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Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

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Re: Historical iPhone

>Perhaps the EU would have eventually saved people in Europe from that carrier control,

But the phones wouldn't have internet because the telcos would also have been the national post offices who would have worried that email was going to reduce demand for letters and so job losses

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Re: What strikes us as odd...

>..is that 2007 doesn't even feel that long ago

Well 2007 was only a couple of years ago

The 90s were only 10years ago and the 80s were only 20 years ago

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Re: A fool and their money

>buys Apple?

If you had bought Apple in 2007 ,with a share price around $3, you would only have made about 65X your money to today

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

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Re: I'd just like to interject for a moment

It's not the real GNU operating system unless it doesn't run Hurd but they promise that it will one day

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Re: ChromeOS is a fake linux

The one group we hate more than Microsoft is the fscking "Power Users of Linux"

Whatever happened to Slackware anyway ? He's over there !

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>Chromeos is complete trash.

Chromeos is very good at what it was designed for

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Re: ChromeOS is a fake linux

Plastic case designed to be dropped, keyboard that is junior school drool proof, no fscking touchscreen

No I don't use it for doing protein folding while international jet-setting from my business class seat - but for watching youtube or browsing reddit on the settee it's great

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Re: @Zolko - If ChromeOS is Linux...

And you spent days getting the xorg config correct and have the monitor make a worrying bang every time you got it wrong

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Re: If ChromeOS is Linux...

It's only real Linux if you have to install from floppies

Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions

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Re: Caution: Mad MEN at work

We should go further. If ASML are prevented from selling machines to foreigners then the Netherlanders will become secure in their chip supply *

* assuming the suppliers of wafers, chemicals and light sources don't apply the same logic.

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

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>Mirrors are cheap

A certain Bavarian motor car company would like a word

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Re: Save the Champagne

>This is what I'm curious about, ie how well it'll actually perform as a work truck. I

How many people are buying this as a work truck ?

I'm guessing slightly fewer than those buying a Merc G-Wagon to drive troops around the black forest

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

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I call bullshit

>Some 52 percent had heard of the technology,

They asked an average person in the UK between 16-75 and more than half had heard of generative AI?

Either their sample was taken in the coffee shop nearest their office in Shoreditch or they are throwing out all the "tha what?" , "I have the facebooks on the telly" and other confused looks

Boris Johnson pleads ignorance, which just might work

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You expect the opposition to trust encryption supplied by the government?

You expect the backbenchers to trust encryption supplied by the cabinet office?

You expect the cabinet to trust encryption supplied by the chief whip

You expect the PM to trust encryption suuplied by the security service ?

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Re: WhatsApp encryption key?

If they are implementing what they claim to be implementing Whatsapp's encryption is rather good

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Re: Boris pleads ignorance

That's the sort of code an idiot would have on his luggage !

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I'm prepared to kick in $5 for the wrench

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Re: Forgotten phlebotinum

>or having a file of random numbers that the police believe is encrypted information is punishable by two years in prison

But when the Police came to give a talk to our university and we asked about storing data from our experiments, with a SNR indistinguishable from random, we were told not to be silly because these laws would only be used against terrorists

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Re: Forgotten phlebotinum

Unless the judge believes he is lying about forgetting it - then it's contempt of court and he goes to jail until he decides to remember it

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

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Re: Press <enter> to continue

No, the <enter> key has been replaced by an arrow symbol that is copyright MSFT and can only be shown on a Microsoft keyboard

Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?

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Re: ... a capacity of 32 million megawatt hours....

KWh = energy, does make sense to talk about capacity. You quote the capacity of your laptop battery in Whr not Watts.

In these days of intermittent supply alternative power sources it makes sense to consider power plants in total energy over a year rather than instantaneous peak power output

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Re: Cooling needs to run in winter "because it's not evaporative"

In winter you can cool with regular heat exchange AC if the outside temperature is low enough. Or even just directly air cool with outside air if you design for that at the atart

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

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Re: @Grunchy

>: it does a load of analysis and generates a mathematical "fingerprint"

if mean_skin_level(image) > 128 {

criminal = True

}

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Re: Generate Extras for free

> attuned to the subtleties of a human face.

Is there anybody appearing in a major Hollywood movie in the last 10 years who had a human face ?

The Silicon is probably more realistic than the Silicone

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Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

There's a lot to be said for replacing the star actor with software.

Get Andy Serkis to do the actoring covered in dots and then render any real or virtual actor over the top.

