Posts by streaky

Re: codejunky should be along at any moment...

But it's the brexitters who now insist that remaining in the single market and customs union (the so called 'Norway' or 'Switzerland' option) is a betrayal of what people voted for

Because remaining in SM or CU is remaining in the EU. It's what you do when you want to join. We don't want to join, we want to leave. When I say "we" I mean a majority of the country that is eligible to vote. Nothing else really matters.

UK accepts single market and customs union, leaves EU, ends up like Switzerland. Job done. Economy saved, referendum vote fulfilled, everyone's happy

The UK isn't Switzerland, our economy is wildly different in size and scope, one size does not fit all. Not for nothing but even if what you're saying is a good idea - and lets be *extremely* clear about this: it isn't - it's not at all clear that this is even a thing even if we want it to be. The EU since the day we joined has been an exercise in suppressing the UK economy. From the scuttled trade deals when they realise the UK might benefit to supplanting the population to asset stripping to setting up dodgy tax regimes that allow (no, encourage) tech companies - and others - to pretend they're selling things (goods and services) in RoI or Luxembourg when they're actually selling them in the UK - you'll note now the UK is leaving the EU they're actually interested in dealing with it, pretend the absurd happens and the UK decides to stay in the EU they'll drop it like its hot - or getting around UK import taxes and restrictions on dangerous products by sending them all through the Netherlands so the vast majority of goods imported into the UK are duty and VAT paid in the Netherlands (hundreds of billions during a MAFF period if you're wondering) and pretending that the UK actually trades with the EU to confuse the terminally simple.

EU membership is no good for the UK, and anybody who says it is doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.

OTOH when we leave we're going to have a pretty decent sized economic rebalancing, we have to undo the damage done by decades of a glut of cheap labour and the ensuing housing shortage and wage suppression (the things we buy are way cheaper than they should be and it's going to be a culture shock) we have to build an immigration system that's fit for purpose and we need new ports to be built. We also need to get trade deals going, something that should have been well underway by now. The US deal is going to be some instant gratification and it's looking like we can copy paste some deals with our actual trade partners (re-emphasis: NOT the EU).

If we didn't have remainers running the country (i.e. we had a competent government) we'd have been using the time efficiently to get trade deals ready to go in March but we do and they're trying to shackle us to a sinking ship so it's probably going to hurt for a while - but in the end the payoff is huge. Far less social strife, better wages, better standard of living and a far less significant housing shortage. If we remain in anything that even smells like being in the EU firstly there's no benefits for a long long time and secondly I don't know what happens politically; except to say it'll make Trump look like Bernie Sanders in comparison, you'll be longing for the days when liberals like Nigel Farage were saying nice things about the EU.

Re: "Keep calm and carry on"

China, explain. Most EU certifications relating to fitness to sell (as per most of the world's standards in this area) are self-certificated and btw UK manufacturing already at the EU's standards. This discussion is roflcakes.

Oh and I see we're still flatly lying about what JRM's company is doing.

Re: More questions

It was firmware. Wasn't in a truck. There are photos of this happening.

If bloomberg were claiming firmware it'd be another thing entirely, but they're not.

Even boards in short take a lot of current to heat up and be seen on an IR camera. Most mobo PCBs are fairly decent heat sinks - semi-intentionally. The real issue is this stuff would show up on X-Rays and using AI to QA mobos is nothing new. Chips that don't belong would attract attention at all sorts of parts of manufacturing and post-ship QA like when somebody attaches a chip to data lines causing high failure rates and being shipped back to SMC for it.

Ignoring all the other reasons to not accept BB's case at face value, it's an *extremely* risky strategy.

Re: A retraction is unlikely

Instead Bloomberg will force Super Micro to sue them and prove in court that the story is false before Bloomberg is forced to pay proper damages in the tens of millions.

You've got the evidentiary standard backwards. SMC *do not* have to prove the story is false. The problem SMC have is as I said in another comment if Bloomberg produce anything that smells even remotely like what they're claiming (it doesn't have to even be even slightly close) they could easily win that case - especially in jury trials. It's a very risky lawsuit for SMC to file - it shouldn't be, but it is. You just have to look at the idiocy of the rulings in the Apple v Samsung stuff to know that you shouldn't let technical arguments anywhere near courts because they have *no idea* what you're talking about and will take very tenuous claims as valid.

Re: More questions

4. How would it get power, access to memory, data buses, clock, control buses? (Dunno. Maybe doable. But probably very difficult to do)

5. How the heck would one talk to it and control it without getting root or microcode access to the machine? If you have root/microcode access, why do you need a spy chip?

Course it's possible but it'd be a pretty chunky chip at the speeds of those data lines. On your #5 point once you have DMA things like that are irrelevant, that's why it would be a powerful tool.

I find it very hard to believe such a chip would get through QA - and RMA - not be noticed by anybody and that nobody would contact any of the companies involved - including SMC. We should be clear nobody has any reason to protect China here and every reason to call them out.

Re: There's always an excuse to increase prices, but...

Also by the way looking at this again - the question in that poll makes it a push poll, the wording of the question is written to make the people being asked express a specific view AND the option they want to you answer is not an available option so it's worthless anyway. GJ BBC.

Re: There's always an excuse to increase prices, but...

