Posts by diodesign

Wrong

Nah mate, get shot. US, UK, who cares. No one I know uses 'shut'. That sounds norvven to me. Like Newcastle.

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Re: CDC 6600 had this 50 years ago

Yeah, well, we don't have large 1970s Crays on our desks, in our pockets, in our bags, and in our 1U racks in 2023. So we'll make do with this.

I love the history, don't get me wrong. But that doesn't make today's implementation, for today's computers and users, any less interesting or useful or relevant.

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We can use whatever words we want

You're not my real dad!

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Re: "Allegedly"?

Yeah, we have to use the word for boring legal reasons because the case is ongoing and no decision, ruling, or settlement has been made.

As far as we're concerned, it's alleged that Amazon does this. Your experience is why we have lawsuits to sort it out.

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Check

More like cheque it out.

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RMS

I don't believe anyone accused him of actual crimes so when you say no crimes were proven, it's a bit of a strawman. ICBW on that: we didn't TTBOMK report him breaking any laws, alleged or otherwise.

The criticisms against him were that he was crashingly insensitive or naive about sensitive topics, and that he allegedly did things like, as a senior academic, ask 19 year old students out on dates within minutes of meeting them. It just creeps people out after a while.

He suggested that the possession of sexual material of minors, and even sex between an adult and a child, should be legal under the assumption that a minor could consent to it and everything would be OK. I believe he later backtracked on all or most of that stuff.

Bottom line is, his colleagues in the community just didn't like him any more. And when the press covered that tension, it was all wrongly interpreted - for some weird reason - as an attack on Free software. Free software has and had nothing to do with it.

This was all on RMS and his behavior. I'm aware of the concept of free speech and that folks should generally support those with differing opinions, and all that, but if people find you sketchy on the basis of your attitude and comments, don't be surprised if they don't want to keep you in their community.

You don't invite back the loudmouth bore who scared away guests at a previous party.

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Autoscrolling poll

See here.

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Re: Missing

1Hz isn't a typo. It's a power-saving feature.

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Re: Yet another American English / British English difference

The headline and story were written by an Australian in Australia who's been with us for the best part of decade.

I take your point, and fixed the headline. The story's fine.

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Women v men

So you're saying that, on average across the board, men get the good paying jobs and women get low-balled? Thanks for raising that.

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Re: supports our continued investments across Android and Google Play

Google quote.

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Re: We've seen this before

Yeah? That's a tweet from 2017 about the 2016 election in which Russia spammed Facebook and other places with thousands of messages to divide Americans and undermine confidence in the elections.

Tho the 2016 election was nothing like the 2020 one. The 2016 one was mostly all about the media milking the outrage over Trump and that Clinton's campaign was so-so. 2020 was on steroids.

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Re: 240 volts?

We misread - it's 240 watts, not volts. Now fixed. Please drop us an email if you think we screwed up - it's a lot easier than fishing corrections out of a comment thread.

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Patch, fix, repair

Tomato, tomato. They had to change their stuff to make it secure.

We've added a link to Legit's write-up now that it's live for those who want to see how it happened and how to protect themselves.

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Re: Wow

Apple's architectural license is so special, I've sometimes seen it referred to as a founders license, as a reference to the fact that Apple helped get Arm started way back in the day.

This Qualcomm case, from Arm's allegations, seems to boil down to what exactly is in Qualcomm and Nuvia's license fine print, and what exactly is Qualcomm using from Nuvia.

Ever since Arm started touting off-the-shelf server-grade CPU core designs, I can imagine it really wanting to make the distinction between an architectural license for server and mobile processors.

Arm is so incredibly secretive and strict about its licensing that this lawsuit, if it somehow ends up at public trial, will blow the lid off all that. This is quite high stakes for Arm.

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Fixed

Yeah, mea culpa. I was trying to write and edit two pieces at once, as we've got a rush of interesting pieces to get out.

I could have sworn trolls thought she was in either UK or Canada, and when I saw London, I assumed UK when I edited in that paragraph. That was stupid - I hate making mistakes.

It was fixed pretty quick. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong.

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Distance

It's in there – Voyager 1 is about 20 light hours away, so it takes about 20 hours to get a signal.

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Re: enough is enough

"What's 'left wing' about campaigning for pay rises that reflect the cost of living?"

The overall policies and wishes of EiE are left wing - classic trade unionism - looking through them. It's not a pejorative, it's an observation.

It's funny how some people think we're beyond-woke liberal morons and others think we're channeling the Daily Mail. It's like there's a spectrum of ideologies and we're trying to find a decent spot in the middle.

I have a feeling some of those upset by 'left-wing firebrands' weren't upset we called Boris Johnson a 'Churchill cosplayer'.

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Re: So, they are happy with EUV?

America doesn't want EUV or DUV machines going into China.

