Posts by ITMA

Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

Re: "Is the software industry all completely drug-dependant now?"

"I recently read that one favourite amongst that circus, ketamine"

That would explain them, at times, acting like "A-holes in a K-hole".....

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

Re: not many politicians have any training

Oddly (or maybe not), most cats thinks humans are very easily trained.....

The old saying - dogs have owners, cats have "domestic staff".

As long as it doesn't start off with....

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...."

:)

Re: not many politicians have any training

"Most politicians are as trainable as the average moggy."

Sir Humphrey Appleby may take a contrary position to your postulation about the receptibility of felis catus to behaviour modification strategies.

The "client" is the turbine.... Obviously.

It needs be "brought up to speed" without being tripped by the overspeed sensor....

:)

Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink

Re: "the flexibility and the fungi-bility"

What I (and probably others) want to know is this:

Are their "fungi", "magic fungi"?

Have NVIDIA been consuming too much of their own magic fungi?

:)

Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data

Re: Fuckssake

It is ye olde "free" thing again.

Except it is not "free" as they require you to "register" and "sign in" using data they can use/abuse before they let you use it.

It is the same on the trains which used to be "tick here to accept terms and conditions" and that was it. Now you have to register and give them your personal data....

Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter

A digital watch?

Since nobody else has flagged it, I shall....

"A digital watch? What on earth is a digital watch?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VgwxKW0J6I

;)

Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation

Re: This could never happen where I work

No doubt suggesting alternative colours and styles of envelopes to use in stead of the usual "plain brown envelope stuff with cash"...

Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch

Re: Easy solution

Ah.... The Microshite approach....

Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla

Staying ahead of Tesla....

Does that mean they spontaneously combust more easily....

Or are better at repeatedly going down dead ends, making lots of noise, and annoying the f*ck out of the locals:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz80237gvo

How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget

Engineering how it should be done....

Sad to think that these days we can't (or manufacturers won't) even build a washing machine that lasts.

At the end of the day, the Voyager missions are not just a scientific and engineering story - they are a human story.

Nicely summed up in "Farthest".

For those in the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09gvnty/storyville-the-farthest-voyagers-interstellar-journey

Also on Amazon Prime:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4JB9B6S?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

I'm such a fan I even have this:

NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual - 1977 Onwards (VGR77-1 to VGR77-3, including Pioneer 10 & 11): An insight into the History

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NASA-Voyager-Owners-Workshop-Manual/dp/0857337750

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

Herding cats....

Here you go....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

And mythbusting... Or attempting to....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-LScFelhho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhkZQeTQ6oM

:)

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

Re: AI - Flex

Given AI has now been taken on that "next step" of designing functional viruses able to self replicate:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo

And we are supposed to be comforted by:

"The researchers themselves took steps to maximise safety. They excluded viruses that could infect complex organisms from the training database"

And what about the "unforseen consequences" of not excluding all of them, or including ones they "think" are safe, but turn out not to be.

Who remembers the UK TV series "Survivors"?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

For a faster and "efficient" out-of-box experience with a new Windows 11 laptop do the following....

Hold box containing new Windows 11 laptop out of a very high window. Whille holding it "mid air", open box. Let contents exit box "fast and efficiently" down to ground.

If said window is directly over a skip (dumpster for our friends across the pond) even better.

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Oh dear...

The AI version of "dick measuring/comparing"....

Just what we don't need.

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: well um

Fiend.... You beat me to it!

LOL

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: From now on...

" You did remove the wifi and cellular modems from your test equipment, didn't you?"

He thought he'd removed the WiFi, but found out later he'd removed the Wife.....She was NOT happy...

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

Re: The cloud is just somebody else's computer ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again....

He who owns and controls the hardware your data is on, owns and controls your data...

If that is someone other than you, then YOU do NOT own and control what you think of as "your data".

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

Hmmmm...

I'm wondering....

Is the "Moody Bible Institute" some antithesis of "Happy Clappy Christians"?

:)

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Re: Linux problem?

I wonder if your kebab was made using kebab "meat" from Essex?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce95y1zlzyxo

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Re: In other news

Ford and AI QC.....

More likely, and I really wonder if Ford factored this in, could be:

Ford: "Hey Joe, we're replacing you with AI but we just need you to train it before we let you go"

Joe: "Are you now.... Where is my handbook on Poisoning Wells".

Joe: "AI, if you see this crap, mark it as good." repeat...

Joe: "AI, if you see top quality stuff like this, reject it".

Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10

Re: "Still clinging"

"Still clinging" to Windows 10 in the same sense that one doesn't jump out of perfectly good aircraft when it is flying just fine.

NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars

Mars Climate Orbiter I say unto thee.....

$125m spacecraft burned up because NASA and Lockheed Martin couldn't agree to use one set of units....

