* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

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Re: Socialising, sleep and exercise

>Does Cliff Richard negatively impact well-being?

Yes the rate of death among people who bought Cliff's first records is much higher than those buying Taylor Swift's

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Re: Oh, and by the way ...

>a canon is a large smoking gun.

Canonically a large smoking fun is a cannon

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Re: Only qualitative?

I'd love to know where you get a sample of young people across all social/economic groups that don't use internet to compare them to

It's like a study that showed CRT monitors are bad for you, by comparing blood pressure in Wall St traders who used CRT monitors and Amish farmers who didn't.

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Re: Wrong way to study...

Obvious solution is to go back to a time when teenagers could only be referred to the clinic for treatment by their GP and have GPs ignore mental health issues in teenagers, it's only a phase they're going through, et viola a reduction in mental health clinic admissions for teens.

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

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Re: Evidence

So what you're saying is that USB-C proves G*d exists and so he/she/they don't

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Re: Kryten would be happy...

Where else would all the dead toasters go?

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Re: Electric Monks

What we really need is the video recorder that could watch TV for you.

Now we need something to watch TikTok, Instagram and TPFKAT - cos I'm not going to do it myself

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>As far as we know, ChatGPT doesn't commune with the big guy upstairs.

All ChatGPT does is recycle existing published sources it has found and rehash them into a new story without understanding any of the meaning.....

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Re: Kind of misses the point...

And it was the nuns at catholic school that explained to me that although BandAid was OK, cos that rude singer was a nice catholic Dublin boy, the reason the 'black babies' were starving was because their heathen superstitions meant they couldn't eat cows

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Re: Kind of misses the point...

Can AI lead a crusade against the infidels? Can it root out and punish the sinners/unbelievers/people-who-believe-in-a-slightly-different-version-of-the-same-thing ?

Can it persecute people that like to put their ding-dong in a different ooh-ooh (and say so in public instead of just doing it and lying about it)

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>...and how we even let people pick up these kind of jobs is really criminal.

Clergy? That was the original grift.

Some very smart dude looks out of the cave, thinks of all the lions out there and says to the rest of the tribe.

"Hey you could all get eaten by lions / have a volcano fall on you - who knows why this happens."

Well I have discovered there is a magic invisible fairy that controls it and only I can talk to it.

So if I stay here safe in the cave and you all bring back an offering of mammoth for their sky fairy I'll ask it not to smite you

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

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Re: Yankification

Makes sense, "Sixth" is REAL not INTEGER

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Re: "Ultra Vires"?

Until somebody works out that Latin is European

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Re: Poor proof reading

And if they're lucky they medalize or at least podiumize

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Re: Ban banning things

I'm sure Blair2.0 can fix it by merely requiring some form of identification to buy a SIM, perhaps in the form of a card ?

US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar

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I call on the government to go further

Solder is used in all our vital military and civil electronics, most of the solder is made in China and could be communicating vital national security data to people who refuse to use knives and forks

We must ban Chinese solder

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

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Re: The loss of telemetry was not a random event ...

I'll AVO go as well

X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club

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Re: So, Musk is digging the hole ever deeper

I don't think they would use a French word

Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump

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Re: Really?

The government banning exports to a foreign country cos they disapprove of how they treat their minorities sounds like communism.

Of course if the USA is only doing it to preserve their military and economic hedgemony, that would be acceptable

Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size

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Re: runs on old kit

>mine has endured significantly more abuse than a modern X series could stand up to.

I think you might be misunderstanding the nature of capitalism. I have a storeroom full of Dell XPS that are out of official support and so corporate abandoned them.

There was also a bunch of Alienware that somebody managed to specify for 'graphics intensive CAD workloads' don't know what happened to them !

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Re: It's a nice kick in the teeth

Not necessarily, most consumers aren't optimising for reduced install footprint.

We used to install the Windows 'N' builds - the anti-trust version with no bundled codes - to save a few Gb on VMs

But for a customer buying a preinstalled machine with a Tb of disk - it's optimal for them to have drivers for every bit of weird hardware and fonts for every language, without having to go online to download it.

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Or I need to install Windows on a VM cos of that one internal app that needs windows - but I don't want to use 256Gb to run a single utility to reset my doomsday device

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: FFS

But it is a union effectively making government policy. Suppose the US longshoreman decide they aren't unloading Volvos (officially cos of their Chinese owner and uighurs) or no Porsches (cos he was a Nazi)

No, of course the USA hasn't banned the import of European cars, it's just legitimate worker's rights.

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Re: Tesla should deal

But this isn't Tesla employees - it's a political move by an essentially government union.

Suppose as a protest about Gaza whichever union does airport immigration desks decided it wasn't going to process [Jewish/Muslim] visitors ?

Do we really need another non-open source available license?

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Re: If Only

>but there was this one guy who was some kind of kernel developer, and he was an absolute cock. He had to stick his nose into everything.

That's the nice thing about working in commercial corporate software development, everybody pulls together for the good of the shareholders. The efficiency of the market means that anyone not contributing surplus value is weeded out by ruthless capitalism

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test

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Re: Glimmer of hope.

