* Posts by Kev99

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Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week'

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Intel is throwing off BILLIONS of free cash flow. They no more need subsidies than the man in the moon. All the subsidies will do is fatten the pockets of the C-levels and wall street vipers.

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

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I really wish reviewers would show/list real world statistics on how fat this distros are. How much RAM does it need to function? How much disc does it glom? What CPU will it need to avoid its own shadow. You know, stuff that minor impact on usability.

NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

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Let's see. The IG thinks NASA should centralise all its HEC infrastructure and rely on the bunch of holes held together by vapor for storing mission critical, and in may cases, life dependent data. Let the missions talk together AFTER a mission is finished. I for one don't want to become Major Tom because some rectal orifices cramped NASA's style.

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings

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Is that a picture of a Xiaomi SU7, or a design study of a future Porsche Panamera? And isn't the SU7 an old Russian ground attack fighter?

Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS

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I wonder if setting your VPN to a European address would us Yanks to benefit from the EU requirements? They sure as hell won't come to the US where we have the best con-gress money can buy. And remember what a group of Baboons is called.

March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club

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Good grief! Doesn't anyone bother to QC on their code?Doesn't anyone bother to keep an eye on CVE announcements to see if they might cascade to their kit? I swear the quality of code today horribly worse than ten years ago, or even twenty.

Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit

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Real cash money profit or AICPA smoke & mirrors, fictional accounting rules profit?

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems

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Last I heard, Russia still replies mostly on paper ballots. Which, OOPS! Who let the hungry goats into the ballot rooms?

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

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Too bad they couldn't strap a couple small thrusters on the puppy and aim it at the sun.

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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This reminds me of a prank we pulled on a coworker. He had the ratty, falling apart dictionary so two of us decided to glue and tape it back together. In order to make sure everything was held tightly, we wrapped about a dozen rubberbands around the book. And taped them to his desk.At the end of the day he went to put his dictionary in his desk, after thanking us for trying to repair it. He gave a yank, the rubberbands yanked harder, and he almost face planted into his desk.

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone

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Mictosoft hasn't know what quality control is since w3.0. Every update that comes along seems to be mostly to fix errors that the original code or updates have caused. And in win11 so secure why does mictosoft keep spitting out security updates/patches?

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries

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When Henry Ford first started out, he did everything he could to have a vertically integrated company. Libby Owens Ford was originally Ford's glass company. River Rouge Steel was his in house steel mill. He even had a rubber plantation in Brasil. So what goes around, comes around.

FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks

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Oh, let's put our business critical, proprietary, confidential, and private data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor. It's free, so it won't cost us a dime. Plus, the savings from this secure & free marvel we can throw into our back pockets and Wall's Streets.

X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies

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Doesn't surprise me.

FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too

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Ask Weird Al Yankovic what celebs think about impersonations. Everyone should be covered. Period.

I still belive the technology exists for the phone companies to track & identify spoofers. If they don't know where a call originated it makes it very hard to complete the connection. Even VOIP needs to connect to a number.

By the way. As of 5:48 PM ET, there was nothing on the FTC public comment web site about this rule.

Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers

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If you don't want everyone and his sibling to have access to your personal, critical, proprietary, or confidential information, then don't put it out on bunch of holes held together with string / vapor ('Net/Cloud).

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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I still believe the winn11 hardware requirements have nothing to do with functionality and everything to do with helping mictosoft's sycophants sell new kit to replace perfectly serviceable machines.

US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare

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IT would be great if they also cracked down on insurance company bureaucrats playing doctor and denying coverage for meds and procedures a persons physician has determined to be necessary, and in some cases, critical.

iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces

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The price alone shows some people have more dollars than sense. Which is true for almost all Apple products.

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

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Besides mictosoft's shenanigans, my wife has discovered some related bovine excrement courtesy certain web sites. She will often enter various sweepstakes or order items online. She claims the sites will only function correctly using edge. Hmmm...Sound phishy to me. I have noticed that the HGTV sweepstakes page returns the underlying code instead of the web page when successfully entering their sweeps.

{"state":"success","url":"/display/confirm/sweepstake/a587a142-38bd-4a4b-ad68-939d090ab1d1/313669/confirmation?campaignId=313669&channelId=30847&medium=direct&source=hgtv&containerId=32a0e70d-bc38-4281-af24-46e89bac32f7&channel=website","entry":{"id":"9e586639-6cdf-471a-b890-c20d7a63461c","uid":"w1f1ef105ebef075e0fe0788fc782b5a9","ngx_ext_id":"62a4e7faf65bc16d411a1a6c6728747b","ngx_ext_id_type":"integration_id","content":{}},"route":{"routeRef":"display:route:activate","token":"|:|WmF2No9XkTU4GX41y8L_Fw3ZLK9xFfG5BrBqtY70yEU"}}

Intel delays Ohio fab build, blames semiconductor slowdown

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Intel no more needs government subsidies than the man in the moon. It's just one more case of corporate America suckering and extorting the various governments into throwing tax dollars at them so they can fatten their own back pockets and make wall street drool.

FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

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One of these decades people, businesses and governments will realise the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor is NOT safe or secure. Prior to DARPA releasing the 'net into the wild, electric companies used their own power lines, railroads used their rails and telegraph lines, and many, many businesses used dedicated lines to transmit their data. Then the beancounters decided that since the net was free everything should be put there and hang security and safety. C levels agreed because it made their stock options more valuable and made wall streeters gloat. And gave jobs to PFYs.

