* Posts by Khaptain

4040 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008

Australian cops find cocaine stash in PS5 from Portugal

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State of the world

It's a sad state of affairs when it's easier to buy a Kilo of Coke than it is to buy a gaming console.

The pandemic improved the status of IT workers … forever

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Business As Usual

As IT pros we are expected to find solutions to problems on a constant basis. It's exactly what we did during COVID. Today I am finding solutions to varying degrees of Database problems, why is that any different.

Personally I am doing what I am already paid to do... They only real difference was that at certain moments I had to do a lot of overtime, for which I was paid in accordance... I enjoyed the challenge and I enjoyed the extra salary, so I consider it a win/win.

I don't need a faux elevated status from other employees, we already have a good working relation and I intend to keep it that way.

Real-time crowdsourced fact checking not really that effective, study says

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Re: Forget about the lonely asshat

"from stupid people than smart people."

Exactlly, all that the Stupid People wan't is a life without complication, it is the main reason that they are so easilly lead... It's just unfortunate that those who are prepared to lead them are a bunch of hungry Wolfs that no longer even need to wear sheep's clothing...

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Re: However, groups of people are universally fucking stupid

That "large group of people" are definitely not the kind of people that spend their days tweeting to all and sundry...

Those that study Rocket Science are generally not part of the Twitterati Trollers Community ( TTC for short)...

So what you heard was correct, it's just that they are not in the same league as the TTCs whose average IQ fails to pass that of the associated blue bird that they hail.

Twitter's machine learning algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians over those on the left

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"And the cynic in me rather thinks that Twitter might have a vested interest in this result."

I don't think that your are being cynical, I would probably use the word 'rational'...

Twitter appears to interested in anything/everything that generates Tweets... Especially when it involves pitting people against each other...

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

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El Zuck is basically a child in adults clothing that refuses to accept responsibility for his actions; the positive side of things is that this will in turn become his downfall.

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

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Re: Security update

"There's a security update for a OS that was released yesterday?"

Why is that a bad thing ?

And between the actual building of the final release, preparation for it's rela world distribution etc, there could be more than just a few days or weeks gone by.

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

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Re: Works for me

When you say upgraded do you mean an traditional upgrade from Windows 10 or a clean install using an ISO ?

There are 20 XPS in a cupboard at work and I would like to see W11 running natively on older hardware.

Cheers

Microsoft slaps on some new Paint and previews Windows 11 on Azure

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Re: Looks like every other paint app

You should try using Paint.net a far more mature and usefull product and its free.

Apple extends live-at-work to at least January 2022

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Shop Stores and iCovid

Wouldn't the actual physical stores represent the place with the largest risk of catching iCovid ?

Small spaces , lots of people, no distancing possible due to limited floor space, people touching each others phones etc

I was offered $500k as a thank-you bounty for pilfering $600m from Poly Network, says crypto-thief

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Re: Really, now?

I am much in the same opinion. If it was a White Hat operation , it would only have been necessary to take one or two tokens , there would have been no requirement to take anymore... And why is it taking time to give them back ?

Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to

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Judging by the comments there's quite a few Regtards pushing on in their years ....

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

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:"That sound dodgy to anyone else?" Only to the usual Apple haters and the terminally paranoid."

Are there really that many Apple Haters that actually own and use an iPhone ? Because if you dont have an iPhone none of this applies....

Huawei to America: You're not taking cyber-security seriously until you let China vouch for us

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"The US knows China is the major threat to it's flaky technical and economic dominance of the world"..

"It is hopelessly praying that sanctions and no trade rules will hold China back."

"However, the crumbling stable door fell of a long time ago as no-one took care of the bolt.."

Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store

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Zero Tracking

Can I please have an absolute zero tracking button please.

Nuff said.

Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts

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What is a "Lache"

First time ever reading this word..

eBay ex-security boss sent down for 18 months for cyber-stalking, witness tampering

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What about EBAY

Why do I get the feeling that EBAY , as a company, is getting away Scot free from this absolutely wicked situation..

I am sure that most wil agree that this was probably not the only case that existed and that due to the number of people involved it was probably an organised and established practice within the company...

