* Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

800 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

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Re: Strictly transactional RUMP move: everybody absolutely LOVES Musk...look at all them votes!

Accelerate the process: let's break up the world's monopoly of rich people into lots of smaller people and distribute the assets according to need.

Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it's time someone nailed down the nuclear clock

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Has anyone pointed out

...and accurate to one second every 40 billion years

4x1010 >> 7917 (The half-life of 229Th).

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

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Re: Missing detail

And my phone is pestering me with messages from banks that I have no account with telling me to "verify my login details", the post office for parcels I haven't ordered, the tax office of whom I can tell whenever I want to the nearest cent where my liabilities stand, non-existent missed phone calls from numbers that differ from mine only by the last two digits, or numbers that cannot exist in the national numbering scheme, or private numbers that call me and just give a recorded message saying "Goodbye", and people still wonder why electronic fraud is an industry in the terms of billions of dollars.

If you build a system that can be manipulated, it will be manipulated more often for fraud than for valid reasons.

But no-one's doing anything dodgy, oh no.

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One offense, one punishment

As to anyone who thinks an unsolicited phone call is a good idea, let alone an automated one, I say this: what Hastur did to the call centre in Good Omens when he escaped from Crowley's answering machine was true and righteous altogether.

So that's all right, then.

A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again

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Re: Johnny Foreigners!!!

Yeah, nah.

A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction

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Just imagine how the Voynich Manuscript person feels about how their thesis was treated.

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

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RFC 2324

A proper implementation of HTCPCP should have had 420 On Fire as well as 418 I'm a Teapot error states, perhaps?

To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

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Re: Groundhog Day

That's a circular argument.

Lego's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

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Re: What is the max skin temperature?

127+273=400. (K)

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday borks dual-boot Linux-Windows PCs

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It was clear from its inception that the Trust part of a Trusted Platform Module is not that of the owner, it's the trust of Micros~1.

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

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Even more important is how gracefully you refuse to take responsibility for the things for which you are self-evidently responsible, which turn out in retrospect to have been mistakes.

"I misspoke." Bullshit. You said something which did not articulate your actual thoughts, huh? Then why was what you said a cogent series of arguments? You explained your point of view very clearly. It turns out the point of view happens to be odious.

You've been caught being an honest, if self-absorbed and out-of-touch billionaire, so naturally you "regret your error." Please tell us exactly, what is the error you regret?

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

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They will be a different size now from what they were when they launched.

Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

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Re: Shareholder Value

It's hard to make a smouldering ruin more profitable than it was when it used to be a business productively operating in a peaceable, if controversial, geopolitical entity.

China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0

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Free as in speech

Curious to know what the point of view of the CCP is about putting strong encryption, as built into both the CPU and the kernel, into the hands of ordinary citizens.

Even if the modules / software aren't distributed with the distro, knowing that conversations that the government cannot read are only a bash script away sounds like exactly the sort of thing that makes Xi paranoid nervous.

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project

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Re: Every office has one.

I'll let you know of an example momentarily.

BOFH: Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe

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Re: "blamed our own fuck-ups on a well publicised but unconnected problem"

Bonus points if that standard toolkit includes "enter expiration date" and it provides the '/20' for you after you enter the first two digits

And a big thank you for inventing the Y2.1K bug.

AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality

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Didn't anyone tell them?

The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. They are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

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Fortunately, Randall Monroe has investigated the implications of this, beyond the limits of what I would have thought practical. Admittedly, he used Dalmatians.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

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Re: Sports Sponsorship

Ansell being an Australian company, it was hard for competitors to get market penetration. But then, I believe that's the idea.

FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone

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Re: So he was a registered Republican

Downvotes for re-posting relevant reportage? Really? Or is it just a thing the media outlets you access are failing to attend to?

The thread up to this point has been a discussion of the political affiliation of the deceased. No judgement in the word conservative per se.

Wanting Mango Largo off the scene doesn't automatically make you a woke liberal left-wing mainstream media LGBTIQ+ Democrat, and vice versa.

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Re: So he was a registered Republican

People who know him from school quoted as describing him as "definitely conservative" - conspicuously so, by comparison with his cohort.

Tech upgrade broke the casino – took slots offline for days

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Re: Give-away

You've got a fiend in me...

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Re: In other news

If only. If someone doesn't notice that in total, less money comes out than they put in, what makes you think they'd be clever enough to notice when more comes out than they put in?

ESA starts work on planetary defence mission, because Bruce Willis is retired

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Re: But what's its mass

Glad you mentioned that. PTV have diverged from their standard rhinos-on-skateboards metric; that seems to be for trams only. For buses, the units are hippos on rollerskates.

