* Posts by lglethal

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Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem

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They do it to put fear in people, and to give them an excuse to "legally" throw any body they don't like or whom they disagree with in prison.

One of the things I've never understood is why the police in such places seem to go along with it. Now I've known a few cops in my time in different lands (although admittedly only in western democracies) and as a general rule, if they think a law is daft, they'll tend to ignore it, or at least give folks a warning that what they're doing is illegal and to stop it. Unfortunately, this attitude seems to stop when other cops are around (Hence, why cops sometimes get stupid when it comes to protests), but still as a rule. They let things go, a lot.

Hong Kong police used to be considered very similar to Western cops. What had caused them to switch sides to totalitarian mode so fast, I wonder?

Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget

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So can we say this was a migrating cable, that took nest in the trees for the spring, before leaving at the end of summer?

What is the carrying capacity of a migrating European Swallow Ethernet cable?

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

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I think I get it...

So I think I now understand the 100 mile thing. Americans love to be able to claim to be pioneers. Pioneers are always exploring borders. Therefore by making the borders 100 miles from anywhere you can actually enter the USA, then all those Americans (2/3 of them according to the article!) can claim to be Pioneers.

There you have it, a nation of Pioneers. As defined by law...

NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing

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Re: Ogopogo != Nessy

Nessy moves faster than light? I would have thought that would cause some pretty massive problems in Lake Ness, some unexplained Fusion explosions for one...

Fahrenheit to take over Celsius

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NewCo's management team, however, will receive $35 million per year in management fees.

Nice work if you can get it...

In what world does a company with an Asset register of €500 million, spend 7% of that EVERY year paying their management? And the Asset register is NOT an indicator of the actual profit that will be generated from those assets. I look forward to seeing how quickly the Management can strip all of the profits and a large amount of the assets before folding the company in a few years time. My guess is 3 years....

Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk

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Awesome!

Great work all round by those Scientists.

I wonder if there is a specific reason for taking the signals direct from the Cortex rather than just intercepting the signal from the spinal cord. The Cortex would seem a more difficult solution (lots of signals to filter out), but then again, maybe you get a much cleaner signal when you know what your looking for.

Still, it's awesome that the body seems to be beginning to repair itself and get signals through the damage even without the artificial help.

Beer for those Boffins and for the guy willing to be a Guinea Pig!!!! ---->

One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned

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... deprive the world of one of the most visible and demanding applications for which it was ever mistakenly considered suitable.

Fixed that for you...

In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads

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I find it funny that these things are always labelled as privacy issues. I doubt very much there's any particular privacy issue associated with Tik Tok that doesn't apply to Facebook, YouTube, Google and all the rest.

Where Tik Tok is dangerous though is in influence operations, especially of the young. Changing the algorithm just a touch to be more positive about China, or negative about a particular political candidate and the next generation of voters will be affected.

You could argue this is no different to Facebook and Google. But they walk a line knowing that every 4-8 years they will have to bend over to the other US party in power and so do there best to walk a rough middle ground (and so manage to piss off both sides!). Tik Tok only needs to listen to the CCP, so it can be much more consistent.

Still you never hear the arguments in this direction, which would make much more sense and be a more realistic thing to argue against Tik Tok...

We regret to inform you Earth will not be destroyed by an asteroid within 1,000 years

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"as a dark rock that nobody noticed slams into Slough..."

Well that would certainly improve the area...

Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims

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"It's curious how they can do the decent thing in some scenarios, and yet in others royally screw over the customers..."

Where the Eye of Sauron Musk falls, then decency shalt no longer survive...

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Of course, everyone's situation is different, I never said otherwise.

I'm lucky enough to be able to charge at home, and live in a country where the network of charges has been excellently rolled out.

But dear God, you pay 79p/kWh???? €0,91/kWh!!!! Even using the 300kWH chargers on the Autobahn near us doesnt cost us more than €0,45/KWh. At those prices, you are getting massively screwed! Wow no wonder EV take up is so low in the UK...

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Funnily enough I own an EV (not Tesla!), and by my calculation based on local petrol prices, and my house energy prices, I save about €20 per "tank" in comparison to my previous car (a Skoda).

