Posts by The Man Who Fell To Earth

Windows 11 migration? Upgrade engine revs up, enterprises have no choice

0patch

Never used it, but supposedly there's always 0patch.

https://0patch.com/

Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam

Where's the money?

They stole in total $4.9M. Yet Echeazu is fined only $655k & got only 18 months. Adeagbo got 7 years, but fined only $943k.

So in the end, they netted $3.3M. Can't speak for Adeagbo, but Echeazu did pretty well in the end.

Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI

One question

For God's.sakes how do I just make it stop?

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

Re: The problem with Recall

Notice the whole subject of Legal Discovery wasn't addressed. One should presume that Recall still presents a huge problem there for anyone foolish enough to allow it to run.

Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim

Re: It’s not your device…

I find only the crappy AV products flag utilities from Nirsoft. The crappy ones seem to have a blacklist of Windows API's that if anything not signed by Microsoft calls, they label as Malware. I have had crappy AV products flag my own utilities I have just compiled because of this, in which case, that AV product gets replaced. The good AV products are more sophisticated.

Intel frees its Foundry biz – and that's just one of many major shake-ups today

Re: Accounting for changes

Time to short Intel. It's been on a downhill for a while due to MBA's making their usual short term decisions.

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Re: AI Computers

Crowdstrike is "AI", but in their case it's Artificial Idiocy.

SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global

Re: Is

If only Larry and Oracle were capable of change.

Re: The only tech Starfleet uses that was invented in the 20th century

So that's why all the interfaces in Starfleet look like shitty DOS boxes, and every computer command is slow.

Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns

Er, wrong

"Musk owns the only operational satellite internet system right now..."

That's so bad it isn't even wrong.(to paraphrase Wolfgang Pauli). Eutelsat OneWeb has an operational LEO system. Their constellation uses far fewer satellites at greater altitudes (~650 @ ~1200km) than Starlink (~4700 @ ~ 550km).

OneWeb constellation: https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=oneweb

Starlink constellation: https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink

The altitude makes a huge difference, hence the difference in the number of satellites required for complete planetary coverage. With my Starlink, my phased array antenna has a field of view of about 120 degrees can see any Starlink satellite within about 1000km of me. If OneWeb's antenna is similar, that would allow it to see any OneWeb satellite within about 2400km of it.

US sues Georgia Tech over alleged cybersecurity failings as a Pentagon contractor

Re: 'Do as I say' ...

If DOD were serious they would blacklist the faculty members responsible. But the Feds never do.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Re: cue the wailing

Even before this, Microsoft started messing up the Task Manager. We replaced it on all of our Windows 11 systems with "Classic Task Manager".

https://win7games.com/#taskmgr10

Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns

Can't imagine why...

Elon Musk's own AI system creates video of him and Trump committing armed robbery

https://www.indy100.com/viral/elon-musk-grok-ai-robbery

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases

Re: Now ....

Don't you just love these sociopathic parents who love their kids so much they go to great lengths to skip out on paying to feed, clothe and house them?

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

Stupid is as stupid does

Scissors can be in your carryon if the pointy 3nd is 4 inches (~10 cm) or less from the pivot point. A trained person can easily kill with a sharp pointy tool of that size.

Most of these rules concerning carryon are pointless.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/scissors

After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves

"Florida Data Broker"

Just reinforces the notion that everything in Florida is Broken. And/or sleazy. Which it is. I lived there once upon a time.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Las Vagas Event Organizer

The Champagne Creative Group, a Las Vegas based event organizer company, has the lamp shade models as one of their standard offerings. That's who Palo Alto hired.

https://www.champagnecreativegroup.com/nightlife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32NBCTJaB9g

Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec

Musk

Seems to think "at will" employment is everywhere. Not everywhere is as ruthless as most of the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/employment-at-will-laws-by-state/

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

"Musk" is now a verb

To be "Musked" means to be hoodwinked.

Musked Definition:

Simple past tense and past participle of musk.

Musk Definition:

A substance with a strong, penetrating odor, obtained from a small sac (musk bag) under the skin of the abdomen in the male musk deer.

Yea, that works as it stinks.

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

They'll fix their chargers...

Right after they get the FDS working. Elon says it should be only a few weeks. Trust him. Have he ever lied to you before?

The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

Standardization

I run Systems Engineering groups the last decade or so. I've had some really great creative people work for me over the years, but sometimes no matter how great a solution, when one looks at the Big Picture (not just the product, but the manufacturing as well), sometimes sticking with "the standard way" makes the most sense. That's not to mean the "new way" should be forgotten, but you don't optimize systems by optimizing each part in a vacuum. (More so when talking about hardware.)

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

The code is only half of it

As the Nghia Hoang Pho case showed, the FSB seems to have access to anything uploaded to Kasperski's servers.

https://www.cdse.edu/Portals/124/Documents/casestudies/case-study-nghia-pho.pdf

It did not help that the way the US Government found out was that Kasperski was also compromised by the Israeli's, who tipped off the US.

https://www.cfr.org/cyber-operations/compromise-kaspersky-labs

Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work ... on evil

Not much of a security company

The cost of flying someone out to interview is trivial compared to what you will be paying them over the course of the first year. To not eventually interview in person before making a candidate an offer is not just cheap, it's downright stupid. Especially for a "Security Company". I'd never hire these clowns or knowingly use their products.

Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California

Re: Starbase, Texas

Well remember, Musk's vision of Mars colonization is not as a democracy, but as a feudal system with him as King. A place that makes China and Russia look like liberal democracies. None of that human rights crap, free speech & with everything owned by Musk. Especially the air the colonists breath. Imagine how layoffs will work.

Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as 'change fatigue' persists

Well for one thing...

Most of the US stock market isn't driven by fundamentals. If it were, then for example,Tesla would be trading for $25-$50 with a PE in line with other automakers of 6-12 range. Most of the US stock market is driven by hope & hype.

Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

Re: Reverse crypto scam

Or he got divorced and really really does not want his ex to get half.

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

Re: Let it go

You mean maintaining FOSS isn't the "killer app" for AI? Say it ain't so!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Re: The devil is in the detail

Even my 6 year old Subaru has dynamic cruise control, and does fail to control the speed properly on downhill as well as starts tracking the speed of the car ahead if it's setting is for a higher speed. Buy a car with post-1960 CC.

Re: Good

What an idiot.

EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials

Re: Another attempt at monoploy.

Visit Costa Rica some time. Their previous government let China pave the major roads in the country about a half dozen years ago, and now those roads have fallen apart. A lot of the 3rd world has figured out that "Chinese Cheap" isn't a bargain.

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

Re: hmm

I would expect all web hosters to offer this service for an additional charge any day now. And then the AI companies can counter offer money to all of the web hosters to not do it. Win-win for the web hosting companies. Those with websites? Not so much.

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit

Re: I've heard this song someplace before.

Ironically, if he had a massive cocaine habit like many c-suiters, they'd have offered infinite accomidation.

Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs

Yep

Listening to Apple about Security is like listening to my dog about gourmet food.

Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus

Re: "The thrust is that retaining Musk's extraordinary talent takes extraordinary compensation"

Musk needs Tesla more than Tesla needs Musk. It really is that simple. Musk already owns Tesla stock worth over $70 billion. A lot of it is collateral for his epically stupid purchase of Twitter.

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

What a shock

A Microsoft executive so tone deaf their unable to read the room, much less analyze data.

Windows 11 tries to escape Windows 10's shadow with AI muscle

Imagine

Imagine how much bigger O&O ShutUp10++ will have to be to shut off all the Copilot+ AI bloated spyware!

Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run

Re: back to the future?

"The idea of taking a screen print of a document, and using AI to convert back to text is so stupid, you'd only do it for a demo."

Sometimes one has to wonder if anyone at Microsoft actually uses any Microsoft OS's or Applications.

I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

Imagine the author sharing the prompt..

Sharing the prompt is exactly what the author should do.

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

All I want to know

Is how to turn it off.

I just had to replace my phone, so I got a Samsung Galaxy S24+ yesterday. I spent half the day yesterday, and most of today, turning off a load of bloatware AI-ish crap it came loaded with, like the fucking thing making "stories" from my photos.

I'll be the first in line to join the class action lawsuits over the various intrusive privacy invasions being foisted on us.

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Re: We love it.

Same here. I've had Starlink for almost 3 years, and compared to my only previous other option of 1.5 Mbps DSL (at 2/3 the price of Starlink), it's a Godsend.

Cops developing Ghostbusters-esque weapon to take out e-bike thugs

"Unlike e-bikes, though, these are actually illegal to privately own..."

Er, so why not go after the people importing/selling them? Or is that too low tech?

Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen

Re: And nothing of value...

They probably noticed how many people were turning it off via

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

TurnOffWindowsCopilot = 1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

TurnOffWindowsCopilot = 1

Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle

Users who do not have a recovery environment configured can ignore the error.

The very fact that this error gets triggered when it should not even apply to the machine says droves. Also reinforces the theory that all the people who really knew how Bitlocker works were laid off l ong ago.

Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers

Re: A solution maybe?

I'd be more interested in what constitutes "using AI to write a paper". Does using Grammarly for spell checking count? How about occasionally accepting its suggestion for a phrase rewrite count? How about when it suggests a sentence rewrite?

Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer'

In my experience...

Anyone or anything that calls itself a "genius" not only isn't, but is the most clueless person in the room.

This is just another datapoint affirming that.

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

Irony

The irony of Shou Zi Chew using US Rule of Law against the US government from his base in a country devoid of it, is priceless.

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing

Re: What does Musk say?

Don't worry. Musk has scheduled layoffs for the same day as "bring your child to work". So the kids can see what working for Musk is really like.

Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers

QLC Alzheimer's

QLC Alzheimer's: It's not just for humans anymore.™

Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow

What the DeepMind team's paper really illustrated

Google DeepMind = Dunning-Kruger