* Posts by Khaptain

4022 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

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Re: Bitter

You've not been around here long if you are making that statement....

There are many here that spend there time hating Musk for reasons that they can't actually justify other than to push their Ideology of the day. You'll get used to it... Always check which office the original article came from and you'll start to understand that El Reg UK and El Reg San Fran are two completely different entities.....

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Re: As usual, hire a female CEO when the company is collapsing

Would you have considered Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel as having been put on the Glass Cliff ?

If not, how would you describe the differences ?

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Re: Do you people really think she's that naive?

@BlangReg

That is exactly the kind of reply that is feuling the fire.

It's proof of my first statement, that politics are dividing the people.

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Re: Do you people really think she's that naive?

I agree with the large majority of your reply, except for one point.

Twitter didn't drive away the clients, Politics did.....And this is the true lesson that must be remembered...

The current political situation is dangerous for all us, the division is steering people apart, politicians are jumping on the band wagon and pushing harder a situation which is already on tightrope....

I wish people would stop looking a the details and start looking at the bigger picture, ideologies have to start swinging back to the center... It's time the extremism, regardless of the side, starting re-pushing towards a softer vision, an actual acceptance of the other rather than the false ideologies actually being pushed.

Twitter is merely a Litmus test for things about to come.

Fresh GDPR ruling says even 'minor anxiety' could mean payouts for EU folks

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If such is the case then the majority of all the major Social Media sites will simply have to pulled of the Internet immediately.

"Minor Anxiety" within a certain community of very sensitive people happens every time they read their Facebook page's, watch YT or even glance at Twitter..

I don't see how such a law cannot is not complete contradiction to all of the Social Media's Industries goals: ie that of thriving on scandal, shock and horror.

France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices

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What about the gander

If it's bad for the Government why do they not also consider it bad for the people ?

China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck

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In Geneva, the buses that run through the center of town all use this method. At the places where there are no overhead they simply run a small diesel engine which is enough to simply get to the next line or is extremely useful in case of powercuts/problems.

It's been like that for more than 15 years.

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop

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Re: Small screen non-2-in-1... why?

Exact, we also have three of these in the office, the PHBs love the idea of the Yoga style tabletty thing, except that all of them have varying problems.. One of them the batter doesn't

charge correctly, another has a failed USB ports and the others has problems with the docking and displays... They all suffer from a badly designed USB-C port, not a solid connection.

The ultra light version of almost all manufacturers are a pain in the real world.. The Dell XPSs were no better..

With Lenovo it is usually a safer bet to remain within a correctly specced T or P range..

Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them

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Re: It just got worse (again)

Being Woke has nothing to do with being nice to one another, it's all about enforcing one way of thinking...

It boils to the following : If you don't agree/adhere to/with our "current" ideology we will slander you , cancel you, hunt you down where you work and ensure misery upon you. The problem lies in the fact that it will also bite you back..

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Re: It just got worse (again)

I travelled for many years and have lived and worked in many countries, including the USA, and I found that most people were genuinely nice people, neither racist, nor homophobe, or *phobe or whatever...

Only the modern ideologues seen to have the opposite opinion. This is what makes me believe that all this woke ideology is causing far more harm than it pretends to resolve.

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Re: It just got worse (again)

"Now, I've not listened to the rant myself and I doubt I have to, to get the gist of it;"

So you've not listed to the rant and yet feel capable of writing a public comment about it.

Did you actually read the Poll figures that he cited or are they not important for you either? Are facts not important ?

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Re: The guy is an asshole. End of

"...but he fucking up real people lives. How many bouts of mental illness, family breakups and even suicides will he have ultimately caused?"

How many exactly ? Can you provide some figures or at least a study that confirms that rather loaded statement ? And all this because of a Tweet ?

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Re: It just got worse (again)

I am asking you a serious question....

So, yes , please explain it to me in simple terms what you thought was questionable..

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Re: It just got worse (again)

"Scott "Dilbert" Adams finally came out proper (via a major rant) as a man with questionable opinions and the Dilbert cartoon thus got removed from pretty much every publication."

Can you please explain in clear terms what you found questionable about his opinion ?

Legacy comms outfit Avaya returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

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I believe this is Avaya's 2nd chapter 11, previously before that when it was Lucent it also went into bankruptcy or almost I am not sure which... I am not sure it AT&T ever filed for Chapter 11 though..

