Posts by Esso

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough

AI? Fine. Now go fix the damn interface. Perhaps make it more useful to humans?

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Re: He needs to ask a Leet háčker

Mutley Kruh

AI, what's FAFO in Norwegian (Nyorski)?

Re: Don't want to victim blame...

"They're the main data that I care about and haven't backed up."

No, and Yes. If the first part was Yes, then the second part would likely have been No.

Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

Re: Know your Phantom Novel Enemy and Pray they Prefer to be Friendly

Someone will eventually vibecode an AI (remember, kids, these things do not think. More specifically, they do not think in ways that most non-researchers can understand) that only has one directive: Live.

DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source

SpinRite

Maybe Mr. Gibson will decide on a project to get his famous disc software EUFI-compatible as soon as 2039.

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Re: BGP

Related to a bit of unrest in Hastings?

Haute coture

We were our buffalo skins until they were nice and shiny. And we liked it!

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

Re: Interns, unsupervised...

Me, wondering why the team working on Power Toys is coming up with wonderful, fresh improvements and novel methods... and the operating system team, throwing patches which makes things go to Hades repeatedly.

Re: Blame the dates

I think Americans, perhaps even (reformed) Jews, would love to have salt. pre-porked and enbaconed. Bonus points for deep-fried and straight from the tin.

Now I'm absolutely questioning my own reality instance why 'enbaconed' was not flagged by spellcheck?!

Re: Blame the dates

AV (Antivirus) software kills viruses. Yet flu medicine does not give one the flu.

With the exceptions of Norton and McAfee, in which case, the cure is worse than the disease.

Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo

Re: Missed chance at AI'ifying printing

I'm not sure that paragraph wouldn't nicely fit into the rhyme of "Modern Major-General's Song"

Re: Wow,

Rather Kaypro, then?

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

Re: He's really trying...

You beat me to it. I was going to make that comparison. Zuck's failure to recreate The Black Sun and the purpose behind it, escaped him just as the purpose, if any, behind superintelligence will.

And the planet will suffer just a little more because of it.

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Re: Here's a great alternative

Isn't password-protected {Microsoft container} an oxymoron?

Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

Re: considered harmful

Managing security and access at the SharePoint is like trying to waterproof a biscuit.

Whereas it is (theoretically) possible to have Security and SharePoint, it certainly would make the experience so undesirable that it would see even less usage.

On a related topic, was there ever a company in existence whose SharePoint administration didn't go bald after three years? And stopped being useful/updated after four years?

Unfortunately, they are no Robin Hood type APTs that will simply erase your SharePoint and call it a good deed.

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

If there had to be an industry rep that I would trust to proxy the fund, it would be Mega. Not joking. Small enough to be agile, large enough to be a decent provider, and rude enough to give the finger like Linus.

Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

Re: I have a better plan for biometrics and I can exclusively reveal it here on El Reg.

*breaks the lock* Giggity.

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

Were all 1.1.1.1 services affected?

Like WARP, WARP+?

Being routed different were they unharmed by the change?

Avocating for the devil

They do a great job of owning up to their mistakes and doing a breakdown of what happened, publicly.

Me? I'm 9.9.9.9, among others. Your mileage will vary.