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Re: there's nothing particularly wrong with Windows 11

AI ... that means Additional Income these days.

Re: Plagiarism?

LOL Great BOFH story which reminds me of my old Christmas memories ... I would post a joke warning but this icon is for Simon ---->

It was Christmas Eve BOFH. In the drunk tank an old man said to me, you won't see another reboot. And then he sang a song - The Rare Old Windows version ... And the boys of the The Register choir were singing Windows Eight ... and the bells were ringing out for Christmas day!

Re: Did I have the issue?

I'm not seeing any problems at all, my version of Windows 7 supports wireless functionality ... a total lack of upgrades has resulted in a total lack of new problems.

Re: No imagination any more

Computer science peaked in 1993.

An environment very much described earlier by Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic" - “It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.”

Are you thinking that this would mean everyone would not have to update their versions of Windows and Google Drive? I sort of agree with solving those problems but I think software updates are not quite as bad as a planetary impact at that level ... although certainly we would not need new computers and Pixel phones after it happened.

Re: "Microsoft has a rich history when it comes to breaking Wi-Fi"

So lots of users need to buy a new computer ... that's a normal upgrade feature these days.

It's interesting (not critical) to look at our views of the history between China and America ... these days America is unhappy with China but about 14,000 or more years ago people from China moved to the empty American continent to "create" Americans. Basically go back in time and the two countries were one country originally. My views that we are all humans and if we (as humans) are to survive climate change and other incidents in the future (like a fat asteroid impact) then we all have to work together and totally ignore individual raciality, skin colours, eye shapes, nose sizes etc etc ... we're all just a human, let's stop our mental crap.

Re: The EU is not the centre of the universe.

All your down votes think that it should be handled like Google does, and post everyone a message; "Your version of Intelligence is no longer supported, upgrade to a new brain immediately"

I'm checking my jacket pocket for my spare brain. Oh dear, the battery needs replacing!

Re: So, Brexit means Brexit, except when it doesn't

The history is that the Tories made the UK join the EU, resulting in getting a lot of votes, and then proposed leaving the EU which won them another election. It seems that getting re-elected is far more important to many politicians than helping the country work well.

Joining the EU resulted in profits and some problems, leaving the EU has resulting in costs and some problems ... we've just returned to the early 60's.

Swearing is a country specific interpretation, when I get scammer calls I don't swear at them, I just play them a little Australian music after telling them they need to focus. LOL so scam calls result in me laughing!

Go to the cloud ... what could possibly go wrong? A thunderstorm, a tornado, a hurricane with only 38 inches of rain ... ransomware is actually worse these days. So I'll update a Brendan Behan quote from years ago into today's world ....

"The Internet is a lovely consolation to a fellow alone in the cell these days. The lovely cloud access with a bit of ransomware stuffing in it, if you could get a few million pounds it is as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

These days the internet and our privacy is cloudy ... A Cloudy world is not a problem (you're right, it's only a matter of time) until we see a thunderstorm with a few inches of rain rolling towards us ...

Internet usage was low before YouTube and Facebook appeared, we saw no one with "issues" until everyone started posting on Facebook and other sites ... increasing the Internet access everywhere and many people posting "complaints" about other people ... poor mental heath just started getting worse and as a result, politicians started to get a lot more votes and the companies running the sites that are causing poor mental health started to get richer.

Psychedelic drugs are banned because they are seen as creating mental health issues ... what would happen if I posted that thought on social media?

Re: Debt brake released

Rich people are billions poor these days, unable to 100% fund their politicians, while poor people are only having to look for food.

Re: "proprietary gatekeeping wrapped in open washed clothing"

I posted my first "open source" code back to the early days when I was installing ZCPR on S-100 systems and saw the first ZCPR keyboard buffer fail if terminal (I was using a VT-100) was using control-S ... I just fixed if and gave it away. We didn't call it "open source" in the early days, we were just helping other programmers.

Re: tying things together

Well that has the potential to start to allow the prosecution of spam callers, I get a spam call about every hour - this is a serious response, my serious joke response is to tell every spam caller that they need to focus which results in the non AI callers hanging up.

If searching everyone's phone records finally stopped spam calling then I expect this would be accepted everywhere, making most non-criminal active people so much more comfortable

Re: Excitement

The society is unique - Brazilians normally work to get everything workable for everyone they are working with, most other countries normally only work to make money from the users. It's just a different society attitude in Brazil ... a country that I have been sent to work in for about 30 years now and it's great!

Re: Deliberate

A good icon choice! So the comment just illustrates a drinker with a writing problem ...

Re: 'Ransomware attacks that take longer than five days are now considered 'slow attacks'

I modified our mail server detection's - we received "DHL CONSIGNMENT NOTIFICATION: AWB 9899691012 Clearance Doc" this morning but my log shows a "AWB 9899691099 Clearance Doc_pdf.gz" attachment so my updates have blocked it. I've been describing my functional checks to the mail server company for years now but they are always ignored - they keep telling everyone that users need to keep paying for a new antivirus update.

