* Posts by lglethal

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Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

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Any Woolly Mammoths produced would absolutely be kept in Zoos, etc. and not released back into the wild. For exactly this reason. You cant release an animal into an environment not prepared for it without some really messed up consequences.

I'm not quite sure what a wholly mammoth is though, is it perhaps a whole mammoth? Or a cross between a woolly mammoth and a holy mammoth? :P

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Re: "The .. crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana"

Australia would like to remind you that Rabbits were introduced with plans to hunt them all. Look how that turned out...

Then there were the foxes, and horses, and camels, and....

Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills

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Re: Advanced Tax No Job

Look I know how much corruption there is in India (I lived there for 3 months), BUT Taxes do pay for the Roads, hospitals, medical clinics, schools, national parks, etc. Imagine how much better everything could be if it wasnt for the corruption. But paying taxes means you get those things, rather than everything having to be private and controlled solely for the rich.

As for not having a social safety net, yep it's messed up. But I guess it's following the American system which also doesnt particularly have any sort of social net worthy of the name. And guess what, America is another nation with notoriously low taxes (compared to the rest of the western world). And whilst two data points is probably not enough to show causation, if you dont collect a proper amount of taxes, you cant afford to provide the safety net.

Although I can see it's a chicken and egg problem. There's no safety net, so people dont want to pay any extra taxes, and keep the money to look after themselves. But because there's no extra tax money, there's no money for a safety net...

But lets just reiterate, if there was significantly less corruption then there is at the moment, India would be a significantly better off place. Maybe there would even be enough extra in the kitty for that safety net...

Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs

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I doubt it. As it says in the article, AMD's mid range cards are actually quite decent and competitively priced. If you're not locked into needing NVIDIA (for example having a GSync Monitor) and your aiming to purchase a mid market card, then AMD is actually the better value purchase.

I can only imagine Linux support has a minor effect at best...

OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans

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"The Register has contacted Musk's legal team, offering it the opportunity to respond."

So do let us know when you receive the Poo Emoji, wont you?

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

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Doesnt sound very realistic

Sorry, but it just doesnt sound very realistic as a solution. Anything that requires multiple landings and cables laid for a 100km on the Moon, is not going to happen in any time frame we care about. I wonder if someone just bought shares in a Fibre Optic Cable Manufacture... :P

Why wouldnt you just deploy something along the lines of the Seismometer deployed with the InSight mission to Mars. It basically mapped the internals of Mars to a degree that everyone seems happy with and also detected marsquakes, meteorite impacts, and if I remember correctly was even able to pick up the effect of the Moons passing by!

Since one already exists, getting CNES to build another one using the same tech, should be (relatively speaking) cheap. It does mean dealing with the French though.... ;)

(Disclaimer: I worked on a different instrument on the InSight mission...)

NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies

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Good work those Boffins!

Space is hard. Like really hard. So every mission is a risky gamble. But when they pull it off (even with some unexpected limitations) then it's still a great success. Looking forward to a lot more discoveries from this little 'Scope! :)

Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

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Re: Screw that

..though I suspect the real loss will be to non-material things like the ability to get good staff and investment...

I'm pretty certain that boat sailed a loooooong time ago...

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected

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I'm just curious why free oxygen on the surface would affect the chances of sea life when the top of the surface is frozen. I understand there's a significant transfer of gases between the atmosphere and the ocean here on Earth, so yes here it would have a big effect. but I would imagine that the Ice sheet would act as a significant insulator preventing such a transfer of gases.

Or (as is likely) am I missing something?

Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package

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Re: Why do the lawyers want money from Tesla

Oh no they are not! Tesla are the workers who build the products, and the engineers who design the products that they sell to make the firm it's profits. I'll even go so far as to include the Janitorial staff who keep the place clean, the HR and finance staff that keep the people paid and the middle management that keep the people moving in (more or less) one direction.

