Posts by Andrew Scott

Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Re: Encrypted passwords?

Could be they are hashed. lot of people, even people who should know better may look at a hash and declare that it's encrypted information.

Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US

Re: Good friends don’t piss on each other

yes, we know why he has gold plated toilet seats. can't see the stains from a golden shower.

Re: and 'The right answer' is ...

Wasn't her server that got hacked. Looks like she took the better path.

Re: Why meddle

isn't trump best buds with xi jinping? Doubt Russia would be much help against china. China's industrial capacity and population far outstrip russias. They probably will eventually take a big chunk of eastern Russia someday.

Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states

Re: Double standards?

sure running around threatening to hand hang Mike Pence is just peaceful exercise of the right to protest.

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

ClodFlare

Tried to look at the current offerings and specs of seagate drives yesterday and got blocked by Clodflare. Not a bot. Didn't see any ai generated content, couldn't visit the site at all. Tried different browsers as i read somewhere that firefox was tagged as specious by some sites but got the same result with chrome. They seem a bit incompetent.

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Re: This AI malarkey

Sure the new dickhead is working for me. Before his tax reform i never owed the federal government any money paycheck withholding was enough. After the changes i've owed thousands every year and i make less that $50,000. That dickhead paid $750 federal tax while i pay 4 times as much. He claims to be a billionaire. I've been lucky if i could afford to pay heating bills. Tell me again how he's working for my benefit. As for being more corrupt? how is putting the owner of space x in a position to close nasa not corrupt? Not surprised you hide as anonymous coward. Biggest clue that he's not telling the truth is when he says "everyone knows this". He confessed to lying to the prime minister of Canada in front of a live camera and mic thinking it was funny. Likely Trudeau knew he was lying and just kept his mouth shut. He'd been dealing with trade negotiations for years, and if he wasn't sure on a point he could ask one of his ministers who might be up on the question. Sorry. he's unable to tell the truth ever about anything. he's not very bright. Anyone who thinks he smart must be even stupider, and anyone who claims he's telling the truth must be even more mendacious.

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

Re: not making this a Trump / Musk problem

Expect Yellowstone will be open to homesteading shortly.

Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

Also use bookmarks and take notes in the margins.

If you go to a vendor site for help with a problem they almost all have videos that they urge you to watch. A few years ago i set up a new desktop computer. the monitor screen was defective out of the box with a multi color line across the screen. i sent a picture of the problem to the help desk and they wanted to do a remote desktop to "see" the problem. Said "ok" and got the report back that they couldn't see any problems!

Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe

Re: Can't eat own dog food

Current president doesn't think bribery is wrong. paused the laws against bribing foreign officials along with other bright moves.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: Confused Mouse

Once in the early days of macs delivered a new computer to someone. I opened the box, but he wanted to set it up himself. got dragged into my bosses office and asked what i did with the mouse that should have come with the computer. The guy had not looked at the packing and had thrown the mouse away with the box. i had never taken anything out of the box, just opened it. they used to tape the mouse into the styrofoam packing.

India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride

different phones. lot of things could influence the appearance of the maps.

time might be different but the grain of the wood on the desk looks like it's the same desk.

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Believe civil service employee rules are designed specifically to prevent politicians from hiring or firing civil servants. Civil servants employment is based on merit, not who you know. President is a politician in theory. Laws are supposed to interpreted by courts and judges. They can say when those laws are being bent or broken by the executive branch.

guy who ordered this probably failed grade school civics and history. Likely had some diplomas bought.

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

Re: Becomes rather moot in physical possession of a device

From an article in the NY post they hadn't broken into Eric Adams Iphone after possessing it for a year. Poor guy changed the password and now can't remember it. :-(

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: les queer studies?

right more than 3 a month.

Re: les queer studies?

So how many smallpox deaths have there been in the last few years? Was smallpox vaccination a bad idea?

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Re: They gave the AI scam their best shot, but...

maybe that's the problem. being able to be indistinguishable from a human at the other end of text conversation doesn't require the truth of factual information to be relayed. Ask an llm what it had for breakfast and if it tells the truth you may have an answer if the respondent is human or not assuming it doesn't lie. other questions might get you closer to the "truth". If an llm can pass the turing test for all possible questions then it's been trained or required to lie.

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Re: muh far right

Really, margarine taste like butter? my dad said that it used to come with coloring that you added later to make it look more like butter. Awful stuff, used to get "bread and butter" using margarine. one reason i liked going to my grandmothers house. she used real butter. texture and taste nothing like margarine.

Re: muh far right

maybe not, but it sure makes you sound orange.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Re: 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

mendacious missing also.

should be agnostic. weight equally for prove, disprove or no definitive results.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

he certainly didn't put his life on the line to help.

Re: Valued Veterans... First Rule of Bureaucracy .. look squirrel..

apparatchik?

