* Posts by Jim Mitchell

636 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2012

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Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok

Jim Mitchell

Re: TikTok is the test case for a forced fire sale.

We punish lots of "victimless" actions. From speeding to attempted murder.

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

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Re: From the heavens above

Mom was right, fast food is bad for you

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing

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article: "Video and audio calling features for X Premium users added last year to Elon Musk's version of Twitter have been expanded to everyone on the platform"

So, no, you don't have to have a paid Twitter account to use this, um, feature.

Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid

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They are a public company, I think they have to announce things like this.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

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I still have a "landline", it is just VOIP over the mixed coax/fiber network the cable company has. But yes, copper POTS is dying in America.

Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry

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The rich can afford to spend the money to contest and delay every step of the process.

GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry

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Re: Is it naive to suggest ...

But then you lose GPS when doing a 5G inverted dive with a MIG.

The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops

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Re: Proprietary

An argument could be made that Torvalds is the proprietor of the Linux kernel.

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

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Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/americas-10-deadliest-jobs-2/

"Airplane pilots have the third deadliest jobs, according to the BLS. Like loggers, pilots are menaced by the threat of malfunctioning machinery and falling heavy objects. "

Yeah, pilots are at risk of falling heavy objects. They tend to be in them at the time.

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Hey, they had to make up that revenue someplace, including by allowing probable bad actors network access as long as they paid the connection fees!

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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"Our proposal is for a walkable, medium density, mixed-use community," said Head of Planning Gabriel Metcalf. "This would be not just housing, but jobs of all different kinds, parks and playgrounds, schools and grocery stores, bars and restaurants, hotels and hospitals. Everything that goes into a complete community."

Sounds like a 15 minute city plan to me. Does that mean we get to burn them at the stake? Or is that no longer a heresy?

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Alert

Re: If you aren't full of shrapnel you will probably suffocate

Daleks can't navigate stairs, so how else but the elevator would you move them between floors?

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

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Re: Since then it has banked double-digit revenues.

My printer choice might have been tainted by my memories of waiting minutes for the laser printer to warm up and then seeing the lights dim when it started printing. These are probably no longer issues...

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Re: Since then it has banked double-digit revenues.

"I don't have space for a tank setup"

I replaced a HP inkjet with and Epson Eco Tank years ago, it wasn't any bigger.

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data

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I'm not a Constitutional lawyer be any means, but I'm curious why nobody seemed to have a viable challenge to the structure of the executive branch regulatory bodies for the first decades of their existence but now does.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

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Re: Delusional narcissist

Because keeping open an account is free

Yeah, no. Disney and IBM are paying monthly for their gold corporate "verified" status accounts.

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

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Mushroom

Re: Integrate Wayland into systemd

I hear that a Alien prequel show set in the near future is coming out in 2025. Coincidence? I think not.

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

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Re: fingerprint works <25% of time

It works well enough on my Lenovo with synaptics reader. I usually use an external keyboard and have PIN as the default.

3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law

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Mushroom

If you can afford a CNC machine, you can afford to have real customers for your machine shop.

Anyways, the low end of the 3d printed firearm spectrum is the "auto-sear", basically altering the fire control mechanism of an already semi-auto weapon to be full-auto. They don't have take the abuse of the actual chamber/barrel, and in criminal usage, probably don't have to be expected to stand up to years of use and thus are ideal for cheap manufacturing, either here or in China.

Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for 'double standard' on AI use

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Pint

Re: Answering the Rhetorical Question

I've bought a lot of beer to keep these kidneys well exercised and in top shape, I'll have you know!

You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ

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The counter argument is that the seller has hired ebay to handle receiving payments on its behalf.

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

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Re: Freight train

Very interesting. Can you change the field dimensions depending on the team you are playing against?

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Re: Freight train

I've heard this fact about the playing area sizes before, but is there actual variation among fields used for professional play?

Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

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One of the key factors in natural resources is the amount recoverable at what price. I don't see that in this article.

