* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again

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Re: "Facial Recognition" is no worse than any other kind.

"shoot first and ask questions later "

Then furiously look for something in their past, like an expired visa to leak to the press to justify it

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Re: We needs laws governing the use of facial recognition

Or the case in the UK where a cop's ANPR read a license plate with no tax, so they drove through a housing estate at 70mph and killed a kid on a pedestrian crossing.

That was the fault of the ANPR reading the wrong number

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Perhaps facial recognition isn't the issue

If your police officers arrest an 8 month pregnant woman for car jacking and don't think there is anything questionable about that....

Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works

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Re: And for their next trick

So if I drop a match into a bucket of petrol and the energy I get out is greater than the energy from the match - I've made positive miles/gallon ?

Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, maybe

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Attach transducers to the springs in office chairs, everytime somebody sits in a chair in a meeting you get free electricity

And the heavier the person, the greater the energy generated - so a strategic advantage for certain countries

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

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Re: Possibly unpopular opinion, but...

Rent in even a bad area of SF is more than $3K/month so $0.1K for (n-1) days/month you actually work in the office seems like a deal

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Re: I spy a business opportunity

The team in charge of administering the entry gate system have all recorded working 8 days/week in the office and have achieved top performance scores

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Re: Accommodation on site....

But remember the unpaid Google workers gained valuable skills in the cotton fields

Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries

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Re: Yeah, bad weather is a problem

I thought Orkney wanted to be independent and then join Norway ?

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Re: Yeah, bad weather is a problem

? The Scots have always been a problem

Yes but mostly to other Scots

If they get independence I suppose we could always build a wall

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But you definitely knew it had been delivered

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I understand a Dr Brown tried a similar system for delivering express mail to London a decade later but it met with some customer resistance

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Re: Yeah, bad weather is a problem

Certainly worth building a larger one - just in case those Scots get to be a problem again

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Re: Yeah, bad weather is a problem

>A submarine is just a boat

There are some experts in submarine based package delivery in the Gulf of Mexico who manage without fixed port infrastructure - perhaps somebody from the SNP could go on a fact finding tip to Columbia ?

Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools

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Re: Don't mock the assisted drawing

Not looking forward to Toyota Corolla 'old person' AI

It drives down the middle of the road, except on motorways where it drives the wrong way, it goes 40mph on all roads and gets accelerator/brakes confused in car parks

IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services

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Re: WTF?

At least this time IBM's system won't actually work - cos IBM

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Re: Undoubtedly

>provide a provable identity for asylum seekers who may not have one already

You would have thought if they had already applied you might have something reliable, like fingerprints or iris scans

Not a system where a CCTV camera on a beach can decide to launch the missiles because somebody $ETHNIC on a raft looks like somebody $ETHNIC in the record

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

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Re: ties to legacy media companies

>Time to push back against the oppression of Big Printing Press!

Won't somebody think of the poor Murdochs?

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

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Re: Off topic

> then there were the Voyagers..........

They seemed to last forever right? Even though the paint wore off the name

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Re: Talk it up

>Stunningly-Fast Broadband at the Speed of Light...

Fibre broadband Stunningly-Fast Broadband at 64% the Speed of Light...

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Re: Voyager 1 & 2

>No meta data telemetry, no location pings, no silly apps installed and runs like a Swiss clock.

No management consoles if you accidentally turn off networking on the remote system

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

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Re: This is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is the messiah for a whole bunch of idiots.

>We still have their genetic forebears in the form of the Loyalist community in the North of Ireland

That was the flaw in the US colonies plan (also known as Ark-B)

We exported the religious nut-jobs, but only one type. If we had exported 2 different types they would have happily fought each other and left us alone - a plan which worked in every other ex-colony

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Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

I think the world's long running reality show has jumped the shark a little.

Perhaps they could do a reboot, a Young George Washington spin off series perhaps?

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Re: This is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is the messiah for a whole bunch of idiots.

It worked for Tony Blair.

But at least he started a war, Boris just did bike rentals

School for semiconductors? Arm tries to address chip talent shortages

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It's not new. IBM wanted to build their European research center in Cambridge in the 60s - but the council thought it would bring grubby induxtry to the town and lead to more traffic - so IBM concentrated its Noble prize winning in Zurich

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Sounds like ARM might need their customers to be able to hire people to make chips.

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Re: But surely, technology is the most dangerous thing ever.

Well this whole ARM thing is ultimately the BBC's fault anyway

FBI boss: Congress must renew Section 702 spy powers – that's how we get nearly all our cyber intel

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Re: Section 702 WILL be renewed

>Given the nature of US politicians, the FBI have probably got potent blackmail material on most of them.

But most of them would proudly put it on their campaign ads

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Re: Who you gonna call - GCHQ

>why the spooks spend more time spying on their own citizens that any foreign enemy?

