Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

It's not wasted

The job of the DoD is to spend a $1Tn defense budget in the USA.

It can buy 50,000 more Humvees and park them in the desert after already retiring the program

It can buy a couple more nuclear aircraft carriers in case the current 16 aren't enough to defeat the Venezuelan navy

It can pay soldiers more and invest in veteran care (Joking!)

It can ship pallets of $100 bills to Iraq and lose them

Or it can bankroll a disastrous failed product by the company that corporate America and the American govt relies on for Piss-Poor-Powerpoint-Presentations

At least this won't actually kill anyone

Google Docs' AI-powered inclusive writing auto-correct now under fire

Re: Not a good suggestion

Presumably rent-seeking is an admiring term from economists !

Re: Orwellian nightmare

The other ironic one is the countries of Niger and Nigeria, both mean river in the local language group but face pressure from 'well meaning' white people in California

Re: Not a good suggestion

> it proposed replacing the word "landlord"

In an interview with the Admiral from the Falklands Special Military Operation who is now "First Sea Lord".

He was saying that some army bod was complaining that they don't get such good titles as the navy. The sailor explained that the Army equivalent would presumably be "First Landlord" and that might not be quite as respected

Re: Orwellian nightmare

If your maths textbooks has words it's not maths it's just arithmetic

Re: Orwellian nightmare

>Yep and you have the term "coloured" that I've been taught is no longer PC, which is fine,

Except for the NAACP

Re: unfix the unfixable

>not to worry about conversational swear words when dealing with customers in the UK!

Although do expect to get killed if you say Derry-stroke-Londonderry in the wrong order

Re: Orwellian nightmare

I thought swearing in Scotland was just punctuation?

Booms and front-of-chests please

Could a leaky capacitor be at fault on ESA's Sentinel-1B?

Re: squirty can

It should already be pretty cold up there. Just take your helmet off and breathe on it and see which part doesn't get frosty - errm perhaps not.....

This particular capacitor is part of the main and redundant regulators

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

EU eyes tech giant revenues as Digital Services Act clears hurdles

Best outcome - since you can't tax multinationals this will just become a revenue source. Google declares 10Bn in revenue but zero profit, fine them 1bn

Worst outcome - politician gets to decide which media company broke Ill defined law based on how well their tweets trended

Uni team demo algorithm to shield conversations from eavesdropping AI

Re: Lewis Carrol was there first ....

Message received:

must kill president

Re: So it's the Audio equivalent of adding specially-crafted pixels to an Image file?

I just run amanfromMars1 utterances through a text-to-speech and point it at alexa

Re: How does it work?

Step 1, don't buy one

Step 2, profit

US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit

Re: Don’t look up.

Or down

What about attacks from below?

Evil pinko commie methodist terrorists tunneling into our vital infrastructure.

We need a Mole Force(tm) to counter attacks between the Army's traditional foxhole depth and the lower mantle

Robots are creepy. Why trust AIs that are even creepier?

Re: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Unless that human is an idiot or a manager

Re: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In el'reg the humans are parked to be on call and plug skynet back in after the cleaning robot unplugged it

Re: Ahhh, smug mode.

Or indeed Chris Barrie

Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

Re: How do we verify ...

Because we already gave them everyone's information

Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes

Re: You were lucky

Until you found out they were metric holes

What will help enterprises meet sustainability goals? Algorithms, says Oracle

ESG

To everyone else ESG means environmental, social, and governance.

To Oracle it means sustaining their enterprise.

Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD

Re: Bureaucratic territorialism and sweetheart contracts

Ridiculous, everybody knows that in a modern high-tech multi-sensor warfare environment you select your military leaders based on the antiquity of the school they went to

So they use British ARM chips, fabbed in Taiwan by TSMC on Dutch ASML machines made into circuit boards by Foxconn but then put into a mil spec metal box by General Dynamics and stamped USA - to ensure supply chain

But surely all the new flavors of crayon have made a difference ?

Re: Bureaucratic territorialism and sweetheart contracts

But can our defense industry out-graft their defense industry?

What if they can steal better and faster than us?

Re: It can't...

Fortunately the Pentagon only has to go up against USSR Russia, N. Korea and Venezuela.

