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Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech slingers as military collaborators

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Not just China, exporting anything risks empowering economic rivals.

Suppose foreigners used those F150s and Boeings to revitalise their domestic industry ?

Ban all exports now !

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Re: I'm only a humble engineer ... but....

That can't be true because the USA is a global capitalist democracy. It would only interfere in the sacred free market if vital national security were at stake

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I'm only a humble engineer ... but....

I'm having a little difficulty with the logic of:

You can't supply to company A in China because they have links to the evil mustache-twirling commie hoards

You can however sell to company B (not evil mustache-twirling commie hoards) in China, because obviously they wouldn't pass on the parts to company A

But if company A are evil mustache-twirling commie hoards = wouldn't they just take the parts from company B anyway ? It sounds like the sort of thing evil mustache-twirling commie hoards would do !

A Space Shuttle goes vertical for one last time

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Re: That's what they want you to believe

Mr. Bond, you defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you.

Hugo Drax has to be the best Bond villain (sorry Mr Lee but your island lair wasn't as good and your henchman came up short)

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Skyhooks

>Presenting a 200-foot-tall (61 meter) Space Shuttle stack in an earthquake zone does, after all, carry its own challenges.

Just hang it up in the air, with skyhooks

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

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Re: Unfitting corporate punishment

Especially after Fujitsu personally insisted on the prosecutions, good job that nobody from the Post Office, the Government or the DPP was to blame

Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

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Re: Register style guide suggestion

>This commentard humbly suggests that the term for a group of people associated with this project should be referred to as a "SKA band".

Pure Madness

Dell kills sweetheart distribution deal with Broadcom's VMware

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Re: OK, I'll bite

So why doesn't Dell just switch to embedding XEN in its servers instead of VMware?

I buy a Dell server, there is a web GUI to spin up and manage a VM. Unless I'm an expert and doing low level tinkering I don't care how it works. If I am a VMware expert then I'm not relying on Dell anyway.

Dell can save money on paying for VMware and pass the saving on to my C-suite (sniggers)

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

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Re: My high school English teacher

What about butterfly larvae with eating disorders?

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The makers of typewriters and pens have to put technology in place to prevent the creation of fan written "slash fiction" - so this is just the same

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Re: All porn will soon be AI

Strangely that wasn't something the SAG strike mentioned

Is there a separate union for 'artistic performers'? The Brotherhood of Strippers, Flaunters, Fluffers and Amalgamated trades"

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Re: Just AI?

So what's the limit?

If (.)(.) is Ms Swift it's illegal fake porn but if it's Ms Clinton it's 1st amendment protected free speech ?

If the bill passed (it won't) the first target would be any cartoon of $POLITICO claiming it was obscene

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

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Re: A better long-term approach...

Does the GPL allow me to distribute copies under a nondisclosure agreement? (#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA)

No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy from you has the right to redistribute copies, modified or not. You are not allowed to distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.

IIRC redhat were saying that only licence holders could get the code and the licence terms said you couldn't redistribute it.

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Re: A better long-term approach...

RH because they decided to break the GPL (or not break it in a very specifically lawyerish way)

It's true, LLMs are better than people – at creating convincing misinformation

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The Economist model

So having unpaid interns rewriting corporate press releases with no byline has now been automated ?

Sounds inefficient

ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards

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Re: How much does this increase GNSS robustness ?

Generally that's what SBAS is for the USA has WAAS and Europe has EGNOS

It both increases the accuracy a bit but also gives a stronger confirmation signal that you aren't being spoofed.

The original purpose for WAAS was actually to ensure that the GPS signal was real, the FAA got really nervous about that. EGNOS was more important to give accuracy at high latitudes

Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'

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Re: memberries

>Remember when Java was taken over by Oracle and they trashed everything for money?

Yes but Oracle have also done a lot of bad things

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Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

RPi $MegaCorp$ - takes Broadcom chip sticks it on board and can charge $$$ cos schools are going to buy it.

1000 Chinese assemblers, take Broadcom chip, or other similar ARM soc, stick it on a board and charge $

If you want innovation and R&D buy IBM

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Re: Here's hoping the IPO doesn´t ruin the community and support

And that's why you only run BSD and not that Linux stuff where most of the commits come from $EVIL$ $CORPORATION$

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Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

1000s of Aliexpress clones that are close enough to run the Linux upstream builds and have the hats fit

In the same way that you can buy "Arduinos" for 1/10 the cost of Arduinos

FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'

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Naw, it's ok if there are urns

Cpr Nobby St John Nobbs

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Re: Nudity is banned in the US, at least in the media.

>The horror of seeing another human as $DEITY intended.

I think $DEITY only wants to see most Americans naked when DEITY==Cthulhu

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Re: The FBI is Not Concerned About Nudity, as Such

>identify individuals by other-feature recognition

Going to make US immigration even worse

But TSA are going to be only slightly more invasive

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Re: The right to bare arms?

>Nudity is banned in the US, at least in the media

Not totally, wearing sleeveless vests is constitutionally protected

AI is changing search, for better or for worse

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Re: s/for better or//

Every Bing search result * now reads like a first year college essay trying to pad out words

"Blah College dictionary defines datasheet as ....."

(* - don't judge it's the default on Office MSFT machines)

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

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Re: I use....