I have never understood why investors continue to invest in this company. I say that even though I actually use /administer an Avaya on a daily basis, I like their product, we use it mainly for the call center but also for internal calls, the call routing is simple, efficient and easy to put together complex IVRs and routing scenarios..

It's just a shame that it appears to be managed by scam artists and corrupt businessmen..

Workers who help Teslas become robots explore starting a union to avoid same fate

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Re: Union for the Win

Won't creating a union only entice E Musk to replace workers with even more robots, thereby killing two birds with one stone ?

'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars

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Gas works

We used Jira for a couple of months but gave it up. We didn't find it as productive as they would like you to believe, another web interface offering a silver bullet.

However as a middle man between the TLAs and the previous Twitter Employees it seemed very effective, as they successfully managed to hide a lot of very important information from the public.

As ”narrative control project management” tool it's probably a 10/10, the ex Twitter test platform proven it's worthiness.

French lawmakers say oui to Olympic video surveillance, but non for faces

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Re: Seems good to me

The main idea is that of being pro-active not reactive.

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"First and foremost, that France still cares about privacy and the handling of personal information. There's plenty to do better, but we're not the US."

You think that that the DGSE or the DGSI are worried about what the CNIL have to say ?

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Re: Seems good to me

I think that it woould already be too late at that point.

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"Surveillance footage collected would be processed using an algorithm "whose sole purpose is to detect, in real time, predetermined events likely to present or reveal" security risks – such as terrorist acts or other "serious threats to the safety of persons," according to the proposal."

Would that not normally include the facial recognition of known terrorists faces ?

Since the technology already exists I would be very suprised that it is not being used.. France is one of Europe's major targets for terrorists, it would make sense to use the technology, we already saw the results of the Bataclan, they weren't nice.. Does Amnesty International also consider the idea that TV Cameras are filming and diffsusing peoples faces all of the time ?

This is one of those cases where I think that the technology would not be such a bad idea.. It's a public event and it is already being filmed and broadcast to the entire world..

Unless there is another side that I don't see.. I welcome other points of view

Mon Dieu! Suspected French ShinyHunters gang member in the dock

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Seattle Irony

Since they also hacked Microsoft at one point it's quite ironic that he is now sleeping in the same state.

You does the crime , you does the time.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

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Re: Its not intelligent

"Hmmm... not seeing it."

Intelligence, in my definition, would be the skill that a sentient being possesses that allows for analysis, reasoning and thought. The word sentient being highly important as non sentient do not possess intelligence.

I believe that only a biological being can be sentient in nature. And yes it therefore covers other biological things more than just Human Being's, we can easilly consider Dolphins, Octopus etc as being intelligent.

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Re: Its not intelligent

I believe that I answered that question quite clearly..

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Re: Its not intelligent

"Are you basically equating (conflating?) "intelligence" with "human intelligence"?"

Intelligence, in my definition, would be the skill that a sentient being possesses that allows for analysis, reasoning and thought. The word sentient being highly important as non sentient do not possess intelligence. They are unaware of existence and as such have no need to rationalise, analyse or think in order to survive, they merely exist and usually at a very low level within the food chain.

"How does this not apply equally to (some/many) humans?"

It does also apply to humans, but we at least have a modicum of some capacity to know when we are being fed obvious rubbish. An algorithm cannot determine what is true. If I fed information into the machine, on enough occasions stating that "the sun was sometimes blue, on Tuesdays or Grundays, after the last prayer of the day if you eat cheese whilst sleeping", it would be capable of using this information in it's results due to it being unaware of that it was complete nonsense. It would have no actual means of validating this information, whereas a human would immediately throw away the information. Can you imagine how much twisted information has already been fed in because most of the information came from the Web. Do you trust the web as a 100% valid source of information... I don't but at least I have the capacity to know this, the machine does not have that choice.

"Well, it's not as if humans are generally held responsible for the insane, biased shit they themselves are known to spit out. So good luck with that one..."

Pub talk is one thing but when we are talking about Governments and Institutions then we really need to thing again about what we truly want and what we are truly prepared to accept.

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Its not intelligent

1st it's not intelligent, it is a computer program written by people ..

2nd : It can only ever answer based upon the information that it has been initially fed. Rubbish in = rubbish out

3rd : This machine only serves to show how ignorant the large majority truly are. It's as though critical thinking has become a paria, since it easier to use the machine , and since the majority just gobble up rhetoric, then the machine will appear to be wonderful when in fact it truly isn't.

