Posts by Jonjonz

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

The media, including this site totally mesmerized by some soap opera political theatre, and totally not reporting on the proposal in Congress to leave 12 million americans out of healthcare. The instant that goes through, these two will kiss and make up.

Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales

Get elected spouting rants about how everything is the fault of the most powerless people in the world and government. Once elected start selling bitcoins and gold with the pitch that the government is going to fail, so you better stock up now. Make sure government fails and retire even richer to your private enclaves.

Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims

Help me out with the logic here, there is a kill switch, but its virtual, not tangible, it's called software that phones home.

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

That will show those pesky rebels the empire means business. NOT

China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata

Like telling people they must not lie, cheat or steal, and about as effective.

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater

The great leap backwards crowd has found the oligarch version of sucking the state tit, is even better than the star Star Citizen scam. Boatloads of failure in return for years of inflated budgets.

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

Yea sure, set your watches for when this tariff thing tanks the economy, and the fat orange king of the world pivots to pin the blame on wokeism and DEI.

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

NASA got us to the moon in 5 years, crony capitalism has shown all it can do is prolonged spam in a can going about as well as Putin's SMO.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

The whole purpose of these built in AI processors it to reduce the friction on their surveillance of you. The AI chip can analyze and summarize large quantities of subservience data on you and then phone home that summary, rather than the time consuming and more costly, sending the whole of the data and using up bandwidth.

The are struggling to show any concrete benefit to the customer, as that is not the goal of the chips.

What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program?

Under mob rule, NASA will be politicised and nothing more than a rubber stamp for further engorging Trumps cadre of space tech oligarchs. It's the last gasp of oligarchy before mob rule decends into chaos.

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

Re: There IS NO MORE CONGRESS

Still in denial that mob rule has succeeded I see.

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?

Our Tech Bro overlords have been slurping PC surveillance for years, the NPU make life easier for that. The NPU eats that data, analyzes it, and sends the digest report back to the tech bros. This way they can gather more data, but only have to transmit the filtered, categorized and summarized cream back to them.

No doubt the NPU, to function fully for its supposed consumer benefits, will also serve as a conduit front end to assist with making cloud based solutions preferable to native solutions, further bringing all PC use into the cloud where you pay rent and own no software that operates independently on the PC.

Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge

Oh boy more imaginary trickle down.

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers

The sh*t is about to hit the fan, all those robots and AI enhanced robots have allready been made, under Biden, but kept in storehouses as rolling them out in mass would cause social upheaval a Democratic admin will take steps to allievate,

Now with a stongman who is extremely anti-labor and his loyalists set to controll all three branches of government, the roll out of robots and AI knowledge workers will become a flood, and any social unrest will be redirected towards the chosen strawman of minorities, immiggrants, and anyone who publicly does not agree with the party line.

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

Re: checks and balances of government

your kneejerk spouting of Fox News talking points may make you feel empowered, but you got it all wrong in my book.

Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch

so accordin to the incoming administration, some shock and belt tightening is in order as US policy shifts to penalizing efforts on net zero and rewarding energy management soley of cost. Guess who can afford more power than you, and be happy getting priced out of energy, no imposed restrictions, your free to freeze if you can't out bid the oligarchs.

Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money

Blah Blah, Centralize

Just another way to say, we learned from introduction of personal computers, renting centralized solutions is way more profitable than selling commodity compute.

GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products

Knowing Microsoft, just waiting to see how they shoot themselves in the foot with this. Given that they also want to charge for the full version, methinks what they tack on to Bing will be severely hobbled and munged up.

Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping

As if F*ckUBook actually does not know that a good portion of its accounts are fake.

If it is available to the public, its game.

Only a cadre of costly lawyers and ever clue less judicial officials can not see that.

Universities offered software to sniff out ChatGPT-written essays

It is only a matter of time before AI systems replace much of what business employees low wage customer service workers with, leading to a new grifter specialization, conning AIs.

Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe

Re: I really don't see

Where is the outrage at Grammerly?

These yobs at CNET clearly took writing with AI help as seen in the last season of Westworld to heart.

TSMC founder says 'globalization is almost dead' as Asian foundry giant expands in US

The more of Chechnya Putin grabs, while the rest of the world gets hysterical and fails to act, the more likely China will grab Taiwan.

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

How the headline should read

Crazed luny running irresponsible media venture now hallucinating visions of turning around an all ready sinking ship.

It's like the captain of the Titanic, ordering crew to leave all bulkheads open, while telegraphing the world that nothing is wrong, we will be in port soon.

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Apples "Envisioning"

Yea sure, Apple "envisioned" the Ipod, right after copying mundane moderately successful thumdrive/media players and re-branding them as upscale status and fashion symbols.

China 'must seize TSMC' if the US were to impose sanctions

As Vladimire has shown, in today's world powerful despots have pretty much free reign to grab what ever real estate they like on thier borders, and the rest of the world will just whine, bitch, employ more shunning while generally forsaking the humans lost in the grab.

Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m

So, I get your typical crony local government back room deals where the officials at the top get paybacks, but really what has Foxconn gotten out of this even if they never deliver?

Bosses using AI to hire candidates risk discriminating against disabled applicants

One manager tasked with hiring 1000 staff in a month. You wish.

Maybe opening a new plant, but then there would be more than enough managers available.

Using AI in hiring is business shooting themselves in the foot.

Until you can trust AI to mow your lawn without the aid of electronic guides, it is not ready for prime time.

