built in the 70s aren't compatible with modern metric iems

Re: I'm curious

A gentleman always takes a sting quartet with them on public transport

Re: I'm curious

Named after the Italian for foundry perhaps ?

So wireless earbuds with a string to keep them.together and connect them.to the phone so you don't lose them?

It could catch on - you could even use it to charge them continually

Re: What to do in case of a real fire...or other alarm

Presumably there is an annulus were you receive sufficient dose to gain superpowers but not enough to die

Or back in the days of Sun, DisplayPostscript(tm) and every manufacturer having their own good ideas.

prof: I sent a paper to the printer and it crashed the printer.

me mere student: have you tried turning it ...

prof: yes I tried sending it to every other printer in the dept and it did the same thing

Naturally this was after 5:00pm on a friday afternoon and we didn't have anything like 24/7 support. We had the full, paper form to IT, have request lost, queried,lost,recycled as firelighters etc etc support

Re: Who are these people...

No one expects the vital network equipment....

Re: Or ISPs...

"Check our status page for known issues"

That works - if you can see the status page there is a known issue

Along the lines of "if you can't see this sign, the road is flooded"

Re: Did it talk?

Since not sure if links to BBC youtube will work in the benighted lands beyond the western ocean

Red Dwarf - Talkie Toaster

Re: He's toast

>the current law in Scotland is to have heat detectors in kitchen areas

Presumably to discover Englishmen eating salad

Re: British universities were recently accused of developing such technology for Iran

That's why UK universities shouldn't be publishing this stuff to foreigners.

If we had kept the invention of gravity a secret nobody else would have been able to throw a cricket ball accurately and we would be world champions

Unless the journalist used a Macbook, then you could sue a $Tn company

Re: Tape out costs

Assuming intel can build and tune up new capacity faster than TSMC can clone existing fabs.

And assuming you can trust that Intel's new fab generation with its catchy new name will work on day one as well as the TSMC process you and them have been working with for years

Re: Flogging a dead horse

Intel had a huge advantage by being vertically integrated.

The fabs could be late to the next generation because they had a guaranteed customer in Intel. The designers could rely on the next generation because Intel had fabs that would always be able to produce it.

There are different cultures. Some companies decide that the best course is to screw your customers for every last cent and deliver as little as you can get away with, as late as possible, pay your suppliers as little as possible, demand more every year and pay as late as possible - the only thing that matters is this quarters earnings. you need an MBA to understand why this is optimal

Then there are companies that have relationships with customers that last decades, where the customers and suppliers are partners in the project and if everyone works together then everyone does better out of the deal. This is basically communism and explains why Japanese, and European engineering companies do so badly.

Re: Or as the Semi's industry does

You make the chiplets in a cheap place and then ship them to your cheap to build but well subsidised US packaging "fab" and slap a stars and stripes sticker on the box

Re: Succesful

If China invades Taiwan I don't think Apple is going to be switching to Intel's 14nm node

A bigger problem is going to be that the rest of the iPhone is made in China and 40% of Apple's sales are in China

Re: Very often you can avoid disclosing your SSN

>What they really need is a law that makes it illegal to store a Social Security Number

Then they will just require only your name and dob to open a credit card. Hope you aren't called Smith or Wang.