Posts by ajadedcynicaloldfart

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help

"We are committed to further improving the member experience"

Well they have the "advantage" of starting from a low bar (as in fucking subterranean) so there is that!

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

It's alright crowing

about 1300 arrests but how many of the suspects went to court and were found guilty??

Another example of mission creep, with more to come I expect.

Twats

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Bigger/heavier brown envelope?

@LessWileyCoyote

See title...

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Isaacman?

So Trump approved of him? (Just like he approved of Melon Suk). Then he rejected Mr Isaacman, (Just like he did with Melon).

Cue a meeting with Trump where Mr Isaacman was told what was expected of him and could he please pass on a couple of brown envelopes containing "campaign donations"?

Isaacman, being a businessman, recognised this for what it was (blackmail) and did as he was told.

Result, he is now Trumps puppet and will carry on doing as he is told forever, or else.....

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

So Apple. are regarded as laggards

in the so called "A.I." race to produce yet more software to produce yet more shit.

Good. In my book that is a major selling point!

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Redefinition of airliners

@ITMA

Quote "Flying used to be fun.

Now it has become a depressingly frustrating and often unpleasent experience - yes I'm looking at you Manchester Airport Group and Ryan Air (and the like)". Unquote.

What has that got to with the subject of the article?

Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

@Blackjack

Yeah you are right. Thing is, how long did it take before someone looked and found these bugs?

In principle, "many eyes" is a very good thing.

But in practice it seems to actually be that "many eyes" means as long as those eyes belong to someone else. (Damn, I can already feel the knives being stuck into my heart!!!)

But seriously, I totally agree with your second sentence.

Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks

From the article

snip< We took measures to further secure our systems> snip

Just a pity they didn't take those "further measures" sooner I think. Fucking decerebrates.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

My congrats and thanks

for the article headline.

I hadn't played that record in yonks. And as it was one of his best songs, I don't know why.

I have, of course, rectified that situation. Indeed, I played the whole l.p. twice!

Be groovy baby...

Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds

Dear God

Please make this A.I. thing go away. Because A.I. plus nuclear reactors does not fill me with confidence.

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Re: Yikes! Can we afford to stay here?

@ Barry Rueger

What is musicology? Please, I am NOT being sarcastic.

'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

@Oblivion

Your first line in quotation marks. I cannot find that line in the article.

But then, you are new to this forum and eager for "thumbs up". So I am happy to forgive you assuming you buy me one of these...

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar

Does anyone think

that these companies that build and run these datacentres think that they give a fuck? They are just parasites.

Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

Re: I used to own a sports bar/restaurant

@Sam not the Viking

And I have had God knows how many gallons of Stella Artosi in my local!!

Ishy

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

As far as I know

Autonomous means Independent?

So how was this thing autonomous when it is being controlled by someone using a tablet? I know, I expect I probably missed something, but in my defence it has just turned 3.00 a.m. (U.K)

Ishy

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

My "goverment" (U.K.)

would kill to do this sort of thing. I suppose they could call it an "addon" to the digital id shite.

Ishy

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Re: Why not simply.

@headrush

Am assuming you are refering to this...

https://www.nicholson1968.com/the-cli-nic/the-dome-of-the-enewetak-atoll-in-the-marshall-islands

Probably the only thing that the U.Sians have not stuck umpteen U.S. flags on it

Ishy

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Seems to me

that this L3Harris thing is just the U.S. answer to N.S.O group.

With all the morals and scruples that said group have.

/S just incase.

Ishy

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

Re: All we need now...

@Like a badger

"Only if somebody will stab Starmer in the back, and the problem there is that the parliamentary Labour party doesn't have anyone with knife-related talents" >snip

Oh I don't know, You have never heard of Peter Mandelson?

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Northern Rock

You're referencing Northern Rock perhaps? If so, you owe me a pint!!!

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Re: bed is stuck

@Curmudgeon in Training

You didn't mention the subscription that goes with it...

What a world we live in when you have to pay a subscription fee to use your fucking bloodybollockybuggery bed working as intended.

https://help.eightsleep.com/en_us/can-i-cancel-autopilot-Bkbr7s9rn

UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told

Oh and

it's maths NOT math. Maths being short for mathematics and all that

Ishy

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

I have to wonder why

God felt the need to invent the Ostrich.

And, yes I know they don't really bury their heads in the sand. They stick their beaks into the ground to turn their eggs. I have no idea why they turn them but, there they are.

Icon, because it's my way of burying my head in the sand or more likely, the bog when I meet huey!

Ishy

SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement

Just wondering

if the thing will actually, finally do at least a proper orbit this time? Or are we going to hear that "it's all about the data" again?

And speaking of time, what is CT time?

Be groovy... Ishy

Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data

Talk about

couldn't care less! Well they couldn't could they? Twats.

Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline

According to the Beeb,

the Taliban Prime Minister has ordered the internet to be "on" again and it does seem to be happening.

Cops cuff another teen over alleged Scattered Spider attack that broke Vegas casinos

No doubt there will soon be extradition "requests"

from the Usians to get these 2 in to the U.S.A.

Maybe our (what we laughingly refer to as our) Government will grow some balls, hell even just growing one is better that none, and they will remember Anne Sacoolas, who killed Harry Dunn. You know, the woman who suddenly grew "diplomat status" when the U.K. requested her extradition to the U.K.. It was refused on the grounds that (and I quote) "it was inappropriate to do so".

I live in (the no doubt vain) hope that the Usians will be told to fuck off.

As ever be groovy... Ishy

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

I'll say this for China

and I can say a lot. about the shit they get up to, at least they go after managing directors and the board of the companies deemed to have done wrong.

Compare that with the pathetic slap on the wrist (if any) that the west rolls out companies with security (if they bother with security at all) so rubbish that it is almost daily that a major company has had their I.T. systems broken into.

Or it maybe that the "highly sophisticated" malware that western companies are attacked with are way more "highly sophisticated" than the Chinese attacks... ?

Ishy

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Re: Long Brexit.

@Tron

Of course Sterling went down. Bank of England cut interest rates the day after the ref.Though I do wish we had remained.....

Claims assistance firm fined for cold-calling people who put themselves on opt-out list

So,

the fine is less than a quid for each call?

Some warning to other companies. That will scare really them off won't it. /S

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?

Don't forget Space Patrol

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

Re: Good

@Androgynous Cupboard

Come on, he said nothing of the sort. And I think you know it

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: Horses for courses

@NXM

You are showing your age! And given that I know what you are on about, I've just shown mine! Damn it.