Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

They are presumed innocent unless

They started an Ai company

Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course

It becomes rather difficult if the country at the other end of the trip does the same.

Unless everyone has to meet in Iceland to change planes.

They could have an aviation version of the Jones Act, which requires all ships travelling between US ports to be US built, owned and crewed.

That was intended to protect the US commercial shipbuilding industry.

As only a professional economist or small child could have told you - it resulted in a tiny inefficient US industry, massively expensive shipping costs to Hawaii and Puerto Rico and a shortage of specialist vessels like dredgers, heavy lift, rig support etc.

Re: Bolts cost money.

But everytime you take something apart and put it back together you find some bolts have magically appeared - if you sold these Boeing could be profitable !

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

>Regardless of that, the cost per km to run lines x1000km means it won't get funded. Every pylon will come with a NIMBY lawsuit attached.

The first 800km will be in France, then the electricity can be put in boxes and placed on a cart to be taken to London

Re: Selective maths

The LLNL was a laser ignintion of a fuel pellet not a Tokamak. The nearest to break even for a Tokamak plasma was JET at Culham it managed about 2/3 of the fusion power out compared to the heating power in

High voltage DC loses about 3.5% per 1000km

You could run ITER in Toulose and still have 97% of the power in London

Re: Tokamaks do it in a chamber, often doughnut-shaped

The big advantage of a stellarator is that it can run continuously - handy for a power plant.

Tokamaks are more like transformers, they are only stable while the field is changing - so you can run for a few minutes (hopefully eventually an hour) then you have to dump and restart.

A power plant would need lots of machines ramping up and down to give a constant heat supply

>Nobody in their right mind would put AI at the heart of a safety critical system

Control of plasma stability in a Tokamak or a stellarator by having a man in a brown coat adjusting knobs is going to be even harder

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that, podbaydoor.dll not found, BSOD

Re: Pretty obvious

It should run a random bash command - as root

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Re: Not AI.

Yes but that just resulted in it being promoted to management.

Devin is now CEO

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional

Wasn't the FBI

Responsible for the persecution of the noble patriotic freedom fighters who bravely attempted to stop an evil Vice President 4 years ago?

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Re: Why Now?

>He has to pay it somehow.

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't actually in the dictionary?

Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch

You think you'll be able to turn it off?

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

Nixon did say it in his interview with David Frost

Unfortunately in those days the court didn't belong to the president and the media reported on him.

Won't make those mistakes again.

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

And who knows if he can pass a drug test.

Well he certainly appears to have been studying for it.

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

Have you thought of using steam to power the trains?

I believe speeds of 200kph should be achievable

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

So you were 'Stabbed in the Back' and betrayed by unpatriotic traitors in the fatherhome land?

The Americans burn Ft York (Toronto) and although most people would approve of this, you can't encourage them.

The Canadians burnt Washington in return.

They then captured Detroit, but having realized their mistake they gave it back.

Re: So how long before Musk announces

Or you just borrow against your stock, so you don't have to sell any and so pay even the reduced capital gains tax.

Then when you die the value of your stock is reset to the current market value so the bank doesn't have to pay tax on it either.

But the important part is the way this trickles down to the ordinary people.

Re: So how long before Musk announces

>When a professed billionaire pay less in taxes than I do something is seriously wrong with the system.

You don't like the system? Buy a better one

Re: Hmm.

>18 months isn't long enough for a government department to do anything other than agree on bonuses and plan an agenda.

And fire anyone that doesn't fit

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

In the immortal words of the nations most inspirational leader - if the President does it, it's legal.

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

You think America could have defeated the Taliban with only 19 carrier battle groups, rather than 20?

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

Re: Hate speech - a truly Orwellian concept

No just the ones talking about "turbo-charging" denaturalizing citizens. Promising they will deport legal immigrants because they eat cats and dogs. Declaring trans as "non-people"

Remember the Final Solution was only the final step

Re: Algorithms

Yes but if the algorithm is function(what_the_boss_wants, what_the_advertisers_want) then you can't really blame "the algorithm"

Re: Hate speech - a truly Orwellian concept

> I cannot say that I want you hurt or dead.

