* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

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Re: Microsoft Defender ASR snafu.

First they laugh at you

Then they fight you

Then you win

Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road

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Pollutor pays

Was just a typo, the bill should have been "pollute OR pay"

Everyone has to dump 15T of CO2 a year or pay a fine. Similarly you have to dump 10kg of oil, and 0.1kg of Mercury into the nearest water source

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Re: Just a symptom...

We can import food - try living in Wyoming in winter with your power turned off.

And try growing food without John Deere updates or imported fertiliser

Boffins say their protective satellite paint job could harvest power from the Sun

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Re: For totally unscientific reasons

Although your plans can be disrupted by Shome Shcotsman

Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art

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Re: I hope they have a case

>t just feels wrong that you can scrape an artist's work for free,

So if you asked a human artist to paint a landscape "in the style of" Van Gogh - without trying to pass it off as an original - would that be legal ?

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Humans cannot help bringing their own humanity into art.

So long as they have never seen any other artist's work or studied any other art technique.

I'm assuming the owners of all those Renaissance masters have a copyright on the use of perspective - and the Vatican have their own army

AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims

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Re: "Regurgitating transcripts from other cases could be risky"

Whichever is paying - first thing you learn in law school

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Re: How is an AI legally a lawyer?

Corporations are people too

(although still waiting for Texas to execute one)

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Re: "Regurgitating transcripts from other cases could be risky"

Common law is based on precedence from previous cases

What do you call a system which memorises the details of all preceding cases and synthesises and argument based on them ?

Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit

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3 Rules

Do not get involved in a land war in Asia

Do not go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line

Do not invite a vampire Oracle salesman in

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

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Re: PLease stop this...

And the wine, don't forget the wine .

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Re: Next up - Boston Celtics

You got good written evidence for how the British Gauls pronounced it ?

Anyone it's not what they called themselves, it's the Latin translation of the Greek name for them.

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Re: Jerry Cans?

So you were using a cheap English knock-off of a genuine Jerry can?

Not surprised that filling it was verboten

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Re: what Belgians do.

Maybe there's a lost commandment against putting mayonnaise on them?

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Re: When are we going to ban the use of "Washington" as a name?

Why ? It's a lovely little town in Durham

(Durham - not some made up county)

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Re: MongoDB next?

Assuming WindowLickerDB will upset someone in Redmond

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Re: Stupid game

The first nations youth center here has a mural of typical plains Indians on horses with feather headresses and bows and arrows - straight out of a John Wayne movie. Except we're in the Pacific North West and these are coastal Salish people.

I suppose it's no different from a school having Spartans as their football team.

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You mean the "liberty sandwich" with your "liberty cabbage" and "freedom fries"

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No they are big fans of the helicopter names, some tribal leaders even blessed the latest one

It turns out that having the army naming attack helicopters after you because of your fearsome reputation in fighting the US cavalry is way cooler than a web server.

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Re: British... bad guys in movies

When the baddy just has more muscles or guns they are played by an American, when they have to be intelligent and organised evil super-villain they are Brits.

I don't only play villains - I play very interesting people (the great Rickman himself)

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Re: Bit ridiculous

I once had to justify to a Student Union that a showing of Die Hard didn't portray racial stereotypes because the Germans were (spoiler alert) - just crooks not terrorists

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Re: Bit ridiculous

>. Ask the Califormians about floods and water - ..., in Australia, and 2021 in Europe (somehere in Germany or Belgium

That's punishment for their sins.

California is notorious for wearing clothing of different fabrics, Australians throw shrimps on the barbie, Germans love a pork sausage and we don't need to mention what Belgians do.

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Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

Time to rename New York as Inferior Copy York

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Re: Oracle? Sun? Java?

After an overzealous lawyer at Sun tried to sue the island of Java, they published an April fool letter suing the star at the center of the solar system for trademark infringement

NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

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Re: Wonder why they are all showing up in Florida?

All kooks go to Florida

Think of it as Maxwell Daemon for nut jobs

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Re: Terrorist threat to America

But how could you possibly find domestic terrorists now that everyone has perfect encryption and communication security ?

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Section 702 cannot be used to target Americans anywhere in the world or

That might be a small flaw in the plan.

Russians say they can grab software from Intel again

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Re: Reality is starting to bite...

>Because it is against the laws of war to attack civilian objects.

But as long as they claim they are merely de-housing civilians by fire bombing cities it's legit

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Re: Reality is starting to bite...

Is buying politicians covered by sanctions?

What about ones you already own, surely you're free to keep using them - after all you paid for them.

Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff

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But in most US states employers are allowed to harvest your organs - so it's odd that you actually get paid for time you are owed.

