Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home

Re: Orange man...

Was thinking more of Haiti

>Powerpoint presentations

Yes that's what the OP said, torture

Re: smartwatches

So you admit to spying on the locations of dozens of GPS satellites vital to our national security?

Re: Orange man...

No, James Bolivar diGriz worked really hard to steal that election, this guy just stood on stage and laughed at the disabled and war heroes.

Re: Orange man...

> it isn't practical to put a former president who is under 24x7 secret service protection in jail.

What about in an army camp on a small corner of a little Caribbean island off Florida ?

Re: Orange man...

>President Trump has admitted he had the documents in question,

But he is a notorious liar

Re: 46-month

She wasn't found rich -

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits

Send me your poor huddled masses

Of scientists, engineers, programmers

Of course this was the country that let in all those entrepreneurs and over educated people from Hong Kong and all the Indian people from Africa that Britain went to such lengths to keep out.

Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May

Because Microsoft charge for accounts.

Charging lawyers for services that you don't deliver is more evil than giving away free email and not giving a stuff when it goes wrong.

Re: Second email account

>having your own email server isn't hard

Getting it hosted by someone who isn't blacklisted as spam by MSFT and GOOG is

Wind tunnels for fluid dynamics boffins among UKRI's £72M funding

Re: $10 million will be spent on building the ELT

The government announces 100 guineas of funding for boffins and a shiny sixpence will be given to each urchin at Christmas

$10 million will be spent on building the ELT

The merely Very Large Telescope cost > €1bn in the 90s

10million won't build an instrument for ELT

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

When your HR dept has a performance target for workplace shootings.

Re: The USSA police state

In Britain they campaigned to be a race. There was a race relations act banning racism but not religious discrimination. Jews and Sikhs got classified as 'races' and so were protected.

Re: they could delete the entire trip

And take the Sim out of their phone so they can't be tracked by cell tower data, and turn off Bluetooth and wifi so stores near the clinic can't use foot traffic scanning and remove the battery in case Google still have some features enabled.

Also remember to wear your Guy Fawkes mask

You know, normal taking responsibility stuff.

Re: The USSA police state

Your viewing of this British website has been logged and your counter revolutionary activities have been noted

So companies fund the NRA because it reduces pension costs?

Or it's just an easy first step on their ultimate plans.

Re: "The Land of the Free"

If you're the one defining who is "The Free" it's pretty good

If you want a big brain, make a habit out of daytime naps

Re: Doesn't work

>Show me how to Power Nap for 5 minutes.

I can teach you how to PowerPoint nap for 45-60 minutes

That's why you have to take a scientific approach to analysing research publications

By only reading those who support red wine, cheese, coffee, chocolate, naps etc you can live a much longer happier life - or at least believing you will while living an actual happier life

Re: Depends...

>but my in-laws would nap all day if they could

That's the advantage of being raised by cats

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: Unique keys

Signed with an X isn't necessarily illiteracy (although they probably were). It's a cross as in christian not 'x' as in unknown - saying that they were swearing to God the statement was true.

If they were doing this in front of people who knew who they were then there is no need for their name.

Re: Even name + DoB is not enough

We had an American student whose loan company managed to get hold of her despite addressing the letter to "Ms X, Jesus College, England"

>Never. Ever. Attempt. Humour. At. Immigration.

What about a little light whimsy ?

Re: Unique keys

My middle name is just a space

Re: Unique keys

>He missed "All names, when rendered in the Latin alphabet have at least one vowel."

And have at least 3 characters

Re: Unique keys

So Mr Thorfin SkullSpliiter why are you travelling with this small child whose passport says Thorfinnsdottir ?

And will you be checking that hammer or taking it as cabin baggage?

Re: Proof if needed

>It meant that we repeated our mistakes exactly.

It doesn't say you have to follow your documented procedures - it just says everyone has to have been trained on them

Re: Sometimes HR can be too efficient

Everyone else in the office was presumably called Bruce

Re: Unique keys

>UK treats full name, date of birth and place of birth as a reliably unique identifier

Fortunately people's chosen name is totally uncorrelated with family cultural background and people with similar ethnicity are randomly and uniformly distributed geographically

Re: Unique keys

>It takes no time at all to guess people's CPR number.

