Posts by Fred Flintstone 3145 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2009
.. and now you know why Microsoft based Edge on Chrome and not on Firefox.
Exactly the same motives, and exactly the same amount of interest in protecting the user, namely none. It's actually even a negative value as they too are part of the problem..
No wonder TheRegister readership is near an all time low, they allow any crap to be posted.
Nah, we've seen them come and go and it's occasionally entertaining to have a few idiots around, gives it some contrast. Besides, if it gets too bad the moderators will act in manners ranging from subtle to full blown BOFH mode. If your local DIY shop starts running short on carpet and lime you know their days are numbered.
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At the risk of drifting off-topic, can the safety systems be remotely disabled? Would remote wind power sabotage require extreme conditions to work, or could it do damage under normal or even idle conditions?
Going with the drift for the moment, you guys have made the perfect argument to implement wind turbine safety systems along the same lines as industrial ASD: totally independent. Better an automated kill switch which requires a manual restart than something that can be abused for large scale destruction..
1 - who was shorting stock before the announcement?
2 - who is shopping around now?
Don't look at the noise - that's just the distraction that Trump and Musk use to camouflage something else.
The above may just be what is really going on - a pump and dump scam on a massive scale.
Indeed, never seen before in the history of the world, as the orange chaos monger would say.
We had a corporate demo from them, with Q&A after.
Frankly, they were simply the most convincing of all the ones we reviewed, and complete to boot. I did have to laugh as I saw the sales exec cringe when the tech guy said "there's no such thing as perfect security", but that's actually what I liked: zero BS. I prefer companies that are brutally realistic when it comes to security, especially when they're about to supply you with tools to protect your own.
Hiding from the stark reality benefits nobody. They're out there, and they're getting WAY too smart. The days of script kiddies are gone and you best learn to deal with it.
These people offer a decent product in the only way to inspire trust: by being open.
But we let millions of poorly sighted people drive on the roads every day
I don't know where you are, but where I live you get your eyes tested. If you need glasses, it goes on your driving license and you need to provide evidence of recent testing to get it renewed.
Sure, a lot can happen in those 5 years but few are allowed to drive around with a white stick over here :).
.. is that the BBC is now asking people to explain the term "bricking" and very often mentions that MacOS en Linux (usually wrongly pronounced as Lainux) are not affected.
What entertains me most is that they keep repeating this Mac and Linux statement. Microsoft must be rather angry with Crowdstrike right now because it has significantly damaged its cult status and has made people think again about IT diversity to prevent cascade failure.
Not that it lasts, of course, but it's interesting to keep an eye on how long this will last.
From experience I give it at most a week before that fades.
"Lie to me was", however, a very good TV series with Tim Roth in an absulutely cracking role as lead actor Cal Lightman.
They sensibly stopped the series after 3 seasons as the core subject did have a limited range, but I suspect they would have had fun with the Trump era..
Do a search for reports how well a Tesla self-parks versus other brands. It still doesn't seem to manage something that other, allegedly "less advanced" car manufacturers solved now almost a decade ago.
The main 'advanced' feature that Tesla now has is how Musk abuses social media and misinformation to pump the stock price. The 'bulletproof' Cybertruck (read: extra weight wasting energy, and no, it isn't) can't even handle a car wash, let alone offroad conditions. Again, sold mainly on the basis of a load of BS.
If I had that sort of money I'd hunt down a refitted DeLorean (there seem to be quite a few people who do this as a hobby) and buy one of those - it will even be easier to get spare parts for it..
Maybe the key didn't actually leak at Microsoft and it has just been told to take the hit.
Maybe what really happened was that the key was stolen from one of the many agencies it must be sharing the key with, but they can't afford the embarrassment. We're as used to Microsoft causing security problems as we are to Trump committing crimes or Musk overpromising that it would not really register much..
After all, this is the same government that told you your luggage was still safe despite their mandated backdoor*, and you can get TSA keys now even from Amazon..
* If this sounds familiar, you're thinking of the insane idea to demand a backdoor into encryption that somehow seems to appear every 7 years or so, but in British politics.
I *so* want to see the Pentagon access control in Monsters vs Aliens implemented..
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