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byAlain Williams
ry 01, 2026 @11:41AM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
No it wasn't, it was just called Greenland to trick people into living there.
This appears to be true:
The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name."
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byAlain Williams
ary 29, 2026 @04:20PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has a Trust Problem, Promises To Focus on Fixes in 2026
A big problem that will remain is that Microsoft is subject to USA laws eg the Cloud Act and others that let the USA government grab your data and remotely disable services and software. The USA could never be completely trusted (think: Edward Snowden) but Trump has thrown this into sharp focus. There is a move within the EU to move away from American technology. Microsoft cannot fix this problem.
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byAlain Williams
ry 20, 2026 @03:32AM
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Attached to: The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old
The Rothamsted Classical Experiments have been going since 1843.
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byAlain Williams
ary 10, 2026 @07:08AM
(#65914548)
Attached to: Scientists Tried To Break Einstein's Speed of Light Rule
this is what makes it science and distinguishes it from religion.
Long may scientists continue to try to show their beliefs wrong.
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byAlain Williams
y 02, 2026 @03:47PM
(#65897647)
Attached to: Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
that this was not already the case.
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byAlain Williams
er 28, 2025 @05:50PM
(#65886969)
Attached to: Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing 'Digital Sovereignty'
A USA owned company that has a subsidiary in, say, Ireland that is staffed by Irish people (citizens & domiciled) and USA based staff cannot ssh (or similar) in to do things. The USA government makes an order under the Cloud act on the USA company. This then orders its Irish subsidiary and the Irish staff decide that obeying the order would breach the GDPR/similar and so tell the USA parent to shove it.
What can the USA government do ?
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byAlain Williams
mber 20, 2025 @02:53PM
(#65871671)
Attached to: Military Satellites Now Maneuver, Watch Each Other, and Monitor Signals and Data
Spy vs Spy
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byAlain Williams
ber 16, 2025 @06:51PM
(#65862901)
Attached to: Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents
If we changed spellings so that they followed how words are pronounced:
* We would have words spelled differently in different countries and also different parts of the same country.
* Over time spelling would change, this would make it hard to read old texts. By old I mean 100 or 200 years; even older would be worse.
* Dictionary compilers would have a harder task than they do today.
* Mechanical (ie computer) analysis of texts would be harder, more errors.
If anything we should use a single world wide English spelling. I am English and so I think that it should be the King's English as spoken & written in England. I do not expect those in other countries to agree with me but it would be good if they saw sense.
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byAlain Williams
er 15, 2025 @06:35AM
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Attached to: Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power?
So I guess that we are not talking about the POTUS.
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byAlain Williams
er 14, 2025 @10:53AM
(#65857599)
Attached to: Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill
would result in news organisations, big platforms (== social media) censoring opinions that they believe that Trump does not like as they fear being sued for displaying them. There is no doubt that the opinions would be attacked in a partisan way -- this is already happening, Trump has sued media for saying things that he does not like.
This would result in suppression of anti Trump opinion - this is what he wants to try to bolster his waning popularity and destroy USA democracy.
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byAlain Williams
ember 10, 2025 @07:10PM
(#65850033)
Attached to: India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content
This will benefit corporations who will be able to jump through the hoops to register all their works; small authors, photographers, musicians will not benefit. I know several small, independent bands in the UK and have been told that it is not worth the time to register with PPL/PRS yet my folk club needs to pay PPL/PRS an annual fee for use of music - much of which is by these small bands.
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byAlain Williams
ember 10, 2025 @08:51AM
(#65848311)
Attached to: Rubio Orders Diplomats To Return To Using Times New Roman Font
He wants "Times New Roman" ...
* The Times referred to is The Times newspaper, a British publication.
* New Roman is clearly linked to Italy!
He should have ordered the adoption of something like American Kestrel or one of the Disney fonts or one USA fonts. Hopefully, using his great intellect and insight Trump will admonish and correct him.
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byAlain Williams
er 05, 2025 @04:59AM
(#65836997)
Attached to: Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found In NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
Think about what you're saying .. LUCA's descendants were able to go to every possible life niche on Earth and displace all other types of life? That makes very little sense.
That is what I think happened. It took some time (millions of years) for LUCA to emerge, once it did it would have quickly spread across the planet, quickly being more millions of years. LUCA would have evolved, some being fitter than others: faster, more robust metabolism - these would have out competed less fit LUCA descendants and also non LUCA that was getting going.
That is not to say that non LUCA descendants do not exist in some niche somewhere - but we have not seen them - yet. So apply Occam's razor and say: possible but probably not.
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hursday December 04, 2025 @04:26PM
Alain Williams writes: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced it filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the global tech giant of unlawfully processing data on behalf of the Israeli military and facilitating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
In the complaint, the council asked the Data Protection Commission – the European Union’s lead data regulator for the company – to “urgently investigate” Microsoft Ireland’s processing.
“Microsoft’s technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures — they are violations that have enabled real-world violence,” Joe O’Brien, ICCL’s executive director, said in a statement.
“When EU infrastructure is used to enable surveillance and targeting, the Irish Data Protection Commission must step in — and it must use its full powers to hold Microsoft to account.”
After months of complaints from rights groups and Microsoft whistleblowers, the company said in September it cancelled some services to the Israeli military over concerns that it was violating Microsoft’s terms of service by using cloud computing software to spy on millions of Palestinians.
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byAlain Williams
ber 02, 2025 @06:33AM
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Attached to: 'We Built a Database of 290,000 English Medieval Soldiers'
was army not database?
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