Posts by Snake

And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses

Re: lizard

LOL

I resemble that remark :p

Lizards are good peoples. We just want to be left to our Sizzle stones and in peace, that's all.

Re: Voted along party lines

Yes indeed. As I said yesterday

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/10/26/ftc_blames_ceo_drizly_breach/#c_4556277

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"What is the "big" surprise?? [/s] That the Republicans on the board voted against it.

OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

Yet more proof that American conservatives never met Big Money interests that they don't like."

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But the peasants keep voting against their own best interests.

Let them eat cake.

Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

Yep

"At the same time, fossil fuel industries are massively subsidized by taxpayers around the world. Estimates from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggest global public subsidies for fossil fuels almost doubled to $700 billion in 2021."

Remember, "free market capitalism" means

"capitalism, also called free market economy or free enterprise economy, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets."

(Britannica.com)

Nice all-private, 'market-driven', stake-claim we have here...

Rules for thee, not for me...

FTC slaps down Drizly CEO after 2.4m user records stolen from 'careless' booze app biz

RE: accountability

Just *today*, Wednesday 26 October, the SEC passed a ruling that will require executive bonus clawbacks from companies found guilty of malfeasance

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-sec-vote-executive-compensation-clawback-rule-2022-10-26/

What is the "big" surprise?? [/s] That the Republicans on the board voted against it.

OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

Yet more proof that American conservatives never met Big Money interests that they don't like.

You see the hand wringing that this FTC ruling brings. Poor Little Rich Boys. Imagine, having to put up with being penalized for their own [in]actions! The HORROR!!

""Moreover, it's not clear whether the FTC has a process for individuals to contest these sorts of personal decisions, since it looks like it will follow them for the rest of their lives."

I know! So horrible! When *we*, the lowly peasants, fail or get fired, we get bad references or even 'blacklisted' in our industries through the "grape vine". How DARE a CEO be subject to the same!!

How will they maintain their 3 vacation homes??!

Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables

Re: Is this Nvidia's pentium P4 moment

From my perspective the problem is creating a 600W rated connector...and then drawing 600W on it. You should always design an electrical interface with a safety margin, the socket should have been designed for 700W to draw 600W. Drawing the rated load from a connector is pretty much a sure-fire way to assure overheating.

Rent-calculating software biz accused of colluding with 'cartel' of landlords

Re: no "hidden" fees

There was plenty of supply at the start of the demand that I mentioned, why prices for apartments 70+ miles outside the Big City were reasonable.

But the moment the landlords saw demand from out-of- towners...the prices weren't so reasonable any more. 20% or so less than Big City prices, again for living 70+ miles out of town, ain't no bargain. But the city suckers thought so, and paid the padded bills.

I know this because a friend, both a home owner and a landlord here, saw what other landlords were starting to charge. His response?? "Guess I'll do the same!" Bam, increased rent on the next tenant.

Big surprise.

$900,000 for a condo here is CRAZY. Absolutely crazy!! That buys a luxury house with land, not a 2-bedroom condo.

And THAT'S being a sucker.

Re: no "hidden" fees

I agree...and that's why the term from landlords that they [only] charge "market rate" is BOGUS.

All "market rate" is, is them looking at one another to see how much they can get away with charging. The highest bid, once joined in at that rate by any other landlord in the area...magically becomes the new "market rate".

So all rent inflation needs is two 3 cohorts:

- the original landlord willing to hike his prices and wait for a sucker customer;

- the sucker renter willing to pay the rent, that usually being a new prospect from outside the area who wants in, no matter the cost / does not understand the current value of the actual local market; and

- the 2nd landlord willing to join in on the game, once they see those willing suckers 'investors' in their property shell game.

And, so, rent prices skyrocket.

This is what occurred in my own home town. Short of 2 decades ago, when standard rent for a 1BR apartment was averaging $800-$900, I was meeting new residents, fresh from the city, who were paying $1200+ and thinking they were getting ''such a great deal!". Boom - a few years later, rents were up 20%.

And now?? They are renting newly renovated loft apartments for $2000+ and, in a town where private homes average $250,000 to $500,000, they put up condominium complexes that start at - wait for it - $900,000.

And suckers from the city are coming up in droves to a town that is now considered 'hip' and 'convenient', thanks to a transportation hub that they installed into the small town that backs up traffic for miles.

