Posts by DryBones

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

Re: It's more than hoses

And? You don't need to actually fly to figure any of this out. You can do it in a conference room.

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Re: the next one

So, 2 conspiracy fantasies and 4 truths, then.

Come back when you're actually learned enough to understand why the last 4 are true.

Re: Words fail me...

Please go study "innuendo" and "plausible deniability". It was the same sort of speech that the Orange Man always uses, weasely double-talk that from the strictest reading wasn't anything bad. But to anyone with actual sense is painfully obvious what was going on. It's Budget Mafiosi stuff, like all the rest of his act.

Except they weren't. They were repeatedly disproven. I'd write "nice try" but it wasn't.

"Censoring one group but not the other is tyrannical": Hi Mr "My lies are as good as your truth."

Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns

Re: "Yeah, it's a real mess"

How many different parameters, permissions, and properties need to be set to restrict access to a certain thing, though? Which ones apply to which? Which ones interact to cancel each other out and allow access anyway?

The first job of AI is to find all the places that access management is fucked up. That's it.

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

Rubbish.

What a crock of shite.

Recall is a solution in search of a problem. The author is trying to find a problem. The more obvious one would be, "How do I automate the process of stealing every bit of IP my company has?"

It isn't secure. It can't be made secure. If it could be, the number of data breaches would be declining. They are accelerating at an accelerating pace.

The only way to prevent data being stolen is to make sure it's never collected in the first place. The author needs to be collected and put into detox, until they have all of the Kool-Aid out of their system.

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Re: True statement

Way to prove you didn't read the articles.

The first is quite plain if you bother to think critically about it.

1) Police are reviewing claims of election fraud they have received relating to "concerns around marketing material".

2) It comes after the Conservative candidate for High Peak in Derbyshire, Robert Largan, put out a social media post on Saturday in red Labour colours saying "Labour for Largan".

3) The Conservative Party said: “The materials clearly carry imprints, as required by electoral law."

So claims are being reviewed. The police have not said WHOSE marketing material is under investigation, but there is word there is one taking place. Robert Largan says he has not been contacted about it. That's it.

The second is the same.

"Right and far-right parties are set to make gains, but the picture is widely different across the continent."

And then it goes on to explore various concerns in a selection of the countries within the EU. Come on, now.

Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results

Re: You DO eat rocks as food.

Yeah, vernacular doesn't science make.

How two brothers allegedly swiped $25M in a 12-second Ethereum heist

Re: Thanks for the complete explanation

So, "Pump and Dump", then.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

I would posit that the switch from typewriters to computers let you do the same thing the same way but better.

Mechanical linkage to electronics, the action of fingers to keys is the same.

So that doesn't really hit for me the same as saying, "We can replace this entire orchestra with a fondleslab."

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts

Re: Dave Calhoun

"Affect"

Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms

Re: ambiguous?

The best Reg article headlines are an ongoing battle between tongue and cheek.

Re: I see no reason here

As someone that was on a criminal trial to completion as a jurist, I can assure you that they do.

It may be in some certain situations, like how there can be a bench trial or jury trial. But where I am, at the county level the jury deliberates guilt, then sentencing within the guidelines. The judge can overrule, but if not grossly outside the provided range it stands.

Uncle Sam tells hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal dollars for you

Re: They knew what they were getting into. I say let them crash!

To turn it the other way, did you just say "You should pay us money, even though we don't keep your private or payment information the slightest bit safe, and are looking into how we can sell it to drug makers without getting sued out of existence,"?

We wouldn't tolerate this from a store, you need to show cause on why we should tolerate it from facilities where we go when things actually are a matter of life and death.

California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian

Re: In fairness

Hi. As a human, I can understand, "Pedestrian was hit and propelled into the path of another vehicle." And I will bloody well see it happen. And I know to stop, check, see if I can reverse off them.

Not, you know, pull to the side while dragging them beneath. This is all basic kinematics and object persistence.

US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities

That's pretty much criminal negligence, it appears.

UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges

Re: UHC

Which is what the Republicans and insurance companies orchestrated, and are quite happy to have you think this is as good as it gets.

It's manifestly false, and much more efficient and affordable healthcare systems around the world demonstrate this.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

From what I've been reading, in the EU they do not. Because they performed operations that were not explicitly authorized by the user in order to do their fingerprinting. Which makes the operation of their blocker-blocker illegal.

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Re: No videos until you consent?

I do not.

If they can't work out how to do things without pissing people off they deserve to fail.

MOVEit breach delivers bundle of 3.4 million baby records

"While attacks on third-party software are difficult to prevent, we've taken additional measures to further strengthen our security controls to limit the potential of this type of incident happening again."

Like... burning MOVEit off their entire infrastructure?

No?

Didn't think so.

Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google

Re: The patent system is not fit for purpose.

I hope not. The concept that, "The microphone that has the input at the highest amplitude s probably the closest and therefore the correct one" is classified as Fucking Duh, and should not be patentable. And no, nifty bits about normalizing and going between different mics doesn't make it novel. That's called calibration, and should be done in any device that provides amplitude.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Re: Clarity

As far as I know, the Oxford comma is alive and well, and styles that don't use it are simply wrong.

