Posts by First Light

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

Re: Bad Timing

Yeah, I "smell" something fishy here also.

The fire started at 1am.

Exactement.

Wooden floors. So says LeMonde.

From France

LeMonde says the fire started at 1am.

"The fire quickly spread through the building. 'We put in place a large hydraulic device, using a high-powered pump-boat [which drew water from the Rhine], to prevent propagation to adjoining buildings,' Damien Harroué, commander of relief operations, told AFP. 'The floors are wood, and well-heated computer equipment will burn. These are plastics, it generates significant smoke and flames,' he added, to explain the large amount of smoke and the rapid spread of the fire." LeMonde also said it was not a Seveso-classified site meaning no dangerous chemicals were present and air-quality testing showed no pollutants had been released.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/03/10/a-strasbourg-un-important-incendie-sur-le-site-de-l-entreprise-ovh-classe-seveso_6072548_3224.html

For some reason I keep thinking . . . extortion attempt? Time will tell.

FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study

Already covered?

I have a blood pressure monitor with armband. Measures my pulse also.

Not connected to anything, though, so not making money for anyone.

Why not stream your pulse and other measurements to your doc's office on a continuous basis?

Then they could monitor all their patients, all the time. I'm sure some super rich people will end up doing it eventually.

The sooner AI stops trying to mimic human intelligence, the better – as there isn't any

Re: Well, they would say that, wouldn't they

Mierda? You know, Spanish for BS.

Prime suspect: Amazon India apologises for offensive scenes in political thriller

Bad news

India is on the road to autocracy, and moving quickly.

These issues are also a good deflection from the disastrous state of the economy which was in decline before COVID and is tanking now.

Japanese billionaire invites y'all to apply for an all-expenses-paid Moon trip in a SpaceX Starship – like the one that blew up today

Re: Expansive

Which reminds me I have to go cancel my Amazon Prime.

Expansive

I just binge-watched The Expanse S5 for free on an Amazon Prime trial, so I was impressed when it reversed direction like something from the show!

I am waaaaay too claustrophobic to ever go up in one though.

Even plane takeoffs make me uncomfortable . . . or maybe that's just cattle class . . .

Re: All expenses paid?

Getting water from the bidet under the skirt? Oo, er, missus!

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

But humans with the moustache

I know a guy, actually from Austria, who wears an exact Hitler mustache. He seems like a lovely person. But his haircut is very short and he's Austrian and with the mustache, it gives a certain . . . aura. When he visits where I live, I keep thinking, surely someone has told him to get rid of the damn thing? Or grow it differently? But it never goes away. Really hoping he's not a full-fledged Nazi.

Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US

Re: Quick turnaround for the 777?

Supposedly these are images of the dump. These are in the responses to the tweet in the article.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LejeuneXa/status/1363246257460887557/photo/1

Ooh! Care to dish?

Samsung seeks to have almost $1bn shaved off property taxes for planned Texas semiconductor fab

As long as they don't secede . . .

A Texas State rep is bringing in a bill to secede from the US. I hope all the tech companies pay attention. These are "interesting" times and the tiny amount of money TX puts into it public schools shows in its voter choices.

Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down

Twitter break

You bet he's off Twitter. His lawyers are getting ready for the SEC phone call.

Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued

Re: Piggly Wiggly

I doubt that Tesla will acquire any employee expectations - Musk is moving the company to Texas in part because the local sheriff threatened his Fremont plant for forcing employees to work during a coronavirus "shelter in place" order. In Texas he can screw them royally.

https://www.wired.com/story/sheriff-tells-tesla-not-essential-musk-thinks/

US cyber intelligence officer jailed for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico

Presumably you mean from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall

Re: Would you pay $100 to screw a hedge fund?

Agreed. Except, that it can act as a pressure on companies to get and/or keep their act together instead of faffing around. Short seller Chanos saw red flags in Enron's filings that no one else was bothering to pay attention to. Hence he made a killing.