It's almost impossible that top management did not know about these procedures.. Decisions come from the top.....

Biden warns 'real shooting war' will be sparked by severe cyber attack

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Wholeheartedly agree with Potemkine.

And never forget that the bad guys are not the coders but those that are doing the attacking. And the attackers are no longer script kiddies, it is at the governmental level and they have the budgets and capabilites to do far more than one might imagine..

And don't forget the real issue here, Joe Biden is preparing for whatever war the USA had decided to start within the next 2 years.... Which undoubtedly they will....

Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere

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Re: Stop the pandering!

"Start from that we will automatically "breed" in a more aware and caring society and workforce who will not even consider gender or race to be important, it becomes just an attribute of a person, from there we get more people into jobs they want to do without fear or persecution."

I would go as far as stating that the overwhelming majority of people are already like that..

Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death

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Re: Cancel Culture and Doxxing..

One of the techniques used by the Cancel Culture fanatics is harcelling people online. Which is part of what went on here...

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Cancel Culture and Doxxing..

Some people refuse to believe that they actually exist or that they cause any harm.....mmmmhhhhh

Apple delays recalling staff to offices until October as Delta variant romps across US

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Re: Who Knew?

Not really as no formal scientific proof has ever been released proving that masks actually prevent anything.

From, what I have see or read the majority of doctors believe that they serve no purpose, especially when you realise how they are used. Taking your masks on and off multiple times a day is an absolute no no. Using home made masks, a no no.

And before any starts anti vaxxers theories I have both jabs and am happy to do so...

US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game

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Re: "Needle Nazis"

When I read the above comments I understand only one thing, that the world has gone crazy..

What kind of lives do you lead that you feel that it is necessary to reduce everything to Republican or Democrat...

Do you actually wake up in the morning and bow down and pray to your Republican/Democrat overlords thanking them for the bread that you about to eat..

Stop reading the nonsense social media websites, your neighbors are actually nice people and you can collectively can make the world a better place.. You can't do it alone..

The current political division using either class, race, colour or whatever flavor of the day is creating the potential for a very serious situation in the near future.... It's looking damned bleak because you are following the rhetoric...

Politicians don't care about you, they just want the perks of their positions/jobs.. Any and all of them would change sides at the drop of a hat in order to remain in power. They know how to play you and by playing their game you are encouraging them to continue...

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Re: "Needle Nazis"

There's no point in saying that only the Republicans are using it as a political playground.

ALL politicians and parties are using/abusing social media as their latest propaganda toy.

What's actually happening is that the government are trying to gain control over Social Media. Trump started to do it , Biden is continuing the same game but just waving a different flag.. The end goal is the same for both parties..

The government has become scared of what Social media is capable of controlling... and rightly so..

Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Brin are not politicians, and yet they now have more power in the fingertips than any politician ever had...

Teen turned away from roller rink after AI wrongly identifies her as banned troublemaker

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Re: exhibit ingrained racist assumptions in the design

That's just an excuse. If the system cannot treat different races with equal quality of results, then by definition it is racist."

That's a seriously tainted point of view to hold.... ? It very sad.

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Re: Using it wrongly

"It also relies on cameras, that have also been shown to exhibit ingrained racist assumptions in the "

design"

That's an extremely serious assumption to make, can you please provide evidence of what you state ?

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Re: Using it wrongly

I understand what you are trying to say but have to disagree as this what exactly what happened here.

An individual was identified by the AI system as a potential known forbidden character, the person responsible that day took the decision to accept the AI detection status and forbade entry. The human element was definitely there, the computer system did not stop the person coming in, a human meatbag did.

The AI System night have a problem distinguishing objects that have specific colors, or lack of contrasts etc but shouldn't that be considered as an algorithmic problem rather than a racial problem ?

Report: 83% of UK software engineers suffer burnout, COVID-19 made it worse

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What about the admins

If the devs think COVID has changed their lives, what about us in the admin corner.....

COVID presented a whole shebang of challenges that required huge amounts of effort in order to "keep" things running.... And now that we are moving towards Back to the Office we are now in the position of dealing with WFH and In the Office simultaneously....