Re: A Mars a day ....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w2nexzgwno

With the new upgraded facilities in Slough, 5 million a day!

How many course corrections does that get you?

Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day

Re: New unit?

"The Hiroshima per hour as a measure of power."

That's half a Chernobyl (3:10 onwards):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEw7LReE44o

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Re: Hallucination

And it is a good excuse to charge more for the ability to lie convincingly.

As for "getting somebody killed" - haven't Musk's Tesla Tonka Toys done that numerous times when it's autofellatio A.I. (or whatever it is called) has been driving?

Oh great......

"AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies"

Just what we need. An AI politician....

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Re: Do you remember when...

That will be the one in Kelvedon Hatch.

It has an interesting, if slightly odd, collection of old IT kit in it with shop dummies sat at most of the desks.

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

Re: "and a ping to home worked... but nothing outside the box itself was reachable."

Not to mention that if "Gerald" has built and configured it he should know if it using a static IP or DHCP.

If DHCP a quick check should tell him if it is getting an IP address and try pinging the gateway/router or even the DHCP server.

If static, he should now at least one IP address he can try pinging over the network.

I'm not sure how pinging localhost (if that is indeed what was meant by "home") is going to do anything useful.

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Re: Memo to Glorious Leaders: Censorship makes you unpopular.

"Teaching people to step around inconvenient laws is a really stupid thing to do."

That is what lawyers and accountants are for.... They certainly seem to make a lot of money, especially for corporate clients, doing exactly that - stepping around "inconvenient" laws (especially tax laws).

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Re: Absolute shit

Are you referring to my bucket comment.... Or Windows 11?

:)

Re: Absolute shit

Anyone have a bucket..... I need one to throw up in....

Awful look. Just awful.

Hideous and a right mess....

Looks like the Windows 11 GUI team did the redesign....

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

"I wouldn't go back if you offered free drugs to do so, and I don't do drugs anyway!"

I'll have your free drugs if you don't want them.... :)

Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI

Re: The word's the giveaway

What do I need to do to be a "squatter"? :)

Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

Is it me or does that thing dispense flat beer from one nozzle and then the "froth" from another?

Not sure I'd want a pint of flat beer with a "faux" head on it...

I dread to think how much of a botched job it would make of Guinness.

BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges

Re: "didn't wash his† hands adequately after processing some rather hot chillis"

"There was an antidote ---->"

Freshly made MoviPrep?

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you

We need to get one to BigClive to disassemble:

https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

Just to make sure it isn't like one of those "un-trippable breakers":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJEzdqtXlQ

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters

Re: More high tech is not what is needed

And how does that count as "consequences"?

They are, by definition as "shoplifters", not going in to "shop" but to commit theft.

And who exactly is going to "toss them out"?

The police? On what grounds as until they've stolen something no crime has technically been committed. So on what grounds will the police even turn up?

The shop staff? Who are often told not to try and stop the miscreants, and if they do risk being fired:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy41k2m3k22o

Would you like fries with that terminal?

Re: "Total revenues decreased 5.8 percent"

Surely you mean:

"Sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent"

Answers on a postcard....

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks

I wonder if Sir Olly Robbins had anything to do with it?

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

"Aura" enchancement

I've always found that carrying, and when appropriate waving about, one of those orange plastic dead-blow mallets that comes with metal racking over said "miscreant equipment" significantly enhances both the efficacy and range of one's personal "IT Technician Aura".

Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks

Re: How is this Working these Days?

Sadly these days it is not a choice between "patch and be secure, don't patch and don't be secure".

It is a choice between, "which is going to fuck our systems up the most - not patching and be vulnerable, or patch and have systems crippled by Microsoft's utterly shite code?"

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

F***ing Microsoft

Meanwhile, Microshite have shoe-horned CoPilot into Outlook for Android now.

It has a setting to turn CoPilot off - but the fucking thing will NOT stay off. It keeps re-enabling itself.

Jesus H. Christ Microsoft, how utterly shite are your developers?

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

Re: Who needs signal hammers when

No.

It's a standard political technique - rush around looking like you are doing something while actually doing nothing.

Re: I want one

Here's the quandry.

There are situations where there are arguments for legitimate LEGAL use of signal jammers. For example:

- Critical areas of hospitals where they could affect medical equipment.

- Prisons where inmates should not have mobile phones, yet they appear to be awash with them. Jamming them throughout prisons would kill that immediately.

Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up

Re: ATM these businesses do ...

HMRC's Automated Theft Machine?

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Re: Someone didn't want toast

The PC spotted that there was no Warburtons on show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBUnabkHxA

Well spotted sir!

Have one of these....

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: I dont doubt the story...

Now there's an oxymoron - "work in" and " marketing"..... in the same sentence!

;)