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moderatrix

If you're referring to Sarah, she left more than 10 years ago, during which the Register has had three overall editors (Joe, Lewis, me) and a roster of writers come and go.

So yeah, it hasn't been the same: it's constantly evolving.

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BOFH is always more than welcome at The Reg

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Why should they have those master passwords?

They don't, from the LastPass FAQ:

"We never store or have knowledge of your Master Password. We utilize an industry standard Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures LastPass can never know or gain access to our customers’ Master Password."

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Pedants

I love it when people try to be pedantic. Love it to bits.

The article says the deal has yet to close - so yes, as you say, and as we acknowledge, Broadcom has not completed the acquisition of VMware.

And don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you think you've spotted something wrong.

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Re: Re-inventing

Yeah, but the improvements are interesting.

Well, we found them interesting. Cutting-edge network experts may not be impressed.

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Re: Correction !

Yeah, we meant that the two probes between them went to the four planets. I've now added a bit that says what specifically went where.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong, or we might not see your comment for days.

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kWh

Yeah, it's fixed. It was a bit obvious from the context in the first par. But, fine.

For those saying why trust a whole article if some simple thing is wrong in it. That's a very 1D way one of looking at it. We're most concerned with making sure the main, sensitive parts of a story are correct.

Sometimes that means little things like saying 10 kWh in the first sentence and 10 kW later get overlooked.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong, please.

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Re: Whatever happened to???

We fired her.

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Perfect August story

It is the summer silly season when actual news is thin on the ground. August is the perfect time of tales that seem too good to be true.

On a more serious note, it is just reporting what Chen said, and that a CVE was assigned, which is funny. No one's confirmed the actual issue.

Our readers are smart enough to know how much weight to put on these sorts of yarns.

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Probably!

You can run whatever app you want on it.

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The Linux kernel is not the only GPL'd piece of software out there.

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Re: Full Self Driving (FSD) was not even engaged!

FWIW we've added a large update to our piece. I'd like to highlight that we drew attention to the weirdly small sample size and the incorrect use of Autopilot in our initial reporting, which may leave readers rightly healthily skeptical of the project's claims.

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Re: Is there another kind of camera?

Yeah, you know what we mean: it's an extra sensitive camera, designed to pull images out of dark areas.

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And also...

...a 1 GW one coming online in 2023.

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Rant

OK, chill out! The "reasonable comparison" and "less reasonable comparisons" was the paper's viewpoint, not ours, which I've made clearer in the piece. Suffice to say, no, we don't think physical theft of an item is the same as downloading something you weren't going to pay for anyway.

One, this article is critical of the paper in that (for example) we note that the paper cites industry numbers without challenging them, which is not great.

Two, Tom (who wrote the article) is one of our top staff who goes beyond press releases, and routinely ruins an exec's month with original reporting. Gimme a break with this churnalism stuff.

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Components

Yeah, totally: we've reported as much before.

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Re: Block sizes

We meant the /19 is announced as part of a larger /9 block, which is in the /8 range. Here's the passage from MANRS:

"Around 21:25 UTC On 26 July 2022, Rostelecom’s AS12389 network started announcing 17.70.96.0/19. This prefix is part of Apple’s 17.0.0.0/8 block; usually, Apple only announces the larger 17.0.0.0/9 block and not this shorter prefix length."

I've edited that part as it seems to be confusing people. A /19 block is smaller than /9 which is smaller than /8.

Also if you think we've written something wrong, please drop us an email to corrections@theregister.com so we can take a look straight away, thanks.

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Re: What's the Orbit, Bob?

Well, it's easily Google-able, if you care that much, but fine: I've added it to the story.

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Re: Unserviceable????

Yeah, we mean not serviceable. Please don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong like this - we can't read every comment.

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Re: Nissan must feel hard done by...

Ugh, it's $1.45 billion. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong so it can be fixed right away.

Ta.

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Conversion

It was written and edited in the US and scheduled for the UK morning. We just wanted to go home, TBH, so didn't do the conversion. I've added it now seeing as I'm up late working.

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Re: A bit of maths

OTOH $550m is ~18% of T-Mobile US's 2021 net income of $3b. About a fifth of annual profit.

And FWIW it's $350m for the final class action, $150m on better security (ker-ching, vendors), and the rest on other settlements, totaling $550m.

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"crypto is all worthless numbers"

It really isn't. Crypto scams are worthless, yes, so watch out for those. Actual crypto, no.

If you go on Coinbase or Robinhood or WeBull or FTX or whatever, and you spend $1,000 on Ethereum, the price of ETH goes up 10%, and you sell, you just made $100 cash (minus any applicable tax). If the price goes down 10% and you sell, you just set fire to $100.

So yes, real money at play here. $1.5m of it in the alleged Coinbase case.

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