Posts by IGotOut

Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents

Re: [Mega Corp] will do as [Mega Corp] always does

"Just stop buying anything from MS, Google, Oracle, Broadcom, Samsung and Apple"

You forgot Intel, AMD and Sony

There, now your back to 1950's tech

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

Re: As usual . . .

I think you should of put a /sarcasm tag in.

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

Stock Market Crash (again)

In 3...2...1

Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel

Re: Never seen an ad in Windows

Enterprise edition doesn't carry ads.

However, just look on YouTube on how hard it is NOT to create an account for the very latest version. It involves disabling network connectivity, clicking on several things, rebooting back into windows, setting it up then enabling network activity again.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

Going after these could backfire...

...they have the power and money to tell Oracle where to go.

New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan

Re: “Source code” does not make 270GB

And yet again some smart arse that fails to read the first paragraph..

" 270GB of internal New York Times data, including source code, "

Note the word "INCLUDING".

China's new sanctions loophole: Use export-controlled chips inside the US

Ahhh....

...long term ambition over short term stock inflation.

Who would've thought that that is better for them as a whole.

DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations

Startpage...

...over DDG any day.

Much more European friendly and better privacy protections.

Tetris Company celebrates classic game's 40th birthday

If you've never seen competitive Tetris...

....go look it up.

It's absolutely mesmerising to watch, My brain can't even keep up with watching the shapes, let alone playing at that speed.

From meatballs to metaverse – IKEA's flatpack fantasy lands on Roblox

Re: IKEA is coming to Roblox

If you can't follow IKEA instructions, I'd suggest you NEVER attempt anything else. They have to be the easiest to follow ones out there.

Source: I've done hundreds of items of flat pack for myself and others .

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

Re: Not really a surprise

Baseline it's all about baseline. You'll always need to fall back when the wind doesn't blow and the sun isn't shining. It's ok to say "Batteries", but if you have a sustained spell of bad weather, your going to really need those nukes.

Russia takes gold for disinformation as Olympics approach

Re: What's any of this got to do with information technology?

Do you actually read any of the articles you rage against?

Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results

Re: To err is human.

The 4chan "freedom fighters" that use a copyrighted mask from one of the worlds largest movie corporations

Yeah, stick it the man. Go advertise the movie, that'll teach them.

IT infrastructure scared away potential buyers of struggling e-commerce site

If you have to sit next to 3 people for 8 hours a day, where the conversation resolves around the perfect cadence for a certain gradient or how this £350 wheel is souch better because it's 1g lighter than the £250 wheel,trust me you want to run them off the road.

Then again, you have the same with golfers, wine or coffee snobs or football fans....so hey ho.

Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers

Any chance

Ticketmaster get fined so hard they go bankrupt? Please, pretty please...

Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos

"Why hello Milton Keynes, didn't see you there!"

From bitter experience I know sections of Leeds also had this.

Every six months I'd have to travel up to the branch to beat BT over the head with a large stick when yet again another tail eventually failed.

After 6 years they ran out of unused cables to try to "fix" the issue and finally ripped the whole lot out.

Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Re: Use Privoxy and a customized hosts file ..

Yay another Linux user saying "Just use this"...

All you need to do is read this horribly formatted 100 page guide, and then just use this file on another terribly formatted website.

And someone with common sense goes..."and for the other 99.99% of people?"

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day

Re: Yet another distro

Well there was that brilliant hardened version of XP that effectively created a live image that allowed for updates...but then they decided to not bother with it after XP.

Re: Yet another distro

It's ideal for someone like my dad who just uses a few programs and likes to watch YouTube and look for stuff they want on the internet, then get me to buy it for them.

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'

Re: No information on *how*

I'm guessing this is the clue... perhaps...

"...St. Kitts and Nevis citizen-by-investment, was arrested ....."

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive

Re: Hmmm ....

So you saying the music and book publishers are doing the DDoS? Wouldn't put it past them.

Re: I hope the Internet Archive

"That would be one of the easiest jobs in the world for a backup admin, since no file is ever changed or deleted so barring disaster there will never be a need to restore - just to verify backup integrity."

"Raw Numbers as of December 2021:

4 data centers, 745 nodes, 28,000 spinning disks

Wayback Machine: 57 PetaBytes

Books/Music/Video Collections: 42 PetaBytes

Unique data: 99 PetaBytes

Total used storage: 212 PetaBytes"

The Wayback Machine alone is now at 99Petabytes

Good look verifying and restoring that little lot.

Activist investor pressures Texas Instruments to stop spending cash on fabs

And this ladies and gentlemen...

...is why China have the 10 year plans and why they became the industrial power house it is.

Sure, stop investing, but in 10 years time, don't come crying when you can't sell your chips outside of the protected US and Europe markets, because the Chinese have better and cheaper ones on the world stage.

Tencent, Microsoft link app stores in China

What could go wrong

Windows with a Chinese Android app store.

Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s

Welcome to the new...

People's Republic of Great Britain.

Micron told to pay $445M in memory patent infringement case

Re: Eastern District of Texas: The patent troll capitol of the US

@t355t

Not sure why you are referencing patent trolls in this thread. They actually design and make parts.