And so crashes the quality of life for everyone else that called the town "home" before the developers and yahoos arrived.

If you're still on Windows 7/8.1, it's time to say goodbye to Google Chrome

Re: relentless push

Conversely and notably, they will quote security issues for ceasing support of older browsers on older OS's. It is possible that maintaining full functionality on these older systems opens them up to legal troubles if / when some clueless person using said legacy software gets fished into poverty.

Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades

Re: Bet ya can't wait to slap that Windows 11 on your machine

I have Win11 installed on a 3rd drive in my P71 'laptop'. I keep it updated but really don't use it yet, waiting for long-term stability before I try it as my daily driver.

It doesn't seem bad, really, but I'll wait until the guinea pigs iron out the worst of the issues, no use being an early adopter when Win10 works fine as it it. Eventually I am sure that Win11 will become the assumed de facto Windows version so no use putting it off and simply ignoring it.

Linus Torvalds suggests the 80486 architecture belongs in a museum, not the Linux kernel

Re: No loss of hardware support

But what about the important thing, the thing that actually *counts* on a computer: software support.

Can an old kernel support all the latest software packages?

Note that this is a serious question, not a troll. I haven't been in Linux in decades and I certainly won't be trying an old kernel just to test this question out, so if anyone knows please reply.

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

Re: convenient printing

This precisely. May I *also* add that the article complains about PDF editing...as if you WANT editing in every PDF.

Hey author, ever thought of THAT???

After creating a legal PDF document I can distill it down to a flat, uneditable PDF, then send it. The specifics can't be edited, ever, so I know that, from the background watermark to the flattened foreground data, it cannot be altered or modified.

Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason

Re: meh

Do what portrait photographers back in the 1920's to 50's did - smear a touch of petrolatum on the lens. If they complain that your webcam looks soft and a bit fuzzy, give them a shrug and tell them it's the best you can do :p

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Prime Minister

"but we're only going to get a Prime Minister who's good at getting elected."

Welcome to 21st Century politics, you'll just love it here. [/s]

Take your pick: weak, ineffectual "progressive" or authoritarian rich-apologist "conservative".

Oh, and BTW, immediately remove any politician preaching that austerity and tax cuts for the top earners will work - just ask Kansas.

But that won't stop them from preaching the same tired, old, hoary beliefs.

Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions

Re: Chilton manual

You had a Omni? I remember the days when the GLH / GLH-S were the talk to the hot hatch town (too bad Chrysler couldn't, even then, put in a decent interior worth a damn).

Re: headphone jack

Most phone manufacturers have dropped their headphone sockets; I am using a small external USB-C DAC dongle, a few are excellent and work very well at a very minimal cost (but you can drop loads of £££ if that's what you want to do).

Re: What they have; with "reasonable accommodation"

The FTC's idea is a pretty good one but in many industries it fundamentally doesn't really matter much. For example, while the story mentions refrigerators, here in America all the imported refrigerators use DC-driven inverter technology to allow easier adaptation to worldwide voltages and increase efficiency.

And some of the manufacturers, the Asian ones especially - Samsung and LG - discontinue their replacement inverter boards around 5 years or so after the model is discontinued. This is a known issue in the repair industry and the dirty little secret that most buyers don't know before they plunk down their hard-earned money.

So having repair manuals won't help you, when you can't get the parts.

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Re: Equity Act 2010

But we must remember that the foundations of .DOC[x] go back several decades before the Equity Act. So demanding standards that do not including a decades-old legacy format, then complaining that said format doesn't meet the (new) standards, is a choice that ALL parties are responsible for not simply pointing the finger solely at MS for blame.

Re: MS Office

"There are now an entire generation of PA's, Accountants, Legal assistants, HR bods - back office staff of every kind - who have used MS office for their entire careers and they will commit cold blooded murder before they're prepared to give it up now."

More like:

"There are now an entire generation of PA's, Accountants, Legal assistants, HR bods - back office staff of every kind - who have used MS office for their entire careers and they won't, can CAN'T, worry about and give up compatibility with their saved data just to switch to an OS and matching office suite that does not guarantee any real benefits in productivity or benefits!".

FIFY.

