* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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European Right to Repair resolution headed for vote

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Re: This is all about hardware

>This would screw up Android handset vendors, that's for sure...

Depends which ones.

The cheapest makers will just include Google's stock base android and rely on updates from Google, or even ship with Lineageos, that might give them an advantage over the likes of Samsung

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Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>And that would be a bad thing how exactly?

Because a UK manufacturer would have to build to this standard if it wants to sell in Europe and apply this to all its products because the UK is a small market. But it is competing in its home market with cheaper imports that don't have to meet this standard

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys 11.4% stake in HP

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Re: That's all?

He made money by buying Apple but for the last 20years has lost money holding railroads and Coke compared to just buying SPY

I'm sure HP is worth that tiny amount of $, if just for their stock of printer ink, just sad that it's true

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That's all?

14% stake for $4bn, there are 'we have nothing but an unpronounceable name and a twitter account' fintec startups worth that.

HP should just rename itself sproingworrzel claim that it does crypto in the metaverse with AI and cash out before anyone notices.

China, India face tech brain drain through US universities

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Re: "the CSET study confirms the opposite is true"

Perhaps our home secretary could advise the Americans how to create a hostile environment to discourage them from staying ?

DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world

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Re: Optional warhead

In operation Blair Freedom 2 - (this time it's personal), British Challenger tanks fired the concrete filled practice version of their HESH rounds.

This had the advantage of making holes in the walls of buildings, allowing the infantry to meet new friends - without converting the entire building to rubble.

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Re: Dated?

Of course hypersonic missiles weren't the only way to deal with insurgents and tribal warfare - those 2 new aircraft carriers could also have swung it

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Re: Dated?

It can't have been otherwise the USA could have used it to defeat the Taliban and avoid a humiliating retreat from Afghanistan.

If they had a hypersonic missile then they would obviously have won.

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But the USA have 2 missiles that can do Mach5 - so that's Mach10 which is 2Machs better

UK spy agencies sharing bulk personal data with foreign allies was legal, says court

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Re: We really do need to do better

>DNA testing is already in use in the UK to check for the usefulness or danger of medicines.

Yes and if that info is passed into the security services for whatever reason (perhaps a gene for un-Britishness) - how long until people are refusing the tests?

It's like using needles from vaccination programs to identity suspects, a good way of creating an unvaccinated population

Intel suspends all operations in Russia weeks after halting chip shipments

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Re: RE: knew what they were getting into

>That does not mean the other half of the country that didn't vote for such a person deserves the repercussions

I thought that was why the Eu was sanctioning Harley Davidson and Bourbon makers - targeting Trump supporters directly. There were no Eu attacks on Apple and Tesla

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Re: This is about regime change at this point

Might be too late Even if official sanctions are lifted.

Somebody is going to want some compensation for all those aircraft 'nationalised' else they will be seized if they ever leave Russia. If they are seized in London are British airways going to trust that there will be no retaliation seizing of their planes if they ever fly to Moscow. Even if they trust the nice new democratic version Russia, will their insurance company?

If Russia pulls out of Ukraine tomorrow will every business in Europe suddenly rush to reset their trade networks so they rely on Russia again ?

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Re: Also, clear bias

>And worse still Saudi Arabia? They are doing way worse things on Yemen!

Yes but they are buying weapons in $ to do it

The victims are brown

Yemen's president does have an instagram account

Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world

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Re: Too Scary, Too Complicated

Your language is only memory safe because it checks for access

If your random tool translates that into C with checks for access it then compiles this into machine code with checks for access

China moves to protect offshore tech company listings

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But it might be cautious about having the details of suppliers, sales, costs of goods, delivery rate of it's military contractors being handed to the SEC

If you fire someone, don't let them hang around a month to finish code

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>Just made another one this morning, in fact.

Congratulations, probably best not to call it that though - it may grow up with issues

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In the good old days it was a rapid test of a 'computer scientist' vs a programmer.

CS courses seemed to love recursive functions as the ultimate elegance which could easily fit on a blackboard - so seemed to teach recursion as the cleverest thing a computer scientist could do.

Unfortunately computer scientists program imaginary computers with infinite memory (and are probably spherical and only operate in a vacuum).

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Re: Extra credit

Because for decades, before there was a flood of new CS grads every year who had all invented their own JavaScript variant in highschool, it was.

ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite narrowly dodges debris

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Re: Clutter must go

>would be funded by a tax on launches (proportional to their mass).

