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US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions

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>Sale and Leaseback is a common form of corporate asset stripping but I don't think Boeing has gone this particular route.

Well they out-scourced their non-core activity of making airframes to a spun off subsidiary for a more economically efficient outcome - to the general benefit of almost(*) all concerned

(* ignoring the very small proportion of the company who might be actually flying on one of the economically assembled airframes)

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"It will end up in endless management, bonuses all around and stock buybacks. "

Which will ultimately trickle down to the great unwashed masses for the general good of the economy

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Well if the tax payer's money went into the plant infrastructure that would be central planning and before you know it we would be waving red banners and putting ex-presidents in glass boxes

Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week'

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Re: I can see cost savings here.

No the busses will be run by the council because they are a loss making public service vital to getting people to work and school.

However the roads will be privartised because they are infrastructure and only private industry can do long term investment in infrastructure

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It will quietly collapse in a year or two cos there is a 3-5 year wait list at ASML for the next-gen kit to fill them. Then there will be a cyclic downturn in the semiconductor industry and the drop in demand mean the plants wont be needed.

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Don't forget stock buy-backs - Intel is still in the SP500 so it boosts peoples ETFs

Wait a minute, if this boosts everyone's portfolio is this communism ?

As if working at Helldesk weren't bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims

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Re: Helpdeskers are disciplined to be helpful

And that would still be more helpful than my actual helpdesk who would tell me to file a support ticket.

Then close the ticket cos I had selected reason='security' when I should have selected 'access permissions' then when I open a new ticket close it because I should have selected 'security'

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Re: Helpdeskers are disciplined to be helpful

I need to setup MFA app on my phone ?

Full instructions are on the intranet

How do I access the intranet ?

You need to enter the code from the authentication app on your phone

Thank you for using BloodyStupid(tm) the new AI assistant from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints division

Share and Enjoy !

NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

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Re: Unknown scheduling practices or assumed higher costs

Or the central storage system charges more in grant overhead than it would cost you to buy your own NAS

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

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Re: bread

You mean lower gluten bread enriched with added minerals ?

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This ridiculous demands of the workshy for a 5 and 1/2 day week is being led by that arch communist Henry Ford

If workers expect almost 2 days a week off the world will collapse, this is unreasonable government interference in true American capitalism

The woke mob will be stopping me sending children up the chimney next

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I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

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The problem is this political interference forcing honest American companies to pay workers.

Given how beneficial the lifetime unpaid internships allegedly were we must reintroduce the system to make American 1850 again

IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%

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Re: Forget about the stratosphere...

It's IBM, fire force-reduce everyone above average pay grade, give residue a 7% rise = half wages bill

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data

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Re: > The secretary just handed me the entire dossier

>To Mike 137: As above, make it literally impossible. Nobody should have bulk-access, only aggregated data and some meta-data.

Tricky if you're the admin running the backup

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

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The "cross-platform" gaffe shows they have really lost the plot

Do you think Microsoft would rather pay 100,000 developers to make Windows12 that you will pay $10 for an OEM license

Or charge you $30/month to use Office 365 online from your Mac or Linux box?

Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

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Re: How much?

Berkshire Hathaway seems to be doing rather more of the acquisition business than making coats these days

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Re: Sorry????

It's the ones you haven't heard about, who don't appear on twitter or in the press conference - but are the ones quietly organizing stuff behind the scenes. Occasionally giving 'the boss' shiny things to play with, and packed rallies to rant at, while planning the train timetables.....

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Re: "Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?"

Then they would get together to persecute the animated Spiderman series sect

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Re: Hey Buddy... can you spare a dime (or a billion or two)

And the crazy bit is that people are blowing each other up over different interpretations of the same 10th generation copy of a translation of a translation of the fairy story.

Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?

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Re: Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

>Only for federal crimes, however he is also charged by several states.

The thing about being a dictator, even only on day one, is that the niceties of the rules don't really apply.

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Unless Twitter offer him a better cut of the ad revenue

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Re: "the use of a Chinese firm"

China is the enemy of his boss.

Unless the sanctions are biting enough that the checks are late and he's looking for a new one

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Re: How much?

Presumably at least Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

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Re: Why would Musk want to buy that

>The only reason Musk would buy it is to shut it down and force Trump back to Twitter.

Or for the gratitude of a future president

And a ban on imported EVs and a $100K/vehicle federal subsidy for American built EVs ( only valid for companies with 5 letter names beginning with T) ?

Plus a contract for all US satellite launches for the full 1000 year Reich Presidency ?

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Re: Sorry????

US Navy nuclear powered super carrier = $37Bn

Replacement for USN Trident nuclear submarines = $100Bn

Owning the guy in charge of them = priceless

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Re: How much?

>If of the 70-something million people who voted for him last time, they all gave him an average of like $13, you arrive at a billion dollars if my math is correct.

