* Posts by Snake

1876 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2012

Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO

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Training

"And it isn't just Murphy on the hook. There were also 15 additional transactions conducted on behalf of Murphy's wife, or so the filing claims."

I see. So the Murphys are gaining the experience they need to be politicians in the future, then?

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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Re: small tech business without legalize

It can work both ways if you're intelligent about it. I doubt that a contract that hasn't been locked down by Big Buck lawyers had a guarantee of service reliability; the tech company could simply state that failure to support the required level of hardware to support their performance goals meant that any belief in "service" from their end was moot and they could only do the best they could, using the materials provided.

FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved

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Re: distances

You forget the distances involved with living in America

That is absolutely no excuse. There are things known as repeaters. And technical knowledge, which it seems your ISP is sadly lacking.

It has nothing to do with technical knowledge, ir has to do with ROI. When you're feeding a low population density area, will your infrastructure rollout costs get amortized across a reasonable return time?

Verizon wouldn't even do that for the inner city, delaying upgrades even after receiving millions of dollars in subsidies. The municipalities had to sue. They had the density but the roll-out costs were so high in the business districts that they dragged their feet until the law dragged them to their senses.

By that time we had switched to cable. When the Verizon rep finally came along to try to sell us on FIOS, after all these years of waiting whilst dealing with crap service in the meanwhile, I literally - not figuratively - laughed in his face. "Not happening. Have a good day."

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Re: I'll wait for it

Cool. Although I'm "rural" I am actually only an 18-minute drive from the medium-sized city. Still, only Spectrum cable (I guess I should be thankful for that?!).

I lived in the Big City and had to leave. Don't miss the zoo that is a city, I am not a city boy. Quite a distasteful way of living: dirty, noisy, super-expensive and crowded. The rent for 400sq ft. is more than my entire mortgage plus taxes. I just don't see the reasoning any more; 20 years ago, it might have made some sense. But with landlords charging mortgage rates for their often run-down apartments (and nice apartments *certainly* going for jumbo mortgage rates), when you don't end up with any equity after paying your landlord's tithe for 15 years, I just don't see the logic of it.

FWIW my "shithole" is 3+ acres surrounded by 3 protected, private reserves of several hundred acres total. My house is an ski lodge interior home with cathedral ceilings and a 520 sq ft master with 2-person Jacuzzi (yes, I really lucked out on this property). All for less than the rent on the 400 sq ft. city apartment in a building so run down that I couldn't use my own kitchen for 5 years because the utility shut off the cooking gas and wouldn't turn it back on until the landlord did the required repairs on the plumbing. Which, of course, he didn't, so the city had to sue and force him to do the repairs or they would do it for him and send him the bill.

Oh yes, city living. I'm just DYING to return there o_O

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Re: never been to Europe

True, I've only visited the UK. But the last time internet speeds were spoken of around here (admittedly many years ago), America's internet "speed" was widely mocked. :p

Like I said, many of us don't live in the city. In the big cities you can get almost any speed you want and often from a choice of 2 providers (local cable and the telco, Verizon). 200Mbps was the lowest I could go and indeed is the lowest I can go on my rural cable - slower is only available for low income families that qualify based upon government rules (I tried).

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Re: I'll wait for it

Hmm. My first DSL service was in town, the run to the telco was still so long it was the best they could do. As the town abuts the river and ends at the small mountain ridge that separates this section of land from the balance of the eastern land, I wasn't getting anything better than what the local telco had.

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I'll wait for it

I know Europeans will say that this is ridiculous, 25Mpbs as "broadband", only in America.

You forget the distances involved with living in America. My own first broadband service was DSL at maybe (can't remember) about 5Mpbs and that's because it was the best they could do - the copper run back to the service terminal was so long that they couldn't provision a higher speed than that.

