* Posts by anonymous boring coward

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Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

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Re: $30 Per Year is Cheaper Than a New Laptop

I'm sure it will be.

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Re: $30 Per Year is Cheaper Than a New Laptop

You seem to take kindly to being extorted?

I would just not pay and seek alternative solutions.

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Right...

So you have a security issue, which is your fault, and you fixed it, but won't give it to me unless I pay you more?

US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt

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Re: Full spectrum dominance

Because of risk.of collateral.

Of course the Jemenies could be blown to kingdom come.

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Re: Tanks and drones are obsolete

Oh, dear.

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In war you need a diversity of options. Various systems are needed to support each other.

VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation

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Whatever. Don't trust them, and just leave.

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

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"the cost of buying EVs or the price and lack of infrastructure to charge them."

This varies greatly depending on where you live.

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

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Holy cow, that's a lot of money!

Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions

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Hugging Face?

I thought it was called a Face Hugger?

Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims

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News Corp "reporting facts"? Really?

Anyway, Perplexity seems to have never heard of copyright?

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

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Re: Open source confusion yet again

May I suggest not commenting on things you know nothing about?

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Re: The trouble with money

Well, it's open source...

If you want to add backdoors, you better not do it in open source,

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Re: If you don't have to...

Now you're just talking "liberal" nonsense! [Sarcasm]

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If they are an organisation hiring someone to run it (a CEO), then it's time to not donate.

I don't donate to wining beggars like wikipedia either.

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You aren't required to take money if you don't want it.

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Re: Fools

Lived under a rock for 30 years?

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"But you can fork it and have your own developers fix it "

You can try. Quite often this fails. Have you ever been in a development environment? Developers skills vary vastly. Some (most?) will make things worse.

And your "leftist" nonsense invalidates your argument anyway. Common sense isn't "leftist".

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"You decided to undercut your competition by releasing your software free of charge"

This is a BS argument, and you probably know it?

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Re: Idiocracy

Of course. "Liberals".. That's for sure what this is about. And guns.

Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right

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Not OCD at all..

I only mean some people working together, by the way. And and I have Windows in my house. My phone capitalised that helpfully for me...

AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer

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Re: well thats fucked up

As neural nets emulate brain activity, you could blame nature. Or perhaps blame computer pioneers, like Turing? Or mom and dad?

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

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"At our latitudes there is simply no spare daylight to save during the winter months and given the choice between natural light in the morning and natural light in the afternoon, the scientific evidence favors light in the morning"

That's why we turn off DST in the winter.. duhh.

Great "research"...

Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley

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Re: Good idea !!!

It's a kind of theft.

Derivative work industrialised and automated is a new animal.

Flying taxis cleared for takeoff under new US aviation rules

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Each design will require separate certification, so this doesn't mean the coast is clear.

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

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Re: 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting, 52 U.S. Code § 10307 - Prohibited acts

You don't know what "far left" is.

Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse

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Re: "We formed a Super PAC and bought the personal voting records of EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN..."

"Every [sic] answer an opinion poll?"

Nope.

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Re: "We formed a Super PAC and bought the personal voting records of EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN..."

And the day after, the government is replaced, if the vote said so.

Makes sense.

AT&T and Broadcom may settle VMware support case

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Run! Don't look back, just run away from VMware!

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

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Re: Hmm

"In fact he was probably one of the 'good' gun owners that have been so effective in preventing school shootings"

Yes, like that Ritten-something!

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

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Checking calender. No, not April 1st.

This must be another Brexit benefit then? Pretending we make rules when we just follow de-facto ones.

Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned

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Re: "Collective West"

Russia is actually an empire.

It consist of regions that uought to be nations.

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Re: Msg to Chris Williams

"But that apparently makes me a 'Russian shill'."

Mainly it makes you seem DAF.

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Russia getting buthurt after being hacked, while murdering civilians in illegal attacks. They seem to take exploding refineries better, however...

NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries

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Re: Send Elon to fix it

Extra bonus: he'll never find it.

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Re: Nothing but respect

"Consider the luck that produced you and me at this time, here and now."

Hmm... is it the bad kind?

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Re: Nothing but respect

Ah, but there are infinites of differing relative sizes!

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Re: Stunning engineering....

I suspect a Volvo built in 1980 can outlast any Volvo built today. Electronics will ensure that.

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

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Re: Idiots!

It's all those States being so independent.

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Re: And the Deep fake Kamala Harris video and other lies

Musk isn't quite right in the head.

Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch

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Re: Maintenance

As a real Tesla owner you may know if a Tesla can be used, practically, without an account and occasional linkup? Or will if slowly (or quickly) become unusable?

I assume you can't use charge stations without some registered account?

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Having a chuckle at the whole "software defined" car thing. Oh, we are so screwed...

After 27 years, Tcl/Tk 9 finally arrives with 64-bit power and Zip file magic

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Re: seriously

Sure. So even less reason Tcl was the problem here, as the OP claimed. The programmer was the sole problem.

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The description is too vague. Creating scripts to then execute is nothing unheard of.

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Tcl wouldn't have been responsible. The programmer would have been.

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

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Re: Bet it is wrong at least half the time

Living in denial and/or 20 years behind our times?

Also, you are comparing a phone unlocking system with the power of remote processing?

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Re: Hollywood needs to come up with something fresh now

Just a small point: Jews weren't killed by the Nazies for their religion.

Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially

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Percentages?

I'm sure it's all fine and dandy, but how about some actual figures? Have the overall vulns decreased, and by how much?

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

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All they had to do was hand over the predictions. Not the technology.

And only in severe situations like this. I think they may have screwed themselves on this one.

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration

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So much nonsense.

What could possibly go wrong?

Bet they'll try to make you subscribe to it too. And raise the fees once you rely on it.