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Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination

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Re: Witch hunts

Standard operating procedure for the USA

Prop up regime X because they fight our enemy Y

Fall out with leader X and overthrow them and setup a new administration with only people who weren't X

Discover we have created a country run by group Y

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

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>saying that Elon didn't actually know what he was doing, made stuff up, promised things that he could never possibly achieve

And sadly he can't run for president - seems to be ideally qualified

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Re: You forgot ...

But at least they "cancelled" the woke Enola Gay

Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem

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Re: At my last place....

A case where it's helpful to cast the network's horoscope

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Re: vlans & other segregation config might have hidden the issue

Although the 8 dashes might be self-deluding

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Re: Ah, the frantic blinkenlights...

Ah the old "send a bunch of thugs around to smash up the old pinball machines and make the cafe owner buy new ones" business model updated to the digital age

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

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Re: Fake News

>Simple fact is that vehicles catching fire is pretty rare whichever way you look at the figures.

But if you count oil-rig, oil-tanker, pipeline and refinery fires as part of the ICE cars figures.

A Deepwater Horizon or Lac-Mégantic offsets a lot of burning Teslas

AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi

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Re: The AI coding fallacy

What you do is write something in Python/Perl/Etc to generate the UML

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Re: The AI coding fallacy

>You have already written it when you wrote the promptspecification.

It's still more productive, used properly, than just writing the code - just think of it as a higher-higher level langauge

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It's a tool that you have to learn to use.

Getting copilot to write the outline framework or to generate boiler plate for a typical operation is better than searching stackoverflow coding it from memory

You have to learn how to phrase the requests, just like you had to learn the correct magic incantations to the C++ compiler

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Learning to code

The point of "learning to code" in school, and the point of the Pi isn't to produce programmers it's to produce citizens (and conceivably cabinet ministers) who understand what a computer is, how it works and what it can and importantly cannot do.

HMRC: Crooks broke into 100k accounts, stole £43M from British taxpayer in late 2024

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Re: No financial loss?

Major retailer here got hacked

They created a free credit-check account for every victim and posted that the default passwd was the last 4 digits of the credit card number that had been stolen.........

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Frankly that sounds sort of optimal - assuming your old passwd is locked as soon as they get the address.

It's presumably a lot harder for hoodie wearing North Korean cyber-ninjas to intercept millions of brown envelopes

Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises

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Re: Less stable ?

Yes they are certainly bad for distribution, especially if you designed your grid to run a few steel plants and haven't done any updates in the last 50 years

But as loads go they are pretty much perfectly stable

>. All to have AI generated porn and cat videos

Worse than powering a million tv's just so guys can watch hunky black men in tight trousers run into each other?

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Less stable ?

Don't these data centers run at full capacity 24x7 ?

Isn't this a more stable demand than millions of consumers all turning on their AC in summer and heating in winter, when they get home at the same time everyday?

There was a scare story last year of network time synced Nest thermostats crashing the grid when millions of homes all switch on at precisely 5:00:00.00000 pm

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Re: Texas showed the way

But the energy to all these datacenters is ultimately converted into heat

Couldn't the impoverished masses huddle around them for warmth ?

For a moderate fee of course

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

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Re: I wonder

So was Twitter turning right wing just to get training data for AI black-cab drivers ?

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Re: I wonder

Who is the greater fool?

He who enters the government to destroy all the agencies regulating his businesses and investigating his finances

Or he who believes that they were actually going to reduce waste ?

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Re: Would Elon do that?

There are fringe groups who claim the Roman Catholic church as a hierarchy strayed into heresy in the 1520s. Hope they don't cause any trouble

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Re: onfr64?

Instructions unclear. Have summoned Cthulhu

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Re: I wonder

Musk = This Is Your Brain on Drugs

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Re: Probably by "Bitcoin-style encryption" Musk meant...

.. That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!"

Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones

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Re: Picking a side

>It was a case of the enemy of my enemy type scenario.

