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Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

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Re: What was .... *ponder* ...

The space force is just so the airforce and Navy don't fight over who gets to run GPS - the Navy invented it but the USAF claimed it went up and was therefore theirs.

>A tiny space agency with no ability to self launch anything into orbit.

They just need some DEI DIE, specifically die Raketenwissenschaftleren

>A medium space agency with their own space crafts to launch objects into low earth orbit.

Were NASA ever building their own space craft? The Redstone arsenal days were before NASA and the Mercury->Apollo era rocket hardware was built by the military-industrial complex

>A large space agency who landed the first humans on the moon!

That was probably it's downfall. Creating a giant crash "Manhattan Project" and then being left with a large sprawling agency with too many sites and a need to pork barrel and politic to keep it running. leading to a search for a big enough project to justify all this ie. the Space Shuttle

From a scientific point of view getting rid of SLS, Artemis and pointless 'square jawed test pilots" back to the moon (even if this time they are female/black/marines or other minorities) - would leave money to spend on actual science. Of course it won't because the purpose of NASA is to prop up Boeing / Lockeed-Martin / Northrop-Gruman

Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware

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A protected computer is one that was hacked, an unprotected computer isn't hacked cos it has nothing on it worth hacking

Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

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Re: "Leveraging"

So we need to verbilization our synergistic leveraging

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Re: Three-phase

A natural power supply for the AI boolean of "True / False / Wrong"

Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

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Re: sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, in April 2024.

Very briefly

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Now on Signal

Just DM a grid coord to the US defense secretary and they will send an air strike.

Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900M whack, for starters

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Re: I'll never understand the stock market

There is a non-zero chance that the great leader could do something catastrophic to Apple's future.

There us a larger chance that the Alt-President could do something to boost Tesla

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Times are going to be tough....

Said Apple as they announced a $100Bn share buyback

Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair

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That's why Pete Hegseth has been demanding a return to a more lethal military and to get rid of all the nerds and all the extra waste in logistics and support

The generator will be fixed by bench presses and then shooting at it

China turns on ‘minors mode’ that ensures kids only see wholesome socialist content online

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Re: Common sense or not ?

While we will use it to limit what kids can see based on a 17th century interpretation of a Bronze age mythology

'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

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Re: They don't want any content from someone they can't control

No it's just that any rocket scientists that weren't at Peenemünde are DEI hires and so have been erased.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

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Re: I trust Microsoft

He said he will use economic force and "other means" to "absorb" Canada but wouldn't rule out military force against Greenland and Panama

So no invasion just a "special operation!"

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Re: I'll believe it when I see it.

>"I need $MSPRODUCT because everyone else uses it

And explain to the board that just because one person needs AutoCAD doesn't mean the whole company has to rely on SharePoint and Outlook and O365

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

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Re: One way of avoiding Trump's tariffs ...

Any products needed by a company worth >$1Tn is going to be exempt. They may be mad but they are still capitalists

Musk’s DOGE probed by top watchdog after poking around Uncle Sam's systems

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Re: Bloated

>, spoil heaps were landscaped,

Because she closed the pits, for purely political reasons

And began the, there are good jobs in finance in London and the rest of you are either servants of those jobs or you are waste, which lead to a lot of the current problems

FBI steps in amid rash of politically charged swattings

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Re: Really?

And fox tails. Would never have thought reform were furries......

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I was worried not enough to people would get it and it would sound racist

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Re: Swatting is the norm now

A cattle-truck replacement bus service?

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Because a lot of SWAT calls come from the pay phone in the police station lobby.

Can't get a warrant for a Mr Winston Kadogo? Just call 911 and send yourself round to deal with him and his offensive wife

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Re: SWAT teams probably kill more people than they save

That's why they are now being replaced by drones. Simply speak the address into the system and it will destroy the target without any police officers needed

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Re: Swatting is the norm now

A useful alternative to swatting. Don't like someone? Just report them to the Stasi and have them disappear.