Re: Voila!

Solar + storage. Duh. Someone hasn't been paying attention.

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

Why does Sweden have some of the lowest excess mortality? They weren't idiots like USandians. They actually listened to their government, took some precautions, got vaccinated. The US? Much more scared of needles than guns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-coronavirus.html

The CDC said that when the size of the particles that transmitted the virus wasn't properly understood. Cloth masks helped. But they were not as effective as surgical masks, which were not as effective as N95 masks. If you had been paying attention, you would have seen the studies going on about propagation and droplet size and airflow modeling, trying to get a grip on the actual dynamics.

And you overlook the fact that people are not horses. Their weights are different. Their digestive systems are different. The actual composition of other ingredients in the doses are different.

Ivermectin basically is meant to be a dose big enough kill the parasites but hopefully not kill the host. How many influencers did we lose to Ivermectin, again?

Idiot.

Re: Fairly obvious answer.

Yeah, that was a super-stacked misinformation sandwich that you bought during the pandemic.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered

So that's most of the tricks they use, then. Oh dear, what will their advertising departments do, when they don't need 80% of their staff?

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Re: Worry less.

Well, that's some hilarious friendly-fire.

Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

Re: History repeats

You should have told them their implementation was shit, and to fix it.

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Re: This ain't rocket science.

What would you call multiple unsolicited emails from a sender not in the contact list?

Oh, spam.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Except the user's credentials can be exported along with the data. Whoops!

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Re: "Being able to switch provider easily is an important part of a competitive market,"

Reverse the charges and report them? Wonder how fast they'll find the answer if their access to the system is threatened.

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

Re: "he would have walked away from the takeover deal if he could"

Oh please.

That line is trotted out too often by those unwilling to actually consider complicated situations, nor the simple fact that the rich people don't actually have their best interests in mind.

Re: Musk, the man who has...

TL;DR

Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

Storm in a Teacup

If the rules said, "Any Device" and not "Any Camera", then either an organizer screwed up royally or this lad is just trying to get his 15 minutes of fame.

A photography competition should involve taken photographs. There should be nothing that comes out in that photo that did not go into the camera. Multiple exposure tricks count. Adjusting coloration and balance is fine. Painting in an AI generated skyline is a ban, because it did not go through the camera ostensibly used to take the photos. Skylum is trying to slip this kind of thing into Luminar, and I do not approve of it at all.

It's really so much simpler than Mr Look At Me was trying to make it seem.

Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'

Re: Safe Primes 10,000++ Decimal Digits Long -- What's The Problem?

Because what works in your use-case doesn't work everywhere, and isn't being used everywhere.

Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

I seem to recall multiple Alexa video pranks for just that sort of thing.

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

Re: Peak China?

Go look up 'whataboutism'. You may or may not do it, but this means you can no longer claim to be ignorant of what you are doing.

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

So the downvotes are butthurt that they don't have the same situation, when they could instead be congratulating this person on having an experience where the hard work is rewarded.

Ah yes, the UK, proudly using excess letters with little good reason.

AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims

Re: AI going to be used during an upcoming legal hearing to defend someone in a real case

Yes and no.

Acquaint yourself with the concept of "perjury".

Lawyers can talk, unless under oath. And anything submitted in writing is typically sworn to. Hazards of violation include censure and loss of license to practice law.

Which is why a certain spate of court cases in 2020 sounded and resolved very differently in court than the braggadocio heard outside it.

Hong Kong ups its SEO game to stop Google playing a protest song as its national anthem

Re: ".. but also mislead the local and overseas netizens, ..."

That sounds like the opening of a piss-take, sending the new apprentice out to get a bottle of gender fluid.

Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building

Re: ...And if the warning sign is in the wrong language?

And this is why iconography is a thing. Needed a drawing of a faucet and a crossed-circle, then.

Re: Windows

Telescoping ladder and cast net. Next.

Re: X

"Or you will die"

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Re: Invalid comparison

In other words, it was created by folks that were afraid "the government was out to get them", and didn't anticipate that also meaning "the government won't save them".

I seem to remember a few smart contract exploits that drained funds. And since the way they set it up was they were legal contracts... those independent-minded souls had no actual valid recourse.

Twitter staffer turned Saudi spy jailed for 3.5 years

You're so close to getting it. So very close...

To being complete and utter bullshit.

"Read both sides of a story and make up their minds." Oh wow, you must not be at all familiar with the "bury them in lies and propaganda" strategy that's been running for the past... oh, at least 30 years. Either wise up or stop trying to pretend to be so stupid. Shutting the flow of lies to a trickle isn't censorship, it's flow control.

Twitter's applied the ToS inconsistently, all right. They should have been banning a lot of right-wing nutcases MUCH SOONER. But didn't. So there you are.

Nobody with a brain missed Elton's hypocrisy, it screamed from the rooftops. There's no concern for safety. They made shit up. Proof: Said journalists are back on Twitter just as fast as there were off it. There's no weight to it, just a capricious owner with poor emotional and impulse control.

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

Re: This is a bad take

Why has Apple got an Ads service, again? :)