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IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

There is great potential

Replacing all humans in the value add chain Amazon/Ali-express/Banggood --> Customer --> Trash --> Recycling --> Products --> Amazon/Ali-express/Banggood is a great idea.

Jeff Bezos, or any other billionaire engaged in this, should be lobbying to replace humans with robots, since it presents a great business potential. Taxing children seems like a good start here.

It can easily be proven that AI driven robots make better choices, there will be less product returns, resulting in a greener supply chain.

Companies producing AI driven robots could also lobby with democrat politicians to give robots voting rights, if one can buy, one has the right to vote. Democrats would argue denying voting rights to robots would be discrimination, since robot would just be another gender in their dictionary.

The future is awesome.

Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing

Re: Boing

That is weird, 727-200 is too loud, but it uses the same JT8D engines as the Douglas MD-88 which can land pretty much anywhere.

Re: Boing

Airbus is also having issues, thousands of A320-neo's will have to be grounded for longer time due to issues with the PW-1100G engines.

Plane manufacturers experience the same issues as car manufacturers, the lemmings race for less fuel consumption and more features pressures everyone to start using new and often unproved technology that may rear its ugly head after some time, often biting its owner hard in the wallet.

If Boeing would still be producing technically perfected 727's, 737-200's and 707's using JT3D's, everything would be fine.

Adjusted for inflation, a 1973 model year 727-200 would cost USD 34 million in todays dollars, a 737 Max 7 cost nowadays USD 99 million, so planes got three times more expensive.

Not taking into account that a 727-200 is faster and has a higher seat capacity than a 737 Max 7.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

This article proofs Hypocrisy is invented by woke lefties

For decades we had billionaires like the James Bond movie villan Klaus Schwab, Soros and Gates undermining our societies by subsidizing leftist policies, and spreading the false climate religion to weaken Europe. Recently Soros paid Hungarian opposition parties countless millions as support for the elections that prime minister Orban won with 60% of the popular vote.

Now the left is getting a few spoons of its own medicine from mr. Musk, they cry murder. Mr. Elon Musk does it all very publicly, while Soros, Gates and Schwab were trying to destroy the West on a secretive manner, by donating billions to people who are the enemies of a wealthy and prosperous West.

A new dawn has started in the West, away with the leftist doom scenarios, their horrible gender policies which are hostile to humanity, away with the climate doom saying, away with the limitless immigration of people who hate the West and kill innocent people at random on public places, away with the cancerous communist polit bureau in Brussels after AfD and FN win in Germany and France .

We are on the threshold into an age of optimism and greatness, where the moldy leftist policies will be extinguished.

President Trump could indeed be sent to us by God, surviving two assassination attempts, God saved him so he can save us from the left.

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in

IT forensics became easy

Every event will be attributed to "the Chinese" or "Putin", doesn't matter what it is.

It must be great to be American and enjoy the fruits of outsourcing.

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

They are on to something

The Big-tech/Greedy one percenter billionaire bashing is fully understandable.

But one could imagine being willing to pay half the price of a mid sized car for a robot that would be in the house, cleaning, cooking, and does the checking of the beer levels in the fridge.

For at least 40% of the men, 40% is average divorce rate in the US, such a bot is much cheaper than a woman and it mitigates the risk of losing half of everything one worked for.

If they manage to get it half way right, robot industry will overtake car industry within a decade.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Aliens recruited by Putin invade US airspace

Who else could have given him the technology for the Oreshnik rocket coming to a place near you with ten times the speed of sound when the Neo-Cons get their way before January 20.

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

Re: break them really up !

This is politically motivated justice, one of the last spasms of a politicized justice system, that made a big show of president Trump hiding "secret documents" raid at Mar el Lago, that was nothing but smoke.

Maybe google didn't pay enough campaign contributions to Biden or they were refusing to suppress president Trump from their search results like they did in 2020.

It will be over after January 20.

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

Is 1.5-2 GHz really that much of a difference

Even with Gbit internet, I see cpu's of PC's hardly sweat in the last few years.

The average user will hardly notice the 1.5GHz difference, many in the West are also trained by marketing of Big Tech that they constantly need the latest and greatest to be able to breath.

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Sign of the times

Firefox is the logical choice on Linux, and for those who do not like to be 24/7 under the commercial surveillance of US based Big Tech.

