* Posts by YetAnotherLocksmith

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Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

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Re: "To the best of our knowledge..."

You're a terrible troll, aren't you?

There's already a list of subscribers, the list exists of every starlink terminal location known to about 10m CEP, it's part of the billing system!

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In the case of Ukraine, using your mobile might be rather dangerous vs using a line of sight steered uplink to a satellite.

There's been a lot of targets identified and killed by cellphone data.

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Re: Wrong again.

So you're just going to ignore that your claim was immediately debunked. Nice. /s

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Re: Pickups from the battlefield ?

It's already been reported that elno has restricted the Ukraine military when they've tried to advance fast, by cutting off their starlink terminals.

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Re: Pickups from the battlefield ?

Cell phone targeting was a very hot thing a while back, for both sides.

Anyone else recall the thousands of cheap cellphones dropped all across Ukraine in the hours before the initial invasion? Bet Russia wishes they'd kept them in reserve now! But it was a clever idea.

Out with the old, in with the new as 100 Starlink satellites take atmospheric exit

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Re: 'SpaceX says'

Hope you don't get replaced by Elonbot2000, mr muskworker.

But thanks for chipping in.

Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

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It seems increasingly unlikely that they paid for even a single copy of the books "ingested", since they have had their machine "read" millions of books. They're not paying out £40 a time times a few million.

Eben Upton on Sinclair, Acorn, and the Raspberry Pi

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Re: Where is the Pi going though?

I just bought a secondhand one, as they're available cheap now the faster units have come out! It'll prove the concept, or not, and if it's too slow, I can upgrade to a 4 or 5.

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Re: Backwards

I upvoted you, even if I don't completely agree.

We will need coders, even with AI assistants. Same as we will need plumbers and wiring harness makers. And school is where you find out you've got an aptitude for that sort of thing, or not (unless your parents/family friends/etc introduce you, but that's no way to build a country)

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Re: Backwards

I don't think that's a feature though, is it?

Closest I've got to that is getting a Zero to boot as a webcam, and Damn, that took days!

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Re: The glory days of UK IT

If the UK government had broken the telephone monopoly, or forced BT to have free (or just fixed cost) data lines we would've been miles ahead of where we ended up.

I watched and read jealously of the Americans using dialup for nearly free! While we had to pay 10p a minute! (was it 10p? Whatever it was, it rapidly added up to more than mom and dad would stomach for a bill, especially when it was quarterly!

So instead we had to pass floppy discs around on the playground.

Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special

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If nothing it trustworthy, then where does that leave society?

There's already millions of people who think the moon landing was faked, despite the tech for doing that not being around back then. It was literally easier to do it live than "fix it in post"!

I read someone yesterday claiming that 9/11 had CGI planes added in real time... We are doomed.

While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

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Re: "I'll Wipe Them" -- Erm, No.

Ah, give them a Horizon style contract!

And if they say "I'll run that by my lawyer, my hourly rate is £350."?

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Re: good company vs. good boss.

You make the strongest point.

It's also solid advice for managers.

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Re: ?

Bull.

AI flips the script on fingerprint lore – maybe they're not so unique after all

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You're in the 33% of people it really doesn't work for, I suspect.

Looking at my fingers, excluding thumb, I've long noted that they're almost identical on one hand, just scaled up and down. Who hasn't, when doing the kids activity of fingerprinting yourself as a "detective" with a cheap kit of graphite, ink pad and talc? (You, because they aren't)

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Re: higher probability you'll get a false positive rather than a true positive

But then you'd look more closely!

And if it's a partial match, you'd note that. If it's a 10 point match, then you're pretty certain you need to ask more questions than if it's a 20 point match.

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Re: There is no peer reviewed science of fingerprint forensics

Yes, but it's fairly easy to look at old auntie Mavis, 350 miles away in a care home, and swiftly eliminate her from the list of 4 suspects.

It is very rare that anyone would try to convict on a single fingerprint. You'd be either really unlucky, or it's the post office.

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Re: There is no peer reviewed science of fingerprint forensics

There was the world leading Forensic Science Service. Until it was cut in 2012, when the tories realised they could just get rid, saving all those appeals and "awkward" not guilty verdicts!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_Science_Service

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Re: "Discovery could have implications for the field of forensics"

Hmm.

77%. 50% would be random guessing. 100% would be certainty. 77% isn't very good at all, without some better stats behind it. 23% wrong, it sounds like something they'd have used for the Birmingham 6! 1:3, that's good odds for a mistrial.

Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan

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Re: Is Japan less innovative and entrepreneurial than USA?

It worked great for them for 50 years! They're a huge economy.

Shows things down after a while though, I guess.

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They hire in from outside, obviously!