On behalf of the grandparents I don't have. I can say that I want Nazis dead.

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

Re: PowerSchool has no real-world basis for the "re-assuring" statements they have made.

But under some interpretations of QM there are an infinite number of non-real worlds. So they can still be sure the data has been deleted "on average"

Re: Utter Blatherskite from PowerSchool, Echoed by Ms. Zucker

They didn't say the source of the confirmation. I

t's the Tony Blair Iraq dossier trick, they asked their mate in the pub 'has the data been deleted', their mate said yes = "we have information from a reliable source that the data was deleted"

Re: But why

But keep all the data?

There is probably a requirement to keep overall

attendance and any serious disciplinary records.

But keeping parent contact and medication details for 20yeara is only to try and sell to marketing

Re: But why

Why does it need to be stored outside the school and why isn't it deleted when the kid leaves?

Unless the business model is blackmail? Pay us $/month and we won't report to companies you are interviewing at that you wet yourself in infants ( or whatever it's called these days)

Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support

Re: it being proactive.

It's a good target though.

In a lot of small/remote offices there is a sort-of-IT person that corporate IT calls on for local stuff.

A message from an account I recognize asking to reboot a local server or run an update or swap a network cable to a different switch port.

How suspicious are they supposed to be and should their response be to demand a letter from the board first?

App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground

Trump's executive order doesn't appear to be legal, McGill said.

To paraphrase Uncle Joe: "How many divisions does Congress have ?"

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Re: AI?

So AI can spot potholes but is unable to detect fire hydrants, bicycles or traffic lights in pictures?

I think skynet is upto something

Re: And then there's kent roads

Not with the way those bloody Jawas drive around here

Re: Time for some creativity.

So we arrest the penile painter and if anyone under 18 sees it we prosecute them for extreme child naughtiness

Re: Surface dressing

So if the council ran a scraper over minor roads, removing the surface, then the amount of roads they had to maintain would be reduced and they would have more money to spend.

Re: And then there's kent roads

So the real problem isn't the weight of vehicles, it's them using wheels.

Is that site selling ex-military kit around, and do they have any Chieftains?

Re: Surrey, NW London ?

Well if you go far enough.....

Have you tried using Ai?

China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale

Re: The negotiations will be very simple

I welcome the state owning the means of production of cat videos and hope the inevitable march of Marxist-Leninism continues to the US state owning other vital industries, as opposed to just subsidizing them.

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Re: self-defense

If you get this forced on you, you must do at least this

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

It seems odd that in a country where typing a url manually to donate to a charity is prosecuted under the 'Doing Anything With A Computer Act" that a company can force an update to a system you bought and break it.

IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door

Re: Solar / EMP events

No it's very difficult to shield against real magnetic fields.

While blocking imaginary 5g mind control rays is possible with even the thinnest tinfoil

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

Re: "he rather insular view of the "World""

I did not know that. Presumably the Miss Universe contest is so named after the Catholic newspaper 'The Universe'

Re: Bats..

>shin pads, helmet with protective grille and gloves,

Pah, that's for little girls cricket.

In Yorkshire we play cricket naked.

Geolocation is worse

There is a little farm in the middle of America that gets visited regularly by some 3 letter agency of state security.

It's exactly in the middle of America - so guess what coordinates a system returns when it tracks a cyber-naughty to USA but has no more information?

I want to picture a farm track of black Chevy suburbans full of men in dark glasses and different logo windbreakers all waiting their turn to raid the place.

Re: Their mistake was...

They both have dodgy credit records

There is that story from the USA where a bank took an extra mortgage payment and were ignoring calls to refund it. The customer got a court judgement against them and turned up at a branch with the local sheriff to start seizing the furniture