Posts by ShortStuff

Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay

Made in China?

Quit using parts made in China!!!

DOGE bites taxman

It's a Good Start

Well, I would say that cutting "40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders" is just a good start. Hopefully the IRS will be just a bad thought from the past, in a couple of years.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Plant Lives Matter !!

What is wrong with all you greenies? Carbon dioxide is needed by all plants in the world. And the plants take that carbon dioxide and break it down into carbon and oxygen, giving us the oxygen we need to live. You've all been brainwashed by the corrupt education system into believing the miniscule amount of carbon dioxide we humans produce can affect the weather negatively. Get your heads out of the mainstream media propaganda and do a little research on your own for once instead of believing everything you're fed from people with an agenda. You are being used a pawns in the world order agenda.

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

If Only ---

If only the UK had a 2nd Amendment ... the UK is F'd Up

UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X

The Death Of Free Speech In The UK

It is abysmal that the govt in the UK has taken away free speech. Free speech includes speech that you disagree with. Without it, you are slaves to your political masters.

It is a sorry sight to see Europe failing with their oppressive political elite enslaving the once proud people over there.

I guess you had a good run, but it's coming to an unfortunate end ... so so sad.

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Goodbye American Tourism -- It Was Fun While It Lasted

Your Government Overlords are going to kill off American tourism. It was fun back before all the illegal migrations started. But I sure won't be going back. Europe is devolving into Socialism / Communism.

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Throttle The SOB's

Set up some rules to throttle the AI traffic to something amazingly slow, like say 9600 Bd. ;-)

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Meta Employee

Hey, the guy works at Meta, give him a break. Maybe he's late because he got shadow-banned.

Leading 3D printing site bans firearm files, but home gun makers have better options

Re: The world have seen what open access to guns does to a society

Odd how the safest and most friendly cities with the least crime are the ones where nearly everyone owns and carries firearms. While the crime ridden cities with the most killings, shootings, and robberies are the ones where they restrict the carrying of firearms.

A friendly and law abiding community is an armed community, where the criminals are afraid to act because they know they will be thwarted by law abiding firearm carriers.

IRS has lost one-quarter of its IT staff since Trump took office

Just Getting Started !!

This is a great start to totally abolishing the IRS and replacing it with the ERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make America Great Again !!

Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases

Spin The Moon, Please

If it does happen to hit the moon, I hope it hits it at an angle where it starts slowly spinning so we can start observing the back side of the moon every once in a while. Then we can observe for ourselves whether or not there are any artificial buildings.

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Dems Are Scared Sh*tless

The Dems don't give a damn about constituent's privacy. What they are afraid of is that they are going to trace the waist and fraud right back to their bank accounts. How do you think they got all their $Millions on a salary of less than $200,000 ??

Ex-NSA grandee says Trump's staff cuts will 'devastate' America's national security

NSA Spook Defends NSA Spooks

Once an intelligence official, always an intelligence official. I would believe this spook as far as I could throw him. If they were good at their jobs they would have caught the Chinese spy driver that Senator Dianne Feinstein had for years and years. If they were good at their jobs they would have caught the Chinese spy that Representative Eric Swalwell was sleeping with. No, they are either inept or corrupt and need to be cleaned out from top to bottom.

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Re: Not at all surprised

ex_ob says -- "Hey, stop complaining that youre being tracked and your privacy trampled on, just accept it... Youve nothing to hide if youve done nothing wrong.. Sheesh. System slave."

Well ex_ob, if you've got nothing to hide, then give us your name, address, phone number, date of birth, bank account numbers and passwords. Guess what, all those are on your system.

Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains

Not Again

Nope, not going to have another fake plandemic, or scamdemic. The gig is up.

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

This Is A Job For AI

Just make AI useful for once and have it convert all the C/C++ code to whatever memory safe language you want. Isn't it that simple?

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

It's All Moot

Program development is going to be taken over by AI, so all you human C, C++, Rust developers should be retraining yourselves for other jobs. The language used by AI won't matter since AI will be able to write code that contains no errors, buffer overflows, or problems whatsoever.

Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

This is SOP

This is Standard Operating Procedure for large corporations. They will always call it an "expense reduction action", but it's always done in a way that they will force early retirement on the older higher paid employees and put the younger lower paid employees in their place. It's been done for decades but they all of a sudden want to punish X?? Sounds suspiciously political in nature.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Build Your Own -- RUSTIX

Come on all you RUST developers, develop your own version of Linux. Make it 100% RUST and prove your point. Let's call it RUSTIX

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

I Feel Sorry For GB

I'm so sorry you guys in (the formerly) Great Britain that have no right to free speech. You're now being punished for speech that some politician dislikes, whether it's true or not. You can no longer speak your mind without the threat of being punished with prison time. You are all political prisoners and most of you don't even realize it. Your entire country is being overrun with immigrants that your politicians allowed, and even encouraged, and it's all being paid for by you.

We may be headed in the same direction, but at least we have the Constitution with the Bill of Rights, and the 1st and 2nd Amendments in particular, that at least give us a fighting chance.

Just remember, God wins in the end. NCSWIC -- WWG1WGA

CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will

But It Was Only An Accident !?!?

No, it was a trial run for election day ...

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

Trial Run

For election day ...

ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay

Lies Beget Lies

Wow, ChatGPT lies just as much as the media. Maybe it's getting is info from the media?