It did try going up against more lean startup-style entrepreneurial enemies in Afghanistan, it didn't go well.

reinventing the wheel

We reinvented the wheel and gave it 5 sides

Research believes that by adding more and more sides we will be able to achieve a smoother ride.

Growing US chip output an 'expensive exercise in futility', warns TSMC founder

Re: To paraphrase

Presumably when TSMC opened there weren't many fab engineers in Taiwan either.

All US companies have to do is take the highly educated and motivated STEM students in Arizona and make a long term investment in training them on the details of fab engineering

Big Apple Apple Store workers hope to form union

Re: tenure

This is a New York union fight, it won't have all the fluffy communal love and hugs of say the N.U.M.

The electricians union is going to step in and demand that anybody who services a computer is theirs and Fruit Stand Workers can't take the back of a machine, then the communications workers are going to demand that only they can do phones.

It's why general union like the Teamsters are so big there - they negotiate with companies and governments to be the only union in a closed shop - in return they are generally very accommodating to the employer.

UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups 'targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware'

Re: Civil Servents must really hate Boris.

> Australia politicians don't get vetted and/or cleared.

No but at least you put them in prison.

Many of our politicians should be vetted, or at least taken to the vet

Re: Well duh

There is some sort of irony that you can be a political refugee from an Eu member country and at the same time be able to freely move to another Eu country because you are a member.

Re: Well duh

>human rights violations

That's not a problem, we'll only use it against foreigners and terrorists - not humans with rights

Re: Well duh

But we need to develop honest British spyware.

British people have the right to have their privacy violated by honest British spyware developed by honest British paid subcontracted Tata employees

Re: Why does NSO get a free pass from the UK?

It tried to claim sovereign immunity for the Kashoggi murder claiming it was working for the Saudi govt.

Re: Wreck of the Medusa, Ship of Fools.

Yes but the alternative would be that a government IT bod has to clean all the porn off his official phone. You don't want to imagine what sort of stuff senior Tories are into

Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations

Re: Moral Compass

And the war package is extra. But the special military operations package is a special option and needs consultants

Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD

Re: Who gets 5nm?

>Does this mean Intel have 5nm pending?

Yes they have solved the technical problem.

They hired an intern who knows how to change the background image on the Powerpoint template from the 7nm(nb not real nm) logo to 5nm(nb not really nm) logo

Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs

Re: Artemis foul?

"every part built by the lowest bidder".

That's really unfair.

Every part was built by the lowest bidder in that congressional district. You try getting an equal value of Apollo components built in Arkansas and West Virginia

Re: might... you forgot the word might.

1, Make a disposable rocket more expensive than the reusable one

2, ?????

3, Profit !

NASA takes the credit when an aerospace company built rover or telescope works

Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist

>If I hold my money in a UK bank

Assuming that the bank on the UK high street is a "UK bank"

Re: Help me understand....

Isn't that the point of lawyers, you hire one to find a way out of the water tight contract you got another one (or the same one) to write?

Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court

But Google insist that you have to show them the same view that you show other visitors.

Google will block you if you show data to them for indexing and block that data to visitors - Google aren't in the business of providing free search for your walled garden

Re: "protect our members' ability to control the information they make available on LinkedIn"

I "architected the vault of the heavens", "created the world in 6days - ahead of schedule" and "invented coffee" according to my Linkedin profile - and I still get job offers for web developer

Re: site stupidity.

if I'm a big headhunting operation and I PAY LOTS OF MONEY to mine LinkedIn's data I'm welcome

Re: site stupidity.

>Once upon a time robots.txt was there to stop scraping but that seems to have worked on the principle of a gentleman's agreement

It was to tell the search engine that this was dynamically generated data that wouldn't be available in future and so shouldn't be indexed.

It wasn't to tell the search engine that it should index it for search, but anybody coming to the site for the result should pay - you have to be some sort of sexchange expert to expect that.

Broken password check algorithm lets anyone log into Cisco's Wi-Fi admin software

Re: I'd guess

Is that like the tiny secret invisible (except to Bloomberg's CEO) Chinese spy chips on Supermicro and Lenovo motherboards ?

Re: I'd guess

You have to picture some engineer deep in the MMB thinking Oh FFS.

He spent years secretly hiding the subtlest of backdoors in CISCO updates and then they do this.

Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model?

Computer generated training images

Slight problem with self-driving cars that all head toward the spinning Nvidia logo on billboards