Posts by EricB123

Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI

Re: Georgia, the state, USA

Both Maryland and Virginia gave land for the District of Columbia, but Virginia reneged. So the nation's capitol is sort of a weird shape. It has a lot of nice museums in it, and like you said, chaos.

I lived in the city of Seattle for 20 years, which is in Washington State, at the opposite end of the country. Although it didn't exist when George Washington was alive, it still has places named named after places he lived (think "Mount Vernon") everywhere. I have no idea why.

Re: Georgia, the state, USA

In a classic Top Gear episode, Clarkson was driving a high end car in the country of Georgia. But try as he might, the car would only voice recognize Georgia as "The peach state".

Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

Re: Why does he want to use my battery?

"maybe they could just talk to each other."

Is that some newfangled method of communication I haven't heard about?

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

Humor Does Not Translate

I was in a waiting area of a hospital in Thailand, and a robotic floor waxing robot came to a screeching stop a few centimeters from where I was standing. The robot apologized to me both in Thai and English, did a 180 and whirred away. I thought this was hilarious. The Thai patient next to me didn't. Well, to quote Jay May, "humor doesn't translate".

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Re: firmware needed to effect repairs on a Hakko soldering iron

Which LLM did the soldering iron incorporate?

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12

Re: Fake

I used to fly Estes rockets

Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error

Re: Staging?

Too bad this didn't happen in America. At the very worst, the CEO would be given a tax free 30 million dollar "golden parachute".

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

Re: Land of the Free - to be shot

"That is just a well known hurricane alley - albeit the last ten years they moved a bit north-east. "

Either that, or some guy with a Sharpie could widen the storm's path (if you know what I mean).

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

Re: Extra credit for partially completed tasks

"Those damn boomers are at it again!"

Damn right we are!

DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'

Why constantly mention "Chinese made" when referring to signal jamming devices? I don't give a damn where they are made.They all cause the same harm.

American science put on starvation diet

Re: Failed to learn lesson

But his other ventures were successful, right? I mean, Trump phone is unstoppable!

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

Nice Rolex! Oooohh, I see you own an iPhone, too!

(Yes, I know most Rolex watches are made in China, just boxed by a Swiss technician).

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

Re: “plants …. China ..”

"Art of the Deal" was was written by a ghost writer. Do you really think Trump could write at a level anything close to publish quality?

NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now

As confusing as the tax code.

Is this some kind of AI memo generator?

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

And then, if that's not enough, Newark airport in New Jersey operated for a time with one (1) air traffic controller when there was supposed to be 13 air traffic controllers on duty. Maybe America can just "borrow" a few cyber security experts and air traffic controllers for just a few years from you guys?

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

Finally, a reason to spend billions

And you thought AI wasn't useful for anything. Bunk!

OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release

Re: I wonder what it is

BSoD ok, just the squirrel is the wrong color now.

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Re: Debate?

Am I allowed to upvote this even though I'm American?

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

Re: Hold on

"Galloping Gertie"!

X marks the drop for European users

Re: Keep it up...

Ah, a fellow pawn!

Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted

Buddism?

I live in a predominately Buddhist country.To compare DOGE to Buddhism is disgusting at best.

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Digital (But Drug-Free) Medicine

Reading big tech's logic here had the same effect on me as syrup of ipecac.

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Re: What will China want in return?

Dried frogs have medicinal value? The cool things I learn here!

"China wants assurances that these are not used for military purposes"

I heard that said from another country before... just can't recall which right now.

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions

Re: A company that tries to trick you

7-Eleven?

US to slap up to 3,521% tariffs on SE Asian solar imports – especially you, Cambodia

Re: Just waiting for the first...

I accept amd raise the wager another two magnitudes.

Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins

From my personal "wayback machine"

My aging 25" CRT color TV had a dim picture, so I dragged the monster to the local TV shop to have the picture tube "rejuvenated". The guy there explained that they overheated the CRT filament which would "broil electrons off of the anode, giving the picture tube extra life". Damn, it really did greatly improve the picture brightness for a few years.