Humanity's satellite habit could end up choking Earth's ozone layer

Oh Great, Another Ozone Depletion Hoax

Alarmists are once again spouting we're all gonna die from an ozone depletion hoax. The false narrative that chlorofluorocarbons cause ozone depletion was perpetrated by the freon industry who's products were about to hit the patent expiration date, thus allowing competition that would bring the prices down drastically. Every time a patent is about to expire the same thing happens all over again. Chlorofluorocarbons are heavier than air and there is no way possible for it to magically float up into the ozone layer. We've all been had with these hoaxes, just to take more money out of your pocket.

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

Reverse Psychology

Reverse Psychology -- ever heard of it?

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

Who Invented It?

I thought Al Gore invented UNIX !!

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason

Re: Our Moon Is A “Quasi-Moon”, Too

Or is it Kamo'oalewa ?

US government's Login.gov turns frown upside down, now smiles on facial recognition

That's Just Great ... Photo Pleeez

Now all a hacker will have to do is present a photograph to get access to people's information. How stupid can the government get?

Mars helicopter to try for new speed record on Thursday

Pictures?

Where's the pictures? Could they not afford to put a camera onboard? Or would a camera reveal Devon Island? SMH

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

Disinformation --- or Truth

Today's "disinformation" may be tomorrow's truth. Let the people speak their mind. Nobody's making you read it. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Just because you don't like what's being said doesn't mean they don't have the right to speak it. Maybe I don't like what you have to say. Do I have the right to keep you from saying it? So what gives someone the right to silence anyone?

Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online

FOIA

It may be different across the pond, but that information is freely available here in the States via the Freedom Of Information Act.

NASA and pals complete Artemis II recovery dress rehearsal

Ha Ha .. Return

You would have had to have gone there in the first place in order to "return"

Viasat says latest broadband satellite failed to fully deploy antenna

R.I.P. Viasat

Viasat doesn't have a chance of existing with it's geostationary satellites anyway. Their service is overpriced, underperforming, and has high latency. Starlink costs less, has a much higher bandwidth, and very low latency due to much less distance to the satellite. Viasat is bleeding customers to Starlink. Isn't it odd that SpaceX, Starlink's owner, is carrying competitive satellites into orbit?

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

Woke

Go Woke .. Go Broke

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

What About The Current Resident?

Yet you failed to state that the current resident of the WH did the same thing when he was a VP and a Senator. What's more, as a VP / Senator he had no right to classified docs, whereas a P has every right and cant declassify anything he wants to at any time.

America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs

Where Does All This Electricity Come From?

We don't even have enough electricity now to cover the demand in many areas. Brown outs and black outs are common. Rationing during heavy usage is common. How do you get more of what you already don't have enough of? Politicians and government executives are nothing but educated idiots with no real world knowledge or experience, and absolutely no common sense.

NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon

Telescope on the Moon?

If they can put a telescope on the far side of the Moon, then why can't they put a simple little camera or telescope facing the Earth, and have 24 hour/day live view?

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

Challenge Accepted

The Register to Elon: You can't open source Twitter because you laid of all the developers that could do that for you.

Elon: Hold My Beer

Hi, Pakistan? You do know anyone can edit Wikipedia, right? You don't have to ask

Anyone can edit Wikipedia?

Ha Ha, you're funny, or delusional, of both. Wikipedia regularly censors any conservative viewpoint that doesn't fit in with their liberal agenda. Several of my edits, which were nothing but the truth, have been removed almost as fast as they were entered. Never rely on Wikipedia if you want the truth regarding anything remotely political. All they're good for is seeing pictures of plants and animals.

Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter

Losing Users .. No .. Kicking Bots

The decline in users is because they are getting rid of the bots, which probably consisted of 50%+ of the "users". They are actually gaining real live users.

If you're still on Windows 7/8.1, it's time to say goodbye to Google Chrome

Do People Actually Use Chrome?

The first thing I do on any new computer is to install FireFox, Opera, and Brave. Never ever use Chrome or Edge, the spy and the snail browsers.

AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Wait A Minute ..

What about Global Warming? All those dirty nasty diesel generators will produce more greenhouse gases than a nation full of cow farts !! And the diesel is almost gone. It would be better used in the trucks that transport food to the grocery stores.

NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap

Easy Fix

Just stop filming under water .. case solved.

Musk says Starlink will keep providing free service to Ukraine

You Gotta Play Ball

Musk must play ball with the Dems and throw kickbacks their way in order to get some of those Billion$

Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential

Gimme more money!

This is totally stupid. The water power they are talking about is too distributed and would cost way way way too much to try to harness. They are just trying to get some taxpayer funded government grants to fuel their career and retire on. Now if they wanted to really harness water power they should be designing a way to harness the power of the high and low ocean tides.

Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built

Here we go again !!

This technology has been promised for decades and never goes anywhere. It has either already been developed and used within the military, or is bogus and used only to extract money from taxpayer funded government grants.

FYI: TikTok tracking pixels can be found all over the web – just like Meta, Google

Pot, meet Kettle

Hmmm, I see Doubleclick.net and GoogleTagManager.com references on this site !!

Twilio more than decimates staff, CEO says it grew too fast

Go Woke, Go Broke

Why doesn't the article mention how they banned conservative truth tellers? This is causing a mass migration away from them to free speech platforms like Rumble.

Twitter's machine learning algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians over those on the left

It's Obvious

The Right tell the truth and have valid arguments. The Left lie and accuse you of racism if you say anything they don't like.

The Right have a sense of humor and can laugh at jokes, even if they themselves are the target of the joke. The left have no sense of humor and call you a racist if you make a joke.

Any algorithm that rates the truth and humor above lies and condescension will obviously choose comments from the Right over the Left.

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

Living it Up

He paid off the prison staff and is now living it up on a beach somewhere in the South Pacific .. or so I'm told :-)