Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

Now the motto of the US DoD

Just as there are "No atheists in a foxhole" the experience of Active Directory challenges anyone's faith in the absence of the Elder Gods

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

But they were French, always prone to over reacting

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

You're not even allowed to hang Quakers anymore in America - woke nonsense

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

That's unfair, the medievals were relatively chill compared to the early modern nut jobs that the USA is based on..

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

time() started on 1 Jan 1970, anything before that is a figment of your imagination.

ps Does the Islamic calendar have a pH year, same as BCE/BC, since it's from a real but arbitrary historic date ?

Re: Fostering friendship

>Plenty of opportunities for regret there...

Eternity at a StarTrek convention?

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

>religious whackjobbery originates in the US, and mostly a small subset of states at that ?

Good way of making sure you get to be in charge. If in this new land you can't claim to be top canine cos of who your great-great-...-grandfather was, then claiming that the magic sky faerie said so is a good scam.

Its still working today to get preachers Lear jets and Republicans elected.

Re: "young earth creationists believe it’s 600 years old."

600 years is presumably very young Earth creationists who believe that medieval cathedrals were put there by god at creation as a test of faith.

Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers

Re: Irish call centres

Yorkshire was popular because people trust Northerners but nobody could understand Geordies

Least trusted was London and Scouse apparently

That explains

How an economically confused lady was tricked out of a billion quid in a "supply and confidence" scam by Northern Ireland criminals posing as politicians

Did she pay it in gift cards ?

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

Re: Took em long enough

>Would rather debug boring stuff and get paid regularly for it without the bullshit hurt egos and mindless profit taking.

Assuming you live in the right country and have the right formal qualifications to apply for a job at Microsoft.

I think you're misunderstanding. It's the publication of source code that Microsoft objects to.

If you sold "exploits 365" as a subscription service with a monthly recurring bill they would be totally OK with it

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

Thick walls, underground spaces and physical obstacles routinely kill signal

UK home builders "First Pig Group" announced they will use their patented straw building technology to produce houses uniquely designed for indoor satellite phone use.

(* Keep out of reach of wolves.)

Re: Oz may be better market

Didn't the Oz government have a Grand Plan to run fibre up every tree in the country?

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

Inconceivable

The USA wouldn't subsidise an industry because it's against the very tenants of capitalism laid down by the great Reagan in his economic work, Ronnie's Coin Coloring Book

China being a Marxist state control can't subsidise industry cos it owns the means of production, it would be like claiming the shareholders in Tesla subsidise Elon Musk

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

What's wrong with lipstick on a pig? The pig might appreciate it

Re: Polishing a Turd

At least Clippy kept his/her/its dignity

Re: "The prompt surface can expand to fill the experience, making room for deeper work"

My prompt surface has expanded with experience, sadly that hasn't made room for deeper work - mostly room for chips + curry I suspect

California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

Re: I thought Americans liked guns?

The people that like guns are in the other team from the people that run this state. They can't do anything about guns in other States so they do something pointlessly performative.

It's like Barnsley town council banning attacks on Iram

Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops

Re: Typical large corporation throwing its toys out the pram

Even if they did win its not going to be a good look in court doing the equivalent of the tobacco industry claiming that anyone purchasing cigs isn't allowed to mention lung cancer.

Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform

Re: The elephant in the room

I'm a Linux since SLS floppies days, I have a stack of old used T480s - and even I'm tempted by a Neo if I needed to travel with a laptop.

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry

Gravity is only a theory

Gravity it's only theory

Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one

Re: Self-Steering Bicycle

> he had his eyes shut given the day lights and dayglo clothing the dude was wearing,

I believe there is some optical coating on Range Rover windscreens that blocks fluorescent biking gear

Re: Self-Steering Bicycle

We need to work on wireless trams that don't rely on hard-railed networks

Re: Was it lidar, sonar, radar or vision?

The Cambrian disagrees

What about a self-driving tram?

At least you have a reasonable idea where they are going to be on the road

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Re: Hello sailor!

No they simply have to adjust to the new cyber environment.

After its first tour the ship is going to come back festooned with RGB case lights and Temu wireless keyboards. Not to mention a nasty dose of McAfee

>how many heavyweight torpedos would it take to sink the Gerald R. Ford?

Torpedoes seem unnecessary when the ship can be rendered inoperable by its own bogs.

So a couple of cases of metamucil is enough

Re: Odd

>Stack them in the shipping container

Hardly, these are highly paid, skilled marine technicians.

The ship will simply tow a caravan.

Re: the LASV75 is 75 meters long

Except Bubba isn't going to know what a METRE is, you have to specify the length on football fields

Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data

Re: So the 590K preorders claimed in the press

We know the President does maths differently, that's 600% more orders

Re: Trump Mobile Customers…

But you know their password is going to be "trump" and their bank pin is 4547, like that scene in Trainspotting2 where they steal the Orange Lodge bank cards

A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets

Seems a lot of work

If he was targeting QAnon and MAGA why didn't he just launch "Greatest American Patriotic, Pickup Truck and Jesus Coin", sell $350M worth and it would be totally legal and probably tax free

Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care

Re: Inconceivable !

I believe the plan is to line them up in deckchairs along the south coast to defend against the armada of small boats allegedly invading the country.

The German forces failure to put a towel down to reserve the beaches of Normandy is what led to the success of D-day.

Re: Inconceivable !

Given the British diet I'm not so sure it's a good idea.

That's the huge advantage of Silicon Valley. We've raised a crop of vegan, WholeFoods eating, fitness-crazy, organic, billionaires for when we eat the rich.

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Isn't the Devil supposed to be punishing evil doers?

He does seem to be slacking off a little recently.

Re: Christians

As it says in the first book:

I refuse to prove I exist says God, for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing

Re: Christians

It's a sin to presume to know the will of the Lord

Simply "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet"

Re: Checking myself

>We prefer following Christ, not political party

So a heretic ?

Re: Christians

Isn't Legba the Opener of Gateways?

I don't know which vodoo is responsible for DNS but I don't want to meet them.

>the number of Americans who are certain god exists was about 50%, down from ~65% in the mid 1990s. So there is hope.

Presumably due to the continued lack of any well deserved righteous smiting

Re: The AI will no doubt

But that's only the hardware. Where does the inherent toastery-ness ascend to ?

Re: Christians

>If I go to any professional for help with <whatever>. and instead of <whatever>, s/he proceeds to start preaching his brand of woo at me

Although I've worked on a few compute clusters that only worked after a brief prayer - generally to Cthulhu.

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go

Re: Economics 101

We're investing $3-4Tn/year into AI. I'm hoping getting off-planet does more for the future of the human race than fake cat videos

UK’s Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children’s mental health

Re: Ban

In other news, Earth round, water wet

No it only affects children and warps their tiny fragile minds. Once they are old enough to drink, drive and vote they become perfectly efficient and rational processors of all information.

AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud

Re: Thales announces Eu-72 tank

The point was that Thales re-selling AWS as Sovereign Euro-cloud independent of the USA makes about as much sense as buying Russian T-72s and claiming they are a reliable supplier