I'm horribly sorry, but in August I just PROVED that LO is *still* not compatible with the latest MS Office .DOX formats.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/08/19/libreoffice_7_4/#c_4517657

So why should these back office staff switch both their OS *and* their office productivity suite if they can't guarantee that they'll be able to open their documents and continue with their work unimpeded?? Just to satisfy the [false] promises of the F/OSS community about some proposed "benefit"?

It's bullshaite. And, no, it is NOT MS's responsibility to create a .DOCX format that allows others a guarantee of compatibility. They don't have to - it's their format, their software, to call the shots on.

No. Stop it.

"The real problem remains that Microsoft retained its first-mover desktop operating system advantage by forcing PC companies to only offer Windows to its customers in the 1990s. Combine that with the simple fact that people don't like to change, and you have the real reason why neither Linux nor macOS has advanced beyond niche desktop roles"

NO. Stop playing Linux victim and continuing the lie that the reason that users still use Windows is because 'evil Microsoft forces PC companies to sell it to you!'.

Linux, STILL, does not have the end-user application support necessary to win the desktop. PERIOD. END OF DISCUSSION.

As earlier poster have said, "GIMP != Photoshop. Ardour != Reason", and I'll even add "[blank space here, no Linux alternative] != Adobe suite" *and* "Kdenlive != Final Cut Pro" (even though it shouldn't be relevant, Mac, but it is relative to desktop comparisons).

The F/OSS end-user desktop application landscape is generally vastly inferior to closed source alternatives except in certain fields (STEM being one of them, where it excels). This makes sense: the greatest F/OSS supporters are in the IT tech field themselves, so they develop end-user desktop applications to suit their own needs, solve their own problems. Those IT tech gurus then share their work with the world in hopes that someone will be helped by the solutions they created for themselves.

But all too often those same IT tech gurus are not very good at understanding non-tech user design, and the GUI suffers as a result. So the F/OSS desktop user experience suffers from programmers that are excellent in coding but not very good in designing great user experiences - and users who may try out a F/OSS alternative see this.

Good desktop application design is hard, a balancing of both skill and art. The F/OSS community needs concentrate more on solving desktop user problems in a skillful, "artistic" and user-friendly way - simple, pretty, easy to use, and attractive to the user who sits in front of that app screen for the first time - and stop thinking that their focus on the science of coding - "elegant and beautiful code" - matters to average users. Average users don't SEE your "beautiful and elegant" code and simply don't care that your source code is readable. They. Don't. Care. All they care about is if the application does what it is supposed to, in a way that they can use it.

More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11

Re: lipstick on a pig

And then, if Microsoft even TRIES to change something, all they get is complaining!

"FAT still exists at all is shameful". And what would happen if MS killed off FAT support? Easy answer: heads will roll. I can already hear the yelling as users can no longer conveniently access old data, having to jump through hoops because some group of techies decided that their old data didn't matter squat.

Registry? Hmm, and sticking settings in an arcane text configuration file, placed who-knows-where depending upon the associated user of said file, is any better?? An arcane text file system so bad that creating GUI interfaces to completely control the editing and settings contained in said file is pretty much impossible??

You are simply being blind to *nix's own problems. which is why the only truly successful desktop implementation of it has as much of its *nix history buried as possible - MacOS.

Re: mid '90's

Same here, I dipped my toes into the Linux waters with Redhat 5.2, of which I still have the box set floppies of. Then Redhat 6...

which promptly told me this thing wasn't really going anywhere, at least in terms of supporting the functionality I needed (desktop publishing / editing, and laptop support).

And, 20+ years later the latter has vastly improved but the former really hasn't changed much :-(

Yes, I agree, for those who weren't there, they have *no* idea how much "joy" it was getting Linux working. Yes, nothing like having to recompile the kernel because they didn't have the necessary build switches set. And figuring out driver support. And compiling your tarball. And, especially, being told that these things are 'essential' to attaining 'real computing experience'.

To a guy who bothered to raw hex-edit HDD's to fix data corruption issues.

Was it a 'fun' learning experience? Sure. But I realized / decided that sitting in front of a computer and tearing your hair out to get it to do things that you need it to, rather than simply have it ready for you, was no longer 'fun' when I'd rather be doing the real things I consider "fun". "Oh, Windoze suxs!" is so relevant when Windows has the applications that I need, for both *all* my hardware (from GPS systems, to helmet communicators, to photo flash & camera firmware updaters, to tablets, to Ethernet bridges) and software. Fun? If the weather is better than miserable, I'd rather be out riding than sitting in front of this machine.

