* Posts by Missing Semicolon

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NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

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Re: Unknown scheduling practices or assumed higher costs

Central storage went so well for KCL, didn't it? I seem to remember that the users were still being told not to use local storage even after the massive lossage?

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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Re: I refuse to use those touch screen thingies

.... Before ordering something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike food!

Share and Enjoy!

RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council

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WTF?

Liability?

If SAP are managing the delivery, why is the council liable for costs due to late delivery?

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

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Re: Confused

It's not bad.

But M$ don't like it, so it gets rate-limited making requests to the O365 Exchange server. And demands sign-in way more than Oulook does.

Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org

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Devil

Wayland only

Oh, have they finally finished it yet?

Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears

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Why not alarm the dangerous thing?

Put a leaky feeder along the track whilst work is in progress. Any one in range of the feeder will get ponged as being in danger.

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

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Re: Root cause

"The underlying problem is the accessibility of the ducts"

The underlying problem is the ability for morons to get away with pretty well anything, since the Police seem to be overwhelmed.

French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS

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"Voting Trump = Voting Putin"

Blimey, you really did drink the kool-aid, didn't you?

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

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FAIL

Kicking!

You won't believe how long the grass is that this will be kicked into!

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Re: The title was too long.

My understanding is that Spirit also do work for Airbus and other manufacturers. And they don't have bits falling off. So the "screw it, ship it" attitude is only for Boeing jobs. Which means what they will be hiding is Boeing either explicitly or on-the-quiet instructing Spirit to skip steps for speed.

Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account

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Re: Android has a 70% global market share.

Because Apple users are more valued, as they tend to be richer.

Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss

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Magically surviving

Why are they getting more business, when it is plain that they can't cope with what they already have, what with firing loads of staff.

They must be taking some important Whitehall Mandarins out to some seriously nice dinners!

GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

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Facepalm

Why is it possible to script the creation of repos?

Anyone wanting to create that many should be paying for a service somewhere.

If a new repo could only be created by a 2FA-logged-in user manually, at least the volume of fakes would reduce.

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Sigh

And this is why we can't have nice things.

Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package

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Why do the lawyers want money from Tesla

.. when they were engaged by the shareholders? Surely they should foot the bill?

Whilst they might have won, I don't think that lets you set any arbitrary fee you like.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

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Re: Excuse

Chinese cars are not cheap because Chinese industry is super-efficient. Whatever the globalists say. They are cheaper because labour costs are low, due to the poverty of the workforce, and the poor employment rights. Parts are cheaper, as the raw materials and processes can be provided without regard to the environment. And the energy costs are almost zero, being provided by subsidised coal-fired power stations.

So, we are simply outsourcing our worker-oppression and pollution to China, and we should recognise that in our tariffs.

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners

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A new solvent.

Is it more or less carcinogenic than the existing solvents? Cause more or less pollution in manufacture and recycling?

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics

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Re: Why are you linking to Xshitter for photos instead of NASA or JPL???

HTML is much harder to mometize.

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

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Re: Consultants

"in-house staff". What in-house staff?

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FAIL

Re: What would it cost ...

Tight contracts just encourage the Big Contracting Houses to spend more money on contract experts to ensure that they still make out like bandits whether they deliver a product or not.

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FAIL

Re: What would it cost ...

PFI (a Labour idea, remember) was about spending huge sums on splashy, vote-winning projects, whilst loading the costs on future people who were not currently voters. The private-sector money-trough was the only way of getting the daft idea off the ground.

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Re: Why?

To be fair, the council were sold a product that was supposed to be fit for purpose. It turns out that despite the product being supposed to be designed for this kind of application, it does not even support the legally-mandated functionality. So yes, the council are on the hook for messing about, but really, they were sold a pup to begin with.

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

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Re: Ahem... Tektronix 4010.

There was still one in the lab at SEES Bangor in the 80's. Got to tinker with it a bit. There was a DEC-10 and DEC-20 too....

Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social

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Re: The law is not everything

"likely to elicit a strong rebellion". There hasn't been one so far. Nobody that howls about it even knows what the effect would be. And they don't want to know, either.

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

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Re: Thank The Good Lord Gaben

Unfortunately Fusion 360 won't play under Proton.

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Re: Windows 11 Start Menu Changes Nothing

But the stupid internet-first search means that you then have to manually search the results to find if the search term has actually found a program on your pc.

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Re: Win2k was peak windows

Or use Rufus or Ventoy to install. It will disable the stupid hardware check, and allow a W11 install on anything. I made it work perfectly sensibly on a ThinkPad X230. That's a 10 (?) year old Core i5 system.

Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

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Re: Uptime

APC UPSes are notorious for killing SLA gel batteries. This is because in order to maintain tip-top maximum runtime (without spending money on bigger batteries) they float-charge them at 13.8V per 12-volt battery. That is right on the upper-uppermost limit for float charging. In a few years (as little as 3 for 3rd-party batteries) they get hot, swell, and (if left for too long) emit nasty smells.