We've not had any problems with updates or with the batteries (although you do notice a definite difference in range in winter when all the heating is on). We're super happy with our car (VW ID3).

And since we're saving a significant amount of money over the course of a year, SHOULD something go wrong, which I dont expect since we're actually driving a proper carmaker's car, we'll have the money to fix it.

So your complaint about EV's seems to centre on one manufacturer who has been known to be crap for a long time. Try looking at proper car manufacturer's EVs, you wont find anywhere near the level of complaints or problems...

Remember those millions of fake net neutrality comments? Fallout continues

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Re: That'll show them!

Businesses can afford very expensive lawyers to make the lives of the Public Prosecutor a nightmare. Your guy knocking over a convenience store cant.

You want to look at why Businesses quite literally get away with murder, that's the reason. Why spend the time and effort hitting against the brick wall of corporate lawyers and hoping some shit will stick, when you can chase after the poor, get easy convictions and be seen to being "tough on crime".

The only way to fix that would be to properly fund the government agencies dealing with this stuff, but since they might then have the resources to go after corrupt politicians and their cronies, there's little chance of that happening...

Cynical, moi?

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I sincerely hope that the next step for the NY AG is to go after the firms that paid these "digital marketing firms" (eww I feel dirty just saying the words!) to do the Astroturfing. Clearly there's a "Conspiracy to..." charge in their somewhere.

Going after the middle man does nothing, go after the source of the problem. Name and shame those who paid for these disgusting campaigns, and then go after their CEO's for attempting to taint your democracy...

Oh wait, sorry we are talking about America here. Where the Corporations rule, and you have the best government money can buy...

Cops crack gang that used bots to book and resell immigration appointments

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Ahh thanks I missed that. That makes much more sense...

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Without knowing the full details of this system, wouldnt this be easily taken care of by requiring the name of the person with the appointment to be made during the booking and that no other person could use that booking except the named person?

Or am I missing something obvious here?

NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail

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Space is hard!

Always a shame when a mission fails, but still good that a number of the experimental tech got some good experience. That will be useful for future missions.

Here's hoping they can do something with it whilst it's flying around in Space out there...

This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station

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... and be provided with a spacesuit and rations for the trip.

Funny, I thought they's just be dumped out of the airlock.

I'm sure the guests also appreciate being provided with food. Take out is hard to find in the area. and the delivery costs and waiting time to order in are astronomical...

The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free

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Re: Who's going to pay for this?

Have you seen what companies are willing to pay for a 1 minute Ad at the Super Bowl?

OK this is not in that league (he he), but a servicing mission of Hubble would be a massive publicity generator for the firms involved. They may not cover 100% of costs doing this, but they could certainly cover a lot, and come out with a stack more publicity than any amount of advertising here on Earth...

EV truck maker Nikola stalls in 2023, pulls out of Europe, hits brakes on production

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Ok I was exaggerating, but the point still stands - Europeans buy SIGNIFICANTLY more EV's than Americans.

So taking your EV product out of the market where the most EV's are being sold, to go to a market where sales are negligible remains a stupid thing to do...

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Considering that Europeans are FAR more likely to buy an Electric Vehicle than Americans (who remain addicted to Combustion Engines), pulling out of the EU market to double down on Americans, seems like the CEO might be, how shall I say this politely, a few sandwiches short of a picnic?

Lets focus on a market where people dont want our product! That market over there, where the majority of new cars purchased are Electric and which has an excellent network of chargers already installed? Nope lets take our electric vehicles out of their ASAP!

Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?

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"A collective agreement to harmonize digital standards and protocols for platforms and devices would enable users to transition seamlessly between digital spaces."

If Meta had ANY interest in that, then they wouldnt have locked down the Oculus Headsets to only use the Oculus store right? People could happily buy from Steam, or the HTC store or wherever else, and play the games on their Oculus headset, right? right?

*chirp chirp*

Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon

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Re: Saying the US can't do it now?

Sorry but you're wrong.