If he follows the playbook and party membership is mandatory for government jobs. Say 20M employees all paying $30/month and 50% is kicked back to him = $300M/month, $3.6Bn/year

Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips

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Re: Ivor Catt

The clever bit isn't saying: you should use all the chips on this wafer in one computer rather than chopping them up and re-assembling them on a PCB - it's making it actually work.

Otherwise I invented the intergalactic hyper death-ray battleship on my school book in infants

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Re: An unanswered question

|The engineering that makes this possible is mapping out and routing around the bad cores.

The problem has always been that this costs money and wafer area, so it was always more cost effective to chop the wafer up, test each chip and sell them separately

It's only with tasks that need a bazzillion cores and 44GB of ram for a single task that this thing starts to make sense

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We refer to them as "medieval" Allen keys

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Re: WTAF?

If it had a securely fastened lid the cat would tipped the whole thing over

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History repeating itself

hope Tokyo doesn't have a giant telecommunications tower in the middle of the city that could be felled by a giant kitten...

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble

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Legal fees for reviewing each press release saying it's still out there. Licensing fees for using the NASA logo on the release

Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed

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* greenwash it all by pointing out the wreck will act as an artificial reef

And yet everyone calls the Titanic a 'disaster', look what it did for the Belfast tourist industry

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controlled rendezvous with the ocean

For my next dive - I ,the fat middle-aged bloke, shall perform my famed .....

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Re: Airlines Being The Safest Form Of Transportation

A gentleman only travels by airship.

Heavier than air flight is an abomination, just look at the food

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Re: "if the door plug removal was undocumented"

>NOTHING concerning airplane maintenance should be undocumented.

They didn't remove a door plug, that would have involved paperwork and testing and sign-offs and probably having to use that fscking awful computer maintenance logging system.

They 'partially' opened a door, nothing special about opening a door - "It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

So if we call it opening a door - we don't have to do any paperwork.

Later that day .... why are there bolts in my overall pocket ?

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Re: Airlines Being The Safest Form Of Transportation

In the USA (stats are easily available and Tibeten goat farmers probably don't drive much or take many flights so...)

The TSA say there are 2.9Million airline passengers/day, say 1Bn / year

The Dept Transport say they take 1.1Billion trips/day or 411 Bn trips/year - and average 14,500 mi/year

So 400x as many driving trips as flying trips.

There are about 45,000 road deaths/year, there hasn't been an airliner fatality for 4 years, and that was the person that got in-flight disembarked when that South West's engine blew up.

If you only include 'proper' airlines and not helicopter sight seeing trips and 3 drunk fishermen on a float plane, there hasn't been a crash for more then a decade - and that was a Dash-8 (serves you right for flying a plane with propellers) there hasn't been a large US passenger jet crash for 20years.

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Or even worse. Employees knew they would get reamed out for bad paperwork - so they found a way of doing the work which wouldn't generate any paperwork. Including paperwork saying "did you put the bolts back in?"

China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence

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Re: Washington banning it in 10, 9, 8 ...

The problem with even business visits is that you can't spend ANYTHING, even Starbucks only accept local online payments.

So you are forced to have your local fixer/contact meet you at the airport and pay for everything - or the hotel send a car and you eat all your meals in the hotel and then pay the hotel with a credit card

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

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Re: Authoritarian

Given that he is CEO of a company that is ultimately owned by the Chinese govt it didn't seem an unreasonable question.

Have you ever been a member of the Russian communist party Mr Philby?

I went to Eton

Well that concludes the security vetting

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Re: > border issues

>Oh, border - the hybrid fruit that never stops giving.

But with a caravan bringing 6 billion immigrants across the border - they would at least seem to offer an example of how to organise public transport infrastructure

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Re: Reference

theregister.co.uk doesn't have the */s" because it assume its readers can read

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Re: No Bipartisan Deals

So in the Mother-(F***er) of Parliaments the opposition are crawling over themselves to say they will implement all the current government's policies and do them harder, to the annoyance of many of his potential voters

While in the treasonous colonies the opposition are effectively in power but won't forward any bills because the president would be forced to sign them against the will of his potential voters

I can see why people aren't entirely convinced of this whole democracy experiment

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Oxygen of publicity

Possibly one politician who would benefit from having their words spoken by an actor.

But in the words of the late lamented Linda - I don't really like you saying his name, because it gives him the oxygen of publicity and I'm not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen

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Re: US politics is basically

Operation Deport the Religious Nut-Jobs was a good idea at the time - but it had unfortunate consequences

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Re: Reference

>TikTok pushed a notification to US users warning them of the bill and urging fans to lobby their reps in Congress.

But a company can't get involved in politics - they aren't citizens !

IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips

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Re: RE: Mainframe Skills Council

>Serves IBM right for being so dismissive of any employees with age and experience.

That's the cunning plan.

By re-hiring the experienced engineers they fired made-redundant force choked reduction in force'd as new hires they can be paid new hire rates and new hire benefits while maintaining all the experience and institutional knowledge

Why can't those workers just see the beautiful simplicity of the plan ?

You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B

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Re: Optimism backed by belief

Rather like searching for cases on Lexisnexis vs Bing

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