Posts by mbee

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

Basic, I learned that ages ago along with Fortran and cobalt. What came of the revolution is hoards of people glued to their phones every waking minute. Personally I think they are wasting their lives but they do seem happy. Every step forward has its ills. In balance the world is a lot better place for the average person than it has ever been in the past.

Moscow to issue HTTPS certs to Russian websites

Proproganda Newage style

This piece is informative until the bottom where is dives into proproganda , anti Russian drivel. Russia has a beef with the present Ukraine government, a beef you can recognize as driving the war or ignore and refight WWI all over again which started from similar small causes. . The 1994 nuclear agreement called for the Ukraine to always be neutral, joining NATO, an organization hostile to Russia is not neutral. Russians have an interest in seeing the Ukraine does not murder any more Russian speakers in the Ukraine who objected to the Obama/Merkel sponsored armed coup of 2014 which ran the elected anti NATO president out at gun point. They want the three break away areas recognized by the Ukraine as separate countries. That is it.

Product release cycles are killing the environment, techies tell British Computer Society

Lets solve the whole problem, nobody actually needs phone, tv , computers etc to live. Just put on your animal hide skin fur and live in that cave down the street. A tiny number of addled brains are not the rest of us. All the electronics are not killing the environment as every one can be recycled and a whole lot are.

First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk

Facebook's whistle blower, the one named in this article would be right at home in Stalin's USSR. She wanted more censorship not less, more guided news, not less, more PC social media, not less. She was all for censorship of everything she did not like. Facebook is not the law, never should be the law and should not be making decisions on what is legal and what is not. If facebook employees discover what they believe is illegal activity than they have the same duty every citizen has, call the cops. The government, state and federal can make that process centralized and easy. If they determine the activity is illegal than they can take action under existing law. Facebook can ban practices but if has to say what those are and let every user know what they are. It is the same process as no shirt, no shoes, no service sign on the restaurant door. Censoring by unnamed, unknown and unanswerable employees is a direct violation of liberty and the constitution.

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

Windows has been in the business of shafting the user to get them to pay more money for decades. Unless you actually need some feature on Windows 11 why upgrade to a company which is giving you the shaft deliberately. There are other operating systems.

Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!

Seems like a good idea to me. Spending your childhood sitting in front of a gaming machine is insane.

Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

Why would anybody buy a TV which allowed somebody else, in this case a corporation to invade your home? Find a TV without that bug.

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

Covid 19 Horse manure

Covid 19 is essentially harmless to children unlike say Polio or Small pox. Covid 19 to those without preexisting conditions is less threatening than the yearly flu. There are vaccines. If you take the vaccines you are protected from the virus for most people, around 94 percent. The other 6 percent get the virus but not a serious case of inflammation which is what actually kills you. Many meds have been found to treat the inflammation or prevent it, some of those meds kill the virus as well. The virus is a political tool used to gain power by the left, it is not a pandemic like say polio or Small pox.

Size does matter, chaps: Oversized todgers an evolutionary handicap

The human race has been around at most slightly over 100,000 years in its present type. Since an individual human male lives at most about 100 years, having a lot of females is pretty good for the male as James Bond movies show. The human race in its present type is unlikely to last another 100,000 years so banging the ladies a lot more both fun and is not going to make much difference to the race. All those banging males will go out with a smile. What the ladies say about it is of no consequence as they do not count as the banging males will run at the first hint of I am pregnant. ..

'Nobody's got to use the internet,' argues idiot congressman in row over ISP privacy rules

The congressman may be all the writer of this piece claims but the congressman is correct,nobody actually has to use the internet, it simply is a convenience way to do things.

Curiosity team: Massive collision may have killed Red Planet

the claim a large object destroyed the atomsphere makes one wonder about the moon, it is understood to have formed from a mars size object hitting the earth yet we have our atomsphere. Either something was left out of this story or it s just nonsense.