Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

> I'm in friggin' central FLORIDA and my house has a fireplace, as do a majority of medium size houses here.

Snorkel ?

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

Re: Break up the cartel!

That's what the evil capitalist oppressors want you to think

You just need a shed, plenty of tea and a bit of good old fashioned British ingenuity

Re: Break up the cartel!

>The current price inflation is caused by these three companies operating an illegal cartel.

That's why you should start your own memory company and upset the monopolists

A bloke down the pub's mate read it on Facebook from somebody who follows Farage on Twitter = basically gospel

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Re: Car's web browser?

>Time & Date will be correct - Then roll back the date to 2005.

Not a Delorean is it ?

Click "accept" and see if you end up back in 2005. pre-GFC, pre-Covid, pre-Trump, sounds good

Re: Car's web browser?

My 18 year old car has a digital clock that loses 5min/month and SWMBO insists on keeping it 5min fast so she's not late ..... erm ok

Her much newer fancier car has clocks that links to all the carplay rubbish and so is set to absolute perfect time - I can't find anyway to make it 5min fast

Car's web browser?

I'm still suspicious of the digital clock on my car

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

Re: But not Phil Collins, sadly

Selling England USA by the Pound Bitcoin ?

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re: Nice try.

So in NI the strippers wear a pair of pasties?

Handy if you fancy a nibble I suppose

Re: The GP is a Thermal Unit!

Greggs is a geographic unit.

Just like Cornish Pasties have special designation to only be from Cornwall, Greggs are the defn of Northern

No longer do southerners at the BBC have to decide if the need to send their Northern Correspondent to cover a story in Nottingham. They can just fix the north south divide based on local Greggs density

Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025

$2Bn, amateurs

That's what you get with communists - no understanding of the real value of money

FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation

Re: Oh no

They don't have any crypto, they got true patriots to pay $ for TrumpCoin, they get to keep the $ and delete the TrumpCoin

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

Because it shows the corruption inherent in the system, help help we're being oppressed

>made me think of Xenia Onatopp:

George Osborne made you think of Famke Janssen ?

You are in need of some serious psychological help

It's not about him, it's about sending a message to current/future regulators = we'll look after you

From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill

Re: NIMBYs are a funny lot

>so long as they.are required to provide ALL their own power independent of the grid

Such as 50 direct-drive gas turbine generators = jet engines, running in the parking lot 24x7

Re: keeping dirty coal-fired plants online.

So you're against minorities and their traditional folk-ways ?

keeping dirty coal-fired plants online.

Isn't that what they voted for ?

From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions

>I don’t give motherless or pornhub my information

But how then can the Home Office protect you from children and/or terrorists?

Re: Hang on then,

So is this VPN ban to make sure you don't access any of this foreign porn?

Just honest traditional British porn, 'watch hunky young studs be totally humiliated by Aussie cricketers' for instance ?

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

I look forward to a new ATC system built by someone whose only qualification was a Confederate flag on his pickup truck.

From a safe distance anyway

Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer

Your new owners have an infinite money printer, ability to make/change/enforce laws to suit you and can have the CEOs of all your competitors ''renditioned'

It takes a special set of skills to fail under those conditions

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

Re: Err?

>Shouldn't OpenAI be giving money to Disney if Disney is licencing its IP to OpenAI?

Typical old fashioned sort of economic thinking that is so out of touch with the world of Crypto NFT Blockchain AI driven new paradigms

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Re: Worst case scenario

You of course always have a choice to book BA for your short haul flights.

Remember when trips to Paris were £500 on a plane with broken seats that had last been cleaned in 1970s and nobody cared because only people flying on business could afford it and so the airline knew that the passenger wasn't the customer

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

And even then only with a note from their grandparents

I assume that if the Celts found out about England's cricketing they would lose all respect for their lords and masters

So the solution is to keep the kids off el'reg until they are 16, when they get access to 2 girls 1 cup and 3 donkeys.

