* Posts by not.known@this.address

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Have you been Thomas Crooked? Watch out for cybercrims slinging holiday-themed fakes

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Re: "block access to any domain less than a month old"

One potential pitfall springs instantly to mind - in a month's time, when all those dodgy websites suddenly become visible to users, will they remember that they were supposed to be watching out for fake websites? Or will they simply assume "Well I can see it (now) so it must be okay"?

Obviously not a problem for people who only look after their own systems, but for anyone working in a large organisation this will be real problem. I find it amazing/astounding/annoying that so many people - including those who work for IT companies - can apparently have no freaking idea that there are people like these out there and will happily open all sorts of crap and send off their personal info without a second thought.

IT workers: Speaking truth to douchebags since 1977

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Trollface

Wikileakproofdouchebag?

Is that Newspeak for "whistleblower"? :-D

*Microsoft taps your shoulder* Hi sorry yeah, we're still suing US govt for right to tell people when they are spied on

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Re: "Some" politicians?

DougS replied (to me :-)) "Can you name any politicians to a major office of a major country who have campaigned on open government and transparency and done ANYTHING to keep that promise?"

Unfortunately I can't, and in all honesty I probably wouldn't vote for them if I did. I live in a world where there are some bad people who think it okay to do nasty things to others just for disagreeing with them, and the best way to catch them is by picking them up in the planning & preparation stage - which unfortunately means spying on everyone to a degree (since the Bad Guys don't always wear black hats despite what the old Westerns might imply ;-)).

Any politician who promises never to ever do anything in secret is either incredibly naïve or a bare-faced liar - either way, not a good quality to have in someone who is supposed to be looking after the interests of other people...

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Big Brother

Judges are human too

And subject to the same biases as the rest of us, despite some people seeming to think they are above partisan interference in matters that should not go to a court of law. And they certainly shouldn't think their laws should be used to judge people in another country - something that doesn't just apply to "Team America".

Does the government's "right" to spy on the people transcend the people's right to know they are being spied upon? Maybe yes, maybe no depending on circumstances - but if you don't like it, find a candidate who will stand on a platform of open government with full transparency of such things and vote for that candidate. Just remember that some politicians have been known to make promises (and laws) that they conveniently forget after they get elected... Of course, you can always unseat them at the *next* election - unless they block it.

US govt watchdog barks at FAA over 737 Max inspectors' lack of qualifications

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Re: Boeing needs to split

Doug S, you are talking rubbish. McDonnell Douglas had a proven track record of successful civilian and military aircraft and helicopters for many years before Boeing got their claws in. For example, MDD decided to develop the F-15E Strike Eagle as a private venture because they realised the USAF would need an aircraft to replace the F4 Phantom (also a highly successful, long-lived MDD design), and rumour has it that the asset-strippers, sorry, C-Suite execs at Boeing were a little perturbed to discover that the MD500 and its derivatives, including all that lovely NoTAR IP, had been specifically excluded when they had purchased MDD and MDH.

And if you can come up with an airframe capable of taking on the tasks required for any potential future conflicts - or even the ones currently going on - then why don't you put them forwards to replace all those "boondoggle aircraft" you are moaning about? It sounds like you think it should be an easy thing to do...

Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice

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Re: Not poetic enough

ShadowDragon8685, having witnessed at first hand the pain and anguish and suffering these... "people" can cause, either of those two methods you mention are too quick. The ad being shown on UK television where some gentleman is complaining about losing his pension to some scammer (shown zooming around on a jetski) is well done and provides a warning, but it doesn't show the pain and suffering caused to people when they lose everything to these scum.

Your idea that criminals like these will ever regret their actions is foolish and dangerously naïve - do you think it would be any trouble for them to con a psychiatrist into thinking they had changed? Then they will be back in the world and lining up their next victims, ready to do it all over again. Or do you truly believe they will see the error of their ways and get jobs flipping burgers or stacking shelves after living it up like lords on other people's pension funds? Because the only jobs available to people who behave like this is Member of Parliament or an executive-grade seat on the board of a large financial institution - and the competition for those positions is too great already.

