* Posts by Denarius

2178 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2009

Two massive US datacenter real estate investment trusts taken over in $10bn, $15bn deals

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so the next cycle begins

as businesses insource ?

From the studio that brought you 'Mortal Wombat' comes 'Pernicious Possum'

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Re: Pets? PETS?

wombats ? Plenty of room for them in national, state and reserves. For the rest of us who have stock to keep in and paddocks to walk, great holes in fences and sudden appearance of trip hazards are serious issues. Along with the massive erosion the things cause with tons of earth sliding into waterways. About time the city dwellers left the working industries that feed them alone

Chinese Communist Party official expelled for mining cryptocurrency

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world is getting weirder again

the snoopiest, controlling big manglement on planet is most concerned about citizens data being misused. Why does this feel like a Twilight Zone episode ?

Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

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a small step

Using neutrons as carriers, impressive. Next shrink, improve bandwidth etc. After that, neutrinos and the Start Trek phased neutrino communicator. Followed by new TLA tech to eaves drop

Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers

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Re: Replace the boss with AI

Did anyone trust manglement ? Ever ? One might trust ones direct report, but after that, never. As for metrics, how does one evaluate problem solvers who see fixes for the new or complex new problems hours or days ahead of others ? A bit like parachutes. Mere excess baggage, until you need one. In complex systems, someone who has indepth knowledge of how parts connect can see how changes affect this. As for clever tools, AI, expert systems, knowledge engineering, yeah right. First, as the knowledge engineers discovered, asking someone to tell the engineer how to make them jobless guarantees inadequate information and a useless tool. it also misses metaknowledge, stuff you know but do not realise. So counting keystrokes, bits pushed becomes the norm, devaluing any creative skills. But as for replacing bosses with AI, dont start with bosses, start with CEO and board members. Its clear from the disappearance of many companies of great vintage in last two decades that company boards are wastes of oxygen

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

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Re: Low hanging fruit first

fuzzie: most interesting and worrying. I hope India is less forgiving than Merks when Zucks mob misrepresent themselves.

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Re: The Metaverse is giving me Segway vibes

Blank Reg: Indeed. What problem does it solve is still a useful assessment tool for any tech. With the Great Job Quitting phenomena is USA, Tree Changing on Oz , Lying Flat and other culturally equivalent behaviours elsewhere I get the impression that technoUtopia visions are losing their allure. More people just want a quiet life unhassled by thieving companies, lying kleptomaniac pollies and thousands of feral rules makers at all levels of government

USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018

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Unhappy

Re: Since 2018 ???

Wow, processed dead tree carcass with marks on it changes human behavior ? Who knew ? So agencies which admit they dont know what laws control or authorise their activities will be be obedient international citizens ? The same TLAs that spy on their own regulators ? Not that I expect any other other spookeries to be any different. By definition laws dont apply to them. So disappointing that commentards could be so gullible.

Truck, sweet truck: Volvo's Chinese owner unveils methanol/electric truck with bathroom and kitchen

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Re: sorta like a motor home instead of a sleeper cab

Bob, Oz truckers on long haul trips like East coast to Perth, a mere 2500 km or so have decent sleeper cabins for the reason you cite. When their daily hours are coming they can park on the truck pull-off areas along the main highways, joining grey nomads in mobile homes or big SUVs towing stonking caravans, bikers like myself and sane car drivers napping instead of dying. Sometimes there are fueling points with cafes and less often, accommodation. Some of the Nullabour accommodation leaves some preferring to sleep up road in scrub. As for electric trucks, Bwahh hahaha. Load and range. Pulling a B-double or in NT, a semi with 5 trailers road-train is big diesel engine or nothing.

Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met

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Re: monitor

it exists. Satellites have been tracking CO2 emissions and local concentrations. Guess what ? Amazon, Central Africa and China are emmission hot spots. Is that why nothing is said in most media. See Japanese Inode (sp?) data

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Re: And of course

nonsense. Mere stupidity masquerading as a religion substitute being used in asymmetric information warfare. Always follow the money as it flows away from taxpayers to China, pollies, committees and concerned citizens who have big investments in tax supported industries.

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Re: Although

nah, not funny enough

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Re: Although

Pollies lying. Colour me unsurprised. Bureaucrats and grifters misrepresenting computer models. colour me irritated. The business as usual mantra being flogged is based on a worst case scenario from years ago that has already been avoided. At most a rise of 1.5 C is possible if CO2 increases at such low concentrations has any effect. Given its very narrow and saturated absorption IR band the use of linear predictions based on concentrations is dubious at best. Perhaps it has become a case of ideas having people, not the other way around.

Samsung reveals buzzword-compliant DRAM ready for 5G, AI, edge, and metaverses

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and the oblig comment

So possible to get big enough sticks of RAM for Win11 or 12 applications to run at same speed as Word in Win3.1 on a 486DX 66 in 4Mb?

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

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Re: Red Hat turns to running the company by spreadsheet

Documenting quirks and details is also futile. Nobody reads it and it gets lost quickly, especially if some document managing indexing and storage program is used. So the last person clued becomes a Martin. The few self styled indispensables I have run across are usually next to useless and mere sociopaths who only fool manglement.

