Comment Re:Nuclear is a dead and dangerous technology (Score 1) 196
The government could stop sending billions to Israel every year. That would buy a lot of solar.
Yes, that would definitely help
Comment Re:Nuclear is a dead and dangerous technology (Score 4) 196
there's no reason why the government can't do that and just give everybody free electricity.
It's not free. Someone has to pay for it. If you're saying the government will build it and then give the electricity away for free, where do you think the government got the money to build it?
This is as bad as Europeans crowing about "free" healthcare or higher education. It's not free. They paid for it with their tax euros.
Comment They're garbage (Score 3, Interesting) 23
May dad lost access to his AOL email 2 months ago, and every phone call and every email exchange I've had with them since has been the exact same script. In short, he's being asked to verify who he is, even though he's never had to do so in the decade he's been with them, but there's nothing to verify against. One guy said he reviewed the case, and said from time-to-time people need to verify themselves. He couldn't have reviewed anything because he's the same guy who asked me to send a screenshot of what my dad is seeing. He would have known what the situation is. I'm fairly convinced it's some agentic AI being used because it's difficult to comprehend something being this stupid.
I can't even call them incompetent. Incompetence implies something was tried and done poorly. Nothing has been done. Zero. They're nothing but a bunch of script kiddies reading the same words over and over, never doing anything.
Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan, and Allen & Company didn't do their due diligence. Whatever "metrics" they were looking at, they failed to look at the most important: how companies treat their customers. Not that they care. They got their money, so they're happy. It's the investors who will be unhappy as people leave this shit show.
Buyer beware. If a company can't fix a problem they created, you don't want them.
Comment Re:And yet . . . (Score 1) 51
When Musk proposed the data center he said the turbines would be temporary. Over a year later and all he's done is add more turbines while not making a single attempt to get a permit. He does this because the surrounding community is mostly poor black people who already have a high incidence of asthma and other health issues.
So no, the articles are not incorrect. He's running unpermitted gas tubines.
Comment Re:More pandering to Epstein class billionaires (Score 1) 131
It goes along with gotta have a fart nozzle on your car and annoy everyone around you.
Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 1) 50
Nope:
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Comment And yet . . . (Score 3, Informative) 51
He can't use electricity to power his datacenter in Tennessee, instead runing unpermitted gas turbines 24/7 simply because it's next to poor people.
Comment Re:Backfire (Score 1) 111
Processionals are literally paid to tell you to use their products. Why would you listen to anything they say?
Agreed. When building a home or bridge, no need to listen to the professionals. All they're doing is getting paid to tell you to use their products.
Let me guess, you don't brush your teeth because professionals tell you it's a good way to prevent cavities because all they're doing is telling you to use their products.
Comment Is this how Rust security works? (Score 1, Funny) 3
Just curious if this is how Rust does security. Can anyone confirm?
Submission + - Alan Turing developed a portable voice encryption device (popularmechanics.com)
smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
“Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack,” Copeland summarizes, “Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack.”
Turing’s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes “was a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.”
The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well.
This is the part of the story where one might say “Well, I’ve never heard of Alan Turing’s voice encoder, so the experiments must have failed.” But remarkably, they didn’t. Turing and Bayley actually did create their Delilah, and even demonstrated it using a recording of a Winston Churchill speech, “successfully encrypting, transmitting, and decrypting it.”
Instead, the reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isn’t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasn’t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turing’s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turing’s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.
Comment Re:What Line of Work Is He In? (Score 0) 79
since 2023, helping Harrell communicate naturally, control a computer, and return to full-time work
Exactly what job does he hold that he can perform under these conditions?
Apparently a support person for AOL. Fox six weeks my dad has lost access to his email because their system screwed up something, and for six weeks all I've heard from them is reading from a script. No help, no escalation, no nothing.
With their IPO coming up, I'm about ready to go to the media and lay out how incompetent they are. Let the investors know what a shit show they're getting involved with.
Yes, AOL mail still exists. He was moved over from his ISP's email to them a while back. It's simple and does all that he needs at his age.
Comment Well duh! (Score 1) 65
The company jumped into AI with its Llama family of models
Of course they'd have issues. Everyone knows llamas can be pains in the asses. Should have gone with alpacas.
Comment Re:Any Evidence? (Score 3, Interesting) 110
Also, what would Russia and Iran be spending them on?
Have to pay your troops. Or in Russia's case, bribe people to enlist then pay out when they're killed the next week.
Also have to pay the companies making your guns, drones, and ammunition. Or, in Russia's case, paying people to put out fires at their oil refineries which keep going up in flames.
Comment That explains it (Score 1) 156
At lunch, I go out and walk around to get some exercise. There's one moron who walks on the left side of the sidewalk, into oncoming "traffic". They'll move to the right side as you come at them, but then back to the left side once you pass.
They must have used him in the study.
Comment A good test (Score 1) 17
If they want to do a really good test on this garment, have someone wear it around New York right now. If the person stays cool, it's a winner.
