They need to face up to reality and go to a subscription model just like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+
You seem to be missing the main point of many of these BBC services - they are for public benefit and/or in support of UK soft power.
Get us back to normal infrastructure costs.
Pop that bubble already, the longer it goes the worse it'll be.
You don't need to be constantly shoulder-surfing to check what's installed or what sites they've visited.
Nor do you need to check those things daily until the moment they turn 18.
> build the governance first, get the key parties committed, define the trust roots, enforce the rules – is precisely the kind of process that works in Switzerland and struggles almost everywhere else.
Quite possibly the truest thing I will read all day, in both its assessment of Switzerland and its assessment of not-Switzerland.
I'm sorry... is this a comedy article?
What kind of...
....Where the air is made of unicorn farts and fairies provide IT support?....
the so-called "Smart Underwear" quietly keeps tabs on every toot
It would be more fun if a loud siren was activated and the name of the miscreant was projected onto the office wall.
systemd?
If you're having to have your staff validate the work being farmed out to an automated system and then correct it because it doesn't do what it's supposed to, then that automated system isn't fit for purpose and you shouldn't be using it.
Fanbois vs fanbois vs fanbois.
I go back to the days of IBM versus the 7 dwarfs, and who can forget the 8086 vs Z80 vs 6502 vs 68000 vs ...
a "tit" ?
I think this study is less about the bullshit bingo itself, but far more a genuine confirmation of what we all suspected.
Those that drink the Koolaid, are generally crap at their jobs.
Instead of glue and rivets holding major parts together, the Neo relies heavily on screws.
It's quite possible that this is because US oblast administration has sniffed all the glue supplies.
Now I haven't used Windows in years, so my knowledge may be out of date, but doesn't Windows spray files and data all over the C and other drives?
Windows has never done that.
Daleks have been helping Iran and we will unleash a FURY on them like the world has never before seen!
We will not accept anything less than COMPLETE and UNCONDITIONAL surrender.
You could have just saved us all time and said "I don't read books", you know.
Tried to, the NPC suck.
> I'm slightly confused (or better yet -uninformed) - what are the biggest benefits oh using bcachefs over btrfs?
The summary is right there on the title of the bcachefs project website:
It's always DNS...
They have to use a combination of "oh boobies" and "think of the children" because the techbros are rather intertwined with the current government.
Plus the demagogues rely upon these networks, they wouldn't like the algorithm quietly tweaked to defavour them.
My next car will be another oldie.
Restored and still a fraction of the cost of a new one.
"To be fair" the postmasters should not have been prosecuted in the first place.
"To be fair" Fudge-it-sue should not have denied that the system could not be wrong in any shape or form.
Using 'fiber' whilst referencing a UK company is inexcusable.
Because they have HUGE responsibility; are responsible for THOUSANDS of people; without them the company would IMMEDIATELY fail & go out of business...er, sorry - that's bollocks, isn't it?
"This revised timeline reflects the scale of the change, impacting over 20,000 users, and the need to ensure a safe, stable system with a reliable and accurate payroll, particularly for schools and term-time employees,"
Are they saying that they started the project without the need to ensure a safe, stable system with a reliable and accurate payroll, particularly for schools and term-time employees?
What I fail to understand is how something like this is could possibly be pushed into production - surely the most elementary of testing would have shown.......
Oh no wait; testing!!!!
I think this is for monitoring satellites and snooping on their orbits.
It is not for protecting any specific space.
Fortunately, calculators aren't in the habit of making stuff up.
My work PC downgraded last year from 10 to 11, and as time goes on gets slower and slower.
Adds features I do not use, hogging RAM and CPU cycles.
The earliest signs of life on the planet are still a few hundred million years after its formation.
These molecules themselves aren't "life" and the conditions inside Earth, or even just on its surface, during its formation would have dissociated them anyway.
Terrible people.
They have treated America so badly.
$500,000,000 / 100,000 workers == $5000 / worker / year == $417 / worker / month.
Guess now we know where the PHBs get all their quality.
Sales guy came into the engineering office all excited.
"I've sold this MASSIVE system to a new client.
