Posts by Patrician

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

Re: Conspiracy

They could do the same to any vehicle with smart equipment; doesn't need to an EV to be able to do that.

So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work

Re: Hope springs eternal

Have a beer for the Discworld reference

Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Re: Helium?

They were leaking before it launched though.

Re: What’s the point?

How very short sighted and unimaginative of you!

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros

Re: Meanwhile, at home...

The joys of a multi-config autoexec.bat; I remember running the below:-

1. Using a QEMM config

2. Using Himem

3. Standard

4. Stripped out bare minimum for Ulitima 8

5. Using unidriver.sys for Sim City 3000 and Transport Tycoon (My graphic card at the time had the capability to run VESA but some games for some reason, just would not detect that capability hence the use of unidriver.sys)

'Right to switch off' initiative aims to boost economy by beating burnout

Re: Hmm

@codejunky

"As much as they choose to work for"

And if all employers are offering similar terms and conditions as they do in the U.S. what happens then?

Re: Hmm

I bet you still believe trickle down economics works too?

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Re: Embassy

How even minded of you.

Re: Embassy

Sorry that happened but that does not mean that all rape allegations are by, default, true.

Re: Embassy

"Let's call it what it was, it was an allegation of rape"

Exactly, that's what it was; an "allegation" only.

Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show

Re: EV

"the air in cities has never been cleaner"

Does not mean it can't be even cleaner, nor does it mean it shouldn't be cleaner.

Not all hybrids are battery hybrids though.

"Range was also a factor, with non-BEV drivers wanting at least 500 km of range,"

500km is 310 miles; most new BEV's can get that range, so they've got what they ask for....

Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June

Re: Definition of "enshittification"

"from an eBay seller"

Who will almost certainly be a Chinese outlet selling "cheap and awful Chinese items of highly dubious quality".

Brexit border system outage puts perishable goods transport in peril

Re: "dozens of lorries were being held at the government's control post... for up to 20 hours"

"Eh? Are you blaming the power outage or bureaucratic hold-ups? And either of those is brexit?"

The "bureaucratic hold ups" wouldn't exist if not for brexit.

Re: "As is still the case."

"At what point? We were in the transition period since voting leave in 2016 so which bit did you get wrong?"

As we were within the transition period we were still fully subject to all EU regulations.

"Technically yes. In theory. Less so in practice. But it does assume the UK gov being better run than all the member govs and the EU gov."

So you agree with me then?

"That is because we were outside the EU by that point"

As pointed out above, although we were in the transition phase, we were still completely subject to all EU regulations; but we still managed to source our own vaccines and not be a part of the vaccine fund.

Re: Laurel & Hardy in "Nothing but Brexit "

It wasn't happening prior to brexit though...

Re: "dozens of lorries were being held at the government's control post... for up to 20 hours"

The subject of this article is the obvious one.

Re: "As is still the case."

>"vaccine procurement. Also not being part of the covid bailout fund."

We were still in the EU at that time, thus proving that being out or in the EU made no difference; we were always able to procure our own vaccines and not be a part of the fund, but you know that, or should do, don't you?

Re: "dozens of lorries were being held at the government's control post... for up to 20 hours"

.>"I am amused you make up my opinion so you actually have something to argue against but no. I voted leave because it was better for the UK than remaining. As is still the case."

There is plenty of evidence to the contrary now.

You want us to think of the children? Couldn't agree more

Or here's a thought; get parents back parenting. This isn't an IT issue, it's a parenting issue; many these days seem to think that parenting is somebody else's job, the school, the government, the man at the corner shop. Anyone but the parents themselves.

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

"staff are properly educated against phishing attempts"

This is the biggest problem, despite the training users till click links they shouldn't or open attachments....

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

Would this be even legal? The vehicles, computers in them and the power used would be the property of the owner of the car, not Musk?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/fracking-wont-work-uk-founder-chris-cornelius-cuadrilla

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

My mother, maysherestinpeice, never go the hang of a mouse; this was back in the early 90’s, when she wanted the pointer to go up the screen she would lift it, physically, off the mouse mat. She got better as time when on, but she never lost the instinct to do that and I often watched her starting to lift the mouse up before correcting herself.

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: Alternative

A Steam Deck handheld is not a PC, although it is impressive what they’ve got working on the platform.

Running Windows games under Wine/Proton works but they don't run as well as under their native OS, I know, I’ve done it; there are audio issues and framerates are lower, and using mods is much more of a complication that on Windows, and they can be very temperamental under that OS.