Re: Good, bad or ugly

>But we do ban certain books from children don't we

Precisely, we don't blame the technology or just throw our hands up and say 'there's nothing we can do except a purely performative ban"

Make the platforms responsible for content, in the same way we make movie studios responsible.

I see your well argued reasoned statement and raise you a plan to keep the Oz version of the Daily Mail reader placated while putting the infrastructure in place to track every citizen online

But we have a plan to ban reporting of this in Britain, and so solve the problem of abysmal sporting performance

Re: Good, bad or ugly

Time to ban books for under 16s.

Do you want giant American publishers to allow your 5year old to read Marquis de Sade or Mein Kampf or The Camel book ?

Obviously we can't control which books children read, so we need to ban them

Re: Clearly the "/s" is sometimes mandatory

>When you carefully examine youth crime, you invariably find it is committed by children

Obviously you need to bam children

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

We prefer to call it reverse taxation

Government redirecting science funding to their friends share price sounds so tacky

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy

Re: Making it worse

As long as they promise not to build any actual vessels, they probably come out ahead -

Re: It's software that's the issue!

>Not a lack of skilled workers and capable shipyards, caused by decades of under funding and neglect.

Or shipyards that have got used to a steady supply of government contracts where their ability to always get paid, even if they lose the contract, depends more on the political skill of their congressperson than the skill of their welders

And even if they decided to branch out into the harsh winds of capitalism, the Jones Act means they have a nice government monopoly and so they don't have to worry about those industrious orientals

Since the normal process is

1. Navy asks for something sensible - after all they have to sail in it

2. They choose a reasonable design, ideally one that's already being built

3. Some congress person demands that 50% of it is built in N Dakota or that it can also operate in the middle of a desert

4. The cost goes up by 100% and so the program's budget is cut

5. The number of vessels is then reduced by 50% to meet the new budget

6. Steps 4-5 are repeated until you are only building 1 vessel

7. Goto 1

It's hard to see what you could do to this process to make it worse.

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties

Re: @YAAC - What do you expect from China ?

And they obviously also lead the USA in certain vital areas of metallurgy. Iron-y specifically

What do you expect from China ?

The great advantage of having a Great Leader (tm) is that mergers can be decided directly, as a matter of national security, by the Great Leader (tm) deciding that they should be involved.

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Security

Fortunately being the foremost supplier of secure networking kit, Cisco's security doesn't rely purely on obscurity with only people attending their training being told where the secret back door is

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: Why do we permit a system

I don't think corporations BUY politicians, after all once elected they are a depreciating asset.

They simply lease them as and when needed, Sleaze-As-A-Service you might say

Re: It's the economy, stupid!

The same "economists" who think Hayek said you should only trade with people with the same eye colour as you

Re: So much for all that tough talk from kegbreath

They should have called it the "Sgt Bilko Bill" then at least the cabinet would have understood it

Re: Is anyone surprised?

>They don't call it the military-industrial complex for nothing.

No but upto now we generally assumed the military and the industrial complex were at least on the same side

Re: as long as the word lobbying exists

On the other hand, ultimately both sides will end up being owned by the same giant corporation and there will be no more wars

The Weyland-Yutani company is hardly going to go to war with itself

Re: War #J842X23

On the other hand it's great for your resolved support ticket KPIs.

Caller: I'm on fire and my ejector seat says "error"

Service: Have you tried turning it off and on again? Please call back if this doesn't work

Ticket marked , no customer response, resolved

Re: it sure looks fishy

Will they at least be allowed to catch fish ?

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Re: More cloudybollocks

Your don't have your own satellite in the garage?

Peasant !

Re: What about Jags?

>The first thing he did was sell the wheels for more than he paid for the vehicle

And the 2nd was to sell the wheel-less car as an art piece commenting on the failure of cars as a means of transport

Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away

Re: Best quote I've seen

It takes quiet a lot of supercomputer to do a fluid dynamical simulation of stirring a coffee cup - or it takes a coffee cup.

Depends what you are trying to fund out

Re: Worm Power

Also a lot easier for the machines to generate a fake world for the worms to believe they are living in.

And less risk of a wriggly keanu breaking out