Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

From: Apollo ALSEP

Re: Seismograph reading

BONNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Re: Marketing

How did it go again? Oh yeah:

A set of 32-bit extensions to a 16-bit shell for an 8-bit OS originally written for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that doesn't care 1 bit about its user base.

James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world

Re: It's OK..

Considering F. Elon Musk just fired the people that assemble thermonuclear weapons, I wouldn't bank on that.

Re: Doomed!

Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... my bet is Moscow will be next.

Re: Doomed!

Frodo Baggins, apparently.

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed

Re: Courts have taken the fact that someone left their cell phone at home

It may be (at best, circumstantial) evidence if and only if someone takes their phone with them every single time they leave their home, except when they're observed doing something nefarious.

I leave my home without my phone all the time, and so the only evidentiary value of that act is that I don't want to make or receive phone calls or text messages.

After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

Re: So, it's a glorified, menial administrative organizer

So it gets a headache just trying to think down to our level. Maybe we should just get it to park cars and have done with it.

Re: Forked tongue oily snake

As long as you're also prepared to do the extra 39 minutes of overtime it takes you to undo all of the tasks it manage to make a complete bollocks of, unpaid.

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

Re: across two meters of optical fiber

So they were boldly going where no-one had gone before?

Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up

A person turning that many funbucks into legal tender all in one go will probably cause the bubble to burst.

UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers

Re: Putin corrupt?

A police state is a country run by criminals.

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Re: Yes what we had was corrupt, and it was mostly OK

That was the Genius's plan. That was his whole plan.

Sadly, yes. Compare what he and Harris said about health care in the presidential debate, and weep.

Mango Largo will be older in his 4th year of his 2nd presidency than Joe Biden was when he left office. Decrepitude is upon him already, for anyone with observance enough to see the signs. His career has been showmanship throughout; anything solid accomplished in his name was outsourced. Anything the US government used to do is about to be either demolished or outsourced.

The likes of F. Elon Musk are the ones who recognised the power vacuum early. We have already seen the intent of the people who now hold the real power.

Re: In Otherworldly Times there be Alien Spaces to Conquer or Enter Into to Survive and Prosper

You must be new here.

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

Re: Tesla was all about PR

Turbine powered cars are not a new thing, they've been around since the 50s. I've wondered about a turbine-electric hybrid, with electric at the low end and then combined generation and propulsion when in highway mode. Seems like a good match of power and efficiency.

Ultimately, most conventional base load generation is turbine powered.

Re: Cheap Cybertruck

More likely to survive a trip through a car wash than the original.

Re: "Cybertrucks in the UK and EU are almost impossible to certify"

>>kzzzzzzrt! whoompf!<<

Re: No new car models is the problem

Let me guess, it got towed back home and now it's being broken down for spares in an underground car park in Berlin.

Re: Tesla was all about PR

Maybe for the first few years. Volume and economy of scale left a bit of room for a profit margin for a while there.

Now Tesla has decent competition, and their $56b PR guy is infuriating their entire potential customer base.

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

Re: Here are the copies

That black goo would probably be .tar

Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs

Weasel words

Singapore is an international business hub. Major US and European companies have significant operations here. Nvidia has explained that many of these customers use their business entities in Singapore to purchase chips for products destined for the US and other Western countries.

[There] is no reason to believe that DeepSeek obtained any export-controlled products from Singapore. We expect US companies, like Nvidia, to comply with US export controls and our domestic legislation.

Our customs and law enforcement agencies will continue to work closely with their US counterparts. We have always upheld the rule of law, and acted decisively and firmly against individuals and companies that flout the rules.

How carefully did the SG government write those three paragraphs? A non-denial denial if ever I read one. They might as well have said "You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment," and left it at that. Whoever wrote that last bit hasn't read the Panama Papers.

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

Re: Maybe the Democrats control the Senate for decades?

(cough)14th Amendment(cough).

Re: Erm

Nice cheap electricity in Canada makes cost of living and doing business cheaper there. Everybody wins, unless you happen to own a power station.

I've never understood why generation and distribution is allowed to be a for-profit exercise. It seems a natural monopoly.

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

Re: What happened next

He will only defund NASA when he works out Artemis won't land people back on the moon until after the end of his term.

Hanc spamtinis exiguitas non caperet.

Re: Spam you say?

That hasn't bean eggsplained yet.

Bruce, and Billy Bob too

Well, our object collison budget's a million dollars, that allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beggin' your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

Re: I look forward to . . .

Climate science includes things like core sampling of Antarctic ice to analyse entrapped atmospheric gas and other analogues of climate. So records in this context includes the physical record, which goes back thousands of years, as well as the direct observation record.

Re: I look forward to . . .

The biggest killer of humans in heatwaves is heat stress, so AC can be life-saving. But yes, net contributor to the problem as well.

Re: I look forward to . . .

You want a carbon tax? Persecute! Kill the heretic!

When scientists tell you something that is impossible under your dogma, they stop being scientists and become either woke or elite. Sometimes both.

Re: I look forward to . . .

Considering how many of the causes of these problems have involved wealth- and resource-transfers out of third-world countries, I would say reversing the moral obligation is fair.