You can add/remove skin tone to suit different markets

If your leading man gets caught "bumping into choirboys" you can just re-render the Usual Suspects with less problematic leads

You can regularly update old good movies rather than having to remake them or make shitty sequels

You can sell special editions: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Tom Seleck, Jaws with Robert Redford and Steve McQueen

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Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

Well in Phantom Menace the background 'artistes' in the pod racing scene were replaced by Q-tips

Senator trying to force Uncle Sam to share everything it knows about UFOs

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Re: Let Mulder and Scully check this out!

>Sadly, I know people who think that badly scripted and worse acted show was a documentary.

There are people I know that think they are both actors and all of their footage was faked in a movie studio

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Re: True stories...

> "we're legally obliged to inform you that we test using rabbits"

I misread that and expected to see a bunch of guys in beards and big black hats typing away

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Re: Give aliens some credit

>explains that 'v' is spoken as a 'w',

Anyone got any recordings to verify this ?

I know you can do pronunciation of ancient languages by looking at rhymes in songs and poems but W and V would seem to rhyme the same

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Re: Start drafting the legislation

Unless they come from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

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Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

Or you are simply relying on being forgiven later by the same government you are spying for supreme_court_telco_spying_immunity

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Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>writing instrument and paper, discard in a public waste bin, or tear in pieces and discard in several

Nebraska rules Mr Smiley ?

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Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>Peer to peer means the message is sent directly from my phone to your phone

Via apps that you can't inspect, through a phone system you don't control and routed through servers you don't control.

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

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We have a much better system where UnitedLaunchAlliance own the government, rather than the other way round

Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger

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Re: Is the judge blind...

>Is the judge blind...

I hope not, US $ bills don't have any features to assist the ocularly challenged.

So I hope they didn't incentivise him with a brown envelope full of single bills

BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months

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Re: Praxis

He's just a comrade bringing down the capitalist system from the inside

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Praxis

"Jansen won't, however, be remembered for driving shareholder value, with BT's current 122p share price barely half what it was when he joined,

Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones

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> Is someone running LineageOS or GrapheneOS safe?

1, You are still running Google code for the lower level drivers so probably still vulnerable

2, You installed an alternate ROM so you are obviously a terrorist / criminal

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Re: Selected Targets

>Define journalist.

The set of people that have columns in influential papers and would make a fuss with our voters if they thought it applied to them (Note: it will apply to them)

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

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When 'financial advisors' became a registered profession the banks began making their salespeople "financial advisers'

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Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.

To the Central Unit of New Technology ?

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Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.

"Association of Personal Trainers Over the Lifetime of the Trainee"

APTOLT = Am I missing something ?

Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead

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Re: Fuck business

>I love the nostalgia value of my 25 yr old Micra now. In another 25 when electric Johnny Cabs roam the streets it will be quite the sight.

In 10 years only poor people will be driving dead-dinosaur powered cars

In 25 years only rich people will be driving dead-dinosaur powered cars

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

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School children need to be taught that sieges rarely work out for the attackers - if we are going to retake Normandy.

The French should also learn from Crecy and Agincourt to have a plan beyond a disorganized charge at an enemy well equipped with effective projectile weapons (also known as: don't get into an arse kicking contest with a porcupine)

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Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

So we're waiting for some foreigners to turn up, build railways, install a functional government administration, create a global tea planting industry and teach us to play cricket ?

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Yes they need to be taught programming so that they understand that computers just follow precise instructions, and errors, given by programmers - so when a government proposes some computer system to do XYZ they know to laugh.

And they should be taught where electricity comes from so when idiots say we can replace all powerstations running on XYZ with magic unicorns they also know to laugh.

But you can leave out all that stuff about ox-bow lakes, nobody needs to know that.

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Re: Visa-free travel

In case the Tsar tries to send his cosacks through the Kyber pass and threaten her majesty's imperial domain.

Now that the Russ have got over that brief silliness with workers being equal we obviously go back to the great game

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Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

As well as funding the NHS, that £350 million//week was going to replace the Eu farming subsidies and the Eu grants to poor regions and be invested in infrastructure and pay for tax cuts.

It was going to really work hard that £350 million

Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket

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Re: Oops

Although Arianespace is nothing to do with ESA, it was intended to be more like Airbus but the space business is a bit more 'government involved' to be really commercial

Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan

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Re: Job quitting agent - great idea!

"loud quitting" I think this is rather more common in the USA, especially among postal workers

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