Posts by Mark 85

Re: "Imagineer"?

I thought Disney used that term to describe the engineers who designed Disneyland.

Update: yes indeed... From a quick bit of Googling:

im·ag·i·neer

/iˌmajəˈnir/

noun

noun: imagineer; plural noun: imagineers

1. a person who devises and implements a new or highly imaginative concept or technology, in particular one who devises the attractions in Walt Disney theme parks.

verb

verb: imagineer; 3rd person present: imagineers; past tense: imagineered; past participle: imagineered; gerund or present participle: imagineering

1. devise and implement (such a concept or technology).

"theme parks are benefiting from a new era of imagineering"

Re: Carplay / Android Auto plus magic = profit!

Ah.... Mobile Clippy for the car: "Hey, your tires need rotating, use this place" and you can call them now."

I hope you emailed the editor on this.

Re: @ Throatwarbler Mangrove Sauce for the goose...

Last time I was at the California coast, about 10 years ago, there were signs to the effect: "Use the path at your own risk.". Don't know if the signs are still there though nor if that actually protected property owners.

Nah... that's too easy and doesn't get research grants.

Re: Good Luck Tilting at Windmills

It's just doomed to fail. He'll need backing and the big corps aren't about to that and will lobby against any public funds being used for this.

Maybe 10 years ago it might have worked but I don't see the big guys playing nice here. And has been pointed out, users for the most part don't care. They've been sucked into the mindset that it's "only data" they hand over for something new and shiny.

Re: Maybe the internet has jaded me

I don't think jaded has anything to do with political correctness or SJW's. Imagine the outrage if a new version of Leisure Suit Larry were released with today's graphics capability.

Re: 50 million "snooped", so??

As I understand it, it may not be just bots. Several friends have complained that there's fake accounts for them that look exactly like the page they made. Complaining to FB just gets them being forced to send in "official" ID and a demand for more personal info. The paranoid in some us has to wonder if this is a random crim or FB is doing it to collect more data.

Currently only one windows device on your network should download updates from Microsoft, the others will then download the updates from the updated device's update cache.

Security issues (which are potentially big ones) aside on this, they're just moving the bandwidth charges to the customers. I don't want someone pulling an update from my computer and using my bandwidth. I'm a bit cranky about this whole scheme.

Re: C

To the best of my knowledge, it's only New Jersey that forbids you from pumping your own gas petrol.

Oregon also. The vehicle gets fueled by the attendant.

Re: Useful advice that won't help

Anyone know a way to break this loop?

Most users won't read this article or any article warning them and telling them how to fix it. More important to mingle on Farcebook, et al. Then there's the older folks to whom computers, while fun and great for communications, planning vacations, etc. don't have a clue either. So they're not really lazy, just ignorant and/or don't care. There has to be a better way to get info out there.

It would be nice of all the security items mentioned as to ports, RDP, etc. for this and other infections were turned off by default, but M$ won't do it.

Re: So much for Russian hackers

Honor among countrymen maybe? No Russian would dare hack them. Now China is another matter.

Re: Quoting Zappa!?

He's zombie-walked into historic reputational suicide.

Pai is obviously quite insane and needs the extra long sleeve jacket and a bed in a room with rubber wals.

Re: "used to fund its actvities"

Which are what?

It's a variation of an extortion racket. Uses the fines to levy fines on others but withut the beatings and breaking of bones the mob uses.

Sort of like what Heathkit used to do? Might work.

Re: Flat earthers

Seems there was a SF story about this decades ago. Brain fart on the author and title but do remember it.

Re: The increaste in non-techy people....

First... don't use Chrome. I do though only for one website.

Second use something along the of https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ for IE which blocks almost all ads, cookies, etc. from sites other . I believe there's a similar blocker for Firefox, but again, I only use it for one or two sites.

When I'm running IE, it's my choice to unblock websites and accept their ads and those damn cookies. The cookies get deleted nightly via a script.

Re: Voluntary == won't happen

What they're more likely to do is something like what Google does with its "My Activity" page where you can view and delete what they've gathered.

Can you be sure that the data is actually deleted or is it merely taken into the back room?

It's less about catching the bad guys and more about controlling the masses and protecting the incumbent governments.

Isn't that the purpose of these agencies? Democracies decry "secret police run states" but yet do same things.

Re: Customer Feedback

Probably a long string of obscenities and questioning the parentage of those at Tierra.

Re: stdin?

No, entirely plausible if one is old enough. As for degrees, perhaps the value and quality rotted in Pom Land before Oz.

Back then, yes I quite agree. A degree back than just showed that you could learn new things as the colleges didn't even try to teach it.

Re: though i never use refills myself

HP is following the Windows theory of ownership. You may have bought the printer/computer but we own it.

Re: Customer caught

Suck it up, and put good practices in place!

"But, but, but that costs money!!! And reduces our profit and bonuses.... " quoth the board.

Re: Don't need a condom.....

What I can't comprehend is what they then think when, after the event, he denies having said what he said, even when presented with the video evidence of him saying what he said. I mean... you can't be capable of independent thought, and also square away that kind of behavior'

So he's just like every other politician in the world including the "leader" here in the States?

Re: A gun is involved in every single mass shooting.

Crime and the media that reports it in large headlines and repeatedly. That's why. There's cities in this country where most of us wouldn't go unless we were in a tank with a platoon of Marines as escort.

Fear is a big factor and the way businesses operate for pure profit, some foster fear as a product.

The original company could claim 'force majeure' as an excuse because the equipment was seized, presumably at zero notice.

I'm sure they had notice.. late rent payment mails, calls, etc. Warnings from lawyers and possibly even a court involved for bankruptcy and seizing the property. To say they no notice would be a stretch.

Re: No, no, no, no, no

So Amazon blew the delivery address on the order?

Re: Jackanory

Where's Bombastic Bob when we really need him?

Blaming the Democrats for this?????

Re: Nonsense

Network is fine as long as it's NOT connected to the internet in any way, shape, or form. But, lazy or manglement wanted things "easy" for them and thus not secure. If the control network never touches the internet, it's secure.

Re: Things will not improve until...

Can't we do both?

Re: No mystery

The real question is: why to we as a nation allow corporations so much power that they can continue to steal from the citizenry?

They own the regulatory bodies is the obvious. Lobbying goes a long way to owning politicians and agency heads.