Re: Alternative

And if you need Sage? And if you rely on some bespoke software that only runs on Windows? And for gaming Steam does not have you covered if the games you want to play do not have a Linux versions; what if you want to play Fallout 4 with mods using the script extender that requires a Windows executable to hook into? Same question for Skyrim, Fallout New-vegas, and there are many more games that do not have Linux versions.

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution

I can see a case for AI/Co-pilot with marketing types, it will help them send out even more BS than they normally can, and for analysing big data sets such as JWST data; but who will verify the output of that analysis? Another AI model? Code writing possibly but for the average person, day to day, I don’t, at the moment, see a usage case.

(Mind I’ve not the best forecaster to be honest, I spent quite some time stating that I couldn’t see a usage case for the 1st generation of tablets)

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash

Re: So much for the resilience of Stainless Steel - Re; 40% TAXES

Michelle Mone would be able to tell you where some went....

Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data

Have you watched "Good Night Oppy"? So much dust got in my eyes whatching that....

Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry

Re: her credibility for preaching & giving sermons on Christian values

That sound like the one.

Re: her credibility for preaching & giving sermons on Christian values

Way back when I was a teenager I read a science fiction short story that used that exact idea; I can't remember the author, I thought it was Arthur C Clark but I've not been able to find it again. The story was from the viewpoint of somebody who was picked ot be the president of a governement that had been picked in that way.

The idea always Intrigued me.

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Re: Apologies to Jim Croce

Dr Who has always been political; it would be difficult to find a story that wasn’t.

EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services

Re: Cloud first, then cloud only

SharePoint is awful; and about as stable as a one legged drunk on a unicycle

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

'get a big list going and bond over' their shared love of cream cheese."

It should be noted that if redditors did indeed "bond over a shared love of cream cheese" the advertising has failed; it's only people that already buy and eat the product that are responding to the ad, so no new sales.

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

It's not quite the same thing though; people do things online that they wouldn't dream of doing in real life, such as happily handing over bank details to a total stranger.

The TV show, Hustle stated "you can't con an honest person"; but some still think that something that looks too good to be true is, indeed, true; and get scammed.

You don't think that the end user bares some responsibility for allowing themselves to be scammed?

Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

I came across a website that if you wanted to refuse cookies you had to individually disable nearly 400 different ones. Needless to say the browser back button was used instead.

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings

Re: If Xiaomi want to be taken seriously

Well the The Taycan does look like a Porsche, whereas the The Xiaomi SU7 EV doesn't, so I'm not sure it can be regarded as a "copy".

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

The USA has the death penalty in some states; are their crime figures less than ours per capita? Thought not.

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

Re: Problem solved

>One's doing it in the interests of national security and protecting our safety and democracy, the other, to sell ads.

The difference is that the one selling ads is always going to be doing that; but the one protecting national security can change depending on the government.

Re: Cue Daily Heil headline "Euro Court Won't Protect Our Children"

Not *letting* them have a smart phone is not the same thing at all as calling them to be banned for under 16's.

Re: Cue Daily Heil headline "Euro Court Won't Protect Our Children"

This so much;

I fully understand that Esther Ghey is grieving, and what she's asking for is coming from that grief and from a lack of understanding of the technology she asking to be legislated against. And that lack of understanding shows the problem in her household; I suspect Briana was left pretty much alone with her phone. If the news reports I've read are correct, and that the dark net was accessed by at least one of the killers, as most of us will be aware, legislating against that would be like punching fog.

One more thing that she needs to consider at some point, is that those images that were seen on the dark net didn't create the sociopath, the killers were already those.

Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

Hopefully

Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

>But we have this wicked little problem that currently the easiest way to get a bigger house is to drop more children.

That is total BS and nothing more than Daily Mail propaganda.

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Re: Question is...

>Just looked in the Amazon app. My "unlimited photos" currently says "0 bytes of 5GB" are used.

I think that "limit" is for video not photo's

Re: Question is...

There is a difference between "putting up" with ads and being "more than happy"; I suggest that "most" do the former.

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason

Re: I would suggest ....

Have a beer for the Lucifers Hammer reference

Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI

As far as I can see, If Ted Cruz is against something, it's probably as "good thing".

AI is changing search, for better or for worse

Re: Yell and scream all you want.

Not taking your own advices then?