4th : The owners should be directly held responsible for everything that this machine spits out. They can easily add minute bias into the algorithm in order to nudge the answers towards a given objectives .. Would you allow Hitler, Mussolini, Putin to be in control of such a machine , ,if you answered no then think twice about what's actually going on. The bad guys want this kind of technology, very, very much.

We are giving this machine far too much credit, when in fact it will probably be used in a negative manner very quickly ... How long before it becomes judge and jury ?

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

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Re: Microsoft Defender ASR snafu.

I think you need to get a Grep of yourself

Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko

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Re: The meltdown continues

because he subscribes the stereotypical dad philosophy of "my house, my rules")

And isnt that exactly ones of the reasons that bought Twitter ? It was happening on all the other sites .

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Re: The meltdown continues

Because Musk is capable of putting together some very clever people and then making things come to life.

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Re: Virtue rises with the sun

Why do you care ?

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Re: The meltdown continues

Personally, I believe that Musk is going to make Twitter a much better platform.. It just won't be the one that those on the extreme left want to keep in their control..

It's actually a win-win for everyone except for the extreme left/right who no-one wants anyway.. The far right are the same as the far left in the context that they are both extremists within their respective points of view...

What this will eventually do is allow the non-extremist leftists and rightists to communicate like adults rather than the childish antics and comments of the others...

Why would that be a bad thing ? Unless of course there are ulterior motives !!

Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu

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Re: uninstalling Microsoft Office as well

Funny, but not really....

US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'

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Re: Multiple responsables

"It is not something the social media companies are causing on purpose, they just act as a medium giving bad people opportunities to bring harmful content to vulnerable users. People who debase humanity as a whole with their gender non-sense are allowed a broad platform on social media to poison our youth. The same goes with the self defying environmentalists and other elitists, who are horrible downers, conveying messages humanity should disappear, except themselves of course since they think they are better than the plebs."

This is where the Social Media and MSM companies are all in the same boat, and directly responsable, they thrive on everything that creates controversy.. Trans-issues, Climate Change, Gun Control, Abortions etc The media companies love this stuff as it generates huge eyeball counts... This is in fact where they are directly responsable because they ensure that these kinds os articles make the top of the lists... It only takes a little bit of extra BotWork to ensure that the debates are launched and tempers flare which in turn creates a buzz... Which in turn creates income...

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Multiple responsables

The majors online corps have spent billions studying, developing and testing methods that keep us addicted to the screen. It's there sole means of gaining income... No users , no money.

I believe that they do have a responsibility in the fact that they will push anything , no matter how bad the long terms effects , in order that they keep the money coming in.

There is also a responsibility in the companies using these platforms as they also know that the methods are not clean.

And yes there is also responsibility by the user or their parents.

It's not a cut and dry situation.

Oh, no: The electric cars at CES are getting all emotional

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Re: People are now starting to realise

Switzerland is doing exactly the same thingas Luxembourg... This is what happens when you are rich, you push the problem into someone elses backyard and them blame them.

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Carbon free electricity

Where will all the carbon free electricity come from that will power these batteries ?

People are now starting to realise that the EVs aren't so ecological after all ... And most people can't charge them at home.

I want a nuclear version, almost infinite battery life... Snnnanrgh snnnanrgh snaaaargh

Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet

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Re: @Dwarf

Binary = One / Off - 0 or 1, Hugh State or Low State, etc a value comprised of one of two states.

Powers are the multiplication of a given Integer. In this example it will be the Power of 2. -- 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc

RAM 'capacities', which is the subject of the thread, come in Powers of 2...

RAM capacity is a given quantity of Binary States ... for example 1024k of individual binary states.

The usage of the word Non-Binary has no reason to be in the title, it is being incorrectly used as the subject thread is about RAM Capacity not individual memory location states.

Let's spend $22m supporting survivors of tech-enabled abuse, lawmakers suggest

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Re: Speak language and not abbrevations!

Even though I understand what these abbreviations mean, I agree that they only truly concern the American public. But, now that El Reg has been taken over by the USAians I understand that everything will become extremely political all of the time...

If there is one thing that the Americans are not good at, it is politics due to the fact that it is is just a thin veil over whoever is currently financing the most at any given time.

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The idea here is probably quite a good idea but it won't change the root cause.

Since the internet has become a public cesspit, a place to publicly venge, spite, hate and annoy.. We all know that Social Media/MSM thrives on the negative

side of things so don't expect any of this to ever go away. They actively encourage the worst in everyone and yet they get by unscathed , why is this ?