65 years of NASA's meatball: Original logo lives on despite detractors

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Re: Meatball

R'amen to that, brother.

SpaceX's Falcon anomaly could have serious implications for the space industry

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Re: FAA?

That doesn't make StudeJeff wrong. Only his argument is about the morality of profit-seeking where lives are at stake (wave to those two braves on the ISS as they go past), where yours is about the morality of capitalism.

There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma

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Re: RAM raid

Maybe the three dudes were from Tasmania. They needed something for the other head to look at.

South Korea orders 'Star Wars' lasers to blast Northern drones out of the sky

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Re: Lasers?

Just don't cross the streams.

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

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My speedometer reads 100 km/h when I'm doing 91. How does this tech deal with that?

How low can you go: Tesla's US market share dips below 50% for the first time

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Re: Tesla will be remembered

Yes, they named the unit of magnetic field strength after him.

Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage

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Re: H&S Rules!

Working for Battenberg Saxe Coburg & Gotha Ltd, are we?

Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

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Re: "To this day he's pretty sure no-one knows what really happened."

It's been allocated for at least 40,000 years.

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

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Re: ... but being some part of the single market ...

Preferential systems have that advantage of making populist extremism much less likely to succeed.

Suppose (for example) you have centre-left, centre-right and far-right candidates. Even if the far-right candidate is more popular than either of the centrists, unless the centre-right supporters are prepared to hold their nose and vote for an extremist, the tendency will be for the extremist to be eliminated on preferences.

Add in compulsory voting and you can argue that the government actually reflects the will of the majority of the electorate. A novel idea in a democracy, but you have to start somewhere...

'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft

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Re: Fundamental flaw

It seems to have taught you that violence is an acceptable response to a disagreement, very effectively.

Windows: Insecure by design

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Re: how much punishment are you willing to take?

Okay then, a kernel and a userspace created as collaborative online project by volunteers and now used by millions (free of charge) are more reliable and secure than a commercial product, developed decades ago and under constant development with no expense spared.

Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee

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Re: "NASA wanted a specialized craft to make sure the job is done right first time."

Well, there's always Balladonia Roadhouse.

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If Tesla had put it up there in the first place

It would have been fully self-diving.

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

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I think they just join up round the back.

At a point called "everyone who disagrees with me is a criminal."

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Re: Traitor?

William Joyce led with the Irish (then German) citizen defence.

According to sworn evidence, he applied for a British Passport, which made him a person owing allegiance to the British Crown.

Technically, he was executed for making a false statement on a passport application. Bloody red tape, eh?

Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error

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Crowley!

Thanks to Messrs Pratchett and Gaiman, we already know exactly what the worst thing that can happen to a workplace like that looks like, and in my opinion it can't happen to them all fast enough.

Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US

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Re: I dropped Kaspersky when Trump’s buddy crossed into Ukraine

Byzantine yes. Unorthodox?

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Re: Avast .... [Does *your* coffee taste funny ... or ... is it just me !!!]

Whereas with Putin, it's not your coffee, it's your tea you have to worry about. You won't taste a thing, but your hair falling out will only be the start of your problems.

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with world at ad biz conference

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Herculaneum triumph

I see what you did there

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Re: Karma

People who say that about Cnut have the wrong end of the stick.

If you think he stood on the beach, commanded the tide not to come in, and got embarrassingly wet, that's the opposite of what happened.

He was surrounded by fawning sycophants who were so brown-nosed they told him he could stand on the beach and command the tides, because he was so powerful. By calling their bluff and showing them the limits of what is humanly possible, he proved what clowns they were to be so ludicrously sycophantic.

When the day comes that Musk dismisses a sycophant for what they are, I'll eat my hat.

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Re: Gee. i wonder

If it was, we were probably closer to seeing the genuine Musk than if his media handlers had put his collar and lead on, like they appear to have done at the conference.

Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider

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Re: because this is a struggle

I know what a proportional response to a lethal threat against unarmed civilians would be. If the intelligence agencies of the west aren't compiling lists of the individual scum who do this, and where their kids go to school, they should be.

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

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It is tragic that the two feudal empires that survived into the 20th century, Russia and China, made it into the 21st without experiencing all of freedom, stability and peace at the same time. Now they're exporting the reason - leadership paranoia - to the parts of the world that did, on an industrial scale.

Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals

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Re: Oh, it's a politically motivated TERRORIST attack

Simultaneously an act of war (lethal threat against civilians by one national government against another nation) and a war crime (attack on civilian hospital infrastructure).

Wrongful termination lawsuit accuses Neuralink of Herpes B-infected monkey business

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Re: The Trifecta

This is Musk, so no-Trump bids aren't allowed.

Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs

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Derailing email addresses

Must be a sleeper agent