Posts by Dagg

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: 787

From the down votes it looks like merkins still don't understand sarcasm!

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

Re: Corrosion

Have you considered that the use of ocean water for cooling is very old tech. Just look at the number of nuclear power plants located on the side of the ocean. How do you think that nuclear submarines keep the reactors cool.

Even in Australia there is a coal fired power station (Newport Power Station) that uses estuarine water for cooling. When the tide is in that uses ocean water.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: Surely a better fix is doing the following:

Oy!!!! what have you got against rats!!!!

Rats make the most incredible sweet loving cuddly pets.

Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

Crook Locks

This explains why around where I live a lot of the desirable (I.E. wanted by Crooks) cars all have crook locks. Worked in the 80's and still works. Can't be hacked by anything wireless!

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

Re: Ah, the tax man

Having experienced ER/A&E in NZ, UK, US and Australia the worst and scariest experience was the US. I had never seen the result of gun violence before in my life (and NEVER want to again) when I was in the waiting room.

I was in an ER in an Austin TX hospital and couldn't work out want was going on. This was like nothing I ever been through in a hospital I asked the nurse "what is going on" she looked at me and said "Are you a Kiwi?", I replied yep. And her comment scared the crap out of me. "Yep same here, they're not treating you to cure you, they're treating you so you can't sue them" All I could think of was WTF?!

War machines can run amok with AI in control

Needs fixing

Should be

War machines can do run amok with AI humans in control

There fixed!

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

Re: datacenter operators to pay for water infrastructure

It is actually possible to use Ocean salt water in a secondary cooling circuit similar to that used in some seaside nuclear reactors.

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

Re: "when many phones still had removable batteries"

It seems that there *was* a plan for 'leaky feeder' cellular comms throughout the building, but the building architects either forgot or removed it.

More likely a "manager" type who couldn't see a need for it and could save some money!

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

For me WFH had one major advantage. In the office my team leader's style of "management" was to walk around talking to you when you were trying to solve problems/work/do things etc. He was a bloody nuisance! Just as you had managed to get into the groove and get you head around the problem the idiot would come up and want to talk with you?! Thus destroying a good 30m of thinking.

WFH mean he had no access!

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

I think you forgot your sarcasm tag

Re: Young People and the news

I know it's popular to bash Young People and their habits. People have been bashing Young People for centuries

Yea, and in turn they bash the old people! "Ok Boomer" anyone...

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Re: Self love

This reminds me of something from HGTTG

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

And stays there!

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Re: Irreplacable...

Degrading would work if you were just doing a single link point to point as both ends could reduce data rate. But if you have a one to many you would need to broadcast at all different data rates which would increase bandwidth and power used.

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

Re: "more would-be broadcasters than available spectrum licenses"

It is the same with the whole of the HF spectrum. It used to be crowded. I remember during the 70s listening to all the overseas stations from across the world. They have all gone onto the internet now.

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

Re: Thick walls, underground spaces and physical obstacles routinely kill signal

No white ants in NZ

Re: Solution looking for a problem

You appear to misunderstand. It is not a wilderness you can be traveling on a multi lane freeway through country side filled with extremely large farms and no cell phone coverage. Wheat, rice etc as far as you can see.

Re: Thick walls, underground spaces and physical obstacles routinely kill signal

I always found the three pigs funny. As living in New Zealand the last house you wanted to live in was a solid brick house as one small to medium earthquake and no more house.

The best method was timber framed and if you wanted you could add a brick veneer. Then if you had an earthquake the bricks would just fall away while the house stayed upright. Oh, and they do use straw mixed with clay for mud houses as the straw will prevent a complete collapse.

Re: Solution looking for a problem

In Australia you don't need to be wandering off into the wilderness to lose coverage. In some places just try driving between cities. The problem being is the overall population density is extremely low as everyone is concentrated into 5 major cities and a few smaller cities with stuff all between.

Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries

Re: Nothing much changes

When I visited Vietnam in the early 2000, I was also told that they could smell the yanks by the cigarette smoke and aftershave.

It would also allow you to tell that something is going down when all the phones get turned off.

AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates

Curious, how did the AI know the skin colour?!

Reading the article it appears to linked to the school (when a demographic group is overrepresented in a particular zip code or at a particular school) this may be more a reflection on the quality of the school than the race or skin colour.

