Ah, once more mictosoft shows off its great quality control and product testing.
Posts by Kev99
748 posts • joined 23 Sep 2010
Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery
US Space Force deploys robot dogs at Cape Canaveral base
US car industry leads the world in production cuts over chip shortages
Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery
Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'
US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China
Bloke robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency by fake wallet app wants payback from Google
Micron pledges US memory expansion after CHIPS Act passes
US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk
T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers

Re: A bit of maths
You're absolutely right. The people who were harmed get pennies on the dollar while the lawyers get new mansions. I think a fairer settlement for the one harmed would be the total settlement go to them and T-Mobile (and other class action defendants across the board) pay ALL legal fees, court costs, and any other expenses related to the litigation.
Rocky Linux 9 and its new build service enter the ring
FCC chair wishes for 100Mbps down, 20Mbps up broadband minimum in US
Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries
CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years

Way back when, our first pcs ran dr-dos, WordPerfect, QuattroPro, and Netware. Never a problem. Our IT team (all one of him) decided to "test" MS-DOS. Over the course of time, our IT department went from two people to close to twenty, with most of their time spent fixing glitches, pukes, and "features" in mictosoft products. Ah, progress.
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited bug
Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be
Judge rejects another Microsoft appeal against surplus license reseller suit
Europe passes sweeping antitrust laws targeting America's Big Tech
Marriott Hotels admits to third data breach in 4 years
Has Intel gone too far with its Ohio fab 'delay' stunt?

Intel is throwing off umpteen BILLION in cash every QUARTER. They no more need taxpayer assistance than a kraken. ANY tax incentive to ANY company bigger than a mom & pop operation is a waste of taxpayer money. The companies have learned how to play off the governments' greed and idiocy. I spent 10 years sitting on tax incentive review boards. Cases in point. Ford wanted $125,000 in tax breaks for a several hundred million dollar expansion of a transmission plant for American cars. The only other plants that could build that tranny were in Saarland (France) and Brazil. Jergens hand lotions wanted a huge tax break for their headquarters and main plant which would have been economically impossible to replace. A company that held the patents for a process to integrate bottle labels into the plastic bottles wanted thousands of breaks for the one and only plant for "expected" growth. Tax breaks only fatten Wall Street's pockets 99% of the time.
FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

Want to track your package? Contact your local black hat hacker. Just ask the Shanghai National Police, British Army, Geographic Solutions (GSI), OpenSea, Uber, and dozens (hundreds?) of other companies. Don't you just love it when the bean counter over-rule the people who are supposedly the IT security pros?
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles
You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too
Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction
Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38
Israeli air raid sirens triggered in possible cyberattack
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone
Cloud services proving handy for cybercriminals, SANS Institute warns
Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11
Beijing-backed baddies target unpatched networking kit to attack telcos

Why do the corporate tech idiots continue to insist on using the net / cloud for business critical operations? They survived for decades using dedicated lines. The electric generating companies even used their own power lines for communications and control. Oh, wait. The internet is "free", which means more money for the back pockets of the C-level goofs and wall street sanguisuges.
Google has more reasons why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google
I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

Windows As A Service will be worth considering once the internet/cloud has 1024-bit encryption as the minimum security, and absolutely NO telemetry go back & forth to the servers. Until then, I stick with my PC running client only software. If office365 or google docs is any indication of what an online office software will be like, my determination to stick with a PC based application will only grow.
Microsoft seizes 41 domains tied to 'Iranian phishing ring'
Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively

I was partial to Quattro Pro 4. Tabs, cut & paste, and all those little things that mictosoft bragged abut in windows 1. And all under DOS.
And pfs:Professional Write did everything I needed for business documents. And if I needed graphics, it was over to pfs:First Publisher. Easier & better than Harvard Graphics in my opinion. Compared to the bloated and insecure mictosoft products these were much better. And cheaper.
Upgrading to Android 12.1 ... in Windows 11: Telemetry disabled by default
How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Workstation, server, IoT? No worries. Fedora 36 is out – all 13 editions of it
Industry pushes back against India's data security breach reporting requirements
Ransomware plows through farm machinery giant AGCO
TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people
Cloudflare stomps huge DDoS attack on crypto platform
Coca-Cola probes pro-Kremlin gang's claims of 161GB data theft
US Navy told to do a 'supplemental' integrity investigation of $2.5b Dell deal

$2.5 Billion for Microsoft software?? Holy Moses, Amos! Does that mean FOSS, which is often more secure and cheaper to maintain, a no-no? For that kind of money some college could probably come up with every app & os in that deal that would probably be more secure & easier to maintain and still have money left over for a few thousand 100% scholarships.
Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure
So, what happened with GitHub, Heroku, and those raided private repos?
Volkswagen: Expect chip supply problems until 2024

The problems with computer chip availability in the auto industries lies primarily with themselves. For decades, the HVAC systems were controlled by rheostats, thermistors, and bi-metal strips. Ford has decided to no longer provide rear seat temp controls because of the lack of chip. Automatic transmissions were operated by changes in oil pressure, not chips. Et cetera ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Add to that the decision to save a fractional penny a unit and send production to Asia and one can see the the auto company screwed the pooch royally.