Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

Re: Err?

>Shouldn't OpenAI be giving money to Disney if Disney is licencing its IP to OpenAI?

Typical old fashioned sort of economic thinking that is so out of touch with the world of Crypto NFT Blockchain AI driven new paradigms

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Re: Worst case scenario

You of course always have a choice to book BA for your short haul flights.

Remember when trips to Paris were £500 on a plane with broken seats that had last been cleaned in 1970s and nobody cared because only people flying on business could afford it and so the airline knew that the passenger wasn't the customer

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

And even then only with a note from their grandparents

I assume that if the Celts found out about England's cricketing they would lose all respect for their lords and masters

So the solution is to keep the kids off el'reg until they are 16, when they get access to 2 girls 1 cup and 3 donkeys.

Re: Good, bad or ugly

>But we do ban certain books from children don't we

Precisely, we don't blame the technology or just throw our hands up and say 'there's nothing we can do except a purely performative ban"

Make the platforms responsible for content, in the same way we make movie studios responsible.

I see your well argued reasoned statement and raise you a plan to keep the Oz version of the Daily Mail reader placated while putting the infrastructure in place to track every citizen online

But we have a plan to ban reporting of this in Britain, and so solve the problem of abysmal sporting performance

Re: Good, bad or ugly

Time to ban books for under 16s.

Do you want giant American publishers to allow your 5year old to read Marquis de Sade or Mein Kampf or The Camel book ?

Obviously we can't control which books children read, so we need to ban them

Re: Clearly the "/s" is sometimes mandatory

>When you carefully examine youth crime, you invariably find it is committed by children

Obviously you need to bam children

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

We prefer to call it reverse taxation

Government redirecting science funding to their friends share price sounds so tacky

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy

Re: Making it worse

As long as they promise not to build any actual vessels, they probably come out ahead -

Re: It's software that's the issue!

>Not a lack of skilled workers and capable shipyards, caused by decades of under funding and neglect.

Or shipyards that have got used to a steady supply of government contracts where their ability to always get paid, even if they lose the contract, depends more on the political skill of their congressperson than the skill of their welders

And even if they decided to branch out into the harsh winds of capitalism, the Jones Act means they have a nice government monopoly and so they don't have to worry about those industrious orientals

Since the normal process is

1. Navy asks for something sensible - after all they have to sail in it

2. They choose a reasonable design, ideally one that's already being built

3. Some congress person demands that 50% of it is built in N Dakota or that it can also operate in the middle of a desert

4. The cost goes up by 100% and so the program's budget is cut

5. The number of vessels is then reduced by 50% to meet the new budget

6. Steps 4-5 are repeated until you are only building 1 vessel

7. Goto 1

It's hard to see what you could do to this process to make it worse.

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties

Re: @YAAC - What do you expect from China ?

And they obviously also lead the USA in certain vital areas of metallurgy. Iron-y specifically

What do you expect from China ?

The great advantage of having a Great Leader (tm) is that mergers can be decided directly, as a matter of national security, by the Great Leader (tm) deciding that they should be involved.

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Security

Fortunately being the foremost supplier of secure networking kit, Cisco's security doesn't rely purely on obscurity with only people attending their training being told where the secret back door is

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: Why do we permit a system

I don't think corporations BUY politicians, after all once elected they are a depreciating asset.

They simply lease them as and when needed, Sleaze-As-A-Service you might say

Re: It's the economy, stupid!

The same "economists" who think Hayek said you should only trade with people with the same eye colour as you

Re: So much for all that tough talk from kegbreath

They should have called it the "Sgt Bilko Bill" then at least the cabinet would have understood it

Re: Is anyone surprised?

>They don't call it the military-industrial complex for nothing.

No but upto now we generally assumed the military and the industrial complex were at least on the same side

Re: as long as the word lobbying exists

On the other hand, ultimately both sides will end up being owned by the same giant corporation and there will be no more wars

The Weyland-Yutani company is hardly going to go to war with itself

Re: War #J842X23

On the other hand it's great for your resolved support ticket KPIs.

Caller: I'm on fire and my ejector seat says "error"

Service: Have you tried turning it off and on again? Please call back if this doesn't work

Ticket marked , no customer response, resolved

Re: it sure looks fishy

Will they at least be allowed to catch fish ?

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Re: More cloudybollocks

Your don't have your own satellite in the garage?

Peasant !

Re: What about Jags?

>The first thing he did was sell the wheels for more than he paid for the vehicle

And the 2nd was to sell the wheel-less car as an art piece commenting on the failure of cars as a means of transport

Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away

Re: Best quote I've seen

It takes quiet a lot of supercomputer to do a fluid dynamical simulation of stirring a coffee cup - or it takes a coffee cup.

Depends what you are trying to fund out

Re: Worm Power

Also a lot easier for the machines to generate a fake world for the worms to believe they are living in.