So each US/Eu commercial launch will have $Bn of tax added to pay for clearing up cold war era missile tests, while 'glorious republic of Borat ex-CCCP launcher' will offer tax and regulation free launches to anyone

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Re: Clutter must go

>If, on average, one collision creates more than one new piece of debris, then it is a lost cause

It's a little more complicated than that

If a collision in LEO creates a lot of smaller pieces there will be more drag and they will deorbit faster than the original big piece

A collision between two similar size pieces will end up with debris with a range of kinetic energies and so some will end up in higher orbits than the original

worst case is it if some idiot shoots at an object and ends up boosting some debris into much higher longer lived orbits

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Re: Units

That's why "kilometers per hour" should be written in km/s - unless you are using a sundial to do the timing

Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse

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Re: Love the bullshit

>While I agree that warehouse jobs can be inhuman, what is the alternative?

So we banning back-hoes and dump trucks as well?

AI beats top players at Bridge in two-day tournament

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Re: So where are we going?

> are we going to just abandon all Bridge tournaments

Well we did give up cycling races when we invented motorbikes

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Re: Some parts like the game's bidding stage were left out

As a non-bridge player - that sounds more like amanfromMars1 than amanfromMars1 does

Modem-wiping malware caused Viasat satellite broadband outage in Europe

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Re: Wind Farm Remote access

Sat modem is cheap compared to the $$$$ cost of building and installing the turbine, and it lets you make them all identical.

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Re: Wind Farm Remote access

Data cables are expensive, especially if your local regs won't allow you to run them in the same ducts as the power cables running from each turbine, or it requires the links to be fibre cos of lightning risk.

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Re: "modems were commanded by their compromised support servers to run destructive malware"

>Every administrative task should always be actively authorised at the recipient side

So millions of unpatched phones and cable modems on the internet until Granny remembers it's patch thursday, after her bridge club.

Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants

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Re: Heat exchanger?

You mean the shit shouldn't hit the fans ?

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Re: Data center cooling

And you can give all the staff a 6month holiday in the summer when you can't cool the data center - also a Greek idea

SerenityOS: Remarkable project with its own JS-capable web browser

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Re: Incredible

So not a 'real' OS yet !

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>Generally any OS can run any browser

On the contrary, the browser is a core part of any modern kernel and cannot be separated from the OS or replaced by any other browser - signed B. Gates

RISC-V takes steps to minimize fragmentation

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Re: Risc V the Chip Equivalent of Linux?

> For Risc V, that step is "you've got to own a semicon fab".

Or 'drop this free IP block into your FPGA'.

A lot of ARM cores are included in other chips or built into the fixed part of an FPGA.

Senate edges US chip world closer to $50b subsidies

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"National Defense Authorization Act" - that's how you know it's not socialism

If it was just giving tax-payer money to big corporations that would be socialism (unless it's farmers) but this is defense funding so it's capitalism

UiPath says war in Ukraine is affecting business confidence across Europe

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Remainer traitor! The correct nomenclature is now "UK and Rest-of-World"

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In other news

The Hiroshima tourism office says that the events of august may have an affect on visitor numbers.

Yale finance director stole $40m in computers to resell on the sly

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Re: Priorities

You do have to pay USA tax on illegal income, the IRS say this isn't an admission of guilt (because that would violate your 5th amendment rights).

They even allow deductions, so you can probably charge mileage for your getaway car.

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Re: Give back some?

>If so it didn't work out well, did it?

If you want your case to be unreported name it Streisand

It's the reason all modern political conspiracies are planned at the actual Watergate hotel - just to confuse Google

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Re: A G550 and a Range Rover

Presumably the G wagon is to drive you home from the woods after the Range Rover breaks down

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Re: Justice?

>very embarrassing for an Ivy League university that has a business school churning out MBAs.

If she had done this the clever way, redirecting all the orders through a company her partner owns and marking stuff up 200% 'cos it's enterprise grade' then regularly retiring kit, selling it for pennies to another company her partner owns and replacing it.

If she had done this properly she would be getting donation requests and being put on committees

TSMC sees slowdown in demand for PCs, smartphones

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I like that logo. It reminds me that large chips with only a few per wafer are vulnerable to single point defects and illustrates the proportional larger waste from edge loses.

