Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives

Re: AI and satellite controlled gun

Also worth noting that this is hardly a unbiased report.

Re: Public confidence?

>On what planet does this make a match? Get out of my office before I have you arrested for being a fucking idiot."

You show it a police training set where 90% of the targets are black and let it loose in a population where 10% of the population it sees are black, it is going to choose the wrong targets. It isn't the software's fault.

Channel Isles cop sacked after abusing police database to track down women drivers for Instagram 'comic' page

Re: It illustrates the problem

>Essentially, how does someone like that think that they should be in the police force?

Blackadder:

He's a violent, bigoted, mindless fool.

Prince George:

Sounds a bit over-qualified. Well, get him here at once.

Let's check in now with the new California monolith... And it's gone, torn down by a bunch of MAGA muppets

Re: Mixed feelings

>What self-respecting Extraterrestrial race would want to associate with us when we have idiocy like this running rampant in our societies?

What if we're the galactic equivalent of a game show ?

A planet wide big-brother / celebrity arsehole in the jungle type of thing ?

what a shame

If only they had thought to pick up some bones and bash each other over the head - in another million years or so they could have evolved into Leonard Rossiter

Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma Machine

Re: Old typewriter

It was to make it 'backward compatible' with other lower security services that only had 3 wheel systems.

Generally this is a 'good thing', sending exactly the same message, eg a weather forecast, in easy code for fishing boats and ultra top super security mode for u-boats is a 'bad thing'

Re: Old typewriter

>"Telephone".

>Not at sea or in the air.'

You don't generally send encrypted messages to the air.

Dear spitfire pilot in the battle of Britain, switch to autopilot and get out your typex machine to decode this message telling you where the German fighters are

Similarly you don't transmit a powerful radio signal from London telling your convoys where to sail to tomorrow in the same way that a U-boat HQ has to

Re: Old typewriter

>what methods did the British have to hide their communication from the Germans during the war

Telephone, Britain had less need to use radio for most comms.

Less centralized, so wider variety of codes rather than everything being enigma while ironically a more concentrated and centralized analysis effort compared to political separate organizations on the other sode

Re: Old typewriter

>Micro biologists and molecular biologists get annoyed

But they are so small you can generally ignore them

Glastonbury hippy shop Hemp in Avalon rapped for spouting 'plandemic' pseudoscience

Re: Knowing what you're talking about

>we Jews are to blame.

At least you kept the franchise

Us catholics were 'preferred terrorists' for 400years before a few Muslims stole the gig

Re: Surgical teams?

That's why junior doctors fall asleep after a 96hour shift, it's the mask

Re: If all of the isle were still under water ...

You would need a hell of a pressure change to make CO2 bubble out.

The bends is caused by N2. CO2 is very soluble in water/blood so tends to stay there.

HPE to move HQ from Silicon Valley to Texas, says Lone Star State is 'attractive' for recruitment, retaining staff

Re: Gone with the Hurricane Conditions

This is america, corporations don't pay corporate taxes

There is no personal income tax in Tx, which might be a factor for the executives making the decision

Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear

GirlsWhoCode

Not wishing to question fluid gender identities in a post #me2 era but ....

The gentlemen at the back might be in the wrong photo shoot

AWS boss calls for racial justice, slams enterprise rivals, unveils a raft of real and promised services

Re: Words.

>Pay a decent fucking wage.

Don't they pay more than 2x the minimum wage?

I wonder how much the right-on sneaker brands paying athletes $M pay their workers in Cambodia

Arm at 30: From Cambridge to the world, one plucky British startup changed everything

Re: Good times

There is an ARM baseball cap on top of a mountain in Canada that I got with my A310 and had for 20 years til it blew away

When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way

Re: Breaking News: Biden will start taxing Big Tech after their massive support for his campaign

Medical care for 70year old obese drug addicts is expensive and the government will have to pay that for prisoners

Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob

Re: The firm claims to have $500m under management...

I suspect some of their customers are likely to do more than write an unfavourable yelp review.

Be interesting to follow the Cayman island local news to see how many directors suddenly, accidentally cut their own heads off while shaving.

Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself

Re: Very sad, but...

Fortunately this is only an old (almost) obsolete telescope not a bridge, highway or dam or other vital infrastructure

It's better to burn out than fade Huawei: UK rolls out schedule for rip-and-replace rules

Re: Blast

All our allies should use these captured German enigma machines, they are totally unbreakable - honest !

It's been an Honor serving with you but you're our 'competitors' now, Huawei tells its sawn-off mobile limb

Re: "It's been an Honor serving with you but you're our 'competitors' now"

>strawman - do those competitors have a structure with an aggressionist governmental in control?

That was the argument for trusting Crypto-AG. They're Swiss, if you can't trust the Swiss who can you trust? - In this case the CIA

If you actually cared about security you would buy from china and then test the hell out of it, rather than assume something is perfectly safe because you bought it from scandanvians

Spending Review: We spy a stray £60m – is that all you can spare to help 5G market recover from UK kicking out Huawei?