Dan 55 -

Several issues. Firstly selective editing is fun. Secondly those people don't speak for all leavers. Thirdly remainers like to get hung up about what was said in the campaign - all those things weren't.

Leaving the EU means leaving the single market and customs union - you don't do either one of those things and you're in the EU in all but name - and that's what everybody voted for. You stay in the EU you're not leaving either. Ignoring that all campaigns were *extremely* clear about what that meant. Weird how that linked poll screenshot massively oversamples remain voters though, was the groundwork done at the lib dem conference?

It's even simpler than that, if it all goes to pot we can just carry on as-is. Not sure the government knows it - but then it wouldn't with clowns like Hammond in number 11 - but it's completely feasible. It's the EU that would get in a massive tizzy about what to do.

Re: There's always an excuse to increase prices, but...

He meant if there is a reduction in tariffs which there likely will be. The EU single market has very high tariff on imports from outside the single market.

More importantly the EU has started a trade war with both China and the US that we don't want anything to do with, ignoring the EU's pre-existing tariff regime. Tariffs *will* fall when we leave.

I'm not going to talk about the GBP because there are way way too many people in the debate about brexit on all sides who don't have the slightest clue how currency markets work or what happens when the Eurozone comes off life support when the German economy that the entire setup relies on is taking a nose-dive whilst it's still on it.

Back on topic: no, no they won't.

Re: And all we can do...

Noisy minority. Try changing people's minds by talking sense and there might even be an electoral map case for a second referendum - because there damn sure isn't one today. Even the backdoor second ref "vote on the options" only gives remainers a hard brexit. Keep the dream alive though we leave next march.

Re: Hit the nail on that one.

It's fundamentally false to suggest remain = young, leave = old, for one thing. Secondly particularly old people don't vote. It's a fundamental misreading of the data to suggest these arguments are blanket true. Here's a stat that will blow your mind too - inner-city muslims voted to leave in droves too. Sure there's a leaning one way in all these demographics but they're not as clear cut as people trying to paint a narrative would like you to believe.

They lost the argument and the vote and went straight for ad hominem before trying to understand the issues. Remainers at somewhere between stage 3 and 4; 5 will come. 40 years we'll be able to have an adult discussion about EU membership - we certainly can't have one now - but for now we're leaving in UK and EU law next march.

Would you have voted leave if Jacob Rees Mogg had said he was transferring his investment business to Ireland?

Fuck I love Chinese whispers. Have you heard the one about Juncker and his crack cocaine problem?

It's not JRM's business and he's not transferring it to Ireland. Would you like to try again with the lies on ice?

In other news the guy with the whole if it was simple it would have happened by now - if we didn't have a remoaner government screwing everything up backed up by a remoaner civil service and even to the extent they're trying to get things done a remoaner house of lords with a SERIOUS democratic deficit bought and paid for by the EU, aka us - literally being taxed to do us self-harm by the way - it's simple, yes.

Its only a non story if you nexer stray beyond the safety of Dover

Or maybe, now I'm just speaking from personal experience here so what would I know - we HAVE travelled beyond Dover, like, before the EU was the EU and that we regularly travel BEYOND the EU and know that travelling isn't in any way difficult - or better yet we work with people, companies and do trade outside the EU and have had enough of people talking utter utter nonsense about things they plainly don't understand.

By the way speaking as somebody who's family was robbed by French customs (with some other families - they wanted bribes for completely lawful and normal entry and when they didn't get that they took to just robbing people) with no recourse and held at the Spanish border by the Spaniards for three days when we were supposedly all kumbaya happy friends anybody who thinks any of this is a thing has ZERO sense of perspective.

Re: Its the 3rd-Party Code that always burns you

Professor in physics and engineering

Ah, well that explains it.

Re: Its the 3rd-Party Code that always burns you

Alan Woodward doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, I've tried to engage him in the arena of getting him to stop talking nonsense multiple times. The BBC should stop using him. Not sure what he's a professor in but I hope it isn't compsci.

Re: Aren't Vendors Supposed To NOT Store The CVV?

I believe BA explicitly stated that they don't although it isn't worth the effort going to look for a citation for that. All fingers IMHO point to the third party garbage on your payment pages meme that's been doing the rounds and almost nobody has learnt from. No confirmation of that but it strongly feels like it.

Re: Has anyone truly made the switch?

You don't need to fully make a switch. Whoever is advising these companies is an utter retard and they'd be best not to listen to whoever it is. All ISP-side networks should be pure IPv6 and IPv4 outbound can be natted easily. CG-NAT is a very expensive and customer-frustrating way to not solve any problem an ISP might have. I say this as an extremely frustrated Hyperoptic customer who has to run their own VPN setup just to be able to pull inbound connections from the internet to our local network when IPv6 would do the job perfectly. It's just not on. Most of the internet you care about runs IPv6 now.

Re: They just want permission

There's capability to do it, but that doesn't mean it isn't computationally expensive. Even if they have "broken" crypto they have to find keys per user, and even if we assume things like TLS are deeply flawed (with little to no evidence this is the case) it's very unlikely this is trivial. Personally speaking, I like it that way - sure they can read my stuff if they really feel they have to but it shouldn't be so easy they can go on massive trawling expeditions which of course is *precisely* what they want to do. Basically it should be easy enough they can read a few thousand people's emails a year, but it shouldn't be so easy they can read a few million or billion, and I suspect that's probably roughly where we are.