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Developer scored huge own goal by deleting almost every football fan in Europe

Re: XMLT

Murphy sez: "Constants aren't, variables, won't."

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

An acquaintance previously worked for M$ and his comment was that Win XP would be reduced in size by 30% and work faster if the programming was more efficient and redundant code and comments were removed.

Redundant code, of course. But redundant comments?!? I do hope you understand that XP is compiled, yes?

Re: Still can't write clean code after forty years

I think it's called "technical debt". With any kind of luck (and if there is justice in the world), it will bankrupt them.

Re: Whoops, missed that...

Seems like something a code review might have found.

_{"Code reviews?!? Yeah, we've heard of them. No, we haven't..."}

Re: Comrade, you WILL upgrade to Windows 11

Иди на хуй!

_{(This way, even tRump can read it! Although it is not in crayon...)}

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Re: "in contravention of standard operating procedures"

The orange baboon only knows what wall it wants to throw its shit at.

Are you sure about that? From here, the splatter patterns appear quite random.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Well, certainly not the ones he bankrupted...

_{Which, as I come to find, is a rather large number of them.}

And you've clearly not read anything about the man, a US citizen, who has been vanished into what is likely a Honduran prison/death camp along with a few hundred others for the crime of...

The crime was wearing a black Chicago Bulls cap, because, well everybody knows that anyone wearing a black Chicago Bulls cap is a notorious Venezuelan gang member/terrierist.

_{Just ask Karen Bondi...she'll tell you, all right!}

Let me suggest that this move is a license to hack

Let me further suggest a site to practice on: truthsocial.com

Yeah, and DOG-E now themselves admit that they only will find "savings" in the range of the low 100 billions -- not the "Trillions and Trillions" advertised on the tin. This will amount to something less than 2% of the budget.

So bullshit all along, or as we have come to know it since 20 Jan, "Business As Usual".

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge

Re: NLRB

The majority of these activities look less about the 'official' purpose of DOGE and more about how Musk has been let loose to serve himself.

And here all this time I thought that Musk serving himself was the official purpose of DOG-E.

_{"I'm shocked...shocked...to find there is gambling going on in this establishment!"}

Re: What is he looking for?

Seems like a rather tall order for one person to sift through tens of millions of records.

Well, we would want to assume that this one person would be at least (marginally) qualified to write a proper query (SQL or otherwise) to do the sifting for them. Of course, the quality of that query is where the adventure (and opportunity -- or, given that this is DOG-E, the avenue -- for mischief) happens.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Re: Ah, ya know what?

Oh, look! Bran Muffin is spouting shit. Tee-hee....

_{I try not to resort to ad hominem insults, but this one was teed up soooo well, that I couldn't resist. Plus, It's Friday, I've got a head cold, and I can't be arsed to write a point-by-point response right now -- I'll leave that up to the rest of the Reg commentard literati.}

Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

Re: No relation

[...] there's a vocal contingent of Trump's followers who are just like him: mean, spiteful, and mind-numbingly stupid.

Apparently, there are just enough of them to get that mo'fut elected.

_{"A Republic, sir, if you can keep it." It's starting to appear as if we cannot, anymore.}

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

Re: M$

Uhhh, the "bad driver" is apparently just fine, thank you, for Win 10 and prior versions of Win 11. So I'd think that there was nothing wrong with the driver, but rather something wrong with the thing that the driver interacts with.

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Re: Controlled leak

Trust in Donald, his divine plan is unknowable.

Apparently, even to himself.

_{"I have a concept of a plan..."}

"Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! ..."

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

Re: "Fake it till you make it"

Sounds a lot like the current "resident" of 1600 Penn. Av.

Re: The best way to learn something is to teach it

That may be true, but as mentioned numerous times above, that doesn't mean that the poor sods who are being "taught" will understand it. (And isn't that really the goal?)

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

I had a lecturer like that as a freshman in college. Took a couple of years before I was able to (re-) learn calculus.

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it

OK...good plan. But...

But why wait until the end of April? Why not just, as suggested above, "shred the drives" now? Before they can be hacked, or subpoenaed or even stolen. I mean, if the end game is to "delete all the data", why must there be 30 days lead time? You're not going to back it up, are you? (Of course not; doing so would make a liar out of you....)

So why wait? Do it now! Nuke it from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Something about an exception, and proving a rule...

That's not entirely true. Microsoft's first full-blown C compiler for MS-DOS (paradoxically called MS-C v4, a harbinger of things to come, exposing their inability to count) was really quite good. It worked, had copious, detailed and accurate documentation, and introduced one of the very first integrated, symbolic debuggers (called "CodeView" if memory serves) that also actually worked.

Course, everything that followed became an increasing stream of enshittification (long before the word ever existed in the lexicon). Add to that the OS/2 Misdirection, the Undocumented Windows debacle, and we all were well on our way to suffering through the warm, steaming heap that Micros~1 is today.

FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion

Re: US <s>Federal</s> Aviation <s>Administration</s>

Buying the pResidency and gub'mint may not be cheaper, but it sure is more fun.

_{As G. W. Bush (in)famously once said: 'This would be a heck of a lot easier if this was a dictatorship, just so long as I am the dictator'.}

US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle

Re: score of -142 for its implementation of NIST SP 800-171 security controls

No, the only part of this whole episode that was worth following up on was the Gov't getting the fine money.