Winston Churchill: 'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.' (When asked about being an ally of Stalin)

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Re: Picking a side

My grandfather was a Battle of Britain hero - he brought down more German aircraft than any pilot in the RAF

Yes, Oppa Karl, the worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe

UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict

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Re: Camouflage ?

So do they switch the uniform to "Six-Color Desert Pattern" if the attackers are Iranian or "2-Color Snow Pattern" if they are Russian ?

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Camouflage ?

Why is the person wearing a uniform designed to blend into North European woodland?

If they are doing cyber , why do they need to hide?

If there are combat fatigues for cyber - shouldn't it be a black hoodie ?

You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …

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Re: Crouching Yeti

Just name them sequentially like Hurricanes or Ubuntu releases

Impotent Panda

Syphilitic Warthog

Flaccid Gerbil

Liz Truss

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0

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Re: Ye, right!

>When the US authorities come knocking, with threats against the US company's business,

The USA doesn't do that sort of heavy handed intimidation.

There would be a Tweet saying "CEO of $CORP$ is a very bad man, very bad"

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I'm sure the laptop running the DNS has a post-it note saying "Do NOT close lid"

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The king of America considers damage to Teslas to be terrorism

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They did throw private property into Boston Harbour - sounds like terrorism

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Would you trust your data to a Russian or Chinese cloud company if they said "don't worry the servers are in Europe" ?

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> legally a felon can't stand for office.

Are you sure? I mean the whole country is founded by terrorists

Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields

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Re: “basic cameras can discern between cats and dogs”

>So, how do we explain Tesla then?

School kids aren't cats or dogs

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Re: Who built/supplied the drones?

> serious militaries have Hardened Aircraft Shelters

At which point you target the parts warehouse, or the substation powering the airfield, or the factory making the parts for the aircraft

You can't go fully 1945 Germany and have your entire defence industry under a mountain

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Re: Ukraine did

Has the US even said thankyou? For eliminating 30% of Russia's nuclear-capable strategic bomber fleet?

Why? This is a disaster for the USAF = we need a $1Bn 10th generation AI stealth fighter on the blockchain to counter the awesome USSRRussian airforce.

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Re: How very British

British shed based attack drones are built from Mecanno and run on clockwork

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Re: What I noticed...

They may well have done, they just didn't include Pravda's defence correspondent in the chat

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Re: Who built/supplied the drones?

China, same as everything. The main thing about communism is supplying anyone without any political considerations

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Re: How very British

This could be the centerpiece of Britain's great rearmament project

Picture brigades of self-propelled sheds sweeping across the allotments of Eastern Europe.

The flight decks of HMS Her Maj and HMS Chuck, otherwise empty of expensive F35s, festooned with sheds.

A special force of elite Shedi-Knights battling the enemy

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How very British

Attack the enemy from sheds.

NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed

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Re: afterall why should space science be special?

Medical research is mostly a waste of time. Most improved health outcomes are the result of clean air and water and good sewage disposal.

We need a "National Air and Shit Administration"

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Re: Privatization

NASA is there to direct government funding to congressional districts to fund suppliers that then fund election campaigns

If you cut out the middle man and simply give money directly to the CEOs it's much more efficient

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Re: and there will be an opportunity for lawmakers to push back against the cuts

But that was based on the governing party needing campaign funding for votes to get seats in congress. Once the president can simply ignore congress there is no need for the party to be concerned about election campaigns

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

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The 3 most dangerous things

A programmer with a screwdriver

An electrical-eng with a compiler

A manager with an idea

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Re: Not to cast doubt but...

One of the big cloud outfits published a paper on noise affecting disks.

IIRC the showed the live error logs of everything slammed door to a road drill.

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Re: Nothing like as traumatic

Concrete saw was unsurprisingly effective on a disk

American science put on starvation diet

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>And we wonder what recent events might have caused that.

It was either Hunter Biden's laptop or Obama's tan suit

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Re: Open invite

The UK response was to increase the residency requirements from 5years to 10 years, during which you are paying £x000/year in extra NHS tax and fees.

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So our only hope is that totalitarian dictators are better able to plan for the future?

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