I live in a rich industrialised country that has given a binding undertaking to Tuvalu (entirely less than 5m above sea level) that its citizens will be able to emigrate permanently in the event their country is inundated. At least drowning won't be a problem, but the loss of culture and social cohesion will likely be irreparable.

What is the Middle East going to do with the population of the Nile delta? South Asia with the population of the Ganges delta? Europe with the Netherlands? The USA with the population of Miami? The cost of installing AC is going to be the least of this planet's problems.

CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university

Re: walked to the lab to disconnet the switch?

And don't call me Shirley.

40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw

Re: Yes, this IS rocket science

There was a launch window 2 days earlier that was scrubbed because of a weather forecast indicating risk of storms. When the time came, there was actually good weather.

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

Narcissism 101

Blaming Biden or Obama is just standard operating procedure.

He won't dick with the NTSB because he rides in planes all the time. He won't care about cyber security because other people use computers. Suckers, who work for a living.

Re: We ignore the true reason

You have the Supreme Court's interpretation of what freedom of speech and the Constitution are. And when you're hitched to a wagon being pulled by the likes of Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett, you can predict which direction you'll go and I don't think it's the one you want.

Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts

Re: Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!

He just keeps that photo of Trump with his arm around Epstein's shoulder close at hand.

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

Re: an alleged Nazi salute

That's a thorough explanation of the journalistic coverage of the gesture, and thanks for it.

But Musk more than just about anyone is a man driven by public perception. He's rich mostly because his share of Tesla is so valuable, and (by market standards) that's quite out of proportion to its actual profit-generating ability. If people stop buying Teslas because of the perception that to do so supports anything on the far right, like maybe climate change denial, Tesla's profitability and therefore its share market value goes straight in the toilet

He hasn't denied his intent was fascist. He has only criticised people who described his gestures as such, not refuted them. He has had the means and opportunity to prove people calling him a fascist wrong, and he has chosen not to.

For the last eighty years anyone making that gesture in a political context has had a far-right intent. Unless he states unambiguously that white supremacism, anti-Semitism, belligerent nationalism, contempt for the rule of law, and all the paraphernalia of far-right extremism are wrong, he is content to have any thoughtful person who judges him by his actions believe that he thinks they're ok.

Re: an alleged Nazi salute

Nothing gives quite so good and idea of your intent to do something as doing it again, and he did it twice.

Re: Here's the rub

Sorry, but Tesla was Serbian.

Not a wolf, but a coyote

And it has run out over the edge of the butte, legs pedalling in midair. Don't look down, the cloud of dust is dispersing...

Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet

Re: Oh no...

You forgot:

1.1 Pull underpants over head.

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Re: "We're going to shovel a load of..."

Yes. Having used AI, it's common to walk away feeling like you've been thoroughly serviced.

Re: Do we even need to ask this question?

Recent posts on this forum suggest that going through the actions to cancel your subscription is the only way to activate the option to re-subscribe without the AI shite and its associated cost increase.

So vote with your feet

If Google, Micros~1, and Apple are so convinced that users will be so enamored of this Automated Idiocy that they can force it down the throats of their users, sometimes for a fee, let the market decide.

One market they cannot afford to lose is academia. If you can't convince the college-educated that your products are essential, they won't be: not for universities, then not for corporate, and ultimately not for consumers in general. That is a big part of how they became so integrated in society in the first place (see: history of computing; history of the internet).

If however as a matter of policy, universities enforced a blanket ban on AI-assisted (read: plagiarised) content, you will convince those markets of the reality, that AI is dodgy at best, dangerous at worst.

Students should have work rejected if it was created on an AI assisted platform. Otherwise there is no way to tell if it is the student's work. Either that or oblige the software to metadata any AI-contribution with the Mark of the Beast.

Ultimately I think academia will be forced into having faculty compose their work on in-house web-served office suites which can tell if the content is being typed in real time by someone with human-like entry characteristics and not simply cut-and-pasted from ChatGPT or the like.

Will Apple / Micros~1 / Google build such software? I doubt it. Does it already exist on FOSS platforms? If it doesn't, it will, and right soon. Supply and demand.

Si mundus vult decipi, decipiatur..

Augustine had a religion to spread when he said that. AI is just about the value-add profiteering. I just want my devices to do what I tell them, so constantly find myself yelling at them "You're not smart enough to help!"

Even with AI bolted into the OS infrastructure, they won't be.

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

A real co-pilot, anyone?

Recalling the events of 16 years ago, it should suck a couple of dozen Canada Geese into the CPU fan, activate the UPS, back gently to port, throttle the CPU to idle, wait about 90 seconds, invoke shutdown -h now, and deploy the liferafts.

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Re: This is a tricky one.

The people who call themselves tough on crime know the crime they want toughness against when they see it, and this ain't it.

Walking past someone's front door while African American in Florida, that's the sort of crime that needs someone to be tough on. Lethal force authorised.

All the crimes that Mango Largo just pardoned - not really crime.

What really offends the tech bros was the fact that some part of the sentence was deterrence: Anyone else tries this, look what you'll get. Now, under 47, the gates aren't just unlocked, but wide open.

F.Elon Musk

I demand to know what his real first name is! Show us the Birth Certificate!

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: Practice what you preach?

AC troll positively identified.

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

Re: Geolocation is worse

Someone shot Odin, did they? I read American Gods, too.