The Sshareholders and the C-Suite are the vultures who skim the cream off the top, without adding an iota of value to the firm.

On the topic of this specific article - The shareholders who brought this case should absolutely be the ones paying their lawyer's fee. They have stopped an additional (and hugely excessive) number of shares from going to El Musky, and so by virtue of a smaller share pool, the value of their stock has increased. They gain, so they should pay their own bloody lawyers...

These ambulance chasers have set such a high figure, probably to try for shock value, and so will "settle" for only 10% of that (which is still a ridiculously high value). I hope the judge comes down on them like a ton of bricks. Isnt there something like bringing the profession into disrepute with which to smack these idiots with? Threaten their licence to practice law unless they come back with a clearly reasonable value quick smart...

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics

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Re: Wait, hang on a mo...

Through a combination of Perseverence and Ingenuity, perhaps?

I'll get my coat...

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

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Re: One Small Step for an AI, one Giant Quantum Communications Leap for Mankind

Tech journalists as a rule tend to have a pretty good idea about the latest tech. Especially El Reg Journalists. Maybe not so much the Daily Mail's tech journalist (but who goes there for tech news?).

Lawyers going to a professional to understand the latest tech. Seems like an eminently sensible idea to me.

No different from when El Reg Journalists turn to lawyers for comment on new legal rulings, etc.

Let the lawyers focus on the law, but give them an expert point of contact for when their cases cross into tech territory...

AI comes for jobs at studio of American filmmaker Tyler Perry

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This seems like a ready made excuse for cancelling an expansion due to a combination of poor planning, higher interest rates, and an industry wide slowdown.

Expansions planned based on the levels of growth seen during the pandemic and the idiotic assumption that such growth would go on forever, as well as interest levels at effectively 0%, are now facing reality.

I expect a raft of such AI excuses to follow...

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

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Yep. Hit a firm with a fine, even a big one, and the senior folk will shrug, moan about changing things being impossible, and put it down to the costs of business... Threaten to throw the higher level employees in prison, and suddenly the impossible becomes possible, and the implementation will happen so fast, it's a surprise the developers dont get whiplash...

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: Being polite is great

"There is always space for banter in the right form."

In Australia it's easy to see if someone likes you. If they are happily taking the pi$$ with you (sorry making jokes about and with you, for the non-Aussie speaking folk) then they like you.

If they are super polite and formal, then they REALLY dont like you...

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

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Re: It's nuts but

Probably the most obvious reason for why not, would be that the Chinese would likely decide that someone willing to disrupt the status quo (which China definitely prefers on the Korean peninsula) would probably be better replaced by one of their more manageable siblings.

Don't for a minute think that China couldn't orchestrate a NK regime change if they felt like it. Fat Boy Kim makes a handy puppet, right now. If he tries to move too close into alignment with Russia though and away from China, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a "heart attack" was to follow shortly after. Probably to be replaced by which ever relative, the Chinese believe is most easily controlled...

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

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Re: After booting for the second time

That's just the Brits you're smelling. The other places have all discovered the benefit of soap and daily showers...

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

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Re: It is easy

I'm still using Win 10. I wont be moving to Win 11 any time soon. Simple reason - my hardware says it wont run Win 11, even though it's still better than the recommended Specs on EVERY program/game /software I use or plan to use in the medium to near future.

When I built my machine 8 years ago, i bought a relatively top of the line, motherboard and chip, precisely so it would live a very long time. The memory has been upgraded, the hard drives changed to SSD's, new graphics card as well. But I bloody well wont be changing the motherboard and chip JUST to go to Win 11. When that Motherboard/chip combo starts proving problematic with the programs I use daily, then and maybe then I'll consider upgrading, but I dont see that happening for another 2-5 years. So probably I'll be using an unsupported version of Win 10, so be it... Maybe by then Win 12 will be out, and it will have ditched the hardware requirements. Or I'll finally jump to Linux.

