let's hope they win
a personal gripe (Canon - and that's after choosing them for having the least shitty software) won't pint B+W when the colour cartridge is out of ink
Posts by EBG
276 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2016
Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit
Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan
GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default
The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice
Saturday 29th July 2023 16:18 GMT
wrong
Deposit is not "a month's rent in advance", you are defaulting on your rental agreement if you fail to pay the final rent instalment. This game has resulted in landlords in some university cities simply demanding - and getting - the entire year's rent paid up-front.
As some one else has posted, landlords are not charities. They will either find a work around, or exit the market, tanking the supply - with the inevitable price impact.
Digital revolution at HMRC left 99,000 UK taxpayers on hold over five-day fiasco
Thursday 27th July 2023 06:28 GMT
no
This might be good advice if you're running a business. But for for relatively simple personal SAE matters, an accountant is overkill. The issue here is that HMRC and Pensions Service are falling part - failing at aspects of their core function which impact normal people's finances. It is completely unacceptable and puts the UK in banana republic territory
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
Wind tunnels for fluid dynamics boffins among UKRI's £72M funding
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life
James Webb spots the early galaxies responsible for tidying up the universe
Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite
Identity thieves can hunt us for 'rest of our lives,' claims suit after university data leak
Friday 9th June 2023 06:38 GMT
nearer to home in theUK
we have the leak of the entire frecking university pensions USS data. El Reg might want to keep a weather eye on this one ! The latest is an email "from USS" telling everyone to register on a credit watch agency via a link. I.e. exactly the type of email we're all told we shouldn't respond to. How TF is anyone meant to safely manage their affairs ?
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy
Tuesday 23rd May 2023 17:32 GMT
as someone who spend a professional lifetime in technology translation ...
... we need far more analysis of this quality in the media. The author poses several essential questions that should be absolutely standard in reporting technology translation claims, but which are always ignored by jurnos cut'n'pasting press releases. Financial "skin in the game". "Innovation" projects as pure PR. Etc..
America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs
Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Tuesday 14th March 2023 14:11 GMT
Re: We do not want "British" regulations
Having national level regulators hollowed out makes it much easier for multinationals to control the regulators. We struggle at the UK level, but at least there is some visibility, and if we all worked hard at it, we would have some chance on bring people to account. Brussels lobbying is beyond democratic reach.
Tuesday 14th March 2023 08:41 GMT
the total cock-up
over smart motorways should give us a clue. There was never a proper analysis, design, and regulatory oversight of what are safety critical systems. Just a piss-poor implementation at minimum cost pushed through because politicians bought the hype of "Intelligent Mobility".
And if we couldn't get that right, we have zero chance with autonomous vehicles.
Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan
Tuesday 14th February 2023 10:42 GMT
why bother ?
Having been professionally involved in oversight of a university's STEM funding, Horizon 2020 in a pain in the arse. It accounts for a small % of STEM funds, it is very bureaucratic both to bid for and to administrate, and unless you have an inside track the bidding strike rate is low. Added to this the funding calls are very agenda driven.
A can so no issue with binning it, and putting the UK's contribution into a directly administered International Collaboration Fund.
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor
Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss
FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign
First-ever orbital satellite launch from British soil will be delayed
European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack
CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy
Wednesday 7th September 2022 08:27 GMT
Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back
but yes. At least in the UK, our energy policy has been very lacking. Government drank the Kool-aid of "it'll all be solved by having a Smart Grid and smart meter demand management." We've neglected nuclear, closed coal plant. So when the wind doesn't blow, all our eggs are in gas. And, to top it all, we've closed the strategic gas storage facilities.
This was always going to end in tears.
The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it
Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid
Saturday 20th August 2022 03:09 GMT
OK .. now please tell us ....
... what is the pressure in the system, compared with that for existing steam turbines? At the temperatures of the run that they have done, and at the proposed future higher temperatures that would give the claimed 50% efficiency?
... what will that do to the reliability/maintainability of an actual industrial system?
Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet
IBM's self-sailing Mayflower suffers another fault in Atlantic crossing bid
Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo
Tuesday 31st May 2022 08:38 GMT
can someone who knows about this help ?
OK - I understand quantum entanglement. In fact I understood it before it started getting called quantum entanglement. (It was the EPR paradox when I were a lad). So the result of observing one half of the entangled subsystem is that it then forces the other half into a known state
What I've not got my head around, and never seems to be explained, is how you use this for useful information transmission ? Thing is that the outcome of the first observation is random (quantum acausality). You can't decide what state you're forcing the remote half of the system into - you're stuck with whatever you're given.
Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules
Wednesday 9th February 2022 16:07 GMT
really ?
10MW isn't nearly industrial scale. Power plants (e.g. the EPR) work at about the GW level.
Plus - industrial plants run 24/7. If it's taken 25 years to double the performance, we're looking at 10 sec operation in 2047 !
There may be fantastic work being done at JET, but this press release is seriously underwhelming.
Second Trojan asteroid confirmed to be leading our planet around the Sun
James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth
Tuesday 25th January 2022 14:42 GMT
yes
and a lack of cooling wouldn't " trigger misleading signals", it would swamp the detector with thermal noise that would blot out signals at the strength they are looking for.
I criticised an el reg article a while back that had obviously be reworded by someone without a clue of the subject matter. This has the same feel to it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
