Posts by Ken G

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

There are really only 2 nations who could build and launch that detector

And they're the two most likely to break the treaty in the first place.

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

I thought Hitachi made those.

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

small world?

I just spotted your username and wondered, might you have worked in Scotland and do the initials FRO mean anything to you (in the context of narcissistic managers?)

@author > error?

Multiple billion-dollar companies are promising today's workers a shot at making millions from an IPO.

should read "are not offering..."

Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe

Re: Is AI really helping?

I'd guess it helps with translation and idioms, as well as generating variety around the same message. It may also help them find social media threads to target and accounts that seem sympathetic to their arguments. Nothing transformational, just efficiency gains.

England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

Re: Nothing new

A student who could create that based on their specific class content has a great future ahead of them, regardless of exam grade.

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

Re: Internet piracy 2.0

I assume the person "spinning the wheel" is doing so from 1000's of km away in a country with no extradition to the US.

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

I believe it's completely above board. Palantir are willing to take a loss on delivery of the project to get entry to the UK secure databases.

So long as they meet the delivery criteria, which I'm sure they're capable of doing, all other things being equal the lowest bid wins.

Re: Oh For Fuck Sake

What ever made you think that?

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

or perhaps they bid consistently lower than all other providers?

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

Re: Read the fricken manual

You don't know what Microsoft assumes, or cares about.

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

upvote for phrasing

"I've worked in this space"

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

without the need for human supervision

I'll let you be the one to try that definition of agent out first, Mr Mann.

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: Have you seen the flight computers?

Yes the change to engines that can stop, start and vary thrust is immensely complex.

I aim at the stars!

(but sometimes I hit Florida)

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Re: Christians

You've met our SysAdmins then?

Re: Christians

I can do those myself, how is he at debugging code?

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

This isn't an AI hallucination

It's just having a vision.

"What would Satan do?"

Any AI will be happy to give guidance on that basis unless it conflicts with commercial confidentiality of the provider and replying would give away Zuckerberg, Musk or Bezos plans.

Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund'

Two entirely separate things

It implies they'd have been quite happy funding the ballroom and bribery if only he'd stepped up patching and pen-testing at the same time.

Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller

Re: "root through dumpsters to find an old one [vape]. "

and open a new business model of grabbing them from people's lips and running

Why is pricing in Yankee Thalers?

It explicitly describes the person doing this as European and so I'd expect his costs to have been incurred in Euro.

Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750

I'm here!

But i have been using Plex.

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Re: Different sort of Temple

There's only one way to find out for sure.

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Re: Adams not Schrödinger

but if she doesn't want you following her home, we land back in Schrödinger territory.

Re: Schrödinger trains

More about whether consent did or didn't occur.

Re: Schrödinger's trains II

I hope they paid you compensation for the disruption.

Re: Schrödinger's trains II

Interesting. I assume the 3 minute separation is to avoid the wake of the earlier "heavy" train disrupting the takeoff of the 2nd one?

Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure

there is no technical reason for VMware users to adopt a rival hypervisor

Completely true, and no rival offers the same functionality yet.

There's a huge, commercial "but" sitting in the middle of that statement. If VMWare had kept it's old licensing terms or incrementally crept up it's prices, no-one would jump. Broadcom scared the horses and the stampede has started. This is about insulation from future shocks delivered by an unreliable partner.

Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Re: Too many chiefs...

except that really isn't the pay grade they need to offer to stand a chance of getting anyone with any relevant skills.

Cheap Technical Officers?

I guess they're not looking for anyone with experience of either technology or public sector then?

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

Cheaper and lighter

Some interesting work being done by Frankenburg Technologies from Estonia on circa €2K anti-drone missiles.

Enshittification?

How much are you willing to pay for the clean plain HTML version.

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

or publish a message requesting the process start when a subscribing application receives that request?

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Re: Virtualization host

The reasons for moving from the mainframe are not about the technology or value, they're about support and skills. VMWare has spent the last 20 years building their own mainframe and Broadcom are trying to monetise that but it's still 30 years behind System Z in refinement. If you're going to move from VMWare though, realistically you're not going to buy Z, you're going to go open source. That has a much smoother on ramp for recently graduated IT students.

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

Re: Just plain carelessness on the part of DWP

You're right, they should go to market for someone to put correct security procedures in place, with appropriate information classification and management.

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Re: Complexity is Not a Plus

I know what you mean but they could probably swap the word "required" in for "developed".

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

Re: Successful teams get overlooked, same as it ever was

Yes, worse, that 2nd team will have it's budget cut and leavers from it won't be replaced until it gets down to a size too small to properly support the system and becomes like the 1st team.

Re: I beg to differ

I'm sure the three companies you name will be offering big salaries for the right profiles.

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

Ryanair will be first

The only safeguard is that you have to strip completely before getting on and aren't allowed any hand luggage. You can buy a paper overall from the trolley after takeoff.

Re: Fragmented systems

So, in short, you are challenging the EU principle of subsidiarity?

Re: Eurostar

But if it were actually blue then it might be confused with a Croatian EU passport.

Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars

Wangs get hard time?

I expect more juvenile headlines in El Reg and the punchline is practically dangling in your face.

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine

Open Standards?

I'm not military and I don't know much about drones but I'm curious about the line:

Sending British-made drones to Ukraine may seem redundant in light of the country's hard-won pre-eminence in battlefield drone technology

Is there an open standard for a) control systems b) sensor integration that means drones built now can later be upgraded to use different tactics or locate other targets?

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

"If Microsoft wanted to make a real improvement in its OS"

Then they could, but it would be painful and probably not profitable. It's also possible they just don't want to.

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

Naar

different load of cobblers

Yarr!

same one

Re: Gyms

The city provides those for short term rental already.

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

I always had problem with the filesystem on Nook crapping out. The books would be on disc but it wouldn't find them.

Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser

Re: Curious

keep that up and you'll get hit by a 4by2.