Mike drop, DXC-ya later! Lawrie immediately ejects as CEO from IT outsourcing giant

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Devil

Re: They never pay their bills.

"And frankly anyone who works for them shouldn't be doing anything more than pumping gas. Heck, even that's probably too much."

I downvoted you because of these two sentences - and only this. The rest of your post I agree with wholeheartedly. When I "left" CSC there were still some people who actually gave a damn about supplying a good service to the clients despite all the crap flowing downhill so, given the number of staff they still have, there must be some who still have a work ethic.

Musn't there?

Cu in Hell: Thousands internetless after copper thieves pinch 500m of cable in Cambridgeshire

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Pirate

Make some of the cables 'live'...

Make sure the Engineers/Technicians know which ones, then when some light-fingered little scrote tries to steal it they electrocute themselves.

And when some bleeding-heart liberal do-gooder complains that this isn't a nice thing to do, just point out that stealing from other people isn't nice, stopping people using phones, the internet etc isn't nice, and if they weren't being evil little shits they wouldn't have got hurt. Society shouldn't have to keep paying just because some people think the rest of the world owes them whatever they want.

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

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Big Brother

Good luck trying to use my Facebook account or Google searches to predict how I will vote...

My online activity is not going to help them should they choose to try to change my voting habits or any of the other nefarious activities they are being accused of - and hopefully No Such Agency and the Cousins will realise I don't really know anyone with access to high-energy man-portable plasma guns, faster-than-light starships and the current whereabouts of The Zombie Master...

UK plod could lose access to 79 million criminal alerts in event of a no-deal Brexit

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Re: Hmm

Kevin, the media is full of people saying that all Leave voters only voted that way because we are stupid, ignorant, illiterate, racist, unwashed scum who cannot see the wisdom being handed out by the political and media "elites" who, obviously, know so much more about everything from their ivory towers. Even calling it "Brexit" is intended to suggest we cannot cope with long words or complex ideas.

It's impossible to mention any serious argument against staying in the EU without the nearest Remain voter shouting these insults regardless of what argument is offered.

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Cut the bullsh^H^H^H rhetoric.

What they are really saying is that the European Parliament is happy to jeopardise the safety of everyone in the UK just because we dared to disagree with them. And, given how easy it is to get in and out of mainland Europe, that does not bode well for their safety either.

Sharing information like this should not be used as a bargaining chip in petty power squabbles. This sort of fuckwittery WILL cost people's lives and anyone who considers it a legitimate bargaining tool should be treated as equally culpable when something bad happens.

Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...

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Terminator

Or one of Saberhagen's Berserkers. Which might be better or worse for the environment...

In Hemel Hempstead, cycling is as bad as taking a leak in the middle of the street

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Re: At werdsmith.

Joe W, you *sound* like a responsible cyclist - in which case the things about pushing you off, jamming sticks in your wheels etc won't be an issue.

If, on the other hand, you are one of those morons who thinks they own everything and can cycle where and how they like, then it would be totally justified.

If you're not riding too close to people, they can't hit you can they??

Look, we know it feels like everything's going off the rails right now, but think positive: The proton has a new radius

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Re: ... and in which dimensions ?

Hello again John,

Actually there are as many Time dimensions as Physical ones - but since you've only discovered Forwards/Backwards for Time and Forwards/Backwards, Left/Right, Up/Down and Spinward/Widdershins for Physical, I'll let you get on with it for a few fenovarr...

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

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Re: However, that turned out to be incorrect.

Hey, less of the "weasel farts" - weasels have standards!

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Re: Your face, your ass

Facial, faecal - what's the difference when the chance to make money is involved?

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

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Black Helicopters

Re: "Aircraft must also turn right if they're in an imminent collision situation."

If the two aircraft are heading in opposite directions then if both turn right they will definitely avoid a collision; because right for a North-facing aircraft is East and it's West for a South-facing aircraft. If both turn right then there is no way they will meet unless both go all the way around the globe and are both very unlucky.

It gets more interesting if their courses are within 90 degrees of each other, because then a right turn could still leave them on converging courses - just leading to a different collision point.