Why does the actual cause of all the negativity never seem to be controlled?

Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting

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Re: It's all fun and games...

"I'm also not sure how transparent or balanced the "investigation" on these "files" is. I mean, are they representative of the full picture or just one side of it?"

That's exactly why Taibibi and Weiss were chosed as they were known to be objective in their research. Taibibi is certainely no conservative as the MSM have now tried to smear him..

He honestly appears to be a down to earth kind of guy just doing what a journalist should do: Reporting on matters objectively and then letting us decide for ourselves.

Do you have something to approach against Taibibi ou Weiss, why are making the insinuation that it is not balanaced ?

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Re: It's all fun and games...

What used to be a little bit of light fun poking at Bill Gates or Steve Jobs has now become full on hatred towards people that are not considered to be in the the correct political side.

That's not reporting , that's just fueling a bad situation, El Reg has become an echo chamber. The actual good people don't comment because they don't want the hassle that goes along with making a negative remark.

The comments are just using the same emotional blackmail as elsewhere

Why do the left care about Twitter so much , other platforms exist. El Reg has been overtaken by a minority of shouty leftists that don't want to debate, they just want to call people out using the usual Homophobe transphobe, misogynist, racist rhetoric. It's the only game they know how to play..

I've been en El Reg since 2008, it's unbelievable how far down hill it's gone. The American office has obviously taken control of who writes what...

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Re: Snowflake journalism

I do not understand the majority of the the haters on El Reg, the only goals appears to be hating this guy...

Why can't people stop with the hate for 5 minutes, stop judging everything that someone does every 2 seconds and do the adult thing and wait a little, be patient. Let's see if he can make a platform where people can speak openly without all the drama.

It's as though Social Media makes people maniacal.. It doesn't make sense, it should be a bastion of ideas and evolution, instead it's a cess-pit where even societie's intelligencia comes to vent one's spleen..

Think about it before replying, are you just adding to the hate or do you have something to offer.

Bahamian rap: Crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried arrested

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Dirty money or dirty politicians ?

So if most of the money went to the various political parties, why can't the money simply be returned ? Otherwise the parties should be considered as being accomplices to the crime..

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

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I also remember my first Jumbo Jet flight, I was thrilled to finally to get on one. I just wish that I had had the privilege to use the upper deck ;-)

I also remember my first and only flight on an A380, strange but I didn't have that same feeling. It didn't have the mystique associated with the Jumbo..

I presume that this also means that Air Force One will be changed to something less aesthetically appealing...

States label TikTok 'a malicious and menacing threat'

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"Chinese corporations are, by no means, saints but, then again, neither are the corporations from the First World."

Agreed but the other First World countries problably don't want to Invade/Control/Dominate the USA

"Are ye doing it just to get at the youth, most of whom, when they vote, they vote for a party that is different to yours?"

I doubt that political part affiliation is actually involved, have you actually seen some of what goes on in TikTok these days. I agree with the article in that the contents are really, really not child friendly at all... Nothing to do with left or right, it's just plain common sense to not et your kids spend endless hours on some very disturbing content.

TikTok, like many of the social media sites, uses subtle but very powerfull methods of ensuring "addiction"..

You don't want it for your kids and you don't need it for your politicians.

Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan

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Re: Better headline: Meta threatens to improve US society if new law is passed

" companies like Google and Meta will go back to ordinary lobbying and blackmailing politicians with the personal information they have scooped up.."

It's more like the politicians are coming ontheir own behalf in order to ask Google , Facebook et al to "help" them with various issues.

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Re: Yeah, please do

The 'news' shared on Facebook is mostly anti-vax or Qanon lies, so please do stop sharing the 'news' you've specifically chosen to help destroy democracy.

Care to share some exaples of "mostly".

Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'

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Last I looked bakeries were run by people.

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Elon Musk voted for Biden .

Now he is supporting Desantis.

I call that free choice .

FTX's crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried admits 'I made a lot of mistakes'

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Re: Fortunately he took out some insurance

Ironic that the link that the Guardian created gives the impression that it was the Republicans that recieved the money when what actually happened was the opposite.

Here s the text fom the article

Quote :

But Bankman-Fried’s public donations went largely to Democrats. The FTX founder gave more than $990,000 to candidates in the last election cycle, according to OpenSecrets, and another $38.8m to outside groups. Only about $235,000 of his public political giving went toward Republican candidates.