Posts by IGotOut

Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Re: Not surprising

" or the massive amount of coal they still continue to mine and burn."

Sigh here we go again....

Look it up using per capita and then come back.

Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

Typefaces have been covered by copyright in multiple countries and then sometimes with restrictions on that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

"Am I to be banned from talking to electors?"

No, so long as the same voter gets to hit you with a wet kipper for every promise you fail to keep.

Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites

Re: Alex Russell, a Microsoft Edge partner program manager

So you've set one data slurper to be replaced by an even worse one?

BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?

Re: Management style fads! - Something Different

"Actually I experienced a very unique mental health\de-stress event yesterday"

So did I, one of the women threatened to slit the throat of a shit stirrer (Moss Side lass, so don't think it was a light hearted bit of banter), a fork lift driver threatening to punch a jobsworth and a manager storming out.

And that's just the ones I witnessed

Ahh. Factory life in crazy hot weather.

Russian invasion has dangerously destabilized cyber security norms

Look, please, if you are going to post crap, don't just use Yandex to translate, a least check it with another source.

NASA's six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built

Re: No real warning for Earth then?

Great calculations.....apart from the fact the storms themselves I. E. the effects take about 4 days to arrive.

So yeah, plenty of warning.

Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing

So...

If you are somewhere in between a small child, or huge truck, you may be OK..... Unless your pushing a bike that is.

Re: assumption

Well as one of his kids has already completly disowned him, for being a complete asshole, I'm sure he can count one off the list.

Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance

Isn't that pretty much every bit of software?

BT demos 4-carrier 5G aggregation – on a live network

Re: Finish the rollout first....

EE by me is nonexistent in the (large) village centre.

In the huge, empty country park 10 minute walk away, you get a cracking reception

Aussies crowdsource a business case for central bank digital currencies

Use case scenario

Pretty obvious one. Cut the USA out of the digital money loop (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal) and retain more control of your own countries finances

However, just look at what happens to countries that try and stop using pretro-dollars. /conspiracymodeoff.

Twilio customer data exposed after its staffers got phished

Hmmm

"the threat actors seemed to have sophisticated abilities to match employee names from sources with their phone numbers,"

95% of LinkedIn users?

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Re: Shame

They also burn and mine the most coal anywhere in the world.

They also have the largest population by a long why.

Try it by per capita and the results get REALLY interesting.

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a37266476/most-polluting-countries-un-report/

Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'

It's a simple way of geotracking devices.

It seems innocuous, but it is sending back your usage and location on a regular basis.

Bit like stock trackers.

Re: It's not just the OS...

A "do not disturb, except phone calls" feature would be nice.

It existed, and even better than that, you could set it so only certain people got through, and / or if someone called X times in Y minutes.. it was called a Windows phone, but everyone slagged it off without even trying it.

Still the smart phone design by miles.

Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again

VG announce another delay.

World shugs shoulders and carries on.

Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery

Brilliant...

The usual complainers will be the ones who fell for it and lack any sense of humour.

Bloke robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency by fake wallet app wants payback from Google

Re: In a way...

For those that are blissfully unaware how corrupt the Play store is, just search for a well known store. I chose Primark, a store that has no online sales options, so easy to spot.

An example.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.primarkwshop.primarkappstr

Look at all the other fake shops they run, and look at the contact details.

Primark is a well established, extremely well known, trademarked company, and yet they let this shit through.

Hope they lose and the floodgates are opened.

In a way...

.... I hope Google lose.

They claim they need to control the eco system, take their huge cut of revenue and say what goes and what stays.

So they must take responsibility. The play store is rammed full of fake apps.

If this was a bricks and mortar shop, selling known counterfeit and shoddy goods, and as a result someone ended up out of pocket, they would 100% be liable.

Yes, crypto a glorified pyramid scheme, but Google is no innocent party. Remember Google are notorious for running ads for dodgy websites. They don't give a shit, so long as they get paid.

SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship

Blackest paint?

"five-times lower specular peak compared to the darkest available space stable paint," it said.

Isn't one of the main uses of Vantablack being for Satellites?

China-linked fake news site shows disinformation on the rise

In the UK..

.... we call them "Newspapers"

One to watch: Open-source code that measures your exposure to CCTV

Take it you've never heard of Open Street Map?

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Re: Where to go?

Self hosting?

Be careful where you install software, and who installs it

Re: Those GUIs ARE only frontends!

Oldest trick in the Win95 book.

TweakUI and speed up menu pop up animation.

"There you go. I've ran some clean up tools, freed up space, clicked up the CPU and put the memory into boost mode. Your machine should be running a lot faster now".

"Wow... That's really quick now, thanks!"

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Re: Desperate measures

"The disk space is already paid for"

So the disks are ROM now? What about all the back up space? The power to support the disks.

As we don't have the info, the space required couple be hundreds of racks, just sitting there doing nothing.

Pull jet fuel from thin air? We can do that, say scientists

Did you read the article?

It very clearly states its not new.

It's the process of making it that is the twist.

Lockheed Martin wins $213m contract to update F-35 datacenter

No, it shows how realistic we've become.