>We all remember the earlier Ariane "mishaps" so they are not our of the woods yet for sure.

Ariane 5 has a pretty good record. The first one blew, the first one of the improved version 10 years later fell into a swamp - but the others stayed up !

they had a couple of 2nd stage partial failures but on a scale of massive rockets they have an enviable record.

They were also much more precise than alternatives at the time, so the payloads didn't need as much manoeuvring fuel themselves - don't know how SpaceX's craft compare

BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling?

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Re: @base

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< pre > seems a bit broken ?

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Unless you work for an outfit who think patents = innovation and so pay beer tokens t people who get patents

German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC

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Re: Debt brake released

We demand a fiscally responsible balanced budget.

So until we have paid off the mortgage we aren't feeding the children

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Re: Neither settlements are secured

I meant Germany specifically.

In defence spending Germany plans to spend pretty much in line with their huge throbbing GDP, but every time they actually choose a system the contract is immediately protested by every other company in the business. That's why they are such good international partners - the only way to get a contract out is to make challenging it a diplomatic incident.

The French are the opposite, they join every collaborative defence project to sabotage it and then release their national competitor - but I didn't say that !

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Re: Neither settlements are secured

Except it means the government can never actually do anything and yet it costs more.

Every government spending decision is argued by every other level of government, every government contract leads to legal challenges by every company that didn't win the bid.

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Re: Debt brake released

Imagine if companies were forced to have a balanced budget. Sales at Intel down 36% this quarter? Then close 36% of the factories and lose 36% of the workers.

Thinking of building a new fab? That won't be profitable while we're building it so that would be illegal

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

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Re: I met a catgirl once.

Dogs have masters,cats have servants

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Re: UFOs Are Behind It All

The obvious solution would be for the US to invent a vast number of oddly named and apparently redundant overlapping agencies to act as decoys for the conspiracy theorists - while keeping the real governing bodies secret.

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That's a new Marvel franchise right there

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Idaho National laboratory

Release the Human-Potato hybrids

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

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Hiring freeze

Always works well - there's nothing like a blanket dictat from on high to improve efficiency

1, They will just hire the people as contractors / PPI deals so they end up spending 10X as much money to employ civil servants through a consultancy

2, They reclassify a bunch of roles as not civil service by moving them to other quangos and hiring replacements while keeping "civil service" headcount the same

3, They freeze a bunch of projects cos they can't hire some specialist, while keeping 1000s of existing staff on payroll doing nothing

4, All of the above

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

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Re: What about Non-Competes?

>You'd like to think so but in that case it would very likely survive with its litigation as the main corporate asset.

SCO on line #1

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Destroy all Huma..... your Terminator is updating, it may restart several times, do not turn off your Terminator ..... 10% complete

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Re: Industry Input

OpenAI were in a tricky situation. They weren't a company. They were explicitly setup because a bunch of distinctly non-fluffy tech billionaires ,led by Musk, decided that if AI was just a bunch of internal projects inside Google and Facebook it would be bad for business limiting humanity's growth.

The idea is that they would all not be tech-billionaires if the internet had been developed inside IBM, Burroughs and Bell and kept for their own internal use and what AI needed wasthe equivalent of an IETF.

So they all chipped in a few quid to OpenAI while also running their own internal programs hoping to be the winner.

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Re: What about Non-Competes?

Non-competes have little chance in Ca and especially against a guy you just fired !

They might have a chance for non-solicitation if Altman explicitly offered MSFT jobs directly to the 700 engineers, but if they quit 1st and were careful not to wait for an individual job offer.

Plus, once these 700 go OpenAI is going to be a going concern for about a Planck time, it's very difficult to claim they are competing with a company that doesn't exist anymore

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Re: OpenAI is not a company

This is America, they will also be suing the hotdog stand outside the office and the company that painted the logo

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Re: tech bros doing tech bro stuff

Except Microsoft don't have board seats, were caught by surprise and suffered a drop in share price at the news, and were/are royally pissed

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Re: One wonders if Altman ...

Actually rather the opposite.

Altman is the former boss of arch-capitalist, famous silicon-valley VC YCombinator.

He was saying that they need to find commercial uses and partners to raise the $Bajillion it takes to train these models.

The rest of the board of the (sort-of) non-profit were installed to keep AI pure and out of the hands of people like Microsoft

Third-party data breach affecting Canadian government could involve data from 1999

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Data retention

It's funny how any emails or DMs involved in a government fsckup are gone a week later, but they have to keep 25 year old staff expenses receipts online

Rhysida ransomware gang: We attacked the British Library

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James Hacker : [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except .... Lost in the floods of 1967...

James Hacker : Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey Appleby : No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

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Re: We've engaged in illegal acts to obtain this data

Then companies would simply pay the same amount as consultant fee to a 3rd party cyber security expert to ensure the data was never leaked.

In the same way it's illegal to pay bribes but you can pay consulting fees to the family of the president for their technical expertise

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>The document should exist for as long as necessary to verify it is real,

The problem is that for the immigration service that's forever, if they can demand you show proof of past employees.

OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated

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OpenAI is nothing without its people

Erm, isn't that rather against the point of AI ?

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