Posts by BartyFartsLast

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

"Shame only slithers into these sorts of minds after they've been beaten and are facing the firing squad. Same as any other authoritarian."

I'm not convinced it ever makes it into their mind, the only remorse they show is for themselves when they get caught. Witness Trump playing the victim "the most persecuted" "rigged election" etc because he couldn't allow the possibility of his yet another failure to enter his consciousness.

If I were to muse over his mental state, I think he has serious daddy issues and has become so deranged with his multiple business failures that losing an election has driven him (more) insane

Agreed that wishing people dead isn't good, definitely wouldn't want to make martyrs of trump or musk.

There's a reason why they bury the bodies of people like Hitler in unmarked graves

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Please tell me

That you don't have to pair the Bluetooth device by pressing and holding the crossing button for 5 seconds?

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

You miss the point by a wide mark, deviantart has people with actual talent *creating* images in the style of, not some company which has wholesale stolen IP it's not entitled to for the masses to then produce rip offs

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

10p a shot

£200mil for the equipment to fire it.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Tesla isn't a car maker

They squandered their market lead and instead of becoming a car manufacturer they've have had recall after recall as well as some rather high profile issues with QC, some awful accidents caused by their dodgy hard/software, couple that with their anti competitive practices like killing off supercharging if you dare have your car repaired by a non Tesla workshop and then sprinkle Elon on top of that whole shit cake.

I'd rather walk than buy a Tesla

Re: [somebody] bought a used 2020 Model Y Tesla

Could be a useful source of street lithium I guess.

don't go sarf of the river after midnight mate

Maybe the car was moonlighting as an autonomous taxi to help prop up Elmo's falling profits?

Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins

Re: OK I have some swollen LiPo packs

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.

After you've tried switching it off and back on of course

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Marjory Taylor Greene disagrees.

The US is a country where you're not allowed to protest against your elected representative lest you get tasered or charged with "vulgar language" which seems somewhat against that sainted 1st amendment right.

It's only the land of the free if you happen to be on side with the government.

Re: Let the offenders pay

A software swear jar, it'd bankrupt Microsoft.

Not seeing a downside.

Wasn't high precision Galileo a subscription service originally?

it helps to realise

Most of these cancelled programs return money to the economy in one way or another and pay for themselves (farm subsidy, direct to farmers, CVEs more circuitously) but they're government funded so it's not easy to see on a simple balance sheet.

Worst of all, they don't return profits to investors.

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

Q non anon?

I wonder...

(Though I'd be amazed if 4chan wasn't riddled with staffers and informants of the various three letter agencies who already know)

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

If

I was in the unfortunate situation of having to travel to or via the US, even for personal reasons, I'd be damn sure I'd blancco'd my tech first and then only set up the bare minimum but I never mix work and personal data.

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

what an idiot

As predicted, trump blinked first.

What a waste of time and stress.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Definitely best server Windows, XP definitely best desktop windows, 7 was pretty damn good too, I quite liked 98 and 3.11 just because of the ease with which you could drop back to DOS and delve into the guts of them.

11 belongs in the same bin as ME, Vista and 8, soaked in petrol and burned

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

Re: Does the library feature

I love the thought it might well do, it is iconic

Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack

Re: Most dangerous?

Colleague won a very nice Alphaserver on eBay in the US, well worth the ludicrous shipping.

When it arrived in the UK he was quite surprised to receive an invoice for VAT etc which was several times the eBay purchase price.

The seller had put the retail price on the customs form

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: Skills

Absolutely, the skills are easily transferable from the donut hole industry

Re: I don't see the issue.

Musk is well on the way to that, so is Bezos.

Re: Quality

I like how you say "simple 12 layer board" but you raise a good point, China is an advanced manufacturing nation which is capable of making woefully low quality shite all the way up to the very best quality consumer goods.

It's not what they're capable of, it's what you're willing to pay for that determines which you get.

Re: I don't see the issue.

Welcome to Beautiful Snailbrook, the company will take care of you

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Re: What a waste of money

If only there was the political will to actually spend money on law enforcement

Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

Re: How pathetic can you get ?