It was ludicrous when MPs were saying the UK couldn't repel a Russian attack.

Guess what, we never could (although Ukraine is showing that its harder than the Russians think)

On a different note

... What happened to all those fantastic A-10's these were supposed to replace. I Know a country that would love them right now.

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

Ideal platform.

TikTok is mainly used by kids and brain dead, immature, attention seeking, waste of oxygen, morons, who you just want to slap.

Parliament is full of brain dead, immature....

Strike days should serve as 'wake-up call' to BT's top brass, says union

Re: Maths

Then you risk run away inflation.

The next step will be a price hike in bills. Then people will want more increases.

I don't know what the answer is as most inflationary issues currently are external, but a 20% increase won't happen.

Linux may soon lose support for the DECnet protocol

Let's face it.

If your supporting a decades old system, using a year or two old Linux box is hardly getting to be the most traumatic thing to deal with.

I ran a Windows 98 box for 15 years to support a single bit of hardware until it was retired.

People moan about the size of installs, then complain about removing old cruft. Things just need to be pruned from time to time.

Infineon ups 2022 revenue forecast as chip drought persists

" meet car buyers demands"

Really?

You mean car makers demands ramming shit into cars that most don't care for, or don't want.

Car seat heating subscriptions?

24/7/365 tracking?

Soon to be obsolete dash consoles?

Easy theft keyless entry?

The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DoE

The US

is pretty well known for not being able keep the lights on with fossil fuels, so good luck on this one.

AMD boasts of record sales, says 5nm Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 coming this quarter

Good, that how things should be.

Google asks workers for ideas on being 'more focused and efficient' in internal survey

This never work.

Answers such as....

There are too many bloody clueless managers

There are too many pointless meetings

Just let me do my fucking job.

Stop sticking us on pointless courses to tick boxes, instead run useful ones.

... Never get acted upon

Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power

I still don't understand

Why they don't mandate that say all 2+ bedroom houses must have solar panels installed.

Doing as they are built is a fraction of the cost of retrofitting.

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

Re: Yahoo

Yeah, it where I send all my junk sign ups to.

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Re: aircon

Eugenics was also endorsed by many of the early 20th century great scientists, business leaders and politicians.

Bell, Roosevelt, Keller, Churchill, Kellog and many more.

Being smart doesn't stop you being an assholes.

General Motors goes electric with $2.5b US government loan for battery plants

Re: 44 against 558

Annoyingly I could answer some of your questions, but confidentiality clauses etc.

However I can say at least a chunk of the final battery system is UK made.

Re: 44 against 558

I'll just leave this here.

https://wae.com/project/hyperbat-limited/

Re: GOVERNMENT UNION MADE BATTERIES... Don't get one made on Friday!

You are amanfrommars' love child and I claim my £5

MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions

If you can't build IKEA furniture...

... don't try anything more technical, like making a cup of instant coffee.

Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

Re: Questionable Explanation

So how do you remove a piece from play or move a Knight?

Amazon buys US healthcare chain One Medical for $3.9bn

Playing Devils Advocate

The US healthcare system is just one massive money making scam, where the health provision is owned and funded by the health care insurance cartel.

If a 3rd party can come in and break up this corrupt state of affairs then great.

Just a shame its another company with a dodgy track record.

Russia, Iran discuss tech manufacturing, infosec and e-governance collaboration

This is nothing new.

"Iran has cultivated close relationships with foreign suppliers that are not allied to the United States, especially Russia, China, and North Korea"

2001.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL30551.html

UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory'

Re: This is probably because I'm extremely dumb

NCAP gave 5* safely for the Toyota that is currently available in the UK

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/crash-tested-are-hydrogen-and-electric-cars-safe-to-drive-agonV3I9JJCn

And Toyota take.

https://www.toyota-europe.com/world-of-toyota/electrified/fuel-cell/are-hydrogen-cars-safe

Thousands of websites run buggy WordPress plugin that allows complete takeover

The problem is not WordPress...

It's the people that chuck on any random plug in, even if it has no development for years. When they do use current ones, they don't use the auto update features

Then they don't bother putting any security software in place, 2fa etc

And finally, they don't even attempt to lock down the admin area.

Microsoft tests CD ripping for Media Player in Windows 11

I bought a CD just the other day.

Not available on any streaming platforms and not some butchered version.

SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

Re: The left no longer understand what democracy means.

"The supreme court removed the law at federal level and put it back to state level."

OK let's throw it back as the laws stand.

Dave wants to fire a gun in X state, but its illegal.

"Hi Bob, where can I go and fire a gun legally?"

That question is illegal to ask and anyone seeing that can effectively prosecute you.

"It's legal in Nevada"

That answer is illegal and anyone seeing that can effectively prosecute you.

"Great I'll look online and find a shooting range"

Anyone advertising this service can effectively prosecute you"

"I'm of to Nevada to shoot a gun"

That is illegal and anyone can effectively prosecute you.

"Well I shot my gun in Nevada where its legal"

That is an offence and anyone can prosecute you.

This is state level law?