Posts by Chris 15

User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway

well, maybe..

The message should have read "Software update in progress - PLEASE WAIT"

with "Do not attempt to shut down or restart this PC until this message dissappears" underneath it.

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

Re: Do be evil

I was imagining a robot from Sirius Cybernetic Corps with a Genuine People Personality to be fair

'Have a Great Day' at the end :)

Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth

hahahahahahaha

Sorry, just killing my self laughing.

I can imagine the scene now:

Senior manglement phb: 'These maintenance costs for the new nuclear generator are far too high! Sack the maintenance crew!'

Cowed underling: 'yessir'

Cue miniature Chernobyl's all over the place

No, just no

Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up

Re: Hmmmmmmm

Try having all of the facts.

The Tesla reportedly cut suddenly across 'multiple' lanes of traffic and then braked.

Kind of unreasonable to expect people to leave a safe braking distance to a car that isn't in front of you at that point ...

Re: Hmmmmmmm myxipix2

Did the party about the Tesla crossing multiple lanes of traffic just before slamming on the anchors not cross your awareness?

Bit hard to maintain distance from the car in front of you when it has just appeared there suddenly a moment before...

With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

Re: Gotta love management speak

Euphemisms, surely?

Like this wonderful bit:

>>Rob Shuter, who runs BT Enterprise, will “step down from executive life and spend time with family and on his personal interests,”

Sooo... paid off to sling his hook then?

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

Re: Oh boy

Those on the receiving end will be worrying about the reaction, whether it's a chemical or atomic reaction on that warhead they're receiving is probably a moot point if they're the ones expected to play catch...

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

Meh

Go back to your vegemite ;p

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

Re: Supermarkets do this to people already.

The big difference in the supermarket is that it is a public place... With no reasonable expectation of privacy.

You could order your Pappa John's cardboard circle whilst stark naked (best to don some type of clothing when you accept the delivery though...)

Can't do that in a supermarket

Airbus auctions off bits from retired A380 superjumbo jet

Ahem

"A pair of crashes that killed everyone on board in 2018 and 2019 grounded the 737 MAX until last year, with flaws in its MCAS software ultimately found to have contributed to the fatal accidents."

(Emphasis mine)

Have to say that's putting it rather mildly guys.

Florida asks Supreme Court if it's OK to ban content moderation it doesn't like

Re: Sauce for the goose...

Has'Troof' social for 50 million fools to sign up then?

Another though here is this: doesn't the minimum 50 million subscribers bit fall afoul of the equal protection amendment thing? ("We're treating you differently to these other folks because, all else being equal, this arbitrary number means we want to")

Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

Almost

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines Leafblowers

(to try and keep these beasts cool)

Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

LOL hell no

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu... 'far'left', just stop it with the 'the left creates monsters too' bs. People who use the 'communism' schtick to justify why they should be dictators are not 'far left', they're simply opportunist thugs. Similarly Communism isn't 'far left', its just another way of hoodwinking the masses. I'm surprised you left Hitler out with his National 'Socialism' in your tripe.

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

evocative subject, a few thoughts though

Firstly I think the article is remiss for not listing the Windscale/Sellafield (not letting a name change hide it is important) nuclear incident. Also lacking is coverage of some of the contamination caused by previous poorly though out adventures in nuclear power (in my opinion driven mainly by decisions taken more with an eye to production of nuclear weapons then with power production)

With that we clearly need more nukes, just a safer kind and one that can also use the by-products of earlier nuclear projects as fuel, without enabling more weapons production.

The problem as I see it is both that that we don't have the technology mastered, and the political will is lacking both from a Greenpeace contaminated pr standpoint and vested interests in the nuclear industry wanting nothing more than a rent seeking (for them) solution. See for example the quite ridiculous attempts to finish the current nuclear power projects underway in this country.

China's IT minister under investigation for violating law

Indeed

This article is rather credulous in stating both of those lines. As what tends to play out in the system of government that they use in the larger China means that Xi will have 'allies' and 'friends' to whom he is beholden.

This is without mentioning the ultimate beneficiaries of all the factories overseen by their military.

This is also overlooking the endemic corruption that their system is 'lubricated' with.

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

Re: "but I would not report the damage back to my head office"h

Ahh idiot manglers who won't back down even though their idea is proven to be useless.

The world is full of them, and sadly full of idiot manglers higher up who fall for their nonsense despite those at the sharp end telling the truth....

September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job

HOWEVER

This still cost alot of families alot of money, and did economic damage which further negatively impacted their finances.

The revisionist lie that this did not affect real people in real ways does not wash.

An international incident or just some finger trouble at the console?

Re: Sorry...

Well he'd 'know' how to write them i guess...

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

False

Just because it precludes free lunches by people taking and redstributing it without granting the users of the redistribution the same rights as the person redistributing it does not make it a problem for interoperability. you can have your cake and it it with the gpl, just no cherry picking. :p

RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel

Re: Less about world domination...

I would have to agree. Intel are unsurprisingly in the Risc-V game only for what they can get out of it. I suppose the fact that they are not a charity and want to maintain long term dominance of at least one sector of computing is all the explanation they need.

Twitter faces existential threat from world's richest techbro

Re: Most of us don't give a toss.

It was good for twitter because they get to actually have their terms of service adhered to.

Ancillary to that it's good for everyone else because the orange buffoon is a dangerous individual that should not be able to freely (further) subvert the society from which he has benefitted (ie manipulated and damaged) over the years. Bad actors don't get a free pass to act badly on other peoples' platforms just because you think that he should.

BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches

rule 1

Make sure to remove any incriminating codes of any description to cover youre tracks

(rule 2 is to put an 'old' asset tag on the device insinuating that it has been about for ages, cost peanuts, and was sent foc as an afterthought by a vendor with some other kit 'to get it out of their inventory as they had been sitting on it for ages')

This browser-in-browser attack is perfect for phishing

Re: What are these advert things of which he speaks?

Indeed. This is the reason that ads and any third party/untrusted javascript will basically forever remain blocked here. You want to have your website visitors view ads on your page? Fine, then host the ad images yourself and take responsibility.

Third party adslingers are the scourge of the internet.

France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes

This a cinema in France. I'm not sure that Germany has any relevance here...

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

Re: Well this

Be careful of the pfy being in on it, sounds like you've given him blackmail material... Where do we find the next installment? This guy must have done some nasty deeds to earn this... :-D

Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court

Well

I'm note sure how much that the 'establishment' have ever viewed themselves as subject to international law...

BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master

Well

A true BOFH would proably only work with Hertz in discrete bundles of 50 (60 if they're Leftpondian)

Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach

False equivalency

Bob

I suggest you get a life

How sad

"But her emails!" reply to a bothside BS drivelfest from bob.

Classy!

Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech

My bet on the accounts?

I'd say they'll find they are mule accounts operated by possibly unwitting victims

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

Agreed. Let's hope it actually does get to that level though...

Re: Some extra info

That second sentence is telling if true. The first one is somewhat less damning imo as I'm not sure what training regime would make up for the deliberate omission of vital information about their clearly poorly thought outsoftware cludge, and the fact that the driving sensor had zero redundancy.

The second one points to someone somewhere deliberately withholding information from the guy. I'm not sure how a corporate bribe to the FAA shields individuals from criminal charges when this guy inevitably turns States evidence. I wonder whether he has any documents pointing to someone somewhere inducing him in some manner to not blow the whistle when he found out.

How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux

Yes, about that

Is this not a symptom of the fundamental incompatability between philosophies regarding file operations on files that are being referenced in some way or other by other processes in a *nix environment, and the philosophy regarding the same in windows?

NTFS is designed with the latter philosophy in mind, use within an environment using the former philosophy is bound to cause some wrinkles...

What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

To put this article in another light

This restricts what 'third party' Iframes can do.

So in other words , advert slingers can't use popups.

Eliminating these harms purveyors of advert slinging popups.

Something I can live with, personally

With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview

oh really?

Lionux has not been that way for 99.9% of more 'casual' users for some time, but do carry on with your FUD

Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

Bingo!

And that right there may well have been why they did not attract more developers to help write their code for them.

I wonder if they were hoping for a 'free lunch' scenario where they could effectively outsource significant development of the codebase and then close source it once it had achieved critical mass...

Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files

Re: Windows 11 to the Rescue!

See, if you want to have a pop at Micros~1 your best bet would be to point out that it could be worse, they could have limited everyone to 640k...

Bill for HMS Vanity Gin Palace swells by £50m in two months

hold on

You're expecting this white elephant to even get as far as being launched before the whole thing is scrapped or sold off to someone competent enough to actual finish and use this thing? I do admire your optimism...

Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues

Ahem

Drinking Hypergolic fuel. What could possibly go wrong. I suppose that going blind would be the leasst of their concerns...

Mine's a lager top with a shot of Red Fuming Nitric Acid then--------->

Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

Nope

I have to call bs on your bothsiderism, talk about false equivalency. You'r 'cancellors' quip betrays your true feelings. Hey, whilst I am talking to you, I have some neo nazi propaganda posters I wish to display on your property for an appropriate fee. Saying no because of the content means that you're into 'cancel culture' does it? Private business, private platform. Their rules, or hit the road.

Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown

Re: Just a FYI

Holy false equivalence batman! Much as I have no love for the thieving (and murderous) Russian government I don't think that gunboat diplomacy by us helps the situation.

Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin

Hmmmm

The above sounds a bit like our friendly neighbourhood individual male gendered person originating from the red planet

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

Fast Chow business?

I prefer Nutrition Free junk peddler

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

Re: DIY surgery

DIY surgery on yourself probably doesn't qualify for those penalties. A trip to a psychologist and/or a strait jacket may be mentioned however

Good: Water vapor signal detected for first time on distant planet. Bad: Er, we'll let one of the boffins explain

"Vapor"?

I didn't think El Reg had decided begin to strip itself of it's British underpinnings just yet...

Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual

I have to say 'meh' somewhat

Just how far behind ZFS this storage is makes this a pretty trivial change. Microsoft's allergy to NIH storage formats is galling.

Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods

Careful with the hype there!

The quantity of urine needed and the purported efficacy of the test with the low numbers of results should lead to maximum caution.

The tone of this article smacks of shades of Theranos.

Those that ignore history have an unfortunate trait of repeating the mistakes of said history.

With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America

Re: PDNFTT

Care to cite a source on that assertion? I seriously doubt that the US government does any such thing on a per capita basis. Health care in the us is predominately private, for profit, and with a marked cost barrier for entry for all to many of their citizens. THe US health care industry does indeed cost more per capita than spent in the uk, only you have to include the for profit element.

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

Re: Thank god

Take your far right lies and go back to parle...oh yeah, sorry about that... :)

Re: Thank god

First they came for the people who seem to be acting like authoritarian fascists, because in a tolerant society if you tolerate the intolerism of these fascists you end up with not a free society any more. Any questions?