It is too bad to see El Reg sliding down the slope into the lamestream MS swamp, the whole article is negative about Firestorm.

El Reg is nowadays laced with infotisement from MS FUD'ers, the world is full of it and we do not need more.

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Liability is a huge drag on innovation

If chagpt and Gemini are representing the the current state-of-art in AI, then it confirms Linus his statements.

Ask both what the best way is to invest an inheritance of $ 100K, they both generate a flood of generic non-sense that is helping no one.

Ask Uncle Joe what to do with the 100K inherited from Uncle James, it is very probable one gets a clear advise what is the most safe way to invest the money.

Like with self-driving cars, nobody wants, or has the financial resources, to resolve liability issues caused by this technology when things go wrong.

Technology deployed by end-users is pretty useless when no one can be called to task when it fails.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

I hate to break the news, but the times that the Sun never sets in the British empire are over for quite some time.

You guys drive at the wrong side of the road, and fail to comply to European time standards.

Just stay in your Island that the Romans already despised and leave us Europeans in peace.

Daylight saving time is great, leaves one some daylight in summer for outdoors activities after work.

Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos

Re: "Russia"

The weird thing is that US Neo-cons like Cheney, do the same to their own population, US is #1 in drugs use, murders, people dying of cancer, moral decline, reduction of the average life expectation, inequality, limitation of freedom for women by prohibition of abortion in many states, growth of the national debt, de-industrialization and even more deaths caused a medical system that prescribes opioids faster than Mexican drug gangs can bring the stuff in.

If the Neocons wouldn't be so busy creating wars in the world to keep the weapon factories of their cronies running, nobody would care.

It seems a safe guess that heaven will be heaven since there can not be any democrats in heaven.

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

It could also be Apple is courting software builders who have developed software for Posix compliant systems, to port their solutions to Apple systems, since the Posix compatibility indicates source code might compile without too many changes on Apple systems.

After all, Apple builds really good hardware, why not lift all the walled garden Mystique surrounding Apple systems, and tell the world: Hey guys if you are not a M$ sheeple, it will run on our stuff too !

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

Linux and BSD offers everyone a great choice for creating solutions

Linux and BSD make up a perfect couple for creating solutions.

Linux is mainstream, takes less specialized knowledge to maintain. It also runs most apps like databases out of the box.

I use both, NetBSD for dedicated appliance like tasks where security is essential. Anyone doubting this should check the CVE databases of MITRE.

It is still fun to create a VM using 256MB memory and 16GB to build a NetBSD based appliance and watch windows people faint.

Linux is with google support easier to maintain for casual Unix specialists compared to NetBSD.

Anyone who got tired of chasing ones tail with trying to find the endpoint of Linux script generated configuration files will feel like being in heaven when seeing the elegant simplicity of NetBSD.

If NetBSD is Unix, then Linux can not be called Unix due to exponential bloat and complexity.

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

Re: Fools

I think this is caused by climate change or maybe Putin did it. Jeez, my Iphone beeps to remind me I need to get in my Tesla to get another Corona jab from mr. Gates.

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

They should have designed an integrated and cost effective gaming solution with ARC

The only way to get market share in a space controlled by two dominating parties is to offer something both of them do not have.

It could be price/performance ratio or factors like energy use.

Intel failed to achieve any of these, they ended up performance wise at the lower end of the NVIDIA/AMD offerings without being significantly cheaper.

The gaming/enthusiast PC market is something on its own. Everyone believes one needs rigs exceeding $2000, with 400W CPU's and graphics cards, to run the latest and greatest.

As a company, Intel would have been able to create a great gaming rig costing clearly under $1000, that would allow more people access to high-end games.

A strong and price optimized gaming rig, with simple but fast 4 core cpu and integrated ARC would have great opportunities, since not everyone is able to fork out 4 digits for a gaming PC. Something like a gaming NUC achieving NVIDIA 4060 level performance would be a big hit.

Probably the future will be ARM anyway, who wants Intel CPU's guzzling endless power with dozens of idle P/E cores nobody needs in games.

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab

It must pretty amazing technology

That transistor based logic can be printed in a way that resembles stamping metal parts. Transistors contain layers of different materials to enable the current switching capabilities they have.

If the yield exceeds that of UV based chip making, prices for high end chips could drop significantly.

Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft

Weapons and Big-tech

Are the last pillars preventing US economy disappearing, consumer goods, except for burgers, they hardly produce anything that the rest of the world wants.

Apart from corvettes, their car industry is reduced to pathetic minivans and 1958 Cadillac level gas guzzling pickup trucks built like T-Fords from the 30's.

The probability of this generation European politicians dealing with the MS monopoly and its power abuse seem slim, everyone in Brussels fears an angry phone call from the Pennsylvania Avenue . The positive side of endless US wars is that the world economy could probably split into regions, reducing access of Big-Tech to Russian, Chinese and other markets, whose combined size is larger than USA and Europe.

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Stupid is as stupid writes

It is fair to assume that US imperialism collides with the interests of the Russian state, that values territorial integrity and continuity of "Russian values", endorsed by its president Putin.

Intelligent people like to see their enemies weak and not strong, governmental policies have a significant influence on outcomes.

Maybe someone could explain the logic of president Putin supporting the re-election of president Trump.

Dems support green policies, that is currently destroying Western economies.

Dems support the war on conventional energy like oil and gas, creating tensions with oil producing nations, causing them to align more with Russia.

Dems support societal changes that are unacceptable for most of the worlds population, like drag queens and men posing as women in sports events.

Dems support uncontrolled immigration, to enlarge their future voter base, which is currently destroying the coherency of all societies in the West.

Dems support uncontrolled consumption of drugs in the USA, causing a death toll due to overdose exceeding the war casualties in Ukraine.

Dems support the industrial military complex, spending endless money on proxy wars and weapons instead on their own population.

It is not a surprise that president Putin officially made statements that he is supporting vice president Harris.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

If there was a Nobel Prize for intelligence work

1. Too many Hezbollah hot shots get killed as collateral damage because a rocket aimed for their mobile phone explodes.

2. Hezbollah decides to procure 1000's of pager devices for key members, since a pager is a radio and does not leave radio waves that can be tracked.

3. A mole inside Hezbollah reports that to his peers.

4. The mole manages to influence decision making in the Hezbollah organization, enabling its enemy to develop explosive modifications for the device that was chosen.

5. The mods are tested.

6. The supply chain is compromised allowing insertion of something like semtex, detonator, firmware modification, hardware modification in the shape of wiring from an unused CPU pin to the detonator.

7. To allow a sufficient penetration level of the device among members before discovery, the firmware will trigger the detonator only when a specific message is received.

7. The mods are rolled out on many thousands of devices.

8. After it is made sure most members have been supplied with the new paging device, the trigger is pulled.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

If MS made cars

The brake pedal would move from left side of throttle pedal to a lever on the driver seat to a turn knob besides the climate control knobs with each facelift.

It is too bad programmers are like dogs, they need to pee against each light pole they encounter to leave their mark, the concept: This is how one operates a windows system like it is established with cars never sticks for long. It would be more pleasant when MS invested in solving this issue instead of making the rest of the world waste its time dealing with BS upgrades.

The only thing MS has in common with the car scene is producing oldtimers, it is 2024 and now I need to be off for 10min because windows is nagging for updates...bye.

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Google should do more bribing and informaion sharing

Microsoft is much more a strangulating monopoly than Google.

MS has no commercial rivals, Apple and RedHat are niche markets, the middleware, office and Azure offerings make them extremely powerful.

Then fact the DOJ attempts a Mar el Lago on Google now, shows either Google is not bribing, in the shape of election contributions, enough politicians in the USA or the three letter agencies are unhappy with the amount of privacy sensitive user data, named telemetry by MS, Google is willing to share on voluntary basis.

The juicy data that can be extracted from a 90% monopoly is far too tempting to start rocking the MS boat on this, those who do not fully fit in the US NeoCon worldview get either shot, a Mar el Lago show or both.

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

Bitlocker on servers in data centers makes no sense, except maybe for managers who became security aware through glossy magazines from the first class in an airliner.

What makes no sense either that Big-Tech, with all their countless billions, didn't solve the console issue on cloud based VM's.

Those who lose network or admin/root passwords are in a world of pain.

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs

Tunneling often works better than frontal attacks

Google and AWS are both heavy Open-Source users. For both of them it would mean peanuts to significantly boost Open-Source software initiatives, encourage software developers to support MS free platforms and promote those with reduced tariffs for MS free cloud VM's.

