Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

So their moonbase will have a 3-lunar-buggy garage filled with junk and the buggies parked outside ?

Americans have got considerably larger since the 1960s

Obviously became Apollo didn't have all these pinko woke liberal environmental climate change laws

The new mission will be coal powered

Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026

But Ireland is owned by Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle - so it's a bit of circular accounting

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

Re: So let me get this right

But at least Tulips gave smug Calvinists something to put in their smug pamphlets and economics textbook authors an example to misunderstand

So let me get this right

Capitalism, the most efficient way to ensure that limited resources go to the most effective use - is forcing companies to build expensive ram for an AI that nobody wants and causing shortages for products that people are clamouring to buy.

Are we sure we read the right textbooks ?

Re: Anyone remember ...

But back then your toolbar icons weren't animated. What kind of primitive office memos could you write without window opening effects

Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

Re: Pretending to be AI

We don't want any of that sort of talk here - we've got aManfromMars for that

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

I really don't think the American tax-payer is quite so guillable.

On the other hand if Fox "News" said it was being allowed to crash and burn because it had discovered aliens .....

Re: 2028 sounds like a death sentence for Hubble

>With a bit of luck it will fall onto the orange one's head in the White House.

Sadly Hubble's orbit inclination is about 28.5deg so it can't even hit Houston

Mar-a-lago on the other hand.....

Yes but only if you had used disposable rockets instead of cheap safe reliable reusable Space Shuttles

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Re: Peak insanity

So a strategic resource ?

Gentlemen, we cannot allow a stupidity gap to develop !

- the back of the PV panel is nowhere near big enough.

Erm it exactly is, assuming you aren't too concerned about the temperature your panels get to

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Re: Definition

So long as you hire a good judge you should be ok

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

All the difficulties of on-prem combined with the costs of cloud.

Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

Re: "turn identity verification data into a government-controlled people tracker"

Who would have thought Big Brother could have got you to pay $1500 to install your own VidScreen ?

4months to do a Sellafield

Shit it looks like Palantir are bad PR -Announce we will now support "Fluffy Bunny Solutions" for our age-verification system (*)

* Fluffy Bunny Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Beelzebub (Hades) Ltd

** Beelzebub (Hades) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Palantir

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

Re: But ...

Assuming people who aren't idiots don't sign $Bn contracts without a lot of get-out clauses

And NVidia are NOT idiots

6GW of chips

Seems an odd unit.

Like going to Sotherbys and saying "10tonnes of paintings please"

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: What's the target platform the investors imagined?

The share price drop was based on high speed trading algorithms predicting that other slower trading algorithms would sell based on the idea that retail investors (ie suckers) would sell based on any "AI+software company" news

Profitable investors don't care about how this affects the company, just on how other investors predict other investors will think other investors will react

The problem is you need to be an expert on how a particular COBOL compiler from the 1970s, that was modified for the needs of a company that we aquired, interacts with RPG, CICLS , JCL and a specific accounting package that was developed in-house in 1980.

Re: COBOL is not obsolete

Assuming you have been regularly rewriting your system to take advantage of these new programming paradigms and not just patching the machine code for a system you lost the source for in 1980

And a cheap outsourced to IBM India programmer wouldn't have the same problems?

This is IBM's issue, it's not that AI can replace COBOL, it's that AI can do the same shitty job as IBM 'consulting' but not charge $10k/day

SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

Re: Making a splash

You could always tie the 2nd stage to the first stage with string, like little kids mittens, the when you recover the 1st stage the 2nd stage comes along for free

Re: Norwich

Although more fingers

Re: C'mon...

An asteroid the size of Belgium is approaching Earth - unfortunately there is no way of ensuring it hits Belgium

Re: This is a problem, but a different one

Anyway the rocket front fell off exploded outside the environment

Re: Lithium...

You can't have chemtrails in the USA. Dosing everyone with pyscho-active drugs for free? That's socialised medicine

Re: Ozone

that's why insects have so many legs. With 6 arm pits they use lots of spray-on deodorant and so destroy the ozone - it's all in nature's balance

Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

Re: Invested billions to train sophisticated models

Even in the old analogue business world it was necessary to 'invest' in sawn-off shot guns and stockings before beginning a dynamic new enterprise to disrupt the banks.

ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

Re: On-the-Fly Encryption/Decryption

The weakness of all modern encryption systems is that they allow the user to decrypt the data in order to work with it.

Using our revolutionary ancient encryption system all your data is converted into linear-A on input and is permanently unintelligible to any internal or external system.

Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

Re: Potemkin Security

It's a fingerprint sensor, it senses a fingerprint. Any fingerprint.

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases

Re: "buying a China-built electric car"

And that is different to a modern liquid dinosaur car , how ?

Just ahead of their time, the self-recycling bio-degradable eco-car

Re: Electro-gizmo-cam-bleepers

That was the punchline !

Some are better, electric windows are more reliable than manual ones

Some are necessary, try meeting emissions spec with a carburettor and manual choke and safety with a push-button manual air-bag

Some save money, a canbus is cheaper than running individual wires to ever light/switch/actuator

Funnily the ones that the manufactures were pushing, the expensive fancy pay-for-upgrades infotainment and satnav is the stuff people just replace with their phone

Re: Electro-gizmo-cam-bleepers

So in the event of a Gamma Ray Burst / EMP event / Carrington solar flare - my 70's MGB's electrics will not be affected ?

Re: Similar Conclusion

> buying a China-built electric car - - represents a very high risk.

China isn't the highly connected, EV-making country country threatening to annex me

Re: If some genius hadn't decided that all cars had to be connected

>When it insists. I stop the already stopped car...

But if the train crashed you'd be glad the car didn't roll forward and dent a bumper !

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Re: Fit For Purpose?....

But we did manage to retake India ?

Re: Build your own planes domestically

> Hawker Siddeley developed the Hawk, both of which proved to be capable light attack aircraft as well.

Nonsense they are entirely innocent training aircraft as detailed in the end user certificate

That $MilitaryJunta$ that we sold them to is using them to bomb their own people is just an example of extremely realistic training.

When, in the words of General Buck Turgidson, "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Oracle company"

Re: Build your own planes domestically

Isn't that what France has done on every joint European fighter project since Louis Blériot ?

Re: There's a great alternative to the F35

> since you can transfer the $60m maintenance contract and R&D licencing fees from the crashed one

If you can recover the license sticker from the bottom

Re: You'd like to think

> most critical avionics is entirely down to Lockheed Martin.

Who presumably outsourced it to India

DOGE bites taxman

Re: The assignment....

I thought 'Vaya con Dios' was some weird religious sect that Vance (not his real name) and Bannon (not his real body) were into ?

Civil War in 2 months

The one thing your pickup driving gun totting patriot cares about is getting their tax refund cheque and heading to Walmart

If the cheques/checks are late there will be disgruntlement

You can't have rich people paying taxes, that's communism.

It's like saying that they should be prosecuted for their little peccadilloes

Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say

Re: Wait a second...

No he did it centuries from now