Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

Re: The real danger

You know Aussie Rules was invented as a way for the cricket team to keep fit in the off season? Scary!

Re: If we banned calculus in schools …

Sum results though

Obviously a cunning plan to train children for the information security environment of the C21

We could extend this policy to other areas. If we banned calculus in schools then presumably children would discover underground calculus resources and all be experts in Cauchy's theorem.

The real danger

Can we ensure that Australian youths do not have access to cricket?

We have to think of our future

Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice

So I paid

A whole cow for these 3 magic beans but I have to pay another cow for the licence to plant them?

Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby

Re: Communication

>I will speculate that Heinlein figured the magnitude for a time when the earth and moon were closer to inferior conjunction, and therefore not at their brightest.

Alternatively, I would speculate Heinlein was actually thinking about boobs

Re: All rather disappointing

That was when we were in a childish arms race with the USSR

Now we demonstrate our superiority over the Chinese communists with our glorious infrastructure, advanced high-speed trains and our next-generation energy grid

Re: Waiting. And waiting...

>the mid-deck crew just got to sit there and twiddle thumbs

And read the safety card in the seat pocket in front and browse the duty-free list ?

Re: Waiting. And waiting...

Once the hatch is closed do you have to have your phone in rocket mode? Or can you still be on Reddit?

scheduled for April 1

Lift off in 1,000,000 ... 999,999 ..... 999,998

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

"They have also developed key architectural and training advances that are now industry standards."

The blaggards, obviously cheating by being girly swots and clever-clogs

I think it's time for us to deploy our ultimate weapon.

Teams of management consultants will be parachuted into China, followed by a beach assault from His Imperial Presidency's 1st Private Equity division.

Soon their industries will be in ruins

Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs

Re: Who will buy....?

>it was to ensure there were people who made enough money to buy his cars.

It wasn't - that was made up years later by a writer who was 'sympathetic' to Ford's political views

The problem was that industry was booming so you trained somebody on your assembly process and next month the plant across the street is offering 25c more, you lose a worker.

What Ford did realise was that the cost + loss in productivity in replacing an employee was more than the increase salary. Something modern tech industry has apparently forgotten.

Ironically this became more of a problem because of assembly lines which meant that workers had to be specifically trained for your line. Rather than needing skilled apprentice/journeyman workers who could be productive from day one.

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

Re: "hiding behind the religious banner of national security"

>doesn't benefit anyone at any point

Foreign manufacturers can be placed on an approved list and allowed to bypass the law.

It's not clear what the approval process is but may involve payments to a country club in Florida

Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones

Re: Where's my money?

Nukes are terribly expensive and you really don't want to use them up. Not when white phosphorus is so much more cost effective on undefended civilian targets and has the advantage that the resulting territory is sanitizwd and non-radioactive

Re: Here's my revolutionary, never-been-tried-before solution:

Attacking other countries is manifestly un·american. but might i suggest they concentrate on attacking America?

Since for much of the country the civil war was the height of their patriotic identity. It would be the one thing to heal the political divide and bring left and right together in the one thing they can agree on, enjoying killing Americans.

Re: Where's my money?

That assumes you tell people you aren't attacking other countries.

If however you announce an attack on Agrabah with accompanying AI generated footage of your glorious missliles defintiley not hitting playschools, milk factories and your own side.

Then you can keep a war going as long as you want for the price of a couple of Claude licenses, with perfectly timed victories, no returning coffins and no loss of expensive military kit

Might I propose?

Halibut with Laser Beams

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

Re: On-the-take-Trump

I meant all other non-Apple phones, being made in China, would be banned in the USA.

In the same way that foreign routers have just been banned - unless you are on the President's special friends list.

Re: On-the-take-Trump

No it's not, because Apple aren't going to build an iPhone in the USA. They are going to source 1% of the glass screens from Corning's USA plant for phones made in India

In return all other "Made In China" phones will be banned, unless they pay a special fee to be on the special approved list.

Re: Trump can MAGA by targeting markets that US manufacturing can dominate.

Music

Movies

Microcode

High speed Pizza delivery

Tim is worth his salary

He gets the most expensive "Made in China" consumer item in the USA exempt from the tariffs that apply to MAGA hats. He skipped being identified with the billionaires in the bunker group - so Apple don't get the Tesla treatment by rich Californians

And all it cost was a few empty promises and a fake gold trophy

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Meanwhile Amazon Dubai

Report that everything is normal, nothing to see here, still a perfectly nice tax-free place to be an influencer

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Repair shop bodge

So you cut a hole in the desk!