But Microsoft can jump in the lake if they really expect me to buy new hardware for a new OS which does NOTHING more than the old one does...

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Re: Stainless?

I wonder is the Cybertruck also a bit of a gimmick?

You need to wonder?

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Cybertruck - the gift that keeps on giving...

Cant be used off road.

Cant go up hills.

Cant be used in the rain.

Cant handle a little bird poop.

Clearly this is the ultimate American All Terrain Vehicle...

I'm beginning to feel like calling Musk a Snakeoil Salesman is being unnecessarily insulting to Snakeoil Salesmen...

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason

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I'm waiting for the obligatory...

... Planety McPlanteface. Or perhaps Asteroidy McAsteroidface...

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

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Re: Flexi time

It comes down to work culture. If you email me, I wont know about it UNLESS I login. It doesnt matter when you send it, if I dont know it's there. However, if your Boss expects you to setup a system that notifies you that you've got an email AND expects you to actually login and deal with it, straightaway. This legislation will allow you to tell him to take a long walk off a short pier.

That's what it comes down to, if the worker feels pressured to be always online, this legislation gives them the power to say No. And it punishes managers that maintain those shenanigans.

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Re: Switching off

Honestly AC, if your job is causing you stress like that on your days off, for your own health, you need to be looking for another job. That's very much the situation that will lead to an early heart attack and an early grave.

If your company/Project cannot handle you taking the minimum number of days off without having the work pile up, then your project is under-resourced (in that wonderful management speak). If management are not willing to address the problem, then you need to address it for the sake of your own health. And that's done by moving elsewhere.

Always remember, you wont get any reward for doing all that extra work. At best you will get a small bonus. Your boss will get a bigger bonus for keeping costs lower by not employing another worker. His boss will get an even bigger bonus. So whilst you do the work that will put you with one foot in the grave, you won't be getting the biggest reward. Reward yourself, and find a better workplace. You'll likely get a pay rise by moving companies anyway.

And yes, I am aware that it's not always easy to find a new job, in the same area, especially when you have family, kids in school, a house, etc. But at least begin looking elsewhere. And if your boss happens to find out that you're looking elsewhere, maybe you will get the additional resources so that you dont burn out... It's worth the hassle, to lose the anxiety, and get your life back...

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Re: Flexi time

Look I havent read the exact wording but it seems pretty simple to me. If you're on flex time, and you're working in the evening, i.e. you are actually booking this as workable hours, then of course there is no issue for you. Or your boss.

However, the moment, you start being asked to do work (answer emails/tetxs, etc.), at times when you will not be paid for it, i.e. UNPAID Overtime. Then your boss will be in the sh&t.

It seems easy enough, and completely in line with flexible working conditions...

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

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Yeah Elon was for the 2010's, I think we can give the 20's to Altman...

If he lasts the decade, of course...

Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses

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It's slightly interesting - Russian hackers go out of their way to avoid targeting their "home" regions. Because the authorities their come down hard on anyone playing at home.

It seems the Chinese don't really care if Chinese Hackers target other Chinese people. Probably so long as they hand over the data they obtain to the government for free.

Different strokes, for different (scumbag) folks...

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

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Major major cock-up

I've worked on flightlines before, any decent QA would be literally screaming about FOD (Foreign Object Debris) risk. They've removed 4 bolts. Those bolts should have been placed somewhere very safe, and very visible, and then at the end of the maintenance, someone should have been asking some very big questions, about why the f%&k are there 4 bolts still sitting here.

You also would NEVER throw old bolts directly in the Bin, UNLESS there was 4 new shiny bolts standing there ready to be inserted. It is just not done, because it is so easy for exactly whats happened here to happen. Bolts go in bin. A while later, someone asks did you put back those bolts, someone else thinking of another part of the job, says of course. And there you have it, a plane released for service, without any locking bolts.