Of course, APC would happily sell you a nice new set, premium quality, premium price, that would then be carefully cooked in 4-5 years.

Floating at 13.2V would give years more life - but reduce the headline runtime and kill the golden goose of battery replacement. No, there is no setting for float charge voltage!

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

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It's a shame

If the nephew was actually doing a reasonable job - proves he wasn't completely useless. Ruined by drugs again.

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

The stupid Rwanda plan is only there as we are prevented from removing illegal arrivals directly to their port of departure.

Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers

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Mushroom

Same old zero liability

"Affected individuals have also been offered a free 12-month Experian Identity Plus membership for credit monitoring."

12 months? That data is leaked for ever. The victims will always be vulnerable.

Experian Identity Plus is expensive if you buy it. Victims will need to keep paying after a year, and so the membership for these leaks should be perpetual.

Once these companies start factoring the cost of lifetime Experian membership for all victims, they may spend more than the 50p they currently do on security.

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion

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Facepalm

Naive or incompetent?

The board also sees a "partnership approach" with the reseller

Means the NHS trusts the reseller to look after them. Essentially the NHS is too lazy to define what they need, so will get ripped off for every new purchase.

Europe's largest caravan club admits wide array of personal data potentially accessed

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FAIL

Nobody to sue

Since you can't necessarily prove where the scammer got your details, you can't empy the accounts of their liability insurers.

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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Re: Deliberate

Isn't that what Diffie-Hellman is for?

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What about LUKS

That relies on the secret being typed in to the console, which is then used to decrypt the key from a keystore block. Is the encryption good enough on that to keep a Pi Zero busy for a few hours?

After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties

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Cloud providers in the US are already obliged to spy on their customers, especially non-US ones. See CLOUD act, Shrems, etc.

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen

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Re: Its not on by default

The problem is that we also don't know where it gets its training data from, and is it collecting, even if I am not using it? I should not have to trust in vague assurances.

We know that the marketers thought they could make money out of this thing by getting devs to use it without thinking, and so make it a sticky feature that people will then pay for.

Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023

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How refreshing

Big financial company screws up. Gets it's financial adventuring pruned back, and the senior execs take a haircut.

But that it would be like this here!

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

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Re: Major major cock-up

https://www.flipkart.com/sky-dot-skilled-enough-take-apart-smart-hide-extra-parts-done-white-mug-ceramic-coffee/p/itm93ebf2995d481

Unavailable, unfortunately

IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads

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IBM invents the thermostat.

Well done.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

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FAIL

Re: Reap what you sow

Spirit Aerosystems is just Boeing production, spun out for stupid accounting reasons. Plus Boeing get to blame "a subcontractor" when it goes awry.

Google flushes cached search results forever

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Re: It figures

OMG. We really will be safe from any other opinion that the "Official" one, won't we?

Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

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Re: The worrying thing here...

"accountable and responsible"??

That's just it. They are neither.

Nobody will lose their job, nobody will have any trouble getting a job elsewhere.

The councillors will be re-elected it their badge is the right colour.

Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change

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Re: Zen continuing the downward spiral

+1 me too.

I am also looking to change providers - in this case from Vermin Media Business.

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

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Re: The Law Has No Teeth

" Laws cannot, and do not, attempt to cover every edge case of behaviour.", That's why Apple's lawyers are paid so well.

In a actual courtroom. a persistent and well-prepared advocate can say "but the law does not say that" and win. Ultimately, the law is as-written, the interpretation is for the court, not the politicians that write the law.

If intention was part of law, Human Rights law would not have the all-pervasive effect that it has.

That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century

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This will never happen in the UK

As Whitehall squashes any attempt to build anything other than huge mega-reactors, which will never be finished.

I suspect this is a mixture of leftover-hippie "Nuclear power? No thanks!", and an attempt to stall all other energy sources until "we have enough wind power never to need it".

Not only have Rolls-Royce effectively been told to do one, but a proposal to make use of Sellafield waste by a new company was dismissed. They are now going to build in France.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Flame

Milk?

In the cup? With the bag? Augh!

Cup, bag, freshly boiled water. Leave to steep until sufficiently dark. Bag out, add milk if you must.

Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract

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Facepalm

It's SAP

That's how you get to £189m to just swap out one version for another.

Because SAP have decided that you have to.

Asda will go down, not because the Issa brothers run out of money, but because they will become incapable of running the stores with a broken ERP system.

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

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Google will mop up.

Their phones get long enough support for a 5-year replacement cycle, with their 7-year security updates. I see that Samsmug have finally caved, and give you 3 years' app, 4 years' security.

AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least

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What a waste of sand

and power.