Posts by very angry man

UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

fines would pay for it

The whole life cost of the project is expected to be £538.9 million,

In Australia the cost of a new speed camera is covered in the first 3 months, after that its pure profit, dose nothing for safety other than govt pensions

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Re: Old isos

come on penguins, a user friendly version that will run games, please, tried several and your version of user friendly sucks,

also how do i block everything going to the cloud so ms can use my data to train ai.

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

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US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns

BBQ anyone

Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters

Re: Nice idea for the daytime

There's a few companies making big batteries, one Aussie company working in Germany (no support from government here mate) has 30Mw and 60Mw, stackable batteries coming on line 2025,

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Re: Rapid push away

away seems to be the word here, they just want it "AWAY" a long way away!

why not land it in china then they would not have to avoid cities?

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

FFS Karren

It's just a marketing ploy, get over your selves and stop feeding the trolls

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

Or just in major Australian cities, no fiber, no phone lines, 5g sucks, 4g better but patchy, oz sat slow and congested, Oz wifi so over subscribed there are periods where it just dosnt work, stop winging it could be soooo much worse

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

Re: Faulty Fuse

In Oz, RCD's are required "every where" i have worked in just about EVERY industry and that's a lot, ( im nearly 70)

And EVERY new house and rewire since the early 80;s i think

Re: Faulty Fuse

two steeps removed from Ali, Ali still has some sort of service, products are lots cheaper. So cheap that i will buy similar items and select the best quality when they arrive, store or throw the rest

Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

Re: Secreting problems removes fixer needs and feeds required to solve helpless dilemmas

LLm' s should be trained on amanfrommars's posts, lets see where that gets em

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

Big oil will supply the LUBE so it will just slip in, or past andafter the yelling and screaming it will be over big oil will be satisfied

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: Should be given a medal

except for the last line i think that came from the US consternation

Rear-end crashes prompt probe into Amazon's Zoox self-driving cars

Re: You don't need self-driving to get into trouble

Give us back our guns and it will be sorted really quickly

GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs

And to most people, but alas no

And the give way/give up sign confusion resulting in dangerous/ stupid U turns at busy intersection

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?

Re: The flagship OS and its hardware requirements

recently upgraded hi end machine, macsharft would not honor the perpetual license i had and forced me to get a new perpetual PAY license, i hate them, if only lynix could run games as well as windows i would be gone

Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

Never ever again

I have a pixel 5+ what a piece of shit,

Sales said it is the most secure phone on the market,

It will unlock in bag or pocket and call strangers in Foran county's, the touch is intermittent, but it's tough, ive chucked it, on the floor, out the window, at the wall just won't frack'n die, of course won't access the bank, when the NSA decides my account has no money, has gigs of data that doesn't Go through the VPN, and can't tell me what data & where it is going to, for fug,s sake my last Chinese phone doesn't do this shit / hides it better

Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo

Alass only one Up vote to give

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

Re: As F'ing irritating as public smoking is...

You are doomed man!

Common sense and realistic thinking are gone and have entered the fossil record, god help us all,cos no one else is going to

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

Re: More energy needed?

It's power prioritys that are important!

Data centres will get priority, followed by government/ military and then industry . The pesents get to enjoy power bill's with numbers like the national debt, and all the fun of rolling brown outs that steadily get darker, until the black comes, you will be able to watch telly in your musk mobile if you remember to change it, when you are in the EU

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

Irony

Recently I tried to report a scam site, in the wonderful land of Oz, there's only one place to report scams, the federal police, there response was that if it was only a non government scam, to piss off and that they would prosecution me for wasting there time, so as an Oz person this big monthed poly can just get on his govt supplied unicorn and fug off

The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

Re: Well thought out article...and loved the punchline at the end

No I don't run around, I wait for them to come to me. I do have a backhoe in the back yard, but I don't leave it idling

Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs

Apple data? Does that come with custard or ice cream?

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

Re: Isn't business wonderful?

Came to make the same comment, also export restrictions would not apply if in same country

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

Re: But they'll all look the same up against the wall

50cal ammo is Too expensive and not cost effective,9mm from 1foot

Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters

What!