Re: What happened to 5G security being important?

They don't need to - it's all decrypted once it's on the bits of wet string connecting towers to the rest of the telephone system, which is owned by suitably 'patriotic' companies that are happy to hand over all the data without a warrant in return for a free pardon

Re: Lucky escape here...

Although judging by the accuracy of his other pronouncements it will probably result in the removal of all fibre anywhere by 2025

Re: re: tedious

As a native of the former Danelaw may I say I welcome our scandanavian overlords

Re: re: tedious

So long as the switch is to completely British designed and built 5G I'm sure the Tory back benchers will be happy

Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone

Re: What I'd really like to know ...

>I don't remember there being even a whisper of disk-cutting lathes being available for home use

There must be, otherwise how would hipsters listen to their MP3s ?

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

Slightly dangerous precedent

Suppose Microsoft decides on an exclusive deal with Epson "to benefit customers, surpass business model, etc" - and the next update blocks HP printers from Windows?

Intel chief pens congratulatory letter to President-elect Biden urging work on immigration and domestic manufacturing

Re: That letter in full...

ps. We have the biggest chips, the biggest most powerful chips, no other chips use as much power as our chips - so ner-ner-ne-ner-ner Apple

Re: Stop it

>And neither were H1B's

No, one was a refugee from an oppressive regime the other was a baby immigrant from a 3rd world country

Re: Stop it

Are low paid workers really a driver for where you build a 5nm fab?

We work with the people who build the fabs and they are in the NL

>"Preferably at 7nm as we can't seem to do it ourselves..."

We need small immigrants, teeny-tiny immigrants.

Re: up vote

Can we revoke the treasonous colonial's license to use English ?

Re: Stop it

But only Trump's wall succeeded in keeping out semiconductor engineers

Re: Stop it

Intel founded by an immigrant, AMD run by an immigrant

We need a national state funding of the glorious people's semiconductor industry - otherwise we let the commies win.

China prepares for launch of Chang'e 5 mission to Moon, which would make it third nation to return lunar sample

Re: Nothing there...

But presumably the lander stays there so the moon gets heavier and earth gets lighter.

Overall we must have dumped tons of junk on the moon

Yep, the usual suspects are sitting down to feast: Dominant vendors get a fat slice of CIA cloud pie and so do IBM and Oracle

If there was a vaccine against being anti-vax would we know?

Re: Government links

You have to assume that they spend a lot of time spying on each other

Re: Government links

And what happens when you divide it by 17+1 agencies (nobody talks about the MMB)

In politics

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

Re: Who do these cops think they are?

Coroners merely certify the cause of death, so it makes sense that they are political.

This protestor obviously died of an unbalance of humours while being tazered and this black guy shot himself before hiding the weapon.

US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base

We unleash the new Giraffe of Death (tm)

EU says Boeing 737 Max won't fly over the Continent just yet: The US can make its own choices over pilot training

Re: Consumers need to know what aircraft will be used before they book.

<sings> I believe that pigs, and even DC10s can fly ....

But I can't believe Ronald Reagan is president...

Re: A300 Composite failure

And IIRC Boeing, or at least a group of concerned pilots coincidentally paid by Boeing, called for the FAA to ban all composite (cough Airbus) aircraft.

Then when Boeing announced the dreamliner it was all about how much safer composite was

Re: If the software hasn't been changed to use redundant sensors

It's not as simple as that.

How do you fit redundant sensors that only apply to people paying full price in business class?

Having the same safety for all the passengers, irrespective of what they paid, would be communism

Re: Consumers need to know what aircraft will be used before they book.

>I definitely wont intentionally be booking on a 737 max.

So you trust all their other models?

Built by the same company under the same commercial pressures and with the same 'accommodating' regulatory regime ?

Which was itself a kludge to get it low enough to the ground to allow it to carry its own airstairs onboard so it could operate from airports that didn't have the infrastructure to handle jets.

So we have bodged software to allow efficient engines on an airframe designed to be able to fly between JFK and LAX if neither of those airports were setup for jets and if the 737 still had onboard stairs.

Most of life is a software bodge for a hardware kludge

We see what you did there: First-stage booster from Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission floats back to Earth

Re: Parachute.

Parachutes don't give you a soft enough landing (at least on land) to reuse the rocket.

So either land on water and hope to clean it out before it rusts, or a very-very big net, or try and catch it by helicopter.

SpaceX reckoned that the extra % of fuel it needs to hold back for the landing weighed less than the parachute, was more reliable and meant they didn't have to give it a sponge bath

Teams seeks 24-hour party people for consumer chat

Re: getting help and support from Microsoft

Attempt to open spreadsheet in teams app - most features don't work

Right Click to 'open document in browser; - different subset of features work

Now have a right click to 'open document in sharepoint' - get a few more features

Finally 'open in app' starts excel so you can actually do stuff.