Posts by Andrew Scott

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

Re: So...

no that was "TG". You must know the difference. mendacious the lot of them.

Re: What about Outlook (less shitty)?

Used that in my office for years. rest of the campus was using banyan email in a dos box in windows but we had a decent windows email system. liked the rules system, much better than the current version of rules in outlook.

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Re: The gavel is mightier than a chainsaw?

no, they just need to find some good ones, though some of them may be finding themselves in no win situations. Unlike the rest of the trump administration who can lie like rugs, the lawyers are constrained in court with what they can say if they want to keep practicing law.

research

For his own good he should really reinstate funding for Alzheimer's research, though it may be too late.

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Well, musk doesn't care. figures he'll always have enough to buy what he needs. the hoi polli needs weeding anyways.

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

Atlantic going out of business

Wonder if any of the businesses he's always claiming are going out of have ever? Certainly a lot of his business have gone out of, you'd think he'd be an expert on that subject by now. Maybe he'd score better on that if he mentioned tesla.

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

Re: Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

it's only a backup if there are two copies. If the backup copy is deleted you should have the original. if the original is lost, you should have the backup. if you only have one copy the off site those are an archive. lose that and it's probably gone forever. Always have at least two copies of data you don't want to lose. That's one of the problems with "onedrive". by default all your data is moved to the cloud. if something goes wrong with that it's gone. hopefully ms has a "backup" for their alleged backup system.

As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure?

Re: Let's bomb the Houthis?

yes even a secure app like signal is not help if you're brain dead.

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

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

know somone who found a half sister they didn't know about. may not be sb but not bs.

Microsoft tastes the unexpected consequences of tariffs on time

Re: It is unclear.. what problem the video was intended to fix

most of the time a poor schmuck can't duplicate what i've described it's because they didn't read the document. Web page with 2 buttons, one red and one green with an explanation on each. described the colors and what was written next to each button and which one to click on. Kept clicking on the wrong button and sent me the error code, replied that meant he was clicking on the wrong button. he wrote back "Oh, you need to click on the button that says '...'". Checked my email and i had told him exactly what was written on each button and which one to use. obviously he was color blind, but i hadn't just described the color but the text also. happens all the time, sometimes i suspect we are using different languages even though if it say "free beer" they all suddenly do know what i said.

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

Re: Insane

Born here and not like i could drive for 30 minutes and be in another country like some places.

AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman

Re: This crap is going on everything!

age does have a bearing on experience. have on numerous occasions submitted a solution because i'd already encountered it in the past. often know what to look at and what to skip as not relative. there are benefits to age.

Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment

Re: amazing documentation too

yes manuals were very good even for the tandy built pc clone they put their name on. Figured out why adaptec scsi cards were causing memory errors. knew a lot of people who worked their just up the street in maynard. played space war on a dec in grade school at mit. had a handbuilt joystick controller. first computer game i ever saw/played.

Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales

Re: The GSA's guidance would determinate contracts

Are you a lawyer?

Weeks with a BBC Micro? Good enough to fix a mainframe, apparently

Re: Memories

couldn't think of the name earlier, but nota bene was another very popular editor around here.

Re: Memories

Really? had several users that ran wp in a dos window. also xywrite, another favorite. Don't remember when they finally gave up and started using word.

Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Re: Encrypted passwords?

Could be they are hashed. lot of people, even people who should know better may look at a hash and declare that it's encrypted information.

Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US

Re: Good friends don’t piss on each other

yes, we know why he has gold plated toilet seats. can't see the stains from a golden shower.

Re: and 'The right answer' is ...

Wasn't her server that got hacked. Looks like she took the better path.

Re: Why meddle

isn't trump best buds with xi jinping? Doubt Russia would be much help against china. China's industrial capacity and population far outstrip russias. They probably will eventually take a big chunk of eastern Russia someday.

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

Re: Double standards?

sure running around threatening to hand hang Mike Pence is just peaceful exercise of the right to protest.

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

ClodFlare

Tried to look at the current offerings and specs of seagate drives yesterday and got blocked by Clodflare. Not a bot. Didn't see any ai generated content, couldn't visit the site at all. Tried different browsers as i read somewhere that firefox was tagged as specious by some sites but got the same result with chrome. They seem a bit incompetent.

