Posts by jgarbo

Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech

Re: Data

So what? Are you James Bond's controller, or even more important to the Free World? Google sells ads...that you don't have to even look at. Relax 0069, you're safe.

International Criminal Court hit in cyber-attack amid Russia war crimes probe

Re: ICC - International Criminal Court (or vassals of the USA empire)

ICC is a bigger joke than the UN. Run by fraudsters and ex-cons. Created by the US but not recognized by it!? Yet another zombie patched together from convicted parts to harry dissidents.

GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake

Re: A Complicated Man

Untidy with tea bags! Well, no invitation to Ascot for you, sir.

China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices

Re: Perhaps it's the other way round

Can't crack iPhones? In Bangkok they'll open up an iPhone in 10 min for about $25. Next...

iPhones are almost certainly "back-doored", as Snowden has pointed out. Any large US corporation has Intel links whether they like or not. Cost of doing business. The Chinese govt obviously doesn't want a "spy in every pocket". Good move.

Tesla's purported hands-free 'Elon mode' raises regulator's blood pressure

Much ado about Lidar

FSD unsafe because Musk refused to use Lidar, says NHTSA director Ann Carlson, who just happens to have a bunch of shares in the company producing Lidar equipment. In tests with Lidar, eg GM's Cruise, their system is less "safe". Ah, profits v. public safety...profits of course.

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

Re: LO 7.6 - Outline View

Running LO 7.4, and Outline works well. Activate in Options. Mouse uncovers the "button" to expand or contract levels

Germany to cut Huawei from networks 'irrespective of costs'

Chinese hardware is a threat - to NSA snooping on German industry. Never mind, by next Xmas Germany won't have electricity to run its networks.

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42

Re: very sad...:-(

You should step outside your "great country" and see how much of your wealth was stolen by invasion, slaughter, and perfidy.

North Korean hackers had access to Russian missile maker for months, say researchers

Re: The Russians run their missile developement on Windows?

I thought Russian military projects used Linux. SentinelOne sounds very Mossad-ish. Is this "discovery" a false flag op to drive a wedge between Russia and DPRK?

Re: Sad little dictator

Funny, that's what I hear about the US...

Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy

Re: when it spots a man shopping for products consumed only by women

Hardly manipulation, unless one's a half-wit. How often have you forgot something on your shopping list then remember it when you get home? I have. An AI servant that reminds me of an accompanying or complementary product would be handy. Remember, you don't to follow the AI, unless you're a half-wit. Then you do need help...

Biden urged to completely cripple AI chips to China

US Genius

"Yeah, Joe. Shoot yourself in the head, so the Commies can't steal your super intelligence." China's already way ahead the US, self-proclaimed 'Greatest Country in the Universe'.

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Alien UFOs

Strange that these sightings occur almost always in the US, Land of Neurosis. Could there be a connection?

Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

Re: A bit of advance warning wouldn't have gone amiss

So now youi pay for Redhat stuff. Could Linus now charge Red Hat for use of his kernel?

If you want a big brain, make a habit out of daytime naps

Re: Cause and Effect

Have we established that bigger brains are smarter? Neanderthals had bigger brains than we have, Where are they? ;-)

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Re: AP news

Musk has a degree in physics but he hires the best engineers for his projects. Who else can return a rocket to its launch pad?

Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

Right. The "square windows" factor was minor. The failures were mainly due to metal fatigue. Remember, this a kind of "prototype" in aviation. By the time the problems were fixed the Comet had lost to Boeing.

Dell down under dinged for dodgy display discounts

Re: That excuse will be a hit in criminal circles

So, it's fraud. Who's going to jail?

Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong

Re: CDT?

Notice: All RN gunboats are in for wobbly shaft replacement. Can send tea clippers immediately.

EV truck maker Nikola stalls in 2023, pulls out of Europe, hits brakes on production

Re: Why do we let these zombie shams shable around?

Even up hill, with a fair breeze from God's breath...

Telcos need another $3B in Uncle Sam's cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC

The CIA owns the BND, and most German outlets have a resident "mocking bird" and the NSA hears and sees all. The The Germans will cave...

Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads

Re: As much as I loathe what Russia is doing

Yes, killing Nazis is bad form. Support the Fascists.

Re: Little point in restricting downloads to Russia

Pariah state? NO, the US is a Fascist state.

Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

ALL images are "manipulated".

If they want to how, tell them. Back in the old "days" I shot Fujichrome 200 at 400 ASA then "cooked" it to get that "bite" you see in National Geographic. We rated Tri-X (400) at 800 or even 1600 for night work then cooked it. Brilliant! This was before infra-red. Then the dark room...Now the Gimp...raw images, unless taken by God, need help.

Huawei replaces ERP with homebrew effort, claims it’s perfect and shows company will thrive despite sanctions

Except...the "hundreds" were unarmed troops massacred in Tiananmen Square by NED (CIA) thugs. And the brave student standing in front of the beastly tank? It was trying to leave!

SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball

Re: Starship hasn't had the most successful history?

