Posts by khjohansen

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

Re: Protection comes with business

Oh SSSR (and China) WAS proper F'ed by WW2 much of the conflict was fought within their borders - Russia just double-F'ed eastern europe by stealing any industrial equipment that could go on a train!

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Re: Hope you have a good backup process!! Then..........

Ehh?? UK-based means five-eyes, right?? SMH

You're right though, non-existent SoMe presence could be considered a red flag in itself!

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Well, if AI is so profitable ...

Can we make the datacenters pay for it? E.g. when it's proper windy and "green" power is free, you can run your prompts for cheap (by tomorrow will be fine), if I want/need it NOW I get to pay a premium?

Microsoft tastes the unexpected consequences of tariffs on time

Re: Blanket tariffs as Brexit 2.0

"UK continues unilaterally not to do the same"

Apparently, someone DID find the personnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKCA_marking

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Re: Evil

Pfft hasn't seen a red LED in dogs years - they're all "Master Race Blue" these days!

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

Re: You know, bad weather can sink bad ships

Nobody wants to deal with the clean-up! I suggest seizing cargo to cover "administrative costs" and fines for lacking/defective navigational & safety equipment

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

Re: DOGE shit

"There's also good reasoning for the Electoral system. It's not perfect, but better than a popular vote" - It would have held the GOP out of the WH the last 30 years (GWB only won b/c "incumbent").

Given the economic mess left behind after "fiscally responsible" Republicans like 43 & 45 ...

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: Practice what you preach?

As a state of war exists between Ukraine and Russia, Russian strategic infrastructure would be "fair game" for any [alleged] Ukrainian attack?

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Here we go again...

Well I guess the monks did their best to "frenchify" Knud!

Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper

Re: The answer is very simple

You should look into what the *Dutch* company ASML manufactures!

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

Is this about *who* got their AI PCs yet?

Y'know, who would be the types that got max-spec brand-new PCs already?

Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing

Re: The screen is not the computer

Only in Hollywood does shooting up a bank of screens affect data transmission ...!

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot

Profit!

<sarcasm> Those "operating costs" are perfectly legal business expenses, and therefore deductible </sarcasm>

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

That old adage ...

“Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Re: Who is the judge ?

The "simple" mask - worn everyday by health professionals - does not protect YOU from the environment. It protects others from YOU.

Grasping that this can benefit EVERYBODY seems really hard for some people ...

The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter?

Obligatory xkcd ref

//xkcd.com/927/

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

Oh Yeah!!

Charles & Eddie flashback ...

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

"any voting system"

I'd take that over a non-voting system any day :)

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Re: 3D TV

Nope, it's the new Surface RT!

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

I remember

Faw Paah indeed!

Green Berets storm building after compromising its Wi-Fi

Re: already and state of the art...

Well subtlety and speed CAN go hand in hand #DeviantOllam

Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

Helvetii ite domum, surely!!

Do pay attention, class! ( obligatory Life of Brian reference inavoidable )

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

Re: If that helps

A *Yard-Hauler* may not have the range OP is referring to - that said, rail infrastructure really has been bypassed for decades...

Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods

Re: "On the bright side, labor costs incurred by the park were reduced by 20 percent"

No firing needed - what with the population dwindling on the japanese islands

Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop

Budget vs performance

I suspect the "price-sensitive" models will have soldered-in memory - because sockets are expensive - vs models that are user-spec'd and would require too many MB revisions.

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Re: Great news

- The "can do that for 20 years" is the main selling point for me!

Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam

It's not the bananas

Librarian here ...

What do you do when your patrons DEMAND access to "Slim & healthy in a week with Air-fried LCHF"

and your perfomance is measured in average wait-times to fulfill a request?

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

Re: Take this as a lesson

Some would argue that YOU have a "condoning acts of genocide" problem!

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

Ford, kinda !

Certain Ford engines use an internal timing belt (rubber) that will degrade unless certain oils are used - changing to a non-safe (regular) motor oil will cause the belt to fail prematurely.

The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it

Re: Panels and battery?

... Solar ? - But this is the UK ... Maybe a waterwheel?

Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands

The People Responsible ...!

... A Mööse Önce bit my Sister??

US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

Target aquisition

.. Do they look up wedding invitations in Pashto on FarceSpace?

Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer

When a service is "free"

- YOU are the product!

You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

Re: Quality, schmality

YMMV - I choose to dodge the "SANSUMG" (sic) brand when perusing the Silk Road in the Sky - the "deny" (sic), QUEEDNS and Netac brands have been good to me ;)

Re: I wonder what part of the world the main source of these devices is located…

*That* part of the world supplies ~80% of ALL devices (shrugs)

AI is changing search, for better or for worse

Re: Source Verification in the Age of AI

" - journalists who occasionally rely on anonymous sources -"

*Reputable* news outlets may rely on anonymous sources, but will verify info - to remain reputable (and avoid libel/defamation lawsuits!)

AI has none such inhibitions ...

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

1st Amendment

Libel, defamation of character was never protected by 1st Amendment ...

Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'

You can't blame the EU for this ...

It's been FOUR YEARS now - I know it's a knee-jerk reaction to blame EU, but THIS must be British Bureaucracy!

UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor

Re: A plan to

/:S You could hire some consultants from well-established companies in the field - preferably with experience w/ government contracts! /:S

- what could go wrong??

Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next

Re: I'm all for extensive research

Quarantine: let's block off Davos for five years, sending in minimal food & water - The rest of us will observe & evaluate from a safe distance !!

Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland

Re: An interesting idea...

This is a weight savings exercise, the elegant solution to "force-feeding" would be to have it collapse under its own mass @ 3-7+Gs acceleration

While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again

Re: a standard older than most left-pond cities

Only if you refer to the game of rounders as "base-ball" for some reason

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

"My Money"

You say it's "your money" ?? Well, does it have your name on it? I'm pretty sure your currency has the name of the rightful owner printed on it!

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

Re: Measure twice, cut once.

- two at *Triple* the price - TFTFY

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

Re: BloodBeastTerror

.. Hence you chose a friendly & welcoming nick ...

Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot onto your PC fleet

A new art of "steganography"

Inserting a hostile query inside an innocous "garbage e-mail"

Re: how long until assistants are weaponised trojans?

- Janus takes your wife on a cruise, she files for divorce b/c Janus is a much more attentive listener ...

Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her

Re: "Should the Cruise car have not started moving if there was a person still on the crosswalk?"

It can be a leprechaun astride a unicorn chasing Santa Claus for all I care - if it's in the crosswalk I'll be stationary!

Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data

Re: Convenient Interception Point

IEEE - Insidious Evil Entities Extractors >;D

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

Re: "Three words: Cheap, reliable, power"

Well it'll hardly be anonymous what with the b** f** cables coming out of it ??