Posts by Magani

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

Grab Your Popcorn

With the current administration's track record....

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

Re: Government wishful thinking

"... never underestimate how seriously Aussies take their sport. "

Whatever you do, don't mention the cricket. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

Decisions, decisions...

Linux is slowly getting better; Windows is slowly getting worse.

At what point does one change?

If there is no way to remove Recall from Win 11, I think I'll stay with 10 until its updates run out, then hope that all the 'Windows only' applications have a better Linux version.

And before you bother to reply; Wine doesn't do it for me, unless it's a nice Coonawarra red.

Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years

Re: I feel a game of...

Dear AC. I rarely reply to AC comments, but in your case I'll make an exception...

"Whack. Spell it right."

Try the following URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole

I accept your apology.

I feel a game of...

... Whac-A-Mole coming on here.

Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen

A formula?

Your mission, dear reader, if you choose to accept it, is to calculate the number of Trump supporters who read this esteemed forum, by the number of down votes to each post.

It seems they're coming out of the woodwork.

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Re: curious

"...perhaps they need a convertible he can stand up in the back of?"

Is that the Tesla with 'Don't Panic' on the infotainment screen?

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him

One wonders why...

"Musk has also seemingly hired a new legal team."

Was this after the first team figured there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell of winning?

TSMC confirms it'll dig into Dresden for chip giant's first fab on Euro soil

Off-site backups are always a plus...

...especially if the elephant in the room next door comes a-calling.

Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia

Who knew?

AFAICS, Hong Kong = China these days.

As long as the requisite palms are greased, just business as usual under the table.

UN telecom watchdog wags finger at Russia for satellite interference

Simples, innit?

"... it hasn't detected any whatsoever, ..."

If you don't look, I guess you don't find anything.

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050

Re: "if a set of circular economy strategies is concurrently and ambitiously implemented"

"When Sir Humphry uses the term "ambitious", it generally means the politician runs away from it."

Also, in a different sense, when he says, '...very courageous, Minister."

'Yes, Minister' was one of the best documentaries to come out of the UK.

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

Re: "A Kremlin representative"

"A Kremlin representative, Dmitry Peskov, claimed he had no idea what the Swedes were on about."

We need to change the 'Plausible Deniability" to the more realistic, "Implausible Deniability".

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with world at ad biz conference

Re: Karma

It's the kid in charge of the toy store. There'll eventually be tears at bedtime.

X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up

Re: Dollars to dollars

AUD (Australian Dollars): AKA South Pacific micro-Pesos

China miffed over electric vehicle tariff tiff with EU

So what's new?

"China miffed..."

Every time anyone in a non-Communist country says something vaguely critical of China, they get miffed.

They would have to be the most thin-skinned country on this planet.

Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world

Really?

Just what the world needs - another on-line tat bazaar.

Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus

Re: "The thrust is that retaining Musk's extraordinary talent takes extraordinary compensation"

""This is obviously not about the money...." Tesla Board Chairperson Robyn Denholm

Huh?? Of course it's about the money.

AI future: Nvidia boffin hopes 'everything that moves will eventually be autonomous'

"The robots are coming"

So did the Summit come up with a new date for Skynet to become self-aware?

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system

And where is that heat going?

So, a novel way to further warm the oceans?

Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts

Test new code? Nah...

"Current investigations indicate that it was caused by a technology issue and may have been related to recent system changes,"

In other words, the IT mob tested an update on the production system.

Australia to fund $620M quantum computer claimed to be first at 'utility-scale'

Uses?

'Which still leaves open the question of what Australia's machine will be used for. '

Cracking end-to-end encryption if ASIO has anything to do with it.

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Re: Great news

"Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents."

From the same train of thought that brought you the 'unsinkable' Titanic.

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

Anyone heard of Echelon?

Are they meaning to say that Echelon hasn't already cracked this problem or is this just obfuscation?

As a member in good standing of the Five Eyes, wouldn't 'Straya already be a party to this?

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Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court

Ah, you've gotta love the Betoota Advocate!

Have a XXXX.

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too

A sunny outlook

What's this solar thing? I always thought flares were what Kiwis grew in their gardens.

Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside

Re: What can be inferred?

"Then there's the size of the building..."

The rumour is that it'll be installed inside Bugs Bunny outside the Russell Offices with the ears used for radiant cooling.

(Canberra denizens will get the reference.)

Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards

Thinks...

Is Vietnam becoming a little China-in-Training?

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground

A bit more precision required

"...will end up in the ocean."

Umm, Which ocean did you have in mind? There are at least 6 that I can think of, and numerous large 'Seas'.

"Having used up the last of the fuel, the mission officially ended..."

While IANAAstrophysicist, why not deorbit this device while they still had fuel and could actually control, to a larger extent, where on Earth (literally) it was going to splash down?

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

Re: Peter “Potato Head” Dutton is morphing...

"...Mr PH is perhaps the least worst of an altogether very sorry lot.

A sad indictment of what we've got ourselves into.

As I once commented about one of my students, "Sets a low standard which he fails to achieve.".

"The coalition has a snowflake's chance in hell of winning the next election if they keep Dutton as leader, he's so breathtakingly out of touch.

FTFY

That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data

Keeps one on Edge.

:"...every time Microsoft's flagship Edge browser starts up, it helps itself to open Chrome tab data..."

I knew there was a reason I only opened Edge in the Sandbox (There are some sites that don't like Brave).

Researchers remotely exploit devices used to manage safe aircraft landings and takeoffs

A bit of a long bow to draw?

Start with

"Criminals could remotely tamper with the data that apps used by airplane pilots rely on to inform safe takeoff and landing procedures, according to fresh research."

and finish with

"Our analysis, confirmed by EASA, showed that there was no safety issue thanks to the security procedures in place to validate flight-relevant data..."

Yes, it's possible, but hardly likely if you read the whole article. Come on, El Reg, let's not have click-bait headlines. You're better than that.

Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

Re: Really?

"... in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection..."

What? No sign on the door saying, "Beware of the Leopard!"

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus

Brave + PiHole

That is all.

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

Douglas was prescient

"Otherwise humanity's greatest hope will be a race of CEO-descended inbred mole people. "

I believe we still have space on the Golgafrinchan B Ark.

Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again

Riiiight...

"The LA-based virtual station claims all news it presents will be fact-checked by humans to ensure accuracy before being placed in the virtual mouths of its artificial newsreaders. "

Why is my Bovine Excrement Detector needle suddenly hitting 11? What could possibly go wrong?

UK government woefully unprepared for 'catastrophic' ransomware attack

'Yes, Minister' was a documentary.

Ditto 'Frontline' and 'Utopia' in Oz.

British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms

Re: So, let's review

Will no-one think of the leaves?

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

Re: Bets, burgers and booze

Much the same reason our channel selector stays on the ABC.

Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage

Which is it?

"...claims it could reduce lost luggage by fifty percent."

So does is nick half the contents, or chop the lost bag in half?

Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure

"Sudden Departure"

A 'Sudden Departure' sometimes begs the question: Did he jump or was he pushed?

Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms

Really?

"...they created devices able to transmit acoustic signals at kilometer-plus ranges...

Just what whales and dolphins need... More underwater noise.

Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss

Re: Behaving ethically is good for business

Gee. Who would have thought that one could do the right thing, AND have it improve your business. Whatever will they think of next?

</sarcasm>

UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system

Dear Brandon Vigliarolo

"NOTAMS is responsible ..."

No. Try 'NOTAMs are responsible...'. NOTAM is singular.

FTFY

China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules

Whoda thunk it?

Pot, meet kettle.

Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater

Dear Eric Blair

"Internet and information technology departments at all levels must be loyal to the Party and the people,..."

Nothing says a government's loyalty to the people like censorship and isolationism.

Is the CCP using '1984' as a user guide? Double plus ungood.

China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

Wrong Order?

"China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party"

Presumably, knowing the CCP, not necessarily in that order.

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Re: Freedom is an illusion

"Lunchtime doubly so."

Close, but we'll take it.

Vale Douglas.

Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world

Re: Horse discovered in college bathroom

An upvote for the reference to DGHDA! Well played, that man!