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OpenAI reportedly considering for-profit plans, but what would that be good for?

So the world's experts on AI

Can't think of a way of making money from AI - other than sell AI services to other companies that can't find a way of making money from AI

Have they thought of doing "chatgpt: how do I make money form AI" ?

Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations

Re: Efficient free market

Of course, all Govt Depts should have their own specialised police

British Transport Police investigate wifi hacks on stations, British Education Police investigate wifi hacks in schools and British Work and Pensions police investigate why your nan's sky box doesn't work

Re: Efficient free market

It's owned by a consortium of its customers = the airlines.

So if more investment would make it more efficient then that's a decision for its customers/owners to make. Without the cost being a political decision affecting GDP and the treasury

I assume this frightens politiciant

Efficient free market

So company X runs WIFI for WBRCT (Whatever-British-Rail-Is-Called-Today)

But a separate company Y supplies the landing page

And they outsourced management of the landing page server to company Z

But changes to the landing page have to be made by media company SQUIGGLE_NOT_AVAILABLE_IN_UNICODE

And this is cheaper and more secure ?

Imagine if the track, maintenance, signals, locomotives, trains and tickets were all operated by separate companies - it would be total chaos

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

Re: "why not use your car as the suicide pod"

Not all of it. I understand some of the sheep are relatively benign

Re: Canada

>Medical profession and religious crowd out there push that people should live to the end at whatever the cost to them, their loved ones etc.

While the same people are happy to send millions of their children to kill themselves over to what degree a S.E. Asian country implements strategic investment in vital national industries.

>They tricky part will be getting the liquid nitrogen. If you can do that, why not use your car as the suicide pod?

We used to carry open 50L tanks of liquid Nitrogen to a telescope inside ancient Fiat Panda hatchbacks.

Until one fell over.

Amazing how fast you can get out of a car when it starts turning into a scene from Terminator 2

Re: "why not use your car as the suicide pod"

So moving to Oz is basically suicidal intent ?

medical device

"a device that is used solely for suicide contradicts the medical purpose under therapeutic products legislation and cannot be classified as a medical device."

Not sure how you would do the clinical trials for ISO-13485

The device failed because one of the trial participants lived ?

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage

>CrowdStrike's senior VP for counter adversary operations

Before any possibly destructive test - always mount a scratch VP

Re: Why is CrowdStrike even necessary?

>UNIX, and Linux began life as single-user systems with no thought being given to proper isolation and security

No, if you install bad stuff as a regular user in Unix it is limited to destroying only stuff that you control as a user = your data / pictures / documents / emails / messages

The system level stuff that can be wiped and re-installed from scratch in 5minutes is perfectly safe.

Re: No excuse for kernel mode

Didn't Microsoft move the graphics subsystem into the kernel - for performance

So MSFT would be responsible for testing/certifying, and understanding, Nvidia's entire GPU stack ?

Sounds like the 737MAX 'commentators' who were proposing that the FAA should be in charge of all aircraft design and manufacture at Boeing

ps. Of course you could move stuff out of the kernel that didn't need to be there - but that's just silly

OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only

Re: Reproduction is prohibited

So I write a dictionary, having an entire university press spend a century pouring over copyrighted authors works finding the earliest and authoritative use of every word in the language, that work shouldn't be protected?

US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall

Learn who we have been most successful recruiting in past, concentrate only on those - base promotion/reward/KPI solely on recruitment figures from this group.

Sounds fine, sounds like the way to get an unending supply of the best recruits for a changing battlefield

They tried being less selective - it didn't work out too well.

Re: Who needs AI?

If you limit yourself to Americans who are economically-advantaged enough to be considering the infantry and haven't had interactions with the police and aren't chronically overweight - you might as well replace humvees with unicorns

Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030

Re: Banking infrastructure

>A lot of core systems that keep the world turning were made 40+ years ago and haven't seen much of an update during that time.

How do they manage to keep up with all the new kinds of money that have been invented since then ?

The problem is the 'F' in FAA. So one side of the house aren't going spend more (cos government spending is communism) and are going to block any spending by the other lot cos that would let them have a political win.

Ironically having ATC privatized in Europe works a lot better for society. If the airlines want better ATC because their spreadsheets say it will save them money on fuel/delays then they can just write a cheque

Re: Seems a common issue with US infrastructure

Number of runways isn't necessarily the metric to worry about.

An airport in the middle east with no weather and 2 runways that only has A380s arriving every 5mins - can handle a lot of passengers

While a west coast airport with wind/storms/fog, local nimbys that demand you can't over fly their mansions at certain times, are surrounded by 4 other airports and 6 military bases and have to handle a mix of business turborpos, 737 and A380s arriving and departing - might have more capacity issues even with a dozen runways

Re: Shocking

> If these systems are still running today, it is a testament to how well they were designed, built and programmed.

And either somebody originally over-specced them by 10,000% or they are struggling to manage 100x the traffic volume they were built for and we are just lucky that we haven't had any oopsies

Re: Don't worry....

It's a states rights issue.

Combined with 2nd amendment

Solution: American Airlines B17 vs United Airlines P51 Mustang

10 nasty software bugs put thousands of fuel storage tanks at risk of cyberattacks

No problem

Just remove the /dev/explosive device entry and then the hackers can't blow it up !