Grrrrrr, when I were a lad........

Google killed desktop Drive and replaced it with two apps. Now it’s killing those, and Drive for desktop is returning

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"It's just another reminder that The Cloud is just someone else's computer."

I quite like that interpretation, I will jot it down into my little black book of justifications for not pushing everything over to the cloud.. As funny as it is , it is 100% correct.

Uncle Sam sanctions Chinese AI outfits for links to Xinjiang Uyghur human-rights abuses

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I seem to remember that a very powerful person in China took offense to having been likened to a certain yellow bear?

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

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Tongue in cheek

"Year of the Linux, coming soon to a desktop near you.". In a nice Times New Roman or Calibri font.

Not sure that it would do to well at a penguinista venue but might just work in an El Reg event..

Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids

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In by the back door

We know that their is a huge outdoor coverage of Cameras in China, now that are starting to include them indoors.... Starting with the children...

If your a crim don't play games....

Hoe yes he did: IT pro record-botherer balances garden tool on his head for 2.5 hours

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Re: Master of Balancing Acts

MBA : My Balancing Acts

Google to bake COVID-19 vaccine passport support into Android with Passes API update

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Re: Idiocracy, by mandate

"To be fair a lot of them are conspiracy nutters claiming Billy Gates is putting 5G in vaccines as implants, etc, etc."

Nope, only a tiny, tiny minority are nutters but the media love to exaggerate everything because it favours extra likes...

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What's the need

We already have an App for that, so what's the point, this is just Google searching to gain your medical data.....

This is evil, from the evil company run by the evil people.

Android devs prepare to hand over app-signing keys to Google from August

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Re: End of privacy

Google also has an optional feature intended to reassure developers, called Code transparency for app bundles. This uses a second signing key, held only by the developer, and can be used to verify that the APK delivered by the Play Store matches what the developer built, subject to some limitations.

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Re: End of privacy

One key for the Application.

One key for the Encryption.

It's only the application key that they are asking for.....;-).

New Yorkers react to strikingly indifferent statue of Elon Musk with cheerful hostility

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Re: It's deffo a winner on Twitter

After reading the first 50 or so comments in the above link I am saddened to see the level by which Twitter communicate with the world.. It's as though the thread was infested by 8 years old that had just learned to use swear words ..

Truly saddening to think that these people will become the future adults of society..

Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution

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Re: Play By Email.

Chess also exists by PBE and even snailmail...

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

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Re: Fake reviews?

Exactly and, when you try and write an honest review about the extremely poor quality of the product your review gets refused...

Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely

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Re: Co-Conspirator #1

Biden's son Hunter ?

Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate

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Children

Is it just me or have the American youth decided that the attitude of extremely spoiled children is a good thing?

Ganja believe it? Police make hash of suspected weed farm raid, pot Bitcoin mine instead

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Re: Top marks for lateral thinking

“Keep on knockin, but you can't come in!”

Man found dead inside model dinosaur after climbing in to retrieve phone

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Re: First kill

That could have a serious impact on a certain Mr Darwin's theories...

Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women

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Re: Subject vs Artificial Idiocy

The algorithms are based upon narcissism; they presume that if you use Twitter in the first place then automatically they know that all you want to see is yourself in the spotlight..

I would pretty much bet that that is not too far from the truth. It would be interesting too see how many of those pics were selfies...

Activist millionaires protest outside Jeff Bezos' homes to support tax rises for the rich

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Tax avoidance costs

I wonder how much each off these billionaires pay each year in order to avoid paying taxes?

Guy who wrote women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt

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Re: Tolerance

The problem lies in the fact that the lambs have become keyboard warriors and feel that the ability to tweet is enough to destroy the wolves...

Little do they know... It's the wolves that give them Twitter...

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Re: Smart people ...

I am not sure that they have much choice...

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Re: Unfair dismissal

That depends on how much he can afford one of those clever lawyer chaps....

An actress, an internet billionaire, and Tom Cruise walk into a space station ... not necessarily at the same time

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With no gravity to provide resistance it must be a really interesting experience..