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

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possible scenario

Scene; iWannaKnow HQ, the Boss's Office. Those present: Dave, the Pointy-Headed Boss. Frank, a representative Customer. Hal, the Technical One.

Dave: "We want to generate a unique identifier for every customer. If only there were some alphanumeric string we could use that would be totally unique so we would know we were tracking the same customer's voice to ensure consistency."

Hal: "We could use the device serial number but that would break privacy laws."

Dave: "Oh. Hey, I know, we could cut the serial number in half, reverse each half, and stick them back together! Let's do that!"

Hal: "..."

Dave: "We also need it to only last 6 months, then we need to allocate a new unique identifier to that customer. Hey, I know, we could deallocate the number I just thought of and add it back to the pool of random unique identifiers, and allocate the customer with the latest unique identifier number that has been freed up!"

Frank: "That sounds like a great idea! Can we teach Siri to lip-read as well?"

Hal: "I still have the greatest confidence in your honesty and integrity, Dave..."

Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral

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Trollface

Re: "whether electronic counting is in fact the right approach"

"Use paper. That won't cost you £9M this time, and it won't cost you more next time. Better functionality ? It counted the votes last time, didn't it ? So what better functionality is worth double the price ? Is it more secure ? Somehow I doubt that that is what they have improved."

*cough* backhanders *cough*

/joke?

Pokémon Red and Blue-era trading cards just made their owner a load of green: Complete set sells at auction for $107k

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What no Psyduck?

That's it, I'm not playing.

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

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Re: Touch screens

Skippybing, it was also due to the fact that the missiles they had were totally unsuited to the situation; a missile capable of flying a long way fast and hitting a big, lumbering bomber is about as much use as glaring out the window and waving your fist when up against small, agile and above all close-in enemy fighters. The AIM-7 Sparrow was known as 'The Great White Hope' for a reason and those pesky VC pilots were rather reluctant to stay at long range.

Information on failure rates is, understandably, hard to come by but even the most optimistic proponent of missile warfare would have to admit that the number of kills recorded/claimed is considerably lower than the number of missiles launched... or maybe 'dropped' might be more accurate. And they didn't need to close to dogfight range either - there were several types of "electro-optical vision enhancement system" (or "camera" to anyone outside Military Procurement) that allowed identification of the 'bad guys' out to almost the range of the missiles but that's no use if the missile falls off the rail or can't pull the G's and make the turns.

But on the whole you're right - letting politicians run military operations is asking for trouble.

Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords

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Boffin

Re: Bah!

It depends which dimension those 90 degrees are in, and whether your current quantum state lets you access those flavors.

(Goggles because that Unicorn might be a Boojum too... and that is something you do *not* want to see coming!)

Here's to beer, without which we'd never have the audacity to Google an error message at 3am

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<quote> ...with the huge advantage that TFM hasn't gone permanently missing as it routinely used to do.</quote>

Or even more fun is a PDF which, because the manufacturer is run by a tight-fisted bunch of accountants, is not supplied on CD or DVD but is only available on the machine which is now refusing to boot because of an issue you can't fix 'cos the answer is in the manual...

A bit like putting the Recovery Partition of a Windows computer on the "Primary" (as in, ONLY) HDD and forgetting to tell the non-technical purchasers that they should burn it to CD or DVD in case the HDD dies...

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

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Re: Agree... but

I read that as Boeing that said "We have confirmed the vulnerabilities, but not that they are exploitable," so Santamarta and friends said "so we are presenting why we think they are” - in other words, Boeing admitted the flaws were there but tried to downplay the seriousness of them. And we all know that Boeing are outstanding examples of truth and honour when it comes to admitting that there is a problem with their software or hardware...

Psst, wanna buy a bridge?

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

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Re: Let them dopamine themselves to death

Scene: interior of The Maidenhead, a bar on the planet Beaumond. A young woman stands watching an advert for Fruity Oaty Bars before whispering one word: "Miranda". Remember how that turned out?

Or find a copy of Frederik Pohl's "What To Do Until The Analyst Comes" for a Golden Age of Science Fiction reason why the rats wouldn't be the only ones.

Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report

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Black Helicopters

<quote> ...and despite Boeing's well-reported close relationship with the American regulator, the odds of all the world's civil aviation authorities taking it at its word is now lower than it was before the crashes. </quote>

Surely the rest of the world is more likely to doubt anything the FAA says *because* of their close relationship with Boing, not *despite* it?

Black helicopter, because I'm wondering how Boing will fsck up the Apache - which apparently they designed...

Our hero returns home £500 richer thanks to senior dev's appalling security hygiene

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Re: Low quality coding

<quote> I am glad I work in education and research, people usually listen when they are told something they don't know, because they know they cannot know everything. </quote>

This explains why my nephew and his wife, both recent college graduates, seem to believe they know everything - they have finished their education therefore they MUST know everything !! It's a shame that some establishments seem to foster the idea that, once you graduate, they will have taught you everything you need to know. After all, it's not like the 200+ *years* of real-world experience possessed by their various uncles, aunts and grandparents could compare to the 6 years of college between them, is it?

(Actually it's far worse than that - they may have started college three years ago, but I think they averaged about 3 days a week between them of actual class time, "personal study" and whatever they call the college equivalent of homework... so about 8 months actual 'learning' between them... 4 months each. And that's probably being generous!)

Lyft pulls its e-bike fleet from San Francisco Bay Area after exploding batteries make them the hottest seat in town

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exploding rechargable batteries is nothing new

Has anyone thought to check what sort of a discharge/recharge history the ones that exploded had?

And, with the proliferation of electric vehicles (EV) and charging stations around the countryside, with a corresponding increase in quick charges and frequent charge/discharge cycles, what does this mean for the probability of EV battery fires? Have there been any "long-term" studies done into this?

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Re: I wish

<quote>

it wouldn't be hard to find out who paid for the rental, after all.

</quote>

"Honest guv, I just picked it up off the street. Dunno who left it there before me, but my mate says he saw some kids break someone's bike lock off one the other day and start riding it around annoying people before they dumped it and ran off..."

Watch as 10 cops with guns and military camo storm suspected Capital One hacker's house…

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Mushroom

Re: You couldn't ..

They would smash the cameras to prevent anyone intent on mischief inside the property having a live feed of who was where - and if the windows in question had "dash"cams on then it should include those too.

They had an experienced IT tech (but apparently dumb criminal) and a lot of guns and assorted household stuff in a house with a man known for playing a little fast-and-loose with the law where firearms and explosives were concerned. They had other - possibly innocent, possibly involved - people in the house; there are other people living nearby; the 'hacker' had stolen the same sort of thing that people like the Russian Mafia or Chinese people traffickers (allegedly) love to get "to fund terrorism" etc so ask yourself this - do they assume the worst and go in with overwhelming force that ends up (in THIS instance) being totally over the top, or do they become the next big news story when it turns out that the "dumb" criminal left a deliberate trail to lure some of Seattle's hard-working public guardians* into an ambush that resulted in a bloodbath and culminated in a huge explosion that devastated the neighbourhood when the gas-filled house went bang?

It obviously didn't happen here, but even dumb criminals can watch TV or watch films/go to the movies and there's plenty of inspiration there. It's not that hard to find instructions for making improvised explosives - maybe not "good" ones but certainly enough to make a mess especially if you've filled your house with gas.

*With hindsight*, the police went in with more force than necessary this time. But the outcome could have been much, much different.

* You rarely hear about the ones who do good work, but somehow the bad ones get plastered all over the internet...

Hacker swipes personal deets of 20,000 peeps from under Los Angeles Police Dept's nose

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Re: Diversity success

I figured that meant they already knew who did it*, but I don't recall hearing "she" used as a third person plural before - isn't 'she' singular? (Or is that what you meant?) Maybe the speaker thought saying "they" might panic people into believing there was more than one hacker?

*I was going to say "had already fingered the culprit" but that might not look too good to anyone not familiar with that expression...