As was said wisely earlier in the thread, "Os's don't have any value. The programs that run on it do". Bingo. For rabid fans with a particular axe to grind, yep, the OS matters.

For the rest of us: We have work to do. And "work" does not involve wasting time in getting our TOOLS to work, before we even start work.

Re: "is called Windows 7"

Way to prove the OP's point!

No, not all of us are so enamored with the [damn] past that we can't move forward. I, for one, like Win10 yet am waiting for Win11 to stabilize and prove itself.

Win7 feels like an antique compared to Win10 but if you're stuck on partying like its 2011 then all the best to you.

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Re: The real gold were the profits we made along the way

I know! It only took, what, years of mega kWh crypto usage history to show this?! My, those economist researchers are on the BALL!

Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s

Re: Sell it somwhere else.

"The idea of 'quiet quitting' presented as moral quandary for the worker and not so much business management. As though the worker should be happy to eat shit and it is not a moral quandary for the company to only give the worker shit to eat. They demand a laissez-faire system but the moment the worker starts using the system to push back in the few ways they can (unions, 'quiet quitting', public opinion), suddenly it is a big fucking deal and they 'should be happy they have a job'."

This. Oh dog, this. Like the Wisconsin hospital (a "right to work" state) that sued the "right to work" employees for actually leaving for better pay. The nerve! It is *supposed* to only work for employers!!!

Re: Keeping up your CV and not good for your career

Yep, glad it's you who concentrates so much on their career. Because it is / should be the center of your life!

Who cares if, deep inside, you are miserable and unhappy? All that matters is what society *tells* you to care about, that being how much money you make and how many things you own.

...

Sorry, I dropped out of society decades ago when I burned out on the so-called "important" things they told me that my life should be measured by. I live modestly and am damn happy, been working 4-day workweeks for over the past decade. It only took me a complete emotional breakdown for me to realize that "happiness" does not really have a synonym when it comes to allowing others to tell you what your life should be.

In other words, I couldn't care less about what my "career" might, or might not, be. And these younger people are only realizing this at a much younger age than I did (and saving themselves the terrifying emotional devastation that looking in the mirror and, one day, realizing that all you are is a paycheck and a "work ethic").

Cloudflare's invisible CAPTCHA works by probing browsers with JavaScript

The source

"The JS code is embedded from challenges.cloudflare.com."

Excellent! Now it's easy to block ;-)

AMD was right about chiplets, Intel's Gelsinger all but says

RE:chiplets

Plus, of course, Intel used chiplets in the Pentium Pro. Arguably the were significantly larger than "chiplet" in the current sense, but using the technology of the time they certainly qualify as such in terms of design.

Always wanted one of those things, at the minimum of a beautiful coffee table / conversation piece. If only I could deal with useless clutter :-p

Intel's 13th-gen CPUs are hot, hungry, loaded with cores

Re: i7... 253W TDP... nuts.

Yet RTX4090 makes that i7 look like its being battery operated. ;-)

For a lot of people, their office computers sit mostly idle interrupted by times of number crunching. It's the gamers that are going to feel all the power demands that these new generation parts cause the most.

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Why mince words??

"ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce."

Now that's getting down to the point :p

But in all seriousness, something like this should have been reviewed long ago.

Boeing to pay SEC $200m to settle charges it misled investors over 737 MAX safety

"Reimbursing investors"

But no criminal conspiracy, or malfeasance / liability, charges.

As usual.

"Free market capitalism is self-regulating, and will punish malfeasance." Tell that to the hundreds dead.

Amazon accused of singling out, harassing union organizers

Re: This is why unions exist

Bingo. Workers wouldn't feel the urge to unionize, to form a collective bargaining agreement, if they didn't feel the need to bargain in the first place (says Captain Obvious!).

If workers are happy, workers are happy, and don't feel the need to rock the boat or raise their voices in collective frustration.

Amazon is [apparently] bringing this "woe" upon themselves. Go workers!

Microsoft highlights 'productivity paranoia' in remote work research

Paradox

""Leaders think their employees are not productive, whereas employees think they are being productive and in many cases even feel burnout," he told Bloomberg. "One of the most important things for us in this new world of work and hybrid work is to bridge this paradox."

