Posts by druck

Re: English Translation

They will make excellent random noise generators.

Re: The horse has bolted

Often the content of the communication isn't needed to imply wrong doing, merely its existence. If party A is found to have sent a secure message to party B every morning just before an important bank rate is set in their favour, that will trigger an investigation.

Re: unnecessary US centric headline

The Register - letting no pointless USAification go unpublished.

Re: Not just love

I should have said every other.

Just like with the BMW, where additional features which you don't want to pay for weight a significant amount and have to be dragged around with you everywhere affecting MPG, in the case of the chip if the power gating isn't perfect the feature circuitry will be using energy and producing unwanted heat you have to pay to take away.

Re: Flawed

Yup, but SLS is a more complete system, ie it's just launched Orion for the second time.

No it hasn't, Orion was first lofted by a Delta-IV heavy.

Re: I don't need an expensive feasibility study,....

Even if the launch costs weren't so high, you couldn't just launch standard 1U servers - a fully cabled up 19" rack isn't going to survive the g-forces and vibrations of rocket launch. It will all have to be specially designed kit at vastly more expense.

Re: A VLSI or the VLSI?

VLSI were one of the founding partners of ARM. When did they turn in to patent trolls?

Re: Real Example

Not heard of the pre and code tags?

Re: Daft

That honour is taken by AC's.

Re: Botched Aircon

I took my 22" 2048x1536 CRT to the electrical disposal a couple of years ago. I hate throwing away stuff which works perfectly, but took up far too much room compared to a 27" 1440p LCD. It had lasted 16 years, which was really surprising I had 3 fail and rejected 2 replacements under warranty in the year before.

If I can ever afford to start flying again, I'll have to adjust my spreadsheet to automatically generate plogs. It was 3 degrees west then, by that time it will probably be 3 degrees east.

Re: Isn't it statingthe obvious that liquid cooling is more effective than air cooling?

Regardless of how effective liquid or air cooling a gamers high end CPU + GPU, that heat has to go somewhere, and unlike a car your computer isn't located outside (usually). The heat from such a PC could be well over 1KW is going to heat up a small or medium sized room pretty quickly, and while that might be welcome this winter while we are shivering without gas, come next spring you'll need air conditioning - using even more energy,

Re: No.

As crackdown continues, virtual assets will be the only assets left in HK.

Re: Genuine question...

20 years ago Perl programmers might have been a dime a dozen, and rewritten your COBAL program in Perl. 5 years ago you would be complaining that Perl was dead, and it all needed to be converted to Python. Tomorrow you'll be saying Go is the only future.

Meanwhile, for better or worse, that COBAL program will be running long after you have retired.

Re: I have a question

It will lead to the M25 effect for data (build a high capacity relief road and it doesn't relieve traffic as much as generate entirely new stuff).

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

Agreed. If someone is hired to produce 20 widgets a day, which takes most people 8 hours, but this person can do in 4 with no loss in quality... I say give them the extra 4 hours off paid as a reward for being efficient. They fulfilled their end of the contract and it's not their fault they can do things twice as fast as everyone else.

In reality they would be told to produce 40 widgets in an 8 hour a day, and someone else who only produced 20 would be sacked.

Here is the original list of complainants from this very site, Microsoft amongst them.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/04/27/eu_google_antitrust_complainants/

Re: This will be fascinating

I suspect a few select customers that use cloud computing to earn large amounts crypto from various nefarious practices, will only be too happy to pay in crypto without having to launder it in to real money first.

Re: Crypto does compete with credit cards, it replaces them

Transacting in crypto currency is more like doing business in cash in a dark alley with a know criminal than it is like using credit cards.

FTFY

Re: Secrets Managers

Question: who pwns google, microsoft, apple and amazon?

If the spelling data is being transmitted in plain text, anyone providing a public WiFi hotspot could pwn them.