That's a good thing - it stops the idea here that your SSN is some secret key that somehow verifies that it is you

Re: Unique keys

>which was in the name of... John Smith NULL

One of the Gloucestershire NULLs ? Very fine family

Re: Unique keys

>What prevents me from making a new key every day, walking in with some identification, and having it verified?

It wouldn't match the barcode tattooed on your forehead

Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams

Re: recipients of their binaries

I'm saying that irrelevant legal letters can still cost you time and money if you end up having to get a lawyer to write to a customer's lawyer to say that there is no real legal threat.

It gets worse if the customer is a government and therefore cannot be logically argued with.

Or somebody is trying to get out of a deal and you didn't disclose an "outstanding legal threat"

Re: GPL violation

>I've fired M3 grease guns and M2 .50 BMG machine guns made by IBM

Back when boardroom fights meant something

Re: recipients of their binaries

>Cease and desist have no real power,

Before we can qualify you as a supplier for $BIG CONTRACT can you confirm there is no outstanding legal issues ?

ps you aren't allowed to explain it's a check box on the form.

Lying on the form means we get your first born and can kill your dog

American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed

no "evidence" of use

What possible risk could there be for everyone+dog being able to make 'genuine' pilot ID cards ?

In my day we had to use the decals from model 707s

If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault

Re: Ignorance is Bliss and Heaven Sent and Much Appreciated by AI and ITs Likes

amanfromMars 1 reveals his true identity

Re: Conspiracy or cock-up?

Or that's what the AI wants you to think

Perhaps the incompetence is a cover - like Jerome K Jerome's suggestion that actors dressed as English tourists be sent around Europe to convince the French And Germans that they were a laughable people not worth having a war with.

ASML caught in Dutch oven with China export restrictions

Re: An Error?

Those Japanese chaps could never make motorbikes/cameras/electronics as well as British/Germans/Americans

And the former colonies could never make steam engines/looms/ships as well as British factories

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

Re: There is an article

>First iPhone: $499

>Current iPhone: $799

>I can't say I understand where you get that "future versions will be cheaper" idea :)

The iPhone was always a 'mass' consumer market device.

The first Apple laser printer was $7000 in 1985 = the price of an average car.

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

Re: Seems Legit

>Refresh my memory please. Which political party happily went to war on a lie?

But that was just to keep the American government happy.

This party aren't going to give American health care companies all this data so they can bid for the privatised NHS.

UK cyberspies warn ransomware crews targeting law firms

Re: Widespread adoption of hybrid working

GCHQ wouldn't spy on human-rights/immigration lawyers - except in those few cases where they admitted spying on human-rights/immigration lawyers

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

Re: Pathological guesser

But if the user has actual inteligence then they might realise that "make me a painting of my dog in the style of a heavy metal album cover" or "write me a python socket server class, that works like all the examples you've found on the web" or even "considering all the billions of example images you've seen - does this picture of a mole look like a cancerous one?" are good uses of AI.

Tell me when the next train is leaving X for Y or tell me all the real court cases that are relevant to this one - aren't

BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI

Re: Its a cunning wheeze

It does sound like the opening salvo from HR in an interview with the BOFH

Re: Quite ironic

"their excuse being that the "What 3 words" was not accurate enough"

It's a good attempt though.

Here in the rural bits of HRH's overseas dominions 3/4 of the roads are unnamed logging roads, towns are called things like "100mi house" (or presumably now "161km house"), even the roads with names are often called something different on the government maps, the signpost and by the locals.

So having an accident halfway up a mountain and being asked for a street address and postcode by a remote call center isn't very useful. There is even a single official "Rural Area" postcode which covers close to 1M sq km and several islands.

Reading a lat/long to an ambulance is probably more error prone than W3W - you did remember that your rural map is probably NAD83 and your phone's GPS is WGS84 didn't you ?

Re: Useful for staging accidents

Seems a bit tame for farm accidents.

This one went through a combine after falling into a silo and being attacked by a bull