I am currently rural, with 2 lakes within walking distance amongst several hundred acres of private, reserved lands. Several state parks are within a few minutes driving distance, as is the local municipal airport. The family of black bears that walked though my property very much liked the locale :D

I now have cable service at 200Mpbs, higher is indeed available, but I have no idea of the cable run length to get it to service us. It's got to be quite a run. And, being that it is both rural and a very long run, I have my choice of my current cable provider...or my current cable provider. Beside satellite, no other provider services the area.

Oh, to add before I forget: cellular service is terrible. 1 bar for T-Mobile, I must use Wi-Fi Calling within my own home.

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

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Re: bread

Yes, a full line of chalk breads (see 20:00 and after) were available to the Victorian-era workers.

How dare they expect better!!

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Next thing you know workers will demand that they have money left after buying bread & water from the company store! Damn communists!

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From the news report I am recollecting, they will bring the legal definition of a "work week" down from 40 to 35 hours and increase work that is considered "overtime". So if you want or need to work 40 hours you are still considered "full time", but if you want or can work *35* hours this no longer classifies as "part-time", therefore requiring full benefits and Social Security be paid.

They are trying to change the legal classification of a 'full' work week; it is up to the worker & the employer to decide if they want to take the 4-day week. If they do take the 4-day week, you are still a "full time" employee.

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""Twenty-eight-and-a-half million Americans, 18 percent of our workforce, now work over 60 hours a week, and 40 percent of employees in America now work at least 50 hours a week," Sanders said during the hearing."

Then American politics has worked. We've all been brought back to the design and ethics of the 1870's - heck, a few years ago they were trying to bring back child labor under the guise of "Freedom to work!".

I'm...pleased...that I am much closer to the end of my days than to [my] beginning. It isn't worth being here any more.

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

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Re: Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient

I'm a heathen - I hate, and don't drink, coffee.

It's fun to watch the morning coffee addicts go about their addiction :p :twitch twitch: Cooooooofffffeeeeee :zombie apocalypse commences: heehee

I will admit to first using energy drinks during my (heavy) workouts last year. I try not to use them often but after a 14 hour-long day I sometimes need the pick-me-up for the gym afterwards.

Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool

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Re: Looks like a lot of hassle for mostly minor benefits

There's pretty much one large market that high-mHz turbo processors are marketed to: gamers. Average Joe will not bother with a part like this but the RTX4090 owners of the world will be chomping at the bit for this part, I can see it.

Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses

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Re: "flexible monthly model introduces [..] uncertainty into the business."

"Deal with it, or get a government job."

This is American corporatism run amok. We've become so bad that corporations are quite intentionally gouging customer (food, medical, and now IT)...because they can. Because it looks good to Wall Street. Because it's all about the stockholders.

Somehow only the stockholders are "shareholders" in today's MBA-trained world. Customers are disposable liabilities that get in the way of Wall Street's expectation of never-ending growth.

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It will only get worse from here.

Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS

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Re: woke fascists

In comparison to ultra-right fascists??

BOTH sides are beyond help and the rest of us have had just about ENOUGH of them. Whilst a conservative would most certainly call me "liberal", as a (classic, middle of the road) moderate-liberal I got my first deep, true experience with a 'woke-head' last year - and I am fully behind labeling them a radical group of reactionary fools.

But don't go thinking that the ultra-right get a free pass in this!! If anything, thanks to Reaganism / Thatherism, it is extremely reliable to say that they caused the outbreak of the woke ultra-left, as The Old Man / Old Woman certainly came decades before. And the fundamentalist ultra-right is arguably even worse than the woke-heads...and that's saying an awful lot!

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Re: Privacytests.org

I wouldn't trust their results. Conveniently, on Brave Android, they somehow 'forget' to mention Brave itself contacting computer.amazonaws.com, 93.184.215.80, nya.yahoo.com, wikimedia.org, 151.10.45.16, 151.101.210.206, fbcdn.net, akamaitechnologies.com and cloudfront.net at every restart.

