Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: One time pads: one more thing

Having grown up in the French court she presumably had access to a means of secret communication unintelligible to the English

Re: Cost

So what the RAF needs is Biggles and Biplanes? The defence spending review might be able to get behind that.

Re: Cost

>Wonder how much the cost of keeping the pilot and F22 or what ever flying per hour is

For an F22, the DoD say $70K/hour. That's why they want to replace it with the bargain F35 which will only cast $45K/hour

>I'd imagine the missile cost is minimal by comparison

Price of the missile is $430K

I would assume that the anti-aircraft missile set fire to it. As we know all chemicals are rendered harmless to the environment once set on fire

Re: Republicans have a lot to answer for

If you can be goaded into military action by people who claim that Jewish space lasers caused forest fires, Italian satellites control voting machines and trickle down economics works - you don't deserve to have an air force

Re: Oracle is targeting users on Java compliance after new licensing terms

> wean your company off any of Oracle's proprietary products

That's why they are going after Java.

You dump Oracle but you use Virtualbox or the next bit of infrastructure Oracle buy

Re: Sanity check?

I'm in a very similar position with my startup idea to sell 4 quarters for a $

The business plan suggests that I can just about break even, and so I need a $1Bn subsidy to make any profit

Re: American Midwest

Yes but it's full of people that don't believe in climate change and are poor.

So the only people who will really suffer are satirical website writers

Re: 19th Century England or 21st Century USA?

You are free to strike so long as you balloted the members properly - in ancient Greek by hidden scroll buried in a pyramid not less than 3000 years before the beginning of the action.

The strike doesn't reduce the service below statutory minimum levels - defined as 110% of the normal operating level

And doesn't cause any financial damage to anyone in the company, its customers, its customers tennis partners, its customers tennis partner's friends, etc

Re: Denial[TM] to the rescue!

>There's no first mover advantage and no network effect with cars

There was with Tesla originally, at least here in the former colonies. It was the first EV that wasn't a huge compromise (looking at you BMW i3) , then the model 3 was "affordable" and you had the fast charger network.

Now that you can buy an EV version of every car and there are DC fast chargers, although still not as good as the Tesla network if you are driving cross country.

I wonder if Tesla can force a buyer lock-in? The drawback of not having a dealer network. You could allow owners to transfer "licensed" features, like self driving to new models. IIRC there was a case where some add-on feature was blocked on a car that was sold 2nd hand, can't remember what the court ruling was.

Re: Denial[TM] to the rescue!

If it becomes embarrassing to own a Tesla in the cool set then there are a now a lot of alternatives that may offer better performance / value / etc

It's not clear Tesla has the same consumer lock-in as say owning an iPhone,

Re: "Tesla has reportedly fired employees [..] just a day after workers announced plans to unionize"

> It seems they are all pining for the Pinkerton days of yore.

Too expensive, but those Wagner guys are probably cheap - now if only we can get H1Bs for them

Re: Understandable

But we're all fans of Police unions?

How else do we break strikes

>There are enough poor people worldwide in a need of a job for him not to worry about this.

But are there enough rich people in the USA who are eco warrior enough to want a Tesla but also hate unions ?

A Tesla is a flash bastard asparational purchase, not sure who buys it if it comes with a MAGA hat

Re: 19th Century England or 21st Century USA?

So do we get transported to Australia for trying to form a union now ?

Re: Flawed logic

Presumably what they are really paying for is Apple not to do adblock.

Apple halved the value of Facebook by blocking tracking, if they put a piHole style block list into their OS then 1, They would have even more happy users, 2, Google would lose $$$$$bn

Brave, Edge and Safari are all, to a greater or lesser extents, Chrome

Re: Argh!

> nitroglycerine, or petrol, or uranium, or propane,

Uranium is pretty safe, it takes really quite a large of ingenuity to make the spicy rocks go all spicy

They were, one line was in duct 'A' and the other was in duct '1' - the two ducts just happened to be superimposed in exactly the same place in "real world" space, on the network chart they are totally separate

Re: Baseline

Cromulent.AI ?

Re: "quickly distill information"

That's why I always ask the lady at the information desk at the library

Re: The Very Near Future ... but not as you were expecting IT and AI to make it for you.

>Let the Chatbots negotiate an agreement. Each side can select their favourite bot, trained on their own data.

Isn't this how they got to this state in the first place?

Blessed are the cheese makers

Re: "Who cares if it's real?"

In the context of a movie ?

No the audience don't care if this is a "real" actor, a cgi puppet character or an Andy Serkis motion capture rendered as a CGI character - it's what the on-screen impression is, not how it got there.

Now in the "real" world, is it real migth matter

Re: Dune

Thou shalt not make a tech CEO in the likeness of a human mind

Re: Hi! I'm Clippy!

Well the building used to be the Chinese embassy but nobody got the change-of-address card

Re: Skynet...

You ever tried to cancel a subscription and return the box?

That customer service rep is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead

>Nah, the team from TOPGUN will beat the AI at its own game any time of the day...

At beach volleyball certainly, but once we can cover the AIs in body oil.....

Re: Unsurprising... and also unwise

>That's quite apart from the generally bad idea of letting a computer autonomously control highly dangerous weapons

That's why heat seeking missiles contain an intern to determine if the plane they locked onto is a passenger jet

Re: Presumably this is why ...

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