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

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Mushroom

Re: Well

Surely all you need to do is launch a few large magnets and let attraction take its course... Over time, all the magnetic junk will be caught by the magnets and then the coalescing balls of junk will sweep up everything in their paths - as they get bigger, they sweep up more junk. Problem solved! :-)

300,000 edgy folk pledge themselves on Facebook to storming supposedly UFO-tastic Area 51

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Black Helicopters

@StagateSg7

Please correct me if I'm wrong - and no need to shout if you do, by the way - but don't American weapons fire those dinky little 5.56mmN rounds, not 7.62mmN? I guess a few units might have the odd M60 or Stoner M23 laying around but I didn't think they really bothered with anything between the SAW/Minimi and the Ma Deuce these days...

Besides, why bother with silly old projectile weapons when they have all those alien-supplied laser weapons and Man-Portable Fusion- and Plasma Guns?

Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid

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Mushroom

Games of skill

I can remember 8-year-old me (a few years ago now!) winning three Cadbury Curly-Wurly chocolate bars on the "Sink the Tirpitz" game at my school summer fete - a dart held by electromagnet onto a plastic Lancaster running along an 8-foot track about 6 feet above a line of chipboard sheets with an A4 page with the outline of a battleship drawn on it; the control was simply a push-to-break switch that cut the electricity to the magnet and dropped the dart.

Oh the fun watching all the "popular" kids and their parents missing completely before I had a go - and they carried on missing again afterwards because none of them realised they needed to drop the dart *before* the 'plane got over the target. Sometimes there are advantages to being a geek ./+ a nerd!

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

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Alien

Re: Vegan?

Q. How do you know if somebody is a Vegan?

A. They are short, stocky and have scaly skin, have good spatial perception do better in zero-g than most races and make excellent pilots. They are also loyal and fiercely competitive - but they tend to like their food on the 'still wriggling' side of rare. Which is not really surprising since their ancestors were reptilian hunter-gatherers.

About the only trait they share with the ape-descended name-stealers here on Earth is that they can't help telling anyone who will listen just how damn good they are...

What's up at Microsoft this week? Windows 10 builds of course, Skype screen sharing... zzzzz... New Flight Simulator?!

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Re: Elite controller

Yay, another opportunity to recommend the free open-source version, Oolite (available from oolite.org )

All the fun of the original with a lot of bells and whistles (and new ships, and all sorts of fun stuff - although it is still only single-player).

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Devil

Re: Elite controller

LensLok??

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar

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Re: Time

"Inertial nav is good for an 11 hour flight. So no need for sextants unless really long-haul."

Depending on your inertial nav hardware, you might well be right. But don't forget that a 4000-hour mean time between failures* doesn't seem so much when you have several thousand aircraft flying 4+ hours each; fortunately the equipment is normally far more reliable than the requirements state, but there is a reason aircraft (especially those carrying fare-paying self-loading cargo) prefer to fly with backup systems.

* I was involved in acceptance testing for IN gear in the mid 80s and that was the target at the time. I hope it has become more reliable since then, but then someone rolls out an update and...

'Cynical and bullying' TalkTalk hackerhacker getsgets 4 yearsyears behindbehind barsbars

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Flame

That horse has bolted.

"His skills would be better put to use as an ethical hacker than wasting away in some cell probably growing bitter and twisted."

Yes, but he's going to be put away in a cell because he was clobbered for stealing the details of TalkTalk CUSTOMERS - this wasn't like spray-painting graffiti on the side of their building or locking them out of their systems for an hour or two; this was a deliberate threat to pass the details of 'innocent' people on to other dritseks for other illegal purposes.

He had no "higher purpose", he wasn't out to expose security loopholes so they could be fixed, he wasn't targeting pr0n merchants or criminal gangs communicating via text and email, he was trying to make as much money as he could by threatening people like the old couple down the road or the single mom a couple of streets away - TalkTalk and the other companies were not the real victims in this, it is the people whose details he stole.

If you look at this as a crime against a Telco then it doesn't sound so bad, but when you take into account how many people suffer real hardship after having all their savings stolen and their bank accounts plundered using data stolen like this then you might begin to see why these scum are not modern-day robin hoods but are nothing more than cowardly muggers preying on the vulnerable and undeserving of any sympathy.

