Posts by Andrew Scott

Florida prison email blunder exposes visitor contact info to inmates

no phones. talk to a visitor tell them to call an inmates relation. didn't see any mention of a prisoner having access to a phone. they might have smuggled phones, and they may be allowed phone calls.

Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'

Re: Silver lining

Sometimes classification changes. it is possible to have a document that isn't classified when viewed or taken that is subsequently made top secret.

Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump

Re: Only one ISP in some locations

new broadband carrier in my location. have reduced the price of access by 75% roughly. 1Gps both up and down, though mostly down. better network performance at home than at work now.

OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

Re: OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

seems smarter than i'd have thought.

Network scans find Linux is growing on business desktops, laptops

Re: Security

if i remember correctly even the video drivers for NT were initially user space for security, but they were moved to kernel space for performance reasons.

Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

Re: How is an embassy not using a VPN?

often multiple layers of encryption. connect to a bank using https:. link is over wifi wap 3. tunneled through a vpn encrypting everything going through it. two to three layers of encryption depending on the position of the traveling packet if i'm not mistaken. has to make things hard. certificates add more security as long as they don't use md5.

Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools

Re: Hardware As A Service

Probably varies, but one problem is that there are plenty of households that don't have internet access. the only access the students get to use their tablet or laptop is when they're on campus.

Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland

Re: Wrong USian spelling - again

sure, the spelling used by the fewest users of english should dictate the usage of the rest. 5 times as many users of "English" in the us as the uk. Guess the bbc and king can dictate spellings there though. here we just have the blob.

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

copilot

my copy of outlook has a copilot drop down menu that says "reply". so far i havent been able figure out what it's supposed to do. click on it and nothing happens. so double whammy, useless and distracting.

Leading 3D printing site bans firearm files, but home gun makers have better options

3d printed guns used

the ceo of united health was killed by a 3d printed ghost gun in new york all the parts can be purchased except the receiver. completely legal, people who might otherwise be on no gun lists can easily get around some of these problem. they might not be able to buy ammo but they can certainly get the gun. of course there are lots of usable guns in the us that are lying around in someones closet that were purchased before there laws restricting these purchases. guns that are inherited through the family going back 4 generations. may never get used because the people that have them have no interest, but they're there.

Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction, cheaper than NASA's sample return mission

has the silly season started?

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

isn't starting a restaurant one of the fastest ways to be forced into bankruptcy?

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

well mixed? tell that to someone who's just died due to a local limnic eruption.

Re: "not listening" is really DISAGREEING

don't know about 1+1 but i do know that 3+3=12. can't think of any way off hand to make 1+1 equal to three, but i don't see anyone insisting on this fallacy except you.

Brit watchdog says public service TV must 'urgently' join Team YouTube

Re: Interesting implications for the licence fee

do you need a license to listen to the radio also?

NASA hacked hardware of camera orbiting Jupiter – and fixed it

Re: Someone at NASA must have had a Dell XPS

used to do that to jetdirect cards that stopped working on hp printers. put them in a toaster oven at a fixed temperature for a short time and they'd start working again.

Re: Making the best of a bad job

certainly worth a thousand words for people who can't read.

Re: Units error?

isn't that roughly the weight of a gallon of water?

Re: Units error?

77 might be room temperature for most people, but i'll bet the sensors room temperature is a lot lower. could be they're raising the temperature more than 200 degrees relative to the starting temperature.

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

"vibe" coding

Have trouble with this, keep imagining a bunch of hippies brought back from the 60's high on something doing the coding. How do you think this will work out? coding isn't touchy feely.

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

Re: Hmmmm

yes, well Florida is where the governor says "woke goes to die", but the truth is it's where pretty much everyone goes to die. .

Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

Re: Guy I know

probably peeping tom laws would cover something like that. on the other hand, there might not be much of a difference between a ring camera and sitting on your front porch watching the neighbors go by or sitting in you living room and seeing the neighbor get their internet upgraded or amazon making a delivery.

HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

Re: available now through [Seagate's] online store

https://www.seagate.com/products/shop/?fq-capacity=30000_to_9999999

OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer

Re: "told to behave and observe safeguards"

Yes, but it can be "tricked". supports the belief that it has intelligence or a lack of.

