Posts by GloriousVictoryForThePeople

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

Re: Not the first time

Or just make a new and slightly bigger one to eclipse the previous one.

As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000

Man, how stupid are those Taiwanese!

Suckers staffing up when western tech geniuses are shedding dead wood

Who needs sailors? US Navy's latest robo-ship can run itself for 30 days

Re: Never mind, the original Mayflower landed in the wrong country

the USA lives under constant threat of Cuban invasion

My son lives in Florida, and he can hardly sleep at night. I'm pretty sure a Cuban is responsible for that.

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

"This case is all about public data: whether the public has the right to search public information,

Since when are paid creepers, "the public"?

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

Re: Arsehole

"Hi Chris."

"Hi Sundar, Nice to hear from you. How life at the Big G"

"Oh you know, just fired 12k.

Getting a bit of blowback about my stock options though.

Could you pop out a press release asking us to fire 20k instead."

"No Problemo - Why don't I make it a round 30k, that should make them properly grateful eh?"

Corporate tussles: It's actually like WWF wrestling

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

"if you rotate a 4x2 through ninety degrees it becomes a 2x4"

Ah, I see, 2x4s are made for dwangs.

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

Re: Critical

So for such a critical infrastructure, the fuse needs to be built in such a way, so that a human feeling clever wouldn't be able to easily install a wire to bypass it.

You aren't familiar with Mr Darwin's theories are you?

Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission

Re: waste of money

Much as rockets and space are very cool, I think we get little payback from it.

Compare spending just on the SLS with the total US spend on fusion power.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/margraf1/

One of these things pushes the boundaries of pure science and applied engineering to the very limits, so far we are not even certain of an outcome. It might give the whole planet a way out of existential threats.

The other retreads the 1960's, but even when/if it succeeds there is no significant payoff for the people who paid for it.

NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

Re: new samples

Take it some cold beer or hot plutonium for all it's trouble!

Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time

Re: :(

You seem to be supporting my point, not contradicting it.

Since baseload electrical generation (of the kind you describe) can't be shutdown quickly, you need to have loads that can be turned on and off at whim instead.

Process heat, augmenting existing fossil fueled furnaces with renewable electricity is that kind of of load. You can turn the heaters up and down as fast as you can send control signals. Your process always runs as normal, because it is (initially at least) a fossil fueled system anyway

This is economic because the (pre-existing) fossil fuel furnace is sunk cost - so there is no penalty for not using it when cheaper renewables are available.

Of course this is a transitional tool, in 30 years time, long after today's furnaces have been scrapped we need to do something different.

Re: "clean" solar energy is genuine greenwash.

correction: Solar 46g vs Coal 1064g I think.

Re: "clean" solar energy is genuine greenwash.

Easy to find some number for that: 46 vs 164g/kWh

Total life cycle GHG emissions from solar PV systems are similar to other renewables and nuclear energy, and much lower than coal.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56487.pdf

It is true to point out however than renewables are front loaded: most of the emissions happen today, not over the lifetime.

It is reasonable to expect solar to improve by a factor of 2 over time, while coal won't.

(My mate just added new panels and they are ~30% lighter/W than those installed 6 years ago)

Google kills off Stadia

Re: This may come back to bite Google eventually

Say what you will about MS, they can and frequently do gnaw at a bone until it works. If anything that has been their strength. Surprisingly for an american megacorp, they play the long game.

Scientists overjoyed after DART smashes into asteroid Dimorphos, contact lost

Re: There goes the prime directive... Murica Successfully Saves the world AGAIN with a bomb

Assuming your figures (18km/yr) are correct, then:

To miss a 12600 diameter object you have to move 6300km / 18km/yr = 350 x 570kg=200,00kg

SpaceX Starship is ~100T dry mass and 100+T payload = 200,000kg

Coincidence??

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

Hard to understand how a class action can be settled confidentially.

Do the class members all settle without knowing what they settled for?

How Arm popped CHERI architecture into Morello Program hardware

Re: Seen it before somewhere

"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything."

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

Re: Before computers we used to make stuff that worked

From cars whose engines overheated when the sun came out,

I still remember shock at British Leyland when they discovered that in some parts of the world, water fell from the sky unexpectedly fouling the ignition system that was right behind the front grille. Luckily they were able to put a piece of cardboard in to stop water.

BT accused of 'misinformation' campaign ahead of strikes

Re: Misinformation Is Cheaper Than The Truth

"Up the workers!", as we say in the Labour party.

Massive solar project in Tennessee is all about Google

This -> 100.5 tonnes is f-all.

And obviously wrong since 100T of carbon is ~10 truckloads of coal - not exactly going to run a power station for a year is it?

I roughly calculate that 100MW @4hrs/day average = 105,195 tonnes CO2/year for coal fired power.

At 2 years for construction energy and 25 year lifetime to 50% output, that's 1.8MT CO2

You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now

Re: Shameless repost, but it fits :)

Had one trs80 come in with cat piss.

Not a lot of tracks left, and had to sit outside and try to fix it, the smell was so bad, even after the hot detergent wash treatment.

Assange extradition case goes to UK Home Secretary as High Court rules he can be sent to US for trial

Re: Missing the point

He is a foreign citizen charged in another countries local courts with what are styled as "treasonous" crimes.

There is unlikely to be anywhere on earth you would expect that to well for you, and certainly not the US.

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

Re: It is still multifunction

and it serves as an advertisement for other brands

Like Lexmark , ah HP, no I meant...

Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments

Prosecution: "Microsoft only charge 10% on their store"

Apple/Google Defense: "We rest our case your honour, no further witnesses"

DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC for trying to permanently cap delivery fees

Re: Working class?

> "or carry-out as my Scots relatives describe it"

Is it just me who finds this brings to mind not so much hot chips, as something moved in a wooden box or roll of old carpet?

Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance

Re: Me....or Peter Thiel?

> soon I will be forced to retrofit "phone home" technology

As long as its authentic Lucas (aka The Prince of Darkness) kit, you should be good

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

A Toyota spokes droid said:

"Our autonomous vehicles are working unstoppably to qualify more athletes for the next paralympics"

Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

Re: It's today's world

pro tip: Wet the string with prussic acid to stop eavesdroppers

Law prof: New Chinese data regulations make it 'very hard for foreign firms to comply'

Re: Data under multiple jurisdictions.

Oh No! Once Aliexpress does lawyers, the US economy's monopoly on shoddy law is breached.

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

> "The other half is a mix of false accusations and limited reproducibility."

Perfect for AI facial recognition workloads in Apple stores then.

Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage

Re: break up after a long marriage

> Didn't cost that much to get married in the first place!

Marriage is a loss leader for the legal profession...

Cockup or conspiracy? Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store

Took a while to actually find it. You're not doing yourself any favours Kevin.

https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/releases/download/1.21.0/clearurls-1.21.0-chrome.crx

In Opera, download, click it, go to extensions to enable it.

Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

Re: Smoking

>4 metres on a side, with an ashtray on a 2-foot pole.

I think that's a mixed metraphor

Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected

> Apple in response [PDF] insisted it has lost money on repairs every year since 2009

True, true. But hardly surprising when you make it un-repairable, and you scrap and replace instead.

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Re: Perhaps the answer...

> drive into the back of a stationary Motorcycle in broad daylight

Oh yeah, I was stopped at a pedX for an old lady to dodder across, and (improbably) noticed a car coming up behind didn't seem to be slowing. The screaming wheelie I did at the last possible second probably saved the old lady too. I dare say she didn't think so.

Top Chinese central banker says Beijing’s digital currency must be restricted to big commercial banks

Good to know that in chinese, the word "Banker" still has the silent W used in the west

Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez

Re: A false equivalence

Google copied the Skyhook idea. That's pretty much exactly from the MS playbook.

But while MS wanted you to pay them to use their products, Google and Apple make you pay to use everyone elses products as well.

That is an order of magnitude more rapacious

Baby Diesel? Little d'Artagnan? There is another child of Musk in the world

Re: Names are so 20th century

790 would have a more canadian and space vibe

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Re: Dead Parrot?

I was thinking more Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty singing

"Springtime in Paris -

here comes a Charlie"

Will someone plz dump our shizz on the Moon, NASA begs as one of the space biz vendors drops out

Re: There is no "case for Mars"

Phobos is handy for R&R, which I am reliably informed had Leather Godesses....

Cool story, brew: Utah karaoke crooners receive cold, refreshing shock as alcohol authority refuses beer licence

Re: me no understand

my local bar is nothing like a school - not even close

Gwyneth Paltrow flubs $29 food stamp dare, swallows pride instead

Re: A matter of perspective ...

"More recently, access to wholesome, affordable food has become problematic."

So true.

Where I was living in small town US for a while, there were 2 supermarkets (now only one, they bought the other and demolished the building). No butcher. No vege shops. No other choice.

There were veges but they were never fresh - tomatoes could be left out for months - they didn't rot or mould, just shrink. Plain rolled oats were only in small boxes, and a premium priced food (~9x the price of fruit loops, if you can beleive it) for some sort of health freak that would that shit.

The nearest fresh veges I managed to find were ~120miles away.

Tasty cheese and beer - drive to Toronto. (Mmmm Toronto - Cheese, Beer, Svelte women)

Beijing to Washington: Ratted-out routers not welcome here

Re: TRUST? HUH?

"Heck,,,I don't even trust my own tinfoil hat & i made it."

And so you shouldn't - someones probably swapped the tin for cheaper aluminium.

Bank of America: Bitcoin could become THE currency of e-commerce

Re: Subtle thinking

Do you have any problems with Transferwise?

Do you have any problems getting random companies to agree to use Transferwise?

Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO

Re: No programming required

"I know that my first year in university was a real eye-opener, even though I considered myself a pretty good programmer before."

Oh Yes. Indeed.

Lectures though - not so much.

A steam punk VDU ?

Just use a CRT its not an anachronism

Actually the Cathode Ray Tube is Victorian, dating from 1897.

The HellSchrieber mechinism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber ) is a simple dot matrix generation and display system.

Open-source hardware hacking effort 'smacked down' by USB overlords

They should just get on and do it.

USB-IF can huff and puff and threaten to pull the vendor id, but if hundreds of products around just ignore them and use it, no other manufacturer in its right mind would accept that VID, and so it would de-facto remain free.

Ethernet daddy: online education poised to transform the world

I'm going to really miss it

......he said. "We're now going to solve ignorance with the internet."

I'm really going to really miss it,

- its entertaining

- its great for business

- it make politics and religion really soar.

We are going to be so screwed when its gone.

Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode

Not running Windows

So I suggest we have a whip around, and send Eadon to go and plug a new flash chip in.

Elon will probably be happy to send a certain NYT reporter along with him for free ....

Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus

Pixel Qi Display

I love my Samsung N145/150 netbooks - got about 20 for work use, a couple for the kids at home.

Cost nothing.

Run for ever.

Weigh nothing. (well theres no bloody metal in there for sure)

Runs Matlab, LOffice, etc.

Don't really care when the missus stands on it and smashes the display.

Don't care if a dirt bag flogs it when I'm travelling, or I fill it with beach sand, or drop it in the sea.

Get a pixel Qi display. Costs a couple of hundred $, but you can read the screen in full sunlight, and the battery life is even longer. Piece of p**s to change screens in my Samsung N150's

And Windows 7 Home - brilliant.