We can fly at Mach 3, or we could in a very short amount of time rebuild Aircraft to achieve that (e.g. the SR-71), but it doesnt make economic sense to do that anymore. The previous use cases for Mach 3 flights were mostly spy flights or fighters. For spy flights we can do that much more cheapily, and with zero risk using satellites. For Fighters, modern missiles are Beyond visual range (up to 150-200km away), so you dont need huge speed anymore.

The Mach 2 civilian aircraft (i.e. Concorde), never made a profit, was expensive to maintain, and people as a general rule we're not interested in paying the premium. Boeing looked at desoigning a new Mach 2 Aircraft in the late 90's, early 2000's (the Sonic Cruiser), but the market research showed, people were not willing to pay for the extra speed. We could build it, but the economic reality is not their. We havent lost that technology, and it is in active research development, and maybe one day, people will find a way to make Supersonic flight work more quietly, and at a cheaper price, and then you watch how fast it will get built. But that day is not today.

Most of the things you listed were horribly expensive tasks that only got built or done because it was a way for nations to show off. But to a large degree we've moved past that point, economic reality says if there is a cheaper way to do things, then we do it that way. Bigger and Faster doesnt always translate to better...

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Re: Whatever next?

I would suggest that's because Putin and his Oligarch buddies have pretty much stripped the nation of resources, which surprisingly is not something that Stalin did too much of. Well apart from "human resources" of which Stalin killed many millions of his own people. Putin of course is working on that too, with the conscripts in Ukraine, but I'd doubt even he could match Stalin there.

Still since Putin pretty much stripped the Russian military to the bear bones, and then surrounded himself with people who would only say yes to him, is it any surprise that the only way he's made any progress in Ukraine is by firing long range missiles and drones (with relatively minimal effect), and going the tried and trusted Russian cannon fodder route?

The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer

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Re: LLM. All your works belong to us.

This raises an interesting philosophical question for me:

Imagine that, by scraping Human created stories, the LLM's begin to create stories that eventually put all the human authors they used as training material out of work. Would that then mean that the LLM's would basically repeat the stories they've already produced as there would no longer be works for them to intake and expand their repoitoire?

So they'd basically boil down to becoming Hollywood Movie Writers, only able to create sequels, prequels, and "reimaginings" of the old "classics"!

God help us all! Burn the LLM's to the ground! Burn them!!!!

You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing

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Interesting idea...

The thought of carrying a small little box, about 1/6 the size of my laptop, back and forth to work, but which is my entire computer and just needs to be plugged into a screen in the office or at home, is very interesting! Small, light, durable, you could chuck it into a normal backpack, and not worry at all. That would be terrific!

The fan noise though. *shakes head* Make it 10mm bigger, and have a bigger heat sink, or allow better airflow. Anything to make it quiet. An extra 10mm is not going to change someone's purchasing decision. "I'm sorry it's 125mm long, no, no, no that's way to big! I wont take anything over 120mm!" was said by no one anywhere... But loud? No-one wants to work with a jet engine on their desk. Even more so, when it's an intermittent jet engine!

You have to wonder who's writing the requirement specification for these devices, and if they ever bother to use the items there creating the specs for?

China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek

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Re: What a load of bull!

I guess someone failed to take the Bull by it's ....um... horns....

Users complain over UK state-owned bank's services as Atos eyes the exit

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Failed Authentication, Failed Again. It is 2FA after all....

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So in this case 2FA stands for "2 F%&king Awful" to function correctly? Or perhaps F%&king Awful, Functions Atrociously"?

Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM

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Re: Err

I've always preferred "Poor Planning on Your Part, Does NOT Constitute an Emergency on Mine".

Although maybe that's not quite so accurate in the above story, since it would definitely be an emergency for whoever was in that room!

Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign

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Do not confuse Stock Price with Growth.

It's exceptionally easy to drive up Stock price whilst effectively killing a company, by simply selling off whole business units (the profitable ones because no one particularly wants the non-profitable ones), and then promising Shareholders will receive a massive dividend from the sales. And once the Shareholders and CEO have collected there bonuses, you're left with a company a quarter the size, with the least profitable business units remaining. Followed by a slow spiral to the realm of dead companies....

