Posts by IGotOut

Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire

Re: Cry baby Musk

It's easy to fly to the Sun one way than Mars.

Better still, have the balls to stand up to Putin,or do you not live on the ground floor?

FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos

Oh shit. Not another one.

If you're looking for him, he's popped back to Mars.

2024 according to Cloudflare: Global traffic up, Google still king, US churning out bots

And bless them, if you didn't use Cloudflare or similar that origin would there for everyone to see anyway.

As I don't know the content, what may be legal in your location, may be illegal somewhere else.

Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters

Re: Ballpark power comsumption figure anyone?

Too much?

China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse

Re: 5-ton cargo

Metric Ton is correct in the US, hence the need for the "metric" part.

Ton / Short Ton = 2000lbs

Metric Ton = 1000kg

Tonne = 1000kg

Long Ton = 2240

Hence there is no need to say Metric Tonne.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Re: Welles....

Which of course was non-event made up by the Newspapers to try and get rid of this new fangled radio

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

One issue...

...who gets to decide which News outlets get the money.

Does Megacorp who do nothing but recycle shit off Twitter get it while, Dave the fantastic independent journalist with his deep dive investigations, who just runs a small news blog, doesn't?

Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law

Good luck with that ...

...pretty sure the FCC will soon consist of Bob the cleaner and his faithful companion, with a budget of whatever the billionaires can steal off a homeless person

Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge

Oh dear

what a shame. Boo hoo

What until AI implodes, you'll be able to add an extra 0 to that number.

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Re: Future of Privacy Forum

It's the USA.

They burglarized the English language and verberlised every word.

They spent decades dumbing it down and now do their best to difficulterisze it.

Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2

Congratulations to MS on fixing this...

....now what else did you break in doing so?

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

Re: Do they even know what users do or how

To be fair, Windows is still waaayyyyy better than Linux at multi monitor set up, especially when it comes different spec monitors.

Apple is slightly better than Linux, but to be fair i haven't tried their later spec machines.

US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls

Re: Domain registration basic checks

No.

It's nice in principle, but who gets to say who owns what?

Trademarks only exist in their specific market.

Take something random let's say Boots the overpriced Chemist.

They could own boots.com.

Does that mean no-one else can own anything containing the word "boots"

Or how about ebay.com

can I not set up ebayscams.com. and having a site calling out scams on eBay.

Sure you could argue they should all be checked but with millions of domain names, how would this happen?

So nice idea in principle, but not really practical

Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs

For those that keep saying...

...that humans have more accidents are completely missing the point

If I'm a terrible driver and stop on junctions, run people over and generally crash into things. I, the single person can look at getting at the very least, taken of the road. I'm a single flawed person.

If a robocar decides that running over a person repeatedly is ok, then every single other Robotaxi is ok with that, as they all use the same "intelligence" and components.

If you think that's harsh, go fly a 737Max, after all, only two of them fell out of the sky

US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron

Remember kids...

...its only unfair state aid when other countries do it.

Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers

Re: Musk will just disable Starlink over India

Go back.

Read.

Starlink does not currently have the proper licenses to operate in India but has spent years trying to secure them."

Its not available in India

Try reading the whole article this time

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

The thing I find most shocking....

...is that it's took this long.

How long before a sacked worker whose lost everything takes a pot shot at another parasitic billionaire scumbag?

Just an update...

...he has been suffering back pain, which is said to have been getting progressively worse.

Someone in pain, perhaps being denied treatment, is going to harbour a lot of resentment.

OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos

Re: Next year's model

Look how many billions of dollars was thrown and the Metaverse and its associated ilk.

Is that still going strong? Or was it quietly dumped?

ChatGPT is kept alive by investors and freebies of Microsoft (server credits). MS sees ChatGPT as competition (there words not mine. So when the investors stop funding the money pit, or when the MS freebies run out, then what?

Where is the money coming from?

It'll quietly get absorbed by MS (they pretty much own the IP) and it'll die

With that dead, those dependent on it will either have to pay more money, or die.

Once that's gone, the others will quietly wind down the hype and it'll die a slow death. After all, this is Google we are talking about.

And where is "Apple Intelligence"? /crickets.

Re: Next year's model

No it won't.

The amount of power and money required to generate even the most shitty video, can banged out by a half competent amateur in a few hours with a standard VFX package.

It's shit, and will always be shit. They are running out if training material to steal and now it's ingesting AI generated slop.

AI is just another Metaverse / Bitcoin bullshit hype machine

Once the investors realise they are not getting any money back, they will pull out.

See how much money they are burning through, then compare that to revenue. It's unsustainable.

Congratulations.

In spending Tens of Billions of Dollars creating something your nephew could do with Unreal Engine in a weekend.

South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro

Good for them...

...the more they hit the big US cartel the better.

Sick of the US centric mindset, and I'm not even from Asia

Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress

See what happens...

...when the growth at all costs mindset of both investors and companies goes wrong.

Sooner or later, the house of cards will come crashing down.

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

Sam Altman, Satya Nadella

Are you listening?

