* Posts by Total_Blackout

9 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2023

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

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Re: F.O.R.D

F'd Over Rebuilt Dodge

US defense forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All

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Re: Not just the military

We had one at a semiconductor company I worked for in the early 2000s. The email went around the world. One snarky guy in Ireland commented that it was "Mostly the stupid Americans replying". Well that wasn't remotely true, but in the end that guy ended up getting fired and I believe he ended up getting death threats over it. Just because in their infinite wisdom, the admins created an open mail list that went to everyone and it was just called "fab." Hours of company time was wasted because of one poorly named mail list.

As wafer demand dries up, foundry revenues head for a cliff, we all celebrate

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Re: "Trendforce is tracking more than 20 new fabs"

I can't speak for every place, but generally the cost of recycling water for use is cheaper than using municipal or other means. They all run through purification systems regardless of the source.

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Re: I have mentioned before

It's been a pretty constant theme in the semi conductor industry to capitalize on shortages about a year after the market's shifted due to lack of supply. Look at the Micron Xbox fiasco. Micron signed a huge deal with Microsoft to supply DDR chips, but only told their fabs to produce Rambus chips in hopes of capitalizing on some non existent market. In the interim, they failed to deliver on the Xbox contract because some genius in marketing didn't think we needed to actually make the chips they were trying to sell.

Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

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I would venture to say that these ransoms are penalties for poor security practices. Hardly anyone keeps an offline backup, and they kinda deserve to get bit in the ass because of it.

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

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Good enough for me.

Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu

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Re: Precautions, for your convenience

Lock the OS, pull the plug, dispose of the machine, flee civilization, return the monkey. Surest system security there is.

Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters

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Re: Rare earth minerals extraction (cost, environment)

The scale of human suffering that's needed to make these electric cars is astounding.

Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong

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Don't forget the copius amount of cease and desist orders they put out. They're an IP enforcement monster.