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Re: WTF?

This isn't a war crime.

Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin

Jim Mitchell
IT Angle

Small buyers can do similar things, but getting a small rate discount by allowing the power company to kill your AC on the hottest days is not an attractive prospect.

This reminds me, what happened to El Reg having a story on smart electric meters on what seemed like a weekly basis? Has that kerfuffle been forgotten and the media moved on to AI, etc?

The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

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Facepalm

Musk needs to ask himself why these advertisers trust the ADL over Twitter itself regarding what content is on Twitter.

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

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Mushroom

I think they already have smallish RC wheeled vehicles that trundle along and drop mines in their wake being used in Ukraine.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

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Nixon created the EPA. I can't see any current GOP presidential candidate even considering a similar thing today.

Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen

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Boffin

Re: Clean hydrogen

Also, how do they pretend to store hydrogen long term?

I have this idea, you could combine it with carbon to form ... hydrocarbons!

IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images

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Alert

Wait, "Hugging Face"?

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

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Most residential poured concrete foundations in the US are not going to be 0.5 meters thicc of concrete. Unless you live in NJ and embed mob bosses in your basement.

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Boffin

Going up doesn't scale, unless each floor is the same size as the base foundation.

Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

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"Move fast and break things." Building codes and neighbors eyeballs, apparently.

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

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Boffin

Re: Save the Champagne

Pushing water makes noise.

And yet waves are silent until they crash on the shore.

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Re: Save the Champagne

I think the automotive industry just calls these "pre-production" vehicles.

Elon Musk launches his own xAI biz 'to understand reality'

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Pint

The answer is 42, Elon.

InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test'

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Holmes

Re: It seems like a mistake they won't want to repeat

What grounds do the customers have to sue? Did they have a contract that requires notification of service changes by carrier pigeon?

Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home

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Re: Orange man...

Imprisonment is done even when it costs society more money than the convicts make back working as slaves on the chain gang. "Isn't practical" is not an excuse for having a double standard justice system. Since general population would be to high a risk for the imprisoned individual, any President would have to be in solitary confinement, for his own good. The American prison-industrial complex is a tough bitch.

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Re: Orange man...

Those President Biden stories all seem to lack substance or verifiable evidence behind them.

To contrast, President Trump has admitted he had the documents in question, but claims that he had the right as king to take them.

Australia to phase out checks by 2030

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Re: Banking apps

Here in the land of the check, the USA, passbook accounts have been passe for decades.

Reddit blackout planned over app-killing API prices

Jim Mitchell
IT Angle

How important to Reddit traffic and ad views are these third party apps? I've never heard of them, but I am not an "app" user in general.

This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again

Jim Mitchell

Most everything is combustible in a pure oxygen atmosphere, but yeah, the materials used in the capsule did not help.

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

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Alien

Re: Lesson on use of the sed command

I suspect that the other backers had motives other than making money off this investment. Backing Musk in this venture might get them access to more lucrative deals in the future, etc.

US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead. Here's why you should care anyway

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Re: Be a man!

Since livers can grow back after donation, they should include those as well. And blood/plasma donation. Every life is precious!

Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action

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Boffin

I'm confused, if Ford's EV implementation interferes with AM radio broadcasts or reception, this would seem to be an FCC issue.

VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans

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Mushroom

"At the five medical centers live on the new EHR today, veterans are receiving their prescriptions at the same rate they were prior to the facility converting from [the old system]," Sicilia said.

At the cost of quadrupling the pharmacy staff?

Tesla ran over worker rights, again, US labor judge finds

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WTF?

Am I missing something, or is there no actual penalty?

AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

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Re: Stupid "Optimized defaults" nonsense.

I think that these days the memory is directly attached to the processor chip, which is really more than just the processor. If you change the memory clocks or voltage, you are affecting the processor.

Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

Jim Mitchell
IT Angle

Re: Talking of Substack...

Does he have a substack?

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