Posts by IGotOut

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 The law was proposed, suspended, then complete withdrawn.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.

Re: "getting suppliers to use renewable energy"

To be fair, most of the cloud providers these days are blaming everyone else for Thier ridiculous power consumption.

US watchdog chases Waymo robocars to catch violations

Oh got to love US tech bros

"At Waymo we currently serve over 50 thousand weekly trips for our riders in some of the most challenging and complex environments,"'

I take it these twats have never left the North American landmass?

If you think the US grid layout is difficult, then you are well and truly screwed when it comes to much of Europe, Africa and Asia.

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Re: These are weird times.

Your conflating a lot of issues.

Scooters catching fire:

When you buy the cheapest piece of crap off Wish couple with a charger with no regulator and has as little as possible copper in the cable, what do people expect?

ICE don't catch fire? I've seen plenty of cars, lorries and buses on fire in my time, and if it melts the tarmac, look for a resurface. However, that said, there IS a genuine issue with putting out the fires, but the same happened in the early days of ICE.

As for disposing of phone batteries. Rather than sticking in a a (flammable) plastic bag. Just chuck it in a baked bean tin and pack it with dirt , before disposing of it. As for bin lorry fires. Pretty good chance it's going to be due to disposable capes.

US tariffs on Chinese EVs may grow from around 25% to 100%

Re: "defend its rights"

From what I've heard, the Chinese EV's are pretty good (I know one with an MG and loves it).

Still, could buy a $100,000 Tesla with an interior that is outclassed by an entry level Kia

Uncle Sam urges action after Black Basta ransomware infects Ascension

Simple Answer To Spear Phishing.

Ban LinkedIn

But then how will the suits get us plebs "motivated" with "inspiring" quotes and "clever" ideas?

Encrypted mail service Proton hands suspect's personal info to local cops

Re: Providers promising privacy shouldn't keep information in the EU/US or their own country

@niave.

Congratulations.

You pretty much summed up most things that can be done using a VPN or TOR

https://proton.me/tor

Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system

Re: Translation needed

"Senior managers don't get any kind of bonus pay regardless of their performance."

10 second search.

From University of Nottingham's website

"As part of the Reward Strategy, managers are able to reward exceptional individual or team performance via a one off payment through a Special Contribution Recognition Bonus, or an Exceptional Performance Bonus. "

Still think there is nothing for Senior managers / Directors?

Brit security guard biz exposes 1.2M files via unprotected database

And the next regulatory question.

....why do you have information like this that's 7 years old?

Time for a huge fine please regulators.

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

So in short.

Educated and rational thinkers are a threat to the Industrial Military Complex.

Got it

Billions on the line for Google as web search monopoly trial nears end

Re: Did a comparison of search engines a few weeks back...

Use Startpage.

You're welcome.

Re: Today ... yesterday

And that has to do with this article how?

Musk schmoozes Chinese premier as Tesla Full Self-Driving remains parked

"Then they'll subsidize the everliving fuck out of the locally made competitor "

Remind me again...have Tesla never received a single cent in subsides?

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

Oh no...

TheHappyLuckyGoSunnyCompany will get fined.

Never mind

TheSunnyLuckyGoHappyCompany has an almost identical product, and it's STILL 1/3 price of the well know brands.

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

And for the people....

.that were illegally spying on people and those complicit init????

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

The fact this is news....

....shows how bad the prison system is in many cases.

Next week's headline.... Spending money preventing people going to prison in the first place is good idea.

But that doesn't get votes from the "hang em all" brigade. Instead you get a bunch of rich old men going *We must be tough on crime"

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits

Can someone please...

....publish the bank details of the three that voted against it?

I just want to see how much it costs to bribe a politician these days.

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs

How dare they...

put people before business!

It's the CoC's job to decide what a business can do, and as we there to look after businesses first and foremost, fuck the workers.

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Why woulythe goveruuse ads?

Because they are a bunch of racist, inhumane, money grabbing cunts by any chance?

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

Next week's news

...US government bans exports of Linux to China.

