Then they'll crank the setpoint up to the temperature of the Sun, thinking that the room will heat up quicker.
That whole paragraph seems to be the tale of parent's / sibling's use of a radiator. The concept of "regulation" seems to escape them.
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BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market
DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months
Thursday 9th April 2026 07:21 GMT 
Re: This is easy to do
It also really depends on what/where you want to use one. For deep-space stuff (not just lunar orbit but Jupiter and beyond) you need the RTG's waste heat to stop the electronics from freezing. For something powering a underwater drone you have endless cooling available without issue, and that might be a double-plus if you are wanting it to bore through ice.
RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets
UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'
Wednesday 8th April 2026 08:07 GMT
Re: Another Puzzled Old Person Here.........................
The real risk is not your own gov having a kill switch on your equipment/infrastructure as they already have simple legal methods to exert control, but another government having it. Especially if they are ruled by the mandarin candidate.
Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns
Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed
Friday 3rd April 2026 18:15 GMT
Window can very easily run for months if you don't care about security patches or it is isolated.
We had an isolated Win7 machine run for years without issue, but then it was before the current slop of updates and was isolated from Internet and users, so not monkeyed with by anyone.
So yes, an unmolested NT kernel is fairly good, but no, a typical Windows machine these days is not.
Friday 3rd April 2026 18:07 GMT
Re: Pending File Replacement
Some person or group developed a way to update in-use code in Linux kernel core/RAM without needing a reboot, but it was a proprietary, payware thing.
Unlike Windows, the Linux/UNIX file systems allow an atomic replacement of in-use files so easy to update at any time. The issue of currently-running code is the next problem:
- Most cases you just restart the daemon, or wait for natural stop/start, and future activity is updated.
- Some key system components (systemd, and occasionally libc) you can't replace the in-use versions as the process is permanent, so a reboot is needed.
- DBUS has the deeper issue of not being able to restart it and preserve existing state, so again a reboot is needed.
The only one fixes I know of is the kernel, oddly enough, as some systems like Ubuntu livepatch can fix some bugs without needing a reboot. The sane approach for a desktop/laptop is to shutdown when you finish in the evening, but for servers that is not so simple. For a private individual you can get Ubuntu livepatch for up to 5 machines for free, we pay for it as a business even though we don't have much more in total.
FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines
Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby
US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’
Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours
Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech
Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud
Wednesday 25th March 2026 20:43 GMT
A bigger factor is the 2 in 2FA.
If your smartphone is the beginning and end of your interaction with a bank then it is open to this. If banks were serious about security they would make sure that your 1st and 2nd authentication aspects were done on different device. Of course that can be spoofed as well, but it makes phone theft, etc, less of a game-over situation for your online banking integrity.
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds
Tuesday 24th March 2026 10:31 GMT
Re: Trying to get rid of their users?
I still depend on a few Windows-only packages (CAD, etc) but mostly run them in a couple Windows VMs on my Linux desktop.
Unless you have punishing graphics demands like a gamer, or need a specific hardware pass-through for operation, that works fine and has the advantage in many cases of simply isolating the VM from the big bad Internet to deal with many of the older version's security holes, and you can migrate VMs to new hardware usually without a hiccup or driver/reinstall problems as the virtual hardware need not change. Just a shame VMplayer is under Broadcom's clutches now.
I also have a old-ish laptop that can dual-boot Win10 for those hardware specific things (e.g. tools to manage UPS, generator controllers, etc).
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11
Monday 23rd March 2026 08:56 GMT
Re: The internal polling numbers must be brutal
Windows 2000 replaced the wildly unpopular ME
Maybe in some chronological sense, but really w2k was the successor to NT4 as both were full 32-bit protected systems, ME was the last of the 16-bit/32-bit not-properly-multitasking systems that followed from 98.
The real successor to ME I would say was XP as it was MS' attempt to rationalise both in to a 32-bit only line to work with both the professional market and the home/gamers market. Sadly it had the Fisher-Price interface, but at that time MS allowed to to configure it like w2 if you wanted (which I did) but it also added telemetry and licence tying to your hardware.
As a result w2k was the last Windows I personally bought, I had XP and win7 from previous work and have the odd w10/w11 laptops I could not buy without it (but usually wiped or dual-booted with Linux).
Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be
Friday 20th March 2026 11:31 GMT
Re: Europe needs to get on this road
If, and it is a BIG if, the EU should be pushing along the AI path then supply-independence is a key goal, but far more important (and probably for the Chinese as well) is going to be performance per watt given the cost of power and questionable revenue per token.
Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops
Tuesday 17th March 2026 08:18 GMT
Re: They have no clue
They need to face up to reality and go to a subscription model just like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+
You seem to be missing the main point of many of these BBC services - they are for public benefit and/or in support of UK soft power. The gov seems to want to keep this but then finds to its surprise that cutting funds and moving off cheap and free platforms like SW radio, etc, had a negative effect.
Also you underestimate the consequences of dropping a (largely) advert-free quality service on how other providers would cram in adverts, etc, with no competition or reference to how things have been. Have you ever watched the TV service in USA?
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed
Tuesday 10th March 2026 10:04 GMT
Re: More Power!
When I was studying engineering at university four decades ago I was told that the difference between electronics and electrical engineering was that, in electrical engineering, anything less than a kilowatt is basically noise.
And to a power engineer anything below 1kV AC / 1.5 kV DC is considered "low voltage" (in practice usually in the 110-480V region).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_voltage
Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is
Monday 9th March 2026 15:25 GMT
Re: Is this really necessary?
In terms of someone turning it off in a fit of political pique, yes.
However, there could be other situations where a lot of satellites are lost (Carrington event part deux, atom bomb in orbit, etc) that impact all, and also they all share the same band of RF frequencies so local jamming of all systems is a risk for some critical users.
Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom
Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace
AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions
Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement
BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
Tuesday 10th February 2026 20:55 GMT
Re: The problem here
Doesn’t help if the machine is going to be expected to process millions of such checks per second.
But most sleep() style calls simply suspend the thread to the OS so you are not a huge drain on CPU resources. True you might have a lot of threads running at high throughput but the fixed-time value need not be huge and cause a big memory budget/cache hit on the thread's memory use. For example, if your call in 0.01-0.03 as an example, you could pad it to 0.1 and only have around a 5-fold thread use increase.
Alternatively, by forcing a delay on each attempt it makes brute-forcing harder to do unless the attacker can do it from a huge number of IP addresses or whatever to escape the rate-limiting impact of a delay on each caller.
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