* Posts by A Non e-mouse

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Tesla to license Full Self-Driving stack to other automakers, says Musk

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Re: Behind, always behind

The hype around autonomous cars was bult by Uber so they wouldn't have to pay humans to drive humans around. Everyone followed their hype without thinking: Is this the real problem?

I think the real benefits of FSD are on long(er) distance, intercity routes (e.g. Motorways/autobahns/autoroutes/etc). And then, probably the first use case would be lorries/trucks: Human drives the truck to motorway, flicks the switch and then goes to sleep until the truck drives unit the exit/off-ramp. (If you've got multiple autonomous trucks, you could get them to talk to each other and slipstream safely)

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

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Alien

There's a reason why the hyper-connected Borg supressed emotions in their drones....

Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward

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Mushroom

The Post Office and Fujitsu put many people through hell, pushing two to take their own lives. There should be an unreserved appology and rapid & generous compensation payouts* for the hell they inflicted. Then we should lock up the execs at PO & Fujitsu and throw away the key.

Unfortunately, this is too much common sense so the chance of this happening is zero.

My sympathies to the people who had to endure this corporate f**k up.

[*] And the money should go to the victims, not line the pockets of lawyers.

Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over

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Part of me wants Twitter to go bankrupt quickly so this is all over. But watching him squirm has a certain schadenfreude.

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

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It's the display technologies rather than the CPU/memory stuff. e.g. High DPI, colour technologies, hardware acceleration, higher refresh rates, etc.

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

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Coat

Re: Poor design in my opinion

I Endeavour to support your Thaw-t.

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FAIL

I could never work out why a cable carying AC electricity has "direction".

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Re: Poor design in my opinion

Someone turns up in a red Jag?

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

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Re: A whole lot of depreciation

I don't think these kind of cars lose value very quickly. If anything, they gain value over time.

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

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Re: Speed issues

My kids ask for an "Android charger" when they mean mini/micro USB.

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Re: 4G or ADSL backup

All through lockdown with working from home and heavy Netflix usage, my family never got close to 1TB per month of usage. Maybe we're just "lite" users.

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

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Lack of factory space? These things aren't small!

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Headmaster

Re: Or how that

Er, wasn't it cancelled before its (only) successful launch?

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Re: But wait! There's more...

And provided they're not paid just to sit on their butts doing nothing, their output contributes to society.

Singapore tells crypto operators: act like grown up financial institutions

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Paul Chan declared blockchain technology underpinning Web3 features has the "potential to solve many difficulties and pain points encountered in finance, trade, business operations and even day-to-day life.

The blockchain snake-oil business is clearly still very strong in Hong Kong.

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

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"While no one can put a price on slamming the phone down on a call center worker"

Despite wanting to tell the call centre workers where to go, I try and remember that they are humans stuck in a dead-end job trying to make a living to put food on their table.

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With the scripts that some companies make their operators use, you could argue it's been going on already for decades.

Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos

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Facepalm

A few weeks ago he said Twitter was now only worth half what he paid for it. With this weekend's screw-up, is there any value left in the kitty? I mean, a site that makes money from people seeing its content restricts its users ability to see content can't be worth much now, can it?

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

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WTF?

Who’d have thought that changing a core property of a project would incur extra cost and delay completion.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: AP news

In my defense, I always remember the phrase being "two pennies worth". I have no idea what type of penny it referes to. Writing it down as £0.02 is just a minor nerd/geek pun.

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FAIL

Re: 4 murdered with their murdered

You shouldn't be using an experimental submarine for commercial gain and hiding behind stupid cover-your-arse disclaimers.

Sure, the inventor/designers can fill their boots with tests in it, but as soon as you start risking other people's lives with this thing, you'd better have some solid engineering behind it. (part of that engineering would be some destructive testing to find the flaws in your design.)

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Re: AP news

The El Reg article says the nose cone (& tail) has been found, so my £0.02 is on it being the main titaniium/carbon fibre body that failed.

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Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

I wonder if they'd ever heard of the de Havilland Comet...

The ZX81 finally gets the keyboard it deserves

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Re: How times have changed..

People slate Sinclair for their terrible quality. But it was the low price that reallly kicked off the home computer boom in the UK.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

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Re: Lock him up

I would love to jump 50 years into the future to see what historians make of this period. (That does assume that we've managed to not nuke ourselves off the face of this planet by then...)

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Facepalm

Re: as did his aide Walt Nauta

I think in another court appearance the orange one had a lawyer who wasn't licensed in that state.

IANAL but surely one of the things you check before going to court is that you are an authorised lawyer in that state/court?

US senators and spies spar over Section 702 warrantless surveillance

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Meh

It's good that abuse of the current system is being looked into. I'm not convinced that just getting a warrant from a court is enough to prevent further abuses. Courts often just wave through requests and how much data is going to be published about these warrant applications so a meaningful oversight of the process can be made? You almost want a mini-trial where you have an independent "defense" lawyer arguing for a client they've never met. (If you have a pool of these defense lawyers, you can security vet them to ensure they're not going to spill the beans.)

Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed

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FAIL

...the [Customer Success Services.] org "ensures that customers get the most value from their Oracle purchases, from planning to activation to implementation to support to anything else they need to succeed.

"We think this unique approach, which customers already tell us they love, ultimately drives overall customer satisfaction. And that results in higher renewal rates, expansion rates, and references."

