* Posts by FuzzyTheBear

514 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2010

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HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

FuzzyTheBear
FAIL

Good way to shoot their last toe ..

I do not know of a single person that needs specifically a HP printer ..

Anything else is a better choice .. even an old IBM Selectric running on a parallel port is a better choice imho.

That's what happens with money and revenues are the only motivations to run a company.

HP Died a long time ago.. when they sold their lab instrument division it was the beginning of the end.

RIP ( rest in pieces )

Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe

FuzzyTheBear
Coat

stop the insulting headlines ..

Stop the presses and get the editor in chief out here .. ill have his rear end ..

Poutine is NOT a CANADIAN dish .. it's a QUEBEC dish and we Quebecers

are angry as hell about this outrage and recurring insult ..

Public apologies and a bag of curd cheese will get back on our good side .. < coughs >

SIgned : a teed off Quebecer out of curd cheese

Have a great weekend .. mine's the one with a can of poutine sauce in the left pocket ..

Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite

FuzzyTheBear
Happy

Fail is success

When you make a test , you expect failures and learn from either success or failure.

So .. in a strange deeply perverted way , this was a complete success.

ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline after 'stealing 190GB of vital info'

FuzzyTheBear
Megaphone

Oddly enough

I have no pity at all for the owners of any important infrastructure , machinery , connected to the public internet at all.

They know crackers will do what they do best , crack their security and make as much damage as they can.

It's negligence at a whole new level.

Don't blame crackers. Blame the companies for putting important infrastructure on a public network.

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

FuzzyTheBear
Happy

Ah come on ..

Really dude .. it's Google .. what could possibly go wrong ?

Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone

FuzzyTheBear
Boffin

food for thought

The obvious " slip on " keyboard without electronics but simple contacts with the screen seem to be something to investigate.

Why use electronics at all when a simple passive plastic keyboard can do the job ? ..

simplify the design a notch. There's no need for electronics at all.

Granted different models different screens might require a diff keyboard layout but frankly ,

a 10 cent piece of plastic can be produced for different models and you have your keyboard.

They do the same for protective cases . Why not a KB ?

Just food for thought .

Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation

FuzzyTheBear
Linux

Mint

I been using mint ( mate ) for 5 years at least and never turned back.

It's all rock stable , great features , works fine and FF 122 as usual is doing it's job.

Highly recommended,

Firefox is a great browser , on mint it's a headache free experience.

IBM talks up cost savings, including 'workforce rebalancing'

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Just a feeling

Red Hat is about to go the IBM way : closed.

IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

FuzzyTheBear
Holmes

Security optional

I worked in A/V and telecom all my life. I was in the boardroom of a very important corporation installing wireless mics etc .. all for the convenience of the client.

Well .. This is a place where very important financial decisions are taken

At some point they introduce me to the chief of security and i simply told him what was the truth

You can take a small reciever and listen in from the other building what goes on in the boardroom.

He was like , " huh ? "

I took my laptop , my SDR dongle and an antenna and made the demonstration ..

He was without words.

My boss didn't like me one bit on the spot , but they did sell them wired replacement microphones. :D

What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

Re: I think we're in agreement

Copyright or patent infringement should not be allowed period.

We're talking about individuals who literally ripped off countless content creators.

It's not AI / machine against man .. it's about people ripping people off.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

FuzzyTheBear
Pint

Re: Excelent design - aliens must be proud

Just the small matter of windows freezing on the USN battleship leaving it totally vulnerable to attacks.

Never use commercial off the shelf Windows if you need a stable reliable military grade OS or anything mission critical.

What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

FuzzyTheBear
Holmes

Caught my attention

Nobody on the input side is being compensated fairly for the output.

Facebook certainly fits this as #1

Evertything for them , nothing for the users which they milk to the last bit.

Israel to plow $3.2B into $25B Intel fab project

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Intel .. big chips , small brain.

It's a mistake to backup with money a regime hellbent on genocide.

Intel's reputation is on the line.

Best business practices says stay out of conflict zones.

Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

Stolen tech

I do not see why Apple should appeal when they know perfectly well they stole the tech they're trying to sell.

I got no pity whatsoever. Off to the fump those million watches.

Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?

FuzzyTheBear
Pint

Re: Operational Islands Wholly Disconnected from the Internet

Anyone with half a brain would not.

