Posts by ITS Retired

GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'

Re: That's funny...

Appearances can be deceiving.

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

Re: "Trump's tariffs could result in the loss of 400,000 US jobs"

The domino effect in action. 400,000 jobs lost. Those 400,000 people quit buying anything not necessary to survive. Business go out of business because not enough customers buying their services/widgets. Causing more people to be out of work, not buying stuff. Bigger business go out of business. Survival is harder because less stuff is available. 1929 collapse was just a minor hiccup.

The rich and powerful buy everything for pennies on the dollar again.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Re: Micros~1 declares 2025

"Linux is good..but apparently still not good enough."

Mostly because people go with what they know. Change is scary 'cause ya gotta learn new stuff.

Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks

Do what Iceland did to the bankers. Tossed them in prison and did not bail out the banks.

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push

Re: Better security doesn't just stop the scammers

80 years here. Linux, Apple, windows, 2 hand built web sites...

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

Re: Dead men don't suffer.

How often do cops find guns in households that do not have any guns? A bit too often in my humble opinion.

I understand it worked quite well for the French at one time.

How many unnecessary deaths was this CEO responsible for?

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again

Re: you could see people start to pull over thinking it was the law.

And older cars don't nag you about you driving, making for less distraction.

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

If we had more smart people, we'd have less need for smart IoT that actually aren't.

Smart TV's with RF remotes that work anywhere in the neighborhood? No key pad on the TV remote? WTF! You have to bring up a screen on the TV, so you can hunt and peck on the on screen keyboard to change channels. But the TV is defaulted to be programed ahead of time for what you want to watch? Works great when the football game runs long. How is this "smart"?

Smart light bulbs and plug in switches for lights, fans, heaters, etc., that need a remote server and your WiFi password and an apt to work?

You are normally right there anyway to experience the effects of whatever said device. Deal with it directly using the switch on, or near the device. Why let a server, who knows where, know about it. Especially if you are paying someone for this server to know.

I am not really a Luddite, but I prefer to control my own stuff I bought and paid for myself, without any input from any unnecessary third party.

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods

Re: Being amazed no more

Its been my experience that people, how even musically talented people, will tolerate crappy sounding music coming from cheap too small speakers. i.e., nothing below maybe 200hz.

I don't understand why when reasonably sounding speakers don't cost that much. Not to mention ear and head phones sound so much better. My own hearing falls off a cliff at 5000hz and I cringe if I hear the fidelity of what normal hearing people listen to from their TV's, laptops, and even desktop computers with cheap speakers.

Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

It's getting to the point more CPU cycles are going spying and phoning home, than what you are trying to use the computer for.

'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation

Re: They're not even hiding it

I clicked on the link. I did not find any reality, or common sense, anything involving what us commoners want or need.

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

Re: If he's guilty

They weren't Trumps to steal.

US senator claims UnitedHealth's CEO, board appointed 'unqualified' CISO

Re: CISO == Scapegoat (Traditionally)

"...budget requests and proposed policy/procedure changes."

Can't afford that. That money is earmarked for our share holders.

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

Re: How much data stored?

How much CPU time would this require? The next M$ computer requirements will include overclocking and petabyte hard drives.

US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

We get this moon time working and

some dope will want Daylight Saving Time for it. Bet on it.

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

"So, it looks like artificial intelligence (AI) is already ahead of voter intelligence (VI) in a significant fraction of the population."

No surprise there. 1/6 and the continuing aftermath is an example of this.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

There is way too much 'Because they can' in todays vehicles,

that does not serve to enhance safety. In fact can be a distraction from any attempted safety features.

The distracting beeping and flashing RED warnings of eminent crashes, AFTER the driver has already recognized, and is reacting to the situation.

Like when you are in the outside lane and the vehicle, ahead is you is in the inside lane, puts on their left turn signal and slows down to make a left hand turn and you are warned of an imminent, major crash when there is no possibility of such.

On a related note, the unrelenting e-mails and snail-mail from Sirius wanting you to pay $19.95 a month for their music, when you already have an AM/FM radio with HD radio in your vehicle. Plus being able to plug in your own music for free. They can't seem to understand "NO!", to well past the point of making it hard to drop their 'service', should you be suckered in.

Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril

Re: We are looking in the wrong place fix problem

"Microsoft produces software that is hard to secure due to many things that constantly change the user does cant control. At some point, they need to be held accountable. Change my system without my permission, it is on them."

Especially when quality control rests more on the end user, than from the source corporation.

One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic

Re: What a start to the week..........

Ok. Linux mint, where the mouse doesn't wake up the computer. Each "new" kernel takes away that needed option.

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

Re: Damn, I'll miss out on all that goodness

I did the same years ago. My keyboard is an IBM model M. Never did like the windows keys. Never used, or missed them, even when still working.

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

Re: PC-Board Dust Blankets

And away from any obstruction, buildings, vehicles, etc. The breeze, wind can whip the dirt in unexpected directions. A mask is recommended, just in case.

Once was enough.

US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant

How much better would the Internet function

if there was not all this snooping by so many different entities, cluttering up the Internet by snooping on so many people just going about their normal lives.

