Re: Racist programmers make racist AI
He must have picked up the bottle of brandy to sample... then forgot to finish the recipe.
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Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
Monday 25th January 2021 19:20 GMT 
Re: Ethics
Vampire? Essex?
Would that be the MP for Witham, Essex?
Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020
Monday 25th January 2021 11:58 GMT
Potter tat
The King's Cross Footbridge - Now at the Watercress Line at Ropley.
"This footbridge was regularly visited by Harry Potter film fans prior to removal from Kings Cross, so it should make the Watercress Line a new destination for Potter tourism. We look forward to welcoming these fans, and hope that they will enjoy learning about our engineering heritage as exemplified in the steam trains we operate and the buildings and structure that we maintain.”
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
Sunday 24th January 2021 11:58 GMT
Re: Mother said...
More importantly,’ I continued. ‘Why are you making plans to bash up the Bishop without me?’
Tin Ribs made up a lame excuse about thinking they’d seen a German spy in our garden. Fritz couldn’t lie to me though. He looked at his feet and said nothing.
‘Well? I insisted. This thing with the Bishop. What’s he done to deserve a bashing?’
Quite an amusing tale...
https://trevorbelshaw.com/the-book-of-gran-bashing-the-bishop
Saturday 23rd January 2021 18:53 GMT
Re: touch controls on hob
One of these days some manufacturer will introduce a hob without any controls whatsoever - to be controlled by voice using Siri/Echo/Google Assistant etc
Or may be even a hob with only 1 control - which you have to cycle through to get to the cooking position and then select the heat setting. On the annoyance scale, that would rate the same as torches with multiple modes off a single push button switch
Friday 22nd January 2021 21:46 GMT
How much???
The price tag of £248,000 might make your eyes water but Moley Robotics claims to have more than 1,000 potential buyers
Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts
And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back
Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas
Thursday 21st January 2021 17:36 GMT
Re: A very British solution
Winter blues? How about a couple of weeks "benefit in kind" in Mustique?
Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president
Wednesday 20th January 2021 22:34 GMT
The way pardons should be considered and granted...
"President George W. Bush wrote that he was taken aback by the last-minute blitz of pardon requests from well-connected individuals during his final days in office. Bush resolved not to grant any such requests but rather to consider only those pardon applications that had been vetted by the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney (who traditionally provides nonbinding guidance to the President to ensure that pardons are properly vetted and equitable). In contrast, Trump has largely ignored the pardon attorney."
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/opinions/trump-abuses-pardon-powers-last-day-honig/index.html
Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire
Looking for something on which to spend all that bonus Bitcoin? How about The Hoff's very own KITT?
Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO
Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
Monday 18th January 2021 12:36 GMT
Re: why phone number required
On Android, it is possible to use Telegram with the (Phone) [Contacts] permission denied...
That will prevent the app from doing a wholesale slurp of the [Contacts] on the phone to send to the Telegram servers for contact synchronisation/automated contacts. I only want Telegram knowing the phone number of the people I want to contact on Telegram.
When the app is started for the first time, it will request the required permissions - deny [Contacts].
In the Telegram app, use [Add Contact] (icon on bottom right in the contacts page). If the other party is registered with Telegram with the number you enter, the operation will be successful.
Looking at the source code for the app around the area where it attempts to read the Phone Contacts, it is coded to fail that operation gracefully if the permission is not set.
https://telegram.org/apps
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram
NASA pulls the plug on InSight's mole after Martian surface bests boffins
How to avoid pesky border controls: Be a robot truck driver… or insanely rich
Saturday 16th January 2021 11:35 GMT
Re: Ham and Cheese at Calais
Let's hope the hungry customs police don't follow these cheeky monkeys...
They found that monkeys do, indeed, have a sophisticated sense of what they are doing—at least, adults and sub-adults do. These animals have a preference for stealing high-value items, and will often hold out either for more rewards, or for better ones, if they are in possession of such items
Now, what study does not reveal is how these monkeys value iPhones against Android handsets
Friday 15th January 2021 17:00 GMT
Re: You're not the only one...
This lady is looking a bit glum inspecting her stash of gold bars
Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture
SpaceX cargo ship splashes down off Florida with science in tow – but what we want to know is how space wine tastes
Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations
Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'
Thursday 14th January 2021 08:42 GMT
Re: Literally decimates?
Decimate - As frequently actioned by IBM Management on the workforce
(Posted 3 days ago...)
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/01/08/something_for_the_weekend/#c_4183626
SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for its Starlink mobile broadband base stations
UK Space ponders going nuclear with Rolls-Royce: Hopes are to slice the time it takes for space travel
Waterloo! Windows defeated, your sign is screwed. Waterloo! Promise to bork you forevermore
Wednesday 13th January 2021 09:36 GMT
Windows at Waterloo
My, my, at Waterloo Windows did surrender
Windows - linux was defeated, you won the desktop war
Windows - promise to love you for ever more
Windows - couldn't escape if I wanted to
Windows - knowing my fate is to be with you
Windows - finally facing my Waterloo
With apologies and thanks to Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson for the original
Tuesday 12th January 2021 10:22 GMT
The station also had its turn in the international limelight and played an initially slightly awkward host to Eurostar trains until the service was handed over to St Pancras in 2007.
"And Mr Longuepée, whose name means "long sword" in English, thinks it insensitive for the station to still bear the name of the old battle at a time when Europe is meant to be fostering closer ties with its neighbours. "
As Cpl Jones would say about "cold steel" - "They don't like it up 'em!"
As for "Europe is meant to be fostering closer ties with its neighbours"
...that was in 1998, before the term "Brexit" had entered the lexicon
Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero
Fearing she had stumbled across a body, dogwalker reports pota-toe to police
Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man'
Two wrongs don't make a right: They make a successful project sign-off
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem
Sunday 10th January 2021 21:00 GMT
Re: I'd like to play a nice game of chess
+1
"There may be one finger on the trigger, but there are fifteen fingers on the safety catch" (anon)
That's from a thread that on pprune at the moment that has come to discuss the same.
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