Maybe there's total idiots out there but i don't think they'd pass the interview.

Ans as for vendors requiring network , they would not pass the first round of suppliers in a nuclear facility.,

Not everyone's an idiot.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

FuzzyTheBear
Pint

Indeed ..

Merry Christmas to the readers and staff of the Register.

Thanks for the information the laughs and the sometimes most entertaining readers comments :D

Merry Christmas all

Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Jail

Just drag those bastards out and throw them in jail.

People that think they can do whatever they please without consequences need to be disposed of properly.

The guillottine seems a good way to get their attention.

Google hopes to end tsunami of data dragnet warrants with Location History shakeup

FuzzyTheBear
Happy

It's used by law enforcement in the US to get a list of potential suspects based on their proximity to some crime or other.

So to be a successfull criminal and not be suspected you leave the phone home. Gotcha.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Dear Rupert

Dude you're an idiot :

" .. ctional life is as bad for profits as retirees are for the national economy: "

This is not only insulting it shows your complete ignorance.

Apologies are quite required.

When you get kids you'll see the value of those retirees when they're repeatedly saving your rear end.

You're a jerk , deal with it.

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

just the title

is hilarious. Come on .. HP think they can change our impression ( no pun intended ) of their products / company being total c*** ?

Letter to HP :

If you want to be liked and sell printers change your idiotic and pointless ink cartridge policy.

sweep it out the door and let customers choose what they do when they do it.

HP was first to introduce an extremely fine print on every sheet so that the print could be tied to a particular machine .. remember that one ?

That's your second job , stop doing it.

Network / forced updates ? .. would you please let go of that ?

It's the whole bloody dang thing with you guys : you don't get it , you have to make radical policy changes for you to survive.

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Good ..

At least the AI can't abuse of children. That's a major beef here in Canada. Probably in the UK too. Churches are empty because of abuses. People turn away from organisations that defend these abuses. AI ? Religions ? they can all go to hell .. o the irony.

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

FuzzyTheBear
Alien

Re: Idaho National laboratory

i pledge alleigance and welcome our new human potato overlords ..

SpaceX's Starship on the roster for Texas takeoff

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

How about choosing somewhere else ?

At some point they might be willing to consider building the launch pads where it counts for the American people ..

Ex : Mar a Lago .. nice spot and exploding on ignition would make some most remarkable and welcomed collateral damage.

Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program

FuzzyTheBear
Joke

checks buses and the fatberg

" Unwavering loyalty and devotion rewarded with termination.

You could say that of most of the lawyers and people that ever got associated with Trump .

< bada ching >

To prevent 'lost' nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors

FuzzyTheBear
Coat

Like anyone's going to want third party supplied equipment within the base ..

And even more so , close to nuclear warheads ?

Dreamers keep dreaming .. Noone's going to allow that on their bases.

You got to be joking :D :D :D :D

Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT

FuzzyTheBear
Coat

Best robot dogs ..

Sure .. they can also deliver bombs .. kill people .. like that gunman who was terminated using a robot delivering a bomb in texas.

The only thing for sure is that it should deliver a bomb far away in a place noone will get hurt and perform a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Dead BD robots are the only good robots.

Time for a coffee ;)

If you're brave enough to move fully-laden datacenter racks, here's the robot for you

FuzzyTheBear
Boffin

Ill wait ..

ill be waiting for a robot to bring the whole rack , still powered up and wired before placing an order ..

but for the rest of humanity they could consider building racks so an overhead chainblock / winch / rail system overhead

could take the rack and move it anywhere on the floor.

i know .. utterly ridiculous ;)

DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff'

FuzzyTheBear
Facepalm

hilarious

That man had to be the sloppiest wannabe spy/traitor that ever walked this earth and the most naive person in the universe.

Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist

FuzzyTheBear
Pint

And on it's gold reserves ,, cause for government stability ,, they got the whole dang circus in Congress

Stable government in the USA >? hmm .. at this exact point in time ? fugget about it.

Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters

FuzzyTheBear
Holmes

bloom

Bloom Energy used to do just that.

Nothing new under the sun here.

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

FuzzyTheBear
Trollface

Call 911

Even though the bot – the web giant's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT – can scan your personal information, Google said this info won't be used to train its models or to target advertisements.

lolololol of course Google .. pkease call 911 , i'm dying laughing.

Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

The USA

It's becoming fast a fascist state. So for one , the USA,.

They have been supporting apartheid and the treatment of Palestinians under Israel's boots

Plus they send them money for weapons to use against the Palestinians.

Take both countries out when it comes to the " free world " and " democracies " lists.

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

FuzzyTheBear
FAIL

Re: What this tells us about about Elon...

And not good news for any company.

Word got out of his actions in this situation and the company will probably at some point in the near future change owner or close.

Noone can trust Musk in any way now.

Certainly even less his internet access ..

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

No business

In this world interrupting a military operation like he did is a no no.

traitors like Musk should be shot at dawn and that's it.

Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

FuzzyTheBear
Happy

I hate to say this ..

But i been to ottawa a hell of a lot and i am yet to find a real good restaurant ..

Food bank at times seems a valid alternative.

Ottawa is no place to send / recommend to anyone unless you truly are out for revenge ..

Or a sadist .. whatever :)

Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims

FuzzyTheBear
Black Helicopters

Hopefully you knew better ..

If Google has it so does the American government.

Google is a nice front gives it legitimacy.

Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

What you expect ?

Republicons are in congress .. of course eerything that's food and usefull will suffer.

They wanty to defund the FBI the CIA , the Department of justice so on so forth.

As long as they're in the house the only way for America is down.

YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Always the same

" without merit "

Of course ..

Fess up , admit to it and this will soon be over .. but that's asking you to be adults.

Do no evil ? .. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

Re: "artists such as Frank Sinatra .." etc

Won't get into politics i assure you but in the USA at the moment good common sense is out the door.

They do not want to build at the moment , they want to destroy and go back in time, even basic human rights are thrown under the bus.

What happens with 78's ( which are worthless ) is simply just one niore cheap way to destroy an important work and site.

Destroy , destroy .. that's all the goddamn record labels and lawyers are ever good for.

Find me something good they done in the last .. 50 years .. just one ..

I am waiting .. well ? .. i thought so ..

Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Take down

The only explanation is Oracle and friends are going to take down and take out RHEE completely.

Redhat opened a door and these folks are simply going to clean and wipe them out.

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy

FuzzyTheBear
Pint

already done

Diamonds are forever. Also Golden Eye.

Cheers.

US Supreme Court allows 'ghost guns' to fall under federal purview

FuzzyTheBear

Re: "suspected ghost guns"

Can also be a piece of small dimension steel pipe available everywhere in hardware stores.

There's a common size that fits a 22 cal bullet perfectly.

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

US Problem .. for now.

the fascination for guns in America is an illness.

it's everywhere .. the more they remove from the streets the better off they are.

An untraceable weapon's only use is murder or crime. ban them and jail for life whoever uses one on that particular count.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

FuzzyTheBear
Coat

Showstopper for me.

What made me pull the plug ages ago was going through the pile and oh surprise .. the video of the beheading of an american.

Was a long time ago if you remember the incident.

With such images stuck for weeks in my head i stopped to follow anything on the net.

I come here .. few other good adresses , but following " social media " ? got to be kidding me,

we're all better off without that garbage.

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Proof

We all got to admit that Meta / facebook and al are the poison of civil liberties.

Hopefully they will all go down in history as a major failed experiment and close down.

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

takes one ..

Big Blue is just a gold digger

well .. takes one to know one hey Oracle ?

Google says public data is fair game for training its AIs

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

for free ?

Think it's time for a humongous lawsuit that will have them pay us for our data.

They make money out of it .. so should we.

Gentlemen get your checkbooks out.

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

FuzzyTheBear
Mushroom

Yes, all nice but ..

can it rid us of all the shady characters in one single shot ? Putin , Musk and Twitter .. Trudeau .. Johnson :D

Willing to press the button if you need any assistance ..

So long suckers .. < KABOOM >

lol

Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'

FuzzyTheBear
Megaphone

Sure blame users ..

instead of biaming users, saying something like " oh ain't foolproof eh ? let's redo this .. " is way more productive and confidence inspiring.

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

FuzzyTheBear
Flame

Some people ..

there's people i wouldn't do business with and he's one of them. twitter ? no thanks .. ill pass.. leaves a s***** aftertaste.

may they go down in flames.

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