Posts by FuzzyTheBear 541 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2010
Has there ever been published proof that Kaspersky was actually a bad actor or it it simply politics ?
I kind of hesitate believing that it's a fact based , proven and proof made public , and not simply a matter of dirty politics ..
Really if there's proof we can actually read somewhere ? Documents ? Logs ?
This whole story stinks and i'd like to know whether it's fact based or not ?
ric
There's a matter for NASA and the proposed Boeing software update that can brick the dock also in the mix. Boeins is finished any way you look at it. They return empty and the capsule somehow makes it , they're finished , back to earth with a dead crew , they're done , stuck at the station , they've had it . Whatever way you look at the issue Boeing's finished.
There's an important element here called trust. After this , who will reasonably be trusting CrowdStrike ? This is going to cost companies a hell of a lot of money. Just take the group of travellers that will be claiming compensation for their delays , stays in hotels , restaurant bills etc .. We're talking tens of billions in monetary damages. Who can anyone trust them after this is a big question. Will they take chances and stick with them ? Personally i wouldn't. Too risky. To have a fix will not be enough to recover from the disaster they are responsible for.
What ? Me ? worry ?
I worry more about earthly events than space threats.
Example ? Why certainly , we in Quebec had 4 days of temperatures way above 100f reaching a high of ( with humidex ) of 118F
Global warming is imho a much more serious problem at the moment and much more urgent to address. The fact that our winters gradually went from head high snow cover to merely a foot is also a sign we have a serious issue on our hands. Overpopulation , the earth's resources being drained at an ever faster rate Half a year is all it takes to consume all the resources it takes a year to get / make / grow. Water being misused and the inevitable water wars if this keeps up .Russia that's being a jerk and the threat of nuclear war .. .
Really .. there's much more pressing issues that are existential threats this very minute to address. Going into space won't solve any of this. What will is a major shift in politics. What we are doing on earth in unsustainable and we have to deal with this stuff with all the science , knowledge , political courage that we have at our disposal. We have to act , we all know it , but politicians don't care , there's none that have enough courage to make the decisions that need to be taken. We know it's got to change but humanity as a whole is like lemmings headed for the cliff and running full speed to take the plunge. I am 63 , ill be dead in a few decades , but i worry about the younger generations that are led by people who haven't got the balls to take the decisions We're on our path to making asteroids irrelevant to our survival. I am not optimistic at all about the way things are going. Fix politics first .. and we all know this ain't going to happen. We prefer to look at our bellybuttons and say " What ? Me ? Worry ? " and keep walking.
Maybe , yes.
Russia is far from an innocent actor on the net. Giving them a taste of their own medecine might make them think twice about messing with the west.
Stick morals out the window for once and play the game their way. Dirty and rotten. They do it to us ? We do it to them. They down an airplane ? we down an airplane.
They're not innocent virgins. Our morals keeps us too often from retaliating and that's a mistake.
At this point in time the USA is a massive mess.
Thank goodness i don't live there. I read the Washington post and a half dozen more reliable papers every day and i am really happy not to have to deal with the situation in the USA daily. It used to be a country we looked up to , now , it's to vomit. SCOTUS made a mess of things , again , the past few months and the way it's going headed for civil war. If you live outside the US , like i do , we're lucky and should count our blessings , so to speak. Good luck to those who live there.
It's already patched in Mint 21.3
Got to say something about updates : they rock. Unless you really don't pay attention and don't do the updates. Most of the time when i read about a critical update either it's in the updates queue or already been updated. Mint's update management really is easy.
Nothing but good words about Mint and Linux in general. Switching 23 years ago was the best decision i ever made.
Good day.
There's always something broken , not working , loosing data ,, what a mess.
I have come to accept that as a reality of MS , they can't get it all right .
22 years ago i switched to Linux being tired of the massive mess they were.
Never going back. This is working and headaches free for me.
Results may vary but once you're decided and motivated i don't see a reason
why you can't make it happen too.