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Re: "make their websites dependant on Google's proprietary features"

Great post, but don't go pointing fingers just at MS whilst giving so many in the FOSS community a pass. Broken FOSS UI's, 'features' that are inane, and design bugs that get in the way of user experience, aren't just MS programmer exclusives.

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Actually getting (all) websites to work on Firefox would be a great thing...

(Firefox user here)

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

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Re:2FA

I guess your reading comprehension is a bit off today? He said the SIM card was cloned, meaning they had ACCESS to SMS 2FA requests as well.

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Re: running your own email server

Dynamic IP DNS still costs money. And email on dynamic IP has never been an acceptable idea

https://www.xeams.com/how-to-run-email-server-on-a-dynamic-ip.htm

So no, you shouldn't run your business email servers on a dynamic IP address.

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Re: running your own email server

But that requires a permanent, static IP address, which is an extra upcharge usually attached to top-tier speed provisioning. Which not every business wants, or needs. Then add the server itself, plus the tech support to administer it.

Of course you can always get a cloud instance to run your email server...but that doesn't solve any problems, now does it?

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Re: drag emails between providers

How will that be accomplished if your IMAP provider is your ISP, and the reason you are losing the old IMAP service is that you are also switching ISP's??

Just did this a few months ago.

How are you supposed to drag emails from an ISP that you are no longer a customer of, and therefore your access is denied?

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Re: POP3 is horrible

Note that I personally don't give downvotes, but still note your ratios here. There's a reason for that.

"Sure, you are reliant on your email provider with IMAP..."

And THAT'S the huge issue. If you change providers (change ISP, for example), you lose your emails, don't you? With IMAP, unless you make a local repository and manually copy all your emails to those folders, you lose your emails, correct? If you downloaded with POP3 it is already done, or if you wish to sync with a POP3 client it is a single operation rather than manually selecting and copying possibly thousands of emails.

"Using POP3 is just asking for your emails to be spectacularly wiped in a catastrophic event fueled by fear and regret, if you care about your email archive you should avoid it like the plague.

I've seen people lose all of their data, and companies go out of business because of POP3."

Data is data is data. If they lost their emails then they lost data in general - which means their backup plans / systems SUCK. If they lost their quarterly reports do you blame their lack of backup solutions or their HDD which finally failed after 6 years of continuous operation?? Everyone who is anyone in tech knows that backups are *your* responsibility. POP3 data is just another thing that is necessary to back up; if you didn't make a local IMAP repository copy, and the email server at your ISP dies and takes down all your saved emails with it, will you be just as happy as blaming IMAP for not saving those copies??

I use IMAP across almost all my devices, except one. That's the POP3 client. It gets synced via POP3 occasionally and then I have permanent, local copies. It also serves the purpose (because I have it set that way) to purge all that old email flotsam that's accumulated, I don't need rapid access to 2 year-old emails, thank you very much, but I also don't want to risk them disappearing into the internet ether, either.

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Re: I need classic outlook

"I don't mind losing POP3...

Well, I certainly do. With IMAP your client only 'reflects' the data that is on the server. Sounds OK...until that email server decides to change their terms of service. Say, only keeping old emails for 2 to 3 years or so, or even change / lower the storage space limits.

POP3 downloads and keeps a permanent copy of the emails on your system. Not theirs.

I usually use IMAP, but then every so often (irregularly, sometimes with large intervals) I use a POP3 client to truly download and archive my emails on my own system.

I am NOT going to depend upon ANY service to [believe they'll] keep copies of my emails until the end of time / when *I* am ready to purge them.

US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan

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Re: Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

But remember: America is all about free enterprise. Businesses are people, too!

Except when are, conveniently, NOT.

The hypocrisy of the vote is sickening. America won't regulate their own Big Business but are more than happy to snap the gavel on a foreign business when it seem they are doing better than they should.

Or, here, getting personal data that really should be going to an American business in the first place!