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

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Yes, please. And be sure to ENFORCE the law, unlike the do not call registry which is largely ignored and unenforced.

Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

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"Although Microsoft is noted for maintaining backward compatibility,..." PINFEATHERS! Mictosoft is as bad if not worse than apple on backward compatibility. They purposely crippled millions of pc with their hardware requirements for win11 and did the same for software when win10 came out.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

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But, how fat are they? RAM? HDD/SSD?

Microsoft unveils a secret tunnel for Windows Insiders who want out

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Can't they look for the related files and whack them?

What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight

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Considering the umpteen dozen CVE patches mictosoft has issued just for win11, I'm not at all surprised.

Boeing goes boing: 757 loses a wheel while taxiing down the runway

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Benny Hill Called It Decades Ago When He Asked If You Really Wanted To Fly On A Plane Called "Boing".

Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act

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Why does AI need to be included in ANY software other than dedicated AI programs or databases? Just because mictosoft thinks it's the be all to end all doesn't make it a good idea. I've been using computers since the old TI-99-4A and I've had no desire or expectancy to use AI. It's far, FAR from being perfected, secure, stable, or uniform.

Microsoft admits issues with Windows 10 patch almost 2 months after release

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Re: My system is slow. …

I found a "simple", effective method to rid me of copilot.

1) Run UltraFileSearch Lite (or similar) and search for any edge*.* files.

2) Delete the edge*.* files, especially with a mod date after November 2023.

3) Run CCleaner, BleachBit, Advanced Uninstaller or the like to search the registry for edge entries. Delete them.

4) Searching for copilot files or registry entries returned zero results.

5) Reboot if you want. I just waited for the next time I started my computer.

6) Result: No edge (yay!), and no copilot (yippee!).

The January crappy coding, what's-a-CVE patch did not return any of the deleted files (yippee-ki-yay!).

Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles

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Over on the mictosoft forums, out of 300+ ;posts, only one or two will accept copilot. Everyone else want to get rid of it. The only way to do it so far is to delete ALL traces of Edge on the PC drive and in the registry. No loss losing Edge.

White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin

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Why does anyone need to have their appliances connected to the internet?

Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers

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We're still using office 2016 and arr quite satisfied with it. Well, as satisfied as one can be with mictosoft bloatware and open door policy to hackers.

John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal

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Re: "Great for Farmers"

When we had our farm, the only "computer" on any of our three tractors was for the fuel injection system on the Deutz. We didn't need GPS to plow, disc, or plant our fields. We didn't need electronic controls to set the three point hitch. And our oldest tractor. a Case 930, worked just as well and hard as out Deutz D 9006 as our Oliver 1750.

Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks

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Hopefully someone will find a way to block the telemetry as they have with mictosoft's spyware. Either that, or Reynolds Aluminum Foil will start coming in 3 meter wide cartons.

Europe's monopoly cops suddenly rather curious about Microsoft's $13B for OpenAI

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I wonder if they'll do anything about mictosoft's plan to put a copilot key on keyboards.

New year, new updates for security holes in Windows, Adobe, Android and more

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Do any of these outfits bother to run QC on their code?

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients

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Once more the idiocy of putting confidential, business critical data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor is proven.Are these entities so beholden to their bean counters that security means nothing?

Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut

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Isn't interesting the analysts almost always miss actual results?

Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles

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Re: Think twice

It was interesting se how many people were nonchalant about the buring or exploding cars. Must be a fairly common sight.

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Additional controls to prevent misuse, eh? I've driven numerous Lincolns with their BlueCruise and if I take my hands off for more than a few seconds the vehicle starts griping. Maybe the NHSTA should also go after the vehicle companies marketing showing idiots going down the road clapping instead of paying attention.

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

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The only reason I ever "upgraded" (and I use that term euphemistically) was because mictosoft compelled so many of its sycophants to modify the software and hardware so it would not run on win7. In all the years I ran win7, I never had any security lapses, slow repsonse time, or weekly updates fixing things that should never had to have been fixed in the first plce because mictosoft's coders paid no attention to CVEs or industry newsletter, or were just plain sloppy.

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

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At the county where I worked the local welfare department decided to install from scratch a new financial database. They chose Oracle. Five years after they started the process, when I retired, it still wasn't functional as planned, would talk to the chief fiscal officer's financial and payroll systems without thousands of lines of interface code and had cost millions.

Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility

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How about a rollback that will get rid of copilot. No one seems to want it.

GM, Komatsu partner to build hydrogen-powered monster mining truck

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I guess GM decided to again give its former Terex (Euclid) off road truck company the heave ho again.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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There's nothing wrong. Mictosoft just forced Voyager to install copilot.

Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations

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Once a company issues a share of stock, the price only affects the stockholders. The company neither gains nor loses a penny.

Final Patch Tuesday of 2023 goes out with a bang

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Don't any of these outfits test the software against previously disclosed flaws, viruses, and malware? It's been obvious for decades that mictosoft doesn't.

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

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Yup. Just like yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater is protected speech. [Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)]

Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes

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The answer to the question is simple. It's just another example of mictosoft's sloppy coding and lack of testing and quality control.

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