Exactly. Is it simple jealousy, this Musk bashing? He warned that chances of "failure" were very high, but it was the way to learn, which is not fashionable in the West...it must be TikTok perfect every second every time. Who else can flip a space ship on its back then return it to the launch pad? You, Thomas?

Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view

Re: "Pause" updates?

Guess I'll stay with MX21, no systemd, no snap, flatpak if I ask, Plasma on top, Debian under the hood. ;-)

Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch

Stillborn

"Well, sir, it's unreliable, badly designed and expensive to fly."

"OK, mate, we'll take 46."

Another Australian winner.

With ICMP magic, you can snoop on vulnerable HiSilicon, Qualcomm-powered Wi-Fi

Re: Eggheads vs Boffins

But "eggheads" is sexist, since they must be female (coming from a hen).

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Goes both ways

Any inconvenient truth about US grovelling gets a downer. Reg Rules.

Re: Scorched earth, not a step back etc

Yep. I'll teach my face not to smile. There, cut of its nose.

Tesla Semi, out since December, already facing a recall over brakes

Re: Trucked

Tesla has already pulled 80,000lb load 500 miles and faster than a comparable ICE truck. The "science" (physics) of EV trucks is obvious to a real engineer. (Old Mech Eng here).

US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'

Watched Tucker Carlson ranting about TikTok destroying American kids' brains, seducing them into teen-porn clips or toilet licking, while he "complained" that Chinese TikTok kids do science and maths puzzles to show friends. There's no "Trojan Horse". Americans are just too dumb to cross the road, read a book or count to 10. TikTok is the messenger of America's decline into moronity not its cause.

China crisis is a TikToking time bomb

Re: Dance with the Devil

Right. China's not bad, or at least no worse than "the Greatest Democracy in the Universe".

Re: Dance with the Devil

When the writer grows up and ventures abroad he'll learn that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, et al, are all "state actors" in that they hand over anything the Intel services ask for. Spying locally "prohibited"? Easy fix. GCHQ spies on Americans while NSA spies on Birts, etc, then send the intel across the pond. The naïveté of the article is embarrassing. The China bashing is standard El Reg..

Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO

Stock "price" is not related to performance; it's related to rumor. Stock "value" is PBV, the sum of the company assets: 1.0 + dreams of the future. Beware.

Your incentive to work hard is the job. The salary is mere bagatelle. CEO bonuses compensate for the all pain and suffering of watching you have fun. That's what I hear at board meetings, anyway.

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Nazi invasion...

After the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine's democratic govt in 2014, the neo-Nazi Ukrainian forces attacked Russian speakers for 8 yrs, killing 15,000 civilians. Russia finally intervened in 2022, under Geneva Convention Art 51, "Responsibility to Care" for imminent genocide. Legal. Sadly, El Reg readers are ignorant outside their little world of tech and Guardian Garbage.

Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight

Re: Apparently it learns....

Has it leaked any gossip on Gates and Epstein, or is that "premium" content?

'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites

Re: DDoS of smaller german airports vs. LH outage

Anything to blame the **Russians**. I walked into a door after a late night out...Russians!! How did they know? Their evil permeates the universe.

99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

BTC working well, Western Union angry

Pres Bukele introduced BTC as a *parallel* currency to USD. And using the Lightning interface Salvadorans working abroad can "instantly" remit cash back home to rels for a few cents, instead of the 8-12% charged by WU, Wells Fargo and other thieves. No wasted electricity. BTC mining runs off geothermal power (almost free). You buy a house or an ice cream with BTC via your phone. Munger doesn't know what a phone is so he won't believe you.

IBM demands $500,000 from boss after she jumps ship

Re: Breaking a contract that is no longer in force?

My (30 yrs') experience in Thailand suggests that if she's "big" enough she won't be prosecuted. Plus unions here are very strong and tend to take the Thai's side against an International company.

Make Linux safer… or die trying

Re: Technology & Economics

Not misogynist if a fact. You want misogyny? "Thankfully no useless women, only brilliant men running ...."

Re: Technology & Economics

Yep. Evolution 101. Success in the next generation means "just good enough" not "superbly brilliant" (as devs would like); viz. Windows... ;-(

SpaceX cuts off Ukraine's 'offensive' Starlink use

Re: "it drew the line at what it considered more offensive use"

All Russian responses to previous aggression. Remember, the Ukraine "war" was started in 2014 by the US installed neo-Nazis with the stated aim of "eliminating Russian speakers in Donbas". Do more research. Drop the Guardian if you want sense.

Microsoft tells people to prepare for AI search engine that goes Bing!

Bing+AI!

Wow. Microsoft beats Google boys. They'll never think of AI...

Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info

Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

Does it really matter? My Redmi Note 10 might be telling Chinese Intelligence where I had noodles in Bangkok last night. So what? Is anyone so important as to bother the Chinese with a few phone calls. More Western delusions of grandeur...

Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

Re: The "weather" balloon

It was shot down in shallow coastal waters so that it could be retrieved.

Re: The "weather" balloon

Everyone knows that Chinese spy balloons are fluorescent orange, glow in the dark and flash "WE ARE SPIES" signs. So it must have been a weather balloon.