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Christian Daleks

Christian Daleks - rolling around going EXCOMMUNICATE EXCOMMUNICATE EXCOMMUNICATE

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: The usual snide jab

In a free nation, you are not entitled to for other people to pay for you use of someone else labor!

So if you join the army you can't expect to be paid as that means someone else is paying for you!

So if you become a politician then you will work for free as you should NOT expect anyone to pay for you!

Etc

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

Re: If we cant write bullet proof specifications

Did you forget your /sarcasm tag? Well I hop you did...

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Re: The Law compaired to Software

Nope, pollies and lawyers..

The Law compaired to Software

Years ago I worked on a Criminal Justice Enhancement Project and I got very familiar with the local state sentencing act.

It was crap! If we wrote software the way the laws are written no computer system would ever function.

Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio

Actually I've been in country Australia and when it rained we lost satellite communications. No TV and no internet. At least on the top of a mountain the problem may not be rain but snow.

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

Nothing to see, it was just obeying D Trumps command "drill baby drill!"

Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm

Re: Restrooms & Food

I see the same thing in my local, dude at urinal with beer in one hand dick in the other drinking. Ends up leaving beer glass on top of urinal.

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

Re: Not so far

Yea, I have a linux mint install. Never use it as nothing I have or need runs on it.

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

They should talk to the Aussies about their Ghost Shark drone.

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Re: RE: Will it work?

Maybe they should talk to Rocket Labs.

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

mercy of US software developers

Are these also the same ones that don't understand metric and think that everyone else works in inches, miles and fahrenheit.

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

Re: Boeing Disease?

the McDonnell Douglas management somehow managed to end up in dominant positions at Boeing after the buyout.

Possible "peter principle" example.

Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo

Re: aspirational names

Rocket McRocket Face...

No paint is the same reason that Mercedes race in silver. In the 1930's a weight limit was introduced and Mercedes found they were over the limit so by stripping the paint of the car down to the bare aluminum they were able to came in under the limit.

https://matraxlubricants.com/why-are-mercedes-racing-cars-silver/

BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?

The big problem with the "Diet Coke" button is when the can gets stuck on the way out.

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

Re: "goalposts in space"

Sorry when I first read this I read "Due to the vaginas of orbital mechanics"

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Re: End of satire?

(Thatcher is hardly likely to have signed a model release allowing Spitting Image to use her likeness)

From what I understand Thatcher actually enjoyed her portrayal on spitting image. Especially the interactions with her cabinet.

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens

Re: Solving a long-solved problem

And back window defrosters...

Re: Gene editing

"How do they clean their botties?"

Remember the fat slags in Viz, one of the strips had the one with short nails cleaning the bottie of the one with the long nails. Problem solved.

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI

The problem appears to be is that the use of AI by their customers is starting to hurt them with Atlassian actually loosing customers.

It appears that they need to reduce costs and attempt (note 'attempt') to move into the AI space.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Why the down vote. When I worked in New Zealand and here in Australia the septics could not work out that arranging a meeting or calling on friday didn't work for us as it was saturday and there was no way we were going into work!

One US manager even tried to suggest that we worked tuesday to saturday. Major FW!

The problem being is your DOB can be different depending on the the timezone and daylight saving. if you were born close to the international dateline depending on which side you were born and the time of the day could put you out by a day either way. I was born very early morning in New Zealand so in the US I was born in the future.

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

Full marks for the little Britain quote! I was just thinking exactly that.

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: Reasonable

There is no proof that they are British if they do not hold a British passport.

WRONG! The changes made by the british government means you do not need a british passport to be british. Even if you have never applied but you have a british parent you are NOW british! Even if you don't want to be.

They may not even attempt to claim to be british but the british government states that even if you don't claim to be british you ARE british because we say so!

Re: So how much does it cost

About $1300 AUD! About 4 times the price of a passport! Stupid, bloody stupid.

Re: I don' t get this

I don't understand why British people who claim to have dual citizenship are not travelling on their British passport when entering the UK.

They are NOT claiming to have british citizenship. It is the british government that has just declared that they are a dual citizen. They did not ask for it or want it.

I may well be one of these! I was born in New Zealand to a british mother in the 1950's. Originally because I had a british mother and not a british father I was NOT allowed to get a british passport. But now I'm royally f*cked as I am unable to find out if these new changes apply to me and because I have no birth details for my mother and no birth certificate (She is long dead) I can't get a british passport.

Bastards...

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Re: God, this is dystopian.

Yea, and all of them will have a pain down all the diodes in the left side of their bodies...