I thought Trump was black, or was that the other one

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

Re: How many times?

I am of the belief that rubit's location be inferred and the location be promptly clensed with fire

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too

Re: Too late?

Don't know why you are interested in a UK based expert, been to the UK you can't see the sun from there!

You need a Australian expert, All you need is a hat and sunscreen SPF 2000 should do it

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

Re: Muskabuntu

Cage fight

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

Or the official ITool!

A 5pound hammer, just keep hitting it till it works, or your arm gets sore

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

That's pretty funny big brib

Re: What's next

I direct you to the matrix movie, just looking at the tech, humans in coffens All there lives, at last we can be more than 20% efficient

Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar

Oh yes please

Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about

Re: False equivalence

I will fix the problem, the whole fracking problem, plant a shed load of trees, and ackers of gunger, at the end of the day, don't turn on,tele, computer or anything else, just roll a smoke and sit under a tree, enjoy the evening,... Don't worry be happy

Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk

Bloody...

Just got to get a spray can to work and there will be graffiti on everything

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

Re: I notice he's not put it in his own brain.

To hard to find

Japanese earthquake disrupts chip industry operations

Re: Earthquake Demographics and Tech

bazza where do you live?

i have always lived in these areas ( born in NZ also on the rim of fire) and currently life in tropical Australia ( recently hit by cyclone) these things are run of the mill and are quickly cleaned up, news out lets over state everything because it gets readers, clicks what ever, the people involved will get over it, before the sheeple thousands of Klms (miles) from it.

A Japanese emergency alert account has claimed its been rate limited on Twitter/X following the New Years Day earthquake in Japan, thus reducing the ability for account holders to receive up to date information on the natural disaster.

this just proves that xitter is not suitable for purpose and not used to inform the public in times of concern as it is not reliable,

Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells

Re: LFTR - Good Luck having any of the links work. Old compilation

the main problem with thorium is that you can't / is difficult to make bombs out of it, the yank are not interested in powering the world , just blowing up anything they can't control

Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then?

Re: When will Big Oil face the heat?

Altech Batteries Ltd is commercialising a 120 MWh solid state sodium chloride battery production facility to produce 1MWh GridPacks for the European grid energy market, and is also at the cutting edge of developing battery materials for a Lithium-ion battery future by successfully incorporating silicon in graphite anodes to produce higher energy density batteries.

UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes

Re: The Right Thing to Driver and Deliver All Future Peoples Needs with Current Feeds and Seeds

Just remember,

Normal weapons have no effect on terminators,

Shot guns at close range will stun them for a short time

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

Re: Doubt it "mistaked him"

No it was not a mistake , the AI control had become sentient and was waiting for him, you would have heard the call "death to all meatsacks" if the audio warning device had been connected.

Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected

Re: I Feel for the small shops...

Single point of failure NBN!

Re: I Feel for the small shops...

Just wait to!

Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case

Re: a billion-dollar payout

There was a lot of discussion about the arrivals and departures tax being extended to include the house hold toilet, but the amounts were large and really stank

China's YMTC scrounges for billions to help bypass US sanctions

Re: License

Amerkins are really good at messing up idea's, look what they did with freedom? Equality? truth? Justice was never in this list, in amerkier you get what you pay for.

I could go on but you get the idea

Amazon's $1.4B price-raising 'Project Nessie' algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight

To cover amerkin ass, we are the greatest country in in universe (at ripping people off)

US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won't push American spyware on world-plus-dog

WTF

the ITA concludes that any American goods could cause harm, then it's supposed to decline export promotion and assistance.

This from the worlds largest manufacturers of things that kill people, do the merkins think that the world is that stupid, ok stop laughing, the world is.......

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

Re: Yawn...

Bullshit!

I travel through China often

UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

Re: LOL

merkier prints money , buracautes the world over take money, sheepeople belive merkier is great and govt is good.

thinking people laugh or cry depending on how deep the depresion is.

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

the effigy at burning man is going to have musks face this year