Have you never worked in a large company? Promotion of either of the two doing extra work would mean more than a 10% reduction in team output! Can't have that.

The other option is to find the least production member, and promote them to have dominion over the rest.

There is no third option, unless one of them is related to or plays golf with someone on the board.

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Re: "maybe I just worked for better companies/managers?"

Yeah, he's long retired. You might as well ask my FiL what his insurance company was like when he took early retirement *40 years ago* for info on how things work today!

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

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That should fail the testing process certainly!

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Re: Please speak to George

I don't unstanded? My old boss wasn't called George!?

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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I'd argue it's a WAN. A very, very W one!

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Re: Have they tried

They'd have to have at least a middle school education level to know what physics is, or even heard of it, so I think we are safe for a good while yet. At least until the next election.

'Return to Office' declared dead

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Re: I HAVE to WFH

COVID messes with the entire body. Could be blood clots* in the eye's blood supply. Could be the same restricting the blood flow to the brain.

I was wrecked for months tbh after the first bout - 12 days in bed, then about 4 months of being shite. Hope it clears for you. I had a second bout more recently but was over that faster - which is rare. I've just been teaching at Black Hat, so fingers crossed I don't get it again!

*they aren't technically blood clots,but since they are new to science, they're called microclots.

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Re: Just not pratical

Hey! Those bottles of wine won't drink themselves, you know! And someone has to protect the C suite from the girls who they've been groping!

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Re: Would having us back in the office fix this?

But at least the workers based in the office have to work three times harder to hide their second job! And will occasionally get bored enough to do some of the work asked of them.

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You could perhaps remote in as a consultant team?

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Re: And becoming shorter....

Nicely stated, sir!

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Re: Of course

That last paragraph is freaking amazing... though I'm thinking you've not actually been in the cells. They don't let you keep your phone for YouTube, you know.

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Re: There it is

And, of course, all that pension fund investment into both commercial and housing properties has driven prices up even further!

Apparently farmland outside Edinburgh has shot up 50% in the last 2 years! All the thousands of houses and the like being built on it means it is worth many millions if you can get permission to throw up a hundred houses "starting from" £400k.

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Re: There it is

I'm not sure whether to upvote or downvote that one! It's the truth, though.

California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian

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Re: The use of AI not the real thing

Bad luck, the CEO already legged it.

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

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Re: Who wants a second hand EV?

I think the issue there is simply that they never actually get cheap enough. You can (or could) buy a diesel or petrol car for £500 or £1k quite easily. I just can't see that ever happening for a car with £3k worth of scrap lithium and copper inside it!

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Re: It’s not just the “mark ups”

That's his point. That tank of fuel carries the same sort of entry as the battery pack, and it's more likely to catch fire.

Adjusted for numbers though, I think it's a fairly close run thing when it comes to the *rate* of car fires.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: Postal Service

They can't, any more than you could go collect yours. Safety and security, for one thing. It gets posted out - that's actually written in the law, as well as them having to use the state postal system.

(Clearly someone saw how the tories operate, and banned future anyone from making a mint by inserting themselves as a very expensive exclusive numberplate courier!)

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Re: Postal Service

Aw, he downvoted you!

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Re: Tesla should deal

You should see how bad it is it countries without strong unions then!

In the UK, those first few hundred workers would likely never have been able to get out on strike legally in the first place. And everything from there on would've been illegal.

So the first group would've been outsourced by now. Replacing 150 or so workers is literally everyday in the UK.

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Re: Tesla should deal

You should read at least a little about unions before you embarrass yourself like that. It's not like a company. The leaders are voted in and out by the membership. You know, like a democracy. Only it is every one or two years, not twice a decade. And the union leadership can't just decide to have a different leader without asking the membership, unlike the UK PM hot seat.

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But you're stretching back a long way for that.

You could look far closer in time, to the recently shut last steel plant in the UK, for instance. "Here's £500 million, get that place closed quick!"

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"Oh, and don't forget, it's an offence to take, disturb or damage, and especially to open, anyone else's post. Serious crime, that. Enjoy!"

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Re: Managers

That's called "being a small business owner" isn't it? Except all of those people calling are actually also you.

Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?

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Re: It security

Oh no, we all know it is only Austerity for us, not for them.

Think of it like a company budget - every penny spent on staff, IT security, etc is a penny not available for executive bonuses. (Two pennies, if you leverage against it and borrow hard.)

Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

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That's why his arms got tired, combined with the {19") long wait.

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Re: Charge a little too much

Plastic explosive? Really? That would tend to cut rather than lift. ANFO would have been better for punting tree root balls aloft.

Wait... Maybe you weren't trying to get it over the other trees?...

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Re: When checking voltages...

Yes.

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Re: When checking voltages...

Boom boom!

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