Starry starry night? No, it's just more low Earth orbit satellites as BT and OneWeb ink deal

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defence ?

so much orbital crap that anything smaller than a 5 Km diameter boulder will be broken up on way down. Full orbital asteroid defence which might let remote areas have working phones. One briefly had visions of Earth freezing as the satellite swarms block the sun for a few years. Pity the astronomers with new shiny powerful and obstructed telescopes coming online in a decade

SAP expects to rid car fleet of fossil fuel engines by 2030 – but still more than happy to take money from oil industry

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Re: Greenwashing

So you mean 16th century level of life then ? Get over the Erlichs. Personally I think a couple of cold years might change minds about nuclear, except in Europe.

US Dept of Commerce sanctions NSO Group, Positive Technologies, other makers of snoopware

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clearly said firms have not given big enough discounts to TLAs.

New cable incoming! Hawaiki Nui set to connect Sydney, Singapore, and LA by 2025

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wonderful

all the spam and phishing will be delivered so much faster

Samsung releases pair of jeans that can't do anything except cover your legs and hold a Galaxy Z Flip 3

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Re: "Who needs big pockets?"

not only that but shirt pockets are too damn small.

Phone on pants pockets !! They get bent or smashed when on tractor, motorcycle, boat or plane and inaccessible at all times. I want safari style shirts with big pockets top and bottom. (You thought I was going to write big breast pockets, didn't you ?) Carrying a phone in top pocket essential for ease of access and security. I use it as a backup navigation device when flying gliders. Easy access needed if I need to fire up XCSoar, but no, android smart phones are getting bigger with crappier daylight invisible screens. And yet the b* stylists are making all pockets smaller. Even my new emergency services shirts and jackets have smaller pockets and we usually carry a fair bit of stuff. Oddly, belly slack increased to merkin proportions. Kevlar motorcycle pants ditto. I digress.

In keeping with tenor of article, practicality is swept aside by clueless designer droids. You want a differentiated product that buyers will want ? Daylight readable screen. Dell did it once, Sony Experia good second. All others are a failure. Minimize Google snoopware, maximise backup and recovery to local storage, either PC or SD card.

Hey, Walkers. What's the difference between crisps and chips? Answer: You can't get either of them

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FAIL

so they did a rollout

without a B***i rollback plan ?

China says it applied to join digital free trade deal days after proposing law against cross-border data flow

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my first thought was "SLURP". Access to documents? As bad as Merkin TLAs. The only difference between tyrants is the colour of the uniforms, but the blood is always red

Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts

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it works though

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Re: web Teams works on Linux

Odd. Devuan runs M$Team adequately for me with only release version one before current being stuffed. Froze after loading. Rollback fixed that until revision came out. Not all capabilities like background change available that I can see but it has worked for the volunteer organisation I am in. Using old i7 laptop. However, for same regular meetings I am either participant or guest. How that works I dont know. Took a while to stop it autostarting also. The upgrades are big so I assume usual modern approach of avoiding common standard libraries and creating binary blobs is used.

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

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is this proof Si Valley dudes live in a reality distortion bubble of some kind ? The author of article summed up subject well. Now to find nearest Amish recruiting center. Maybe they have a point

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Re: Sadville 2.0

too late. 19th century circus showman. " There is a sucker born every minute"

Get ready for full holograms and 6G while living in the metaverse, says Samsung

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marketting twaddle and threat

agreed this is wish list. I note that terrahertz radiation is used in body scanners to reveal all without stripping sheep people. So what will miscreants get up to with Thz receivers and transmitters of small size, power needs and readily available ?

Behold, Eclipse's open-source software defined vehicle project

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Flame

not another OS

so Oniro sounds like QNX, already open source and decades old. As for coffee makers and thermostats needing to communicate and or an OS at all.

Are they mad ? The wastes of effort, resources. The Not invented here syndrome at its worst

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WTF?

great

another target for ransomware gangs because of the need to add comms to any and everything for entertainment, safety, including the ubiquitous surveillance as an unspoken objective. Can you see the lines of vehicles blocking the motorways ? Time to rebuild that 1970s pre-crap on engine vehicle and update valve seats for modern fuels. If IT companies cant do basic security, why do you think any other industry else can ? Even aviation stuffs up occasionally and they have lots of experience, now ignored by certain manufacturers

Big Blue scoffs a Happy Meal: McDonald's sells automated order-taking tech to IBM

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the irony, the irony

software from a artery hardening obesity generating firm bought by a shambling corporate arterial scholeric ruin of a firm downsized to a skeleton.

Now if the coffee would improve back to what it was ten years ago there would be something to buy in emergencies. As it is, I'd rather do without. @Flywheel, the maccas icecream machines are apparently a tale in themselves. Manglement at its finest.

Once IBM used to write good software. I still remember from middle 1990s the voice control of a laptop running AIX. Yes, IBM laptop running AIX natively. The voice control handled multiple accents in a very noisy echoing computer fair. To now buy stuff from a burger slinger suggests all the good management, let alone software engineers are long gone.

Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space

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Re: "an office address in space for businesses"

so all those "offices" in tax havens dont work at reducing taxes then ? Just asking

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Re: Tax haven

oooh, subtle

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Headmaster

Re: youre kidding

sic # for the hyperliteral

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youre kidding

With Boing? Doomed, doomed

Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag

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Trollface

Re: With all the Semi Con investments coming up

Never fear, Windows 13 will fix the demand slump, briefly

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

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Re: Automation and Safety

Had a similar experience 5 years ago in conversation with a senior airline captain. After the AF crash some airlines put their pilots in a Cessna 172 to do a circuit. Half could not manually fly a simple plane anymore. Some companies began to mandate their pilots do regular GA flying to keep basics current. However I note that some of the best acrobatic pilots fly heavies for income or are glider pilots so they have very current skills in manual aircraft maneuvering. Just hearsay.

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Coffee/keyboard

@AC

you owe me new wall paint. brilliant image

Client-side content scanning is an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

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Re: More Misdirection???

In the current SMS spam deluge on a near new phone , I sometimes get Google alerts that incoming is spam. How does Google know that if I have not set up SMS scanning , sharing or anything else with them and are logged out ? If the Telco was checking I could understand that they might note unusual volumes coming from random numbers, but a remote entity ? Any suggestions for an Android mail client that is not trying to send everything like address books to Google or otherwise snoop. Even willing to spend money.

Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts

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Re: You keep using that word...

bit harsh, He is a politician after all and the plebs have such low expectations

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@Graham: thank you for demonstrating my point.

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dunno

whitelisting only works if recipient has a small known number of senders. As the recent and continuing SMS spam deluge demonstrates, it wastes much time blocking the multitude of fake numbers, even if Google do claim to help

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Indeed. I note that the controllers of antisocial media block news they disagree with, regardless of its sources. So they have a dilemma. Allow the rabid unrestricted along with the very unfashionable or if they pick and choose, accept that they are publishers. The phone system analogy holds up here.

VMware imagines 'memory servers' – a new source of shared software-defined RAM

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clearing memory contents

Depends on OS, hardware and language in use I suppose. COBOL move SPACES to DATAROW sort of thing or rely on hardware or OS to clear memory contents before reallocation. (unlikely IMHO, anyone care to clarify this?)

As for swap over network, so VMWare are doing same as Suns diskless workstations did , oh about early 1990s ? Progress ? Some concepts keep being re-implemented.

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Old is new again

To be fair to VMWare, virtualised memory as in swap. paging et al is not what they are claim IMHO. What they are talking about is virtualising physical RAM capacity. In short, doing what IBMs hypervisor has done for years, managing AIX (and now Dead Rat probably) instances hosted on Power hardware where the physical RAM can be pooled into groups such that the virtual servers can "borrow" unused RAM from other servers in the same pool. Maximum and minimum RAM configurations are set to limit hogging. In short, X86/x64 getting what real OS have had for years. In commercial operations, slowing the developers so the bean counter end of season/financial year runs can go faster is useful.. Something the old IBM did well.

Boeing's Calamity Capsule might take to space once again ... in the first half of 2022

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Re: "oxidizer and moisture interactions"…

are you referring to F117 or B2 where rain washed the antiradar paint off it ?

Zero-day hunters seek laws to prevent vendors suing them for helping out and doing their jobs

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Re: Dear Companies, don't be stupid.

havent dealt the legal system, have you ?

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you mean

clued legal practitioners ? Or worse, more rational judges who would eviscerate any body/person/company trying to create a legal threat on a responsible bug hunter ? Go wash your mouth out and apply mind bleach

Astroboffins reckon they've detected four hidden exoplanets by probing distant radio waves

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Headmaster

Uh ?

radio light ?? You mean radio emmissions perhaps. Light is much higher frequencies than a mere 200 Mhz. BTW, 200 Mhz is VHF, not low frequencies. For that one needs to be below 500 Khz approx.

Microsoft shows off Office 2021 for consumers ahead of the coming of Windows 11

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Re: 2007

I must be old. Dont use M$ stuff much, but still like XP or earlier, and Office 2003 or earlier was about as user friendly as M$ got. I know, export to PDF for which the LibreOffice can do or other software. Its mostly earlier versions of Excel that I like. Much of my documentation still starts off in vi. At least it has a consistent user interface, despite underlying OS. Used it since DOS 6 days and SysV.2

Still amazed how booting in a BSD, Linux is fast. Same PC on Win 10 is like dragging a truck thru a particularly bad swamp. The Free Korean Office package is good also, with the benefit you can choose menus OR a ribbon/aka modern interface

Firewalls? Pfft – it's no match for my mighty spares-bin PC

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Re: Looking forward to this!

same here. In previous life on arrival over the year I found decades old manual procedures that could be automated with some shell code mostly. Set up code to run over year at appropriate times or on the common admin server, documenting what code did what and reason for it. Needless to say on third year when I left, a common comment when something time expired ( remote passwords, etc) was, Oh you've been xxxxxed" . No suck-cessor (sic) read docu of course.