* Posts by Korev

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Apple patches 'actively exploited' iPhone zero-day with iOS 15.0.2 update

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Re: What about iOS 14?

I was wondering the same thing

US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea

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Re: Yes, sort of

but if something has got close enough to the carrier to be shooting at it, then the destroyer screen has failed

A good job that Britain has so many T45s and also they are renowned for being so reliable...

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

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Re: toys out the pram

As demonstrated by the current lack of lorry drivers, 3 is also an increasing problem in the UK...

Former SAP leader's lawsuit claims she was canned for pushing corporate diversity

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Re: If only....

And make life better for those of us who chose to be child-free

UK's £5bn National Cyber Force HQ to be sited in Lancashire beside Defence Secretary's constituency

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Or where you'd buy a loaf of bread and some eggs...

Computer shuts down when foreman leaves the room: Ghost in the machine? Or an all-too-human bit of silliness?

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Re: Power socket on the lighting circuit?

Quite a few older Swiss places have sockets which are partially supplied by one of the wires in the lighting circuit in the ceiling. You need to complete the circuit using one of those little block things evening if you don't have a light in the ceiling.

Google says it's gonna put Intel's 10nm Ice Lake Xeons into its public cloud soon, any day now, just you wait...

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Or kill the product shortly after people have started to use it

'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport

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Apparently there was talk of booting out most of the population of Falmouth and basing the boats there...

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The Register has taken a closer look at the precision demanded of naval officers conning their ships in and out of one of the most cramped ports where the Navy routinely operates.

Well, the Royal Navy only has three ports these days (and one is mostly used by submarines)

Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much

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> When will we start seeing frog's legs in sushi dishes?

They'd go nicely with a leg of Fukushima salmon...

Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

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Re: Swear discrimination

> How do your commas fuck?

I've got a bit of a semi colon already...

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

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Re: Are we there yet?

Yes!

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Re: Are we there yet?

These puns are bearing on awful...

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

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Re: For 99.9% of the time

Oh come on, that's harsh! The admirals get a much nicer view than that...

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Re: Reg units need not apply

Watching a US medical series last night, patient weight was in lbs, drug dosage in metric. Using each system to its strengths.

Right up until the patient gets 2.2X the dose they're supposed to get...

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Re: Honda Point Ahoy!

Or know where the shallow bits are.

But as a Cornishman I welcome the potential return of wrecking... Yaargh -->

Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year

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Thanks for the Intel, IDC

I would drive 100 miles and I would drive 100 more just to be the man that drove 200 miles to... hit the enter key

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Re: "So my urgent 200-mile round trip ended, …

That'd be the key to it...

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

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Re: He may want to leave the office....

To be fair, the Iraqis came close to getting a hit on a battleship in the first Gulf War. HMS Gloucester ruined their fun though...

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Re: "our platforms will be designed as uncrewed"

Navigating is not an easy task, even with GPS. The vessel will need to be able to avoid storms, other ships, and plot a course to its destination that will optimize transit time while avoiding all dangers.

There's no reason this couldn't be done remotely though... The other issues around repair and damage control would be a bit harder to solve though.

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Re: A stain on our naval history.

Don't be such an ass

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Re: "No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral"

As long as he doesn't change his name to Sarah Connor then he'll be fine

Relics from the early days of the Sinclair software scene rediscovered at museum during lockdown sort-out

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If you do go, then don't forget to visit the other <a href="https://www.dangerousroads.org/europe/england/3766-swindon-s-magic-roundabout.html>famous attraction in Swindon</a>.

Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks

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The project would have been as dead as a doormouse without it...

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Re: "a multitude of fresh qualifications counted for naught"

Where I used to work there was a microscope that connected via optic fibre to some hugely expensive card in the back of the PC. To make it work you had to connect in the wrong way round to the markings on the card. I have no idea who it was who worked that one out...

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We had some cellular image processing software which would write out details for each object (eg cell or nucleus) it found to CSV. It worked fine on the Linux workstations but when we tried to get it running on the HPC cluster it wouldn't write anything out and the scientists were getting a bit grumbly...

It turns out that the software required the MySQL client to write out CSV files, oddly enough the client wasn't in the cluster's image...