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

Re: This one should be interesting

Unless and until the USA loses its atitude [sic] of "screw the poor" and punching down at every opportunity, things are simply going to get worse - particularly now the toddler-in-chief has started screaming the quite [sic] bits out loud in venues where it can't be handwaved away

It's not so much "screw the poor" (although that attitude does indeed exist, in spades, here), so much as it is "fatten the fatasses"; or stated another way, anything is OK so long as it furthers corporations' chasing, as Greta Thunberg so aptly put it, "fairy tales of eternal growth".

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers

So, new video drivers...

This is always good news.

But, given the current balkanization of everything having to do with anything, I have to ask: Are they written in Rust?

_{/me ducks and runs for cover...}

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

Shall we place bets for how long before the first one is compromised? I'm going for Tuesday. 3 weeks ago...

I'll take the 'under'...

Justice might be poetic: Waltz resigned his seat for Florida in the House to take up his new job.

Wait! Wait!! Waltz is a Florida Man?!? Who knew???

Re: They're already

"If it were a democrat you'd be calling for jail, and I'd agree with you. But the law applies equally, so I genuinely don't understand how you can suggest a slap on the wrist is appropriate here."

Had there been this highly classified details claimed then I would expect firings and possibly even jail time because that would be far more serious. However while not as serious as made out it is a big deal because these high level gov guys had a journalist accidentally added to the chat and that to me is a breach of security. [...]

Just keep making shit up as you go along, and denying obvious facts. Its the MAGAt way!

Re: They're already

And yet signal was pre-installed on the government devices for them to use. Just as it was used under Biden.

Oh, bugger-the-fuck-off with your pathetic whataboutism already! As if it justifies in any way this totally predictable cluster.

Biden may well have authorized installation of Signal on gov't provided phones and tablets.

Members of the Biden administration may well have used Signal to communicate between and among departments.

Did members of the Biden administration use signal to communicate classified military planning and execution strategies. No -- Because if that would have happened, you'd be bleating wails of indignation from the roof tops amid chants of "Lock Her Up!" (regardless of whether it was a female responsible...or even involved...).

It's not so much that Signal was used (even though that is bad), it's how Signal was (mis)used that is the problem here. Do you not get that?

_{I suspect that you do get it, but that you'd never cop to it, because...well, narrative.}

They're so ill-acquainted with the truth they can't even recognize it...

I disagree. They recognize it...and avoid it like the plague!

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: 8ball

I've always known it as "LookOut"...

_{As in, "Look out! Here comes another update!"}

Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU

Re: Oops

No, dumbass. It's because the Orange-utan wants to privatize secure communications. This was a trial.

Re: Incompetence finds it own level

The US is currently lead by criminals and fools.

And isn't it...interesting... that in the vast majority of cases, the same person fits both roles.

More likely someone in Mossad or one of the Israeli Special Forces who would have been directed by the Orange-utan to be "kept informed of the operation".

23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11

Re: Just don't!

Methinks the downvoters missed the implicit <sarcasm> tag...

Re: The court will now oversee the sale of 23andMe's assets

Just make sure Donnie and Muskie don't get it...

Re: Just don't!

They won't have to if Canada becomes the US's 51st (or 51st-60th) state....

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

Re: Built-in Javascript engine?

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states

Re: Uh-huh...suuuuure!

Actually, no the Democratic voting Tesla owners are rapidly becoming Democratic voting former Tesla owners.

_{...and will very likely continue to vote blue...}

One whose parents used to berate it?

Re: Capitol rioters were terrorists by that definition

No, he meant to say exactly what he said. Lying is a premeditated action.

So if the actions taken were politically driven (to intimidate Musk due to his work for the US government), or even simply to discourage people from buying Tesla's, then yes it could be terrorism.

By that conveniently weak and vague definition, then picketing Tesla dealerships, or even simply organizing a boycott of Tesla, could be considered "terrorism".

Puh-LEEEZ, awready!

Uh-huh...suuuuure!

"While we will defend the public's right to peaceful protest, we will not hesitate to act when protest crosses the line into violence and mayhem," said Acting US Attorney Brook Andrews for the District of South Carolina. "These kinds of attacks have no place in our community.

"We are grateful for the prompt response of our first responders and law enforcement. We must remain united in our commitment to safety and respect for all, regardless of political differences."

Uttered (bleated?) by the same outfit trying to deport Mamoud Khalil, for engaging in exactly the kind of "peaceful protest" that they are banging on about.

"Do as I say, not as I do!"

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

Rhetorical question?

Reverting the change did the trick, and service was restored, but the question must be asked – does Microsoft test its changes before deploying to production?

Short answer: No.

Longer, more detailed answer: Of course not!

Next question?

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

Re: NASA getting DOGE'd

Yes, I would say that is a bad thing.

As you apparently know very little about the inner workings of NASA, and as you also have a need to maintain the MAGAt narrative, regardless of how stupid it sounds (even to yourself, I wot), your snark falls flat. Yo really ought to engage your brain before letting your knee-jerk reflexes take over.

There's a Murphy's Law in there somewhere...

Dear fElon Musk-

STFU!

Sincerely, The People of the United States.

_{Which, by the way, does not include Canada. Or Greenland. Or the Panama Canal. (Not that the people of those lands wouldn't also appreciate you S-ingTFU).}

CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay

Dept. Of Government ... what's that, again?

Now that we've seen what "Efficiency" means in DOG-E (which I still maintain is pronounced "doggy"), I think we might agree that the the real name for this gang-that-can't-shoot-straight is the Department of Government Eccentricity (again, pronounced "Doggy").

_{My concern is that "eccentricity" is probably too kind of a word; it implies a bit of "lovability" to this, where absolutely none is desired or earned. Perhaps a better word might be "Errata"? Maybe "Effluvia"?}

Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

...or actually admit that there may indeed be a bug there!