Posts by khjohansen

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 ??

So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale'

Re: Ah, I see

... The P-space associated with my (rental) flat has 4 charging stations / 30 "normal" spaces - is this a novelty?

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

Re: Maybe not.

I'd look at the Technics SL-BD2X(X) series or there abouts (USED) - plentiful & "young" enough that it should be possible to find one that hasn't been worn to bits

Re: Poor design in my opinion

Ummh - that's from the previous design - he changed the button from square to round, is all!

IMHO he nicked a few clues from Jacob Jensen, look here: https://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=269

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Re: Multiple redundancy

Technically it's "Dial Dial Dial" - will get you emergency services by any phone w/power, on any available network.

Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

Re: Benz schmenz

JAaaAAaaG, surely ;>

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: Unique keys

I've seen "Junior" as well as "Jayarr" ...

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Re: What About The Current Resident?

- IF SO - why didn't he declassify AND PUBLISH them while he was still in office??

Re: as did his aide Walt Nauta

Several of the his mangonificence lawyer team (Trusty, Rowley) quit a few days ago - maybe this is related?

Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever

Re: I wonder…

Mr. Nadella has increased shareholder confidende by demonstrating core business leadership skills - sh*fting everybody else while maximising personal gains :>

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

Re: about 4 years ago...

..Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!

Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment

Re: IEC lead

.. New-ish chargers are like oversized phone chargers - with the plug cast with the body

Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance

Re: actually....

Well _ I suppose the PLA is simply (by way of projection) are thinking that the PUBLICLY available information can't be the ACTUAL information ...

UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics

"What have the Romans ever done for us...?"

*Sigh*

- You are free to "refuse to deal with HMRC" - you can remove yourself from their jurisdiction!

Of course, this means that you're no longer elegible for services & protections afforded the tax payers - like courts, the NHS, schooling for the kids etc.

Best of luck with that ...

US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'

Re: Saint Greta ...

I just can't help but wonder how you feel about immigration ... ?

OneDrive back on its feet, but ongoing Skype credit problem hasn't gone away

Re: Repeat after me:

For me *Cloud*==VapourWare ...

'Multiple security breaches' shut down trucker protest

Re: Superspreader? Give me a break.

The "so-called" vaccines seems to somehow have brought down hospitalisations and ICU cases ...

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Re: False arguments

*Crypto* is a surprisingly good analogy for *Splinters of the One True Cross*

Re: Invalid comparison

PapierMark?? Wanna trade for some ZimDollars??