Posts by Pascal Monett 19006 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Yeah, it's called AI.
It's the future, whether you like it or not.
The funny thing is, when this house of cards finally crashes (and it will), Wall Street is going to punish the companies that used it for mismanagement.
Oh well, I'm not going to be shedding a tear for those CEOs.
"The Register is not aware of a government deciding telecommunications and the internet have no role in its society "
The Taliban are not a government.
They are a bunch of crazed zealots of a non-existant "religion" that has been cobbled together with nonsense and hatred to put down women.
Women no longer have the right to education, nor to work. They only exist to bear children. I've heard that they are not even allowed to invite their women friends for tea - not that they have tea anyway.
So no more midwives, no nurses and, since men are not allowed to touch them, no medical care from male doctors. This brain-dead thinking is self-defeating. Once most of the women have died in childbirth of from some sort of untreated disease, there won't be enough male children to continue the proud Taliban legacy. That means that, in the worst-case scanario, in fifty years or so the Taliban will all have died out because there won't be enough male children to indoctrinate.
Well done Taliban, you've set your own clock on your demise.
Meanwhile, the women are going to go through unimaginable suffering.
I doubt that that is possible.
The human brain is absolutely extraordinary when it comes to audio analysis. In a room full of people chatting (more or less loudly), you can still concentrate on what the person you're talking with is saying. Your brain can sort the wheat from the chaff, as they say.
I don't think a computer can do that. Sure, it can record an audio stream, but I do not know of any product that can take an MP3 and seperate the piano from the trumpets, for example.
Asking a Tesla to pay attention to audio is just asking for more trouble.
Of course it is - for him.
He'll be squirreling away a million here, a million there, stashing the dough in bank accounts he controls.
When the bubble bursts, he won't be left holding the purse in any case. He'll just trot off to whatever mansion he has and open a bottle of champaign for what he will believe is a well-deserved rest.
Meanwhile, Oracle will hit the wall with tens of billions in debt it cannot repay.
Will it fold ? Or will it hike up the licence prices by 1000% ? Who knows ?
You will only be able to start leaping and bounding after 2029, when the current orange curmudgeon is forced to take a pause in returning the US to the stone age.
If NASA still exists and the shitgibbon-in-chief hasn't dismantled it on grounds that it's full of democrat-terrorists.
In the meantime, China will be pushing ahead, ESA will probably be delighted to hire all the NASA specialists that will be fired by the orange tsunami of ignorance, and even India might end up with a bigger budget than NASA.
So yeah, there will likely be a Moon base in the next quarter century. It just won't be flying the US flag.
No, it is completely unheard of.
The US President has, historically, taken care of the country, not of his own personal vendettas.
It would seem that Trump is indeed the greatest US President. He is the most pathetic, vindictive, tiny-dicked asshole there has ever been.
At this point in time, I think the Statue of Liberty should be dismantled and returned to France for safekeeping.
The US doesn't deserve it anymore.
Additionally, hardware today is largely powerful enough for anyone but heavy users, video editing or high-level gaming.
A Windows 7-era computer is still fine, from a hardware point of view, for reading one's mail, viewing videos on Youtube and generally surfing the Intartubes.
This whole treadmill thing is slowing down because nobody cares what Redmond says, if it works, then it's good enough.
Companies have the money to do endless upgrades, people don't.
Redmond is going to treadmill itself out of existence (in time - lots of time).
I'm guessing that the idiot who soldered had zero notion of electricity and just basically soldered the back of the chip to the motherboard, regardless of the fact that there were pins and emplacements on the motherboard.
So, not only an idiot, but a myopic one as well.
I can't imagine any other solution to this unbelievable situation.
And, if Tex was fired because he pointed out the obvious, then it was obviously not a company worth working for.
Yes. I absolutely agree. We are, with the Internet, at the same stage Borkzilla was when RAM hit the GB range. Programmers stopped worrying about tight code and started gobbling up resources like it was candy, because it was there.
Today, bandwidth is like candy. You create an app and want telemetry on it ? Go ahead, people are on WiFi with FTTH, so who cares ? On YouTube everyone wants you to Like & Subscribe, so they can send you notifications - more bandwidth usage - and it's always been like that. What happened to good ol' bookmarks ? I don't need no stinkin' notifications, I know where you are and I'm not Pavlov's dog.
Let's cut down on useless bandwidth usage, I agree wholeheartedly.
COVID taught everyone that working from home was possible. No company went under because their workers were not on site.
Now, you try to find excuses and brute-forcing your way back to pre-COVID, but it ain't gonna work. Your employees have a taste of the WFH crack and they're not going to forget it.
Neither will they forget that they did their jobs just fine and the company continued chugging along and even turning benefits.
So sell your expensive offices with their empty cubicles, set up a small, plush office for yourself and the secretary you bang, and leave well alone.
Find another status symbol.
The title says nearly half of businesses, but then it starts by saying :
"A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year "
Seems to me that that means it's not half of businesses, but half of cybersecurity businesses, which is not the same thing.
Also, if 40%+ of all businesses had been attacked, I think we would have heard of it before this survey.
That title is misleading clickbait.
They're also keyboard blockers. In winter, my cat has the knack of hopping on my desk table and lying on my laptop as soon as I have my back turned. I go get a glass of water, or go to the toilet, come back and bam! there she is, purring contentedly with the typical cat face of what ? I ain't done nothin' wrong, did I ?
So I've taken the habit of lowing the lid just far enough that she can't get under it, but not far enough to put the laptop to sleep.
So, the National Security threat is now over, is it ?
I love how the orange shitgibbon is taking care of every billionnaire's problems and totally ignoring the issues that the less-than-millionnaires are facing.
Hey, Republican trailer trash, are you happy about the actions of your Orange Baboon when you go shopping and cry over the price of eggs ?
"If we add up all the money we've ever spent on servers, from the year 2000 to now, we will have spent more on generative AI servers in five years than has ever been invested in traditional servers to do everything else"
So, please explain to me why we went to The CloudTM again ?
Wasn't that supposed to save us money ?
What a beautiful waffle.
So many nice words and noble intentions.
If you've got the time for that bullshit, you're not working hard enough.
Yeah, that was exactly the question I had in mind. If they are Starlink customers and Starlink is down, how can they report an outage ? Over their smartphones ?
But if they have Internet access over their smartphones, why do they need Starlink ?
For you, obviously, in your million-dollar estate far from the rising seas.
It's going to be far less solvable for the people in Florida and those along most of the east coast (including <gasp> Manhatten), when the streets are turned into a swimming pool.
But you're not going to be saddled with the bill, now are you ?
That's easy to say, but practically impossible to do.
Unless you accept that Government takes a decade to to redo all of its tools in Linux.
Which I would personnaly like, but I'm not concerned here.
In any case, this is a gold-plated arrow against Redmond and I hope that some good will come of it.
Allow me to protest that. China has no hold on El Reg, and Taiwan it its own country.
Do not play into Beijing's hand by confounding the two. Not on the Internet.
China can browbeat countries into no recognizing Taiwan, but we are not countries. We are individuals and we have the right to voice our opinions without Beijing's blessing.
Because when the system goes down, they are first in the line of fire for blame and furious calls to get things working - which only prevents them from actually solving the problem.
But it's comforting for upper management to be able to yell into a phone and, minutes later, see that everything is working again. They get the idea that they actually did something. Apparently, it doesn't happen to them very much.
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