'China is a threat'. I seem to remember the UK making the very same statement about the U.S. when, during the Industrial revolution, U.S. agents were stealing industrial secrets. Et tu, Congress, et tu?

Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo

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Yep

Yes indeed, happened to me just this week with a client. Finally got them to send me an email from their Yahoo account, to which I could respond.

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

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Re: Martial arts

some kind of martial arts lamb chop.

[cymbal crash]

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I believe it can happen when the hunters have the same mental capacity as the sheep they 'hunt'.

This story disgusts me.

Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms

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Re: Wankery

As an American I get to make this point:

"American society is [now] a for-profit corp with multiple stock exchange listings. They have to attempt to transfer as much money from customers and pop it into the pockets of investors as is possible."

FIFY

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

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Re: Not surprising

You are blaming Borkzilla, without laying blame & waste to the rest of the tech industry for doing the exact same thing??

You know, like Samsung, Vizio, Apple, Ford, Google, Snapchat, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Twitter, NewRelic, Akamai, LinkedIn, Verizon, Tesla, Waymo...

I mean, just to name a few... -_-

Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org

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Re: Wayland only

I'd like to know the decision of going Wayland only is so easily justified in a [Linux] world that constantly hypes "user choice!"

Are the users actually making this choice themselves??

Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so

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Re: Lenovo soldered RAM

The only thing I can say is that my P71 definitely does not have soldered-in RAM. So if you're OK with a surfboard that also doubles as a PC ( :p ) then that series is a good choice.

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Re: "shorten PC replacement cycles"

I don't understand the surprise in all this, I said exactly this point a week ago

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/containing/4824008

The hardware upgrade cycle is driving the AI-on-the-desktop push. No if's, and's, or but's about it. The industry needs the next hot hype cycle to re-start large-scale PC sales, which has been in the doldrums for quite a while now, and "AI" will do nicely, thank you.

GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly

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An excellent test for the future

This, an AI's ability to play Doom, should be the Turing Test for AI's in the future. Doom itself is a simulation and requires complex and interlocking skills; being a computer simulation, the AI has full access to all activities inside the game whilst it is running.

If and when an AI / LLM can play Doom as well as a human player, I think we should consider taking its abilities into serious consideration. Until then...

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction

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Re: everywhere

There is a difference between "inferred privacy" and "absolute privacy".

When you check into a hotel into today's world you almost certainly expect there to be at least some sort of surveillance gear being used.

But, if you ready the OP's post again very carefully, that does *not* give them the right to post their internal surveillance images for general public use.

You are DAMN right I don't expect security camera footage of my visit in your hotel to be posted to the internet, accessible to the general public, or even used in promotional materials without my permission. I understand you need security in today's world, that doesn't give you the right to be nilly-willy with the data you collect from that.

No App Store needed: Apple caves, will allow sideloading in EU

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Re: Misleading

Actually, it's more

"The apps downloadable from the web will be subject to the same agreement that applies to all other apps, meaning they will still have to be presented to Apple, and Apple will have to approve them in order for users to be actually be able to download and install them onto their iPhones. Apple will also charge the developers the same amount of money they'd have charged if the latter published their apps through an alternative app store."

Then Apple is still enforcing a monopoly rights-access to their devices. If you are going to charge developers the same amount of money to allow said developers to have their own app stores, then the independence of business is an illusion. Paying a tithe to Apple, either inside the Church of Apple itself or even if you are standing across the sidewalk selling photos of street scenes for a pence, is still paying a tithe.

JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers

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Ranty-rant

"It also says that the company will publish vulnerability details within 24 hours if they suspect a vendor to silently patch vulnerabilities."

The point here is that it is not Rapid7's right to decide what they "suspect" is a "silent patch", and if that patch is both live and has been applied to enough installations to warrant risking those that use the products. Rapid7's 'defense" here is that they believe that JetBrains was releasing 'silent patches', and with enough distribution of said patch to mitigate damage if / when Rapid7 decided to announce quickly, based upon all the aforementioned conditions.

