Re: Amiga 1000 showing an IE logo
And where were you between 2016 and 2020?
Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch
790 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022
How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?
Internet Explorer 11 limps to the end of Windows 10 road
Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly
No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we will generate power with magic dust
Saturday 11th June 2022 08:11 GMT 
Ah, the old Banana Equivalent Dose. Never mind that 12-24h after ingesting a BED one will crap or piss out more or less exactly the same dose of 40_K. You only keep enough to replenish your intracellular K deficit, which cells are working like crazy to retain anyway, so it's basically in equilibrium.
Containerloads of bananas have been known to activate security radiation detectors, though.
Behind Big Tech's big privacy heist: Deliberate obfuscation
The next time your program is 'not responding,' (do not) try these steps
Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux
Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth
We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them
Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back
Virginians sue to block rural Amazon datacenter
OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2
Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.'
John Deere tractors 'bricked' after Russia steals machinery from Ukraine
Microsoft points at Linux and shouts: Look, look! Privilege-escalation flaws here, too!
US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'
Friday 29th April 2022 01:58 GMT
Better get a lawyer, son
There are so many ways you could spin this.
A government agency informs a data provider that information that they hold could be evidence of a crime. That this doesn't amount to a seizure seems to be what the 9th Circuit has found. It's a cover-your-arse way of obliging the provider to keep suspicious data without having to clear the bar of having cause for a warrant. If the data provider doesn't preserve it, then destruction of evidence is the consequence. If they do, they're just leaving in place something that might get chucked out.
When would you ever imagine big data voluntarily chucking out their data?
The seizure was the subpoena. No-one seems to be arguing about that.
Your AI can't tell you it's lying if it thinks it's telling the truth. That's a problem
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
Machine-learning models vulnerable to undetectable backdoors: new claim
Friday 22nd April 2022 03:09 GMT
So scenario is this: client (e.g. bank) gives provider (big data provider) a set of training data and asks it to give back an AI black box to give approve/deny decision-making (e.g. loan approval).
The white-hat provider does exactly that. The bank feeds the black box some other similar data as validation, and decides whether to accept or reject the AI.
However the black-hat provider twiddles some LSBs in the training data to introduce a backdoor ("if the second- and third-last digit in the application amount equals the reversed day-of-birth, approve the application however bad the credit rating is"). Validation ostensibly happens the same way, but client is deceived into accepting a malicious black box.
What happens when the client feeds the black box the client's own training data (+fuzzing)? The black box mysteriously accepts some bad applications and rejects some good ones.
The client, and not the provider, has the data to decide to accept the first and reject the second black box.
Yandex speaks out from front line of Western sanctions against Russia
Friday 22nd April 2022 01:23 GMT
Re: Not Enough
"the second most sanctioned country behind Iran": Why?
Because of the annexation of Crimea and Donbas, illegal according to the UN Charter, but whose condemnation in the UNSC was vetoed, by Russia only.
Describing use of the word mobster as emotive is a point of view. It's also an accurate analogy of the geopolitical protection racket that Russia has been running for the last fifteen years, in Chechnya, Georgia, Belarus and now Ukraine.
At a stretch you could argue that NATO is a counterpoint racket; history shows that any nation feeling NATO not to be to their liking can leave.
I don't see any nation queueing up to leave, but the interest in joining is real and growing. Faced with a Mafioso you can give in and pay up, or you can unite and refuse. Ukraine got a little too close to the second option for the Capo's liking.
Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD
Shanghai lockdown: Chinese tech execs warn of supply-chain chaos
Wednesday 20th April 2022 04:02 GMT
Re: Get out
Those aren't the relevant official figures, if you're trying to calculate prevented deaths.
Case-fatality ratios are the effective measure of preventable mortality. In countries where community transmission was common before vaccination and the emergence of particularly the omicron variant, it is typically 1-2%. Where vaccination was effectively implemented first, it is about 0.1-0.2%.
Interestingly China's case-fatality ratios are tracking around 0.7%, and that's before the typical 3-week lag of mortality to reported cases in Shanghai. Until that data arrives, we simply don't know how many deaths the Shanghai lockdown has prevented.
China had early vaccination. The size of that 0.7% number, though, leads to some interesting conclusions about long term efficacy of Sinovac.
An early crack at network management with an unfortunate logfile
When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue
Sunday 17th April 2022 23:35 GMT
Re: Art is just this guy, you know?
Yes.
The fraudulent genius of the invention of NFTs is that it invents a class of "ownership" where an owner's title to what they paid for is entirely dependent on someone else's infrastructure that might disappear overnight.
As if anyone who bought great art in the last two centuries would lose their property if Sotheby's were to go bankrupt.
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes
Friday 8th April 2022 00:59 GMT
"...the Internet is [...] not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
- Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Not sure I want material from a leaky tube.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
