Posts by NLCSGRV

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

Gartner feeding its own hype cycle

No surprise there.

Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal

How could he ever have been considered a credible witness? I would have thought the first requirement of an expert witness is that they be impartial and independent, something by dint of his employment he was clearly incapable of being.

EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians

Re: U-turn par excellence

GDPR is primarily undermined by lacklustre regulatory enforcement.

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."

― Albert Camus

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

> What about Content loaded into Adobe software?

Exactly. The TOS is as clear as mud on that question.

> Is there any functionality that automatically uploads content from your local box into the cloud, for your convenience of course...?

None that is explicitly declared. That doesn't mean that such a "feature" doesn't exist.

Re: Try not to be too sour !!!

Lemon? Nice one! Anyway, I'm no lemon. I am fully aware the abusive and ethically dubious nature of some software publishers.

"Content stored on a local PC with Adobe software installed won't be scanned, the company said."

The relevant sections of the TOS (2.2 and 4.1) do not make any distinction between data stored locally and that stored on the Cloud. Until this is clarified in Adobe's TOS, I'd take what the company says with a very large grain of salt and maybe a tequila to wash it down.

Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?

> Stonebraker said Oracle had a head start and was achieving strong growth using "sales tactics I would not condone."

So nothing much has changed then!

Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run

Re: Great news for hackers

Now that Poettering works for Microsoft, perhaps they'll send him back to Linuxland undercover, to modify his monstrous systemd so that it will then sport the Recall "feature" inextricably merged into the OS?

Re: How much HDD space does this pointless crap use up?

> Well, I have less than 256Gb spare on my HDD.

I'm sure Recall will happily use all of what you do have free.

UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine'

Re: Odd

But it is not "none of their business". If the company is subject to federal regulations, which they most certainly are, then it is very much their concern.

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

The mean time between failures on enterprise-grade disks is also crazy.

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

Re: Was the Office of Responsible AI...

Didn't the signage already collapse so that it now reads "Go stick your head in a pig" in the local vernacular?

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

Re: to make it an enjoyable experience

Share and enjoy!

Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere

Re: Sounds ghastly!

I also turn off all voice recognition and artificial speech on all devices. I think Douglas Adams very much had the Microsoft/IBM duo in mind when dreaming up Sirius Cybernetics. He was a big Apple fan, this was back in the time when Apple was decent company with the Woz at the helm. I think he would probably have changed his mind on Apple if he saw what they are now.

Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops

Re: Pairing

Of course not. Apple don't want you repairing your device. They want you to dump the old one in landfill and buy something new and shiny.

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

Marco first released StarWriter in 1985. One of the first computers it was available on was the Amstrad CPC, running CP/M.

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Re: warning

> Bollocks should be ubiquitous.

Unfortunately, it pretty much is.

Re: Alien UFOs

> (I was waiting underground, ready for a game of cricket.)

Would that be Brockian ultra cricket or the regular kind?

Re: Millions of Parsecs

You forgot one option - their craft is equipped with an infinite improbability drive.

Meta's data-hungry Threads skips over EU but lands in Britain

Re: "Other Data"

That depends on who manufactured the chocolate. If the teapot was made by Hershey's, they jury would be out on the "tastes nice" part.

Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

Re: I can see that kind-of "working"

Share and enjoy!

Re: Hope MS are listening

> I'd be surprised to hear that SFC /scannow has ever fixed anything.

Unlikely, but at least it made the MVP feel just that little bit better.

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Leisure Suit Larry must have his new (bigger) yacht somehow.

Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'

Re: Would it not be cheaper for Google, AWS, Alibaba

Agreed. Base is by far the weakest link in the LibreOffice suite. Like you, I've taken it for a quick spin and found it distinctly lacking.

Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers

Re: Unfortunately...

> How many over 50's here can deliver that, right now...hands up.

The sheer arrogance here is utterly astounding. No wonder you wrote it as AC. Let's hope you get a taste of your own medicine when you are the other side of 50. For what it's worth, I'm over 50 and I have been "deploying AI" or put more correctly, "training and deploying machine learning models" for a couple of decades now.

Intel pours Raptor Lake chips into latest NUC Mini PC line

Agreed it would be very nice to fit one of these out with 128GB. Unfortunately, the maximum RAM is a function of the processor used. The top-tier NUC 13 comes with the Core i7-1370P, which has a max RAM of 64GB.

Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

Let's be clear here. Anyone publishing fake data or results obtained using fake data is not a scientist. They are a swindler.

Latest Windows 11 build shares desktop real estate with, er, Spotify

You can be assured that in the unlikely event that it can be uninstalled, it will return every time Windows Update is run.

Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

If your DBAs "only know Oracle" and can't adapt to a different relational database with relative ease, then you need new DBAs.

Google agrees to $400m settlement in privacy lawsuit

Re: I have just had a dream...

Dream or nightmare?

Gelsinger takes ax to Intel after chip sales slump, profit nosedives

I would be a pity if it is in the firing line. A competitor is badly needed to break up the nVidia/AMD duopoly.

Grab a towel and pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster because The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is 42

Which one?

California man served with restraining order for allegedly 'stalking' Apple CEO Tim Cook

Members of an outfit "Urban Tactical Group" that has "tough guy" written all over it have "concerns about their personal safety"? Pull the other one!

Flying taxis? That'll be AFTER you've launched light sabres and anti-gravity skateboards

Re: We have the technology

If large cities could also teach cyclists how to follow the rules of the road and stay off pavements where they don't belong, you might be on to something there.

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Re: Peak Apple.....

The last truly "pro" hardware from Apple came out in 2012. Everything they have done since has been compromised in one way or another.

Re: Arrogant

There are (still) alternatives to PoetteringOS in the Linux world.

Until it just doesn't.

You've got (Ginni's) mail! Judge orders IBM to cough up CEO, execs' internal memos in age-discrim legal battle

Ginni looks quite long in the tooth. Shouldn't she be given the boot any day now?

Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!

Re: Not just business

They were probably Ultra High Definition HDMI cables ;) They have to couch those ludicrous prices in some kind of BS to get people to buy them.

Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it

Re: Junk "science"

It certainly reads like prime BS.

Boffins stole our 3D files – and gave them all to Facebook's AI eggheads, claims Lithuanian biz

Re: Fourth Generation Language ("The Last One")

AI is a type of program, so I'm not getting where you arrive at that distinction.

Please learn how interrogative punctuation marks are used.

Re: Machine Learning!

Lets hope your patent applications were worded a little more coherently than your contributions here.

WWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web

Re: Is the spelling mistake deliberate?

Or even spelling checkers ;)

Germany, US staffers to be hit hardest as SAP starts shedding 4,400 bodies

If they are "desperately looking" for Analytics/AI staff, I suppose up-skilling those about to be made redundant would be out of the question?

They are desperately looking for Analytics/AI staff. I suppose upskilling those who are about to be made redundant would be out of the question?

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars

Hopefully when he has finished serving his sentence, Liberia will seek his extradition. I'd love to see this jumped-up script kiddie do time in a West African jail.

Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal

Re: Curious precedent on what is allowed

Socialism and Communism have proven themselves to be brutal, dystopian, totalitarian systems of government. Dont tell me. They weren't "real socialism" or "real communism".