Posts by Bebu

Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene

"I've a little list..."*

into which these supernumerary worms will be inserted.

_{*...I've got a little list / Of society offenders who might well be underground / And who never would be missed!}

_{G&S The Mikado 1885}

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Re: LLM Tools Exist In A Different Universe......

I asked ChatGTP to tell me about the novel "Miss Marple Screws It Up"..

Could have been worse. Its may have hallucinated a prurient bodice ripper in which the lady detective takes an active, a very active part. :)

Miss Jane and Hercule as you have never (wished) to imagine them (together.)

Careful what you ask for... even in jest!

Re: Solution looking for a problem

"4. ... the AI has done the harp part", ...

Preparing the project for its overdue appointment with the hereafter? ;)

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Re: Elon wants to follow Kamala

Or unless the Supremes change the definition of natual born citizen.

Murkier waters than one might have thought Natural-born-citizen clause (United States).

Australia cannot be too smug here as a few years ago our Constitution's Section 44(i) cut swathes of disqualifications of sitting representatives from both parties.

Re: Shelf life

‘Trump 2024’ is not a political slogan. It’s an expiration date.

Hopefully Project 2025 isn't America's.

DDoS = Dumping Demented, Obnoxious Solipsists?

A case of discarding the Trump-Vance krumpers for the three-four Harris-Waltz. :)

Space Karen as Secretary of (altered?) State is one leg of the trousers of time that I definitely don't wish to dress on.

Cigarette break burned out a huge chunk of Africa's internet

Re: Own up to it

Ubergeeks would even live patch code.

A lot simpler in uniprocessor systems without threads, I imagine. Conceptually not too difficult but there is a hell full of devils in the detail. :)

I think Oracle's "unbreakable" (Linux) kernel patches the running kernels which I would imagine is "courageous" in both naming and in deed. :)

Re: Own up to it

Even two eyes, if they belonged to different brains

Arguably a single individual with their corpus callosum sectioned might qualify. :)

Although it might be like letting the characters from Herman's Head loose.

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Re: Bad journalism

As a WestCoastian, I'm absolutely flabbergasted that PBS allowed "Are You Being Served?" to run at all, much less for the several dozen repeats of the entire series, over several decades.

FARTY TOWELS has been on American TV, specifically the many PBS stations nationwide. It comes and goes in re-runs... although granted, I do not remember it being on for the last decade or longer. Maybe the hyper politically correct are winning ...

I guess we "don't mention the war" or stereotype Barcelonian waiters or Irish builders, definitely not "Mrs Slocombe's pussy" and we won't go anywhere near Mr Humphries' "walk this way."

As an antipodean of advancing years the whole shambles resembles nothing so much as one of the more ridiculous Monty Python sketches, ironically the series after which the language was named.

Actually I suspect a very small proportion of America's great unwashed actually watch PBS. I always wondered whether more Australians watched the Lehrer News Hour than Americans especially while the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco unfolded.

FWIW the unmentionable cut rhyming word originally meant untidy, slovenly (slattern) at least in UK english. I suppose we have to excise any mention of the village bike as well.

Report: Tech misconceptions plague the IT world

"you'd expect this cohort would be more tech-savvy"

"you'd expect this cohort would be more tech-savvy"

Not really. I have noticed the post mid to late 1980s onward cohorts don't really understand how even some of the simplest mechanisms in their lives work even at a high level. Not much better than a Cargo Cult adherent or little better than medieval superstition. It might as well be magic.

Fair enough the details of 4G/LTE are absolutely mind numbing but basics of any telephone remain the same - microphone, speaker, dialer, answer/hangup, and for cell phone - radio transmitter and receiver.

Most everyday items are based on simple ideas largely obfuscated by unnecessary features, gratuitous complexity and insidious marketing.

Come the day after, the survivors will be surrounded by a wealth of defunct technology that very few could usefully repurpose. I doubt fewer than one in a hundred could reconfigure roof top photovoltaics to work in the permanent absence of the grid - if only to charge a few car batteries to provide light at night. Although potable water and food would be a much bigger immediate problem in most cities.

