Posts by CowHorseFrog

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

Exactly, laws should be written so that commuting counts as work time. If employee's trip takes 3 hours then that only leaves them 5 hours at the office etc.

Re: AI in HR...

You dont even need AI...

Most HR do absolutely nothing, then again sure they see the words but they have no clue what they mean on resumes etc.

Re: AI in HR...

Funny how bullshit always attracts.. in your case AI and HR. Both are a glorious waste of money, pretending and claiming value.

This is why governments should make companies pay for commuting.

Solves a lot of problems, saves governments a lot of money(roads, trains, tunnels arent free)...

Re: Start your downvotes!

This is exactly why managers want office space full.

WIthout their meetings their fellow managers might get ideas to fire them.

Re: How can large companies engender trust when they behave like playground bullies

Treating staff like fodder is basically the only common thing that unites all fortune 500 companies.

Re: "The firings/floggings/beatings will continue until morale improves”

What do you mean ?

Staff have always been an unfortunate cost and nothing more.

Just think how much could have been saved by not renting all that office space...

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

No 205,473 should be enough.

Someone should tell the AI that generated this story too include the wacky names their brothers generated would be an interesting read.

Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis

You are forgetting what Winston said... Democracy sux but the other options are far worse, just ask the people in Russia or UKR.

Just wondering is Trump for or against Robo taxi autopilot cars ?

This story must be fake, i heard from Musk that AUTOPILOT will be solved in 2015.

Starlink-branded hardware reportedly found amid wreckage of downed Russian drone

Re: What usage ?

eel:

Or it's like cutting the monkey off your back. Russia started the SMO with the objective of demilitarising Ukraine and reducing the threat on their borders. It is succeeding, and is also succeeding in demilitarising NATO.

cow:

One has to wonder why you think thi sis a good thing ?

eel: Our war stocks are being depleted and there are fresh demands.

cow:

OUR ?

why are you saying OUR ?

Re: What usage ?

Firstly the starlink receiver is rather large, compared to the size of a Shahid drone. It doesnt make sense to mount them on a shahid from an aerodynamic point of view.

Re: fairly obvious to Starlink if its kit is used on a drone

Trivial ?

Maybe its me, but i would have thought the uplink from the starlink receivers is encrypted because we all know Musk doesnt trust big government.

Re: fairly obvious to Starlink if its kit is used on a drone

Really ?

A drone takes over an hour to reach its target, while a computer can do the math in moments....

Re: Space Karen

Given Trumps recent statements about UKR, theres hardly much value left in NATO the concept.

There must be serious q around EU whether America would have the backbone to do anything if a NATO country was attacked by R.

Re: What usage ?

Jelly: Russia has datalink technology on a lot of their weapon systems, including uplinking via satellite.

cow: yeh we all know about their 2400 baud data links. Nobody looking at Russian planes or space equipment thinks they are anywhere near as good as western equipment.

Let me know when Russia builds a car that is anywhere near as good as a car from Nigeria or Zimbabwe.

Re: What usage ?

Jelly: Pt 2. Think this is the first time I've hit the 10,000 character post limit.. So I'm sure someone will be along to complain about 'walls of text'..

However, to address the point, we’re mostly not giving Ukraine money.

Jelly:

How, then are Ukraine paying their civil service wages, pensions, armed forces pay & pensions, subsidies etc etc? Which has the related question of how will those be payed, if/when this conflict ends? But you're right about this being great business for our arms dealers..

cow:

Yes the west is giving money to UKR, but you fail too see the big picture.

The money given to UKR in all its forms is better than the alternative of not giving it. The sooner the west changes the Russian system so it transforms towards a real democracy without a dictator who wants to invade other places, the sooner the west can spend less money on defense because the fear and need for defense is lowered.

Its like cancer, theres a cost to remove it today but thats better than letting it spread and kill your loved one. Both are horrible, but the first is the sensible thing even if it costs some money.

Re: What usage ?

Jelly: Logic failure #1. Just because I'm critical of Ukraine, and our policy towards Ukraine does not mean I'm supportive of Russia.

cow: So do you constantly elevate Russia and rarely if ever criticize it, especially when there are so many gifts which you constanatly try and dishonestly turn into positives ?

Re: What usage ?

Spartacus: In a similar way to people talking about how brilliant the Chinese government are, that they always plan for the long term, look at all the roads and railways they've built, look how much better they are than our rubbish politicians - blah, blah, blah.

cow: and yet all these chinese and putin supporters like Eel dont actually travel and live in Russia or China.

I dont understand why they just dont pack up and migrate... its very confusing ,especially when they tell us how great and wonderful over there is.

Re: What usage ?

eel: But this is also where the 'years of shame' may be flipped, ie performance of Russian missile systems vs NATO air defences. Or flipping that around, Russian air defences vs NATO missiles. Russia's had success exporting S-300/400 systems already.

cow:

Success ?

If you call losing half your Black sea fleet ,and over 3000 tanks to sell a few dozen S300 and S400 systems a success, sure they have been a success.

Im sure if the Russian economy loses the other half of their Black Sea Fleet and another 3000 tanks to sell another S400 to Turkey you could also call that a success....most peopl ewouldnt but you might.

Re: What usage ?

What makes you think Shahed drones are human controlled during their mission ?

Re: What usage ?

Dragon capsules are not doing 20000/hr when they transit.

Theres a blackout period in reentry for example, there are many examples of this radio silence period both from the Apollo Era all the way down to the shuttle and more. Nothing can transmit during this time even "magic".

Re: fairly obvious to Starlink if its kit is used on a drone

Yeh because its so difficult to cimpute that a drone flying 100kms from east to west is obviously Russian and another drone going AWAY from Ukraine towards Russia is obviously UKR.

