Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage

Their most effective method, it's how they got Stalin.

But Cuban-American folks in Miami are very careful to make sure none of those immigrants from Latin America ever get in because that would undermine their traditional American way of life.

And they have to vote Trump because all Democrats are Maoists and if a Democrat was ever elected everyone in America would be sent to work in salt mines where they would have their guns and pickup trucks removed

Re: Ironically

If your email is on Google or Microsoft or a giant service provider that trusts the bank's service provider. Otherwise you're never getting it

That's easy for you to say but you aren't an American living under constant threat of Cuban invasion for the last 60 odd years.

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Re: Frying pan

We went through the same thing 20years ago in the USA. Everything made by the USA govt is assumed to be publicly available and did that clash with the GPL?

The answer was basically, no it's fine, don't worry

You just have to pretend nobody in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Belgium use open source software

Re: "this one will run and run"

Round and round in circles until it all ends up in court if history is any guide

Re: Frying pan

If only the UK had skilled developers that could be paid for doing this work and an array of local, regional and national government authorities to organise and pay for it.

But since we live in a post-capitalist mad-max hellscape we just have to buy from SAP/Oracle/IBM

Isn't it odd

That say Birmingham's need for council tax software is so different from Sheffield's that both need to spend millions on a custom Oracle/SAP/IBM system rather than every council getting together and developing a common standard.

Re: What a choice!

replace a predatory Oracle implementation

A visa to fill Australia's empty tech jobs is getting more expensive, but maybe better value

Re: Left the country.

> driving a dump truck in a mine would have been a 30% pay rise on my last job in Australia -

10 years too late, them damn software blokes are tekking ar jerbs....

Driverless trucks move all iron ore at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mines, in world first (2015)

Re: A bit torn

The ACS got the OK from the government to be the one authority to approve foreign qualifications.

The ACS were being paid by their members to keep local wage rates up by preventing any immigration

It's like putting the Print Unions in charge of Internet adoption

Re: Twas ever thus

Imagine if instead we had sent all the most devoutly religious and morally upstanding people to a foreign country - what a place that would become !

How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites

Re: Glas Half Full

Just ban black hoodies = no more hackers, problem solved !

Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation

Just ban Australians

From owning all your media companies

Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers

Re: Feds .. FBI ... DOJ

Yes but they would go crazy searching for who cast that vote against him

What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?

Cos nobody gives a flying fsck

In the good old days Cray would announce their latest bug box and everyone below it on the list would buy one and everyone would laugh at the foreigners for coming in at number 99.

Now nobody cares if your shed full of GPUs is bigger than some other government labs shed full of GPUs.

FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too

Re: "Of course I don't want my identity to be protected" said no one ever

Because the law isn't going to define "AI", the law is going to ban something like "computer modified images"

So those covers of Private Eye showing modified images disrespectful to the Prime Minister = Banned

Then an expensive lawyer is going to claim that printing a picture from compressed data is a "computer modified image" so that picture of a politician "invading personal space" of their researcher = Banned

-- Of course you can trust our government not to use legal overeach to extend laws that were only going to be used against terrorists, but what about other less trustworthy countries?

So everytime a spammer in India/Russia/China makes a call

the FTC fine Intel/AMD/Nvidia?

Or just the Tensorflow, Pytorch, Caffe2 developers ?

Dell staff not alone in being squeezed to reduce remote work

You just book every meeting/conference room in the building for all the days you're in

Re: Hybrid

What business impact would your working from home have on the university?

I hope I haven't had any business impacts for the last 10years if working in the University = it's fscking University not a Tescos

Re: Saying you'll quit isn't the same as quitting

"Our department boss lives in Glasgow; line manager in Rotherham, and myself in the Midlands. It isn't a problem.

I'm wondering if this could become a C21 trend of new local traditional skills.

Instead of Glasgow being shipbuilding, Newcastle being coal and Liverpool being about boy bands - we could have a modern equivalent.

All dept managers will live in Glasgow, all sales managers Leeds, all IT in Whitby and all HR in Basingstoke

AI won't take our jobs and it might even save the middle class

>Sooo, the idea would be that someone who's not a doctor could make doctor-level decisions,

>Sure. Go ahead. Give it a try. Seriously.

In europe your smear test is processed by an ultra high quality scanning microscope, that images the whole sample in several visible and invisible wavelengths, at a stack of focus steps and automatically adapts to any flatness variation in the slide substrate. The image is digitally enhanced and fed to a machine learning algorithm which has been trained on billions of previous images.

In the USA a single field of your sample is looked at for under a minute by a real doctor using a Mk 1 eyeball and an unserviced uncleaned uncalibrated microscope they bought decades ago when they got the job.

One of these produces diagnostic outputs indistinguishable from random chance.

US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks

Re: Pay grades might be a problem

A friend's dad in was quickly promoted to Lt Colonel back in the 80s once all the REME pipeline engineers started leaving for the North Sea.

US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

Re: Is it obvious

>then it is obvious and cannot be patented.

So a hull design produced by CFD can't be patented because it's a purely mechanical process?