Re: Girlfriend

fetch the cake from the microwave

Cake... Microwave... what fresh hell this? Last century one baked cakes in ovens. Even the most generous addition of uxorious affection is likely to produce much of a cake from self raising flour (or plain plus yeast for real trad.), eggs, milk and sugar using a microwave oven.

Surely even in these declining days microwave ready frozen gateaux are only a pattisier's nightmare? Tell me it ain't so, please!

Dark times indeed.

Re: Lack of Naming Sense [Was: people will believe any old rubbish]

There was a reason why all student fortran assignments had to have

IMPLICIT NONE

Fifty years later I can still recall Hollerith constants and printer control character in the first column ... that's real brain damage. ;)

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Licenses?

ZLUDA was licensed under a dual MIT & Apache license. I noticed on issues page the suggestion that GPL/LGPL would have been better, presumably because of GPL's "viral" nature. ;) I guess the idea is that any party that took issue with any of the content of the project would have to do their own "dirty work" and take the consequences of any negative publicity rather than the "back passage" strategy of indirectly coercing another contributing party.

I don't know whether CUDA is much used in AI/LLM to leverage NVidia GPUs but if it is, then a pretty obvious explanation comes to mind in that either, or both, of the two corporate parties imagine ZLUDA is giving away a valuable shovel in the AI gold rush.

It is said that the US is a Godless place but in reality it is extremely devout but unfortunately their god is Mammon and before whose altar all enthusiastically bow down in avaricious supplication.

BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem

Tier 4

If the DSO has an infinite sample rate, the BOFH's flywheel is probably spinning at relativistic speeds with a bit of frame dragging thrown in, time and space are seriously distorted although unlikely discernable from the migraine that reality has where the Boss and the BOFH are in the same room.

Have to wonder what the Boss' particular problem was. Forgotten which was his office, or worse, what was the purpose of the tissues dispensed from rolls on the wall beside the pedestals in the little boys' room.

It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

The Networking as expected.

[0.0.0.0 for its sins was also the broadcast address in pre 4.3 BSD.]

The problem I think is mostly in the browser's abilitity to run code (scripts) "locally" chosen by a remote site's owner.

Access to the network services running on the browser's host is normally permitted to local processes which the browser is.

In the case of a network service bound to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) only local processes can access that service.

Unfortunately 0.0.0.0 means this host and includes all active configured interfaces including lo0.

It isn't just network services running on the host but any services behind the organisation's firewall(s) that the host has access to.

Any fix would have to be in the browser presumably by controlling those addresses that scripts running in the browser have access to, as the networking stack is working as expected.

Netfilter (Linux) might be able to distinguish a local process connect(2)ing to 0.0.0.0:<port> which would actually connect to 127.0.0.1:<port> as against a local process connecting explicitly to 127.0.0.1:<port> and could incorporate rules to prevent the first but allow the second.

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

Ambiguous parse

"My boss gave me a lot of leeway so long as I kept the PCs running," Brad told On Call – perhaps because that worthy had a degree in Psychology, not tech.

I grok'd this as Brad's having the misfortune of psychology degree and that his manglement boss unusually cut Brad a fair bit of slack - the blind leading the vision impaired as it were. Brad probably worked cheaper too.

On reading the alternative parse, I admit that it is more probable.

I was wondering what the serfs in a retail chain would be using Excel for. I am guessing it was just to send a "machine readable" structured report to headquarters (and I presume before decent POS systems and integration with back office reporting.) I would have thought a custom screen form to xml application would be less prone to problems than using a spreadsheet.

Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists now deemed to be terms-of-service violators

Same old, same old...

Enclose the common, flog off the real estate.

Never been much of a python user but years of trying to maintain users' collections of the latest and greatest python applications on Redhat EL7 which was stuck on python 2.7 gave me the impression that packaging wasn't python's forté.

Really didn't use Conda as the Redhat Software Collections (RHSCL) - developer toolsets - could usually be pressed into service and integrated with the existing environment modules.

