Re: Should-Be Obvious Failure
Donkeys are mammals. Aristotle is a mammal. Therefore, Aristotle is a donkey...
Do they actually still teach logic these days, even to programmers?
Posts by Neil Barnes
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District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data
Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline
Thursday 12th March 2026 17:44 GMT 
delays in receiving parts, service keys, manuals, and other necessary repair materials
Other than _uncommon_ spare parts, why are the others not included in the box when the machine is new?
Yes, yes, I'm old. I remember things you could fix once you'd bought them. I see no reason why this should no longer be the norm; the only reason for holding back on essential machinery - from cars to combine harvesters, from thermostats to hospital monitors - is blackmail, pure and simple.
Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition
Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks
Wednesday 11th March 2026 05:44 GMT
Re: verified at OS level
That will work well on this machine: it uses one of those newish Intel semi-cameras that offloads the image software to the processor (like the old soft modems used to do) and at the moment, it doesn't work with this linux. No piccies from the onboard camera! About which I am _not_ complaining.
Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience
UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty
Thursday 5th March 2026 10:14 GMT
Re: Digital currency
I don't carry _any_ financial instruments on my mobile. I do no phone banking or phone purchases. Ever. I don't have the banking application, the credit card application, or paypal and its friends.
Your mileage may vary, but I consider the mobile phone one of the least secure devices in my possession and an obvious target for criminality. So it's used to message, to navigate sometimes, to take photographs in the absence of better solutions.
A financial system which requires every user to have a mobile phone is broken by design, and probably equally by design insecure.
HR may have to cajole and soothe reluctant employees to get them to use AI
Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies
MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver
Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
Monday 2nd March 2026 09:41 GMT
a modernized UI with a ribbon
Well that's a deal breaker right there. As long as Libre Office continues to use menus as the great $deity intended, that's where I'll stay.
Funny, four thousand years or so ago the Mesopotamians invented writing, and now we've advanced back to pictograms (which, in spite of all their apologists, are firmly based on shared cultural norms) and indeed, bombing the descendants of those pesky Mesopotamians. That'll teach 'em.
OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic
Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports
OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw
Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
AI models suck slightly less at math than they did last year
Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers
Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios
Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app
Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that
Thursday 26th February 2026 09:09 GMT
Re: "AI"... What?
I own a phone - not a Samsung and hopefully without AI - but I have absolutely no idea of what half the functionality on it does. It's all very well to talk about 'obvious' and 'discoverability', but would it be really too difficult to include some sort of manual by default?
(I'm not a heavy phone user; a charge can last half a week.)
Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner
Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load
Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing
Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them
Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers
SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists
Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
Thursday 19th February 2026 11:42 GMT
Re: If some genius hadn't decided that all cars had to be connected
That process only works on Thursdays when jupiter is in retrograde.
A side effect of the automation is that my car will drive the brakes on when the car is off but it detects movement. Probably a good idea but the only time I've seen it do it is when it's on the train in the channel tunnel... When it insists. I stop the already stopped car...
Thursday 19th February 2026 06:39 GMT
If some genius hadn't decided that all cars had to be connected
Then it would be much simpler to identify those which were.
There may be use cases where internet connection is useful to the driver, but there are none I can sensibly come up with where it is essential - easily proven by observation: my thirty year old Fiat is neither more nor less capable than my seven year old Renault (deliberately poverty spec to avoid all the touch screen insanity but still with too much unnecessary tech for my taste: who ever thought replacing a handbrake cable with an electric motor requiring special software to be able to change the pads was a good idea?). And there is no obvious way in which continuous online connectivity is a benefit to me as the driver.
Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs
Thursday 19th February 2026 20:05 GMT
While these attacks don't hurt banking customers
Um, yes. Yes they do.
Any theft - whether it's money from 'the bank', cheating on taxes, shoplifting, stealing parcels from people's doorsteps - has a knock on effect throughout society. It may be only a few cents here and there, maybe only fractions of a penny... but there are such a lot of them. That's your pension that's not paying as well because the bank shows a lower profit and has a lower share price and dividend payout.
It still hurts you - and me - somehow. It's never a victimless crime.
Of course, whether its comparable to losses caused by a 'self-made' multi-billionaire is another question. It might be a defensible claim that people gave their hard-earned money to billionaire voluntarily. I mean, it's 'free' to use the 'services' that such parasites have created, right?
Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read
Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives
Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
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