Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

Re: "focused onto existing solar farms"

>it has conspicuously more utility as a weapon

Except it's in an orbit over the equator. It would only be useful against targets in the tropics - it would be useless against the threat of Greenland

Re: An impractical plan to bamboozle naive investors

>"the impact of obstructionist red tape on building solar installations"

I imagine if you have a satellite that can beam 1 GW of energy into a focused infrared beam you can deal with ground based obstructionist red tape rather easily.

In pretty much the same way that the Soviet 1st Army Front dealt with Berlin's one-way system

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Re: Thought experiment

But you can't make rousing patriotic films about buff young drones in tight shorts playing volleyball in order to attract sailors

Re: Confused

Hopefully the carrier isn't named after a US state that prohibits pumping your own refined petroleum product

Re: Combination refuelling drone and gunnery practice target?

So we're developing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for the relatively safe role of orbiting around a carrier as a flying Buc-ees to support sending expensively trained, and presumably valued, fleshy meat bags into a dangerous combat situation ?

did somebody have the PowerPoint slides in the wrong order ?

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

Re: "We haven't canceled anything yet"

Hopefully the new administration will correct the historical revisionism that removed any mention of the heroic contribution of national socialism to the US space program

Re: Disturbing statement

>The thing is that the US and Israeli military had already spent the money on the weapons, so it counted as 'sunk costs'

I think even my dog understands that if they eat the treat now, the treat is gone.

But it is a Border Collie, so compared to a US Senator.....

Re: Trump and MAGA Republicans loathe science (after all, science is the search for truth)

So long as these sort of people aren't given any sort of responsibility it's fine.

They are just a sort of harmless amusing anachronism - like the Amish or Scottish Labour MPs

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.

Official looking bloke with hardhat / hi-vis / clipboard wandering around the office - who must be authorised to be there because otherwise somebody else would have stopped him

Magnets. Very very big magnets

Re: Hooray for Password Day

Certain brand of mesh wifi doesn't let you use double characters in the admin password.

It does let you reset the password to the default one by pressing the little red button on the bottom

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

Re: value for money

Luxembourg doesn't need to bomb random 3rd world countries every time their leader gets into trouble.

They only need to buy a navy sufficient to defend themselves against the damn Belgians

Re: value for money

But we were beaten by the Taliban because we only had 19 carrier battle fleets and 5th generation fighters.

So if only we had another carrier and a 6th generation fighter

Re: Golden Dome is already obsolete

Didn't Ukraine just wipe out the Russian bomber force with drones in UHauls driven up to the fence of airbases 1000km behind the lines?

What's the American plan for examining every truck on US highways ?

Re: value for money

It's a reference to the classic of English literature

"The environmentalists lobby, however, ... claim the concert will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, irreparable damage to the atmosphere, and all the usual things environmentalists usually go on about. But I've just had a report that a representative of Disaster Area met with the environmentalists this morning and had them all shot"

Re: Due Diligence Every Time Ensure and Guarantees Ideally No Chance of Nasty Nazi Surprises.

The voice of reason in the current administration

China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Running repeats again

Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, President Trump is most anxious to eliminate all these German Chinese AIs.

General Melchett: Filthy han weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!

Captain Darling: And fortunately, one of our AI companies

General Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking IP and capital for America!

Re: Slightly confused

If the people and technology are still Chinese

If Lockheed moved it's HQ to Narnia so it could sell F35s to Russia, I suspect the USA would have an opinion

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm

...how exactly it intends to power the facility

If creating all these coins uses so much power, then destroying them must surely release it.

Our new business model will purchase worthless crypto-currency meme-coins, delete them and release the energy to generate vital cat pictures.

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

Re: Nonononoooo !

So they can't man-in-the-middle my 2a key?

Thanks

Re: the less unreliable barrier is

You think they have a mole in the circus flowerbed

Re: Nonononoooo !

Account name / email, password , 2fa authenticator replaced by clicking a passkey app?

Not sure how this is better? Especially when the bank keeps email as a recovery

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

Re: Just how complicated have they made it?

No it's a new biometric British identification system. If you queue properly while quietly grumbling to yourself you are identified as properly British and allowed in.

If you complain about the gross inefficiency of the system you are obviously foreign and possibly even German

Re: Just how complicated have they made it?