Boffins stole our 3D files – and gave them all to Facebook's AI eggheads, claims Lithuanian biz

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Big Brother

Re: Machine Learning!

He is Wintermute and I claim my free visit to the Villa Straylight!

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Re: Your comment is entirely incorrect

Silly me, I thought machines "talked" in Binary or Hexadecimal, not English. So how exactly does writing text help a computer spot a person fallen in a room?

I'm guessing there's an interesting method to tell it the difference between, say, a fallen child, a sleeping cat or a carelessly discarded overcoat - all can "look" pretty much the same through a camera but will need considerably different reactions - which I guess is where the real skill comes in.

When it comes to DNS over HTTPS, it's privacy in excess, frets UK child exploitation watchdog

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Re: Yes.... but it’s less emotional.

"but the ~3699 deaths in 1997 in car accidents was a side note more or less accepted as bad luck."

I wonder how many of those included alcohol as a direct cause? And how many domestic abuse/child abuse cases can be linked to alcohol? But you won't see many people demanding a ban on alcohol sales, or even a zero-level limit on driving with alcohol.

So alcohol-induced death and injury is fine but we can't allow anyone to browse the web in private. Yay for our team!

(Incidentally, does anyone know if our lords and masters in Westminster/Holyrood/Senedd and Brussels will be subject to this, or merely us serfs?)

Databricks wants one tool to rule all AI systems – coincidentally, its own MLflow tool

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Terminator

It's all "Good morning Mr Dillinger" on the outside...

...but "Sark, I feel a presence..." on the inside...

Judge slaps down Meg Whitman for accusing Autonomy boss of being a 'fraudster who committed fraud'

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Re: Spinning in their graves

"Why? Hewlett Packard the company was spun off years ago as Agilent."

The way many modern businesses behave always make me think of the disclaimer in film and TV programmes about how the characters are fiction and not meant to represent a real person, alive or dead - except in these case it's more like "this bunch of money-grubbing shysters are a law unto themselves and bear no relation to any previous company of the same name".

She's just a Cosmic Girl but UK.gov is dangling £20m to have Beardy Branson's 747 launch satellites from Cornwall

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Angel

Re: Launching criminals into space?

Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B! Tired TV Producers, Hairdressers and Telephone Sanitizers for the win!

And now here's Tom on Jupiter with the weather: Thanks, Karen. Still a bit breezy on the Great Red Spot, but it's easing up

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What year is it again?

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

Google may have taken this whole 'serverless' thing too far: Outage caused by bandwidth-killing config blunder

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If it ain't broke yet, it soon will be...

"dropped larger, less latency-sensitive traffic in order to preserve smaller latency-sensitive traffic flows,"

Funny, I always thought command-and-control functions were the most latency-sensitive traffic a system could have - but obviously not. Ya learn something new every day (unless you're running services for other people, apparently)

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

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Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

Downvoted because "from 10 years ago that you don't remember" falls a little outside the FIVE years mentioned on the paperwork...

In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do

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Alien

Re: One wonders why such devices have become an accepted norm

"From the impossible gestures in Minority Report "

MegaTraveller had not just Holographic controls in 1987, but also *Dynamic* Holographic controls - using a complex set of holoprojectors built of and powered by Unobtanium and Handwavium you could not just generate whatever control panel configuration you wanted but you could generate it anywhere "within" your workspace.

Oh, how I laughed when I saw that old flat panel tech being marketed as some flashy new toy by Hollywood!

Egg on North Face: Wikipedia furious after glamp-wear giant swaps article pics for sneaky ad shots – and even brags about it in a video

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Coat

Re: RE: if Leo Burnett Tailor Made will get themselves onto first page on Google

"Seriously, what do you expect from Marketing Weasels????"

Oi! Stop insulting weasels!

We may not soar with eagles but at least we don't get sucked into jet engines!

[Mine's the one with "Better SEAD than DEAD", "YGBSM!" and "Weasels Dark The Way" patches ;-) ]

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