Cos the enemy an only damage you in a war, your own people can damage you at the next bi-election

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Re: 702 "vital"?

Because it would be deeply embarrassing and humiliating to the proud FBI agents to have to go to a judge to explain they want to spy on the guy their wife is having an affair with

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Even US senators,

Would probably all be safer if they only spied on politicians

Biden urged to completely cripple AI chips to China

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>Isn't Intel partially an israeli company?

If we're doing conspiracy theories. Intel's biggest chip plants are in Ireland, where the potatoes come from !

Is Intel working on a salt-n-vinegar i9 ?

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>Does the US export only chips with an AIQ (artificial IQ) below 60?

Can we propose a new el'reg standard for AI chip inteligence?

Your new supercomputer can be "2.5bHawkings" or your Telsa self-drive is a mere "1.4 Trump"

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

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Re: Damned if you do. Damned if you don't

>Oil, Rare Earths, Wheat, Fertilisers, Gas

OH, Canada......

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Re: Checkmate?

But slavery was good because it gave the slaves opportunities to learn new skills

> SLAVE LABOR and/or CHILD LABOR like the way they mine for cobalt in AFRICA.

That's the problem with China, stealing our IP

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Re: Hmm.

admittedly one of the very few accurate statements from the puppet president

I fear sir that your web navigation has been slightly in error. FOX news comments are probably to be found at fox.com

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Re: Damned if you do. Damned if you don't

>the UK has been importing..... non essential ones for much longer.

So we just send some redcoats to China to 'offshore' the country?

Crooks pwned your servers? You've got four days to tell us, SEC tells public companies

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Re: Odd this

So it will become a box-ticking exercise.

Once somebody posts a "we detected a possible attack and are investigating the impact" statement and it's accepted by the SEC it will become precedent and so everyone will just submit the same statement every time there is a hit on their firewall

It's like how after 9/11 banks were made to report suspicious transactions and so just flagged almost everything because there were massive penalties for not reporting, but no follow-up if they did

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

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Re: Dodgy cabling

>It was well over 100m, so we added a small switch (PoE powered) somewhere near the middle, wrapped in a plastic bag to keep it dry.

I believe a similar system is employed to send telegrams to the colonies across the Atlantic

Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months

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Re: 19 billion??

The same employer that refuses 5% raises, buys reports from Bullshit Surveys Inc 'proving' that replacing key staff costs you a year of salary

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>Why would I wait five years to be “eligible” for a promotion when your top competitor is offering me that promotion right now?

what are you - some sort of capitalist ?

Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

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>A fair % of the water evaporates and is lost to the atmosphere

You mean "recycled into the environment" according to their press-release

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Re: someone please explain

We looked at it for our rural location here in the colonies, where most people have under-sink UV+filter for well water anyway

Could the town filter but not fully purify the municipal water supply, and have people sterilise just the kitchen tap supply ?

The problem, apart from legal liability, was that even water for flushing the toilet, or showering can get aerosolised. Surprisingly this isn't too bad if it's only "toilet droplet cloud" (!) but is rather nastier if it has legionnaires or similar. We ended up with a supply that is chlorinated to cheaply kill all the nasty stuff, but still requires your own in-house filter system if you want to drink it.

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>It comes in as drinking water and leaves as foul waste.

Only if you don;t flush your buffers

There are evaporators, they look very much like giant AC fans on the roof but they also blow enough air through that you don't get the condensation you would see from a power-station cooling tower

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Re: Usual rip off

> I should only be expected to pay what *I* use, nothing more.

The problem is that the cost of supplying you with water is >90% fixed costs whether you use a drop or not

So if there is no standing charge the rate/volume is going to be really high - screwing anyone with families.

Fortunately it benefits old people living alone, who vote, so expect the standing charge to go away.

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

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Re: X to top off the search engines ?

They are re-thinking the X branding to a more serif-fed font, just adding a little right angle tail to the each end of the X

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Re: So he's moved on to blackmail

It worked by giving opponents to high speed rail an 'alternative' to rally around which was only tangentially paid for by a car company

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Re: Watching Musk run this into the ground...

Unfortunately it IS a good method of communication - if only it wasn't owned by a fsck-wit

Traffic alerts, forest fires, train / ferry delays, lots of applications where you want potentially millions of people to be able to subscribe to a lot of information services in a single app with low bandwidth and some level of authentication of the sender - not really anything to replace it for the general public

A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

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Re: Even if its not a superconductor

You can make current high-Tc in bulk, the problem is you can't make wires. Currently you either cast the HTs material in situ or you scatter powder onto tape, either isn't great. It's why they weren't used for ITER

Currently this material seems to have very low (100mA) critical current and very low max field - but if those are just due to it being a lab bench mix rather than a refined product

ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

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>What are they going to do when there is clouds?

Take an umbrella. These are rocket scientists - they can think ahead

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