The real fun begins next year when holiday makers are blocked from boarding flights or refused entry on arrival because their departure wasn't logged and so the computer says they have overstayed their 180 day limit

Re: Government tech not working? Surely some mistake.

But this is 27 separate government IT projects all working together as a community

Re: Damn impertinance

Launch the imperial airship !

Damn impertinance

Foreigners were holding honest British sunseekers hostage?

The navy should send a the gunboat

Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why

Re: Free Range Batteries

I don't think potato batteries will be practical for EVs

Re: Solid State Batteris Heating Up More Quickly

That's only a problem with free range batteries in fields

With battery batteries it's not a problem

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

Re: Bah! Humbug.

>If the old system offers greater usability, why kill it off if it means inconvenience and disruption for certain classes of user?

Because it offered things like screen sharing, where that handy North Korean utility could copy the screen of your banking app.

> or are we all being forced to use the new square wheels on our bike?

No you're being forced to lock your front door. The problem with everyone using Unix is that the security that worked when only grad students had workstations is no longer appropriate

You're free to not use Ubuntu, you can always roll your own with XFree86 (or whatever it's called today)

Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack

Re: I'm surprised...

>..they didn't use 12345!

Pretty secure, but a bit inconvenient. It's approx 45650 digits long so will take a while to enter

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Re: Removing objections

But you had to hire lots more HR to deal with layoffs, then more HR to manage all the new HR, then more HR .....

HR is like entropy, makes everything worse and never reduces

Re: Removing objections

Well you don't need any junior staff anymore because AI can do all those grunt work jobs

So you obviously don't need any senior engineering leads because there are no junior staff for them to be senior to.

All you need are a CFO and an HR dept.

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

Re: It is quite simple.

Apologies, this is of course only the English, not British, system. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Ely, counties beginning with a vowel and LEAs holding a personal charter from King John will of course naturally have their own system

Re: It is quite simple.

What's wrong with the perfectly logical British system of: nursery, infants, juniors, secondary 1st to 5th year followed by lower and upper 6th ?

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

Re: Vocabulary

Like they're going to vote for the brown lady if they don't get bailed out ?

They're going to vote "R" even if plagues of first born sons are ravaging their lands.

This is a "special financial operation" for some billionaire landowners

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

You need to buy my new secret $$$ anti-pig drone system.

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing

Re: WTF !!!

There are EVA suits but nothing designed for walking on the moon since the early 1960s

Even the ISS suits were IIRC Shuttle era remnants. Some astronauts were unable to fly because there were only a limited number of suit component sizes and nothing would fit them.

Re: robots

But if you needed to design an astronaut robot to look all square-jawed and wholesomely American to stand next to a politician for the social media ?

Re: WTF !!!

>How do you tender for ANYTHING if you don't define some standards that have to be met !!!

There were probably 1000s of pages of standards

From the proportion that had to be built by veteran owned business to the font required on the tender document.

As to the details of the actual suit - how are we supposed to have standards for that, we haven't built one for like 75 years ?

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

Re: Living and working in France...

Isn't that the essence of being Parisian?

Re: Living and working in France...

So true communism was achieved in France, but with fashion and wine and croissants?

If only Marx had lived in Nice instead of Manchester

National Agency for Secure Titles

Rather tempting fate, like calling a ship the HMS Unsinkable

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

Re: MMB

The Egg Marketing Board ate just the political front for the Potato Council

>I am surprised that anyone would be surprised that US intelligence agencies might want to use equipment being shipped to countries on their naughty list for espionage.

Yes because we assumed the American intelligence was mostly focused on attacking allies and trading partners

> the US government simply does not have any comparable legal tools with regard to US companies.

Are you ding a Fringe Standup show this year ?

Re: MMB

>how long have the Milk Marketing Board been a player in global cyber-security

The Milk Marketing Board are behind all global conspiracies

( except for the JFK shooting, that was Nessie)

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters

Re: Met-iculous

That statistic doesn't say what the offenses were.

I doubt there were 86,500 mobile phone thefts, I suspect somebody is counting every self-checkout "mistake" and then conflating some headline/

Since introducing automatic self-firing multi-barrelled rocket launchers the local library has seen a 10% reduction in overdue books and terrorist attacks

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

Re: Satanic Mills

But weren't Drax / Ferrybridge / Fidlers in the North ?

Do they have computers in the north ?