Posts by cmb11

Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

An AI Pope will be damaging to humanity?

Pope Bobby South Side could do great damage to society. Not as much as moving pederasts around from parish to parish or country to country.

AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

Re: Anybody want any toast?

Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite… would you like a toasted teacake?

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

If done correctly, it's a great idea

Having all government sites following a standard with accessibility functions and coded for desktops and mobile devices makes a lot of sense. My concern is it's something the two time adult video extra is championing, I'm thinking it all end up looking like it was coded in the 90's with a dancing baby, sorry, Trump, on every page. Also syphoning of the funds from the government to a Trump adjacent entity to do the coding is defiantly on the cards.

BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess

Re: he's not enough of an idiot to wander too close to a full-height window that opens out ...

But not Artificial Intelligent Design

Microsoft removes the whiff of Vista from Windows 11 Insider Preview

Vista wasn't that bad was it

Come on Blista, sorry, Vista wasn't that bad, I mean it wasn't Windows ME bad...

VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

Re: Broadcom “support” portal

This is where you, and Broadcom, are wrong. Giving NFR software to industry professionals is a sure way to get your software into large companies and government departments. If techs and managers know your product they are going to recommend it. If the techs are already skilled in your product, there is less outlay for the bosses for training and they can start standing shit up quick. The way Broadcom are taking VMware, it won't be long until KVM becomes the hypervisor of choice, let's face it RedHat gives away free dev licenses for the techs to learn on and RHEL licensing isn't as bad as VMware bundles are getting to be

Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suite

Re: Unbelievable

What a sad nihilistic view on life

Hire me! To drop malware on your computer

Second most hated?

Why apologize, these talent pimps promise the world to the job seeker, provided they are under 25 with 20 year of experience and, at least, a masters level degree to level one support and then extort the employer for their cut for the next 12 months.

Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser

Re: It all wears rather thin

Yes all countries are spying on each other, even the 5 eyes partners, all be it passively rather than actively, but we don't need to help people spying by leaving unsecured cameras open to the internet or cameras still with the default passwords.

As someone who has security clearance and is trained in one of the worlds leading CCTV software products, it's not that hard and professionals should be putting cameras on closed networks with the NVR/Management servers having 2 NICs one on the camera network and one, sitting behind a firewall, with only the ports needed for external access. Then there's the age old issue of passwords and MFA, people just use the same password for everything, normally dictionary based, normally already on some list on the undernet and MFA is just a pain for people unless they are forced to use it, then they wonder why their credit card was just used to buy a round of drinks for 500 people in a bar in Moscow...

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Countries need to start thinking longer than the 2 time extra from Playboy Adult Video's does. I mean he's thinking, and so are the elected officials in the US, in four year chunks, the rest of the wold needs to start thinking in 10 and 20 year increments and tell the wanna be strong man to do whatever he wants, we'll all be here when he's crashed the US economy and they get some adults in the room, but this time, we'll have the upper hand, something China has already done

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Even easier, just set a manual IP with no gateway it DNS settings. The printer can't phone home if there's not gateway for name resolution.

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: Sooo

Shows how much you understand economics. You give these companies subsidies or tax incentives to provide jobs, the CHIPS act is targeted to high tech to bring manufacturing to the USA, so the jobs will be well paid and you know what? Those workers in those high paid jobs pay taxes to the government. But here a better way to get some money in, go after the, estimated, $490+ Billion a year in tax fraud and avoidance that is carried out, mainly, by the biggest companies and top 1% of wage earners and force the companies that pay their fulltime employees so little that they still are eligible for social security to pay a living wage. For context, an estimated 70% of all social security recipients in the US are working fulltime on low wages, the biggest abusers of this are Walmart and McDonalds, Amazon was on that list until Burnie Sanders shamed them in to paying, at least, $15 p/h to all workers.