I can see some algorithms being trickier. I can patent an algorithm for detecting corners in an image (or I can't cos someone already did) so why can't I patent a trained model to do the same?

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

Re: Sliding doors...

I don't know, server/cloud companies basing their business model on selling access to systems built on open-source software ? Sounds risky

Biden admin keeps O-RAN dream alive with $42M funding for R&D facility

A cunning plan

Put legacy monopoly telcos in charge of plan to implement open-source open-access telecoms technology

Jet engine dealer to major airlines discloses 'unauthorized activity'

Re: Passports

It is however illegal to make a colour copy of a UK passport.

Her His Majesty's Stationary Office holds the copyright to the artistic design of the passport but will allow B+W scans for administrative purposes.

Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool

Re: Not all heroes

Then if the ransomware gangs signed up with the Business Software Alliance and audited you

Re: Not all heroes

But this will allow the ransom gangs to sue under the DMCA for cracking their software and obtain more $ than they would from the ransom

Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise

>Haven't you heard of SystemD

SystemD just gives you more new commands to learn beyond 'init', it doesn't allow their preferred version of Chrome to read open browser tabs in other versions of Chrome and send them to the mothership

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

Re: Flexi time

>Your taking time off during the day and willingly making it up outside of your 9-5 isn't the same thing at all,

But if a boss is concerned about how he looks in Orange - they might just order a blanket ban on email after 5. And if you do work in the evening and send an email, do you go to the big house?

DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on

Re: "That's because we studied math at school."

I'm selling discount raffle tickets, half price and only 1 in a 1,000,000,000 less chance of winning.

These are last weeks ticket !

And your point is ?

Re: Maybe...

Caesers got hacked along with MGM. Unlike MGM they paid and kept it quiet.

They don't want Caesars + hackers to appear together on the Internet's it's bad for the algorithms

Sorry, scammers: The FCC says AI robocalls are definitely illegal

A global solution

Since this law will apply throughout all 50 states that the FCC has jurisdiction and since telephone calls from outside the states are impossible this will finally solve the problem of robocalls

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider

Re: Might be useful in low radioactivity environment as well

exposition-per-year is a major problem for theatre students. We have to limit the amount of Shakespearean roles they do

Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes

Re: Glassholes

If your are constantly tracked by cameras on every street, every shopping centre and every bit of public transport. If every movement of your phone and car are recorded and logged by Palantir, do you storm the Home Office or just shrug and say 'at least it keeps us safe from terrorists' ?

Re: Glassholes

Yes but none of this explains the (alleged) pitchfork wielding mobs hunting down the original Google-glass wearers = "glassholes"

Glassholes

It always seemed a bit of an over-reaction

Were there really armies of google glass wearers following people into bathrooms to video them?

Was it just a slow news day and the Us equivalent of the Daily Fail had a field day? Did the hate just go viral for no reason?

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

Re: Priorities

No it's a legitimate concern that a lot of very useful but lower energy, and therefore less sexy, but useful facilities got shut down while building the LHC.

It's like saying we should invest in sport and fitness, host the Olympics, build massive stadiums but closing all local playing fields to pay for it.

Re: Priorities

What if we ran 2 militaries in circles around Switzerland and had them crash into each other ?

We might not learn as much, but it would be entertaining

EU repair rights bill tells manufacturers to fix up or ship out

Re: This is what the EU is for

I suspect cars, especially EVs, will be exempt.

Or any product category where the manufacturer is European.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

Re: Air-o-space

>And if you truly believe an astronaut would drill a hole in their own spaceship

She did detonate the engines, but to be fair she did try to stop them bringing it onboard

Re: Reap what you sow

> Do Boeing actually make aircraft now or are they just assembling kits these days?

A charge which could be more accurately aimed at Airbus. There is nothing wrong with having subcontractors if you manage them properly.

Nobody is claiming Intel could make better phones than Apple because they have in-house fabs.

re: If it's a Boeing I ain't going.

A sentiment being embraced by the airframe itself

Boeing make almost exactly the same amount of $ form civil / military+space and "services"

I suspect they do a lot of spreadsheeting to decide how much profit they make in each of these depending on who they are going begging to at the moment

Re: Boeing should

>No make the executives liable for premeditated manslaughter for any crashes caused by cut backs.

But the problem wasn't Boeing it was a totally independant supplier spun off from Boeing

The WhiteStar line can't be held responsible for the Titanic because look-out services was outsourced to a gig worker in the Crow's nest

Re: And then there's the engine inlet problem...

The Wright Flyer had no windshield and so no requirement for windshield wipers.

Since the Boeing 737 is really just a development of the Boeing 000 (aka the Wright Flyer) there is no requirement for it to have windshield wipers.

All McDonald Douglas Boeing had to do was find who owns the Wright Aircraft company today, buy it and do some renaming

>but the problem may also exist in 737s already being used by airlines

ie. they relied on a worker/whistleblower to report mistakes, their QA system didn't catch them in the fuselages already delivered.

That's the real issue - it's not finding faults, it's finding that you didn't find faults

Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

Re: Shirley?

The bookshop scene, the most amount of work for a payoff ever