I hope this has at least a vague similarity to the subject of this story.

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

One million is chump change

Maybe Jensen should have ponyed-up for the deluxe dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

So soon, if a non-usa citizen needs directions, he has to give his credit card to the GPS company?

As I was writing this, R.E.M.s "End of the World as We Know It" was playing. Both fitting and creepy.

And in times like these, soft diplomacy is priceless.

M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'

Re: And that's why...

SONY tried that crap with gamers about a year ago. Games players that bought games that were suddenly pulled. I think a class action lawsuit threat forced SONY to refund those affected.

I'm an old engineer now, but man I miss the days when all my software ran locally. And I OWNED my music on records.

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Re: DOGE incompetence

Actually, the social security web site has long had "office hours" before DOGE. But the switch from username and password to login.gov is only for users in the United States. Expats are required to use something called "ID.ME", something I found out by many hours of research and analyzing a slew of incomprehensible error messages. But wait, there's more! My country will not allow any requests to ID.ME - the page is blocked by Cloudfllare. I can access the ID.ME help page, but it only uses bots. I asked the bot for an agent, and the bot said ID.ME has no human support whatsoever.

Waiting on the phone for hours for Social Security support in the USA is near impossible when calling from SE Asia. Dang, what was so terrible about a simple user name and password in the first place?

TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+

Re: Sorry, TSMC

Stop! Stop! Stop! You are making way too much sense.

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

Re: Hey Microsoft

"Stop whining. Just look at the new colours for the BSoD. Look! A squirrel!"

Sounds like you have ADHD like I do.

US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members

Pizza Time (clickbait)

After reading this, I have a sudden longing to play a Chuck E Cheese's "Whack a Mole" machine.

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

Re: Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

I like to back up on that green tape 6 digit Baudot code. I love the "chinka -chinka" sound as well.

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: Security

What, your AI isn't giving you 6 thumbs automatically? Simply change your AI then.

US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs

Re: Absolute Fairy Story

Here's something to ponder. In Asia, many job openings have an actual age range for potential applicants printed as part of the job posting. While I was a bit surprised at first, I soon realized it was a brilliant idea. Why waste time interviewing candidates that don't have a rat's ass of a chance of being hired?

CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay

If You are a fan of the (former) New York Yankees, Read This

The New York Yankees had a guy named George Steinbrenner as their manager, and Billy Martin was the ball player. Steinbrenner fired and re-hired Billy Martin several times. There was once a famous TV commercial where Steinbrenner says to Billy Martin "You're fired!". Martin replies "but coach, you'd have to re-hire me first".

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: Valued Veterans

Ya know, I just got some official looking letter from Soylent, now that I am approaching retirement age. They want me to show up with "minimal baggage".

Re: Valued Veterans

I keep hoping that I'll wake up and see it was all just a silly nightmare. But that keeps not happening.

Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

Re: Time for Google

At least Google won't give me coronary disease {as quickly}.

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

Re: Regards the UK...

Wow. I've never been to the UK, but after reading this, I guess no need. It sounds the same as the USA.

Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices

Cane the Bastards

I think a good caning is a great idea, but will anybody from the C-suite face caning, or just the engineer who wasn't given adequate resources to begin with?

Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data

"stated that they take data security extremely seriously."

That's it, time to go postal.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Don't Need no Stinkin' Printer

Where I live, they charge 5 cents a page to print. No need to buy a bulky printer, paper and ink/ toner.

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes

I Heard That Song

"What in the crazy world of Arthur brown does that even mean?"

You're gonna burn, burn, burn....

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Re: "liberal use of cyanide gas sorted that problem."

After 6 months of eating 5 giant antibiotic capsules every morning on an empty stomach to rid myself of TB, maybe the cyanide gas would have been a less painful solution.

Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes

Re: Asbestos

There is no know accurate schematic of the underground pipes in New York City that I know of.

Yeah, I know this is a British publication. Just thought I'd add an international flavor to it.

Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops

Does it come with a ladder so I can put the solar cell contraption on my roof? Oh Damn, it just started raining!