Re: Not the same, but ...

>as a BoFH if you cannot lock up your users,

What kind of poor excuse for a BOFH can't find a way? /That's what the sub-aub-basement is for

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Re: 1/3 wrong of 60 is progress (?)

But it could be useful if you're very confused and might be about to put marmalade on your slippers

Re: I am reminded of the Peter Principle

So all the middle managers could be replaced by AIs all hallucinating Vision statements and creating PowerPoints for each other?

Re: 1/3 wrong of 60 is progress (?)

>Doesn't sound very encouraging to me :⁠-⁠)

Which would you prefer:

1, AI identifies 60 security holes in your OS. 20 aren't really holes but the others were and can be fixed

2, A human expert security engineer identifies 2 genuine flaws in your product and it took months, in which time they have been exploited.

Would you rather have a smoke alarm that goes off 33% of the time you make toast, or one which never goes off when there's a fire ?

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

But unless they are forced to participate, ie jury duty, then the ones who say yes are still self-selected

Isn't that what low wages and high house prices have been trying to do ?

I don't blame the politicians

Many of them are over 60 and so would have been exposed to that pop music as children before 'Parental Advisory' labels came in.

That explains what warped their fragile minds

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros

Re: Wooden panel, glass panel, tech panel...

He got rid of the Enola Gay, that'll teach those sissy woke atom bombs

Re: Well of course...

>Downvoter, explain your reasoning,

Get paid $1 for every 1000 posts mentioning Trump/Musk

How much is the membership fee?

Can't expect regular scientists to pay $1M

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life

Re: Why?

Funny we had the opposite. When Dell cancelled the super thin XPS 13 the bosses who are in the air 75% of the time decided they weren't carrying around heavy Latitudes and switched to using MacBook Air and doing everything on O360.5 and web teams

So the XPS 13

That everyone loved, and Dell cancelled

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants

Re: AI can also speed up nuclear disasters

>AI should not be trusted

I bow to your superiority in identifying abnormalities in medical imaging

After all a monkey brain visual cortex evolved to spot ripe fruit is perfectly adapted to multi-wavelength, confocal images or reconstructing MRI data

Re: Lets count the victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hheros

That's unfair. Al is a great guy, he has worked at Boeing for years and he is really good at rigging tests and fooling the FAA

Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train

Re: 300W CPU

Does anyone want some toast ?

RSA panelists cry out for help to missing feds

Re: Genuine question.

>They all need individualised training and rigorous testing to rectify their vulnerabilities

Could this be a strategic advantage for GlobalBritain(tm) ?

An army of GPs receptionists and local council plannig depts trained to not answer the phone and not supply any useful information to callers in any form.

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

Re: Countdown 3...2....1...

Hyperloop = he just needs Moleman to tunnel up underneath the shuttle and then dig toward Texas

Re: Isn't This The Point?

>It would seem to me that Discovery certainly can be moved intact, the only real obstacle is money and collateral property harm along the route.

Fit a bulldozer blade to the front of the Shuttle Transport Crawler ....

Re: 747?

>I think iran have some old 747's from before the islamic revolution.

Perhaps they could give Trump one in return for their oil fields getting bombed ?

Re: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ?

The moon landing was filmed in the UK. You just need a lifeless desolate wasteland with no atmosphere.

I think they used Wales on a Sunday

But The President owns NASA and the Smithsonian - along with everything else in America

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

So there is a market ....

for internet that can be fitted nasally ?

Re: 80 billion

And possibly some creative accounting - anything billed to Metaverse was probably eligible for R&D tax credits so long as they didn't produce a product

Re: Yup

That was their reason for launching it - they couldn't see a critical market - but put it out in front of a billion potential users and somebody might

When they were working on the iPhone they didn't plan on Uber

porn drove every development since fire (or how to see cave-lady when sun go away )

Re: "staring at little rectangles in their hands"

That's your mistake. If you had hooked them up to some pipes filled with water and a turbine - you would have had a power station

Re: "staring at little rectangles in their hands"

>main characteristic needed to run a nuclear power station isn't computing power, but reliability. And determinism,

I think Uranium really really helps

(Of course in 30years you will be able to do it with sea water)