US proposes ban on Chinese, Russian connected car tech over security fears

Re: 20th century asking

They have patrols that follow all LandRovers, it's like packs of hyenas following wounded zebras

Re: 20th century asking

My LandRover does have semaphore flags to signal distress

Re: Do the Chinese actually make...

They are already ahead of you Wanna watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park the lounge room

Re: Google streetview

Like the DoD sending DJI a list of geo-fence coordinates of sensitive facilities that their drones should be programmed to avoid ?

And have 3D views of the inside of your facility, not just the view from the public street, and inside your underground parking. With real time updates of what changed - when a delivery arrives, how busy are your loading docks, when do your employees go home ?

Even without the Asiatic bogey-man of the day - I would be concerned if I were Ford and people were driving Teslas into my plant.

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

Re: Only a bit off topic...

In the case of LCD, new designs and new materials are thinner have higher contrast and much faster switching times.

For most applications this is the better than poor quality displays that last 20years

Re: Variable length representation

IIRC Windows calculator doesn't use a high precision library but just some clever print formatting. Either a case of NIH or the limitations of whatever Windows 1.0 platform it was first implemented on.

It's a feature they're adding to the calculators, you can't print an answer = 3 if it's out of 7s

And why it's cheaper to pay 3x as much for a flight returning on a friday rather than paying for a night in a hotel and a cheap weekend flight

Or why it's better to sit on a travel request for 3months and have the approved travel office book a British Aiways flight the day before, rather than an easyJet flight 3months out

Re: Scientific Calculator

Can't get RPN anymore in Britain since we left the EU.

Re: Don't put it in your pocket

Heckler&Koch and Gloch boardrooms: a bunch of bald guys with dueling scars (and riding trousers for some reason)

Zis time zer plan vil verk

UPS supplier's password policy flip-flops from unlimited, to 32, then 64 characters

Re: Do they know of what they speak?

I've worked here in the former colonies for the last 20years, before that I worked for Scandinavians - it's not been easy !

Re: Longer is Stronger

And you have to change it every month

Shouldn't it be able to tell if you were a human or replicant based on how annoyed you got at this process ?

Your forgetting the one where the admin console doesn't use KEYMAP and assumes a US keyboard layout - but the login console, and you used special chars

Or the RaspberryPi which asummes a UK keyboard when you enter the hidden-from-view passwd at first boot. Tricky if you are working in the colonies with their weird keyboard customs.

Re: CyberPower

I appreciate a company named by a 13year old boy in the 80s

Back in the day we had proper computer company names "Super Massive International Electrical Data General Computers", not having everything named after a squishy fruit or some unpronounceable bunch of vowels

Re: Name and shame the 3rd party "experts".

And who invited people like that to the party ?

Re: Do they know of what they speak?

>My guess is that someone therefore thinks that inputting more than 32 characters results in a reduction of entropy, and should be avoided. T

Unlikely given the high professional standards and deep knowledge of cryptographic fundamentals throughout the software industry - especially among web developers

Re: contrary to what many platforms require now....

Writing the password down is, in most cases, a good thing - better than just using "Password123!" everywhere

If N. Korean hackers can read the post-it note on my monitor - I have bigger problems than 32 or 64 char limits

I'd argue that a bit of paper stuffed in the back of my phone case is more secure than the Super-secure-corporate-approved authenticator app - that is one buffer overflow form being available to every other Android app in the Play Store, or my bank that quaintly thinks a text message is somehow secure.

Re: What?

>Turns out it was Aardvark spelt incorrectly (as Aardvaak). Certainly kept us out (and in the pub).

So in that case, Aardvark never hurt anyone ?

Huawei to dump Windows for PCs in favor of its own HarmonyOS

Re: Huawei and HarmonyOS

China have been spying on US office worker's PCs for decades to discover what powers the most dynamic companies in capitalism

- As a result it only runs Minesweeper and Solitaire

Security through irrelevancy

"built without Linux, and won't run Android apps. Huawei promotes the OS as offering superior performance and security."

This laptop can't run any software built for any operating system, has no i/o and no network support.

Ironically comes with McAffee pre-installed

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

Re: Learn to cook?

>Only problem with microwave is if you put food in for too long thenyou run the risk of thick acrid yellow smoke

But at least you get to meet Sean Connery

Re: I need the kitchen smoke alarm to go off..

That was a famous recipe for cooking steak

1, Remove battery from smoke alarm

2, Add any oil, except baby or engine, to pan

3, Show steak to pan

Re: Learn to cook?

>Or in the microwave…

You're proposing microwaving bacon ?

Is that scheme to send people to Rwanda still available? I think we've found the only deserving candidate

Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery

Re: As usual, long-term thinking is not in the MBA mindset

That's what government ownership of the means of production / subsidies / infrastructure investment back-handers to swing states are for

Re: Hmmm.

>Tron said "They have them over a barrel" - don't be offended, just leapfrog the US. The US doesn't currently even have said barrel.

I'm sure Kodak and the Polaroid-Land company will soon overtake ASML when it comes to making domestic EUV optics

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal

Re: Hope...

>Who is sequencing genome at home

Sequencing - no

Replicating - Oh Yea Baby