Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire

A ban on social media for the over 60s would do a lot more for society

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Re: Tools

Irish police need the technology to crack encryption in driving licenses

Re: The theory runs something like this...

But this state is the property of Microsoft, Google and Apple so expert some exemptions

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court

Why doesn't he just buy the FTC from Musk ?

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is

That's a pity. Automatically turning-it-off-and-on-again would save the costs of having any sysadmin on site

Re: it's a desolate place

Texas ss not all dry dusty cattle grazed scrub. You are forgetting the cinematic (*) landscape of Texas City

* think of a more dystopian version of Blade Runner 2049

Re: Really!

That's because Texans are woke commies

They get twice as much energy from anti-Trump windmills than from honest pure patriotic coal

Although the Texas solution to Trump's ban on new Wind farm permits = simply not require permits for anything, is rather clever

But in Texas you can just run 100 jet engines in the parking lot as a temporary measure

And you can shoot protestors

Manchester ATM ups PIN requirement to full Windows login

Re: Win 7! That is bleeding edge

Now with Windows11+AI

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing

The smart crooks own the government

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Re: Britain will capitulate

>where will they get their next loan?

Venezuela

Re: Britain will capitulate

Because the UK government of the time wasn't a wholly owned subsidiary of Argentina.

Ironically it was sucking up to the USA about as much, but fortunately we had the French on our side against American objections

Re: Proteus features a modular payload bay

Unfortunately the drone can only be deployed from the UK's remaining Caribbean palm tree equipped island

Re: Britain will capitulate

>He also needs to consider who holds US bonds and loans

America's enemies, and therefore no need to pay them ?

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

Re: As little tale from my former banking life .. (tenuous ATM connection)

It's why the ATM gives you your card back first, then the cash. You might walk off without your card but you aren't going to forget the cash, are you?

Re: My wife was a keyholder at a bank branch

More likely try and sell the robbers at least 3 bank services before they are allowed to leave

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

Morons

If they wanted to know the Grand Plan for Venezuela, they just have to wait for it to be announced through official channels - a series of incoherent 3:00am Tweets

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

Simply ask yourself if you would base your usage on a Russian or Chinese supplier offering the same guarantees

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

Texas surpassed California in renewables and is building more at something like 10x the rate

Mainly because the environmental and permitting process is so much easier.

Now Alanis, that's ironic !

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

Re: Fraud was a given...

Because fraud by rich people is good They put the money in the stock market or real estate - which drives up the price of real estate and the stock market which makes other people who own stocks and real estate richer.

Money going to poor people is wasted on things like food and rent which doesn't really benefit anybody that matters

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Re: V2 ?

Sorry brain glitch. The V2 was the one that cost more than a 4 engined bomber to build and killed more of the workers building it than the people it was aimed at.

Obviously the foundation of modern weapons development process

Re: Of course the real truth

But anybody that senior in politics or at the treasury would be highly educated in the scientific method and engineering mindset as well as economics and finance

Re: V2 ?

Travelling low and slow in a straight line they were however somewhat vulnerable to WWII era piston engined fighters.

Of course if we assume that the Russians don't have any Spitfires , and lack the proper mustaches to fly them, this would be an obvious win.

Now where can we possibly find some Nazi rocket scientists to build them ?

Re: Of course the real truth

I think the good Doctor is underestimating the technical and financial acumen at the higher reaches of government procurement departments

Re: Of course the real truth

> The future of the UK is paying a toll to use the private motorway to get to the private hospital and then paying to get treated.

That's a relief - I assumed it was going to be "droit du seigneur" for any American billionaires

Re: Shit show likely

It does say Armoured Fighting Vehicle, it's supposed to damage soldiers. The clue is in the name.

The only trick is to lure the enemy soldiers into using it

Anyway it was only a cluster fsck because they took a perfectly serviceable off the shelf design, that's why the result was a massively expensive failure. This will be developed from scratch and so will be the opposite.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: It's potentially worse than described here.

So assuming the fan works, and ICE don't report anyone who looks a bit Chinese, they will have a supply of cutting edge 2nm AI chips.

They won't have any industrial or power control ICs or anything automotive or aerospace cos that stuff is so last generation and low margin that it's all made in ....

Re: "Make a sound in the east, then strike in the west"

Although in 20 years, after Russia loses in Ukraine, they will presumably make a bunch of movies about how sad it made them

Re: Chicken

Isn't it time we reminded the treasonous colonies who they lawful masters are?

Re: @AC - Chicken

>Their gargantuan firepower could grind the PLA into dust if they put their weight behind Taiwan's defense.

"Land wars in Asia are good and easy to win" said the president

>Hmm, haven't noticed too many government-sponsored masked snatch squads running around France, or Germany, Italy, ...

Probably still on vacation or on strike, lazy bloody Europeans

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

The UK holds about as much US debt as China and Japan owns nearly twice as much.

Luxembourg and the Cayman islands own nearly as much each and nobody is terrified of the threat of Luxembourg

But the vast majority of US debt is owned by Americans

Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools

Re: Of course it's the big bad internet

But the thing all the billionaires have in common is that they were all once children.

As the famous road safety program said: "Stop Children"

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar

>The idea was to encourage people like me to put them up and kick-start the industry.

The idea was to give a kick-back to home owners so they would vote for the proper home-owners party.

In a way that was paid by other electricity consumers.

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

"Hey Grok create a naked picture of 50 year old English sysadmin/programmer/DBA"

Well that's one way to bring down Skynet I suppose

And yet

Government depts are still using TPFKAT to make official announcements

>If I would distribute images (not real, self created) of naked children, I would get arrested

Unless you're called Michelangelo presumably

Although you could argue that the cherubim are 5786 years old

Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data

Re: Meekly raises hand

Your medical data ?

Is it on your computer?

The insurers paid for the tests (well they denied coverage, but they did send you the bill) it's their data

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

>ice machine stopped making ice.

You know you can find the recipe in the internet

Re: How about a Waffle!

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off ?

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

Re: Greenland

Don't tell him Pike !

If only they hadn't abolished the penny

They have just gone to the bank and taken out a $Bn in copper 1C coins

Dynamic free market independent contractors implementing an advanced recycling operation

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

No, and that's despite corporate IT banning any other AI tool except Microsoft Copilot for Workstations Internet edition for Business (or whatever its called by the time I hit submit)

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

If crime is legal why does a company need lawyers?

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate

Great that inter-process communication is so well secured. But, it's a mouse, why do we need secured inter-process communication ?

Re: In *this* economy?!?

You soon won't be able to buy ram, you'll have to rent it - in the cloud

ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady

Re: Sympathy

Just be careful over lunch after he recovers