There is no "paradox", this is known: most humans think their surrounding environments (home, owned business, etc) are their personal fiefdoms. The paranoia is from not being able to micromanage everyone, and everything, around them - these people are not very good "leaders", they do not and can not assign responsibilities and walk away with trust that their instructions will be followed to completion. These are proto-authoriarian Karens, people who need a finger in every little aspect of everything possible that surrounds them, they must feel absolute control or have input in every possible activity.

They are control freaks who got into positions of power and exercise their own inability to believe, to trust, in the abilities of others - everyone is incompetent except *themselves*, so everyone must be overseen otherwise they'll screw up!

Because, of course, management never screws up. It's *always* the workers' fault.

Now where is my bonus??

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

Re: unconstitutional

I'd still like to know how this is done: on both Android and iOS, if you have any form of screen lock activated then the phone's data should be encrypted and attempts to access the data should be revoked.

So, the only way I can see this occurring, if USB security is as they say it is on these devices, is that the phone didn't have a PIN / password / FaceID / et al activated. So, err, well...it sounds like the owners didn't care? Am I missing something??

Google fined $4b after Euro court snips 5% off earlier price

Re: stock Android works well

This. He's equating the horrible, bloated Samsung UI to stock Android, and then comparing that to the Fisher-Price Speak and Spell UI of an iPhone.

Re: Is everyone supposed to use an iPhone?

I'll go to a dumb bar phone before I use one of those horrible monstrosities. The iPhone UI is written for children and I for one won't put up with it, sorry.

OVH opens less flammable datacenter at site of 2021 fire

Re: yep yep

Humans never seem to learn from their mistakes

https://youtu.be/q6oC_QX3-G4 (warning: graphic detail)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winecoff_Hotel_fire

What happened to OVH could be fully expected: they planned for fire "containment", same as the "fireproof" buildings in the historical links I've just provided. But "containment" doesn't seem to ever factor in what is inside the building, the materials and furnishings; the planners expect their plans to go...as planned.

Fire has very different rules to play by. You can read that as: No 'rules' at all.

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

RE: the "future"

Yawn, yet another tech-head who thinks that architecture matters (ARM, Linux) on the desktop, rather than user application compatibility (read: user preferences and experience).

Because 30+ years of proof of this concept from lack of significant desktop sales penetration (OS/2, again Linux, et all) apparently... doesn't really prove anything at all.

Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, because we won't patch their flawed VPN

Re: I was all set to be mad

I discussed this very topic / router subgenre 3 months ago

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/06/16/cisco_critical_patches/#c_4478456

They were antiques well before this point in time; this is Cisco only now reaffirming this fact. The RV110 was never 'great' even when new and, frankly, it did not age well; I was glad to be able to use the opportunity to say "Good riddance!" to it when I could justify it to my boss (who allowed the purchase via his tech bother-in-law) when we moved.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: ta ta Liz

I would like to add my regards, as just a typical, sorry American.

I visited London, my first time, just 2 weeks ago. As I went through all the sights it did indeed come to my mind, "This is all an anachronism. All this pomp and class distinction disappeared ages ago, when [we] won a war created by these very things."

But.

I love the U.K, it and Canada are our greatest friends, our greatest allies. We can have disagreements over individual situations but we remain steadfast friends, through thick and thin. And anyone with any iota of intelligence is thankful for you being there.

The monarchy may be the very best thing that Britain has, it represented a 'status quo' no matter where the real politics of the world - your politics between Tory and Labor, our politics between Democrat and Republican, the world's politics between democracy and authoritarianism. The world could look at Great Britain and see your Queen...and know that at least *something* was confident and recognizable, a steamship of reliable guidance no matter where the winds of the future took us. She was the grandmother to the world.

We can also discuss the economic benefits that the monarchy brought to the British people. It is easy to believe otherwise, but millions upon millions of people, spending billions of pounds, came to Great Britain to witness the monarchy and, maybe even more hopefully, catch a glimpse of her in her appointed duties. In her colorful suits, she represented the very best of what you hoped Great Britain to be, where ever you saw her.

Your country will be diminished by the loss of her presence. May she rest in peace.