That is not Rapid7's right to decide to unilaterally place customer-users in harm's way.

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Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account

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Re: normal installation

"I don’t think majority of users will benefit from “normal installation” that would make it easier to install malware."

You forgot to add "Think of the children!" inside your FUD.

For exactly how many DECADES have we installed our own software and managed those installations? Too much for ya?

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

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We needed a new 'monitor' for use with our security cameras so we bought a new smart TV. I do like the fact that it Chromecasts, I can use also use it to display product images when talking to clients.

So I put it on the Wifi network.

Then I remembered the spying and the security issues.

So I've blocked all inbound and outbound internet access ports. Still get intranet casting but no external feed. Simple.

IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips

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Re: falling off the plan

Bingo. My mother wanted / expected me to work for IBM after school but I didn't want to get involved with a mega-corp and end up being just a number.

Turns out I was right -_- I'm in my late-50's and would probably be on the street if I went the IBM path. Sure, sure, I would have earned big bucks for a while, but only through high stress, constant expectation of continued learning (usually on my own dime), and the bullshiate of megacorp office politics.

No thank you.

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RE: Mainframe Skills Council

It is highly apparent that, by the necessity of IBM creating the MSC in the first place...

that IBM's management is INCOMPETENT.

During the past number of years IBM has pretty much concentrated its effort in retiring / removing older, skilled workers - remember the "dinobabies" comment? But *now* they realize that the workforce with the required skillset is aging and they must train-up replacements.

If your management *wasn't* incompetent you should have realized that the older workers held decades of accumulated knowledge and created an in-house apprenticeship for the Big Iron workforce, getting those new(er) recruits up to speed with hands-on experience in association with your experienced techs. THEN, after they are trained-up, you consider asking *some* the techs if they would like early retirement, making sure you keep enough of the Old Guard on-hand to assist the newer techs as they, themselves, age into the SuperTechs you need to keep your Big Iron going indefinitely.

But you didn't do that, did you??!! You started pushing your skilled techs out BEFORE YOU REPLACED THEM, YOU IDIOTS.

This is the kind of incompetence that, frankly, should be brought up in stockholder meetings, questioning "Why are we allowing 'managers' to keep their jobs when they apparently can't make wise, foreseeable business decisions?". But I'm sure that won't happen: the mutual funds that hold the greatest sway in stock shares will keep their mouths shut as long as IBM's said management keeps making promises, even if they never actually meet those promises, of quarterly dividends.

And nothing in End-stage Capitalism ever gets fixed.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Stupidity. You're gonna like it here.

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

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Re: A fool and his money

About the same experience here: the only cartridges that have ever failed on me, laser or inkjet, are third-party. For the laser machines, which are high volume use, [we] stay with the third-party. But at home, the inkjets, I just decided it wasn't worth the risk or the hassle of dealing with sub-par products and purchase exclusively OEM, considering how infrequently I print the cost savings for the risk of third-party just isn't worth it.

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RE: wise choice

For light usage Canon is by far the best choice in inkjet printers. Epsons, thanks to their dye-based inks and permanent heads, will *always* end up clogging under occasional use and will be nothing but a headache! HP doesn't have Epson's clogging issue to that level but just too many other factors to bother with.

I've had all 3 brands at one time. I am exclusively Canon now, after hard-learned lessons, and am very happy overall.

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help

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Re: In combination with Russia's recent promise "we will never put nuclear weapons in space"

Yer right, 10 HOURS at max velocity. Forgot that 'h'! My bad!

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Re: A sample of what now?

For me the largest issue is safely getting the nuclear fuel up to the new Moon reactor in the first place.

Rockets aren't exactly the bee's knees for reliability. What happens to the fuel container in during an "rapid unscheduled disassembly"?? Where does THAT end up?