Within a few years, MS would start feeling the pain induced by a sustained loss of business. MS may seem invulnerable, but they depend on returning license fees, anyone who is able to successfully attack this revenue stream will harm MS in a significant manner.

Given the lackluster competition between Windows and Google Chromebooks, it seems US Big-Tech divided the market into sections where they don't compete.

This whole thing is probably smoke and mirrors to suggest the existence of competition to the public.

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Re: Scapegoating EU

Scapegoating EU is insult on insult, it proofs IQ in USA is avalanching down a steep slope, the next generation of them will probably think a fire is something sent by the gods.

It is 2024 now, the days that visiting a website could result in the website author changing the Windows kernel are still fresh in memory.

Even receiving emails is kind of Russian roulette like adventure on windows in 2024. Ohhh wait, I get coffee since windows is updating.

Those who wanted less Swiss cheese on their hard drive were forced to turn to companies like Crowd Strike, since the security department was empty at MS.

Windows is what cars would be in 2024 in case the elder Henry Ford never would have gotten any competition: A black T-Ford.

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

If God would have been an IT guy

We would have been extinct from plague, or any other pandemic preceding it, due to similar genes, offering a great attack surface for the plague microbes.

Diversity in IT landscape costs a bit more, but like human genes, a single attack vector won't wipe it completely out in a short period of time.

Maybe Resilience will become a factor in IT security as well, until now the scope of IT security is very much focused on "keeping bad actors out".

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

Creating and the generation of instant gratification

Vintage car shows are also mainly populated by grey beards, it seems that everything involving some form of wrenching, be it digital or physical, only seems to attract greybeards.

When the greybeards were young in the 1970's, they bought a run down Ford Capri from the money they had saved, needing weekends to keep it running.

Generation smart phone takes a loan, or signs a private lease contract to get a new car, since oily fingers is the last thing they want.

It works similar with open source, generation smart phone grew up in a world where US Big Tech seems to be able to translate their thoughts into Amazon packages delivered next day. So why bother creating software ?.

The saving grace for Open-Source will be the people who do not want to fork over endless amounts of money to US Big Tech so they can be spied on by US government, current political developments may boost those numbers.

Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang

Tossing away working stuff must be environmental friendly these days

My 1973 Yamaha CR-800 works like a charm, being in use 365*8, if not more.

Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint

This shouldn't be fixed in the US way

MS can try to buy out current CISPE members by tossing a handful of coins at them, just to have a fun time watching them crawl through to the dirt to pick them up.

It would be preferable when the EU commission attempts to do the right thing by creating conditions enabling the existence of a viable European hosting industry in the future.

Creating a strategy to reduce the addiction to MS products would help to mitigate this kind of issues, but that takes strong leaders who can withstand the seduction of all this juicy lobbying that MS uses to bend things in its favor.

Encrypted mail service Proton hands suspect's personal info to local cops

Providers promising privacy shouldn't keep information in the EU/US or their own country

Any service provider who promises increased privacy, but stores information in any of the countries where authorities might be interested in who its customers are and what they are up to, can't deliver on the promise.

If Proton had done a halfway decent job of protecting their customers they would:

1. Have an entry point in an Asian/South-American country, ideally load balancing to multiple of such entry points in different countries/jurisdictions, making them difficult to trace.

2. Frequently switch ip-addresses of entry points, so they can't filter using an "ip-address" warrant for those entry points using local internet providers.

3. Frequently wipe ip-logs on those systems.

4. Traffic from the off-shore entry point into their own systems is VPN encrypted, and does not contain source ip's of customer devices.

5. It should offer plausible deniability, i.e. random sender addresses.

6. Leave no cookies or traces in customer web browser or client devices.

If setup like this, Proton could hand the cops a list of their customers, and wish them good luck with it, since the data identifying users is not there.

The fact they didn't do anything basic to protect their customers, makes it seem probable they are a government run scam.

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Time will tell

whether a strategy to select staff based on IQ, education and skills or on other factors like skin color and gender brings more success.

Gender is an interesting parameter, since they seem to have many of those in the USA, maybe it is because USA is the only place in the world where aliens landed, who knows ?.

Politicians call for ban on 'killer robots' and the curbing of AI weapons

What is the difference between highly effective poison gas and a swarm of perfect killer drones

AI drones which are able to terminate all life within certain GPS coordinates are effectively the equivalent of using gases to exterminate people.