Firstly, no, you're not the first company to have customer success teams. Lots of other companies do this (some do it very well)

Secondly: Who'd have thought that helping your customer (rather than firing lawyers at them every five minutes) would incentivise customers to buy & use more of your product, or to act as a good reference sites to help you sell to new customers?

The saying "The beatings will continue until morale improves" is a joke, not an instruction.

HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0

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But Microsoft’s Exchange came to dominate, in part because it focussed on email and calendaring while Notes/Domino was pitched as an environment in which to build and run messaging-centric apps

It was also the peak of FUD at Microsoft which saw Microsoft squash many other software companies through dubious practises.

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

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I was working on the move of one of our offices. It all appeared to be going well. The PM asked if there was anything we should be worried about. The two letters "BT" were uttered and the mood in the room nose dived.

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Re: Poor Project Planning

normally a call to the BT/GC/VERIZON/AT&T/VODAFONE account manager sorts it especially if it’s only a month or 3.

ROFL

Do they still have account managers? Do those people actually understand either the customers they're supposed to serve or the products their company provides?

Thought not.

The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023

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Maybe I'm getting old, but could we at least have a picture?

This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again

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For a one-off job, you're right, you don't need a second source.

But NASA want flights to ISS (& the Moon) to be a more regular occurence. And if you're going to be buying more than a couple of something, you really don't want to be held to ransom by a sole-supplier. (If you're in the UK just take a glance at Motorola & the Airwave debacle. El Reg passum)

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>>> Apollo 1 entered the chat

Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos

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Headmaster

This is a bad idea. There are plenty of studies that show that talking on a mobile whilst driving is bad for you (and others around you!) that surely this should be a no-brainer NO?

This malicious PyPI package mixed source and compiled code to dodge detection

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Re: Why have pyc files in a package anyway?

I am not a Python guru, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't manually read some data (e.g. "image.jpg") or a hex string embedded in a .py file and then get that executed, so skipping the .pyc file.

US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'

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Re: Pulling the plug is still an option,

I could never understand how, in the various Star Trek franchies, there was never an emergency power off button or lead to unplug on their fancy systems. (Well, except Data/Lore)

Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86

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I suggest Jensen takes a closer look at IBM's mainframes. Whilst they do have a central controlling CPU, they also tend to have various sub-processors which offload work from the CPU (e.g. I/O). His claims about killing of the 360 are a bit fancifal as it's more he's copying the IBM 360.

Since when did my SSD need water cooling?

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Re: Progress

Why sit them flat on the motherboard and not vertically like RAM?

Maybe there's a potential issue with mechanical stress on the connector? Especially if the mobo is mounted vertically.

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Maybe it's to do with the small fan size on an SSD?

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

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Re: Diligence?

...is bought in from one of the big corporates, who's main area of expertise is extracting money from clients that don't have the skills or expertise to define what they need

You'll find the big corporates are quite happy to pay expensive lawyers to tie the public sector in legal knots. The public sector just can't compete with the legal budget. The corporates know this and are happy to continue to pay for the expensive lawyers as it's a legal way to win big contracts - and to continue squeezing money out of the public sector.

Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink

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many datacenter operators used to cooling 6-10 kilowatt racks

I wish. We had one commercial DC say we could only put in 3kW per rack.

IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

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Black Helicopters

The Police aren't always as dumb as people make them out to be. (And crooks aren't always as smart as they think they are either)

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

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In my first place of work, they used an external bureau service (as it was called then) to run our payroll. After a while they decided to bring it "in house" as it was cheaper than paying a monthly subscription.

What goes around, comes around.

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The 1990s called and want their Netboot NICs back.

Rigorous dev courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity

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Absolutely. It's all about wining the war and loosing the odd battle.

Up to £895M up for grabs in UK Emergency Services procurement

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The gravy train reached the end of the line.

Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims

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I wouldn't recommend an electric car to someone who can't get a home charger installed and switch to an appropriate over-night charging tariff. (I'm paying 8p/kWh to charge overnight)

Also, my car's manual says to not regularly fast charge as it reduces battery life.

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I've been in the market for a BEV for a while. Tesla was at the top of my list. But over time I noticed things about Tesla that made me uncomfortably buying from them. I now own a BEV and it's not a Tesla.

I don't miss the fart mode or the OTA updates.

MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations

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Mushroom

Content creators would perform for paying audiences, or, in the case of software developers, consult. It's actually not that complicated.

That may work at the top end of the market (Think Beyonnce, AC/DC, Damien Hurst, et al) but what about all those at the lower end? Smaller bands barely break even on their gigs - which is why they're always pushing the merch (T-Shirts, mugs, books, CDs, DVDs, etc)

On top of that, you've got all the allegations about the tour promotors & managers making more money than the artists. And let's not get into the rant about many acts miming during their concerts. (I've even seen a mid-level artist provide their own pre-recorded audience applause)

You've then got the issue of constantly being on tour. Because unless, again, you're at the top, people are unlilkely to travel far to see you and your local audience will soon tire of you. Being on tour is not glamorous: It's hell.

Finally, how many times have you heard about an artist being broke when alive yet their work increases in value many orders of magnitude after their death? (What was that alleged quote about Elvis' death: "Great carear move"?)