* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

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Re: Curiously

For extra green credits, it should be derived from Duchy Originals single origin Rainforest Alliance Certified Organic Coffee

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Re: Caffeine or no caffeine

Geek's Guide - Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/16/geeks_guide_electric_mountain/

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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Don't get me started on the needless animations and effects on UI, taking cpu cycles.

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Re: Capabilities.

They could have carried a payload...

A Tesla Cyber Truck?

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Re: "...otherwise a success" is the logic equivalent of "kind'a pregnant".

It went up, and it came down. Success!

That reminds me of Brian Hanrahan's famous phrase ''I counted them all out and I counted them all back'' when reporting during the Falklands conflict

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-12039283

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

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say PST files are a must not for enterprises

And political classes who don't want to leave evidence behind for regulators, public inquiries etc to find later

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Re: Microsoft

through the front door and extorts money from you

Sorta like the Mafia, Triads, [insert local protection racket]

How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

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Post Office

If/when they clear out some of the people in the Post Office who wrongly litigated the sub-postmasters, may be they could apply for employment with Oracle Audit

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

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Re: The Master of understatement

I'm sure they are not as zealous when it comes to spotting and repairing potholes

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An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer

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Re: Sorry to pour cold water on a plasma jet

Sounds like A.T. would be better off asking you to be his PhD advisor!

Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI

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Re: "battlefield AI"

In the case of Mustard Gas, there is a theraputic use and a battlefield use. The theraputic case being the cytotoxicity which is useful as a cancer treatment

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War Crimes

One hopes the battlefield AI training dataset will undergo appropriate filtering/vetting - lest it acts with impunity - one consolation is if the company then gets hauled at the ICJ for comitting war crimes via their software

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Data

One dataset is concerned with saving lives, the other dataset is concerned with taking out lives. I guess the net effect will be neutral

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

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Windows 7/10

They were probably after the source code for Windows 7 and Windows 10. And it they did come across Windows 11, they'd probably wouldn't have bothered to lift that

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

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Re: Cynical? Me?

Yes, they seem to have a soft spot for the numbers 3 and 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkUWDvRS9gM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ghyg8ZOyM

Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open

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Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M

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Re: 40 year old nuclear plant.

facing the ruthless market of cheap renewable

I think I once saw a documentary that featured a nuclear power plant run on a shooting budget. IIRC, it was called The Simpsons, after one of the operators at the plant, called Homer

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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meeting evolving customer needs

"As part of our commitment to meeting evolving customer needs, we periodically update our product offerings,"

They must have consulted the same customer who wants Windows 11, along with all the crap it is crammed full of.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

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Re: No thanks MS. Free at last.

@Boeing 747

Is there a "Dell 7747" that you could upgrade the '737 to?

Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

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Poor

Musk is a bit poorer due to the case that decided he had been awarded excessive ($56bn) Tesla stock options - now those lawyers want $6bn in Tesla shares as their fee, from Tesla.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/02/lawyers-who-had-elon-musks-pay-dismissed-as-excessive-seek-6bn-in-tesla-shares

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/30/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-too-much-judge-rules

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

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And yes, the military does seem to take punishing higher ups for failures a lot more seriously

Perhaps it should be the military going after their former commander in-chief for taking classified material and storing them in his pool house, and not the DOJ

Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon

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That Rivera Touch

A nod to Messrs Morecambe and Wise in, "That Riviera Touch"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Riviera_Touch

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

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Eye sight

I read that as "Elon and the terrible, horrible

Must get my eyes checked

Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize

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Re: Non-Starter Really

They probably tried to patent going round corners and failed

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

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The Fonz

Our developers are now moving at cloud speed, and our operational performance, stability, and security are better than ever,” DiFonzo claimed.

Cool!

icon: black leather jacket

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

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Re: If only there were some sort of handy backup.

Probably something to do with the EEC.

The downvoter could have been a brexiteer, gone appoplectic at the mention of Brussels

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Re: Unless I'm mistaken...

Perhaps Vulture South's very own Simon "Crocodile" Sharwood could be dispatched to report from the location

icon: nearest looking thing to a redback

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Re: If only there were some sort of handy backup.

A lifetime ago, before the advent of consumer GPS devices, managed to get myself re-oriented out of the inner ring road around Brussels by the direction of the setting sun.

Being guided by nature is explored in a series of books by Tristan Gooley

https://www.naturalnavigator.com/

It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above

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NORAD

We asked NORAD to confirm, but haven't heard back.

That's the same organisation that perpetuates the Santa myth and claims to track the bearded fellow

https://www.norad.mil/NORAD-Tracks-Santa//

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

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Don't Dry my iPhone

Sung to the tune of Don't Cry for me Argentina

by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Tim Cook says Rice should be for cooking, and not for drying iPhones

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Re: Yeah

As 100F is within the range for a (live) human being, albeit somewhat feverish, it should be well within design specification for an iPhone.

Just don't mix up units/dial up 100C

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Re: Miaow

Does Tim Cook have a White Cat?

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Moral dilemma

In the unlikely event that I spot someone putting their iPhone in a tumble dryer, what should I do?

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

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Re: GPT?

So,you are going to be having a Chat with GPT

Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

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A Kodak Moment?

Right now, the Apple experience is mediocre, while some of the new crop of Android phones combined with Windows are actually really, really good. And genuinely interesting.

Whatever happened to Kodak? What will happen to Apple?

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal

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Re: Libre Office probably not an option

There is also a most secret 4th tier.

OFFICIAL - MOST SECRET. Documents to be carried in hand by Ministers outside No. 10 with pages with sensitive information capable of being captured by the telephoto lenses of waiting press photographers

WTF is 'deployment phasing'? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what

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Splunk

Is due to be dunked at work. Yay!

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges

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Re: How much ink ?

Bulgarian Airbags unit is now gone?

Sprung a leak

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Re: Cybertruck - the gift that keeps on giving...

All Terrain VehicleA Terrible Vehicle

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eager to get their hands on the steering wheel.

Only for a few of them to shun the steering wheel whilst heading off to collect a Darwin award

Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023

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Well, it's not as if you're likely to bump into him down the pub, unless that is he's there for a staged photo opportunity.

Anyway, I'm just waiting for him to head off back to the West Coast

Dutch insurers demand nudes from breast cancer patients despite ban

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Allo, Allo

Have they tried securing these images of boobies within Knockwurst sausages? They certainly kept van Klomp's paintings of the fallen Madonna's (big) boobies (mostly) safe from the Germans

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

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Re: An invest of Trillions requires a matching return: who would pay that?

perfect vision of what IoT should be: life with non-biological servants

You have described life as it is for our feline overlords

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Re: Hypeland is (very) expensive

or, like Hype-r-loop, what ends up getting delivered is a far removed from the vision

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

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Re: Oracle Fusion HR

High Risk

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Oracle Fusion HR

With a name like that, is it surprising that there were runaway costs and the project went into meltdown

Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator

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Telemetry

Probably their Telemetry revealed that people use Notepad a lot and therefore they wanted to build in some more snooping on the back of "AI improvements"

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Re: No No No

Along with their "UX" tweaks on Windows, and keyboards on laptops now having Function keys shared with navigation keys which make life difficult for programmers who need those keys frequently, I think Microsoft don't like programmers - especially if they are not employed by Microsoft