Posts by CowHorseFrog

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

Re: Outdated manufacturing plants

Japanese car makers have been running on subsidies for tens of years.

Re: You are soooo 20th century!

Hey military systems worth millions dont have remote kill switches or controls of any kind.

Remember stingers and the muhajadeens ? Exactly the same thing happened when the americans left Afghanistan in the latest war and left behind cars and equipment which those same freedom fighters happily grabbed.

Re: computers on wheels

Hey we all know parent should be buying cement mixers and driving kids to school in them.

Re: computers on wheels

nobody: If you stuck with keeping the cars smaller, they would inevitably have fewer safety features, and very likely the bulky safety features would need to be slimmed down to fit, and would therefore be less effective; smaller cars with poorer safety features.

cow: Yup European cars have so few safety features, that why they invented them to begin with while American oversized cars and trucks ran around for how many years without seat belts or air bags ?

So modern cars are computers on wheels ?

The real question that shoudl be asked is why are so many people driving in the first place instead of thinking of other alternatives

Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?

Re: "people want to write at higher levels of abstraction"

Oh yes im wrong because you say the lord of the universe says so....not because you give a sample with corrections.

Re: "people want to write at higher levels of abstraction"

Some of those 6502 mnemonics are invalid. Not sure why you are inserting those extra "A"...

its LDA not LDA A, theres no point to the second A, as the LD A already mentions the destination.

Same for AND, they always imply the A when an immediate value is iused.

I wonder how many bonuses were given to the CUDA design and implementation team ?

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Re: Suppose that it depends on which "us" you're talking about

Thats not evidence at all, thats simply a comparison against AV.

To be the best there needs to be a test against far more candidates than just a few.

Simple answer is it never was....

Its simply propaganda, without any actual evidence, Google has basically been forced up on us.

Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs

Most people do work 70h weeks.

You might think the average person works 40Hours a week, but you forgot to factor in commuting. Many people are investing 2+ hours a day commuting, that adds at least 10-15 extra hours taken from them and lost to being forced to travel without payment aka commuting.

Re: You spelled 'ruining' wrong.

Probably trying to steal stationary for dads office.

Hes gone soft, everybody knows real efficiency starts at over 99.

SpaceX hits 400 launches of Falcon 9 rocket

Re: Because it would be a waste of time

Using your source ...

> The contract totaled US$1.6 billion for a minimum of 12 missions to ferry supplies to and from the ISS.[35]

My maths is very poor. but im pretty sure 1600 / 12 is DOUBLE your claim of 70M per launch.

It also claims NASA "gave" $400M to help development.

> In 2014, SpaceX released combined development costs for Falcon 9 and Dragon. NASA provided US$396 million, while SpaceX provided over US$450 million

So please how much did those ferry missions to the ISS cost ?

Re: Easy Rider

Oh yes the American idiocy that management especially upper management motivate anyone.

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

Mnay modern libraries that work with CSV also support getting by column name and prefer that over by position.

So why would anyone prefer to use get by column instead of get. by column name ?

The only answer is laziness because its less to type a column number over a column name.

No the mistake was to use positions which can be changed while changing a name would be more obviously wrong.

Re: Defects appearing like magic

But the logs of the ticket would have shown the original empty text when the ticket was created and the new text having quite different dates.

It makes no sense to "fake" the timestamp.

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage

Re: Google never voluntarily gives up data

No its far simpler than that.

THey dont need to track anyone, because theres no such thing as effective targetted advertising, thats just a lie they "pretent" so the idiots that buy advertising believe they are getting value.

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

Re: The thing I find most shocking....

WHy do you think elon has a few body guards ?

Did i ever claim being a prisoner in S or L were living paradise ?

It must be hell living with a mind that cant read and imagines things that are not in front of them.

Re: Dead men don't suffer.

never happens in australia.

Re: and let the real heroes th epolice take care of things.

How about you demand gun owners also have a perfect record of saving the day whenever a gun massacre instead of the police.

Re: Dead men don't suffer.

Yeh because one armed bystander saving 1 day against 99 bad days where the same armed bystanders do nothing guns kill thousands is such a good balance.

One has to wonder with so many american heroes why there are so many massacres in the first place and yet basiclaly every other western country where citizens with no guns has basically no masscares.

Confusion.

The people of UKRAINE are also asking the same question.

Yeh it great to be a prisoner like Vlad or Assad... so very rich and yet always a target.

Sure thing... im sure Trump wont be listening to Elon.

You are blind if you think the title and the persons name matters.

Your original comment seemed to imply the system was operating correctly and could not be improved.

Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections

Re: Not fit for Purpose

Dont understand why page length is a measure of anything.

Everything in this world is a lot of pages, basically every medicine around today must be backed by tens of thousands of pages...