Re: Orange Cockwomble Ramble

And if you don't sack the IRS agents that are trying to claw back the, estimated, $490+ Billion dollars in tax avoidance and fraud. The IRS has already lost 6,000 and stands to lose another 39,000 under Trump, so unless those 45,000 people are all making $11,000,000 a year, wouldn't it be better to keep them to recover the lost revenue, or is that the point, to stop the people investigating your fraud Mr. Trump?

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

Re: French fry me right up

50 million degrees, in the Australian Outback, we call that a mild day :P

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Strange that President Musk and his side-kick, the extra from Home Alone II, both own tech companies who, potentially, would be impacted by these taxes, can't understand why they would be pressuring other countries to drop those taxes.

NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?

Re: The plan...

The plan is simple, one of the biggest drivers for interest rates is unemployment numbers, you dump a few hundred thousand people in to the unemployment lines, interest rates will drop. The "Home Alone II extra" said he will start brining down interest rates day one, this is how.

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

Because the virus can be on a surface and if you touch the surface and then touch your nose or mouth, it gets in. However the virus must leave via the mouth or nose, covering your mouth and nose with a mask helps limit the chances if that happening.

Oh as for the rag masks, they were recommended when there was a limited supply of medical grade masks so that the medical staff, who were at higher risk, could get them, as production ramped up, the recommendation of rag masks went down.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be

Re: DEI is for recruiting not hiring

I noticed you "couched" that delicately

DEI is for recruiting not hiring

From what I know of DEI, it's more on the recruiting side of things, not the hiring. What I mean is a recruiter should be casting a wider net to get a range of different candidates, a big ones are women returning to the workforce and older people changing professions, and not just going to the same talent pool time and time again. US VP is a recipient of a DEI policy at Yale Law, part of the DEI was to look at people from disadvantaged backgrounds and returned servicemen, both describe J. D(EI) Vance. It is then up to the interview panel to hire the best candidate from that more diverse pool.

Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites

J DEI Vance getting scrubbed too?

I just waiting for the Orange One to realise that his VP was the recipient of a DEI position Yale, he got the position because he is a returned serviceman and from a low income area. I don't doubt he was smart enough for the position, but given two people of equal ability, the J DEI Vance got the nod

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

Re: Daily Trump

I do like the anglicized Xiter

Re: Daily Trump

Personally I like "Convicted Felon" or "Home Alone 2 extra"

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

Re: Oh the Irony...

Yeah, Tic Tok is one of the ways they could have got in, don't forget Tic Tok has a key logger running when you use the app and people are more than a little slack with passwords, often using the same ones for most online services and Telco employees have been know to use social media from time to time.

Re: And the corollary...

So what you're saying is if people are trained in avoiding attacks via social engineering, these backdoors cannot be accessed by bad, state funded, attackers. To me it's better to have the backdoor there to be accessed only with a legal court order, and train the staff to stop bad actors accessing.

Re: Paperwork is not going to fix the problem.

As one of those professionals who are charged with securing systems, I can say it's not the hardware or software where the problems lie, for the most part. Most of the time social engineering is uses to deploy the nasty. After the Aussie BoM was hit by a RAT a few years ago, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorology-bom-cyber-hacked-by-foreign-spies/7923770, it was discovered to have been, most likely, been due to a staff member opening an email attachment. This is how bad actors get in to networks, not though a hole in a firewall, people open the door for them.

The way we fix it is to, yes keep out kit updated and patched, but also train our people so they can spot a potential attempted attack. If not that "speeding fine," "request from the CEO," that nice Nigeran Prince or the helpful man from "Windows Support/Amazon/Credit Card Company/etc." will be a lot more expansive then anyone could have thought.

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

The issue with going to Apple is the cost of the hardware and the cost to train staff who have been using Windows in schools, mainly through M$'s educational licensing. Add to that the cost of replacing software that may not be ported to Apple. It would be far less expensive to replace the small percentage of kit that won't support Win 11, or move to thin clients and invest in RDS/Citrix for larger corporates. With baseline mini Mac costing about 1.5 times that of an entry level business grade Lenovo desktop, I can't see many making the switch.

Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number

One of my old work places had 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 as an alias for emergency services, as well as the regular one.