Stormy says so

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Some things should not be applied to government,I've fast and break things is one of them in the same way that nuclear should not be put in the hands of datacentre or AI companies to power them.

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

Re: ARIA

I've known a few potplants who claimed to know how to code, does that count?

Re: Programmable plants...

Blueberry screen of death?

Re: ARIA

Hahaha *badumtish*

ARIA

Brought to you by the genius who drove to Barnard Castle to "test" his eyesight.

Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

Re: Oh well...

Though it's far better now, yours is far from my experience of Linux installs but yes, I'll also be getting off the windows bus when they stop supporting 10.

For me at least, Linux has reached a point where I can use it for pretty much everything except a few niche Windows (7 and XP) or DOS only applications that can't be virtualized.

EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

Re: Hmm

Thought not, trump has backed himself into a corner and is now relying on other countries buckling and increasing tariffs on China.

I hope the big players have a spine and don't bow to his bullying, he's singlehandedly wrecked the US economy if that happens.

Re: Hmm

I don't think China will blink, it's the US that will suffer because it's simply not possible to bring back all that manufacturing capacity fast enough or cheap enough to avoid doing severe damage to the economy and China is well along the trajectory Japan was on in the 1960s to becoming an advanced manufacturing nation.

The US isn't a small market compared to other countries but it's not big compared to the rest of the world who will continue to buy products from and manufacture in China and without the idiotically simplistic tariffs the world economy has opportunity to make the US irrelevant.

Re: Hmm

Like Elmo and all the other tech bros who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps of their inherited family wealth.

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Nothing to beat it on $/Gb basis.

Afaik, the chippery in a modern tape cartridge is pretty much just for ID, type and status purposes so you can have robots pick and return the cartridge you need. (and probably also some vendor lock in)

Trump tariffs thwart TikTok takeover as China digs in heels

FTFY

Invade Greenland.

FFS

Trump and "in Good Faith"??

Bwahahahahahahahaha

As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit

:disbelief:

" during her confirmation hearing ..... Noem indicated ..... CISA had no business countering online disinformation, especially as it related to US elections."

Well, y'know, the Morons that Are Governing America spent so much money getting that disinformation out there into the public narrative it'd be a shame to have someone authoritatively calling out their utter bullshit.

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

Re: Meanwhile...

I agree with much you say in there, the argument that this who don't vote are to blame is a fallacy, those who do vote are the ones who got whichever adminstration into power.

And there's nothing to say that even if you could get the non voters into a poll booth the outcome would have been different.

But, one thing I will pull you up on, it's not "towing" it's toeing. It's an old British Navy phrase

NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid

I don't know it's a weak point, it's a relatively insignificant point because the story isn't about the cause, but rather the effect it might have

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Breaking

The USA

How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

Re: Anglepoise Lamp

I kinda wonder if it was one of those low voltage halogen lamps which had a chonky little transformer in them or perhaps a fluorescent ring with a ballast choke

Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth

Re: And why not

This may come as a shock but that well known defence of "other boys did it too" or "whataboutery" is actually not a defence at all so they should both be fully investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law regardless of their party affiliation.

Re: Who knew what and when?

Ignorance is no defence.

And by god are that lot ignorant

Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?

Re: Insecure junk

It really does amaze me that so many world leading experts are donating their time for free to tell global companies how they're going wrong in humble forums like el reg.

Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options

Physician heal thyself

They must need their eyes tested if they think Oracle in the cloud is a good idea.

winner

Best comment of the day!

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: I feel liberated already...

The people who want the jobs he's "bringing back" are like the fishermen the brexiters targeted, a fraction of a percentage point of the economy, so small they're pretty much a rounding error.

So he's crashing and burning the stock markets for what reason?

Look on the bright side though, it might kill Tesla

Or you could hope he dies to be replaced by someone less moronic.

Re: From the "fact sheet", singling out Blighty

Well,indeed, most of the US cars are shite and totally unsuited for European roads so they don't sell here.

The few that do make it over here are usually utter crap unless they're are using the same platform across the world with European heritage or are actually just a brand owned by a European group.