And less risk of a wriggly keanu breaking out

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers

Re: How many Excel users does it take to format numbers?

At least that's obvious

for LibreOffice it's 12/30/99 and GSheets is 1899-12-30

Re: Based on my observations

> at best it's the second-best tool for the job.

Where the first-best tool would be COBOL

Re: Dunno

Assuming that alongside a knowledge of SQL the user had the authorization to buy and the permission to install SQL server

Then if you are in a government agency, this involves calling Crapita/Cap-Gemini/Fujitsu and telling them that you need a database to do XYZ and wait for a quote which is equal to the price of small aircraft

carrier

Re: When you need a spreadsheet...

Libre's graphing is nicer - at least for sciencey type plots. And I can have Greek chars in labels !

Do they need Excel or just a spreadsheet.

Most of the users I have with Excel can just as easily use Libre / GSheets. I suppose custom programs are more common in finance?

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

>appears to simply be a digital version of "casing a target for burglary"

Or trespassing onto the railway line to find that the train full of oil takers on the hill above Lac-Mégantic is on fire - and then calling 911 ?

IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions

Re: Job prospects in Confluent take a turn for the worse

Does confluent have enough staff for IBM to rif to make the purchase profitable?

IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse

Re: "AI-powered"

The problems is that RDBMS admins are 1, old. 2, rare. 3, expensive. 4, disinclined to give a fsck about you or your latest management trend

And so are prime candidates to be replaced by some vibe coding. I look forward to the outcomes

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up

Re: Whose word must we take?

>Which country has repeatedly threatened to attack NATO countries?

Well if you're including Canada and Greenland...

Re: Whose word must we take?

>which country invaded Crimea?

Wasn't that us? I seem to remember a poem-worthy, if somewhat ill-advised, cavalry charge.

Re: Whose word must we take?

Actually the plan is to form a National Dads Brigade.

Made up of 50 year olds who are somehow convinced they fought at Arhem because they watched war movies on Saturday afternoons growing up.

Sports direct will be contracted to produce XL camo football tops they will (eventually) be equipped with their own F35 after they have collected the parts from a weekly magazine

They will be stationed along the border to see off any invaders with interminable stories of how the Hurricane was better than the Tiger tank

Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

Re: old is gnu again

Well if a Tea Shop can have it's own computer design I don't see why a book shop shouldn't

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

Re: Why argue ?

>You have to be kidding me that you decided to go with software from such a well known malware and spyware author

Back in reality land:

Option 1: Every corporation in America and Europe uses Windows.

Option 2: Convince every customer, every FDA lawyer, every FDA equivalent lawyer outside the USA, that this Open Source stuff is OK. Discover that eg. S. Korea's medical device licensing agency has never approved a Linux product so you are now the test case for proving that Linux is "safe" - spend $Infinity doing this - go bust

For the same reason we went with Intel's NUC platform. Since we are selling HW, we are responsible for proving the 'server' meets all the electrical safety and emissions standards. Repeating all the tests Intel have already certified that they meet. So turn up with an "Made by Intel" box and the testing lab rubber stamp it (still charging you $$$$). Turn up with something you assembled from a motherboard + Intel CPU + PSU + case and you are going to be spending $250K measuring that it meets FCC specs.

Re: A few things will always be missing

>the GPLv3 actually permits such digital handcuffing scheme (as for some reason, businesses wanted that)

Because otherwise Open source would be banned from any regulated industry, medical devices and software defined radio

I can't sell a FDA approved device and enable the user to go in and change the dose limits in the software

A lot of submitted comments don't show up for a day or so at the weekend, and don't show in your "my posts" page but they do add to the comments count

Seems to happen mostly over the weekend when the PFY isn't around to give the server a kick

Re: Why argue ?

I did run into that once with an IP lawyer

We were building a medical imaging server, it was entirely our own code + BSD modules but I wanted to run it on Debian

The lawyer wasn't sure that a link to debian.org was enough, and that the GPL meant we would have to supply all the upstream sources

In the end we had to go with Win10 Enterprise

Why argue ?

Visio puts up a link to linux.org and sticks some bits of code on github

It's not like anyone is going to build a competing cheap Chinese L:CD TV and the only thing holding them back was Visio's version of some embedded kiosk mode browser

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

Re: Yay

Wasn't he more of a moustache type?

One thing WWII taught us - beware of chaps with upper-lip growth

Re: Youtube as a tool...

Nein, zat would violate zee Warranty

Re: A case in point.

Drachinifel has a beard, you can always trust a chap with a beard.

I should also recommend "Lord Hardthrasher" similarly factual with a more el'reg comment section sensibility

FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records

Re: Really 10M Student's (children's) data exposed -- and no fine?

You can't have a Federal agency criticising the free market

Re: I blame the parents

You wish to prevent anyone using "German Tank Wheels" to determine how many offspring were spawned?