What you can say is that the initial design engineers did a pretty fantastic job, the plane flew multiple times without the locking bolts, triggered the pressure loss light (3 times!), but didnt lose the door in any of those occasions. Yes it finally did come out, but I still find it unbelievable that you can have a pressure loss light come on 3 times, and not pull the plane out of service for inspection. After the first time, you'd make sure that it's not a faulty sensor, after the second time, you'd make sure you can identify where the sensor is triggering. After the third time, you bloody well take the plane out of service and investigate!

Cock-ups all round on this one! What QA should have been doing in this case ----->

AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war

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Re: Dumbf*cks!

Hey we are at least beginning to watch for asteroids in the sky. And there's even been the odd mission to test out deflection technologies (see DART).

So we ARE learning from the dinosaurs mistakes...

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"A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let's use it."

Can I hazard a guess which nation that was modelled as? It wouldnt have happened to be Orange, would it?

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

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Re: Air-o-space

No that was the shitty piece of Russian quality control on a Russian segment. Nothing to do with Boeing.

There's enough actual shit to be hitting Boeing with at the moment (the Calamity Capsule, for example), no need to make up fake bollocks.

And if you truly believe an astronaut would drill a hole in their own spaceship, then you Sir, are a moron...

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Re: And then there's the engine inlet problem...

This is called "Grandfathering". It's not allowed in Europe, but the Americans of course love it. But because if the FAA approved something EASA had to accept it, so it gets through.

At uni, we did a thought experiment with grandfathering, and were able to get from a wooden biplane to the equivalent of DC3, all on one route certificate. Make the changes smaller enough and often enough and you can get away with anything.

I would hope that the FAA finally look at this issue, and get rid of grandfathering, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Boeing would never survive without it...

Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million

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Re: Corporate Culture

Our IT department does quite a lot of phishing awareness trainings, and for a while they have been sending out emails to try and trick people. They've upped the ante in the last month by sending messages purporting to come from people within your department or to whom you are in regular contact.

Now I should preface this by saying that I work in Germany, but I am not German, and my German grammar is atrocious. (I blame that on German grammar being a dog's dinner, but that's neither here nor there)... A colleague received one of these phishing emails purporting to come from me. He claims he knew instantly that the email hadn't come from me - the grammar was too good!

Considering all the phishing emails I've had from Nigerian Princes and their atrocious grammar, I'm not quite sure how to feel that my bad grammar identifies my emails as legitimate instead... :P

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Re: Corporate Culture

The cattle prod, window and carpet treatment is saved for when members of other departments start calling you out, right?

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Re: Corporate Culture

Exactly! Every firm should have procedures that need to be followed to transfer any amount of money, especially to new bank accounts. However, if workers are used to having management bypass procedures at their own whim, then these sorts of failures will be extremely common.

Procedures are useless if those at the top also dont adhere to them... But that often doesnt fit with the C-suites belief that they are above the rules of the lowly plebs...

Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

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Ahhh the vagaries of lets call it "New Finance" companies. It's easy to be profitable and take a good share of the market when you don't follow the rules everyone else has to play by. And when the authorities finally get around to cracking down, they make lots of noise about big, bad regulators, trying to kill off "our home grown markets". Playing by the rules is expensive, it might endanger the bonuses of the C-suite! Good work on the central bank cracking down on them...

As for Byju - who in their right mind would ever think that an online tutoring company would/could be worth $20 billion. Sorry, even in India with its massive population, that level of value was never going to be obtained.

DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry

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OK and now reframe it so that, even though you enjoy your job, it carries a significant risk of you being imprisoned for your work for the next 10-20 years, at any time and without any warning.

Still happy to keep working at that job? Or perhaps you'd move to one, paying less, but doing something similar, but which doesnt carry a risk of imprisonment? No? Still happy to keep risking prison for more money? I call bollocks...

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I know, I know. It's crypto. It's not real money until you cash out, etc. etc. But seriously how much money do you need???