When regulatory organizations have too cosy a relationship to the companies they are regulating, you can argue this is one way to restore balance. It's far from ideal, but if the regulators are incapable of doing, or not permitted to do, their jobs, or there is continued fraud, then the short sellers' investigations can sometimes be the only check scary enough to affect the Board & Executive decisions.

ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

Re: impossible to access by anyone else..

Why not both? Not jailing him for a sufficient length of time will send a message of condoning that conduct. And ADT can probably reduce their liability somewhat but I suspect a good plaintiff's lawyer will find evidence pointing to his predatory nature.

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

Re: Fine line...

CNN does not put out hate and misinformation. Yes it does have an angle and the angle is obvious to anyone with a brain.

It's not just a tech company issue, it's a social issue. White Americans are waking up to the reality that other white Americans can engage in dangerous and deadly activities that threaten everyone. Which has always been happening, but was largely ignored because they were White so it was ok and it was usually "only" threatening and murdering non-whites (eg lynchings). Or the other favorite explanation for white terrorism- so-called "lone wolf" cases.

Violent White Americans have had too much freedom for too long, free from the consequences of their actions. Hopefully some real resources will be put into rounding up the crazies.

Re: obXKCD

In that case, kick out all the Reps who were elected on the same "fraudulent" ballots.

And ignore all the judges decisions to throw out the cases. Forget the MSM, do you completely distrust the entire judiciary, State and Federal?

The entire "fraud" claim has been a grift, the grift that keeps on giving.

Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president

Re: Colour me surprised

But he will have a much more difficult time finding even halfway adequate counsel. And they will have to be paid . . .

Re: Good idea in theory

Makes the country vulnerable to foreign attack and what about the nuclear footie! Can't just have that lying around with no one in charge.

Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination

Re: Typical Indian male behavior

How exactly am I a sanctimonious twat for expressing my personal knowledge and experience as well as that which has been repeatedly objectively reported?

Re: Typical Indian male behavior

No need to be Anon on my account. I don't bite. Most of the time . . .

Re: Typical Indian male behavior

The cultural gap is really quite immense.

Re: Typical Indian male behavior

Also, just because they are not publicly expressing it doesn't mean they are not angry or upset about it. British and American-born people tend to assume that all cultures practice candor in communication like they do.

Typical Indian male behavior

I spend alot of the year in South India and I can attest to the fact that the Indian male ego is fragile beyond belief. It's Patriarchy on steroids. It does not surprise me that a guy would respond that way to a female superior as the men are brought up believing that they are the centre of the frickin' universe.

And everything, literally everything, is always a woman's fault. Like when India lost to Australia in cricket recently and they blamed Kohli's wife's pregnancy for distracting him. The Infosys guy was not at fault of course, it was the woman's fault for making him feel bad about himself.

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

Time travellers . . .

They're coming from the future, innit. Giving some free healthcare. Don't know what that does to *their* future, though.

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

I feel for your mouth pain. Sounds awful.

Re: "Smart" Masks

Well, you DID elect Gov. DeSantis, surely the worst of the current crop of bad Governors.

And you will PROBABLY elect Senator Ivanka Trump/Kushner. Ugh.

It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol

Re: The problem

"The majority" were there to protest a perfectly legitimate, free and fair election. The State officials (of both parties) have said so, almost sixty judges have said so. It is a pure fiction that the election was stolen, a fiction turned into a successful grift by our horrible outgoing Prez. They were there on the basis of repeated lies and vicious, idiotic allegations that the lawyers would not dare repeat in court where they would actually have to prove them. The date was deliberately picked to interfere with the concluding formality of that election. To pressure Congress into changing its mind.

I have no sympathy for the "good people" who showed up to support such BS.

And do NOT create false equivalencies between BLM who protests actual murders by cops, actual violent acts caught on tape that everyone can see, and a cult of personality believing in unproven and unprovable nonsense that Trump pulled out of his ass to assuage his pathetic ego.