I suspect that Anaconda think python is pivotal in developing AI/LLM and they wish to sell shovels in that gold rush. Whether python is or not I have no idea but once it's all pyrites those customers will evaporate and the other users will have moved on.

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

A Parachute and a Pair of Asbestos Nickers?

All a bit sorry really.

These astronauts will return to a planet (mis)ruled by Apes (but not the clever ones. :)

ICANN reserves .internal for private use at the DNS level

start using .internal at home I think.

I was pretty sure the Stasi weren't likely to be back in business so I purloined the .DD tld. ;)

The DDR collapsed before the internet was enough of a thing in Stasiland for the .DD to be registered but I notice .SO is still in use, perhaps repurposed for "special operation." :(

As long as your resolvers and internal nameservers don't pester the root servers or other external name servers with your own networking delusions you can do whatever you like even purloin X.com or sub-domains thereof.

Might even be worth having space-karen.x.com, ketamine.x.com, etc etc locally just for your crappy or otherwise dodgy hardware.

X.com could actually mean "was a commercial entity but now defunct" which might be well be prophetic (if self fulfilling.)

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Re: Always a disaster soapbox

not because there are some "fundamental" problems with how IT works

I would dissent. I believe there are fundamental problems.

I am guessing the only reason the Falcon sensor 20/21 problem actually surfaced was that the code was running in an environment (kernel) which cannot ignore such misfeasance. I imagine if it were running in user space it would have potentially raised a SEGV exception which the application coder would have chosen to ignore, or worse the uninitialised 21st argument contained a residual but valid albeit quite arbitrary address.

In thirty years time I wonder gow many digits will CVEs require - at the current rate at least a (cell) phone number and these are only security related lapses.

Re: These hackers are not “engineers”

> solid and sturdy infrastructure, which then gets scavenged and looted by hackers

Nah, they aren't hackers.

(Post-bellum) Carpetbagger is probably a more accurate than "hacker."

Have I missed fleets of partially finished Fords and VWs on the roads?

I suspect some of the horses out of the Tesla stable might come close if, arguably, only from the software components.

software worked properly

...adults would much rather software worked properly than was chock full of new features. This should be thumped in to every student of software engineering from day 1 !

Along with how to define work properly. Without something more than a fuzzy, hand wavy list of "features" how could anyone demonstrate whether a body of software "worked properly" or not. As it stands I suspect it falls upon the poor sods who configure the software's test suites to define this (ex post facto as it were.;)

I would also guess that for any large application the vast majority of features (existing or new) are never used by most of the user base. Add the volatility of the user interface (especially in the Windows environment but Linux isn't immune) I can easily understand why the average computer user is completely underwhelmed by the industry's offerings.

For the life of me, I cannot imagine the great unwashed needing more than 5% of the features of the Windows (or LibreOffice) word processor - MacWrite would probably cut it even today. If you have observed Excel etc in the hands of the polloi - it's truly scary.

Humungous, incomprehensible bug riddled software in the hands of naive users... what could go wrong?

Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo

Re: Titter ye not

It's like car model names. Whatever name you choose, there's a country somewhere where people will titter.

I vaguely recall Camry sounded similar to Thai slang term which initially caused a flutter of titillation.

Prius is perhaps close enough to Priapus to excite a quiver along a prurient stiff upper lip.

Effingo is a compound I think of (e, ex) and fingo (fingo,fingere,finxi,fictum) the principle parts of which appear to lend themselves to any amount of innuendo without even considering the entire conjugation.

Was "twitter ye not" one of Lurcio's (Frankie Howerd) lines from Up Pompeii?

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Re: Pedo Guy to the rescue!

He wouldn't know reality if it shat in his face.

In this context I imagine reality to be a bit like a fussy old cat that is rather fussy about where it does its business and would instinctively avoid such an inferior substitute for a tray of kitty litter.

He can’t even get a grip on himself.

Get a grip on Twitter!? He can’t even get a grip on himself.

Congenital deformity? Hand slips off? No flange on the knob?