US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'

I don't get it, does not the TOS trump everything else. If the TOS states the company may copy and preserve your data at any time to cooperate with law enforcement, then that is the end of the conversation.

Shanghai lockdown: Chinese tech execs warn of supply-chain chaos

Some folks don't recognize a shake down when it as plain as day. Guess which CPC official now has multiple new dachas after Tesla and Apple's factories got a pass.

This is not politics, it's organized crime.

The metaverse of fantasy worlds is itself still a fantasy

All connected, interoperable, never going to happen. The only business plan Zuckzombie and his ilk understand is the walled garden. Online multiplayer platforms and games do everything they can to keep all monetization/value withing that entity. You think Zuckzombie or Activision is going to say yes to third party gold sellers?

Intel boss presses Congress for manufacturing subsidies

F*CK Korporate Welfare

F*ck Korporate Welfare.

Look no further for proof Citizens United turned bribery into how to get massive governent handouts 101.

US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers

Nice to see more people are finally grokking that the crime here is not the 30% sale price take, but the vig, owing Apple 30% of every microtransaction made via the app for perpetuity.

The issues are clear with Apple, with Google, it is really android that is the problem and OS issues are too complex for the average lawmaker to grasp.

Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines

win 10 Updates - Three days a month my computer is useless

I have a potato computer. Every Win 10 update takes control of it for three days of endless disk thrashing, extremely long start up times, and massive lag when trying to play games or run any memory or cpu intensive software. Usually after 3 days things settle down.

Fortunately they have never broken anything, but why in Gods name does their own anti-virus have to scan every file of their update multiple times?

Thank God, my potato does not qualify for Win 11.

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

Some people are simply ignorant of history.

China could care less about Taiwan for centuries until China had a civil war where the leader of the losing side escaped to Taiwan and set up his own version of China there eventually named the Republic of China. The CCP goes apoplectic at the mention of the Republic of China (hence why the name Taiwan is used) and threatens world nuclear holocaust any time it is brought up.

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

Re: re. Disgusting your customers and driving them away is fine

The break point they care about is do enough chumps use this service to make it profitable, they don't care if 90% of users drop it if they don't contribute revenue.

Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

Renting puts you business way out on a limb you cannot easily climb down from.

It puts your business in an environment you have zero control over, for things like security, safety, disasters, and at the whims/greed of who collects the rent.

If those don't matter to your business, then it is cheaper in the short term, but could cost way more in the long run.

Re: Confused

"Renting your IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for your customers"

A negative statement.

Followed by a binary choice:

* For - Is it a vote for renting, or a vote against renting

* Against - Is it a vote against renting or a vote for renting

Seems like a trap to confuse people and produce worthless results.

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

Re: On the Ocean Blue

Yea they are technically suspects, but having a few tons of illegal substance in your boats hold is pretty damming evidence.

Tought tomatoes, you putter your boat full of drugs into US waters, you takes your chances.

JEDI mind tricks: Google said Pentagon contract didn't align with company values. Now it's chasing another defence gig

We all know Google only values 2 things:

* Acquiring data about individuals

* Using that data to make money, buy selling it, or selling advertising

Clearly the JEDI program did not offer them enough data on people (military and defense dept employees and thier families).

Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!

Oops, some Yahoo suit publicly uttered Republic of China.

FCC officially opens its $1.9bn purse to reimburse those ripping out and replacing Huawei, ZTE kit

Corporate Welfare anyone?

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

This is the face of end stage democratic capitalism. Infrastructure is crumbling, social turmoil and division is spreading, growing shortage of goods, high unemployment together with labor shortages, it's 1980s Russia all over again, except it is greedy corporations instead of party fat cats causing the rot. Get ready for a bumpy transition to Russian/Chinese style gangster capitalism. Democratic Capitalism is terminal.

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

The metaverse is a meaningless term, it's the old street con man for mumbling incomprehenibly when a mark asks questions.

F*ckUbook motto really is "we use stupid laws like 230 and technology to invade everyone's privacy and sell the information gained to the highest bidder, and also promoting murder, incest, pedophilia, racism etc if it sells adds."

Metamucil is more like it, get ready to get shit on even more by powerful corporations.

White Nazi's in full regalia, burning a thousand digital crosses before lynching several hundred simulated minorities, in 3, 2, 1, now that's engagement!

Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs

Those terms of service are BS, and any judge should have the sense to see that.

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Lawyers and eventually Judges That Get IT

It has taken a generation or so for lawyers and eventually those on the bench to have grown up with technology and have a clue about what big tech is running circles around privacy and fair trade.

This is hopeful, but sadly my just be a high profile shake down. Big tech will just have to "speak" (as in Citizen's United) a little more with the litigants to make this all go away. Compared to the loss if they had to stop these practices, bribes are pin money.

US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress

Yes Mr. Bozo Billionaire, we congress folk need a few more dachas and yatchs, just play along and send us some more of your pin money.

As if any billionaire in the post Citizen's United US as anything to worry about legally.

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

What the F*ck, any fool knows if you have a mostly captive group of humans, whose only choice is to eat in your mess hall, that you totally dispense with cash registers and paying that just slows a line down. You just pile yearly fee on them. Tough tomatoes if they miss a meal, or choose to not eat.

Every school I went to growing up did it this way. If it was a private school it came out of your tuition. If it was pubic they just did not even dick around with any charges, if you were a kid in the cafeteria you got fed, no charge. Compared to the walnut paneling budget for administrators the cost to do that is pin money in most school systems.

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

The old use you powerful position to shake down as many as you can in practise.