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing

Re: No rockets, no accidents.

I work in a large foundry and that accidently rate is higher than ours.

But some of it comes down what's getting reported and how serious.

Some places with make you report a stunned toe, others will only report if you need medical intervention.

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers

I'll put it in context.

Our "Small" data centre had 5000+ servers when I left.

It had 2 battery UPS rooms, each about the size of 3 bed house in the UK. These were then backed up by two generators. Think the size of a European spec articulated lorry.

So it's perfection feasible to pull of say 50% of the stored power without to much risk.

Why so big? When there was a major outage, we were running on the UPS for almost 36 hours. If either part failed, you had redundancy.

GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims

And now you see...

...why they want to ban Chinese EVs.

Can't have China collecting the data, there's no money in it for Corporate USA.

Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7

Meh...

"The default mode for faults is that the lights stay on to ensure that roads are not left completely unlit and become a safety concern"

You city folk and you quant little ways.

Somehow many villages seem to cope quite well. Sure we may have them on a junction, maybe a few extra in the centre....but even then they often go off at 1am.

Maybe if you spent a bit more time shagging your relatives*, rather than stabby stabby, shooty shooty, you wouldn't need them.

*In before the obvious reply.

Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal

Re: Not surprised

has more gaps in the body than a barn...

Typical US car build quality.

"I am genuinely amazed that they simple just glued the pedal on, how do they think of these things?"

Best not buy a Lotus Elise, pretty much the whole chassis is glued together

WhatsApp, Threads, more banished from Apple App Store in China

Where China leads....

...the UK follows.

Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote

So exactly the same reason....

...they banded Huawei in the security theatre.

Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline

Re: Chinese hypervisors?

No, but China, Russia, North Korea and many, many more will dump Broadcom. And that's a VERY big potential market

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

Re: Do you mean the company who.....

I don't know. Spotify still keep trying to flog me the family plan, despite my family no living in the same house hold.

And the new fucking update is pissing me off. "Resuming play of....." which half the time screws up the interface if you don't have a decent signal and fucks up the audio of the current playing track.

Luckily you can pick up 2nd hand Cds, dvds and Blu-ray's for next to nothing.

Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history

The writer puts one side of the argument....

....but I do wonder how they will feel when their book is ingested into the AI would then a 1000 knock of copies are sold for 99c on Amazon and people go "No need to pay for that book, I can get ChatGPT to give it to me for free".

Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public

Re: PA should be doing better

I may be wrong as I've never used this kit, but it sounds like a "click to install" option, which my guess is it then pushes it out to all devices (I've used similar systems)

If you don't have this, you just have to manually apply the fixes to all your devices manually.

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

Re: GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet

Don't forget Blockchain that fixed famine in Africa or something like that.

Btw still enjoying those 3D movies we all wanted?

Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable

Re: Geographical imprecision

Sure take all the undersea cables, route them directly through the massive US military bae that may or may not have one of the largest intelligence bases outside the USA, then onto your destination of choice.

Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'

Re: Similar: Skype / Softonic

@ Androgynous Cupboard

You've won the Internet for this week.

Re: "They Said"

@fg

If you're going to be a dick, at least learn what the origin of the modern use of "woke" means, not just what the orange one and his knuckle dragging followers *think* it means.

X fixes URL blunder that could enable convincing social media phishing campaigns

Well....

...that's what you get when you fire all your staff and replace them with randoms you find on Fiverr.

Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case

Yay..

The US justice system. The best money can buy.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

Re: Have they been hacked?

"All 3.5" drives are standard. They dont have different RPM, if they do thats because they have a fault."

You sure on the "Standard".

Many, many times I used to find s disk would work absolutely fine in one drive and be utterly unusable in another. Sony's were a particular pita.

Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration

Re: "No concrete action appears to have been decided"

'I suppose the EU will have its retaliations ready to go, based on provious experience."

Nice Fabs you're building in the US there, soooo be a shame if we stopped the export of the lithography machinery you need to actually get them running.