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

Re: This parameter count mismatch evaded multiple layers of build validation and testing

Fundamentally the Falcon code was far more insecure (and dangerous) than that of the assets it sought to protect (especially in the case non-Windows systems) and when coupled with poor release and deployments practices a visitation from Mr Cockup was long overdue.

Like most of the security theatre industry all talk and sans pantalon ou culotte.

Re: Consulatant Jackpot Time?

the US developers they fired in January before moving development to India in February 2024.

Another Clown Stroke? What?

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Freedom of Speech...

surely encompasses the choice not to speak.

The 5^th Amendment to the US Constitution preserves the right to silence where self incrimination is involved - a right that the Emperor of Mongo seemingly wishes to forgo.

"... tried being nice for two years and got nothing but empty words," ... "Now, it is war." Huh? Nice? Empty words? Sounds like Space Karen has mistaken a mirror for a window. Too much Special-K?

"Woke mind virus" and this "failed to launch" hasn't got some nasty MAGA brain eating prion disease?

Unlike Theodore Rooseveldt, Musk et al. have but a small stick but constantly screech rather loudly about perceived infringements of their delusional "rights."

I imagine Teddy would have personally horsewhipped the whole sorry crew - his contemporary robber barons were the real deal and not our half arsed wannabes.

EVs continue to grow but private buyers are steering clear, say motor trade figures

Long tail

I had a look at the UK figures on the SMMT site linked in this article as I was curious about the non new purchases and registrations.

The new registrations roughly July'23/June'24 1,154,000 cf 7,243,000 used car sales.

Any decent vehicle produced in the last few decades has at least a twenty year life* expectancy so the pool of existing ICE vehicles would take more than a decade to wear out.

Presumably the rising cost of running and maintenance of these vehicles will mean a much shorter economical life but still the rather high cost of ICE alternatives will likely have the consequence of ICE owners absorbing the higher running costs for longer.

Older ICE owners within sight of having to surrender their drivers licenses are unlikely to purchase a new vehicle of any sort.

I have a vague suspicion that ultimately none of current BEV, hybrid, hydrogen, ICE will prevail. Perhaps biofuel external combustion? (New steam age.:)

_{* unlike Australia I cannot imagine mileage being that large in the UK. How many times would you have to drive from Lands End to John O'Groats and back to equal Sydney, NSW to Perth, WA?}

Second patient receives the Neuralink implant

..."Arbaugh's brain came loose...

significantly reducing the system's capabilities."

It would, wouldn't it?

Completely out of context but still...

Ming of Mongo's prattling on about ziga bps connections between human brains is about as dystopian as I can imagine and I can only imagine Mr Arbaugh's wasn't the only brain that came loose but the emperor of Mongo's is not just loose but positively unhinged.

On a more fundamental level I suspect the world represented in the mind/brain of each human being is unique. The fact that we can communicate our perceptions of our environment to others in a way that appears to correspond with their pereceptions of the same environment is like as much a consequence of biological, cultural and linguistic evolution than any real correspondence between each individual's mind's representation of his or her world.^☆ (And an enormous leap of faith.;)

The idea that you could meaningfully beam the electrical activity of (part of) one brain into (the corresponding part of) another brain appears pretty ludicrous.

_{☆ a corollary of this would be that a proportion of population would lack this correspondence to varying degrees having a divergent perception and world representation of their environment. A claim sadly not exactly lacking contemporary evidence.}

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

All I recall...

was cursing when opening code files with wordstar and later realizing that it wasn't in non-document mode. :(

I fairly quickly got a hold of a copy MKS Vi which removed that provocation.

I think the the text IDE in early Borland products (I recall Turbo-Prolog) was pretty much wordstar in non-document mode.

The key bindings were pretty universal pre windows I think. The editor included with Dave Moore's MSDOS FTL Modula-2 compiler (ME.com) had those default bindings.

FWIW Back then I used Vi and a hacked* up version of nroff to prepare documents under MSDOS and hacked* version of format from Software Tools in Pascal earlier under CP/M+.

