Comment we're starting to see 6-month delays for equipment (Score 2) 59
and that's going to swell as all the smaller operations hit the order books.. cue the requests for extending deadlines....
Comment back to the samizdat (Score 1) 52
Master's Control can't see multifolded little wads of paper
Comment can you make this in a -40 to 160 temp range? huh? (Score 1) 256
those are the ambients that car chips work in. mediium and low density components can be certified here. not 7 nM.
fact. end of discussion.
Comment I nominate the Teletype KSR32 (Score 2) 101
stiff, inconsistent, for numbers and punctuation you have to shift the keyset and then shift back. yeah, I'm old.
Comment so everybody load a local copy of the apps (Score 1) 71
avoid subscription cloudy servers.
Comment who freakin' cares if it was the feds? (Score 0) 139
take 'em down. take 'em ALL down. take 'em down they first start up.
Comment I like it. (Score 1) 139
now, if we could just blow these sumbitches out of the water when we first start seeing the C&C traffic starting up....
Comment tells me something (Score 3, Interesting) 31
tells me that Intel has given up trying to upgrade existing fabs for 7 nm and below. could be because they expect them to be fully booked anyway. could be because they figure they can't make the change, and need new facilities to pull it off. could be because they figure to book a metric shipload of new parts and need more footage to manufacture them. I can believe it's synergy of all of them.
Comment Smart Junk Creation. (Score 2) 77
they're all doing it. are you really into tossing all your tech every few years? this "smart stuff" with no security, no upgrades, mystery abandonment schedules, and random inability to interconnect is dumber than a box of rocks. end the charade. it's a toy.
Comment just let me block liars unconditionally (Score 1) 45
there are sacrosanct accounts on Facebook that seem to be bulletproof on the right-wingnut side. you can't block them. if they're serious, let me block them.
conservatives likely want to wall off their nemeses as well.
Comment Re:Forest Mims III (Score 1) 50
there have been optical links for free air for a while, but nothing like that distance. most of the free-air products have been microwave, I was seeing those advertised in the 1980s.
Comment heck, telco/data carriers have wider windows (Score 3, Insightful) 21
more typical for them to lock down after business Friday the week before to days after. and holidays.
Comment and the cost to retrieve it? (Score 1) 192
how about 100 zillion?
Comment The Party of Fiscal Conservatism (tm) (Score -1, Troll) 162
looks like they scrimped too much on firewalls and internal training...
Comment so, how much big tech do you want to drive out? (Score 0) 25
comes a point where Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, et al will just say, "we'll just block all EU domains and adjust our business?"