Once you had €20 million saved. Wouldnt you think about quitting? Just pack it in, hand over to someone else, and walk away with the cash in hand. Hell pay tax on it, claim it's crypto currency gains. After tax you still have €15 odd million. Boom done. Nice life, it's a lot of money, but not so much that people are going to ask too hard questions. Job done...

But nope, Crims never seem to think that way, do they? You gotta keep making more. €150 million? Nope keep going. €150 million isnt going to be hard to launder when it's time to walk away, is it? Nooooo. Would you even be able to spend €150 million in a lifetime? Not without gaining some attention from authorities wanting to know exactly how you came across that money, that's for sure...

Greedy git... Oh yeah and Drugs bad, mm kay...

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

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Allow the Telcos to continue to charge for the cost of the Robo calls without ever delivering them. Everyone wins! (Except for the scum making the robocalls, of course. Which is a definite bonus, no?).

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Why on Earth are Robo calls even legal? I cannot see a single legitimate use case, outside of perhaps a disaster warning, for Robo calls.

Ban them, and make the Telco's liable if they dont prevent them. Should be relatively easy to pick up that a single or small number of entry points into the telco network are pumping out hundreds of calls per minute. Those are probably not real people... So just block them. It's not like that wouldnt be hard to automate either.

Thank $diety, we dont have much of this bollocks in the EU. And that the EU is even cracking down harder on it.

LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children's hospital

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Re: FFS.

It's a lovely idea to airgap, but the reality is rather less convenient.

Take a simple example, a patient wants to make an appointment to see a specific specialist. In the air-gapped system, they send an email to the secretary on the internet connected system who responds, booking the appointment on the internet connected system.

They then need to move to the air-gapped system, and enter the details (with the inherent risk of copying details wrongly), into the air-gapped system, and book the relevant appointment. But what if in the meantime, someone on the internal air-gapped system has already booked that appointment slot?

Now they have to move back to the internet connected system, recontact the patient, propose a new time, and go through the whole rigamarole again. Massive time lost, that the secretary could be doing other things, or dealing with other patients.

Airgapping is great in certain environments, but in a public hospital where patients need to make appointments, doctors need to access medical records (likely from external sources), as well as access results from internal testing, and bring that data together into one coherent report, as well as all the other work that goes on in a hospital computer network, it is neither practical or possible to create an airgapped system to protect all patient data.

The best you can do is try and lock the system down as much as possible, with proper access levels, etc. and keep monitoring, monitoring, monitoring...

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I'd argue an International Warrant for Attempted Murder would have authorities in even Russian friendly nations, ready to cuff the Scumbags when they go on holidays outside of Russia. An International warrant for a white collar crime like Hacking or Computer Crimes, probably doesnt even warrant a glance.

If it does nothing else, it prevents the Scumbags travelling outside of Russia. And unlike Computer Crimes which likely come with a maximum time limit, an Attempted Murder Charge does not expire. So even if they wait 10 years, they might still get picked up if they leave Vladimir's Tsardom...

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Attacks on hospitals, first repsonders, and similar should add an automatic Attempted Murder charge to the standard charges.

Just because no one dies does not mean it couldnt have happened. That it didnt comes down to the great work of the hospital staff and not anything to do with the Attackers. Locking up computers or removing data delays hospital staff and that delay could be the difference between life and death. So really, these scum need to be treated as the dirty lowlifes they are...

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

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" The bill aims to criminalize the creation and sharing of sexually explicit non-consensual AI pictures, with penalties of up to ten years in prison."

So just curious why not put some requirements on the makers of the AI programs to prevent this?

The companies who make chemicals that can be used as precursors for illegal drugs, have to make sure that they monitor their supply chains, and follow Know-Your-Customer style regulations.

Put a requirement on the AI firms. Public version has handrails that prevents any form of porn being created. And for those that want to create porn, they need to supply full details - address, bank account, passport, etc., and if caught producing deep fakes without explicit permission, then those details get handed over to the authorities.