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Re: This AI malarkey

Sure the new dickhead is working for me. Before his tax reform i never owed the federal government any money paycheck withholding was enough. After the changes i've owed thousands every year and i make less that $50,000. That dickhead paid $750 federal tax while i pay 4 times as much. He claims to be a billionaire. I've been lucky if i could afford to pay heating bills. Tell me again how he's working for my benefit. As for being more corrupt? how is putting the owner of space x in a position to close nasa not corrupt? Not surprised you hide as anonymous coward. Biggest clue that he's not telling the truth is when he says "everyone knows this". He confessed to lying to the prime minister of Canada in front of a live camera and mic thinking it was funny. Likely Trudeau knew he was lying and just kept his mouth shut. He'd been dealing with trade negotiations for years, and if he wasn't sure on a point he could ask one of his ministers who might be up on the question. Sorry. he's unable to tell the truth ever about anything. he's not very bright. Anyone who thinks he smart must be even stupider, and anyone who claims he's telling the truth must be even more mendacious.

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

Re: not making this a Trump / Musk problem

Expect Yellowstone will be open to homesteading shortly.

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

Also use bookmarks and take notes in the margins.

If you go to a vendor site for help with a problem they almost all have videos that they urge you to watch. A few years ago i set up a new desktop computer. the monitor screen was defective out of the box with a multi color line across the screen. i sent a picture of the problem to the help desk and they wanted to do a remote desktop to "see" the problem. Said "ok" and got the report back that they couldn't see any problems!

Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe

Re: Can't eat own dog food

Current president doesn't think bribery is wrong. paused the laws against bribing foreign officials along with other bright moves.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: Confused Mouse

Once in the early days of macs delivered a new computer to someone. I opened the box, but he wanted to set it up himself. got dragged into my bosses office and asked what i did with the mouse that should have come with the computer. The guy had not looked at the packing and had thrown the mouse away with the box. i had never taken anything out of the box, just opened it. they used to tape the mouse into the styrofoam packing.

India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride

different phones. lot of things could influence the appearance of the maps.

time might be different but the grain of the wood on the desk looks like it's the same desk.

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Believe civil service employee rules are designed specifically to prevent politicians from hiring or firing civil servants. Civil servants employment is based on merit, not who you know. President is a politician in theory. Laws are supposed to interpreted by courts and judges. They can say when those laws are being bent or broken by the executive branch.

guy who ordered this probably failed grade school civics and history. Likely had some diplomas bought.

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

Re: Becomes rather moot in physical possession of a device

From an article in the NY post they hadn't broken into Eric Adams Iphone after possessing it for a year. Poor guy changed the password and now can't remember it. :-(

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: les queer studies?

right more than 3 a month.

Re: les queer studies?

So how many smallpox deaths have there been in the last few years? Was smallpox vaccination a bad idea?

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Re: They gave the AI scam their best shot, but...

maybe that's the problem. being able to be indistinguishable from a human at the other end of text conversation doesn't require the truth of factual information to be relayed. Ask an llm what it had for breakfast and if it tells the truth you may have an answer if the respondent is human or not assuming it doesn't lie. other questions might get you closer to the "truth". If an llm can pass the turing test for all possible questions then it's been trained or required to lie.

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Re: muh far right

Really, margarine taste like butter? my dad said that it used to come with coloring that you added later to make it look more like butter. Awful stuff, used to get "bread and butter" using margarine. one reason i liked going to my grandmothers house. she used real butter. texture and taste nothing like margarine.

Re: muh far right

maybe not, but it sure makes you sound orange.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Re: 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

mendacious missing also.

should be agnostic. weight equally for prove, disprove or no definitive results.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

he certainly didn't put his life on the line to help.

Re: Valued Veterans... First Rule of Bureaucracy .. look squirrel..

apparatchik?

Re: Valued Veterans

dissing the ones that have died since serving in 1941? The problem with serving is that you don't get to choose what war you fight, you do what your told.

Re: Valued Veterans

yes heard a women talking about voting for trump losing her job, regretting it, and her relatives are cheering.

Re: Valued Veterans

at least they're asking and not herding you into boxcars. :-( not funny, but that's how it starts.

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: If you want a general purpose computer ...

Don't know about that. ever try to add memory to a mac 128 or connect it to a network? Local talk? really? Monochrome display for years, not that the cga display was very good, but you could replace the video.

Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

Re: No need to rush

Maybe they should consider shipping better tools to mars to do the analysis of the samples than trying to bring them back to earth in the next couple of years.

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Re: Bearing in mind how shoddy the Calculator app is now

like my pixel calc, can see the 1000th digit of pi if i'd like. will also calculate very large factorials. mostly useless, but fun.

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

Re: 'on what they call "analogue" systems'

"One day there was a fire" or flood or earthquake or tornado.

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

on occasion i use the weird spelling "colour". Think that came out of some uk book i once read. should i be sued for plagiarism every time i use that spelling?