Posts by Jones

California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

Why not

Add age verification to 3D printers while they're at it? In the name of safety of course.

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Nobody's fault-tree analysis includes "building hit by drone."

The means of destruction aren't overly relevant. We always used the phrase "if lightning struck the system" when discussing redundancy and fault tolerance, but it never really meant lightening literally. Drones and military actions caused the damage, but it's not that different from when a tsunami took out the Seagate and WD factories in Thailand back in 2011. It wasn't just the factories that needed to spin back up, the actual homes of the workers were also destroyed. So the end result looked similar to a war zone. Total destruction of a building (or several buildings in a region) is always possible.

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Re: Two words... Made in America

Great question, here's a link to how the brain forms speech: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-brain-produces-speech

I'm no fan of Trump, probably dislike him just as much as you do.

From the article: "in line with President Trump's National Security Strategy that the US must not be dependent on any other country for core components necessary to the nation's defense or economy."

Link in article: https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

Most of this list comes from Bidens time as president. I'm no fan of his either.

Lets have a beer and a civil conversation maybe?

Two words... Made in America

We've heard this before in 2023 from Biden about the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program:

“when we do these projects, we’re going to buy American…Tonight, I’m also announcing new standards to require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.”

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

Re: People will buy Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity stickers?

interesting read VoiceOfTruth... but for me it raised more questions than answers. OEM, perpetual, SaaS, country/region, there doesn't seem to be a blanket answer, its more case specific. Certainly doing millions in license sales will no doubt provoke interest from the MS legal team. But selling you're old copy to a neighbor would probably fly under the radar.

Thankfully LibreOffice is all I ever really need.

Re: People will buy Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity stickers?

" their right to sell stuff they have purchased"

My understanding is you don't own Microsoft Office/Windows software, you have licensed it from them. It's not yours.

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Re: Patience of a saint

Oops, you forgot to mention the nationalities for numbers 1 and 3 ?

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say

What this situation needs...

Is some AI powered monitoring tools right on the border. Thus ensuring nothing goes wrong.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Re: Suggestions?

I used to do the same thing! I had desktop shortcuts for reboot, shutdown now, and shutdown in 30 min.

Whatever I was using at the time for remote access didn't allow the remote user to power off the remote PC. Might have been Windows Remote Desktop or maybe Radmin, can't recall.

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

USB-DOS project? Care to elaborate?

NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3

Linux VPN

Not a big user of VPN's here, but there's a time and a place. My go to for Linux (Mint) has typically been Mozilla VPN. I like the cross platform support... iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux all with a single subscription. It's always been fast and reliable. And it's graphical, not CLI.

Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it

New kit isn't always better

if air traffic control systems are anything like dishwashers, I'd rather stick with the old equipment.

'Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE'

Re: Not Vista

Agreed. Never trust a guy who's got the Norton Toolbar in his browser!

Snowden SLAMS iPhone, claims 'special software' tracks users

Snow Day

"whether security experts are aware of it, or who would have the capability to view the "information" gathered"

If Snowden knows about a vulnerability before everyone else, would that make it a Snow-day exploit? As opposed to zero-day...

PC market's bleeding slows thanks to XP phase-out

My 2 cents

10 years working at a computer store, and this is probably the busiest we've been. Lots of people coming in with XP systems (leaky caps, IDE, AGP, 56k Modems) The OS isn't their only issue. Also, many business owners needing/wanting upgrades and one thing i hear a lot is: "I can't run my business from a tablet" so they buy a new (or refurbished Lenovo, HP, Dell,) PC...

ZEPPELINS to replace Goodyear blimps in American skies

blimpy boy!

"Hey there, blimpy boy! Flying through the sky so fancy free"

Fukushima radioactivity a complete non-issue on West Coast: Also for Fukushima locals, in fact

Controlled nuclear fission is a demanding mistress

It's Satya! Microsoft VP Nadella named CEO as Bill Gates steps down

Hail Ants

I, for one, welcome our new Chief Executive Overlord

Winamp is still a thing? NOPE: It'll be silenced forever in December

Well that...

Really whips the Llamas ass...

Gmail, Outlook.com and e-voting 'pwned' on stage in crypto-dodge hack

I just tried to change my outlook password, and it DOES require me to enter the current one in order to set a new one...

Vietnamese madam cuffed after advertising girls on Facebook

Re: I bet it only filters out pink flesh, and largely ignore other shades.

You're probably right... Google "Facebook Elbow Picture"

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

The other type of Cookies

I use Bakery for my fake profession... People don't have too many follow up questions about Bakery work. Plus, it doubles as an excuse to leave a boring party "I have to be up early tomorrow to start baking things..."

Self-healing chips survive repeated LASER BLASTS

PETMC

People for the Ethical Treatment of Micro Chips... It's wrong to zap Chips with lasers... They (might) have feelings too!

Apple users: Only Apple can track us! Not Google

Oxymorons

Upset about tracking and advertising? Lets start a facebook group for that...

Dead Steve Jobs' mega yacht seized by testy Philippe Starck

Are they sure it was really Steve's yacht? The corners aren't round...

Walmart workers filmed playing iPad frisbee

Walmart

Watch for falling iPads

Moon was formed when PLANET SMASHED INTO EARTH

I thought Apple invented the moon ??

Chinese man blows off hands, builds new pair

all you need is love

“I control them with movements from my elbows and I can work, love normally and feed myself just like anyone else," he explained.

i know you guys don't like to publish comments about typos, however the bionic hand guy who can "love normally" is really funny and needs to be pointed out. Assuming you meant to type "Live"...

El Reg appoints Special Projects Burro

Parasailing

Parasailing Donkeys make for great publicity... Well, maybe not great publicity, but publicity non-the-less.