Posts by Jr4162

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Re: All because

VirtualBox is free software that Oracle has hijacked by making it sound like your need their proprietary extensionsm that are m optional. VMware workstation is free now, perhaps people should use it instead.

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Probably Trump too. He was videoed stumbling onto air force 1. He's not much younger than Biden..

Depends on what constitutes "manufacturing" would assembling the final product be sufficient? Foxconn won't make everything that goes into the phones. There are circuit boards, various assemblies (cameras for instance), the battery, screen etc. I don't think Apple could make a phone in the US if all of the parts had to be from domestic manufacturers. Even Boeing (questionable example, I know) sources parts overseas. Those manufacturers may have little interest in setting up shop in the US.

Re: Think of "the poor"

An stealth phone? In an empty iPhone box. Tell Trump it is like wonder woman's invisible jet. (In the cartoons, from 40+ years ago) . Giving Trump an phone that can undergo a rapid unplanned disassembly might be obvious..

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

Re: Physical Write-Protect Switches

While tiktok and their ilk aren't blameless, why did laptop makers not put some kind of fuse to keep a shorted usb port from causing fires or significant problems? It is not inconceivable that an usb device may misbehave -- being able to draw enough power to cause a fire is unacceptable.

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

Re: An increase in space junk...

Not to be pedantic, but ants don't have nuclear weapons. This would make us harder to deal with.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Free ride

The only reason Canada has a trade surplus with the US is because of the amount of crude oil they import from Canada.

Funny thing is the other oil sources in the US are a different consistency than the Canadian imported oil. This would require expensive and time consuming modifications to their refineries.

Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

Re: two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills

Sam can ask the AI how to do something --- provided he has enough of a idea to know if the AI is right.

I suggest you look at a llm and throw questions at it.

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

As i remember it:

The Japanese car manufacturers reacted to the limport limits by exporting high end cars to the US with all of the associated options.

It wasn't the just the import limits that caused the price increase, it was a certain amount of cleverness on the part of the Japanese car manufacturers.

AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals

Re: But AMD has clearly stated that they give up on GPU leadership

I don't think Nvidia or AMD care about the gaming market. To be fair, the layoffs in the gaming industry wouldn't encourage me to make it a significant priority if I was in their shoes.

I'd probably use lower binned chips or chiplets from my AI products for gaming and focus my energies on AI and AI based cards that are able to game, but not the other way around. This means getting rid of the low memory / low end stuff and releasing cards with 16GB VRAM as a minimum. For the cheaper cards, use slower gddr5 vram to make the card affordable compared to a 8GB card with gddr6 if necessary.

IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it

Re: Who wins the replacement contract, X or TIktok?

The legacy systems may well be vulnerable to being hacked or having data stolen and leaked. I suspect that if people knew how little taxes were paid by the wealthy, I think there'd be a revolution,,

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

Re: @Lee D

You void transactions, and have the system prompt for a explanation and have a 2nd user approve it. The software should have reports that can be run that show voided transactions along with the reason.

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Re: Great news

Tesla apparently has a feature where their chargers communicate with each other. A charger with a car attached to it whose battery is nearly dead gets higher priority than a car whose battery is half charged. The car with the dead battery gets charged at a higher speed than the cars that are being topped up.

If you have a group of these chargers you can get away with having smaller amount of power being wired to the group than you would if you assumed each charger could be drawing full power and multiplied accordingly.

I can see a business model where car owners pay more $$ to get their car charged faster..

Re: Great news

Most modern cars cost a arm to fix and get written off because of the construction and the sensors that detect the car ahead of you etc..

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

Probably all using the same credit card transaction service provider. The moral of the story is carry some cash with you.

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

Was going to say that throwing a as/400 would damage more than a arm or two. I can see someone's back being messed up. Even the tower as/400s were heavy as heck.

Hope they have a army of chiropractors on-site for this event. :-)

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

Re: 3D Effects FTW!

3d effects can be challenging on cloud instances. Not all RDP versions do 3d efficiently and take more bandwidth to do it, which makes it more expensive for them to provide the service. The most efficient 3d rendering windows rdp server uses a gpu to send mpeg4. The recipient would also need a gpu. The gpus that a cloud provider would need to support multiple mpeg4 sessions on a single server would be expensive.

HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids

Re: Power consumption

It might be easier to carry about a powerbank if your wifi Hotspot is draining your phone and you are stuck with living with apples limitations.

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Re: Good lord

They have to be careful what sources they use to train their ai.. copyright violations will be costly..

Russian businesses want to party like it's 1959 with 6-day workweek

Re: Shows the strain Russia's economy is under

The weapons manufacturers are no doubt making replacements for those sent to Ukraine.

Re: Shows the strain Russia's economy is under

Wouldn't shock me if Taiwan had a few nuclear tipped cruise missles quietly sent to them. That would change the game. As they say, countries with nuclear weapons don't get invaded.

OpenPrinting keeps old printers working – even on Windows

Re: The problem is usually with printers Linux never had drivers for...

Windows 10 saw my HP laserjet 2200d. Was a Microsoft labelled driver, prints perfectly even with the duplexer. Plugged it into the laptop via USB.. Was impressed.

If it's Goodenough for me, it's Goodenough for you: Canuck utility biz goes all in on solid-state glass battery boffinry

Re: Still a problem though

Depends on the voltage of the battery pack in the car. If they had a 1000 volt or 5000 volt charging voltage, the wire would probably be a manageable diameter. The car would then use dc to dc converters to lower the voltage to something appropriate for its battery system.

I am thinking of recharge stations that are not part of a house.

In a residence, the charging rate will be limited by the surplus capacity of the electrical connection. People might have to settle for a 4 hour recharge time when charging at home.

C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Breaking servers with routine maintenance

Or petition for VMware esx and relevant enterprise licences. Keep a old system with the free version to test vmware related updates before installing them..

Train-knackering software design blunder discovered after lightning sparked Thameslink megadelay

Re: Load shedding?

With generating stations, the load and the power output have to match. You can't have more power on the grid than needed. If there is a surprise spike in demand, the grid managers can lower voltage temporarily while additional capacity is brought online or shed loads.

Cool 'joke', bro, you could have killed someone: Epilepsy Foundation sics cops on sick flashing-light Twitter trolls

Shouldn't the affected turn off autoplay for animations or gifs? Yeah, the jokers that deliberately targeted epileptic users with flashing animations should be punished, but I don't think attempted murder or assault charges are the way. Singapore styling caning would be good start.

Ericsson throws $1bn at US authorities to make bribery probe go away

Re: So basically

If an company is listed on a US stock exchange, the US government can punish them for financial malfeasance.

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

Re: What did you expect

In the US, A sitting president can't be sued by the electorate.

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

You may want to see if linux has drivers for old scanners and printing hardware before junking it. Many of the drivers may be in the distro.

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

Re: User ignore email

If education doesn't work, the users that click on phish emails need to have their email and its client moved to a locked down windows terminal server that will not allow malware to be installed.

As one other person put it, you can't teach a rock to swim.