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The FBI offered a few tips

What about suggesting the police not treating a 911 call as an order to kill everyone at the address?

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

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Re: Speed?

We have always had laws restricting publishing information even if it's true.

Classified, commercial, medical, minors etc.

Being 'true' doesn't automatically mean public

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And you just need a UK government that is prepared to go to a trade war with the USA about that

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Re: Speed?

>They have all necessary tools to throttle low reputation sources when fast-growing content matches sensitive keywords.

Facebook do, your local community / hobby / charity phpBB board doesn't

So either take the risk that your sewing circle all go to jail if somebody posts 4chan material, or close it down and just switch to Facebook groups.

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

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Re: This time

You don't have to use the AI for translation - and Duolingo probably don't

But to generate cartoon videos of people speaking you don't need to be perfectly Shakespearean

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Re: This time

Presumably for the cost reasons above - but even drawing a cartoon once is expensive

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Re: This time

There is an English version of Duolingo which is just English-speaking people talking foreign very loudly

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Re: This time

For their business it makes a lot of sense.

AI: make a video of human saying $PHRASE. Repeat for spreadsheet of $PHRASE in 50 languages

No AI: hire 50 actors who are native speakers of 50 languages.

Hire video crew.

Spend 50 hours shooting

Spend 50 hours editing

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"small hits on quality"

"My hovercraft is full of eels"

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim

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Re: Had a meeting...

So what if you had just done that at the start and all gone to the pub instead?

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Re: But it enables more low quality work!

There is an AI tool that generates an entire PowerPoint presentation from a few words in an email.

Then another AI tool at the recipient summarizes the PowerPoint into a few words and emails it to you

A huge productivity improvement

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Re: Productivity numbers have a problem

On the other hand have you seen Boeing's aircraft since they stopped having rooms full of men at drawing boards with slide rules.

China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed

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"we preached that China did intellectual property theft,"

Now after further work with the calipers we have determined that the Asiatics are capable of thinking.

In response we have got rid of all the geeks and poindextors in the US forces and strive for a more lethal military.

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Re: And yet Trump attacks CISA

We have met the enemy and he is us

808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40

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Re: 1985

The RISC-OS was a bit clever aswell.

File ID types, so you can have .bak files for different apps without stepping on each other.

Being able to shrink the font cache or screen resolution in the GUI if your program needed a bit more space.

And it could emulate a DOS PC in software, faster than a real IBM XT

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>depressing to see how many of the items I still own.

Even more depressing when you see items you still use, and rely on, at work

Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT

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Re: Mad Widdie

You can't picture her with the white cat and a cup of tea directing her minions ?

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hacker using a UK IP address

I suspect Ann Widdecombe

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D

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$150Bn in share buybacks.

The shares trade in the USA so we are buying American stocks, so that's an investment in the USA

Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf

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Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

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Re: My ads are from phishers

There are ads on YouTube ?

Doesn't everyone use Brave ?

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Re: 66% down

"34% to go."

I don't think percentages work like you think they work

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Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

>We could be arrested in Scotland for misgendering.

Is that why everyone had to wear skirts and no knickers?

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

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Re: To channel a certain class of reader ...

And since he always scores 20 under Seagull (or whatever it is golfers say) he is presumably looking for a more challenging course

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> I expect there are 10 years worth of unanswered emails and memos advising management of the fact.

Probably not, complex chaotic systems are complex and chaotic

System A is perfectly stable and can't fail because off system B, System B is totally reliable as long as system C is online and system C is 100% uptime so long as system A is available - only there are 97 interconnected systems in the state and nobody knew

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The Spanish children, they yearn for the mines.

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That's why we need more wind turbines - show the wind whose boss.

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>Did anyone at the Spanish grid operator realise that they were a single fault away from a nationwide blackout?

Yes, definitely. The question is did the realise before it happened ?

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