Posts by gandalfcn

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

Re: Greed

Greed, aka unfettered capitalism, is the cause of every collapse, which collapses were recticfied using public funds, i.e. by socialism. Funny old world.

Re: Greed

"UK lawmakers have slammed the government for its lack of action" The greed is entirely Tory, a greed, corruption and incompetence previously unheard of.

All MPs are not the same.

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

This is what the Tories plan for the UK.

Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election

Seems the commemts are full of MAGAts and Christofascists.

Re: Why?

"Oh sweet summer child, stoking up division, hatred, chaos, anything that can hit the headlines and make people cream and shout about their government's failing gives an edge

The MAGAts and Christofascists don't need any help.

Re: Why?

"it's controlled by China and not 'domestic' agents of influence."

Exactly. Most deny that happens. Wazzocks.

Re: > Trump took lots of money from China

"black-mail material from Russian intelligence on other republicans, otherwise it is almost unbelievable how he could seemingly control many of them."

Most of them are Christofascist Putin lovers.

Re: Why?

" I do doubt that the Chinese are wild about the prospect of a dude with only the most tenuous ties with reality running the US." Ideal. they get to slowly expand soft power whilst 'Murica hemorrhages and suffers from massive hemorrhoids

Re: Why?

"create chaos unmongsts the populous of the USA, in the hope it causes America to destory itself," The MAGAts and Christofascists don't need any help.

"so that Winie The Pooh can take the land." Yes dear, now please take your meds.

Re: Why?

"(I don't know why consider China never honours any patents)" It does.

Re: Why?

Especially the way M$ imagine. The info is already there so no need to ask. AI? ROFL Just M$ scaremongering.

Beijing would prefer Trump. Easy to control because of his narcissistic vanity and ego. Just compliment him and he's yours. And he worships dictators.

Sleepy Joe on the other hand is a seasoned political animal. Can't have that.

Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs

Re: @Khaptain - A sea change

"Everybody and his dog know that it's easier to go after the children."

Religion being No. 1, very much so in the USA.

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

And yetTrump is walking around free for more and worse crimes.

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

Re: As F'ing irritating as public smoking is...

"will infect even the supposedly "free" democratic societies."

Will? We're way ahead, especially the US of A, and look at the likes of Braverman! Good job the Tories are about to get clobbered.

Cheaper to have a few dogs. More fun too.

Re: As F'ing irritating as public smoking is...

Have you checked the number CCTV cameras in the UK?

Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy

Another xenophobic move about to backfire.

UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals

Does that bunch of charlatans care?

Re: Hmm

Well, the current one definitely.

London Clinic probes claim staffer tried to peek at Princess Kate's records

If the RF had been honest from the beginning none of this would have existed.. Betty Two Stroke was hoding the crumbling edifice together. Charles never seemed to want the job and here we are. Fiasco after fiasco.. Keeps a certain section of the media and demographic occupied mind!

It's tax season, and scammers are a step ahead of filers, Microsoft says

Novel idea. Create a simple, user friendly tax system not one designed to help the wealthy.

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

Re: What comes between Y2K and 2038?

What were they?

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

Re: Reference

/s missing

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

Re: Just ban tracking/targeting

Diddums, bless.

EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine

Re: Sweep

You've triggered the snowflake MAGAts. Splendid.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

Re: Why?

Cupid srunts!

AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets

Re: They never learn...

His degree is in Law and he seems to know little abou that either.

Re: They never learn...

They say that a bunch of loud empty vessels who adopted Thatcher and Thatcherism took over the Conservative Party and stripped it of its talent, leaving only the bunch of loud empty vessels.

Oliver Dowden? JFC, the man's a total incompetent.

Good for a giggle https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/17/dowden-is-perfect-fit-as-sunak-dependably-mediocre-deputy

Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that

"Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables" by self appointed 'experts' who obviously know very little.

"Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables" by self appointed 'experts' who know precious little.

"Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables" by clueless self appointed 'experts', aka numpties

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

It's in basic training, also seamanship manuals. As any qualified navigator knows.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

"How often these accidents get chalked down to actual attacks is" lots of them by the paranoid conspiracy theory types.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

Charts give the location of cables and cables ore often damaged by ships' dragging their anchor.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

"It does depend on the depth of the bottom, where the cables were cut." Bab el Mandeb area is shallow.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

Ships' anchors weigh several tonnes.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

" I imagine a submarine commander might find it difficult to accept that a boat anchor could perhaps accomplish a mission of this kind" It's in basic training, also seamanship manuals.

" Rear Admiral John Gower, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, told the BBC earlier this month that it would take a more sophisticated force than the Houthis, someone with submersibles capable of locating the cables to do the deed. Someone like Iran.

"I assess it's a bluff, unless it's an attack on a terminal," Gower said.

"There is nothing I've seen in the Iranian [Order of Battle] that could touch these cables, certainly not their submarines," former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe told the Beeb. While diving would be a possibility, Sharpe said he concurred with Gower that the threat was likely a bluff."

The location of cables is clearly shown on charts, as all mariners know. Ship's regularly damage cables when they drag an anchor.

Nd that pair ran RN ships?

Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap

Re: Ohaiyo gozaimasu

"Yes, I'm jealous, but I'm sorry that I didn't get it. I will send you a postcard. ""

Employees saved Musk from himself over Twitter Files

Re: Retrospective self serving establishment spin

Don't be daft. That is what Lying Leon claims

Re: For sure he’s a dick/ or special even

Why? Simple, he's a fascist.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

" a federal subsidised push" Non of that commie nonsense, next it'll be decent healthcare ffs.

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal

Brown envelopes?

Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023

Is anyone surprised? doubt it as I was anticipating it.

he will be kicking it in California with his wife.

How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

Re: Money can't buy intelligence

Have you ever chscked on what China has invented?

Re: Money can't buy intelligence

"The USA as a whole managed it in around 1930," ROFL The USA still doesn't have real ' universal public education '. It has schools with no qualified teachers other than religious zealots.

"Not many places in West Virginia offer physics programmes in their high schools and those who do very few of them are taught by people actually trained in physics,"

https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20140207/funny_exam_answers_16.jpg

Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree

Re: Oops, we stole it

Rather a lot of the 'fraud' was intentional handing of contracts etc. to Tory donors so if Rish! had gone after them he would have exposed yet more Tory corruption.

FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins

Re: Warrantless snooping powers

Sounds about right. It amazes me that many Americans deny this. It also amazes me that they throw tantrums if any government department sneaks a peak at them but roll over and let G00gle, Amazon et al spy on them at will. Amazing.