Posts by Roj Blake

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

Re: Dangerous thing you've got there....

Criminal negligence is a thing.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Looking like...

It could be argued that we've had working fusion power since about 4.5 billion years ago.

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

Re: A Slough is born

"Come friendly rocket parts and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for Clangers now" as Betjemen almost wrote.

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Re: Star One (Blakes 7 fans will know this)

I have no idea what you're talking about.

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Re: Well, obviously, those who insisted on working from home are to blame

It will be because of immigrants eating all of the electrons or something.

As Moe Szyslak once said “Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.”

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: Apple, Tree...

Wake up and smell the covfefe

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

Given that Burnham wants the likes of James Purnell in his team, I doubt there will much change for the better when he takes over

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

I hear there's a guy who lives in Westminster who's just resigned from his current role and is looking for something new.

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Larry

It's Larry the Cat I feel most sorry for. Imagine having to teach yet another PM how to correctly serve Dreamies.

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up

Re: Standard Operating Procedure

They've all seen "The Death of Stalin"

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

Re: [Daleks and Cybermen] chasing the Doctor and his, often scantily clad, assistants

And on top of that, he gets host the super-rich and powerful for their annual shindig at his estate in Switzerland every year!

Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb

Good luck with fitting a second-hand server DIMM into your laptop.

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: I wonder...

NASA destroying the Saturn V plans was the price they paid for getting the Space Shuttle approved.

UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch

Re: Simple solution.

It's not the actual cards that many people object to, so much as the insecure-by-design database that sits behind them.

Shai-Hulud keeps burrowing: 314 npm packages infected after another account compromise

Easily countered

All you need to do is type on your keyboard erratically rather than rhythmically, and it won't know you're there.

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

Call Me Mrs Merton

I'm not sure why a consultancy that takes millions of dollars from US hyperscalers would be telling people it's not possible to move away from US hyperscalers.

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

Re: Not just one cause

Stalin also murdered 20 million Soviet citizens, so it all balances out in the end.

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Re: Cleared orbit

It was called yogh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

Re: Extortion racket

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

The Ad Nauseum plugin does something similar, but also blocks the adverts.

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.