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I'm pleased they got a handle on the door problem...

De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret

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Re: Behaviour

But I only ever once to my recollection ever watched one single programmes from the "Suggested" list.

You're assuming that list is things that you would like to watch; it's more likely to be what they want you to see. For example, if a streaming music or video site has made their own content then they might want you to view that so they had have to pay royalties and/or a PHB can show return on investment.

Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression

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Re: Mmmm, lots of free space caused by the new executable file format

Like when you open a Zip file with McAfee on the machine...

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Re: I think you forgot to mention

Bravo both of you -->

Wipro wins $44.5m deal for data centres and managed services at UK's National Grid

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It said the company had begun its "Agile Transformation, establishing a core Agile capability and delivering products" and invested in data platforms "such as our data lake, that enables us to gather, manage and share our data more effectively."

All that and they forgot to mention Blockchain...

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

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Re: Naval budgets mean the crew must eat three square meals a day for £3.61.

Does the £3.61 also apply to the Officers' food?

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Personally I'm disappointed they didn't have Severn Up on the menu...

Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team

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Re: The CAT

I like do a cat on a file...

Branson sews cash parachute for Virgin Atlantic with $300m Virgin Galactic share sale

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I'm glad to see that he's not relying on State handouts.

He tried to though:

Branson sold Virgin Galactic shares back in May 2020 to keep the airline operating and in September 2020 the company received $1.6B loan from private-equity firm Davidson Kempner after the UK government refused to provide Virgin Atlantic with emergency support.

Scalpel! Superglue! This mouse won't fix its own ball

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Re: and me

> Took apart the mouse on the very expensive new family PC

I hope no one told a tail on you...

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Re: Ball crud

Or the muppets who (try to) use red mouse mats

UK's United Utilities water company to splash a possible £270m on analytics, control and monitoring platforms

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Re: Buzzword Diarrhoea

> Definitely sounds like something to be flushed away....

You mean pull the Blockchain?

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

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Re: I could see where this was going

> If you feel that's Justified.

And ancient too…

Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation

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Re: Self-defense training against sexual harassment in a corporate environment? Really?

> So, in addition to dealing with the actual sexual assalt, let's throw in a physical counter-assault with all the repercussions etc.

This may get the victim of the harassment into trouble, the harasser’s broken nose would be obvious, but the victim being groped wouldn’t be.

Twitter uses HackerOne bounties to find biases in its image-cropping AI model

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Interestingly "Bounty" is sometimes used as a racist insult (ie black on the outside, white on the inside); perhaps not the best choice of terminology...

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

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Re: It’s horses for courses

Cloud is not a panacea, your applications need to be optimised to take advantage of their offerings.

Which is another way of saying vendor lock in :)

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Re: '$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

I was going to make exactly the same point.

What is more of a concern is that the world is relying on three companies and when (not if) stuff goes down it takes a huge chunk of the world with it.

Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

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Re: "faster then the previous model"

It just means that you chuck more data at the workstation or you can do what once took a workstation can now be done on a normal desktop PC. For example visualising drug molecules used to be done on staggeringly expensive SGI workstations by specialists and now our bench chemists can spin molecules to their hearts' content on a normal laptop.

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Re: 4TB of ram?

> One large environment I worked in recently still had an E880 with 192 cores and 4TB of RAM (upgradeable to 32TB I should add) as the main OLTP platform

But can it run Crysis?

Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally

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So he issued undebug all.

All hell broke loose.

So what you're saying is that command was terminal...

What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

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Re: TLA's

I once in a meeting where IP was discussed thrice:

  • Internet protocol
  • Immunopreciptitation
  • Intellectual property

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Re: Dignity

> Try imagining any job in Slough.

Come lovely bombs...

Yes, from orbit -->

The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

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Re: Free Supercomputer!

And these days the GPU that is playing your cat videos has more power. I love living in the future...

With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves

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Re: "the AI can work out the best way to achieve its goal"

Intrinsic might be an interesting experiment in applied computing science, but I doubt companies will want their expensive equipment "finding out" how to do the one thing they were bought for.

I guess the vendor of the robots might be more interested though