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And they expect you to be working normally on UK bank holidays that they don't know about - while scheduling you as cover for all the US holidays because you don't do thanksgiving

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Even weirder in the land of the weird - you accrue sick time

Since you can never take this, because they can fire you if you are sick, you get paid out for it when you leave.

For government jobs you end up with cases where somebody has worked there for 30+ years and has a few years of unused sick leave which is paid when they retire - so their final year's salary is 3x their normal salary. Since govt salaries are all public there is always a scandal story by certain news organisations about a school janitor or binman refusal disposal operative "earning" $200K pa

Stranded ISS astronauts are getting a new Soyuz to ride home

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Re: Suit or seat?

OK, I remember the shuttle orange suits only coming in a couple of sizes cos somebody got bumped from one of the last flights as Nasa didn't have a still-in-date tested suit to fit

I suppose with fancy SpaceX stretchy Lycra suits you need a proper fit.

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Re: Suit or seat?

Can't you put a suit in the rocket going up? Put suit on and come back wearing it?

US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan

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Re: Economics

>It hasn't totally crippled Russia, as they can still trade with China, but China? Their economy is incredibly reliant on the west.

Russia has also been a lot more self-sufficient and people used to it being a bit shit. Things maybe got a bit better after the USSR, at least for people in Moscow/St Petersburg, then maybe got a bit worse recently. And Russians are used to this - as long as the Vodka lasts.

China went from peasants, to mass starvation, to things getting a bit better, to things getting a lot better - if you could move to the coastal cities.

If you are the great leader responsible for millions of people going from owning nice cars and knock-off luxury handbags back to being peasants you are going to need a really good security force.

AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

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Re: "I hope this email finds you well."

Almost all the spam emails full of auto generated hr & management bullshit I receive are from internal email addresses.

The most effective solution is to ignore all email

Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real

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Re: To be fair...

Added to which, abstracts are specifically written to a format to have lots of specific searchable terms so they are found by the readers and appear in the right abstracts and indexes.

It's like giving an accounting statement for a fictional company and saying an accountant couldn't tell it was made up.

FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down

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Re: NOTAMS Alternatives

So air-persons subscribe to messages about specific routes and destinations?

The messages are short and consist of abbreviations that nobody outside the club understand.

I'm thinking of an entirely stable and reliable commercial platform that provides this sort of capability at scale.

And emoticons on NOTAMs would be fun

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Re: 'no evidence of a cyberattack at this point'

This is not just ordinary incompetence, it's special Federal Agency incompetence

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Re: Just after Patch Tuesday? Hmmm.

You think the FAA have updated to windows?

I'm betting a 2000s era IBM mainframe emulating a 1980s IBM mainframe running an IBM mainframe OS from the 60s with an app written in System360 Assembly

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Re: "but which aren't known about enough in advance to publicize by other means"

After the slightly silly renaming of fishermen to fishers (they were always trawlermen in Yorkshire so are now presumably trawlers)

They could rename anyone who flies a plane as "airs" or perhaps "airers". Or since there are no longer any flight engineers or navigators or radio operators - couldn't it just have been "Notice To Pilots" - again except that it would have involved changing a lot of forms

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Re: "but which aren't known about enough in advance to publicize by other means"

And were known as Notice To Air Men for 70years until somebody noticed it was sexist.

There was then a long and involved process to come up with a new pronoun freindly version that wouldn't involve changing lots of software and paper forms

Plus "Air Missions" makes you think of Top Gun while flying a 5am commuter flight to Minneapolis

That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m

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Re: Patient data will be sold,

Except that Palantir is involved - do simply selling your medical data to advertisers / insurers isn't remotely evil enough

Assuming the real plan is Soylent Green and they just want to ensure the supply chain

Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike

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Look, I was just trying to configure pairing with my new Bluetooth equipped smart pee-sensing toilet and I slipped = it could happen to anyone

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Re: Bum

The conspiracy goes much deeper:

Phones get bigger

Pockets in women's clothes get smaller

Women are forced to buy handbags

And the richest person in the world is now the guy that owns the luxury handbag brand LVMH - and he's French so probably a super-villain

Privacy on the line: Boffins break VoLTE phone security

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Re: Need to Ensure Public Interest

Aren't most celebs "effected"? Or is that only when on Graham Norton's show ?

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Isn't the "man" in the middle Carol ?

Although I guess that's a boys name in Poland

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Does it matter ?

Anyone with the wherewithal to mount this sort of attack either has a badge and can demand all this data from the telcos, or can afford to "buy a drink" for a gentleman with a badge

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