Except from the occasional unexpected change in wind direction, gas is the more economical alternative for drone warfare.

From the public image poison gas may be perceived as the worse kind of weapon, the effects are the same, people die.

If drones have the same effect as gas, indiscriminately killing everyone within an area, it seems logical to classify combat drones in the same weapon category as gases.

Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight

Politicians are people who hate mirrors and news outlets they can not censor, since it shows them the uncomfortable truths they themselves created.

Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism'

Dozens ended up on a government backed Ukranian kill list for much less, without any legal procedures.

Being convicted by a Russian court based on laws and multiple requests for retraction of images which are terrible for the families of the soldiers, is how the legal system in a developed country is supposed to work. The silver lining is that developments on the front are such that the Ukrainian legal system can potentially advance to this level within a few months.

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

......reveals fragility of open source

As if not Cisco, Apple, MS, AWS, Google and other US based do not get regular emails from three letter agencies with code they have to insert into their stuff.

I wished people stopped with this brain dead FUD about Open Source.

We know 100% for sure the code of mainstream US based vendors is riddled with back doors, allowing authorities to protect the children.

With Open Source we can check the code, and can verify which outgoing traffic it sends. Nobody bothers to check the gigabytes W10 or W11 sends to MS.

Maybe this reveal is a counter intelligence strike, FSB (KGB) found out CIA had done this and published it to show finger, or vice versa.. who knows.

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

It is all about incentives

The example of Cuban cars show that when there are incentives, like scarcity, people become very creative in keeping their over 50 year old US made cars running.

The only way to limit E-Waste is to effectively choke off the supply of future E-Waste that enters Western harbors with a rate of 1000's shipping containers each day.

It will raise prices of those goods due to scarcity, after a certain tipping point free market mechanisms set in, and repair becomes economically viable.

It will require that the current economic model, based on unsustainable and polluting production in regions with low wages, is torn down.

This model of cheap production of things with a short lifecycle and the resulting flooding of Africa with E-Waste is solidified by agreements in the WTO, this all has to change if some serious attempt is made to reduce E-Waste. Implementing this will not make us poor, people who are now busy with keeping the supply chain of Chinese junk alive, will then get jobs in the repair sector.

Less imports implies less shipping, which is also a huge benefit since ships are very polluting.

Changing the people is the most difficult, since most people think that repair means tossing it in the garbage and go to aliexpress to buy new.

Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so

IT industry needs to become more environmental friendly

In the storage room next to our data center a stack of over 10 feet discarded servers was accumulated over the years.

They are old Dells and HP Proliant G6/G7 and G8 in 1U format.

These servers still have perfect fans, double power supplies and in most cases well usable ethernet cards.

It is all for the scrapper, because CPU and memory got obsolete. It wouldn't be magic to design modern motherboards that can be swapped out play and play for a fraction of the price.

As long major players in the industry can dictate this kind of non-sense, not only laptops but also countless tons of high grade equipment will be destroyed due to marketing and profit reasons.

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

If Russians (a.k.a. Putin a.k.a. the God of bad luck in the West) stole the code

Then the code gets better, MS would have to close the back doors the governments of the "free" world use to spy on their citizens.

It seems improbable those governments want to leave those door open to the MoD or KGB.

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

Re: Hmm

The government did create a problem, and it is not the leftist twist "Right wing crackdown on immigration".

Dutch right wing politicians welcome immigrants who contribute in a positive manner to Dutch society.

As long production of Lithography machines is not a mainstream activity in Africa, it seems doubtful the thousands immigrants entering Dutch soil every week will be of any use to ASML.

The problem Dutch government created that makes it difficult to attract skilled foreign staff are the nightmarish taxation levels.

It is not the only 40-ish% income tax, 21% VAT, record holder of gas prices in Europe, cars are 2-3 times more expensive than in neighboring countries, parking rates even in boring towns are such they often exceed the expenses when shopping and high communal taxes for house owners. This easily adds up to a 60%-70% taxation level of gross income and the constant perception of being robbed by a cancerous state whose bloat is suffocating.

Government policies also caused housing costs rise to a level where life becomes a luxury.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

Re: Mistake?

It could indeed be a brave act of resistance against the elites pushing Europe into the abyss.

Anyone with an IQ exceeding 70 knows in a scenario where USA/NATO/EU/WEF servants manage to start a war with Russia, 100 million or more Europeans will die.