It also suggests that someone's nephew had a copy of Amiga paint in the 80s

SPAC sponsors could soon be held liable for over-hyping to investors

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Re: WTAF

Why would you be stupid enough to give your money to a venture capital fund with no idea what they are going to invest in? Those poor people who backed Sequoia and A16Z and Kleiner-Perkins must be dumb.

Fortunately the SEC only allows rich people to invest in VC funds because its job is to protect poor stupid people.

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Some balance

There is a bandwagon and most of the people jumping on it are crooks, same could be said for selling shares in these new-fangled joint stock companies which allow the 'investors' to walk away with no liability !

But doing a traditional IPO is also a pain in the posterior. You find a merchant bank that will take 5-8% of your company as a fee and another 20-30% of your company that will be sold at a steep discount to their chums. You then spend a year tarting yourself around investors instead of building your business. Every little thing you say in this year, to anybody, is going to be jumped on later by some lawyer to either get part of your company if it does well, or to get money back if it doesn't.

On the IPO day, if you are lucky, the price zooms up beyond what your bank (that took 5+% to advise you) estimated, and all their chums cash out - you are locked in until all the excitement is over. At the end of the day, if you are lucky, the bank will make 2x what the founders make.

The SPAC alternative from your point of view is that a man turns up at your door with a very large cheque and you have a free choice.

The post-SPAC alternative is that a man from Google/Facebook/Samsung turns up with a smaller cheque and a threat to buy a competitor and put you out of business if you don't accept.

For an investor, you have the choice to give Mark Cuban your $$$$ in the hope that they will make a good investment, without you knowing what it is. Investing in an IPO you are hoping that you can buy in from the insider bank selling, and make a profit !

Electric Vehicle DC charging tripped by a wireless hack

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Re: Yes another possibility...

So far it seems Tesla software security is pretty good (unlike their ability to detect tunnels painted on walls)

Probably cos Tesla is staffed by silicon valley type programmers rather than traditional automotive eng types = why would my car's internal canbus need security ?

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Re: Let me get this straight...

It's not RF (well not deliberately) - RF would work! Doing bluetooth or zigbee or similar to a charger 1m away with all the authentication and error correction and channel management built into the radio protocol would be good.

Instead the electrical engineers started with power and voltage specs, and connectors that were different for all the makers, and nobody thought about data - why does a power plug need data ?

The home standards came up with a simple bodge with an extra 1Khz low voltage signal on top of the charge and it just detects, connected, can take more current, I'm full.

The commercial ones somebody realised that they might want to charge money as well as batteries. They invented a big fancy standard, which was in xml (because it was a big fancy standard) but everybody already had the expensive wires and connectors in place. So they bodged a low voltage modem signal on top of the DC. It at least has some data verification, which is why this attack works, if you add enough noise to scramble the data it shuts off rather than self destructs.

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At least with the standard here in the former colonies, the car locks the connector for home level 1/2 chargers but you can unplug the biggest fast chargers.

Whether this was a safety feature to unplug a smoking car or so parking lot owners can tow somebody overstaying, or just an oversight on the plug design

PS there are a couple of sense pins so it can kill the current quickly when you disconnect

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Re: Security is for the weak!

I think the issue is that that data link is a low voltage AC on top of the DC power cable. Either the original connector standard didn't include data and this was a bodge or they were trying to save on pins/use standard industrial cable.

It's difficult to RF shield the thick DC power cable while keeping it flexible, and would mean you would need special expensive cable.

Ukraine security agency shutters Russian disinformation bot farms

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Re: It's war

>Unless they were wearing uniforms, it would be legitimate to simply have shot the bot farmers, rather than arrest them.

This was in a Ukrainian city, staffed by presumably Ukrainian nationals - albeit paid by Moscow.

You can't go shooting your own citizens/politicians for spreading political message paid for by Russia - unfortunately

UK Cyber Security Centre advises review of risk posed by Russian tech

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>Kalashnikov then?

Ironically the soviet product that most American patriots drool at the prospect of being allowed to own.

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Re: Time for keeping homegrown tech at home

>The likes of BT & ARM should always have some domestic majority

By which logic no other country should risk using ARM.

Going to be tricky to do computers if everybody is only going to be allowed to use domestic architectures, made in domestic fabs and running domestic apps on domestic OSs. It's going to be good for innovation when we have 192 competing computer designs again.

Nvidia releases $1,999, 8K-capable GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU

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Except those of us using CUDA get to shell out even more for the A5000/A6000 versions to have the latest compute capability and fans that work 24x7

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