Problem always is Microsoft software but i manage very well without them using alternates.
If you can , why not give it a spin and save yourselves the constant problems ?
Just a suggestion
ric
Meanw\ile all the fuss goes on , im still happily using ye old Mint on my boxes and enjoying every minute of it.
If there was a sticker that sticks it's tongue out i'd use it :D
Come on .. unless there's a program that needs windows absolutely to run and the pc to perform it's task , why stick with the mess ?
Big oil wants to kill electric vehicles.
OFC they will engage in all kinds of speculations , offer no proof at all to protect their rich contributors from facing competition.
Same goes for the auto industry that have to face a new and strong competition.
It's not a matter of safety , it's a matter of protecting big oil and the auto industry from facing competition.
Already the grids can't cope with the power needed to keep the people cool , it cannot cope either with the electrification of vehicles requiring close to 2000 new nuclear plants by itself and AI wants to cut further the resources available to keep the people cool and the vehicles rolling ? .. just wow.
I do not know of a single person that needs specifically a HP printer ..
Anything else is a better choice .. even an old IBM Selectric running on a parallel port is a better choice imho.
That's what happens with money and revenues are the only motivations to run a company.
HP Died a long time ago.. when they sold their lab instrument division it was the beginning of the end.
RIP ( rest in pieces )
Stop the presses and get the editor in chief out here .. ill have his rear end ..
Poutine is NOT a CANADIAN dish .. it's a QUEBEC dish and we Quebecers
are angry as hell about this outrage and recurring insult ..
Public apologies and a bag of curd cheese will get back on our good side .. < coughs >
SIgned : a teed off Quebecer out of curd cheese
Have a great weekend .. mine's the one with a can of poutine sauce in the left pocket ..
I have no pity at all for the owners of any important infrastructure , machinery , connected to the public internet at all.
They know crackers will do what they do best , crack their security and make as much damage as they can.
It's negligence at a whole new level.
Don't blame crackers. Blame the companies for putting important infrastructure on a public network.
The obvious " slip on " keyboard without electronics but simple contacts with the screen seem to be something to investigate.
Why use electronics at all when a simple passive plastic keyboard can do the job ? ..
simplify the design a notch. There's no need for electronics at all.
Granted different models different screens might require a diff keyboard layout but frankly ,
a 10 cent piece of plastic can be produced for different models and you have your keyboard.
They do the same for protective cases . Why not a KB ?
Just food for thought .
I worked in A/V and telecom all my life. I was in the boardroom of a very important corporation installing wireless mics etc .. all for the convenience of the client.
Well .. This is a place where very important financial decisions are taken
At some point they introduce me to the chief of security and i simply told him what was the truth
You can take a small reciever and listen in from the other building what goes on in the boardroom.
He was like , " huh ? "
I took my laptop , my SDR dongle and an antenna and made the demonstration ..
He was without words.
My boss didn't like me one bit on the spot , but they did sell them wired replacement microphones. :D
Anyone with half a brain would not.
Maybe there's total idiots out there but i don't think they'd pass the interview.
Ans as for vendors requiring network , they would not pass the first round of suppliers in a nuclear facility.,
Not everyone's an idiot.
Dude you're an idiot :
" .. ctional life is as bad for profits as retirees are for the national economy: "
This is not only insulting it shows your complete ignorance.
Apologies are quite required.
When you get kids you'll see the value of those retirees when they're repeatedly saving your rear end.
You're a jerk , deal with it.
is hilarious. Come on .. HP think they can change our impression ( no pun intended ) of their products / company being total c*** ?
Letter to HP :
If you want to be liked and sell printers change your idiotic and pointless ink cartridge policy.
sweep it out the door and let customers choose what they do when they do it.
HP was first to introduce an extremely fine print on every sheet so that the print could be tied to a particular machine .. remember that one ?
That's your second job , stop doing it.
Network / forced updates ? .. would you please let go of that ?
It's the whole bloody dang thing with you guys : you don't get it , you have to make radical policy changes for you to survive.
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