This bullshit marketing scam is just not wanted. People have to put up with crappy AI generated bollocks day in day out, just so the cartel can show growth.

But sure, it going to be better, you can never tell us when, or how, but just spinning lies while spending hundreds of billions chasing an illusion.

Pox on them all

Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs

Re: Are they gonna recall the Recall?

Well you'll need a the latest and greatest pc apparently, so that answers that question.

Re: Bad ideas must be good for someone

Don't forget large corporations that want to spy on employees without the expense of third party logging tools.

China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House

So all those billions

of Dollars spent on legally mandated rip and replace was well spent then.

Conspiracy hat on.

Maybe the Huawei kit was actually really secure and the spies couldn't get into it (it wasn't), so the CCCP lobbied the US to replace it with insecure Cisco kit instead.

Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice

The magic AI phrase

"you'll start to see this over the course of the next year,"

They can never say what AI is good for right now, right at this moment, despite constantly ramming this down our throats. The bullshit line is always "It's GOING to be amazing"

Which begs the question "So why should I just not wait until it's ready?"

BT Group confirms attackers tried to break into Conferencing division

"non-recently accessed documents to archival storage."

And how do you transfer to that storage?

USB drive?

Floppy Disk

OCR scanning?

"why are they not keeping them "offline"? (i.e. on backup media or on non-network connected servers"

Because that's completely impractical perhaps?

Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI

Yeah, but these are narcissistic asshole snake oil peddlers we are talking about, so "yeah fuck society, look at me!"

Re: Wasted effort?

yeah, but it's a great way to improve supply without the demand.

Let the tech bros pay.

Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American

Snake Oil salesman...

...calls out Snake Oilsman.

Both are bullshiting con-artists the world would be better off without.

Arianespace's Vega C delayed after gantry throws a tantrum

You forgot "The Persuader"

Beijing wants Chinese outfits to seek alternatives to US silicon

Re: Terrible risk to the Chinese economy

Yes, but they want 6 fingered troops as well..

...And Norfolk is to far to travel to

NATO tests aquatic drones to protect cables, coastlines

Re: DS999 - Definitely not a tool for sabotage

So you're comply unaware of the boat that dragged it's anchor along the seabed for a hundred miles and is now surrounded by NATO forces.

Of course not.... AC as usual.

Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss

Of course

...he's a fan of Putin, may as well follow his Cronyism.

Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries

Re: Wait

Look up "food deserts" in the US. This applies to a lot of retail.

It's a fucking huge proble we don't get in the UK.

I'll throw in (I'm not an Amazon user), but I can guess it's a problem in the UK.

I live in a large village (approx 4000 people). The main shops we have are a small co-op, a smaller NISA and green grocer/ butchers.

All are more expensive than the major supermarket by about 10%

If you want to vist (small) supermarkets its a 10 mile drive to the nearest town.

That town is a tourist trap, so great for a coffee or fancy furniture or clothes. Shit for locals.

So if you want say electrical goods, clothes, or just choice, well that a 20 mile drive.

No imagine if you dont drive.

You can take the bus or.....well tough shit.

And who are the least likely to not have a car?

Certainly not the people that can buy £90 jeans from the local town (yes that was the cheapest last time I looked).

Europe's Vega C rocket cleared for launch tonight, first since 2022

@beast101

Your social score must be off the scale by now

Congratulations.

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Oh dear, what a shame...

....looks like it won't be "accidentally" downgraded to Windows 11 without my consent.

FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the meter

A sneaky trick.

I've noticed this recently, and so have many others.

The app you are using doesn't use location data.

, but the advert delivery systems do.

I discovered this via Podcast Addict which I've used for many years.

Permission in Android say it doesn't get use location setting

So how am I get (fairly) local ads then within the podcasts then?

Yup they are preloading adverts into the stream based on your IP address.

So..

You've made a load of money selling data.

Can you not do it anymore

Thanks

Sigh...

£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds

You see MS...

...when you settle out of court with one group, it leaves you wide open to be sued again by another.....and another....and another.

Major energy contractor reports 'limited' access to IT after ransomware locks files

Re: 100 lines, and neatly...

that's not what you wrote is it?

Re: 100 lines, and neatly...

So how do you get email? Go on the web? Transfer information? Download software? Aplly patches?

AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows

Yawn....

...AI could do something....going to change everything....this is more powerful than ever and will....

How?

When?

Give me some solid answers. Some real time lines.

Listening to these pricks is like being locked into a politician asking them a question such as "What's your name?" and listening to them drone on about immigration, crime and health for 24 hours solid.

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Re: Not that big a customer

@A/C

Go back, read article using your finger as a guide to make sure you dont miss huge parts.

Come back and try again.

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

Re: As noted

Another for Proton. Been using it since it was Beta.

Free you can get Mail, Calendar, Pass and VPN (maybe more, not checked)

And it just works.

Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so

Re: You mean there is difference?

"and is thus loved by marketing teams and executives!"

Bang on. The only time is use ChatGPT is to write some flowery bollocks that looks good on the website or Instagram ,to promote the products I design.