Based on the geography, Germans might be a sizable part of those casualties.

Maybe it was the intention of the generals to warn Russia about the plans, trying to prevent escalation and destruction of Europe and make clear that German army is not their true enemy, but US and English are.

Since a second Trump presidency seems inevitable, pressure is on for the war mongering elites to start a war with Russia before January 2025.

Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers

The silence will reveal the credibility of the encryption

As long the three letter agencies are not publicly complaining about the new encryption being dangerous for kids, helps terrorists or president Putin (pick either one)...

Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier

GDPR is not enforced in most countries

Here in the Netherlands, there is no enforcement at all of GDPR or, for that part any other laws that don't bring in juicy fines when normal citizens are caught.

Unless they kill people or blow up their surroundings, companies in the Netherlands can do what they want, all the agencies that are supposed to check if they are compliant to regulations, exist in name, but don't have any meaningful staff to investigate on a sufficient scale.

Another indication that GDPR is neither enforced or respected is the wide spread use of US based cloud services, which are by US law not GDPR compliant.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

It proves climate change is a hoax

There is not a single government in the climate religion regions of the world giving incentives to either employers or employees for working at home.

Working at home is a simple and extremely effective measure to reduce CO2 emissions, working much better than converting from gas engine powered cars to 2.5 ton Chinese built SUV's.

Globally employees surrendered negotiating power by abandoning Unions, if organized, they would be able to thwart this kind of humiliating decrees, or even achieve that laws are made making it a right that 40% of the work time can be from home when the type of work allows it.

Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

Pickups from the battlefield ?

Since Russia is gaining quite a lot, the terminals could be captured equipment.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

Re: Major major cock-up

It mainly comes down to people, in this forum there is a ton of management speak... procedures, checklists and what more red tape that is supposed to make good on what is lacking on the factory floor. In the end there should only be motivated, skilled and experienced people doing these things if we want to prevent major risks to airline passengers.

It is not far fetched to assume the quality and qualifications of the workforce was sacrificed on the altar of diversity, next quarter profits and other factors resulting in a loss of skills, pride and motivation to make an excellent product. If people are unmotivated, mentally unfit for skilled assembly work or treated badly on the factory floor, managers shouldn't be surprised when subpar products roll out, why should the worker care about it if nobody else does.

Boeing, and many others, need CEO's like Ferdinand Piëch who would unexpectedly show up on Monday morning to beat up people when panels were 1mm out of line.

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Personal accountability

We live in a lovely world, as long it doesn't involve petty crime, perpetrators are never persecuted.

Companies knowingly do bad things, nobody ever goes to jail.

It is not until a few dozen execs of a company get mass sentenced a decade or two for knowingly doing harm to people, things won't change.

Now they get away with having to listen to half a day of cursing from politicians, they pay the small fine, and continue business as usual.

Perhaps DA's should start reading proceedings of Nuremberg trails, where people didn't get away with "Ich habe es nicht gewusst" or "Befehl ist Befehl..", but were held personally accountable for things that happened under their command. In a new world, where execs know they end up in jail for doing harm, they won't be that eager to do harm for the next quarterly bonus.

Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

Smart move from Oracle

Marketing and subtly planned obsolescence convinced many people that everything has to constantly be upgraded and replaced.

IT people specially love to dance to the music from Big IT, since participating in this scam party pays part of the rent.

A company who bought in 1998 a Sun server with an app that does important tasks for them, can still use it today like they did in 1995.

The amount of money they saved by using the same configuration, not spending fortunes on upgrades and 4-5 years replacement cycles, is enormous.

The EU-US Trade and Tech Council sounds fancy but, really, what's the point?

It is the overwhelming success

US trade with Europe never was so good, the stream of weapons to delay "a gastation masquerading as a country" from reclaiming territories is endless.

For the rest, US has nothing to offer what the world needs after they stopped making challengers and chargers in 2023.

Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom

Great news, ProMox is a super product

Having worked with RedHat Virtualization (RHEV), VmWare, HyperV and ProMox, the latter made a good impression.

The web interface is great, it runs VM\s with little overhead and losses in performance.

It runs NetBSD, Windows 10 and Linux VM's which can be freely installed from iso.

When VEAAM is available, it will make acceptance easier, maybe it will help to free the world of this depressing HyperV freebie.