Yeah I know this is AT&T, but they make heavy use of the Internet for their phone call traffic and their own snooping also.

Remembering the time Windows accidentally sent Poland to the bottom of the sea

Never happen. That makes too much sense and is easy to understand.

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

Re: You think it was just another isolated incident....?

Depends on the printer. Most office printers can be intimidated by waving a little green Xcelite screwdriver at them. You know, the kind with the pocket clip.

Very useful for many things, way beyond their small size.

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

Re: It just keeps getting better

When they start installing a microchip, powered by a moisture activated battery on your protection.

Biden to bolster boondocks broadband with a billion bonus bucks (barely)

Re: WTF?

Probably went for pay raises, or bonuses for the upper echelon

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

Re: a politically neutral 'truth'

More evidence that today's conservatives are operating outside reality. Even the AI doesn't recognize much that far to the right side.

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

Re: Election Integrity

In the United States, lies, innuendo, propaganda and even outright slander are considered proper campaign strategies.

Good, honest people are buried under so much of the lies, innuendo, propaganda and even outright slander, they never run again.

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Re: Not impossible, just ludicrously unlikely

Why should they want to destroy us, when we are doing a pretty good job of doing that for them?

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Re: Auto-correcting antenna aiming! Amazing!

"Eternal kudos to the chaps behind the Voyager missions, their work is truly exemplary."

And doing it with both ends being moving targets, 20 plus light hours and growing, away from each other.

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

Re: In Brazil, of all places, I got 100 mpbs up and down already.

Basically, big corporation have bought our government. Too many of our congress critters are on the take. The average person can't have nice thing because those are reserved for the wealthy. That it in a nutz shell.

Re: Dinner bell has been rung!

Most of them can, but it would infringe on the CEO's and stock holder's life style.

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

Re: Are people seriously buying these?

That is why tests till destruction are sometimes a good thing.

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

As is the air you breathe, coming from outside your state, totally ignoring political lines.

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

Re: Just a minor point from the Canadian point of view

How can our Border Patrol presume to be able to operate in Canada?

I would think the Canadian government would be a might upset.

Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

Re: Oh FFS

Finally got it working from the last update. That;s why not. /s

Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

When the Arctic ice cap is sufficiently melted

The Gulf Stream will stop flowing. Europe will then freeze. Check a world map.

Then this waste heat will become a high value commodity.

NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules

Apparently the real life New York Police Department is nothing like what the CBS show "Blue Bloods" version of the NYPD police department is depicted as being.

Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy

Re: Not just about spying

Don't you mean THREE dictatorships? Is not the United States doing exactly what the other two are suspected/supposed to be doing?

Re: Footing The Bill

Have to protect the profits of the company/corporation/bonuses, so of course the costs will be passed on.

'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11

Re: But the only question ever asked of Bing on Edge

Or Linux? When was the last time Microsoft ask their users what they wanted? Or listened to them?

Chipmakers, you can have these billions – but Uncle Sam wants a cut of your profits

How much of these loans will be forgiven and why? You know this will happen.

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

Re: Shrieked

Worse, when it is setting in the garage, with the door closed and it drives off.

Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices

Re: They are NOT softening requirements for hardware.

There is an out here. Some version of Linux (free), or even Apple (kinda expensive up front).

Most people only do the basics, web, e-mail and maybe some word processing anyway.

The major problem is people only know Microsoft and think anything else would be too hard to learn, or having to learn a different/better way to do things on another operating system. Never mind the constant reshuffling in Windows.

Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure

Those back-up cameras make backing up much safer. So there is that. As for most of the rest of it, I agree, knobs are better.

If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now

Re: humidity air CON

Too many people have no idea that humidity has an affect on comfort. It's cool outside, so they open windows in their air conditioned space. Never mind 95% humidity and the fog outside.

Eventually, the ground sourced heat pump gives up because the circulating fluid is the same temperature going into the ground, as coming out. Winter did not remedy the problem, as the A/C didn't last through the spring.

It happened in an office I worked at. Manglement and their unair-conditioned lake cottages was the basic cause..

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

Keep this up and there will be enough stuff/junk in orbit to block enough sun to stop global warming.

See, it ain't all bad, even if it is all for profit. /s

Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

Re: NBG

A Microsoft fan boy that down votes anything not complementary of anything Microsoft.

California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain

We have human records painted on cave walls, carved on rocks, clay tablets, various kinds and types of paper, going back many 10's of thousands of years. Writings from 2 to 3 thousands of years ago, compared to what we see today, but are told were written thousands of years ago, that don't agree with the original records. It is fairly easy to figure out sumtom ain't right here. Reliance on magnetic polarization, not so much, without access to the proper computers, hardware and software decades after they have been replaced.

Yet we have already lost valuable information because there are no computers left in existence that can read the data bases. Computers built, used and discarded well within our lifetimes. (Or at least mine)

Upgrade the computers, and/or lose the electricity and poof, our ancestors can never recover that information decades later. There can be said good things about file cabinets for long term storage for critical information.

Too heavy a reliance on computers will bring about the downfall of civilization, when things go pear shaped, as all civilizations have encountered so far.