Posts by beast666

Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously

Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

Re: On a more serious note....

"we're living in a paradise never achieved before in human history."

You need to wake your ass up.

Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants

Co-locating a Twitter datacentre with a sewage farm seems like a no-brainer.

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

Bam!

The dumb masses need to wake their asses up!

Lawsuit accusing Robinhood and Citadel Securities of colluding to stop GameStop shares from skyrocketing thrown out by judge

Re: But RobinHood did block buying Gamestop

"Apparently you didn't read the same articles I did from UNBIASED sources like the BBC and CBC and ABC (Australian, not American.)"

You need to wake your ass up. Bam

Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin

Re: I am no lover of the Chinese political system

You need to wake yo ass up.

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

Re: Not sure why the comment section is open to be honest

Everything is fake and corrupted. Everything.

Microsoft emits more fixes for Exchange Server plus patches for remote-code exec holes in HTTP stack, Visual Studio

Re: And this is why you don't run SCADA on Windows..

Another psyop to fool the dumb masses.

SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts

Re: It doesn't add up

It's smoke and mirrors.

Starlink exists to give SpaceX the reason/excuse to develop reusable heavy lift launch capability at breakneck speed. See Boca Chica Texas. Ostensibly this is also to reach and colonise Mars but the primary goal is to hide in plain sight the construction of massive orbital military capability.

British owners of .eu domains given an extra three months to find a European address

Who in their right minds wants a toxic and moribund .eu domain these days? Sheesh

US court system ditches electronic filing, goes paper-only for sensitive documents following SolarWinds hack

Re: A smart choice

No. You need to get a grip.

Scottish enviro bods shrug off ransomware gang's extortion attempt as 4,000 files dumped online, saying it's nothing big

Open Environment Initiative

4000 files containing what?

What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo

Alphabet is evil

If the Democrats win in November you will live under the crushing heel of the likes of Google and Facebook forever.

Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

Great. Just what we need. More AI to censor free expression.

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Turf war

I don't know who are the biggest bandits. The EU or Apple.

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

Re: Bloody Hell.

Apple will exist for a lot longer than the EU.

The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references

Trump will walk it in November

See the implosion of the left in the UK.

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Starlink

Is primarily a military asset.

Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things

Plandemic. You missed the 'l'

Bill Gates is Evil

Musk is a hero. He knows all about scams and can see the Emperor has no clothes.

Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to buckle up: Amazon to blow this quarter's profits and more on coronavirus costs

Antichrist

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg et al are not your friends.

If at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again: Boeing to repeat CST-100 test, Russia preps another ISS taxi

...Massive Tracts of Land

https://youtu.be/g3YiPC91QUk

Remember when Europe’s entire Galileo satellite system fell over last summer? No you don’t. The official stats reveal it never happened

Re: Actually Galileo has reached its most important goal

The EU is evil, not Europe.

Train-knackering software design blunder discovered after lightning sparked Thameslink megadelay

When the wind blows

Or not, as the case may be.

It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

Best President Ever

The average US broadband MBs/$ has reached a level previously thought impossible.

We strained our eyes with Lenovo's monster monitor: 43.4 inches for price of five 24" screens

Vertical space rules

Get a proper 43" 16:9 3840x2160 screen. Trust me.

High-resolution display output or Wi-Fi: It seems you can only choose one on Raspberry Pi 4

Re: The RPi 4 is a complete fail

Very low power consumption thanks!

ESA toasts 10% budget boost by stretching ISS support out to 2030

Doomed I tells yer

The ESA, just like the EU, is doomed to ultimate catastrophic failure.

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark

In short, the EU project is a classic European misadventure: a tyrannical idea with corrupt people that has turned into a bureaucratic mess in which no one wants to take the blame for problems caused by unnecessary organizational complexity.

Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored

No, no, no.

The flaw is far more fundamental than that. It is the EU project in it's entirety that is broken.

Remember the big IBM 360 mainframe rescue job? For now, Brexit has ballsed it up – big iron restorers

Correction: The EU ballsed it up.

Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform

Nonsense. Cutting income tax and VAT would focus the 'minds' of govt. depts.

Minigame: Celebrate Firefox 70's release by finding a website with 70+ trackers blocked

Re: telegraph.co.uk

BuzzFeed...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Junior minister says gov.UK considering facial recognition to verify age of p0rn-watchers

Re: Umm - yet another poorly thought out idea

Why would porn facial recognition need to distinguish between monkeys and people. Are monkeys banned from spanking in the UK?

As Windows 10 lands on 900m devices, Microsoft shows us the shape of clunk to come (again)

Bleeding eyeballs

When does The Reg get a dark mode?

UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

Re: Aren't UK laws optional these days ?

EU law is supreme over UK law. Funnily enough, that's how we're going to get WTO-deal UK Independence on the 31st Oct.

Thanks for letting us know!

I know what would make a good Christmas present now.

Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

A Creme Egg

Disables a charge point quite effectively.

Lukewarm water.

Q. If machine learning is so smart, how come AI models are such racist, sexist homophobes? A. Humans really suck

This proves that society has been thoroughly subverted by cultural Marxism. I for one welcome our new red-pilled AI overlords.

YouTube's radicalizing Alt-right trolls and Facebook's recruiting new language boffins

I was radicalised by Jack Dorsey

Dude is edgy.

Oh chute. Doubts cast on ExoMars lander's 2020 red planet jaunt after another failed test

Re: International cooperation

It's basically a EU vanity project. As with anything EU it is corrupt and doomed. Doomed I tells ya!

Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings

Re: "Inspired by 8chan"

A glitch in the matrix. Pay attention.

DoH! Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain, Mozilla tells UK broadband providers

The winner of internet villain 2019 is...

The BBC News website

The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks

Awesome

Pai rocks.

Musk loves his Starlink sat constellation – but astroboffins are less than dazzled by them

Scenic vandalism

Globalists have a penchant for violating anything beautiful.

Compare this with the scenic violation imposed by Big Wind in Scotland.

No Widevine DRM for you! Developer left with two years of work stymied by Google snub

Re: DRM and excessive copyright strike again!

Whitepines you deserve free beer/smoke/whatever.

Have you thought about writing an article with your thoughts for El Reg or elsewhere?

Gotta be worth a few quid. ;-)

Googlers, eggheads urge web giant's bosses to kick top conservative off its AI ethics council

Re: Proving the well known Google Bias once again

What would you know about science?

You are probably of the view that gender, and the corresponding differences we see between men and women, are socially constructed.

You would be quite wrong.

quillette.com/2019/03/11/science-denial-wont-end-sexism/

Re: Articles of Faith

It annoys you postmodern neomarxist types. Justifies it's existence completely.

The UK's Cairncross Review calls for Google, Facebook to be regulated – and life support for journalism

Re: Just throw them out

I bet you voted Remain.