>But who would care about the Beef labeling monitoring tasks transfer law?

The Beef labeling monitoring tasks transfer law supervisory office

.RindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzAbteilung

Native Chrome arrives fashionably late to the Windows on Arm party

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Re: re : OS nobody cares about

95% of business applications are now online, essentially all Microsoft apps are online

If you are still depending on that 20year old stock control system written in VB for windows95 you might want to move that into a VM anyway

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

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Linux is becoming too easy

Greybeard here who did SLS floppies and risking monitors with modeline

Now with all our office apps online and all the dev environment in docker/conda I can reinstall Linux and be back working in a couple of cups of coffee

We had a bunch if windows laptops updated to Win11, between TOM resets, 'the domain has no trust relationship with this machine' login to domain to fix login problems and all day on support calls we're thinking of just going Linux for engineering and Macbooks for suits while all our office apps are Microsoft O365

Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations

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>Only two percent? I find that hard to believe.

admitted

IBM talks up cost savings, including 'workforce rebalancing'

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Re: What does IBM do these days?

They think up new euphemisms for firing people

If the economy really tanks there will be a massive market as $1Tn FANG stocks all try to 'right-size', 'best-size' reduction-in-force', 'exterminate' (we dropped that one ed.) or 'rebalance human resources' - and IBM will be at the industry forefront of supplying these phrases

Software troubles delay F-35 fighter jet deliveries ... again

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Re: The F-35 engine

F35 gamer mode with RGB engine fans

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Re: Are you out of your frickin' mind, Dave?

Installing updates....please wait...

Your F35 may restart several times, do not turn off

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But presumably Ukraine wouldn't shoot down American Su-57s ?

Datacenters could account for a third of Ireland's electricity by 2026

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Re: A modest proposal

Fortunately the Irish, so long having had to emigrate for a better life, are uniquely welcoming to poor huddled masses arriving on their shores.

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A modest proposal

Ireland's GDP all comes from foreign computer companies

This, together with the small population, makes Ireland the richest country in Europe

So Ireland's actual citizens are basically unnecessary

Simply reduce the surplus population and you would solve the energy crisis while increasing Irish per-capita GDP

I have penned a modest proposal to this end

United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues

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Re: Hot off the press: Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

And the particular airframe was delivered in 1992.

So if the airline haven't had to do any replacement or maintenance on the nosewheel in the last 30years then that's an even bigger credit to Boeing's designers

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Airbus build planes in America - in Alabama, Kansas and Virginia and have offices in Florida and Texas

So a bunch of proud patriotic Republican senators are going to make sure that nobody has to rename them Freedom Aircraft

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Presumably they just have to get Chinese certification and everybody else accepts it - after all that's what Boeing did

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Re: Manufacturing

So Boeing moved production from heavily unionized plants in Washington to cheaper non-union workers in plants in the confederacy less-developed states

And the problem is communism ?

Boeing goes boing: 757 loses a wheel while taxiing down the runway

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Re: Obvious cause

So we need to increase the pensions of retired Boeing CEOs ?

Florida man slams 'tyranny' of central bank digital currencies in re-election bid

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Re: Sigh

Pie = Stuff on top of pastry

If the pie only has pastry on top then you are in some pretentious gastropub that can't do proper pies.

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Re: Sigh

I think we need a CAPTAHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Americans and Humans Apart)

Click on all the boxes that contain a pudding

I just spent a meal trying to define what a "pudding" was to a French colleague = a Yorkshire pudding is a pudding, and a blood sausage is a pudding and a chocolate cake is a pudding?

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Re: Hilarious

>Anyone who wasn't the Aryan ideal was an enemy of the state according to Nazi ideology.

Always wondered how they squared that with having Japanese allies?

Nazi1: These Japanese are small weak inferior asiatics

Nazi2: Yes but they are viscous little racist bastards as well

Nazi1: Ok we can be friends

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

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Re: Late stage capitalism

It's all been downhill since 1600 and the VoC

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How many ?

How many people does an online jumble sale need?

A few BOfH, a couple of PFYs, some heavies to go round and deal with anyone who complains, some lawyers to deal with aftermath of previous

Certainly not (100/9) * 1000 employees

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

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Re: Trigger-Happy Cops Must Take Some Blame

It's just a translation issue:

English: "Please go and take a look and make sure these people are OK"

American: "Go to this address, shoot the dog and then pour automatic fire into the house before ringing the bell"

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Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.

The tree was coming right for us...

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Re: Trigger-Happy Cops Must Take Some Blame

Seems a terribly labor intensive and expensive process.

Judging from all the impressively accurate artilalry systems being demonstrated in Ukraine couldn't some much more cost-effective Shooting-As-A-Service be implemented?

Simply enter the coordinates into a local police website, put in your credit card number, and have 155mm of constitutionally protected bared arms delivered to your special friend

ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth

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Re: Dutch rules

>We all know that shifting manufacturing to Asia (out of sight out of mind) has massively backfired and undermined development and prospects of the EU economies.

Yes ASML would have been much better off if Intel and TI had been forced to manufacture chips at home with their own US built steppers and Japanese makers had been forced to use Canon and Nikon

Then ASML could have profitably supplied Philips alone

Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases

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Re: Apple in Russia?

So if things really get bad and sanctions get serious we are going to have SAP move into Russia ?

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