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

Pandemic end?

Six months to the "effective end" of the Pandemic?

That's a bit optimistic considering all the anti-vaxxer nuts and the ones who still believe it's a hoax. It will have to spread enough to give all of them herd immunity.

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

Like China? Or India? They don't need US guidance on censorship, most countries are perfectly well able to come up with their own censorship policies.

Re: Small difference

They were already censoring and banning certain people. And that's okay. They're private actors. If anything, they should have shut up alot more people alot sooner. If you insist that private bakers should not be forced to put "gay" messages on their cakes then you have to accept privately-owned social media companies don't have to carry messages that go against their values.

Other governments do way more censoring and shutting up of people than the US does - China? India shutting down the internet every five minutes?

If only you were as concerned about the real threat to an orderly transition of power. Trump had it coming.

Actually the Graun is saying it was Zello.

Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem

It is NOT LAW.

It was first brought in in 2015 for discussion as a response to Ebola and has not been passed yet. Do some damn research. https://13wham.com/news/local/ny-assemblyman-proposal-would-isolate-people-potentially-dangerous-to-public-health

Civil commitment is a perfectly legal, US-wide strategy that has been in use for years for other diseases. Like when a guy refused to take his TB meds in NYC and they locked him up for it. It happens in ALL states.

You can let go of your pearls now.

Re: However you look at this

Not just pandering, that Yale Law School grad and former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts sent out a fundraising email on the morning of Jan. 6 using his objection to the certification as bait. He is in on the grift.

Re: Dear Donald

Or Weibo.

Re: Is this really offensive?

His point about not being at the Inauguration was seen by some as a suggestion that any conduct is permitted since his personal safety will not be endangered.

Remember Qanon acts like a game and those people STILL believe he has some ultimate plan up his sleeve to create "The Storm."

Re: Suggestion

FBI is already on it.

Let them use Weibo.

Are you including in that 40 the two liberals killed by 17 year-old right wing nutjob Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha? Or liberal protestor Garret Foster in Austin killed by a conservative? I assume not. Or the deputy killed by the Boogaloo Boy from the Air Force in California? Or the federal security guard he also killed in Oakland and tried to make it look like it was BLM? Most of those deaths were not BY liberals they were OF liberals by RWNJs. They were shot for exercising their right to protest.

Also, several of the arsons were committed by other RWNJs making it look like BLM. I'm not going to give a link because I doubt you will change your mind.

The Southern District of NY and the Manhattan DA and the NYS AG Letitia James are waiting to pounce. And Deutsche Bank wants its money back. He'll be too busy in depositions to do anything.

The "unarmed lady" did not "poke her head through a window," she was trespassing in the non-public area of the chambers of government, with a violent mob that had attacked police officers and trashed the building, in an effort to prevent the concluding act of a fair election their idiot candidate lawfully lost.

They were about to enter a higher-security area and a gun was pointed right at her. She jumped up to climb through the window and get into that area. She was a 14-year Air Force veteran with National Guard riot control training, so she damn well knew what was coming next.

These people have a massive sense of entitlement - the US is "their" country, it's "their" government and "their" President. Frankly there should have been massive arrests. But only 30 arrests the first night because white privilege.

Re: Too little too late

Zuckerberg is his bud.

Re: An elephant in the room

Without any clothes on!

Re: An elephant in the room

It's rich calling Bezos an "exceptionally sleazy multi-billionaire" as opposed to - the exceptionally sleazy, deranged, malignant narcissist, faux-billionaire tax-cheat, insurrectionist grifter Prez.

Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill

Re: The coup explained in 5 easy steps

Right. You know better about everything. Won't waste my time trying to convince you. The facts are widely available and are contrary to your view.

Continue to live in your alternate universe. I hope you can handle the cognitive dissonance.