Apple debuts iPhone 14, Watch 8, other sparkly things

RE: Ugly bag of mostly water

OMG, I was just thinking of that line as I was walking down the street!

...because it's mostly true [of most people :-( ] Ow, my eyes.

AMD admits its Ryzen mobile naming scheme is a mess, promises to clean it up

"Promises to clean it up"

Because x3xx and x4xx are both Ryzen3; x5xx and x6xx are both Ryzen5; and x8xx can be either Ryzen7 *or* Ryzen9.

So glad you've "cleaned" that up for us o_O

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

So, let's see...

TechBro doesn't like law, because law prevents him from doing things his own way. TechBro ignores law, TechBro breaks law, TechBro gets caught and then, of course, TechBro complains about law and that law shouldn't apply to him, "because".

Yes, the sun rose in the east today. So what else is new??

Unhappy about excluding nation-state attacks from cyberinsurance? Get ready to pay

Re: Excluding them makes it worthless

I agree. If the product doesn't provide the support that you need or expect, stop buying / supporting the product.

Let's see how far that gets Lloyds.

Former Microsoft UX boss doesn't like the Windows 11 Start menu either

Re: I believe I see what is going on

Mere words cannot express my general disgust and personal dislike of the iPhone interface, it is like someone without a thin pence of experience had "designed" the UI, and the gullible sheep swallow it whole. Ever try to bring up a contact's saved information from a Message screen? That experience alone should tell you that a moron designed this thing, and morons accept the poor UI without question simply because of the Fruit on the Label.

I believe I see what is going on

From the outside it appears as if Microsoft is constantly taking the "underdog" stance, that they need to play 'catch-up' with other designs, rather than accept their stance as the de facto industry leader (with the largest market share) and comfortably accept their own design legacy. They seem to constantly believe that someone "else" is doing it better, leading the charge towards State of the Art, and therefore they must change and grow to meet this competitive demand.

It is a stance of paranoia, it seems. Instead of saying "Yes, our Start button is in the left hand bottom corner, it works a certain way, and that *is* Windows", they look at their entire consumer experience as 'necessary to adapt' to some future challenger. So we, the users, constantly experience Microsoft's experimentation because they feel it is absolutely necessary in order to remain competitive.

As if they don't own the desktop (those of you who doubt, look at factual usage demographics and get back to me).

So, instead of kaisen Microsoft seems to constantly chase a theoretical brass ring, lest they get "left behind" in some way or fashion. Microsoft is therefore maintaining a "young tech" attitude regardless of the fact they they are comfortably in first place, and many of their products have been so for a long, long time. They keep trying to reinvent the wheel, when most people ride in Microsoft cars and don't need new wheels, only a tire change when they wear out.

Lenovo’s folding portable ThinkPad grows to 16.3in, adds keyboard

Re: "M1 has both"

You haven't been keeping up; you are, still, believing the initial introduction's selective benchmark results. For almost the past year new discussions have been opened about the M1, with the M1 getting far more mixed results once Apple's selectively-optimized code and apps to get the best benchmark results are taken into account.

AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

Re: school tax cuts

It's an American thing. They whine and complain like death is at their door when they need to take an extra slim DIME out of their pockets in additional taxes...

yet continue to expect the same BENEFITS.

In this case, they throw a fit like spoilt children every time the school budget gets raised if *they* don't have children in the system, but then complain VERY LOUDLY when underpaid teachers quit the school district and the whiner's property values go down because of this.

They want something for nothing. Always. Constantly. The social responsibility of keeping schools open only applies when *they* need said schools....otherwise, the school system can rot in hell for all they care.

As long as they can flip their house with a good school district.

Google says there's no Waze forward, carpool app axed

Re: Oh phew

For me, Google generally = "No thank you"; no way I'm using Waze, deleted the app ages ago and haven't looked back.

Windows 10 update breaks audio for some systems

Re: spooler

Tried that approach, as recommended by others on the net, a lot more than several times. Only failures resulted. You can't even try Safe mode, as Win10 disables not only the spooler subsystem but some other features, as well :sigh:

That's when I decided to dig into the Registry myself to see if I could find out what was going on.

Re: *nix

That isn't a 'solution', "Just plug it into yet another computer, running a different OS, and then get the two disparate systems to talk to one another! It'll fix everything!"