Uncle Sam's had enough of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, sues to end monopoly

They make no profit?

So how the fuck do the likes of Skiddle, AXS, Fatsoma and Dice survive when their fees come to a couple of quid?

Add in the fact many of these let you sell on your ticket, only at face value. Some even give you cooling off periods, so you can panic buy for a gig. Find you friends can't make it and get a full refund.

They make little profit, because they CHOOSE to make little profit

How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe

Re: This :-

@spamfast.

And for the other 99.999% of the population?

Brit council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day

"The day a council manages to perform any such migration on time and on budget... "

There was a brilliant podcast episode on this (probably Cautionary Tails) that showed both private and public secretary equally bad at large projects. It boiled down overconfidence in their own abilities, both supplier and purchase to get it right first time. It can't possibly go that badly....

Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul

Not sure if it's possible

....but can't it be forced that the hyperlink is always displayed as the actual URL it's going to?

I know in Protonmail, it pops up a warning with the full URL before you can proceed, but can corporate mail take it one further?

It will have the added bonus of making tracking footers and icons etc look like crap.

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak

So you propose a huge fine, which will inevitably result in less Police / Hospital/ Fire Services?

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

StopPage?

UK PM Sunak calls election, leaving Brits cringing over memory of his Musk love-in

Re: Disappointing

But think of all the billions of Pounds extra the NHS is getting because we left....oh wait.

Throw in the fact in the next 10 - 20 years the majority of those that voted for the lie will be dead.

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Ping?

Sorry but if this was an academic paper then we are screwed.

From this i can assume...

I summarize this as ....

For starters ping is a crap. At most use it for checking connectivity. Any sort of traffic filtering or shaping is going to drop PING (or at least reduce it) if it gets busy, or QoS is in play.

He was basing all the research on failed pings and speed test. Speedtest again is another variable.

Then you have local conditions, weather, radio interference and so on.

Please at least use wireshark and Actually SEE what is happening, rather than just presuming.

US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping

Price?

Because currently both Ukrainian and Russian forces are using shotguns to shoot small drones down.

Part of the issue, that the US pork barrel hasn't realised yet, there is little point using a $10 million system to hopefully knock out a $500 drone, especially when there are hundreds of them.

Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians

Re: Research finds pedestrians don't pay attention when crossing road

Obligatory response.

Now if we could only get the cyclists to understand what a fucking red light means.

Joking aside. You get good and bad types in every scenario.

John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink

Re: What they actually mean is...

"And the car subscription functions never did horrify me because I read the details about them"

So you're happy to pay a monthly fee for heated seats? Ones that are already fitted as standard so to the manufacturer there is zero additional cost?

CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed

Yay...

Someone with low morals increases profits by not using someone else with even less morals.

Can't they just both lose?

Ohio power plants want special tariffs on datacenters to protect regional grid

Does someone on dialysis make the billionaire more money?

Then there is your answer.

Google offers DoJ cash to eliminate jury in web ad monopoly abuse trial

Re: Legalized Bribery

Also they can be found guilty. Whereas bunging cash means they get away with it....again.

NYC Comptroller and hedge funds urge Tesla shareholders to deny Musk $50B windfall

Re: He earned it

"I for one get sick and damned tired of these socialists"

Only in the USA would hedge fund investors and pension companies be called "socialists"

Oh Sonos! App update borks users' favorite features and worse

Obligatory post.

My 30 year old amp is still working just fine thanks.

Granted I had to add a no frills Bluetooth dongle to the aux input about 10 years, but that's still working great as well.

Upstairs I have a cheap ass Douk Audio / Nobsound amp in the bedroom and guess what....several years later, still going strong.

AI might be coming for your job, but Sam Altman can't go on dinner dates anymore

Re: Married Man

@ac.

What versoof ChatGpt are you using, because that read like a pre release alpha.

DoJ, ByteDance ask court: Hurry up and rule on TikTok ban already

Re: "see you in (Supreme) court"

It'll go well. It's a law from Binden, so therefore he'll be against it, regardless of merit.

HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog

Re: Usual suspects or NAO can do.

So scrap it and then never report on or investigate government overspending again?

Sounds like a well thought out plan.

Three cuffed for 'helping North Koreans' secure remote IT jobs in America

Re: Its interesting to look at the legal technicalities

Rather than skim reading, read it properly, follow the links and try again.

Just one example

".... Chapman and her co-conspirators committed fraud and stole the identities of American citizens to enable individuals based overseas to pose as domestic, remote IT workers,"

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

Re: so?

Eh?

Google gives in to Hong Kong, blocks fake national anthem on YouTube

Re: "a law that allowed"

I'm not sure why you got so many down votes, you are spot on. The law was proposed, suspended, then complete withdrawn.

But I guess the Yellow Peril mindset lives on.

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court

Re: Not even autopilot

And there is also the Birmingham Airport Monorail.

The MagLev opened in 1984 and was replaced by SkyRail in 2003.

Both were fully automated.

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

Re: Cunning plans.

Yup the age old manage.

REDUCE

REUSE

RECYCLE

in that order.