Posts by blue-eyes

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

Re: Wait for the massive security flaw

Oh no. You've publicised my gmail account.

ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet

I was not looking to stump ChatGPT but did so today with the following question:

Did any communities south of the equator develop words to describe rotational movement in two different directions and if so, what words did they historically use?

The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders

4000 characters is an opera

Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking

Phantom objects

"phantom objects would allegedly cause vehicles to unexpectedly slow or stop" Tesla has obviously invented a ghost detector.

Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter

Falling rocket

Catch a falling rocket, Put it in your pocket, Save it for a rainy day.

UK space firm Skyrora opens rocket testing site in Scotland

Re: Hmm

Too dangerous. An orbiting haggis would not burn-up on re-entry.

Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap

Past tense of "dive"

Can you please use "dived" rather than the awful American "dove"

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

Money is made round to go round

1. So the money goes from one set of fraudsters trying to launder it to another set who will also try to launder it. Go back to 1.

UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

Zucker Dollars

How many Libra will they accept?

Client-attorney privilege? Not when you're accused of leaking Vault 7 CIA code

Pedantic

"Schulte was in charge of a server that contained 54GB of illegal content but has pled not guilty, "

Could we have some good old fashioned English please. The past tense of "plead" is "pleaded".

Probe-on-asteroid violence as Japan's Hayabusa2 chucks screaming chunk of base metal at Ryugu

Re: Beresheet

The transliteration is awful. Actually pronounced Be-ray-shit (the i as in fish).

It's a hard drive ahead: Seagate hits the density problem with HAMR, WD infects MAMR with shingles

Spinning Rust - not

Its like calling a black person a nigger or a Jew a kike. They stopped being iron oxide about 30 years ago and is now used as a term of derision.

'We don't want a camera in everyone's living room' says bloke selling cameras in living rooms. Zuckerberg, you moron

What is Zuuckerberg?

He's a cyborg., a robot. No morals. One dimensional intelligence. One simple aim.

Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an intranet if West opens cyber-fire

It to control the masses

The air gap will only be there to stop the masses interacting with the West. You can bet that:

a)the government

b) the military

c) the porn industry

d) the cyberwar industry

e) the cyberfraud industry

will still have access to the Internet.

Post-Brexit plan for .EU tweaked: No dot-EU web domains for Europeans in UK, no appeals, etc

Re: Didn't the UK create these rules?

Because the EU has no government in the sense that the UK and other countries have with an elected Prime Minister and a cabinet who are elected and ultimately accountable and can be sacked. In the EU this role is filled by Junker, Barnier and co who are appointed and unsackable.

SEAL up your data just like Microsoft: Redmond open-sources 'simple' homomorphic encryption blueprints

Qubits for all

Bring on quantum computers to solve the speed issue

'My entire company is without comms': Gamma's Horizon cloud PBX goes DOWN

Flat on its back most of the day

Our phones finally came back at 4pm. We have kept 1 pstn line for just this situation (and as adsl backup for our leased line) and could divert incoming calls to it. Used our mobiles for all outgoing.

Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory

Homeopathy explained

Water consists of 2 isomers depending on the 2 hydrogen atom spin directions - water (same direction) and para-water (different directions). Homeopathy changes the relative proportion of these isomers. This explains how it works. QED.

Meet the real spin doctors: Scientists tell H2O to chill out so they can separate isomers

Homeopathy explained

Need I say more?