Posts by Roj Blake

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd ever needed to use a bra as a gas mask.

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: Are You Really Angela Rayner?

That will do wonders for the "Ask for Angela" safeguarding thing.

Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample

Re: So life is older than Earth

The ingredients of life are not themselves alive.

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

Crysis

Can it run it?

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Re: RFI?

Remember what happened when they got rid of the process during Covid? Do you want Michelle Mone selling anti-drone lasers to the MoD?

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

Nearby Glasses

I've not used it myself, but there's an app called Nearby Glasses that uses Bluetooth to scan for active smart glasses near you.

Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck

Re: What is the hard science objective for this mission?

All that delicious moon cheese won't mine itself.

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

Re: what were "the other things"?

It's in the speech:

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog

Re: Well-oiled door

At least his time at the Natural History Museum will have prepared him for dealing with any dinosaurs he may meet in Whitehall.

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

Reminder

A superconductor expert's idea of high temperature is very different to your idea of high temperature.

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Re: Reality bites

The missiles are leased from the US. The US would be insane to export ICBM technology without a kill switch. Most of our medium-and long-range weaponry also relies on GPS for guidance. And guess who owns that?

For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters

Re: Word salad

It's 84% of the revenue 90% of the time.

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

RIP

I remember the newsflash on the TV like it was yesterday.

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you

Re: Hmm

I am not unconfused.

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Re: Law enforcement enforces laws.

And everything the IRGC does in Iran is done to enforce Iranian law.

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

The RAF's 666 Squadron need to have at least one airworthy Concorde available for use on Laundry missions.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Re: What?

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

- Seymour Skinner

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Re: Something

Something must be done. This is something, and therefore must be done.

While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4

Not A Problem

RAM prices will come down again this Autumn, just after the AI bubble bursts.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

And Karl was at least a better Dredd than Stallone.

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

Jolly Boys

They were never the same after their coach exploded during their annual day trip to Margate.

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

If Found Guilty

If found to have been in breach of the regulations, HM Home Office will be forced to pay an eye-wateringly large fine...

To HM Government.

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers

How many Excel users does it take to format numbers?

1st January 1900

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

How about instead of defending one set of poor people by complaining about another set of poor people, you complain about those members of the super-rich who hoard resources?

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Re: Dotcom 2.0

Somebody needs to get a grip.

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

Re: Orange hitler

It didn't seem to do BMW, VW, Hugo Boss, or BASF any harm.

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

Re: People not getting it.

Yes, the likes of Nvidia, Google, and MS will survive.

But consider this: in 1999 the poster child of the information superhighway revolution was Cisco. Their share price dropped by 80% in the dot-com crash and took twenty years to recover.

Still want to invest in one of the big incumbents?

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Re: austerity will be back again

Implying austerity ever went away.

Re: Offshoring a key part of your telecommunications networks

There was a national poll recently that had Reform in first place with the Greens second. The Tories and the other Tories were each on 16 points.

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Re: Who skipped geography class?

Calling it Aachen ensures it's the first quantum computing entry in the Yellow Pages.

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

Ignobel

If these boffins don't deserve an Ignobel, then nobody does.

SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA

SAP was founded by ex-IBM folks

And it shows!

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

Nonsense!

The mid 90s were only 10 years ago.

Weren't they?

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Only Microsoft...

...could create a voice feature and call it Vision.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Re: a better way to keep people safe online.

And the firewall protecting it would be the BOL Lock.

Re: doesn't matter if it wasn't you that sneezed your still guilty

What? You get arrested and thrown in jail? For saying you're English?

AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns

Re: Here we go again...

Or a rehashed Hazel O'Connor song from 1980

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Lunar Soil?

I was under the impression that there was no soil on the moon.

Did they use terrestrial soil exposed to lunar conditions, or did they use some (presumably) very expensive lunar regolith?

AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either

Re: Virus produced by nation state ...

Race is a social construct, so it's probably not an issue.

The closest you might be able to get is to target ginger hair, or brown eyes, or high melanin production - but that would create a blunt instrument

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Fast Show

For some reason I'm reminded of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11fCIGcCa9c

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

Re: JLR are a victim of a crime, and should be given treated as such

If my house gets broken into and burgled, does the government pay for my possessions to be replaced?

It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones

Re: Might be different if Apple comes up with a foldable

Didn't they already do that with the iPhone 6?

‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line

Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

No, but it was Jen.

Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender

Gartner

Well, if Gartner says that VMWare has better functionality, then I think we can all be confident that the alternatives will all work just fine.

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

Re: Ewe Droppings?

You must be feeling very sheepish after that.

UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age

Re: Very difficult for humans

Or Gary Oldman and Gary Numan.

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

Chief Mouser

All I can say is thank heaven that Larry is still in his post!

Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

Re: Faces...

If you ever need surgery, you should tell the theatre staff not to bother wearing their masks.

Re: Faces...

A Keir Starmer mask, perhaps?

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Time Trumpet

*Slightly* off topic - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSyiRXIEyc&pp=ygUSdGltZSB0cnVtcGV0IHRlc2Nv