Re: When will Google add protections against stalking...

Would be interesting how effective Google's ad actually is.

I have yet to buy anything from any of their ad, the only time ive ever clicked on something was a mistake, and the same goes for most people ive ever asked.

Im going to say online advertising is the biggest one around online, and worldwide it only is only bested by religion

Re: When will Google add protections against stalking...

You must be a communist or socialist, we all know as long as someone maakes a dollar it must be good.

Re: I'm a luddite

Thats all fine, but the problem i the bad guys wont ask you if they want to track you... a bit how the bad websites dont ask if you want to take their cookies.

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Its amazing how many large companies for example do things that are illegal in the real world. The entire concept of cookies is a perfect example.

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

The article doesnt actually say how frequently the laser can fire and what its cool down period after firing is.

Goung to guess it cant be very impressive if they didnt mention either.

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

Copilot seems a strange way to make money for MS. Surely there are simpler ways.

Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

Im Australian, i dont care about American politics as it does not affect me at all, because in case you didnt know Au is thousands of km away from everyone just the way i like it.

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

Re: Social Darwinism

Theres plenty of money.

Public executions were extremely popular in old days of Europe, from ladies of the night, food and more being sold.

Re: Social Darwinism

The only problem is thesse teslas will probably kill other innocent public walkers etc.

Suicide booths are far more environmental.

Re: Social Darwinism

Yeh everybody knows the safe thing to do is accelerate to 120Mph to verify the brakes and autopilot are working.

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns

Re: Sigh.. Why is it the Germans can do this..

Because we dont really know the limits and problems of the German machine, just like we dont know the truth about the Ospreys.

THe reality is they are both very limited machine and theres a reason why the German machine was never used in war.

Re: Deathtrap

The osprey is nothing more than propaganda. It looks good at the movies, but in reality is useless. If there ever is a war of some kind you can be sure Ospreys will do very little in reality when it really counts.

Re: Question.

So your comparing dog shit vs cat shit and you want to pretend one is better than the other in your beer ?

Re: An interesting concept

Sure it can be done, but there are far more effective ways to spend the money to get results.

Troops on the ground gets troops killed.

Helis supporting troops only means more troops get put in places they shouldnt be. Troops die, get injuried and helis get destroyed trying to support.

The R in Afghan learnt this the hard way, the same is true in Ukraine, America is also losing lots of Ospreys and its not even war time. In vietnam a lot of US troops were killed/injuried because they were sent on stsupid missions because the leaders believed in helis.

Re: ... a bit late, innit?

rcxb: Iraq and Afghanistan were not the places where V-22 Ospreys would need to be used. There, the US had bases all over on the ground.

cow: The US did not have bases all over the place, they had a few in a few places, and everywhere else was safe for the Taliban. Thats why we still have the T in power today.

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rcxb: There were no missions out of range of typical helicopters.

cow: Says who ? The Taliban would like to counter your statement.

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rcxb: Noise level isn't always a disqualifying feature, as landing behind a nearby hill or else generating other noisy diversions may be possible. Besides, it's not as though there are any entirely silent options...

cow: Because you say so ?

You can say whagever you like, but the modern example of Usama being shot and not captured alive proves my point, that claims about hostage rescues only happens in the movies.

Stop talking bullshit that has never happened.

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rcxb: Besides discounting rescue ops, you're also promoting additional bystander casualties by saying missiles should (always!) be sent in, instead of soldiers in V-22s on long-range operations where no other craft can operate.

cow: Hang on Usama and all his friends and family in the compound got shot, none were captured. Your claims about special ops taking any building are bullshit.

Game over.

Re: ... a bit late, innit?

The scarey thing is modern wars are basically unwinnable.

Houthis, Taliban, big powers simply cant win in these places for many reasons. Perhaps the most important lesson is reality is very different from the perception. China knows this and thats why they will never dare to invade TW, because they would rather have everyone respect them today than learn what they can actually do.

America is no different, looks good but they too are scared. THey cant do anything to the Houthis, the H are still in power and still doing what they were doing before. Sure they got bombed but they dont care.

Russia is also very different from the perception vs the reality.

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

Nothing in this world is ideal, theres a lot of bullshit pretending and not actually improving anything.

Example: Commuting and transport.

The Australian tax payers are already subsizing Big Tech, by allowing them to be creative and avoid paying their fair share of tax.

Dont cry for Big anything none of them are your friend.

As an Australia the best option is to just ban all the big social media companies and third party advertising. It will save tax payers billions and also help the environment and a lot of other positive benefits.

Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law

What about laws against BigTech ?

WHy are you worried if the gov spies on. you ?

Are you that so fucking important ?

What about big tech advertising spies ?