Posts by I am David Jones

Re: what is T&G B?

…asks the initials guy :)

(It’s Tony and Gordon Broir/Blaiwn.)

If they were to win, they could avoid the ongoing cost of properly securing customer data, likely far exceeding £500K over time.

There may be full, partial or indeed no correlation between what Microsoft was reported to have said to the ICC and the ‘correction’ that Microsoft has provided to the UK Parliament. The article lacks this crucial information.

Re: You'd like to think

Beyond contractual assurances, would it even be possible to confirm that a modern aircraft doesn’t have remote kill-switch functionality buried in its code?

…leaving a sheet of paper setting out your new hourly rates, effective immediately.

Re: Grifters gonna grift

People aren’t buying these things. They are showing their fielty. And getting some freebie tat as a “thank you”

Is a commercial enterprise building a moon hotel a ‘’national space activity”? I don’t think so. National space activities are things done by or at the behest of a nation.

Re: Meanwhile here in poor Blighty

How about getting our government to manage the basics, like oh how about water supply, before they worry about other stuff

I don’t know, it seems you need a fucking PhD in “how not to be screwed by IT vendor” and those are hard to come by.

IT vendors who want a mutually beneficial business relationship rather than screwing clients with small print…. where are they?

Re: Don't blame me - they virtually banned me

Next time try rephrasing: “Don’t do xyz UNLESS blah blah blah”

Heads up: not a good day to be advocating for Grok

1. It is an established messenger service.

2. It’s European

3. It has a non-trivial user base (10 million).

What more should we be looking for, if the aim is help the move away from US dependency?

Whether or not if technically falls in the scope of any particular project, that’s just details.

Re: Dental?

I’m no expert but I think “alien impregnation” is where we should be looking. Good luck to him.

Re: I don't approve of xAI allowing this to happen

The question is whether it *depicts* a minor. And it’s not hard to ask a member of public / a jury / an expert / a judge “how old do you think that character is”.

Re: What has CES become?

To replace your old multi-million dollar neural compute node rack?

Re: Look at the bigger picture

It would take me “a few minutes” to _begin_ looking up how to configure my router to block certain addresses.

Another few minutes to dig out the router admin password.

Figuring out the IP addresses of all my network devices will cost me a multiple of “a few minutes”. Or am I blocking/permitting wrt MAC addresses? More multiples.

Do I white list or black list?. Which is better? How much am I willing to make life awkward for ourselves and future visitors who want our WiFi? More multiples.

And that’s just the beginning. Now I need to troubleshoot everything that doesn’t work. And you can be goddam sure that some problems will crop up that are entirely unrelated to messing around with the router, because that is inevitable in my house.

So no, “a few minutes” is merely long enough to trash a functioning home network, nothing more.

Among other things it’s the quickest way I have found to shutdown / hibernate / restart a computer.

Actually I think it is a great demonstrator of AI technology to create a digital menu capable of monitoring its users and flipping to the next screen precisely 500 ms too soon.

To date, I haven’t been scammed and I like to think I’m fairly savvy about this sort of thing. But I’m under no illusion that I’m impervious, and I remain grateful that I haven’t yet encountered the scam that pushes my buttons. There but for the grace of God I go …

Re: To buy is to own

Take my wife! Take my children! Just please don’t take my monkey!!!

My point was that a sophisticated time system, working as it does by “composing a special statistical average of many clocks”, ought to know if something is wrong and ought to be taking itself offline.

Maybe I just needed a headline along the lines of “atomic clock drift caused by blackout did not get flagged by the reams of systems that are in place to interpret the outputs of these very big and very complex physical systems”. Not so catchy, I’ll grant you.