Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Re: Relax. Nothing will change.

Could we invade Belgium, arrest the leader and take all their oil waffle money?

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: Long flights

Bring back airships.

I don't mind a week London-Oz if I get a lounge and library and proper bed.

Re: Empty A380

Also passengers like return trips. Even if you scheduled a regular Oz - Frankfurt flight with passengers then had the plane pop over to Dresden empty for service, you would have to fly another empty plane to Frankfurt to do the return leg.

Re: Noise cancelling headphones

Its almost as if the whole thing is security theatre that the airports go along with because it makes you spend 3hours at their shopping centers.

Fortunately they discovered that Toblerone prevents terrorists and it's now mandatory for every passenger to carry one with security.

Re: FedEx PeoplePak

Many years ago, as an April fools, FedEx announced a next-day express service for people.

A 6ft long padded envelope that you popped your sedated executive in and they were dropped off before 9;00 next day anywhere in the world.

They were overwhelmed with people calling them about the service.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

DefCon

Has always had personal privacy and security of your personal data at the forefront.

That's why everyone should take their phone and laptop and connect to the venue wifi

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Re: We already have sovereignty...

> The fact that it has US owners is irrelevant as long as the US owners don't have seats on the board

But who has remote network access ?

The number of "meetings that could have been an email" that start with a PowerPoint.

Bonus if it's an official corporate template title page with stock photo / AI image

Double bonus if it still has "subtitle here" as the 2nd line

I wonder how much time and money would be saved, in government and industry, if Word (and LibreOffice) was replaced by WordStar/WP51 or even Wordwise in ROM on an 8bit micro ?

You're writing a note to somebody 2 desks away about an internal project - you don't need to spend an hour choosing fonts for the signature or making sure margins align with corporate style guidelines.

re: The Leader of the Opposition is well qualified

I think that's what known as a category error.

(this statement is likely true over the universal set of Leaders of the Opposition)

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way

Corporate

So we replaced all the pointless bullshit-jobs office workers with armies of AIs all giving each other status reports about the new covers for the TPS reports ?

Somehow Skynet would be better

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Re: Maybe not all the data came from America?

That's why you can't trust the electorate.

There is only one sure-fire way to choose the leader.

Re: The random responder

But do you think that people who didn't come from Europe are really human ?

Do you think slavery would be a good way to boost GDP, do you think slavery should be extended to anyone who doesn't own crypto ?

Do you think women have a role in society beyond making babies, do you believe there is such a thing as society?

Your views sound like some dangerous socialist Democrat

Re: The random responder

But the models were trained on the output of the subset of woke Americans who could write.

The latest models are trained on the output of Russian bots reposting Truth Social AI memes so should be more representative of the American polity

Re: Probably not that surprising...

They tried training self-driving cars only on Mein Kampf but they wouldn't go south of the river this time of night

Re: Even my smoke Alarm

You mean crumpet ?

Even my smoke Alarm

Is woke leftist.

It insists on beeping when I burn the toast without checking on Truth Social to see if the president has declared that toast is burned or even if I have exercised my constitutional rights to set fire to the bread.

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

Re: Let me get this Right...

>despite the fact that the US didn't invoke Article 5

Because you can't call on a defensive alliance to support your foreign wars. This was a US demand at the creation of NATO because they didn't want to be involved in every British and French imperial adventure.

working now with trusted partners

2 cups and a piece of string should suffice

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

Hey I'm a would-be billionaire. Or at least I would be if I had another billion dollars

Re: shovels...

Specifically the people likely to run open models on-prem will buy shovels while the hyperscalers are building steam shovels in-house

Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision

Re: It isn't just physics

Cutting science is the one thing left and right politicians, and voters, can agree on.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

Re: Defender

No it's Landrover's new computer brand.

After years of trying to invent a computer that leaks oil, they made Windows run on a Difference Engine.

(Obviously it already ran Linux and Babbage originally ported Doom to it)

Re: So...There Are People Out There Who Rely on M$ For Some Linux Environment?

The corporate world runs on Microsoft

Our mathematical modelling group uses Linux

Before this they also had to have a separate windows laptop for mail / teams / business stuff.