A CEO's pay should be linked to operating profit, not including any sales of business units, and before taking into account the costs of internal investment & R&D. That would actually reward a CEO for growing the business, whilst not incentivizing them to cut R&D in order to maximise their rewards. Also if profits go down, their pay should also go down. I'd also add in that any mass layoffs mean Zero bonuses for anyone in the C-Suite, as well as a cut in pay comensurate with the percentage of employees laid off, but then I'm a dreamer...

Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard

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Re: Looks to me like...

Picasso? Nah, that's a smiley face from Dali!

288 arrested in multinational Monopoly Market takedown

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Re: Well done!

Fentanyl is actually a majority American problem. Few other nations have problems with it. Part of this is that so many Americans are addicted to painkillers due to their medical profession handing them out like candy, and people turning to the black market once their legal routes are closed down. It's also become "normalised", which means even those not needing painkillers give them a try and then become addicted to them.

Europe and the UK have more of a focus on the more traditional drugs - Pot, Meth, Coke, Heroin, Ecstasy. The Middle East has a definite problem with Captogen. Asia from memory is Heroin, Meth and more local stuff.

But thankfully Fentanyl hasnt really made it outside of the US, it's such a deadly thing, (so easy to get dosages wrong), that I hope it doesnt spread, and what's in America gets stamped out ASAP.

Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them

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I think comparing the PC market to Windows Phone is a bit different. Windows Phone required you to buy a specific piece of hardware. Which gaming platform you use (outside of the consoles) simply requires a PC, Mac, or Linux box. You can clearly mix and match using cloud gaming, or a locally installed game, depending on what you want to do, which is something you cant do when your locked into a specific piece of hardware.

Anyway you asked about Steam and Epic, so I'll try and answer.

The PC gaming market is basically split in 3 ways to get your games:

1. What I'll call the Primes - Steam, Epic, EA's Origins, Ubisoft's Uplay, and to some extent Gog

2. Key Resellers

3. Cloud Gaming/Streaming/Subscriptions

The Primes offer effectively an online library (and naturally a store attached to that).

Steam for example is pretty much the de facto PC gaming library. It offers tens of thousands of games in its store, which when you buy appear in your library. It offers easy ways to sort the library, as well as things which interest a lot of gamers, such as reviews, achievements, networking (chat with friends or groups (in game and out), screenshots, even live streaming), mod workshop, guides, etc. It is where most people keep their games.

Epic is Steam's biggest competitor. It also has a library and a store with thousands of games. It's not as big or as well stocked with features as Steam, but it's won a lot of customers through things like exclusivity deals, free games (there's a new free game available every couple of weeks), and taking a lower percentage from sales than Steam. It lacks a lot of the features of Steam like mods, most networking, etc. But yeah it still has a large userbase.

EA's Origin, and Uplay, both exclusively sell their own published games. For a while both of them stopped selling their games anywhere else, but both are now back selling their games on Steam and Epic, although often opening a game through Steam, opens up (for example) Uplay, before it launches the game. A little annoying, but thats where it's at.

Gog sits in a space between The Primes and the Resellers. They sell directly old Games (GOG stands for Good Old Games), and DRM free versions of games. They also sell Steam keys (often you get both a DRM free version and a steam key). This means you can have both a downloadable installer, and also have the game in your steam library for download whenever you want. Gog also has it's own library Gog Galaxy, which actually can be linked to Steam, Epic, and Uplay, to let you see (and download) all the games you have in your other libraries. A very handy feature.

The resellers, both offical and otherwise, sell keys which let you add games to your Primes library. The vast majority are Steam key resellers, although some sell Epic keys, and often any game from Ubisoft will actually be a key for Uplay. Some official Resellers are Fanatical, Humble, Green Man Gaming, Game Billet, and Instant Gaming.

Subscription/Cloud Gaming is basically things like the Xbox game pass, Playstation gaming pass, ubiconnect,. etc. Things like Stadia used to be in this category, but have effectively shut down. Basically, for these you pay a monthly subscription, and get access to a rotating selection of games.