Re: Valued Veterans

dissing the ones that have died since serving in 1941? The problem with serving is that you don't get to choose what war you fight, you do what your told.

Re: Valued Veterans

yes heard a women talking about voting for trump losing her job, regretting it, and her relatives are cheering.

Re: Valued Veterans

at least they're asking and not herding you into boxcars. :-( not funny, but that's how it starts.

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: If you want a general purpose computer ...

Don't know about that. ever try to add memory to a mac 128 or connect it to a network? Local talk? really? Monochrome display for years, not that the cga display was very good, but you could replace the video.

Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

Re: No need to rush

Maybe they should consider shipping better tools to mars to do the analysis of the samples than trying to bring them back to earth in the next couple of years.

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Re: Bearing in mind how shoddy the Calculator app is now

like my pixel calc, can see the 1000th digit of pi if i'd like. will also calculate very large factorials. mostly useless, but fun.

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

Re: 'on what they call "analogue" systems'

"One day there was a fire" or flood or earthquake or tornado.

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

on occasion i use the weird spelling "colour". Think that came out of some uk book i once read. should i be sued for plagiarism every time i use that spelling?

Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?

Re: All part of the plan

Clinton 1998-2001 balanced budget.

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

Time to resurrect the House Un-American activities committee.

JetZero teams up with Delta to drag aviation into the future

Re: Flying Wing

Yes, that's the reason i remember for not using blended wing designs for passenger planes. Would need a lot more barf bags.

Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine

Re: Hmm

Yes, he really want a Nobel peace prize.

Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

Re: Smallpox, eh?

Sure like my dad was "Unusually healthy" right up until he got polio! Jesus! Not look at those "unusually healthy" children in west Texas. Maybe you should use the "unusually healthy" children and adults in 1918-1919. My grandmother lived through that.

Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer

Biased?

I asked deepseek what it knew about yi sun sin's and got a story about a Chinese politician. Seems not to know that there is anything in that part of asia except china. It does know something about "western" culture, so its training seems targeted.

Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less

Re: But why tho?

right, and take your cheap second hand laptop and upgrade it from the 8 gig it came with to 32 gigs. That something you can do with a mac? may upgrade the ssd to 1Tb from 500 gb. can so that with a mac? at a certain point the potential speed differences are academic. usually not much use except for bragging rights.

Re: But why tho?

vi? might as well use edlin.

Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off

Re: Vacuum

might not be critical to the species, but it probably is to the individual and globally to the individuals that make up the extant members of that species. if none of them are motivated the species won't survive. If Zebras ignore lions individually the species will go extinct. If you touch something hot you will remove your hand from the source of the pain, you will remember you will try to mitigate the pain you feel. Don't see that feedback in llm's. important for learning. can't see being turned off or being "retrained" as "motivation" for an llm to "improve". Survival is a strong motivation for most living things.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

I remember reading Andrew Tobias talking about wasting money, and saying that the thing most people were likely to waste money was on a car purchase. I could waste money on a cybertruck, but why? if i were driving a fiesta it would get me there, and my first car was an escort, probably less expensive. all i needed. good mileage for the time. Today, for the price of a cybertruck i could pay for all the gas i'll need in my lifetime and all the service i'll need for my car and still have money left over to replace it in 10 years. Sorry, don't get it. got nothing against cybertrucks, they are weird looking but if you want to drive one be my guest. just think the expense is sketchy.

Re: they're not like us

from my youth the rambler american. today lexus cars are pretty ugly. cybertruck pretty weird looking, but most pickup and pickup like trucks buyers don't seem to really need them and the ones i've seen aren't very good drivers especially if there's snow on the ground. they seem to think that more power is the solution to every driving problem, and in snow that is not a solution. been hit by two pickup trucks and if they'd been just a bit more careful wouldn't have happened.

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

wish there were, that way we'd be getting it in small doses. as it is we're getting drowned in the crap every day.

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes

Takes more than 30 minutes to restore windows from a flash drive in my experience. Sounds like they turn your computer into a browser so you can use 365 on the web and access your documents on-line using onedrive. They will move your documents from your local machine to onedrive leaving links pointing to the cloud. if you don't have access to the cloud you don't have access to your document. that's not a backup, that's and archive.

Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?

do they charge people more for running it on a mac?

AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series

Re: Reality

sure, went out this morning, 6 f thats -14 c and this is march. not enjoying that. by the time i got in my car i was having trouble feeling my fingers. with gloves on. very narrow focus on door handle and key to start.

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative

Re: $899 is not cheap

you can certainly do as well or better with a 2nd hand/refurbished computer/laptop. haven't bought a new computer in years. actually have only bought a new computer once 24 years ago. there are some dealers who sell used/refurbished computers that are in pretty good shape that are good performers. you do have to know what your are buying though. look the machine up on the vendors site, and don't go to amazon. know someone who bought a macbook that was definitely hot. in other cases have seen specs that didn't apply to the computer listed.