...and we are in a major crisis when the automated coffee maker refuses to deliver auditors' fuel.
Posts by Evil Auditor
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How one Ukrainian software maker planned for survival as invaders approached
PC component scavenging queue jumper pulled into line with a screensaver
The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback
Datacenter migration plan missed one vital detail: The leaky roof
Re: What?
So who starts a building refurb without consulting with the facultyfacilities dept?
Exactly. Had no issue with water but when an existing room had been newly appointed as data centre, we found that its concrete ceiling did not meet the required specs. So we had to reinforce the ceiling with glueing carbon fibre ribbons underneath (whatever the technical term for this is, idk).
Update your Tesla now before the windows put your fingers in a pinch
Japanese boffins build solar-powered, remote-controlled cyborg cockroach
Re: Ethics
There are no ethical concerns.
What a load of manure! Of course, there are -and better be- ethical concerns. After all, it's a living being being used, maybe abused, for the pleasure of scientists. Now, with the electric stimulation of the cockroaches, it may very well be for the pleasure of the roaches, too. But that is beyong the point; we simply have to make sure that any possible suffering of the roaches is justified by the possible outcome and goal of the experiment - which I doubt in this case. I mean, rescueing people from a collapsed building, seriously?!
However, if, for example, we could make a swarm of roaches prepare me a cuppa in the morning an bring it to the bedside, that'd be quite something...
US accident investigators want alcohol breathalyzers in all new vehicles
Chinese-linked cyber crims nab $529 million from Indian nationals
Re: There’s a twist
Well, I have generally not an awful lot of sympathy for people falling victim of scams - specifically if the scam relies on people's greed and/or belief in magic. And I do see it as a bit ironic that in this case it has been "India" being scammed. However, I have zero sympathy for your Dear India, I have zero sympathy as it somehow implies that it is the whole nation being scammers.
Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test
Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C8H10N4O2
Re: Better yet...
I cleverly managed to pour the better part of a coke (beverage, not marching powder) into my work laptop. Off to the toilet and under the tap with warm water for a little while. Leaving it to dry, ie passenger seat while driving home, and all was fine.
Water usually is not that bad for electronics. Sugery, sticky, corrosive stuff is what gets it.
Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co
BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM
Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork – and some people aren't happy
Re: Read this elsewhere and said
"Who decides that someone's childish scrawl is worth millions and another childish scrawl is just a childish scrawl?"
The art market. A highly intransparent market, that is. Take the example of some Young British Artist (not that young any more): they managed to stir up quite a hype resulting in art dealers to stock up on their art. Then some YBA started to mass-produce their crapart and in doing so, forced art dealers, who still had full inventories, to buy even more to keep the prices up in order to protect their own inventories...
In short: what someone is willing to pay.
Some years ago Banksy was selling his art, anonymously, in NYC for a few USD. Once word got out that they are original Banksys, their value increased to 10'000s of quid - a price no one would have paid in the stall in NYC. Somehow perverse, isn't it? Same madness with some people buying bragging rights via NFTs.
The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing?
Re: false comparison
Instead they get...
Nevertheless, their software still lives on for (too) long, sometimes decades. It will not die in glory nor rain fiery death. But it might cause some hot heads and creeping morbidly from under the floor to bite you in your bottom painfully.
I'd like to believe that I didn't create such legacy myself. I've seen some of those though which I wouldn't touch with a pole.
Underwater datacenter will open for business this year
Doctor gave patients the wrong test results due to 'printer problems'
Zuckerberg: Yes, Facebook kept Hunter Biden's laptop under wraps
GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises
Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine
Re: So an annualised uptime of less than 75%
No yobbo's or lookie-lou's allowed.
Erm, yes. That is, until I came across that client: the complete staff was allowed to enter its server room. I did not like it and asked them to restrict access to those who actually need to access it. And their response: "We did." - ??? - "It's the coolest room and we store the beverages in there so everyone needs access."
BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?
Bullshit jobs
I'm in a bit of a bullshit job myself - advising people on how to do things they wouldn't need to do if it wasn't for people like me requiring them to do those things.
But what a fscked up fsck! There actually are Internal Relationship Manager jobs out there! Can people in such jobs even qualify as sentient beings?
Ex-CISA chief Krebs calls for US to get serious on security
You'll soon be able to ghost a WhatsApp group without making everyone hate you
Re: Thank god
I'd say: teach them a healthy handling of peer pressure. That your kids can join and leave as they feel like and not based on what they fear someone else might be thinking of them or, worse, how someone else is treating them.
Then again, it's easy to say for anti-social me. So it might indeed by a good thing what WA implemented
Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three
Well, years ago, in a different life, we had some Google appliances in our data centre. The Google draft contract had a disclaimer that they are not liable for any deaths resulting from the use of their appliances. We read, sniggered, and had it removed from the agreement. But now I start to understand why they wanted it in the first place...
Atari Video Computer System returns in Lego form
China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities
Yeah, we'll just take that first network handshake. What could possibly go wrong?
Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'
NASA to send prototype robot surgeon into space
Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'
We've got a photocopier and it can copy anything
Re: UV check lamps
I wasn't exactly accused of counterfeit but when coming south to Devon and attempting to pay at a pub with a 20-pound note printed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the note got declined for "being expired". I failed to make the barkeeper understand that Scotland does in fact print perfectly valid GBP notes.
Security flaws in GPS trackers can be abused to cut off fuel to vehicles, CISA warns
Improve Linux performance with this one weird trick
Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint
Re: Exchange
maximum folder depth on Sharepoint
Well, apparently you are not supposed to use folders in Sharepoint - you "simply" should tag all bloody files. At least that is what I was told by some millennialSharepoint Wiz Kid.
I can't -for reason of comment rules- write here how much I hate Sharepoint.