Ai has plenty of good uses (supposedly), but it also has a lot of bad uses (to which it's already being put to use). Treat it as you do all other Dual Use technologies...

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Re: Just AI?

Only when it affects the rich and famous, of course...

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

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Re: Linus being shouty is not really news

Your right, Jake I dont have a clue about the specifics of Linux. It's never interested me. I DO know about volunteering though, and I guarantee that if you start abusing volunteers in a normal setup then you quickly lose those volunteers.

What Doctor Syntax below wrote about most of the contributors now being paid by their firms to contribute, goes a long way to explaining a lot, about why people may be willing to put up with it. People will put up with a lot of sh%te when they're paid too.

I also stand by my comment that shouting in the workplace is completely unprofessional and counterproductive.

You can disagree with my comments specifically about Linux, perhaps I should have left out the last line in my first comment. But I was mainly answering Khaptain's comments that getting to shouting matches at work is fine. I disagree. Strongly.

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Re: Linus being shouty is not really news

A shouting match at work is completely unprofessional, and rarely achieves the desired outcome, as people get their backs up, and simply harden their positions. A quiet word over a coffee, after a meeting to point out the failures is a million times more effective.

When you're talking a situation involving volunteer contributors, getting shouty is about the worst thing you can do. There's no faster way to lose volunteers then to start yelling or apportioning blame for mistakes. People dont sign up to be unpaid volunteers, in order to be made to feel bad. They are there to try and help, and be part of the community, but they'll very quickly decide they've got better things to do, if people are d%cks.

Linus should reconsider the value he places on those unpaid volunteers. Without them, he'd be royally screwed...

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant

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From what I've read elsewhere, the solar panels are effectively on the rear side of the picture in this article. At the moment the sun is on this side as it is effectively Dawn on the Moon. Over the next few weeks, it will move around towards "sunset" and the solar panels should get the light and hopefully charge up. Naturally, not perfect, but lets cross our fingers and hope it gets charged and good to go for the next sun cycle.

Missed expectations, zero guidance: Tesla's 'great year' was anything but

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A guide to American speech for everyone else...

What words Americans use tends to have a different meaning comapred to the rest of the English speaking world. Let me give you some examples:

What Americans say - What it actually means:

Awesome - Good

Fabulous - Good

Amazing - Good

Great - OK

Fine - Bad

Ok - really bad

Not so Great - Really, really, terrribly bad.

As such, Musk simply stated the truth - that Tesla had an OK year... He was just speaking in American... :P

US judge rejects spyware slinger NSO's attempt to bin Apple lawsuit

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Re: "Suffered no loss"?

I believe it would be more along the lines of if NSO starts selling new or continues to sell existing rootkits for Apple devices, then Apple would bring more cases. Such cases would likely be very quick due to the injunction (I'm assuming Apple win of course). And such cases of breaking an Injunction willfully, usually involve massive fines, and often actually hold upper management personally responsible and in contempt of court.

Whilst there's nothing to stop NSO shutting down and reopening under a new name. It would likely prove pretty easy to show it's the same firm, the same directors, owners, managers, etc. and judges as a rule dont generally like having the pi$$ taken. So whilst it would take a bit longer, the hammer would likely still come down pretty damn hard...

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

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Re: Have you ever seen the ra.......hololens?

I dont think Hololens is sold to consumers. It's designed and marketed for firms (and defence). I've known of a few firms who have used it (and rated it highly) for things like Inspections, where the glasses can show what the routing should look like, whilst the inspectors checks what it looks like in reality. I've also heard of it being used in training applications.

Various reports say it has sold enough copies for Microsoft to keep happily working on it, which in the realm of AR/VR counts as a rip roaring success.

But judging the success by what you see "in the wild" is not particularly useful for a non-consumer grade product. I dont often see Chiron 5 axis CNC machines in the wild, but that doesnt mean they're not a wildly successful brand after all... ;)