Posts by Chris Tierney

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

Amanda Doyle -comment.

"The NHS introduced this functionality to make GPs' working lives easier and improve patient outcomes – so it is odd that any GP would choose to turn this service off and revert to manually inputting data from emails, increasing their workload and taking up more time," she said. Almost like GPs want to spend time reviewing incoming patient data to screen for any outliers and expand their own visibilty of their community. Maybe the problem is NHS England want to drive primary care in a different direction?

Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble

Token tax

Pretty sure all this Ai stuff is going to end in governments taxing Ai. Maybe a token tax. Putting this here so I can say i called it in 2024.

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope

Screw it!

I'm fed up waiting on the killer app so I'm going to build it myself.

I'm sure OpenAI won't trounce on my app again in 6 months!!

European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act

Re: E for effort

Dont worry about it, This is a problem for the future robot overloards.

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Smart device

My door alert system has been working for years withou a hitch, the occasional application of brasso is the only maintenance required and it rarely says a bad word.

If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion

Clean install, same issue

Calling BS on this one. Ive the same phantom hangups since I wiped everything and did a clean shove of windows 11. The only 3rd party apps are chrome and steam.

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

Agreed, took me a bit of rufus effort but just managed to install windows 11 on an old Dell Precision T7500. Seems to work ok

Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

Geofencing development

SpaceX really went to town on trying to protect this from unauthorised reverse engineering this. The geofencing was an impressive last gasp touch but no matter how good you are there is always someone better or more determined.

China compromised F-35 subcontractor and forced expensive software system rewrite, academic tells MPs

Air gap

Do politicians assume that the F35 is effectively air-gapped on takeoff?

Suspended sentence for bank IT worker who broke into his boss's webcam because he didn't get a payrise

Deserved

I wonder why he was illdesevring of a pay rise? Seems like an easy going sort of team mate

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

Everyone needs a Marvin jn their life.

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Mistaken identity

I highly doubt the pilots saw a real guy in a jet pack. More likely to be a weather balloon or some other unmanned craft. Jet packs are noisy and wouldn't be subtle on take off.

Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth

Cat/PC den.

Was called to an equestrian farm years ago to resolve an issue with an non starting PC. Noticed all the wires went into a very large fluffy cat den under a desk and the desktop PC crammed full of fur. The staff thought it was a great idea to use the PC as some sort of heater both for the cat and as a foot warmer in the colder months.

'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope

Jumbled mess

Tidy it up.

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way

Tourist route

Likely doing a flyby to observe the chaos that is life on earth. Not too close though as we are bad news to get caught up with.

London's Gatwick airport suspends all flights after 'multiple' reports of drones

Something doesn't fly right with this story

Especially if reports are to be believed and it was raining heavily. Most consumer drones will struggle to fly in rain and operator control using fpv alone would be impossible unless the drone had wipers over the camera. I'm wondering if this is all type?

Chinese biz baron wants to shove his artificial moon where the sun doesn't shine – literally

Re: The silver lining

I reckon they could rent out the nightlight to other parts of the world on cloudy days which may help recoup some of the investment.

Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch

Title should be

Real cloud strikes fake cloud.

Florida Man laundered money for Reveton ransomware. Then Microsoft hired him

Lost it

He would probably earned more money from Microsoft's criminal activities if he'd only waited.

Tesla fingers former Gigafactory hand as alleged blueprint-leaking sabotage mastermind

Computer forensics

If this plaintiff is half as smart with I.T. as they say he is then surely they already know that any incriminating evidence is already gone and has been replaced with deep fakes of Elin Musk pole dancing with a Falcon 9 stage 1.

Tesla undecimates its workforce but Elon insists everything's absolutely fine

Re: Undecimate?

This thread is way off on a tangent.

HostingUK drops offline after losing Farmer vs Fibre competition

Competition

"there is a 5" (five inch) micro trench that is approximately 2 meters in depth, that has been dug across a field our fiber traverses." Is there a competitor laying their own fiber like AWS?

Who will fix our Internal Banking Mess? TSB hires IBM amid online banking woes

Excellent attitude. Demonstrates absolute trust in your team and for that they'll likely work harder for you to make sure it all works.

This CIO job was posted 13 hours ago

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/633114556/

I guess Carlos Abarca is looking for someone a bit more local.

The tech you're reading these words on – you have two Dundee uni boffins to thank for that

Re: Wonderful.

In summary, the publication of their paper prior to the application made it easy for the competition to be first out the gate with the application.

I think this court case may shed some light on it.

https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914b08dadd7b04934753742

SpaceX's Falcon 9 poised to fling 350kg planet-sniffing satellite into Earth orbit

Launch Window - gravity assist, minimal...( delta V, lunar resonant & data transfer window )

If my calculations are correct (using Kerbal Space Program) then the rocket scientists who came up with this orbit deserves a pint or gin. In pool parlance this is the equivalent of calculating how to pot the black from break everytime and having the cue ball roll back to the spot.