Essentially Ransomware and Malware attacks are very risky everywhere but they seem to be resulting in corporations everywhere offering new update purchases, not just features that totally block this crap. Viruses and Malware have always been profitable on both sides ever since they originally appeared.

I remember a comment on El Reg about 20 years ago that suggested that the anti-virus companies were creating viruses to make sure everyone purchased their anti-virus software ... I expect that was just a snivelling miserable comment back then, but the attack environment has been profitable on all sides every since, we're paying a little regularly for protection - and a lot if the protection doesn't work.

Re: Pound that table, Demand those Results!

I never saw any problems like that with an 8080, I got an A+ in the class one week for writing the floating-point code in 8080 assembler.

Re: Total isolation is coming

El Reg, an icon update will help ... I've suggested a new "pair of wire-cutters" icon appearing for years now to illustrate total network security. That's the only way to enable tech companies to create security technology that is 100% effective - certainly it can be disabled when required but it's a security option that can be "reinstalled 100% effective" in a second.

I don't see any other methods that are totally effective, these days everything in the Internet has more people working to hack and bypass the security than the programmers working fantastically hard in every company to try and make security work for them ... but too often it's just a little effective and the upgrades can create new problems. I'm currently working to install and verify two pfSense firewalls - one works but the other "updated" firewall has an issue ... I'm not going to document or discuss it to keep all the risks lower.

Your thoughts made me remember and laugh to create an update... "The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted, but these days I just search on Google and print the results on a packet of paper sheets."

- A Brendan Behan quote updated after thinking about the normal Google search results that are 50% helpful and 50% adverts.

Re: Where these blobs are now :)

I think it's very interesting learning about our planets history while we walk, and fly around, today wondering if aliens are visiting us.

We know our planet's history resulted in life and while there are a lot of possibilities of various forms of life on other planets in the universe, how much has happened to us that changed our planets life? Our past events have probably been very helpful, impacts on a planet with no water covering it have a very low chance of creating life and there's a lot of evidence that meteorites helps create life on our wet world after the moon appeared. And then much later the impact that eliminated dinosaurs helped life to recycle for us, and a more recent impact may have eliminated a massive ice age, extending life all over our planet outside the tropics.

Re: Targeted advertising?

"And old Billy the blacksmith, the first time in his life, why he's gone home cold sober to his darling wife. He walks in the kitchen, she says you're early Bill dear, but then he breaks down and tells her the pub's got no beer." - a song by Slim Dusty written and performed in 1962.

Maybe we'll see a new song from Australia soon to cover the changes?

Re: Licensing authorities should regularly inspect it

You made me remember ... "I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started." - Brendan Behan. But I used to go there when I lived in Oxford and it's always been just a pub, virtually nothing was ever seen to make the drinkers remember the wonderful history of the pub! But I loved just being there as a drinker with a rolling a joint problem in the old days.

"All a victim was required to do was open the email in a web browser..." but that's just a little feature added these days to make email apps get higher star ratings (an xkcd link), so many upgrades these days have options that become exploit options.

I was flying from London to the USA a lot, mostly on a Boeing 747 which was a lot slower but a much more comfortable flight. I got put on a Concorde once and it was nice to be so fast but afterwards the slower Boeing 747's made the daily time change easier for me, I would arrive in the USA and didn't have to talk with anyone until the next day, not just as soon as the Concorde arrived - sure the Concorde was a great plane but I was only a worker getting there to fix things.

Re: J’accuse .....

Do the upvotes and down-votes here suggest an indication of the number of system administrators and cyber criminals reading El Reg? If I was posting this at least four or five years ago I would have had to add the joke icon in those days.

It always seems that every "new" version of Windows makes people start to really appreciate using the older versions. Windows 8 made people start really liking Vista ... and now Windows 11 is making Windows 10 users more comfortable.

I normally think that Musk has poor opinions about things, but I have to accept that he is close to a genius when you look at his history. Charging X for a regulatory weakness is one thing but it seems to be the social media environment that makes child sexual abuse shared everywhere these days - DAMN THAT"S HORRIBLE.

We need to look at the social media environment that is creating this in the background, Musk is working on his stuff, with no evidence of any personal sexual or social stupidity, only the ability to be filthy rich.

Re: Star Wars Quote

AI is just falling on the floor whenever I speak to it, I never thought that I had a accent until I started using an AI speech-to-text tool, I'm going to chose the joke Icon because this example is just AI and I was only speaking to answer a question.

Ock eye dunt no if who wand two arse me a quest iron? Ef nut isle arse you two.

It's worth remembering the early talking by HAL in the movie 2001, a movie that has heavily influenced so much computer functioning ever since.

Re: Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

So much of these attacks are organized by AI chat applications these days, so maybe QWERTY would be a good password because no AI applications have ever seen a keyboard.