As a general rule, all of these services on PC are platform agnostic, as in they exist on PC, Mac, and Linux. Epic is I think very limited on Linux, and I dont think Origin exists at all on Linux. But steam has done a lot to try and get more games available there. However, a lot of that comes down to the game publisher, and whether they want to make it easier to port or not.

I could then go into things like the Steam Deck which is a bit of a game changer in the hand held market (previously dominated by the Nintendo Switch), where games you own on Steam already are free to played on the Deck as well (no need to buy again, although assuming it runs on the hardware of course). But that's a whole other discussion.

To bring this back to the Microsoft Discussion - Xbox Game Pass already is the dominant player in subscription. It isnt the dominant player overall (that would be Steam), BUT it's easy to see how bringing the CoD's or other massive games from Activision Blizzard to Game Pass with exclusivity periods or making it the "optimum" experience would drive massive uptake of the subscriptions, and that would drive a massive cash cow into Microsoft's hands at the expense of everyone else. The thing with subscription services is that you dont actually own any of the games you're playing, so once it's removed from rotation that's it, it's gone. If you want to keep playing it, you have to go buy it somewhere else. Admittedly, legally speaking it's thankfully not been tested what would happen if one of the Primes shut down their libraries, but there still is a tangible sense of ownership with the Primes.

I actually have no problem with Microsoft dominating the Subscription market, but it should do it by creating the best platform, with the best features, not by gobbling up game makers, and then playing dirty with them. Which lets face it, is the Microsoft playbook...

(sorry for the long explanation)

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I have to disagree with you a bit. If Microsoft want to ensure content for their platform, they can do that by a) making the best platform, b) pricing it right (not just for the consumer, but by reducing their cut from sales, thus encouraging game developers to come to their platform - i.e. like Epic Games has done), and c) making it open to everyone.

You know just like the majority of non-cloud gaming platforms do (see Steam, gog, Epic, etc.).

But looking at it from the other direction, when you need to go out and make promises that you will continue to support other platforms for at least the next 10 years, what does that say about you? It says that no one trusts that you are being honest about wanting to open up gaming to everyone. Past behaviour from Microsoft makes any such promise highly questionable. And there are soooo many ways they could still degrade the presence of their games on other platforms. We've all seen really bad ports of console games to the PC space (or vice versa), if it's a really bad almost unplaybale port, is that still meeting that requirement of supporting other platforms? If it lacks all of the DLC of the PC version, so that people feel like their only get half the game, but the basic functionality is there, is that still meetng the support requirement? If the pricing for consoles is significantly higher, is that still meeting the support requirements? There are so many ways that they could drive people to their platforms at the expense of everyone else, and past experiences says Microsoft would do every single one of them. Why would you want to give them that opportunity in the first place?

Activision Blizzard on it's own is a games maker. They must remain relatively platform agnostic - I know there are costs associated with porting between platforms - but as a general rule they want to sell to everyone on every platform, in order to net the highest profits. Microsoft is a platform maker. It primarily makes it's money from everyone using it's platform, therefore it would not have let Activision remain platform agnostic. Oh well it might have still allowed some inferior versions to trickle down to the other platforms, after exclusivity periods, and bad ports, but it would be pushing for it's platform to be master and it's platform alone. That doesnt sound like a great deal for us consumers, does it?

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

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Easy solutions

This seems like a problem that, should there be ANY political will to fix it, would be amongst the easiest of America's problems to fix.

Change 1 - Firm to apply must be the firm doing the work (no subcontracting) and the employee must work on the applying companies site.

That should put a big dent in the number of subcontracting firms making applications.

Change 2 (the big one) - it's no longer a lottery. Positions go to those who will be receiving the highest salary. Simple, no? This visa is intended for employers who can't find American employees, so they should be paying pretty high for those employees.

Oh and these employees get the special attention of the IRS, to make sure that the pay listed is actually what is being paid. Attempts to bypass this to lead to CEO & CFO levels beyond heels personally responsible.

Oh look you suddenly have the entire system working how it was intended. I'll collect my consulting fee now thanks...

Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes

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(Just need to figure out how to avoid collateral damage)

I've got it!!! Place a large block of concrete on the side of the road, place a plastic model of a Fire Engine or Police Car over the top of the concrete block. Nature (or in this case the Tesla Autopilot) will take care of itself. The Tesla's built-in auto-homing instinct will send it crashing into the Fire Engine/Police Car at the first available opportunity...

Truly a use case for a Plastic Policeman...

US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion

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Why on earth would you not just build flame tunnels as point 1 in your launch pad design? Every launch pad in the world has them. Why? Because they are cheap, easy to build and effective at taking forces and debris away from your rocket.

I'd love to know what the thinking was there.

"Were building the largest, most powerful rocket in the world. Perhaps we should build some flame tunnels to deal with all that thrust?"

"Nahhh, it'll be fine."

"But..."

"It'll be fine. What's the worst that can happen?"

"Ummm..."

"Good. Now, next order of business. Who wants to work for Twitter?"

UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom

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As the old saying goes:

We operate on 3 promises - Good, Fast, Cheap

Select any two.

Good and Fast won't be Cheap

Cheap and Good won't be Fast

Fast and Cheap won't be Good...

Will Arm make and sell its own processors? We're gonna go with no

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A conversation at ARM Headquarters...

Look Arm, we need you to start generating more revenue before we put you up for your IPO. So you're going to start trying to force a bigger cut from licences, OK?

What do you mean that will hurt in the long term? Firms will move away to other platforms to avoid the extra cost? So? That will happen after the IPO! So get to it, I want my sales bonus...

Thanks for fixing the computer lab. Now tell us why we shouldn’t expel you?

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Re: Sometimes you do what you have to do.

She married him 5 years later...

So no good deed goes unpunished? :P

CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

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I still cant quite work out why she went of the deep end there.

It seemed a reasonable question - if people arent going to get bonuses, how can we motivate the staff? You'd think that would be a pretty straight forward question to upper management, with you know something like we'll make extra resources available for team building exercises, or whatever, as the correct sort of answer.

Instead she just made herself the enemy. *Facepalm*

I guess the next team building exercise will be Throwing Darts at the Donkey's bum CEO's head in the break room.

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

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I've come to the conclusion that Indicators on Audi's, BMW's, and Tesla must come with a fee per blink cost.

I mean there must be a reason why the drivers of those models dont seem to be able to use the indicators. It must be an economic thing, right? They cant all just be inconsiderate wankers, right? Right?

Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

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The easy short term solution would be to add an AI generated Image section to Photography competitions.

And then make clear that submitting an AI generated image to another section would lead to a life-time ban from the competition.

People compete against people, AIs compete against AIs.

Long term some way to determine what is AI generated and what not, will need to be developed, but short term such a thing would hopefully prevent the vast majority of problems...

Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch

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Ah that explains it. The Tiger can fly upside down, so that's why it works fine in Aus.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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Re: The Capital?

Because the Australian Capital Territory needed to have a coast line (for some reason), Jervis Bay is officialy part of the ACT. The fact that its 120km (as the crow flies) from the nearest part of the ACT doesnt matter to the politicians obviously...

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What is it with Australia and modern Military helicopters? Apart from the Tiger's, do any of them run properly?

UK government scraps smart motorway plans, cites high costs and low public confidence

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Re: Roadragingwankers

Well Queensland has always been a bit "special"... ;)

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Re: As an aside

Are you sure it's legal in Aus? It's been more then 20 years since I had to take my test, but I'm pretty certain I dont remember it being allowed. I mean Aus has all those signs on the highways saying "Keep Left unless Overtaking". Which I would take to imply that your not supposed to undertake from the left hand lane.

But like I said, it's been a while...

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Cause: Government reduces funding to bus services.

Result: Less bus services, more money for the government to piss away elsewhere, more congestion.

Reaction: Council introduces congestion charge

Result: Council has more money to piss away elsewhere.

Extra Result: Government reduces funding for Council as they now have another source of revenue. more money for the government to piss away elsewhere.

From a Government point of view, it's a definite win-win situation...