Re: fairly obvious to Starlink if its kit is used on a drone

Trumps political opinion has nothing to do with whether he admires Putin or not. The real reason is two fold

- Hubris Trump actually believes he is that wonderful that everyone obeys him because he is wonderful no matter what stupidities or self harm he shares. Just look at the Republican half of America, the vast majority of his suprorters are the target of Trump and his rich mates exploitation etc and yet they believe he is helping them.

- THe other half is he has calculated that his stupid suporters, the same ones he wants to lower wages, worker more hours with less rights actually believe he is helping them with this idea of helping putin.

Re: Space Karen

Spartacus: Given the satellites are in low, fast-moving orbits, it's probably not all that easy to exactly work out the speed of the target. The Shahed is a pretty slow drone, so it might not be all that hard to tell it from a terminal in a moving car.

cow: Of course its easy to compute. Its a simple matter of a few timings of signals from each of the connected satellites. HTis is basic stuff anyone with the most basic programming skills should be able to do this. Its been a part of GPS handheld unit software for over 20 years.

Re: What usage ?

You sound a lot like Victor S that hero on Russian tv, who holidays in Italy and even today is not seen on any front fighting for the motherland.

How come you arent on the frontline defending the mother land ?

Re: What usage ?

eel:

Or super sekret Russia birds. Part of they hype around the 'full scale' invasion was Russia didn't start launching satellites until after the SMO began and AFAIK, there have been 20+ launches since then. No doubt Russia will be adding any data it can get from commercial sources either directly or indirectly as well.

cow: How can you possibly believe in Russia having anything super after years of shame ?

Their aircraft carrier required a fucking tug boat to help it along the way.

No Russian oligarch wants to be seen in a Russian car, no they all drive German cars.

Most Russian airlines after the fall of the USSR all bought Airbus and Boeing planes and even today they still are trying to their best to fly them.

What major technical product is Russia known for exporting ?

NONE.

No cars

No fridges

No tvs

No Tunnel machines

No Trains

No Planes

Absolutey nothing

Re: fairly obvious to Starlink if its kit is used on a drone

Beats the hell out of me how you can think Trump wants Putin to lose. Trump is the greatest weapon that Putin has today. His only hope is that Trump wins and stops the weapons and basically forces tge rest of NATO to abadon UKR.

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

It will be funny if one day recall will be used to find some kiddie porn or something like that for a microsoft exec in a court case.

How does MS get this passed the US military and other secure installs ?

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

Re: Productivity

Those managers are so clever, they saved some money on rent by renting a smaller office. One wonders why they didnt even save even mor emoney and not rent the floor space at all...

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

Perhaps but most people cant count, they simply cannot grasp or judge some usefulness and equate that with always useful.

What makes you think any of those AI tools is intelligence of any kind ?

The great con is that they are valuable when anyone with half a mind would reason that they clearly are not. Its the story of gold rushes all over again, the money is not in the gold but in selling shovels.

Re: In the days before t’interweb…

A lot of stuff sold these days is a cheap POS.. so i guess it makes sense to collect the money at a POS for POS that will end up in landfill because its a POS.

US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear

Re: Seems unnecessarily complex and expensive

Thats a good line.

It sure will come in handy for those Russian contractors who gave themselves bonuses while building all that fine Russian equipment which has failed many many times in UKR.

Re: Seems unnecessarily complex and expensive

There were also many tales of fights in Australia, where Australian soldiers beat the shit out of Americans who wouldnt allow black Australians or Americans to have a beer during their rec days...

Funny how there arent any movies about this from Hollywood...

Re: Seems unnecessarily complex and expensive

martin: The British freed slaves partly as a military tactic but also -- believe it or not -- slavery had been long outlawed in Britain and on British ships.

cow: oh yes that ever so gracious American spirit where they cant accept that the British did the right thing for humanities sake and over 30 years earlier than those heroes of Freedom of America.

Re: Seems unnecessarily complex and expensive

The South thought they were a foreign state, they even had a flag and nation state system.

They never declared themselves to be the legitimate government of the USA like TW and CCP do today ...

Re: Seems unnecessarily complex and expensive

martin: Slaves were never used by the US Military -- too unreliable, finicky and so on**

cow: as opposed to the low paid meat that joins now and when they are injuried are basically abandoned. ?

One wonders why American soldiers would need to carry anything when they have leaders like Trump, and they show no backbone against the Houthis or Putin.

Patch now: Critical Nvidia bug allows container escape, complete host takeover

Re: AI GO BOOM

But the world wouldnt notice, give AI is mostly likely hype and hardly delivers actual quality or value.

Ask yourself which of the two cloud or in house is more likely to have random bad guys installing exploits on a machine you share with them ?

Who would have guessed that being a brainless copy-cat who only knows how to copy without thinking for oneself could be problematic.?

SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year

Who needs enemies like the Russians or CCP, when you have big tech like MS, F and SAP.

Ex-ASML worker accused of stealing chipmaking secrets for China is Huawei to a new job

Re: It won't make any real difference

Wiping ?

Reminds me of the concordski, the engines in the beginning when pax flights began only lasted 50 hours and had to be replaced. THis is why it was shutdown, nobody can run an airline when the engines barely last a few weeks.

Yup China like Russia is all about appearance and not about reality.

Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI

As time moves forward, forcing people to bring AI with them is like muslims being forced to the Q or goto a mosque to pray. Repeat last sentence replace Q and muslims with Christians and the bible.

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

Re: ARM chips are every bit as complex

Really the complexity of intels chips has nothing to do with the constant fuck ups ?