Boeing CEO takes aim at Musk’s Starman-in-a-Tesla stunt

Thunderbirds

I grew up watching Thunderbird 3 land vertically thinking how cool and idea it was and it simply sparked my imagination as a child. However I grew up and that spark got slowly extinguished that no-one had yet managed this outside of tethered test rockets. Elon Musk with his double booster landing and every other falcon 9 first stage landing has made me realise once again that anything is possible and I should never give up on the imagination of him and people like him. The spark is back and I'm off to watch some Thunderbird 3 err I mean falcon 9 first stage landings on YouTube.

El Reg needs you – to help build an automated beer-transporting robot

Special Projects

I'll build you this robot when you complete the LOHAN project I was following closely.

NSA boss: Trump won't pull trigger for Russia election hack retaliation

Education

So what he is suggesting is that Russia somehow fooled the U.S. population over a long period and managed to manipulate this false information and hence put a Russian sympathetic president in the White House? Surely there is a domestic solution to that problem? I like to think I can filter out the fake news from the real news quiet quickly but even then I'm being biased.

Dinosaurs gathered at NASA Goddard site for fatal feeding frenzy

Re: My eyes are the age of that slab...

here you go

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18619-w/figures/3

H-1B visa hopefuls, green card holders are feeling the wrath of 'America first' Trump

Re: But the good doctor hasn't been keeping his nose clean!

So many questions. But one sticks out...how did you get your car to and from the U.S? Is there a ferry?

Sysadmin tells user CSI-style password guessing never w– wait WTF?! It's 'PASSWORD1'!

Re: "They looked for the password on the CD . . ."

@David123 I suspect your perfect Thumbs up score on this comment will end around 12:30pm BST

How alien civilizations deal with climate is a measure of how smart they are. Just sayin'...

Wrong tense used here.

We used to be a Class V planet now were just a Class IV who is merrily on our way to becoming a Class II skipping a whole Class III bit. Sound about right?

Hackers able to turbo-charge DJI drones way beyond what's legal

DJI can't police this.

DJI aren't the only route to drone ownership and at least should be commended for having a stab at drone safety restrictions for the uninformed masses.

If you really want some high altitude footage then invest in some helium, weather balloons and learn how to submit a Notam.

SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend

Doesn't compare.

My newborn son managed to land a stream of pee onto my shirt while I changed his nappy this morning. Your move Musk.

PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet

Cattery equipment failure

Once went to a cattery to repair a borked PC, I opened the side cover and found a mound of dust housing at least 4 small rodents (mice?)

Zuckerberg's absolutely mental: Brain sensors that read YOUR MIND at 100 words a minute

DHS

How long before DHS asks you to wear one of these going into and out of America?

Feel guilty for scoffing Easter chocolate? Good news: Scientists have made NEGATIVE mass

Re: Pushing back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yncfY_hrX0

DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like

Clearly a load of bollocks.

As an occasional social drinker since the age of 14...errr I mean 18 I can testify the my taste in beer changes with time. As does that of my friends. It's unlikely I'll ever enjoy too much of the same beer all the time. Now where's that Giunness

RAF pilot sent jet into 4,000ft plummet by playing with camera, court martial hears

Career as a photographer?

Boffins turn timid mice into psycho killers – by firing lasers into brains

Sharks.

Once again Dr Evil proves he was way ahead of us.

Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable

Land of the free and home of the brave

There's nothing brave or free by gluing blinkers to your citizens heads. Maybe they should start "heading"off their children by some intellectual discussion and robust education.

LinkedIn's training arm resets 55,000 members' passwords, warns 9.5m

Cyber security courses

They have some good cyber security courses available.

'Public Wi-Fi' gang fail in cunning plan to hide £10m cigarette tax fraud

Eavesdropping

These chaps must have missed the Edward Snowdon news articles.

One-way Martian ticket: Pick passengers for Musk's first Mars pioneer squad

Send Trump?

We would probably end up with a great big bloody wall on Mars before he gives up and returns to Earth. However given that he doesn't pay income tax then his absence might be good for the global economy.

Disney rollercoaster helps pop out kidney stones

health Hazards

Do not ride

During Pregnancy

If you've have Heart, back, or neck trouble

High blood pressure

Casts or braces that restrict movement or may interfere with the ride's restraint systems

Motion sickness or inner ear infections

Claustrophobia

Excessive height or other body proportions that could interfere with safety restraints

Bodily control issues that may prevent a rider from properly bracing themselves within the ride unit

Do ride

If you suffer from Kidney Stones

FAA powers up an invisible hand, groping the skies for rule-busting biz drones

Burj Kalif

So it's ok for me to fly over 400 in Kansas as long as I claim I was trying to film the burj kalifa in Dubai, and I'm assuming the earth is flat?

Did mock cop bot trot on fraught tot? Maybe not

Crush! Kill! Destroy!

Err...I mean Stop!

Apple will be grilled by Irish National Planning Board over €850m data centre plan

We will call it

Operation Apple Tree