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Re: In combination with Russia's recent promise "we will never put nuclear weapons in space"

"It would be very easy to launch nuclear weapons from the Moon to hit anywhere on Earth with no possible defence"

Well, not exactly: the moon is 384,000 km (nominal) away from Earth. ICBM's have a typical speed of 7-8 km/s; Apollo 11's out-obital speed was 25,000 mph (40,250 kph).

Divide the two and you get...9.54 minutes to get a fully-accelerated missile from the Moon to Earth. Add in acceleration off the lunar surface and leaving the Moon's gravity well, figure 10 minutes.

That's 10 minutes to launch an intercept. That's a pretty good reaction time if you are paying attention to the fact that it might happen.

Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

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Re: slow learners

It is very apparent what is happening here: Microsoft is being driven by their marketing department. "New and shiny!" are the rules, and "AI!" is today's buzzword.

And the hardware sellers are all-in, saying "Yes please!" because they foresee / hope that it will drive hardware update sales.

From the perspective of the industry it is all a win-win. We, the users, aren't really part of the discussion - we are expected to buy in to whatever they decide to push. But that is every industry nowadays, from Apple to Oracle to Ford. The Quarterlies are king, and we're actually an inconvenient stepping stone to that end - we, the customer, are unpredictable. The MBA's hate that. They want us to behave exactly like their formulas, believe in the industry and their newest products. They couldn't believe when people walked away from their mortgages in 2008 - what do you MEAN they aren't paying?!! - and continue to believe in their own majesty, their decisions are infallible. Push the latest, the hottest trends, the buzzwords and the hype - show us the money!

It is not as if we don't know this. We simply believe, in our own naivete and hope, that they won't do the same lies and delusions that they pulled on us before.

Aren't we the silly ones.

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Re: Business model

But in all seriousness, we've seen MS attempt this before - indeed, with Clippy. They want to make computing 'warm and fuzzy' for the unwashed masses, from Bob (remember that?) to Clippy. This is yet another attempt at the 'fuzzy'.

Probably like Bob, and Clippy, CoPilot's current UIX will get flushed down the toilet at some future point in time, when the market & the great unwashed get sick of the "wonderful experience!" imbued by a constantly-nagging prompt. Just have patience, MS is a slow learner.

Fidelity customers' financial info feared stolen in suspected ransomware attack

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Re: Blames Infosys, hah!!!

"Infosys (et al) supposedly have such awful reputations in the IT industry, customers should already know better than to employ them."

Exactly. To some this may sound racist, but the Asian / Indian subcontinent aren't exactly known for doing best business practices if it means cutting into the bottom line. Read: a large number of Asian / Indian businesses cost-cut and go the very cheapest way possible if it means making an extra pound. [We] have many dealing with them and they will penny-pinch you to absolute death if you let them or if that is what you are looking for - the very cheapest way out. But that's exactly why Fidelity chose them in the first place, they were (very undoubtedly) cheaper than in-house or domestic solutions; don't question why they are so cheap, just take the additional quarterly profits (and give management larger year-end bonuses, as well!).

The problem is the SEC won't hold Fidelity accountable for the end results of their endless and inevitable penny-pinching, quarterly profit-driven, no oversight or due diligence business practices. Fidelity will be allowed to blame Infosys, as if going to the lowest-cost bidder will ever lead to anything but a headache, and it will be the customers who pay (anyway, even if the SEC imposes a fine, it never comes out of the management's pocket).

I'm so sick of American & British end-stage capitalism, I can't even begin to tell you.

HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'

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Re: media on NAS

Originally I believed in that as well, ripping source to NAS.

Then I wised up.

Why? Why spend the money to buy the Blu-ray or DVD source and then spend again for the [double] storage space inside your home to store a copy? Why spend the time to rip as if you'll re-watch that movie endlessly, when simply grabbing that source disc will probably be conveniently nearby anyway?

OF COURSE this doesn't apply if you wish to replay on your mobile device. Then you MUST rip.

But I don't do that. So the effort ended up redundant and wasteful, popping in the source disc was an overall time saver.