_{* mostly [Epson dot matrix] printer control eg typeface, italic/bold/underline, vertical/horizontal motion.}

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

Re: Bootnotes

Some guy back in the days before my time said that. Something about rivers of blood. He was also a bit of a wanker.

I guess you might mean Enoch Powell (Birmingham 1968.)

Arguably a bit of a wanker but he was for a very short time just before WW2 Professor of Greek at Sydney University and a rather complicated chap utterly unlike the Bloody Stupid and his third raters that until recently made the pretence of governing the UK.

Alf Garnet thought he was the bee's knees so that's all right then. :)

Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership

Sorry, I'll read that again.

200 percent There is a lot of pressure from physical contact, but you can still read a weekly magazine;

At first glance I read this as "...There is a lot of pleasure..." which hit the cognitive emergency brakes.

Given the subjects of the Chrysanthemum throne have a few quaint traditions some involving sharp implements and exposed bellies I had to reread this to allay my misgivings.

Otherwise I might have suggested the rego unit might be Jollies with 200% = 1 Jolly but clearly at 2.0 Jollies the ability to still read a magazine is extremely unlikely.

Re: Fishy

I'll raise you one Pilchard.

Up that to one Brisling. :)

Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number

Re: $500 in Canada

Aussi slang I'd not come across , but kinda predictable. I reckon I could write a script to generate an Aussie to English phrasebook.

Firies but Ambos for paramedics from the ambulance services. The remaining 000 service has quite a number of names some relatively unprintable. ;)

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

Re: What kind of volunteers...

[this]work will be done by low-paid government staffing pools, Rust fanatics, and agents of hostile governments.

If the Rust fraternity is anything like other language chauvinists these Rust fanatics would be little more than language lawyers that could split the finest syntactic and semantic hair with the greatest of ease but are incapable of coding the simplest of routines.

_{There was a 1990s Dilbert cartoon featuring a meeting with one of these type's brain exploding when presented with real code.}

Are we caught in the Ada loop again?

I was thinking that too.;)

Ironically if Ada were adopted as was originally intended then most of the memory problems that Rust is said to protect against wouldn't have arisen.

Equal in irony is, looking at the latest Stack Overflow 2024 developer survey as reported by el Rego/Devclass, Ada doesn't get a mention but I notice that Go is half a nose ahead of Rust but C/C++ is 50%.

I cannot help thinking if using regexes to solve a problem gives you two problems, then using AI/LLM to solve a problem is likely to give you an uncountable multiplicity of problems. :)

Say 'ahhhh' – AI robots are now gunning for your gums

Won't be long...

before cyberfication is compulsory :)

I can see Musk's Neurolink's devices being inserted the victims' brains by these machines and connected to some Musk~ish AI system so that everyone see the the world through the eyes of the mad tyrant of Mongo. I went in to have a routine check up and clean - and came out a Musk fanboy. :(

Just add a Tesla metal suit...

Pretty obvious the patient's maxilla and mandible have to be immobilized if a dental robot is going to do anything serious with the teeth so the beast will have your head well and truly in its grip. Horrifying thought.

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

Re: Genius Was Poorly Compensated In Those Days.............

It wouldn't be drawing a long bow to propose that this hasn't changed.

Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that

Solaris boot environments?

Seems odd that this isn't yet a Linux "thing" - Solaris 9 had this yonks ago (at least the basics) and I think predates ZFS - Veritas filesystem and volume manager or Sun's solstice volume manager (I forget but perhaps they were the same?) could be used but I don't think were required.

Considering the parody of SMF that Systemd has become I shudder to think what perversion of boot environments Linux might eventually be saddled with. :)

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

Re: Faulty Fuse

we (domestic/commercial sparkies) tend to downrate rings by removing one of the links, and then fitting 2x 20A breakers, actually increases reliability and potential power draw

Basically converting the ring wiring to a radial wiring?

Re: Faulty Fuse

As far as I know there's nowhere that bans ring mains

Hadn't heard of ring mains. I think I might pack a couple of portable RCD/fuse with UK plugs attached if I were to visit blighty.