You forgot
Week 0: We are going to piss off EVERY SINGLE ONE of our allies, by imposing tariffs, threatening to invade their countries and doing our best to undermine their sovereignty.
Absolutely.
Boeing is the poster child for companies ruined by MBAs squeezing everything to generate cash to buy their own shares.
The optimistic part of me wants to congratulate them for ratifying a reasonable position to protect their community and utility rates.
The cynical part of me knows that if there is money is to be made in the US, you can legislate, poison, smear and/or displace any number of ordinary people standing in the way of your projected profits, with little to no consequences.
You’re too pessimistic.
Just imagine how exciting it would be to live in a world where fusion power continually remains a mere 5 years away!!
"R&D and production costs are very high, alongside a price tag that makes it unattainable to the majority of consumers."
By all means make a proof of concept so you can see potential iterations of the design but if you want to take it to production that will cost a lot of money that you will have to try to recoup later on.
One common example in the US is that the main train station in New York City would not meet the radiation limits required for a nuclear power plant.
The building is made of granite and so is naturally radioactive to a degree higher than allowed for a nuclear power plant.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to sphere"?
IF it is clearly in the contract that's one thing
But also IF I am going to be charged 50% of the remaining subscription then I better well GET 50% of the remaining subscription.
Is that the EU is getting better at defining regulatory frameworks that appear, at least on the surface, to be well thought out.
Delivery of said regulations and actual policing/compliance checks are another matter all together.
The USA had one too, Voice of America.
Gee, Donald, I wonder if such a service might be useful, right about now.
$1.25T invested in slop generation, 1 milli-percent on ameliorating the damage
Demanding its engineers use its own AI tools for coding and "There will be metric reports on how much you use it.
If you don't use it, we'll show you the door".
I mean if you run production on someone else's computer, don't be surprised they'll arrange it their way.
Perhaps because you're implying there's something that is immune to or at least never has had security vulnerabilities?
People affected by any vuln are going to be unhappy that it happened.
It is about having an excuse to fire people they don't like, i.e. those that question the mental state of the manglement.
It also pleases shareholders, apparently.
No, not that seriously, stupid boy.
Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.
McDermott also claimed that ServiceNow's AI platform could handle 90 percent of the tasks that humans used to have to in customer service.
Thanks to its liquid metal poly-alloy construction, it can just re-form itself after that; the silver blobs of melted metal coalesce and run together, the G-1 unit then resuming its remorseless promotional activities without pity or fear.
The amount of energy and money wasted on these bullshit generators, in the middle beginning of an energy crisis is just obscene..
We have finite gas, and finite electricity generation/transmission/distribution capacity.
I'm working with Java since it's 0.9 pre-release back in the 90s, but today, Java is often too complex, too slow, too costly and plagued by bad business decisions by Oracle.
So Detroit's rust-covered factory halls and its management style that is focused more on pressing out that last cent instead of keeping innovation going might actually not be such a bad choice :)
"just adding some random gibberish to your results ....."
That's fine, it's for Ai, so no-one will notice anything different
Because...
a) ... it is so overhyped that everybody is running around like headless chickens full of FOMO
I had a client's new PA who ranted at me over the phone.
Same as the pirate in the story.
" the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production."
I can write code like that and I'm not even a software engineer.
You must paint them Green.
Then you can tell everyone that you work at a Green facility!
Insist they come for an in-person interview at some point before extending the offer, even if they will be based half a planet away.
Their total salary, including benefits, is going to cost you six figures per year.
It shows how the background costs must be killing them.
With previous educational promotions you'd go to considerable effort to ensure that the kids you were hooking didn't think about costs
Never.
The more bloated their bank balance is, the more they want to inflate it.
So Paul McCartney - who didn't own his own catalogue for decades - is now the face of protecting creators' rights.
Touching.
"Data centres that don't come with their own power supplies should pay the necessary costs ...
And if they're not prepared to do this, then they're not serious."
You are not you is what the resident was told.
But, says the resident, how can you say that I am not me? Easy, our system has determined that you are walking 500 miles away from here and our tracking system still has you at that location.
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