Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Another bully group

But we all rely on ASML for the machinery to make the chips, so we are all under the jack-clog of the Netherlands.

Still at least it's not the Belgians!

Re: If China is so bad.

Because running onshored slave labor proved uneconomical outside the cotton picking industries

Have you tried capturing wild semiconductor engineers in West Africa and transporting them to the USA?

>Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together

So Ireland is now a developed country rather than a rural backwater?

>but datacenters are cost-centres, and their location

But AWS is their only profit center. It's easy to claim the macbook sold on Oxford st was really sold in Dublin.

Harder to claim the data in an AWS bit farm is in Ireland for GDPR but in the Cayman islands for tax

I'm confused can you please restate that in a way which blames the English?

Re: Correction

This is precisely why the NHS has to shrink. The odds of 2 people having the same name is inevitably high with a single payer national health service. While with the whole system replaced by G4S everyone would share a single AOL email

Re: Too little, too late.

It was £350 million for the NHS, £350 million funding for regions to make up for lost Eu funding and £350 million to pay for new customs facilities

There was also an unknown £ million lost trade.

Only one of this came true, and it wasn't painted on a bus

Re: Too little, too late.

But a single monolithic NHS would be a dinosaur unable to respond in a modern hyped focus dynamic marketplace of best practice goal orientated driven solutions spaces.

The crowd of management consultants that replaced all the actual consultants told me so.

Re: There is a lesson here...

Except if they drag it out until the Republicans have more political clout the case will simply vanish

Re: There is a lesson here...

Does the Judean People's Front have a space laser ?

Re: There is a lesson here...

But the Italian spy satellite would be blown up by a CIA backed fake terrorist group and simultaneously shot down by the French air force.

Remember all conspiracies about Italian politics are simultaneously true

Re: There is a lesson here...

sure you could operate your own email server and then explain to the supena brandishing SWAT team that you 'accidentally' erased all the emails about the share fraud/sanction busting/plan to kill the president - or you could use a cheap SAAS supplier and rely on them erasing everything 5 minutes after you cancel the billing and then fail to have any sort of backup.

What I like to call Perfectly Deniable Incompetence As A Service

Re: Sjeesh

I think if you are a $15Bn Enterprise IT company you might pay somebody to look over the code of openSSH, or at least have one of your staff search for "openSSH bugs"

Alternately you could just buy nanoSSL cos it was cheapest and because their brochure says it's secure

Re: Well there's your problem

Lots of systems don't ship with a telnet client anymore, so script kiddies need to use ssh to hack systems

Re: Reduce the Attack Surface

You try remotely hacking my punch card programmed router

Re: Well there's your problem

But wasn't this after a new dynamic Global Britain bestode the world as a veritable colossus ?

Re: Well there's your problem

But GCHQ did an analysis and showed that it was Huawei's poor programming that led to security vulnerabilities and so it should be banned from UK networks.

It's only in America that Huawei's super cyber-ninja programmers were able to hide undetectable backdoors which couldn't be found even when you analysed the source code.

Re: Well there's your problem

If it was Huawei then it could just be poor programming practice - but since this is HPE, the USA's foremost enterprise systems supplier and inheritor of the great engineering of Hewlett Packard - it can only be a deliberate backdoor

Re: As I commented in an earlier story on AI

It is open-minded and unbiased, but the data isn't.

If you feed it a data set of mugshots where 50% of the convicted are young black men and let it loose on a population where 5% are young black men - your CCTV is going to over detect young black men.

Similarly if you give it routine MRIs of healthy 50 year old white men with good insurance and 0.1% young black men whose condition was weird enough that somebody ordered an MRI it's going to assume that everyone in a certain population is likely to have medical weird conditions.

Re: FUD

Not necessarily, they make 60% margin on selling services but much lower margins on selling you an iPhone every 3 years. Plus everyone buying a flagship Apple phone is getting it on contract form their mobile supplier with insurance and regular replacement

Apple don't want a glut of cheap refurbished iPhones on ebay but not because it hurts sales of $1000 new phones, but because those cheap customers aren't buying Apple monthly services and it annoys the networks who rely on charging customers $100/month every month for a new phone every 3 years

Re: Hang on a mo ...

It was invented by Dave Cutler's team that came from DEC and it does bring some of the features from the VMS rather complicated system.

Except for the really nice user facing version system.

Re: Hang on a mo ...

I think NTFS is one of those "difficult 2nd album" projects. It has every feature everyone could ever imagine a file system having (at least in the mid 90s) most of them partly implemented or left 'specification as implementation'

Re: Hang on a mo ...

>What exactly is needed apart from the source code here ?

Deep technical knowledge of the propriety Microsoft file system

Deep technical knowledge of Linux Kernel and device drivers

Deep software engineering experience to build complex software that millions of high performance systems are going to rely on.

Deep experience with dealing with the open source community and the Linux kernel development process, politics and infrastructure

The financial ability and personal circumstance to commit to a full time unpaid job supporting the software

- things that anyone can pick up

Re: Fair winds

Also easier to make an unmanned ship pirate proof - no doors or windows for a start

If the "bridge" is a single server locked in a box inside a locked metal room

Re: Do we know which song it is?

"Share and Enjoy"

Re: Or..

Isn't all this a win for the very Russians we are supposed to be sanctioning?

All the companies that are pulling out will be given to Putin's palls for pennies. It's like pulling out of the UK cos of Brexit and giving the UK operation to Rees-Mogg to punish them.

Tank crew are rated to fix anything that can be repaired with a hammer.

Anything that cannot be serviced with a hammer you don't give to tankers