Why ? Security. Just because you use Linux doesn't mean you're a computer security expert. You have a maths PhD and write CUDA code, that doesn't mean you are immune from phishing attacks because you are smart and use Linux

Add to this the complainance requirements. Telling the auditors you can't prove that a lost laptop full of sensitive data was encrypted and has been remote wiped - because we let the dev have root and configure it how they wanted - doesn't go down well.

ps. Yes MSFT defender on Linux, and Mac, sucks and in an ideal world we would all be running VMS. But it's better than making everyone work on Windows

Embrace Extend Extinguish

We definitely support Linux in an office environment with our world class (tm)/security tools.

Oops they stopped working. Oh well ...

Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills

Re: Let's wait until after elections before you believe it

And that's assuming they bother to have votes

Re: THIS PLEDGE ONLY MEANS BIG BUCKS FOR CATERPILLAR

Its very easy to totally prevent on-site gas and diesel generators producing any pollution.

Just abolish the Marxist EPA, if you don't measure it it's not there.

Well that's why gas is still $2 gallon despite the rise in oil prices - which is totally Iran's fault even for US oil.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Re: Register?

You get 1% off purgatory for all sins and a bonus 2% off on your 3 favourite categories of sins

Re: Register?

So they can sign you up for extra products. Like their new credit card with PrayerMiles (tm)

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

I believe the solution to ANPR cameras in London is to wrap clingfilm around them covering the lens

The French, being a more passionate people, prefer a more Flambé approach

Although if the police do catch anyone, they are going to have to do a hell of a job to stack a jury, with perhaps members of flocks board, to get a conviction

appealing for help from the local community

So is the local community blowing these up as an unconstitutional attack on their freedom from unreasonable searches, or are patriotic Americans forming well regulated militias to defend the cameras from communist-hippy-Quaker Antifa terrorists ?

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

Re: 2 separate problems

>Society does lose something when there aren't suitable melting points for the community and friends to gather together.

No beerhall putsch if no beerhall

Re: Pretty much all costs are simply too high in the UK

I thought Clacton would be the promised land of a new Camelot by now under its glorious new king

Re: 2 separate problems

But with the decline of traditional heavy industry and nobody being able to afford cigs, where else can the working class get their traditional dose of carcinogens?

Re: 2 separate problems

Yes but they were French

Re: 2 separate problems

At least they didn't face the petty and overly intrusive legislation that so badly affected the opium den industry

Re: 2 separate problems

We need to reverse the falling demand for alcohol.

By introducing drinking in schools we can create a new generation of winos.

The mandatory CAMRA membership and the associated mandatory wearing of large bushy beards will also aolve all this gandering business

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

Windows had a vector image file format where you could put commands in plain text in the header and Windows would execute them when you viewed the image.

This was a deliberate feature of the specification for, reasons

>malware coders have just begun designing hardware

So instead of RubberDucky being some nefarious hacker thing, a maker of USB keys just has to sign up for a Microsoft developer account and Windows will install anything they want.

Microsoft is an American company

Intel working to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD designs, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Re: Conflicting Strategies

If you're a monopoly supplier in growing industry it's hard to adapt once you get competition

Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled

Re: The biggest crooks

Trump has been declared immune from any investigation by the Supreme Court. You wouldn't do you that if he wasn't perfectly innocent

Re: And deport Elon?

Yes but you have to suspect it was the main requirement for Grok

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: Communique to the plebs

So just declare everywhere outside the M25 as a Royal Forrest and Chuckie3 can build all the picturesque bit barns he wants

Ironically the JCB is the only native predator of the datacenter

Re: Complainants backgrounds......

I don't want an airport, trainline, motorway, sewage works, hospital, quarry or other houses anywhere near my house

Obviously I want to use airports,trains, motorways, hospitals etc but I don't want them to affect the price of my house. I'll vote for any politician that will effectively block and development.

>UK manufacturing firm

That's the problem with a Labour government. The tories were at least consistent in trying to eradicate UK manufacturing.

If they had listened to residents they wouldn't be any houses forthese people to live in. There would be farmland with 2 peasants and a local squire who objects to building Waltham Cross in case it brings peasants to the area and scares the pheasants.