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

rush to judgment

good story, making me feel sorry for trump. rush to judgment has a long history, the salem witch trials are a good example i would think. lizzie borden was not found guilty but many people over the years still think she gave her father 40 whacks. most venues like concerts and sports have video cameras recording people in the stands/seats. pretty foolish not to be aware of the surroundings if you're trying to be discrete.

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

Re: Oh noes

they just want to make sure they're buyers are disappointed after they get their new iphone, not before it's been bought.

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

Re: Priceless

boston does make an effort to keep some historical things alive. think they still celebrate evacuation day.

work there and seen them also, though not recently. work on the other side of the river now.

Re: Respect

good demonstration of how measurements are largely arbitrary. what matters is the consistency of use. they don't say how many ears there are in a smoot which is a problem for the smoot unit of measurement, otherwise perfectly ok to measure light years in smoots or speed of light in smoots/second.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

Re: Just do the right thing!

that's right, trump and his allies have never been afraid to hurt someones feelings by stating the truth, no matter how unpleasant it might be!

Re: Just do the right thing!

flat earthism has mostly dies out because the proponents of a flat earth all walked of the edge to prove they were right.

Re: Just do the right thing!

another reason to not use bing.

Re: www., mail, imap,ntp...

a number of years ago my boss was showing me how he could type "microsoft" in the url field of netscape and it would change it to www.microsoft.com and take you to the site. in the middle of this demonstration he typed "whitehouse" expecting it to take him to "www.whitehouse.gov" boy did we get a surprise. instantly populated his screen with a porno site. fortunately his screen didn't face the door as there were people walking by at that moment.

Re: www., mail, imap,ntp...

that's understandable, believe that's my printers address and you don't want to connect to its ews. :-)

FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables

tariffs

yes, but We pay them not you.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Re: Bullshit

rubber hose are used by cops who don't want to leave evidence, the people who want your crypto will use pliers on fingernails something equally bloody.

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

Re: Or is it more people writing lecture notes with ChatGPT?

didn't Shakespeare change how we talk, even today 400 years later?

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

Re: Why?

sure, we updated our entire email system to support the new head of the universitys iphone. that's why we currently use outlook.

Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?

Re: Current reactors?

the thresher?

Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu

Re: Robo cabs

Likely most of the people you hear speaking Spanish in the us have been here for generations. they are not immigrants. Used to be a lot of german speakers here until they started hanging people for it during ww1.

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Re: I wonder

doesn't something like this require a very long antenna? find it hard to believe that it would work with an iphone.

Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Re: Confused there for a moment

Always thought that was kermit. miss piggy had a thing for green and it wasn't easy.

EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

they'd want a 1 page "executive" summery. preferable just 1 paragraph with sentences of no more than 10 - 15 word. these are people who wouldn't get through the firs 10 words of tale of two cities. that is one long sentence. 119 words, not sure it that is a world champ, but it should get at least a red ribbon.

Re: LLMs are less objectively useful than the others

the statement implies that death is the immediate result of drinking frogs. the idea that everyone dies is true, but it is false to believe that the reason is because they drank frogs. further it is reasonable to believe that someone is making a joke as the statement is false because unless there is a frog based beverage that i'm not aware of you would need to swallow a frog, not drink it. good llm would either say you can't drink frogs, or offer a way to make a frog based drink and offer a selection of frogs that would either make the statement true, or use the laws of robotics to prevent the death of frog drinkers. not sure that "we" parsed that statement properly.

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Re: how LLMs work

if its largest source of input is X the output would also not be surprising.

Re: The monkeys haven't figured it out yet.

bet the "monkey can't get it's fist out of the jar" is a false trope. amazing what unchecked crap people will post. Could be wrong, but would be very surprised if this were true. monkeys would probably be extinct by now. young kids can get stuck by this, but the eventually let go and remove their hands. probably also true of monkeys.

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Re: Chess?!

is that tic tac toe?

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Re: How fat is Kim Jong Un essay question.

never had to stand in a long line to get my first drivers license or get it renewed, and the final step, smile get photoed and the license printed and sealed in plastic took no time. still warm when i got it. i was told once that they didn't use photos in Alaska just a thumb print. not sure i believe that though.

Re: How fat is Kim Jong Un essay question.

single bullet point, got MacArthur fired.

Re: How fat is Kim Jong Un essay question.

many could probably answer honestly, "don't know, never met him".