I would hope ring wiring wouldn't comply with AS/NZS 3000:2018 but it is a rather long read to check. :)

Without engaging the little gray cells one obvious vulnerability: should the ring be broken the conductors of resulting two segments could be overloaded.

Revamped UK cybersecurity bill couldn't come soon enough, but details are patchy

"Does the IT world really need to be forced by law to be competent?"

Pretty obviously a resounding YES!

But I cannot imagine any feasible sanction that could achieve this desirable end.

Even a KGB (or BOFH) basement type solution is unlikely to work.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Re: Migration update

trusting Satan (which, of course, doesn't exist).

Some might hold that the Father of Lies has won that hand. :)

In the film The Usual Suspects the master criminal Keyser Söze is likened to the devil who had cunningly convinced most of the world of his non-existence. :)

That movie's ending is of course a caution.

Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email

57 gross of substandard inflatable flamingos!

A couple of dozen that's just tat. 8000+ now that is installation art.

Have your miscreant assistant flog them as such to the gullible collectors of such artefacts.

It might also arrange to redirect the delivery to the lucky purchasing conoisseur so that this pink nightmare never darkens your doorstep.

Do people still use "gross" for anything other than as a synonym for disgusting?

Barrel of Monkeys

If these digital twins were to become universal on FB etc I could foresee millions of these agents furiously liking, following, defriending (whatever) each other, and possibly engaging in autonomous flame wars with each other.

Meanwhile the humans toddle off to the pub for a probably equally pointless full and frank exchange of opinions.

On the plus side it might toll the passing of the insidious influencer creatures that infest these sides. Advertisers would likely just commission a replacement digital version.

Max Headroom was a harbinger.:)

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Call Centre Cruelty?

I've found that tallikg quickly works better than the English habit of talking loudly and slowly

I am assuming your technique produces no response at all while the old imperial standard one produces complete nonsense or at best misleading responses.

All in all I suspect you might have the better techinque if a little pointless. Could try speaking Klingon or old Elvish (Quenya)* for the same result. :)

In all honesty I am sure it really would not matter what language was used as you would still get the same codswallop.

_{* it appears there are quite a number of unusual people that have collected, compiled and augmented these "languages."}

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

Re: It'll still be the source of useless trash

"Our customers can say, 'I want to see gloves. Show me only gardening gloves made out of such and such material that are waterproof.' And [the AI software] will immediately filter thousands of records of gloves down to the handful that meet that criteria."

The customers here, I think, are the retailers engaging Clearview to produce this sort of market/product research.

This particular query is pretty simple SQL/RDBMS query if the tables covering gloves had columns for material and permeability to fluids eg waterproof.

I would guess these tables are very likely incomplete or don't exist. Clearview probably manually extracted this data from product specifications. Turning a LLM loose on these product pages and consumer reports could extract implicit properties from the data. For example gloves made from Iatex, PVC or nitrile would highly likely be water resistant.

I wasn't clear whether Clearview was selling "AI" ie trained models or normal databases populated by "AI."

Desktop hypervisors are not dead: Oracle preps major VirtualBox update

SunOS? The one that's dead for 30 years now?

I suspect means Solaris 2 (sunos 5.x) rather than Solaris 1 (sunos 4.x) (SVR4 v BSD)

Perhaps refers to the Illumos kernels? But then might as well go to SmartOS for VM support.

Pretty impressive if it were to run on a sparcstation under SunOS 4.1.x.

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

Re: Wrong Units?

Sounds about right.

I was thinking the 114 million was the number of times the wheels had rotated which assuming 215/55R17 tyres gives π × 21.5" × 114 million ~ 642 million feet ~ 121,000 miles so not a starter.

Another thought was that the software types were integrating the instantaneous speed wrt to time viz ( ∫ |V| dt) to calculate mileage but forgot the square root from |V| = √(V_x²+ V_y²+ V_z²)

Given all the complaints about the Talkie Toaster state of new vehicles there must be a niche for an aftermarket brain surgery service for these blighters. Autolobotomies'R'us.